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Kernel

Vol. LXIV No. 142

Friday, May 4, 1973
Twenty-tour pages

Funds for student aid
remain the same

By RON MITCHELL
Night News Editor

The much—disputed student aid ap-
propriation by Congress is expected to be
approved shortly and the funding will be
similar to that of the 1972-73 school year.

The dispute centered around speculation

that President Nixon would veto the
measure should it pass in Congress.

THE HILL [MS now received passage
by both the President and Congress, and,
according to James lngle, student
financial aid director. UK's appropriation
will be similar to this years'.

“It now appears that funds for existing
programs will be the same as last year,"
lngle said, adding the money will be for-
thcoming as soon as final determination to
the appropriation is given.

The existing programs funded under the
legislation are the work-study program,
direct student loan program and sup—
plemental opportunity grants. The Basic
opportunity Grants (BUGi program, a
newcomer has also been ailowed for.

()N THE NATIONAL level, work-study
will receive $270 million, direct student
loan takes in $269 million and the sup-
plemental opportunity grants have been
allocated $210 million.

BOG has been given $122 million and
may not be implemented for the 1973-74
school year. If it does go into effect, it will
probably be restricted to incoming fresh-
men, he said.

BOG will differ from other financial aid
programs in that applications are ob-
tainable only from the Department of
Health. Education and Welfare agency.
Ingle said BUG applications won‘t be
available until June and that they will be
highly publicized and distributed then.

Students who have applied for aid in the
fall will be notified by early or mid-June as
to their status. Those seeking summer
school or inter-session aid should check
with the financial aid office before leaving
school at the end of the semester. lngle
said.

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Laborers removing the Iii-ton sculpture from in front of the Medical
('enter found it didn‘t want to go yesterday. and their crane became
stuck in heavy mud. tKernel photo by LG. Yopp.)

Wendelsdort reviews his two terms

By NI‘IILL MORGAN

Kernel Staff Writer
does a Student Government
president feel about leaving office after an
unprecedented two terms as the student

Outgoing SG president Scott Wen—
delsdorf was recently qmzzed about his
last two years and the topics of the in—
terview ranged from Wendelsdorf’s
successes and failures to his opinions
about the Board of Trustees. the Student
Services Store and even unionization of
faculties and students.

flow

Kernel: What happened to Student
Government this year. in comparison to
your first year'.’

Wendelsdorf: 0h, there‘s no doubt this
year was lower key than the first year.
And the problem there, of course, was
participation. The first year was probably
the most active year SG has ever had at
this University. There were more people
involved. There were more committees
doing more things. The second year, those
people simply weren't there any more.
This 1 think was a problem that was felt by
all student organizations. Most of your

activist political organizations felt the
pinch, not only at this l'niversity but all
around the country i think last summer at
the NSA tNational Student ASSOCIHIIOH.
convention. that was evident to us Par
ticipation in the NSA was considerably
down from the year before. Enthusiasm
for the traditional student movement goals
down. And people were

was really

beginning to. more or less, cop out. just.

either going back to their studies or getting
into rock and roll or something of equal
absurdity such as that.

Kernel: Do you have something against
rock and roll‘.‘

Wendelsdorf: Yeah. you know. rock and
roll isn‘t going to change aything.

Kernel: Going back to the subject of
your first year compared to the second
year. About the only major ac-
complishment in your second year is the
new SG constitution.

Wendelsdorf: No. It was incorporated
'last summer and it was opened the first of
the fall semester. That clearly is a second-
year project.

Kernel: Okay, so that and the con»
stitution were your major ac

complishmcnts this year

Wendelsdort No ldisagree I think the
major accomnlishment is the eStudent
N‘i'vicest stort

Kernel: But that was started last spring

\M'iidelsdort' l don't look upon the
constitution as an accomplishment An
accomplishment to me is. you know.
something above and beyond the call of
duty The constitution was necessary for
the reorganization of 8G The thing about
student government is that they‘re
essentially creatures of the ad
ministrations 'l‘liey're set up by the
universities to give students a “voice" so
they can get accreditation and so they can
say, "See, the students are actively in-
volved." Now, what you‘ve got to do then
is to make use of those structures they let
you have, because they are better than
nothing. And use those as stepping stones.
Ultimately I think student governments
across the country are beginning to em~
brace the student union concept, which is
really gathering steam on the east coast
This is where students actually unionize as
labor does. What I foresee is that in the
future you will have student unions and

...and Jim Flegle looks ahead to '74

By BILL STRAI'H
Kernel Staff Writer
Jim P‘legle doesn‘t look like the ideal

contemporary student government
president. Flegle has relatively short,
tousled hair that springs from his head in
every imaginable direction. He is clean
shaven, of moderate height, relatively
slim and notably soft-spoken for a person
one would associate with the position.

How had he differed from the other

candidates?

The critical difference was not in the
platforms, he said, but in which team
could do the better job of “elevating SG
back to the status which it should have in
the administration's eye and in the eye of
the campus."

“Mostly I attributed this win to students
who are interested in changing the profile
of the SG so that next year it can involve

more different types of people,“ he said.
“I PLAN 0N actively recruiting people

from dormitories and some of the
fraternities who are at present not too
concerned with the 80. ()ne way to get
them is to advocate projects in the areas
they are interested in and allow them. with
their projects, to work through the SG."

He suggested that many of the proposals
the board accepts are not through headon
confrontation. but through a cooperative
effort between the student representative,
President Otis Singletary and the trustees.

Continued on Page 7. Col. 1

faculty unions. which will sit down and
negotiate such things as tuition and faculty
salaries And it the students don't get what

they want. then the students strike

('ontinued on Page 9. ( ol. 1

Graduation
rolls decline

Ity MIKI‘Z \\I.\Ii.\
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The coal black caps and gowns of this
year's commencement ceremonies might
well be tinged with a bit of melancholy
blue

Graduation's annual pomp, it appears, is
becoming a victim of circumstances.

"till. THERE‘S been a decline in at—
tendance since l‘ve been here,“ says Dr.
Hubert Henderson, music professor and
member of the t‘niversity commencement
committee.

“There‘s been a decline in faculty at-
tendance too Last year, in fact, it was kind
of embarrassing."

Henderson's views seemed to echo the
sentiments of some longtime observers of
Kentucky commencements that
graduation which once occupied a small
revival tent and grew to fill half of Stoll
Field may soon be small enough to fit
back into that tent

“(03' Till: MID-sixties. when proud
parents and their graduates filled the floor
and 12.000 seats of Memorial Coliseum.
commencement ceremonies have dwm-
dled to last year's 0.200 observers and 800
attending grads.

Some 4,200 students were eligible for the
ceremonies.

And ironically. thatswarm of candidates
may be the reason graduations have
shrunk to their present size.

Continued on Page 5. Col. I

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Kernel

Mike wines, Editor-m-Chiat
Mile Tierney, Managing Editor
Larry Kielkopt, Associate Editor

Katie McCarthy, Ron Mitchell,

Dan Rhea, Day News Editor
John Hicks, Photography Editor
Charlie Dickinson. Sports Editor
Joel lakem, Arts Editor

Steve Swift, Night News Editors

Edl'OflalS represent the

Athletics: UK's stumbling block

In many ways, the past two
semesters have been academically
most promising for this University.

They have been semesters of in-
tensive self-examination; of a
pacesetting faculty code; of the first
cracks in the iron doctrines of tenure
and grading; of renewed student
interest in education and its im-
provement.

And with those advances has come
an increasing willingness on the part
of the community to look at itself
critically. and debate its future
openly.

That refreshing trend has evinced
itself in nearly every aspect of this
University‘s life,with one exception.
That exception is intercollegiate
athletics, and in the past year it has
only become more obvious that the
state of athletics threatens to blot 15
years of steady academic progress.

In some aspects, the University has
come a long way from the days when
professors who bristled at challenges
to academic freedom trembled at the
mention of Bear Bryant or Adolph
Rupp. Part of that may be due to the
fact that Kentucky‘s athletic fortunes
have waned as its academic stature
rose.

Combine such shoddiness with
Kentucky‘s halting progress in in-
tegrating its famous basketball
squads. as outlined in a three-part
Kernel series this week, and one has a
decent picture of the overstated
priority of successful athletics here.

This newspaper has reported
aspects of all these failings in the past
nine months, most recently sparking
preliminary reforms in the athletics
department's tutoring programs as
well as minor interest by NCAA and
SEC “enforcement“ officials.

We have debated and rejected the
need for an athletics tax on this
campus. and the outgoing Student
Government president has presented
that argument to the Board of
Trustees. with faint hope for success.

We have shouted against a
hurricane of construction activity on
the state‘s newest White Elephant,
(‘ommonwealth Stadium, and have
given up the cause as hopeless.

‘...theretore,

I have decided
toinvoke
execuﬁve
pﬁvﬂege

and forgive
myself!’

But that does not mean that the
reform of the University’s athletics
program is hopeless. On the contrary,
chances have seldom been better for

restoring the balance between
academics and sports on a campus
where that balance has flown out of
proportion.

Educationally, those students and
faculty who have been invited to
engage in academic corruption for the
sake of athletics have a moral
obligation to report those invitations
to their superiors. and, if action is not
taken, to outside sources capable of
applying external pressure. This
institution is to be primarily a lear-
ning institution. Any straying from
that path should not be tolerated.

()rganizationally, it is far past the
time for a broad review of the
structure, function, benefits and
drawbacks of both intercollegiate and
intramural athletics at this
University. This review should be
ordered by the Board of Trustees,
conducted by an independent firm
and made public for the community
and the state to comment on.

One can reasonably question why
athletics, a $2 million annual business
in a $150 million institution, should be
the object of the campus newspaper‘s
slings and arrows as often as it has.
We are accustomed to charges of an
bias, although we

“anti-athletics”

have repeatedly stressed our support
of a balanced intercollegiate athletics

program here.

The reason athletics has received
our scrutiny is that the balance has
been shifted in the institution‘s desire
for a winning and prestigious athletic
program. Such a program is un—
doubtedly a plus to UK and the state.
It is not worth the perversion of a
university‘s natural function.

But the University has winked too
long at the inequities, the con-
tradictions, the wastes that ac—
company its drive for renewed
athletic greatness. We refer
specifically to the benign neglect of
such minor sports as swimming, golf
and tennis; the total ignoring of
women in UK sports plans; the
grossly unfair athletic fee “tax“
imposed on every student entering
this institution.

And we add to that the University‘s
calculated risk on an $11 million
football stadium, planned and built
without even the facade of public
concern; the professionalization of
major college sports, which has been
perpetrated by a University-affiliated
corporation acting in the cloak of
“academic" respectability; and the
total unconcern for the proper
management of campus athletics
within the bounds of this institution‘s
stated ethics.

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Dean of Students Jack llall wants to
remove Student Government from the
Student (‘enter If llall gets his way, the
viability of Student Government will be
greatly reduced

llall‘s proposal is that Student Govern»
ment move from the Student (‘cnter to the
Alumni Gymnasium. ()ther organizations.
such .is the Human Relations Center. have
already made the move

The battle over the move has been a long
one Last summer in a moment of
weakness. Scott \‘i'endelsdorf agreed to the
move Later. SG l’resident Wendelsdorf
had second thoughts The date was set and
then passed December was set as a
second deadline for the move

Again the (late came and went with
Student Government remaining at the
same old spot Now l’residentclect Jim
Flegle has indicated his firm resolve that
SG should remain in the Student (‘enter
Flegle's sympathies are seconded by
resolutions of both the current Student
Senate and the Senate Elect which passed
overwhelmingly.

The Student (‘enter is the center of
student activity. The Student Government
is the predominant student organization
and should .. without exception have
absolute priority in terms of space

allocation. .
Any action which makes access to

Student Government more difficult
reduces the viability of the organization
The move to the Alumni Gym would do jUSi
that. Large numbers of students visit the
Student (‘enter every day. and find it
convenient to drop by the SG office.

If the move to the gym occurs. anyone
wanting to go to the SG office would have
to make a "special trip,"

One student organization. the Student
('enter Board, is slated to remain in the
Student (‘enter The board is responsible
for programing some concerts. lectures.
and student entertainment activities both
In the Student (‘entcr and elsewhere on
campus,

The Student (‘enter Board could easily
conduct its programming activities
without remaining in the Student (‘enter

The S(‘B's concerns are of limited extent
and of lesser importance than those of SG.
If either the Student (‘enter Board or the
Student Government has to move. the SCB

should take the trip.
The experience of the Human Relations

Center, which recently moved from the
Student (‘enter to the Alumni Gym.
provides the best evidence of the ill effects
of moving students out of their Center.
Bl‘Vt'i’ly Wakem. a member of the ln—
ternational Student Advisory Committee,
notes that the number of international
students who come to the Center has
greatly decreased since the move. She
stated, “What has been gained in space.
has been offset by the loss of the Center‘s
close association with the. foreign students.
. She feels that the gym is “so far out Of
the way .that many of the foreign
students don‘t drop by.“

Dean Hall's support for Student
Government has been less than shining.
but surely his own participation in the
current city election has made him aware
of the need for a democratic government
system to stay in touch with the people.

Hall may be providing more space but
more than likely. he is concerned with
providng fewer problems for himself, and
he realizes that decreasing SG‘s viability
is one way to do that.

Student Government must remain in th“

Student Center.

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Student Government—remember?

— The "Karl Marx-To Hell with

' Capitalism“ award to Scott Wen-

délsdorf for auditing all of his
classes and setting up his own
private law firm while still main-
taining his $1500~a-year job as $6
president.

...but at a discount

The ”Ralph Williams Creative
Merchandising” Award to the
Student Services ”Book” Store—

words

..an annual tongue-
in-cheek wrapup
of the year's
newsmakers

Golden

In""13,ooo,ooo easy
monthly payments

The ”Lemon Bowl” Award to
Commonwealth Stadium for raising.
the seating capacity of UK’s arena
from the second smallest arena in
the SEC to the second smallest
arena in the SEC—all for the
bargain of $9 million.

which sells pencils and records.

Keep ott the...

The ”Peabody Coal Company‘s
Outdoor Beautification” Award to
Physical Plant for their efforts in
building the plaza next to Pence
Hall, which proves that grass can
lead to the harder stuff.

Must've been the food

The H.E.W. Hell~of-an-Equa|-
Opportunity-for an Employe"
Award to Student Government vice
presicknt Brenda Hamer, who went
out to lunch one day and never
returned.

...And ‘3'1ashes
with a broken spoke

A set of mud flaps and some
training wheels to the Pikes and
Sigma Nus as consolation prizes for
their contested bike race, in which
Kirwan Tower finally won.

Not too close...

e ”But Would You Want Your
Brother to Marry One" Award to
Otis Singletary and Jack Hall for
their harsh stands on Gay
Liberation.

Them? Hysterical?

The "2000 years of Oppression" or
the "Jesus used Mary to his ad-
vantage” Award to the women's lib
movement on campus and their
struggle to present their views
through logic.

With some help...

The "Jesus Kicked on Third Down
for Your Sins” Award to Bill ”Stain”
Glass for proving thata iock can still
pull himself up by the straps.

They're consistent

The “Don't Shoot ’til You See The
Whites Of Their Eyes“ award to last
year’s UK basketball team, for
having the best all-white basketball
team in the country. The other two
placed 45th and 123rd, respectively.

Will the set go

to the shop?

The "Trouble is not in your set”
Award to the ill-equipped
Telecommunications dept for tuning
out students and putting the former
Department chairman on vertical
hold.

Them? Motivators?

The ”Puss 'n Boots” Award to
John Mirilovich, whose Kentucky
Kittens have replaced greenies with
girls as inspirational motivation for
high athletic endeavor.

Kastle Hall

unavaﬂ-
able

The ”l Appreciate Everyone’s
Hard Work (this is a recording)”
Award to 8.6. president-elect Jim
Flegle who missed most of the
campaign and his election night
speech due to debate team com-
mitments. Accepting Jim’s award

is...

Today the campus...

The ”Glenn Turner—Dare to be
Great” Award to KYSPlRG for
attempting to convice students that
it costs money to save money.

base- ment

...Or green with envy

The ”I am Curious Blue” Award to
the Council on Women’s Concerns
whose criticism of a nude on a Free

U poster belied their iealousy.

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