xt751c1thq87 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dipstest/xt751c1thq87/data/mets.xml The Kentucky Kernel Kentucky -- Lexington The Kentucky Kernel 1978-03-15 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, March 15, 1978 text The Kentucky Kernel, March 15, 1978 1978 1978-03-15 2020 true xt751c1thq87 section xt751c1thq87 Aid to Equatorial Guinea
UK student organizes refugee group

By TIMOTHY KOONTZ
Kernel Reporter

Angd Eman has a dream for his
people. A UK community health
student and a native of Equatorial
Guinea, Eman has formed a relief
group, The Friends d Equatorial
Guinea Refugees.

"I'm not a politician,” Eman is
quick to point out,“just a
humanitarian."

Spontaneous political executions,
forced labor, and a “concentration
camp” atmosphere have caused
thousands to flee from Equatorial
Guinea, a former Spanish colony
located below the Western hump of
Africa.

After gaining independence nine
years ago, Equatorial Guinea
showed tremendous potential in both
human and natural resources. The

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John Overstreet. forestry junior, gives his saw a
workout in preparation for forestry club sawing

overall literacy rate was 80 percent,
vast untapped oil reserves were
discovered. and the geographically
divided nation had a constitutional
government as well as regular
elections.

Then in 1968, a former civil ser-
vant, Macias Nguema Biyogo,
seized power with the aid of a militia
drawn from his tribal district. A
selfwstyled dictator for life, Macias
barred Western journalists,
declared American Ambassador
Herbert J. Spiro personna non grata
and now punishes any type of dissent
with death by beating.

“The purpose of our organization
is multi-fold,“ Eman explained.
“First. we want to make people
aware of the refugee problems: lack
of health care, food, clothing,
education Then we'd like to work on

the fund raising aspects.

“We’re preparing slide shows
now. Students should be aware of the
problems those people are suffering
for nothing."

Over half the country’s
p0pulation, an estimated l45,000
peOple, has fled to neighboring
African nations since Macias took
power. A special office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for
ltefugees has been set up in
Libreville, but assistance is reported
slow in coming.

An international refugee relief
organization, The Friends of
Equatorial Guinea Refugees, Inc,
has been created to deal with the
hardships encountered by those
fleeing the country.

In addition to heading the refugee
relief organization, Eman also

serves as president of the UK
Cosmopolitan Club. The club’s
purpose is to deal with the special
problems encountered by, foreign
students on campus. “Being far
away from borne," Eman said. “can
sometimes make you feel very
strange and way lonely.“

Besides Eman, the relief
organization has a board of directors
comprised of UK studeits and
Lexington residents. Dr. Carl Peter.
assistant chairman of community
health at the Newman Center; Dr.
Maurice East, a UK political science
professor; Rev. Mike Kasongo, a
doctoral candidate in history from
Zaire and Dr. Van Hoogstaten, a
member of the International
ilumanitarian Assistance Program
based in New York all serve on the
board.

KENTUCKY

an independent student

Iindn Campbell

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University of Kentucky
Lexington. Kentucky

Israel launches assault
across Lebanese border

(AP) Israeli forces crossed into
Lebanon yesterday to wipe out
Palestinian guerrilla bases along its
border. Guerrilla spokesmen in
Beirut said tanks and planes were
attacking their bases and gunboats
were standing by to join the assault.

An lsraeli radio reporter at the
front said long columns of tanks
were crossing the 40-mile long
border into Lebanon, their way lit by
flares dr0pped by jets. He said a
heavy Israeli artillery barrage
preceded the attack. He said Arab
gunners returned the fire, bom-
barding some Israeli settlements.

A Palestinian spokesman said
guerrilla defenders met the armored
assault wirth fire from bazookas,
heavy machine guns and mortars.

“We are trying to stop them every
yard of the way,“ he said. “We are
using evey weapon we have.“

The sounds of fighting drove
Israeli borders villagers into bomb
shelters for the night.

Armed civil guardsmen at
Shelomi and Baram patrolled the
dark streets. Troops battled a few

miles away acr0ss the border fence.

A spokernan for Yasser Arafat's
Palestine Liberation Organization
high command said the guerrilla-
tield towns of Bent Jubayl. M‘aroun
cl ltas. Yaroun. Taibe. Khiam and
ltashaya It‘oukhar were hit by air
strikes.

Ilc said a three~pronged tank
assault was under way in southern-
most Lebanon aiid the Arquob
region on the foothills of Mount
Hermon. once the main theater of
cross-border guerrilla strikes
against Jewish settlements.

Witnesses in the coastal area said
Israeli naval vessels were massed
along a :lU—mile stretch of the
southern coast, but they did not open
fire in the attacks initial stages.

The border crossing yesterday
came three days after Palestinian
terrorists attacked two buses on the
Tel Ayn-Haifa road. killing 33
lsraclis. and one day after Prime
Minister Menachem Begin —
responding to the attack vowed
to “cut off the arm of evil."

lsracl's announcement said its

Senate redefines course num

By DEBBIE MCDANIEL
Kernel Staff Writer

After extensive debate and a
battery of questions from the floor.
the University Senate passed a
committee recommendation
Monday which redefines the course
numbering system and students‘
requirements for enrollment in 100-
500 level classes.

John Lienhard, mechanical
engineering professor, prefaced his
reading of the recommendation
from the Ad Hoc Committee on
Course Numbering by charging that
“flagrant violations of the
classification system" existed at the
University. He said there has been
"a rather strange use of course
numbers which could be alleviated
by course numbering changes.”

The old numbering system had
been critcized for creating in-
consistencies in the admission of
freshmen to upper division courses
and for allowing graduate students

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to receive credit for passing 400-500-
level courses compOSed of un-
dergraduates and graduates.

"We have bad a very workable
system and I‘m very sad to see it
disbanded. But the system we have
has broken down because the council
has ceased to draw the line on
\iolations.” Lienhard said.

The course numbering changes
simplify the procedure for un-
dergraduate enrollment in upper
division courses which formerly
required specific student
classifications. Several departments
already allow freshmen enrollment
in 200-299 courses due to a shm‘tage
of loo—level courses that relate to a
freshman‘s major.

The new rules are a modification
of the previous requirement that
students obtain permission of the
instructor and their Dean. Under the
new policy, freshmen need only the
instructor's permission to enroll in
200-299 courses. while freshmen and
s0phomores will still be required to

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(HARM-IS MAIN DEFICN’DS THE D Zl-‘l-JNSEIJ'ZSS. charging that
complaints about NCAA ticket distribution at UK are unfounded. Read his

local

ABtil'T I00 STI’DI‘INTS at Henry Clay High School walked out of their
classrooms yesterday afternoon to protest additional time they must spend

To make up for days missed due to winter weather. Fayette County school
officials began a policy Monday of adding one hour and 15 minutes to the
amountof time the students spend in school each day.

A school district spokesman said the students wanted to talk with county
superintendent Dr. Guy Potts. but that Potts did not meet with them. School
principal Bill Ilurt ordered the students back into class and some of the
students apparently returned while others went home.

 

obtain the appr0va1 of their dean and
the instructor to enter 300-499
courses.

Aiidher course numbering change
eliminates the inconsistent use of
400.500 level courses in various
departments by requiring them to
label these courses with a G.

The G will specify classes offering
graduate credit for non-majors and
hopefully end the practice that
allowed graduate students to receiVe
credit for passing 400-level classes
composed of both graduates and
undergraduates.

Undergraduate Studies Dean John
Stephenson said, “A large number of
precedents have built up ova the
years for restricting that 400 level to
undergraduates only."

He said a small group of these
upper-level courses contain
material clearly not suitable for
graduate study, earning them the
nickname “dirty dozen" because of
the frequent abuse they receive
from graduate students. “This is an

inconsistent numbering system
compared to other universities.” he
said.

Professor Malcolm Jewell who
chaired the ad hoc committee said
various departments in Arts and
Sciences, Business and Economics,
(‘ommunity Health, Engineering.
Social Professions. and Home
Economics have adjusted the course
numbering framework to meet their
needs.

“A wide scatteringof departments
do make this distinction (between
400 and 500 level courses) in their
own planning for undergraduates on
the junior and senior level,“ Jewell
said.

The course numbering changes
will not become effective until Jan.
1979.

A violation of the University
Senate‘s 10-day agenda circulation
rule resulted in a motion to table
action items from yesterday‘s
agenda. The motion was then
defeated in a close full~Scnate vote.

 

state

TllI-l STATE SENATE passed a bill yesterday changing the makeup of the
inner Lexington district represented by House Speaker William Kenton. and
opponents charged the move was aimed at insuring Kenton‘s reelection.

“This bill reeks of the stench of clandestine legislative maneuvering and
selfish political manipulation," charged Sen. Larry Hopkins, R-Lexington.
' It is simply a bill to gerrymander districts."

The bill would move to predominantly white precincts into Kenton's
district form two other House districts. Kenton‘s district is currently about
is percent black. He narrowly beat black attorney Theodore Berry by 132

votes in last year‘s primary.

sl'PPoltTI-IHS OF AN AII.ING BILL that would permit teachers to
co gage in collective bargaining have tried a new tactic to get the measure to

the ilouse floor for a vote.

A floor amendment contain'ng the same language as Senate Bill as. a
teacher bargaining measure that passed the Senate two weeks ago. has been
attached to a comprehersive Senate reorganization bill.

Student (i0vernment Senator
Mark Benson moved to table the
action items. He argued for tabling
the items because several Senate
members didn‘t receive their
agenda copies until a few hours prior
to the meeting.

forces did not intend to harm the
population. the Lebanese army or
Arab forces keeping the peace after
the recent Lebanese civil war
“But only terrorists and their
helpers."

it said. “The objective of the
operation is not retaliation for the
terrorist crime, for there can be no
retaliation for the murder of in—
n0cent men. women and children,
but to protect the State of Israel and
its citizens from incursions of
members of Fatah and the PL ) who
use Lebanese territory to attack
citizens of Israel."

Israel customarily does not an-
nounce details of crossbordcr
operations until they are completed,
and news of military activities is
subject to heavy censorship.

(‘BS News described the operation
as the largest since the 1973 Middle
East war.

In New York. the PL() permanent
UN. observer Zehdi 'l‘crzi said the
Israeli incursion “might escalate
into a fullscle war."

ers

When the Senate hand-voted 32-30
to continue the meeting, Senate
(‘hairman Dr. Paul ()berst asked
Professor John Lienhard to read the
agenda items for the benefit of those
who had not received copies.

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Election moved up

By .l.\('K i\.\l.\‘\t'ltl(ill’l'
Kernel Staff Writer

The Student Senate voted Monday
night to move up the dates for filing
and voting in Student Government
elections this year.

Elections are now scheduled for
March 29 md March ill). the first
Wednesday and Thursday after
spring break. (‘andidatcs must file
before spring break bcgins. ’l‘he
elections were set for April it) and 20.
with filing beginning April it, but
some senators wanted next year‘s

representatives to have more time
for planning.

The Senate also voted to endorse
another insurance company's policy
because of a waivtr that the old
policy did not offer. The new com
pany. (‘onnccticut Lite. allows
students to wait until age 28 to
change to a regular policy. SG
toriiicrly endorsed the Bankcrs‘ Life
policy.

The Senate also passed these
itctiist

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ll.\llli\l\I-IHS Hill Tlll'I l‘NlTl‘Il) \llVll \A'llRKPIRS and the coal to
distry agreed yesterday on a new contract with terms fmelytuned to win
the support of striking miners and thus settle the long standing coal strike
uithout further governmental intervention

Sources close to the contract talks said representatives of both the soft
coal industry and the l M“ compromised some earlier positions in agreeing
on the latest \ersionot a tentativethree year contract

weather

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Step into the stone age

The State Senate took one small step for stone-
age man, one giant leap for chauvinism, Monday
when it voted to cancel Kentucky’s ratification of

the Equal Rights Amendment.
Considering that the House

second that measure, the passage of Senate
Resolution 4 is a final victory for the anti-ERA
fulminators. It’s a useless victory, though,
considering that rescission efforts are un-
constitutional in the opinion of most legal

authtrities.

(Thirty-eight states must pass the ERA by
March 1979. Thirty-five have already ratified it,
although three other states have voted to with-

draw appoval.)

Some of the senators who spoke against the

constitutional amendment took

approach. Richard Weisenberger, D-Mayfield,
implied the bill would actually hurt the position
of women in society. “They are going from a
position of superiority to a position of equality,”
Weisenberger was quoted “This (the ERA) does
not allow a law that looks to the’natural dif~

ferences between men and women.”
To Weisenberger’s supporters, the “ladies in
pink” and other neolithic thinkers, a “superior”

position is vay important Having doors opened

will probably

for you, tipping hats and living on a pedestal are
examples of that kind of “superiority.”

But few women would prefer the pedestal to
having equal rights and an end to diScrimination.
Thtse who want equality should not be blocked
by the backward thinking of a few.

Equal righb for women can be achieved
without the constitutional amendment. Indeed,
progress in that direction is the evolutionary

path of modern society.

an interesting

The ERA would give that effort tremendous
clout on a national level, and would allow quick
removal of antiquated laws that are still clut-
tering up statute books. We hope that the House
will use better judgment and junk the rescission
bill. Aprroval of the ERA is a needed affirmation
of the country’s future, and the state legislature
should not stand in the way.

’If I should die tomorrow, please laugh’

Three parables on life and the meaning of it all

Hugh .1. Findlay is a junior
majoring in English. A 1975
graduate of Lexington Catholic High
School, he was Creative Writing
Editor of the now-defunct Ken-
tuckian Magazine when he was a
sophomore.

These three short stories are
examples of his work:

A parable of life

He, the great master, bore up
three sons. And, wondering if it was
good, planned to send them off into
the world. He instructed them in all
His wisdom and hopefulness, “You
are bound in this world by time and
space. Time determines your
ultimate death, and space proclaims
how you determine that death."

And he sent them on their separate
ways into the world.

The first one exclaimed, “I shall
be a man.“ The second one spoke,
saying “I think I shall be a boy.”
And the third said, “I shall let fate
decide my path."

The first. who wished to be a man,
set off through his life to pursue his
pr0phesy. His philosophy was: “If I
am going to die, I will certainly
enjoy myself before that time."

He competed in business and
politics. strived to achieve unob-
tainable goals, and gathered about
him much material wealth. He used
deceitful and malicious means to
become a “man,“ to reach his
pinnacle in life. He climbed social
ladders and acquired fame and
status. He participated in illicit
affairs with other men‘s women and
took to drink and late hours.

All of which were approved of by
his s0cial circle. His mouth slan-
dered those who wished to
downgrade him or slow him in his
self-appointed duty.

After years of tainted success, he
surrounded himself with luxury and
comfort. But his life came to an end
when a jealous man slew him upon
discovering that he had slept with
the other's wife.

This man was forgotten on Earth.

The second. who chose boyhood.
did indeed become a boy. He
believed that “If I will inevitably
die. I do not wish to think about it.“
Even when his body matured to that
of a man. he still retained the in-
nocenoe and good nature of a child.
His body was mature. yet his mind
was ignorant of adult values. He had
no responsibility. no enemies and no
worries just youth.

lie was happy and content in his
boyhood, He followed the leads of
others. nevtr acting for himself. He
was loyal to his family. and obeyed
their evtry command to the letter.
He worked in the fields during the
day and practiced his lessons at
night.

Security blanketed his existence
until the day his parents died. He
was left to fend for himself; to ac-
complish tasks he hadn‘t the ability
to do. Soon he realized his lack of
capability and joined the Legion.
cntrustin g himself to its care. But he
could not defend himself in battle
and was promptly stricken mwn.

This man was also forgotten on
Earth.

The third, who was to be governed
by fate, found himself travelling.
The traveller adopted the attitude:
“Although I am to die, I will ex-
perience and appreciate life the way
it is and the best I can.”

His trek covered wide, sparse
areas and cramped, dense areas. He
met with wild, vicious animals. He
crossed oceans, glaciers and
deserts. He ate the herbs and roots
of the forests. He sheltered himself
at night in caves and hollows. Often
he counted the stars in the sky. The
splendor of nature filled him with
joy, his very presence in such a
world enthralling him.

He took life as it came and beauty
met him wherever he went, evei in
the most gruesome of lands. In the
country, he expressed appreciation
through poems of nature, of life. He
wrote and wrote, never fearing the
ravages of time. Sometimes his
poetry was in song, other times in
dance. And, as he explored one
territory after another, his poems
and his legacy spread.

As his life wore on, it finally wore
out. He died peaceably amid fern
and jimson, amid poetry in living
things. He accepted life for what it
was, and it was eva‘ything. But in
death, only he knew and appreciated
life for its total worth, for death was
not the depriver but the ultimate
fulfiller of thirst.

This man, too, was forgotten on
Earth. But, even though this final
man died, his words lived on
forever. And the great master saw
that he was good, so He made the
Earth man’s home and set man upon
it.

Now, we again have all three men
on Earth. Why?

The storyteller

Once upon a time, a man was
asked to tell a story. “First," he
said, “I must know to whom I am
telling the story." They replied, “To
us, your relatives. friends and
neighbors.”

At that. the man asked, “What
kind of story do you wish to hear?"
And his relatives, friends and neigh-
bors responded, “We wish to hear a
happy story with many fanciful
ideas."

“I see,“ said the man who was
asked to tell a happy story with
many fanciful ideas. "But one more
question,“ the man added, “WHY do
you want to hear a story?"

The relatives, friends and neigh-
bors sat back and wondered about
why they wanted to hear a story.
None of them could come up with an
answer. so the man asked “Is it
because you want to be entertained?
Or perhaps you want to go out and
tell the story over again to your
relatives. friends and neighbors? Or
is it because your minds are so dead
that you need someone else to start it
working?"

They looked at the man in shock
and amazement. Many of them
lowered their heads in cm-
barrassmcnt. and a few became

angry at the man. Soon, all of them
had risen to their feet and left, save
one small boy.

The man asked him: “The rest
have gone, little one — why do you
remain?”

The little boy who didn’t leave said
to the man, “I want to hear a
story. . . because. . . because it's
there.

The man who was asked to tell a
story by he relatives, friends and
neighbors about many fanciful ideas
but who didn’t know why they
wanted to hear it just sat there,
crying, and said “You have just
been told a story, my son.”

The moral of the story: Every

moral doesn't have a story. . .
Life is a joke

Life is a joke
If I should die tomorrow
Please laugh

—llJF

The following is a true story. . .

I saw an ant die today. The ant

could hardly walk, he was so
fatigued from living. You’d think
that with all those legs he could
move around with but one. I’d never
thought of ants dying from old age. I
always thought they perished under
a human foot or a big red army ant
bit off their head.
- Anyway, this one little black ant
was crawling, crawling mind you,
towards a drain in the floor, in the
bathroom, in the restaurant where I
work, by the road where millions of
other people drive to work each day
in the city, in the good old U.S. of A.,
on the planet Earth, where we all
unknowingly squash poor un-
suspecting ants to death.

He (I presume it was a he)
reached the drain and at first I
thought he was going to jump down
into it. But he clamped onto an ob-
ject that looked like a piece of dirt
but was really another dead ant. The
dead one was curled up into a dark
ball with its legs protruding like
tentacles. The live ant caight hold of
it with his jaws and tried to drag it
away from the drain. He failed
pathetically many times, until
finally he pulled the dead one a few
inches from the hole.

As he was dragging it out, I con-
templated h‘s reasons for this ac-
tion, being as weak as he was. I
speculated that this was the brother
of the dead ant and that he had been
sent by his family or community to
retrieve its body for sentimental
reasons: the ant had travelled far
and wide in search of his lost
brother, over barren kitchen floors,
mountainous tabletops, and under
inop-water—soaked doorways.

Then 1 wondered if perhaps the
bathroom floor was a battleground
tor warring ant communities: he
and his mate had been separated
during battle, he was wounded, and
came back searching for his dead
tomrade.

Or. maybe this was the ancient
sacred bin-ial ground for ants of his
species and the body was of one old-
timcr that preceded him. In any

case, the ant was here and lugging
around this brotherly corpse, and I
didn‘t know why.

Then, the ant stopped pulling his
load and loosened his grip. He
wandered around the body and
seemed to be examining the lifeless
skeleton. I could almost read the
little bug’s thoughts. “What the hell,
he’s dead and I nearly am also."
Suddenly, the ant st0pped parading
about and froze. I thought he’d died
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liindquartcrs and tlailed his other
legs and arms around wildly. Tarzan
style.

l was shocked. Facing his friend,
the ant began to double himself up,
still swinging those hairlike limbs,
and coiled up into a dirt-like ball. His
tentacles slowed and finally stopped
moving. He was dead, I was sure of
it. His carcass resembled the other
one.

l leaned back on my knees,
amazed. I had just witnessed the end

  
 
 
 
 
  

...BUT MALE!
TilEYALL
CAME F?

AN
martian!

ot a life. like mine. from this world.
So. l prayed for the little creature. It
was ironic that I should ask God‘s
witness to me. when here before me
was d creature so small. yet just as
significant before Him as l. I prayed
that I could be as humble as that ant.
and that my departure from this
world would be as easy and simple
as his.

PS. Ann (irachlcr
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Mllt’h has been said and written
in the past few weeks about the
system used by the University this
year to distribute students‘ tickets
to the basketball games.

Many letters have crossed my
desk decrying. deploring and
despising that system. and l have
had ca tee to wonder just how much
the writers of those letters actually
knew about the whole complex
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ln reaction to those letters. I
have decided to reveal a little-
known fact about myself: l am a
ticket-line junkie.

I waited in line ovemight for my
tickets all year. just like quite a
few others. Toward the middle of
the season. when the lines began to
get longer and the Saturday night
crowds larger, l and several others
took an active role in organizing
the line before the Sunday morning
arrival of the University officials.

During the time l spent keeping
“the list" and calling roll. etc. I
opened myself up to more verbal
abuse than l had ever thought it
was possible for one person to
absorb and not contemplate self,
imrnolation or something

What this is all leading to is a
rather broad but nonetheless \ :ilid
generalization: when one accepts
responsibility in a difficult
situation. he is going to let himself
in for some heartache.

One person in particular. thick
skinned and impervious to slander
thaigh he may be. has ta ken on the
responsibility for distributing
tickets to students and gotten
nothing in return the doesn't get .i
cent for doing itt is Assistant Dean
of Students Lynn Williamson

1‘, Lynn, as those who know or
pretendto know) him call him. has
been called just about t“. cry
creative. or unflattering .. one in
the English language during his

 

involvement in the distribution
process this season.

That is all well and good. I
\upiiosc. it you subscribe to the
many that tiod created university
officials for students to make sport
of. but i don‘t, subscribe to that
thmry

l“ll‘Si of all. God created ('lifl
Hagan for us to make sport of. and
ll(‘ is target enough. The fact about
Williamson is that is just about as
close to bcing the students best
lricnd in the administration as it is
possible lor anyone on the
l nivcrsiiy payroll to be.

’l‘hough nobody is sure exactly
what his job description is.
Williamson performs quite a few
services to the students here. not
the least, of which is his opens2~l-
hours AdiichorThe—Suddenly-
incarcerated service.

line of those services also hapr
pens to be the handling of ticket
distribution. Williamson has been
ihai'gcd with making sure that
llt'kt'l information is gotten out.
making sure the lines are mar
shulled. handing out control cards.
iliccking the control cards and
‘tlt‘t‘p breath hcrct. tinally.
making sure the actual distribution
goes smoothly.

ln .iddition to all this. it seems.
he also has to,

It Put up '-.\llll the impotent
rantings ot dissatisfied students;

It Lislt‘il to pimplytaccd lit»
\titl‘ ottts call his mother names.

:ii |l.indlc innumerable pleadings
\llt'll .‘is “lint |)crin Williamson. l
\‘Al‘ill' l h:i\c an ll)‘ I just didn't
bring it l)t't't‘lll.\t' l didn‘t know I
would need it'" or “l’iiit ll".‘lll
Williamson. I wear my trii-nd
went to get i'oltcc' Just let me get
two llt'ht'l\ this oiit-c'”

the list is endless

Min. I really don't want to start
ranting about this. so l'm going to
lif‘lll'l(‘l l.\iin\\'illianisonisnotthe
poison responsible for the Mn ions
tough spots in the distribution
system. he‘s just responsible for
intuit-mg ll it's part of his job

5o the next time you want to chill
\illlli‘l)t‘(l'i .I "ward off little

Don’tblaifie Lynn:
he just works here

rattink." go find your mother.
Lynn Williamson simply doesn‘t
ticscryo it

“llilt' l‘m on the subject of
tickets. dig this.

’l‘ickcls lor' the St. Louis stage of
the \t'AA tournament. should the
this make it that far. will be
distributed by lottery on Sunday,
March W. at 7 pm. in the
t'ttliSt'llll‘ There are as? student
tickets this time. and the same ll).
\ouchcr. ctc system will be in
t lit‘t'l

(inc last item

You lll.‘l\ not time noticed it in
\cstirday's paper. but we had a
liilllt‘l inti-i'csting ad from .\lc-
lionnld‘s lt scents there is a little
l 7.} watering hole in southern
tii'til‘tliit culled l’crry. that just got
IiM'll .i ,‘ili'lioiiriltl's

'l‘iiis \ii Donald‘s. which they
«wont is \isibli- from the ln-
lci'siatc. wants your llll\HH-$5
l‘hcy are running coupons in the
Kcrnct .igain tomorrow tor tree
ii'ncch tries. which you can get just
tor stopping in and \lltmlllg them
your 1 l\ ll‘

lltl.lj,1lllt‘ thc possibilitics‘ It you
happen to be heading tlor Florida
on [7.1 stop in' 'l'hcrc‘s no telling
who -.oii might see that you know

Iion’t toi'gi-t to take thi- coupons.
bi lllt‘ w.i\ l plan on being there
stilllt‘lllllt' l‘tiiir‘sdn} ciening and l
.\..iiiltltti.il\t‘1lll.\ililt‘rt‘SillitI l'll
throw iii .i titi- Hip, ‘il.ii tor the tirst
I l\ type c. ho t (llllt'\ up to me and
saw. ‘hi-y' ‘our column is
tci‘rililc' '

l‘-i‘ liict'c

Aloha

tlinilcs “Jill is the Kct'iii'l
lilitoi'iail l’ilitor. His column ap-
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Sing a song 0f poetry

By N ELL FIELDS
Assitant Arts Editor

Of all the art forms current
today, poetry ranks with the
untouchables. After all, those
days of serenading
sha kespearean' sonnets under
unfathomable elms are gone.
Those once insanely romantic
days are part of the past and .
famous American and
English poets have been
replaced by an occasional
book of poetry by Gorden
Lightfoot or Elton John‘s
writer. Bernie Taupin.

The era of the “uncultured
youth" is at its peak and all
that is left are lyrics of rock
and roll songs. But the
record-buying youth have
been tricked by what they are
actually buying.

Take for example the
Beatles album Abbey Road.
It was once and possibly still
is One of the albums to buy.
Songs like “Oh Darling" and
"Here Comes the Sun" are
reserved strictly for Saturday
night beer blasts with the
gang.

And just as the last of the
beer is about to be sipped
from the keg, “Golden
Slumbers" starts playing.
That song is the ultimate way
to end the evening with the
infamous four.

The evening would
probably be ruined if anybody
knew that “Golden Slum-

bers“ is a paraphrase of
Thomas Dekker's English
poem “Lullaby.“

The Beatles were no fools.
They knew good lyrics when
they saw them.

Setting poetry to music has
been around since the
beginning of time. Usually
the verse was written first
and later came the music.
For instance, in the 18th
century when the church of
England was divided. the
popular Protestant song was
William Blake‘s
“Jerusalem."

'l‘oday those very words can
be found on Emerson, Lake.
and Palmer's album Brain
Salad Sugery.

William Blake would smile
in his grave that is set under
the streets of London if he
knew that just last week
about 20,000 half-stoned
Lexingtonians were crooning
his song from the Book of
Milton.

Pre-preschoolers are
ween