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V0.1 LXVII No. 46

21 University of Kentucky

Lexington. Ky. 40506

   

 

 

 

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By TERRY McWIl.LIAI\lS
Kernel Staff Writer

The Student Center Board (SCB) will soon ask the
Legislative Research Commission (LRC) to study
proposals to allow beer sales on campus.

St‘B has worked this semester to permit the sale of
beer in the Student Center.

SCB President Georgeann Rosenberg said at their
meeting Tuesday that LRC will be asked to investigate
three areas of the beer issue:

organization of the wording for a bill;
interpretation of present statutes regarding
alcohol. sales and advertising; and

- definition of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)
regulations for obtaining a beer license.

SCB member Mark (fhellgren, who has researched
the beer issue, said Wednesday LRC is not required to
fulfill S(‘B‘s request since the student group is not a
state official or agency. He said he would ask a
“friendly legislator". whom he would not name, to
request the study if LRC denies the SCB request,

(‘hellgren said SCB hopes to ultimately have a bill
sponsored in the 1976 state legislature to void statutes
“hich presently prohibit Student Center beer sale.

Rosenberg said such a bill would probably
specifically apply to UK. She said if any other state
schools were included. a bill would be strongly opposed

      

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.\ brisk breeze almost blew away his balloons after Mike Bidwell filled

by legislators from “dry"

counties in which most

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them with helium for the Theatre Out of Doors festival. Fortunately for

him, the balloons were securely tied down toa car.

 

UK offers
alternate

service jobs

By JO ANN W'HITE
Kernel Staff Writer

Several military deserters of draft
evaders are currently fulfilling federal
clemency requirements by working at UK.

UK established the job program after
President Ford offered clemency to those
subjects to pmsecution for draft evasion or
desertion during the Vietnam War. Those
persons must perform some type of
alternate service to clear their records.

“When President Ford proclaimed the
Reconciliation Service program in Sep
tember, 1974 the Selective Service was
given the responsibility to locate jobs for
these people," said Wilmer Browning,
agriculture professor and commanding
officer of the Kentucky National Guard
selective service section.

“We had to contact places like univer-
sities, hospitals and rest homes,‘

Browning said.

UK became involved in the program
when the selective service approached it
about alternate service job placement,
according to A.J. Giltner, deputy director
for state selective serivce.

“Employ ment must be witheither a non-
profit organization or with the city, state
or federal government, ‘ Giltner said.
“The time each man must serve varies
from no time to 24 months."

Those who accept employment at UK
are placed in food service, maintenance
jobs or “whatever they are qualified for,“
according to UK employment counselor
Thelma llill.

Two or three men are now working at
L'K to fulfill alternate service
requirements, Browning said. They will be

eligible for clemency discharges upon
satisfactory completion of their service.

Those employed here are visited
quarterly by representatives of the Frank-
fort selective service office, Giltner said.

Identification of those working in UK
alternate service jobs are kept con—
fidential to avoid trouble with fellow
employee, Browning said.

Giltner said 136 men have reported to
state selective service to apply for
alternate service. Browning said most
were deserters and only one or two evaded
the draft.

“Some of these men are placed in jobs at
Westem and Centre colleges and hospitals
in this state," Browning said. “The ones
that l have had contact with are doing
satisfactory work.“

 

 

Lawyer-referee Pat Prosser ruled in favor of [K in this
penalty kick -\ (‘incinnati team committed the infraction in
the game “hith Ktllllltk) “on l."- I.

Attorney judges cases on

playing field

By now MaKlTTEN

Kernel Staff Writer
Pat Prosser is a 38-year-old

Lexington attorney. He‘s also a
rugby freak, who participates as
a player, coach and referee.

Prosser‘s interest in rugby
began four years ago while he
was a UK law student. “I hap-
pened to walk by the practice
pitch (field) and thought the
game looked like fun."

Prosser, a Detroit, Mich.
native, had never played any
organized sports before joining
the rugby club.

His debut as a rugger was less
than spectacular. In fact Prosser
said he “wanted to quit at half-
time“ in his first match because
he was so exhausted.

Rugby rules don‘t allow sub-
stitutions so he had to continue.

Fortumtely Prosser says he
got his “second wind” as the
match went on. Within a few
weeks he accustomed himself to
rugby’s ”continuous action" and
“fell in love with the game.“

“Love" is no exaggeration.
Prosser says he referees “an
average of two matches a
weekend, eight months of the
year."

He abo spends at least two
nights a week coaching the UK
rugby club, conducts a weekly
“skull session“ on tactics for the
team and plays — “whenever I
can.“

In addition, Prosser has at-
tended coaching and refereeing

clinics in Chicago and Nashville
to increase his knowledge of the
game.

Personal satisfaction is the
only reward Prosser gets for all
this effort. He isn‘t paid to
referee the matches and he pays
all his expenses for equipment
and travel.

Though he likes coaching and
refereeing, Prosser said “I think
the real enjoyment of the game is
in playing.”

Prosser became a referee out
of necessity in 1974. “Unitl then
Dr. Roy Elmore (a former UK
faculty member) had been
refereeing the UK games. He left
and there was no one else willing
to take over."

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editorials

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Room "4 Journalism Building. They should be typed, doublevspaced aid signed.
Letta's should not exceed 250 words and Spectrum articles 750 yards.

Editorials do not represent the opinions of the Universit)

Bruce Winges
Editor-in-Chief

Ginny Edwards

Managing Editor

Susan Jones
Editorial Page Editor

Jack Koeneman
Associate Editor

 

 

It had all started last Friday night. A
friend and I staggered back to my
apartment halt-drunk from a dinner
celebrating the birthday of my good
friend and trusted literary mentor Dr.
Simian Medulla—and, flipping through
my records for something to mollify our
scorched brains settled ”Beatles ’65”
onto the turntable...

Then, Saturday, after spending a long
afternoon down at the Loser’s Club
watching every team I’d bet on bite the
crank, I wandered around Lexington in
a fit of nameless angst until—4t hit me.

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What I wanted, what I stark-raving
needed more than anything in the
world, was a new Beatles album to
listen to.

Well, that obviously wasn’t possible,
but just for old times sake I wheeled
into Lexington’s premier shopping mall
(the one whose architectural horrors
could best be described as Mussolini
Moderne; the one that would be the
capitol of the Fourth Reich if Nazi
Germany had won the war) and
checked out the record bins...thumbing
through the Beatles section...half hop-
ing for a miracle.

None, were forthcoming, of course,
but an inspiration did strike. Look here:
all my old Beatles records are used

beyond hope. Destroyed through thou-
sands of playings. I could use new
copies. Indeed. So I loaded up on every
ititle they had—they had most of
them—put it on the card so l
wouldn‘t really have to pay for it, and
retreated to my apartment where I
holed up all night, getting steadily more
cranked-up on the music and on scotch
and Coke (the Beatles' favorite drink in
the old days, the tan mags told us) until
dawn, when I finally fell asleep to
“Abbey Road”...

None of this would really matter, of
course, if I didn't know that quite a few
of you out there are occasionally
afflicted with Beatles Fever too. It’s a
cyclic disease, usually touched off by a
bout of depression or nostalgia, and
when it hits you the only known cure is
too lock youself in a closet with your
stereo, get horribly twisted on your
favorite booze and turn the Beatles up
loud. If you’re my age, or a little older,
six hours of such intense Beatles-listen-
ing will probably do you as much good
as six months of psychoanalysis. Be-
cause more of your past will be dredged
up, and with greater clarity, than any
known form of analysis could manage.

And for good reason. Those six years
between I964 and I970 were the years
we really grew up. All of the major
turmoils and triumphs of our collective

adolescence were punctuated and de-
fined by Beatles songs. How many
bitter identity storms did we ride out,
huddled in our rooms, listening to
“Nowhere Man” or ”Help?” How many
times did we fall in love to ”I Should
Have Known Better” or ”And I Love
Her” or "If I Fell?” How many

Beatlemania

 

shattered love affairs did we get over
with ”Girl” or ”We Can Work It Out” or
”Let It Be?” How many terminal drug
episodes started and ended with the
great Sgt. Pepper album?

Well, you can answer from your own
experience. As for me, almost every
major event of my life has a Beatles
song inextricably bound up in it
somewhere—there are some people,
some things, that I remember almost
entirely in terms of a Beatles song I
related to them. (What a memory
jogger! Second only to perfumes and
other smells, in my book.)

And that’s the key, I think, to
appreciating the Beatles. Too much
has been written of them as a
sociological phenomenon. It was, after
all, their music and their lifestyle
which, to an enormous degree, gave
definition to the counterculture of the
60’s. And you can’t deny that they were
cultural revolutionaries of the first
rank. But with the passing of Hip into
its senescence all of that seems...dis~
tant, somehow, unimportant. (I'm re-

minded of the comment John Lennon
made in an interview a couple of years
ago. When asked ab0ut the cultural
influence of the Beatles, he replied,
”The only influence I can see is that
there are a lot of trendy tags with long,
long hair walking down the streets.” I
wasn’t so ready to accept that when I
read it then, but I sure as hell believe it
now.)

No, as the years pass and we stumble
further down the long road from those
heady years, one thing becomes clear:
the final impact of the Beatles lies deep
in the sensibilities of those of us who

it

grew up listening to them, whose
lifestyles and attitudes were forged in
the positive, reckless exuberance of
those great, great songs. The influence
is real, and it will remain. Secure from
all the Wings, Yoko Onos, Double Q
Album Hours and Pink Floyds that
pollute our existence...secure even
from all the crazy hippies who come
groovin’ down the street with no idea in
the world where the fuck they came
from.

Scott Payton graduated from UK in
I973. He is a former contributor to
Rolling Stone magazine and is now
working as a free lance boxing promo-
ter in Frankfort. His column, ”Ten
Years On,” appears weekly in the
Kernel.

 

 

We goofed

The editorial in the Oct. 6 Kernel (”Gay
students need total 56 backing”) wrongly
identified Steve Petrey as a Greek student
senator. Petry, Engineering senator, is not
Greek.

 

(Editor’s note: Because of the number of
letters and commentaries received by the
Kernel, there is no editorial today. In cases
where a number of letters and commmen-
taries are received about one or several
subjects, more space will be devoted to
readers' views. All letters and Spectrum
articles should be typed, double-spaced
and signed. Letters cannot exceed 25'
words and Spectrum articles 750 words.

 

 

Middle East: the next Vietnam ?

By Mason Taylor

Is it ridiculous to ask if the United
States is making preparations for war
in the Middle East? Is there evidence of
increased U.S. military support to
Israel? To answer these questions

please note that in the entire 24 year.

period from I948 to I972 the U.S. Clave
Israel a total of $26 million.
Next look at the two-year period I973 to
I974 when $2.5 billion was made
available to Israel ”for regular and
emergency security.” This seems like a
rather dramatic increase. And now in
one year alone, I975, we see Israel
receiving 52 billion.

Why did U.S. aid suddenly skyrocket

in l973-74? Why did Israel receive over
tour times as much money in these two
years as it had in all the preceding 24
years? To answer this question 90 back
and look at how the U.S. responded to
the October 1973 war. In the October
war Egypt recaptured part of its Sinai
territory. Also the Palestinian
resistance stepped up its military
activity in Israel, raising its armed
struggle to a new level.

Why has military support climbed
even higher in I975? Perhaps the recent
political victories of the Palestinians
help explain the latest jump in U.S.
generosity toward Israel.

In October I974 the United Nations

General Assembly invited the
Palestinian Liberation Organization
(PLO) to participate in debates on the
Palestine issue. Later, on Oct. 28, Arab
leaders recognized the PLO as the only
legitimate representative of the
Palestinians. They called for the
establishment of a Palestinian state on
any land liberated from Israeli oc-
cupation. This Arab unanimity was
remarkable for it included Jordan’s
King Hussein, who had previously been
hostile toward Palestinian guerrillas.

The US government and U.S. cor,
porations seem frightened of the
revolutionary outlook of sections of the
Palestinian resistance and the PLO.
Here is how the U.S. reacted to
Palestinian political success. In
January I975 Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger warned that the U.S. would
use force to prevent "strangulation” of
the "industrial" world. Three days
later Secretary of Defense James
Schlesinger said it would be ”feasible”
to use American forces in the Middle
East, and on Jan. 20, President Ford
reaffirmed that prospects for war were
”very serious." Kissinger expressed
disappointment with the failure of
European nations to support the U.S.

The Arabs were aware that by daring
to exert increasing control over their
own natural resources, they were
provoking the big powers.Kuwait Oil
Minister Abdul Rahman Atiki realized
that an excessive decline in oil
production could lead to a war

”launched against us.” It was also
back in January thatthe U.S. agreed to
sell 200 Lance missles to Israel. This is
the first time the U.S. agreed to supply
missles to the Middle East. These

missles can carry nuclear warheads.
On Jan. 20 the U.S. obtained landing

rights from Britain at an air base on
Aasira Island off the east coast of
Oman. Two days later Schlesinger
proclaimed the U.S. was capable of
providing Israel with enemy weapons
to supply their forces in another war.
Last May, 75 of our I00 Senators
reaffirmed support for an aid bill
”responsive to Israel’s urgent military
and economic needs” in an open letter
to President Ford. Senator Edward
Kennedy visited Israel and predicted
continued U.S. support for safe and
secure borders.

Last Spring international support for
the PLO was so strong that Israel's
legal status was being questioned.
Perhaps responding to these questions
Daniel Moynihan (Ford’s choice as
U.S. representative to the UN)
threatened that the U.S. would with-
draw from the UN if Israel were ousted.

At the same time Palestinian
guerrilla leaders claimed the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) was behind
the Phalangist (right wing Lebanese)
attackson Palestinians and Palestinian
political organizations.

Does it still seem ridiculous to con-
sider whether the U.S. is making war
preparations? Kissinger oives the

impression of bringing peace to the
Middle East. To prepare Israel for
peace by arming it to the teeth seems
rather contradictory. Of course
Kissinger’s idea of peace in Vietnam
was to bomb dikes.

It is no mere coincidence that Dayan
is speaking at UK. He isn’t coming to
tell jokes or to sing. He wants continued
U.S. support, and the U.S. government
and certain U.S.-based multinational
corporations are only too happy to
exploit Zionists. Dayan is perhaps a cog
in a public relations campaign (with the
slogan ”Blame the Arabs for high
gasoline costs”) to make us enthusiase
tically embrace, or at least passively
accept, the next Vietnam.

There are to be 200 civilian ”ad-
visors” (sound familiar?) in Israel,
though Kissinger prefers to call..them
”volunteers." Maybe some advisors
will get shot (by CIA provocateurs). Or
maybe another U.S. PT boat will be
”fired upon”...this time from
Beirut...and another shocked and
dismayed Congress will hastily grant
our noble president sweeping
emergency powers...

Before I am castigated for pushing
material out of a ”Nazi notebook," let
me identify my sources for this article:
Time, Keesings Contemporary Ar-
chives, NewYork Times, and Kentucky
Kernel.

 

Mason Taylor is a UK Sociology
graduate.

 

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Art Wallace. president of the
l'K rugby club. calls Prosser‘s
help “invaluable. I think the
whole team respects him as an
organizer and impartial observer
of both practices and matches."

Wallace. who has played with
and against him. said Prosser
also has a “reputation as a
colort‘ulcharacter who can really
take it and dish it out on the
field."

There may be a touch of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Prosser‘s
nature.

On one hand. Prosser says he is
“very strict" and calls a ”tight
game" as a referee.

However, the bushy haired,
mustachioed, six~footer admitted
as a player he goes in for
“histrionics” and an occasional
“bit of acting."

Pmsser aBo said some of his
opponents have tagged him with
"an undeserved reputation as a
dirty player." Prosser said be
regarded himself as ”a clean
player.”

llis on the field “acting" may
be a result of Prosser‘s varied
backgmund which includes
radio and television work.

l’rosser estimated he tried
"abwt 48 different things from
working on riverboats to TV
sportscasting" before finally

choosing the law as his
profession.

Prosser says he wants to play
“as long as possible." One of his
goals is to start a Lexington city
rugby club.

"I‘m sure it would be we
cesst‘ul. because there are lots of
former l'K players living here
who want to keep playing.”

l’rosser also plans to continue
as a referee. though he recalled
one match in which “a player
flattened me deliberately with a
t'orea r m,

“They'll probably have to pry
the whistle out of my mouth to
bury me.“ Prosser said.

He just might mean it.

SCB to ask LRC to investigate
feasibility of campus beer sales

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