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Fight continues against Corps of Engineers

By LYN HACKER
Kernel Staff Writer

Red River Gorge Legal Defense Fund Inc., is
preparing a preliminary brief to be submitted to
Louisville District Court to halt further planning of
Red River Dam by the Army Corps of Engineers.

After the brief is filed, the Legal Defense Fund will
prepare a suit to delay or stop construction of the dam
citing any illegalities or inconsistencies in the Corps'
environmental impact statement.

Till-2 (‘ORPS submitted the environmental impact
statement to the Council on Environmental Quality
Tuesday.

The Lexington Chapter of the Red River Defense
Fund (RRDF) met Sunday to discuss plans for raising
money for the court case and to plan educational and
political publicity campaigns for further opposition to
the dam.

RRDF functions as a fund-raiser for the Legal
Defense Fund.

THE IMPACT statement has 30 days before it is
submitted to a committee for review. During this time

all court contests and public opinion will be received
for consideration.

If the statement is approved. the Corps can go to the
nextstage of planning,which is buying the land in Red
River Gorge.

The suit will contest the environmental impact
statement on two levels: if the facts and figures can be
proven inaccurate; or if the figures are accurate but
the needs haven't been adequately shown.

THE Legal Defense Fund wants to raise the interest
rate from the 1962 figure of 3' 4 per cent to 5%. per cent.
If the interest rate can be raised, the project will lose
money and not get government backing. The Corps
plans to receive government funds with a 3‘4 interest
rate.

Bob Ashford of the RRDF said it looked as if the
court case would be successful in delaying the buying
of land.

“If so. the Corps will have to redraft and release
another statement," Ashford said. ”By that time. we
hope the politics in relation to the environment will be
changed.

”WE HOPE to stop the construction but we are
working to delay it now," he continued. “We want to
work out a political decision which will perhaps put
enough ofa hole in the project to stopit."

He added that RRDF’s ultimate goal was to get the
Senate to de-authorize the project.

The Kentucky Legislature has not taken a stand on
construction of the dam. Ashford said one reason was
although the representatives from Lexington are
opposed to the project, they don't feel there is enough
opposition to raise the issue.

IN AN effort to raise the consciousness of Lexington,
the RRDF is starting several educational and political
campaigns aimed at focusing public attention on the
proposed dam and canvassing support for the op-
position.

RRDF is also trying to raise an estimated 810,000
needed for legal fees, court costs and expert witnesses
to testify against the Corps.

RRDF is presently offering to show civic groups
presentations on Red River or to amwer questions
from membersabout the Red River Dam controversy.

Continued on page 8

The Kentucky Kernel

Vol. LXVI No. 8
Friday. July 12. 1974

an independent student newspaper

,Wi- t

Anne Farrar. a San Francisco nstlve. was one of 350 people to register Thursday
for the New American Movement convention being held in the Student Center.

(Kernel staff photo by Phil Groshong.)

Reliable vending services are pleasant change
for UK under new Macke Company contract

By BYRON WEST

University of Kentucky
Lexington. Ky. 40506

Senate Council
opens its doors

to reporters

By SUSAN JONES

Kernel Staff Writer
The Senate Council. the administrative
arm of the University Senate. opened its
doors to reporters Wednesday for the first
time in compliance with the sunshine law,
The sunshine law. passed by the 1974
General Assembly. requires that all
meetings of any public agency be public.

ASSISTANT ATTORNEY General Carl
Miller. in an opinion requested by
l'niversity of Louisville legal counsel. said
the law would require all meetings of the
Board of Trustees, its committees and
subcommittees be open to the public when
the subject matter is public business.

Senate Council action included final
agreement upon a series of revisions
made by President Otis A. Singletary on
Senate recommendations concerning
University tenure and promotion prac-

The 10 recommendations. which were
sent to Singletary in April. include a
proposal to allow student input into the

tenure process.
[SDI-2R TIIl-Z new regulation written

Kernel Staff Writer

The Macke Co. has provided the campus
with vending machine service for nearly a
year now and Mary Grady of the pur-
chasing services department says the
University has no complaints about the
company‘s operation.

Macke Signed a five-year contract with
the University in August. 1973, following
the cancellation ofa contract with Central
Vending Company. lnc., earlier in the
summer.

CENTRAL VENDING‘S contract was
terminated because the company failed to
provide adequate service and to pay the
University its dividends. Macke is ap
parently in no danger of leaving for the
same reasons.

Macke personnel check all machines
regularly to make sure they are filled and
in working order, Grady said.

She added some machines have
remained empty for the summer. Most of
these are in areas not many students visit.

Sl'MMER COMPLAINTS are “prac-
tically nil.“ said Stanley lngram.who is
the UK vending machine ombudsman.
Most complaints, however. go directly to
Macke because stickers on the vending
machines have their phone number on
them.

"I keep in contact with the Macke people
though." he said. “and they tell me they
get no more than two or three complaints
a day."

Mostof the complaints. he said. come on
weekends. Macke services the machines

daily. but they maintain skeleton crews
everywhere except the Med Center on
weekends.

A STl'DICNT (‘l-ZNTl-IR spokesperson
said there have been a number of com-
plaints about money lost in machines
there. mostly in cigarette machines. She
added Macke has been good about
refunding money except in cases where a
name begins to appear on the list too of-
ten.

Most dorms reported no problems either
with getting money returned or with
keeping machines stocked. A
spokesperson for Blanding ll said there
had been some problems at the beginning
of the summer session but that everything
was now going smoothly.

(‘oiitinued on page it

material submitted by student groups
tundergraduate student advisory and
graduate or professional student group)
shall be included in materials submitted
Ill recommendations for promotion of
tenure.

Singlclary accepted all of the Senate's
original recommendations. wholly or in
part. with the exception of the proposal
allowing faculty with the rank of assistant
professor or higher to demand. in writing.
the reasons behind their dismissal.

"TIIE (‘ll.\N(;l-ZS made by the president
upon the other nine recommendations
were largely verbage changes for the
purpose of clarification." said Student
Government President David Mucci. also
an ex officio member of the Senate
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 “A foolish consistency is the
hobgoblin of little minds."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gov. Wendell Ford holds the
key to preventing the concrete
rape of the Red River Gorge‘s
unique natural wilderness. But
reversal of his position sup-
porting Red River Dam is
unlikely considering his strong
allegiance to Rep. (‘arl Perkins.
major proponent of the project.
Ford needs the backing of
Perkin‘s eastern Kentucky
political machine in the fall [CS
Senate race. He has already
changed his mind once on the
(‘umberland State Park chairlift
so he probably won‘t risk charges
of inconsistency.

The Army (‘orps of Engineers
released the final environmental
impact statement on the dam this
week. a step which reminds us
the ultimate devastation of the
gorge draws closer every day.
The Corps recommended con-
struction of the dam using the
same hackneyed justifications
and claiming “the total public
interest would be best served.”

The three basic reasons given

for the dam have been refuted
repeatedly by dam opponents:

VWater supply for central
Kentucky ~ All 12 cities affected.
including Lexington, don't want
water from Red River Lake and
point to altenatives such as (‘ave
Run Reservoir or piping water
from the Kentucky River.

l/ Flood control for Clay (‘ity .-
Protective levees or river
channel diversions could be
constructed for one-sixth the cost
of the $30 million dam. Also, the
damage incurred by floods is
minimal compared to the inun-
dation of the gorge and relocation
of its residents.

i/Recreation benefits ~ One
million tourists already visit Red
River Gorge annually. Goaded by
anxious business interests, the
Corps is actually espousing
commercial development of
wilderness area surrounding the
lake.

At this late stage in the game.
the few channels of action still
open are being vigorously pur-
sued. The Red River Gorge Legal
Defense Fund, Inc.. will sue the
Corps to challenge inaccuracies
and false premises in the impact

Editorials/Letters
Ford, votes and the Red River Dam

 

 

statement. Hopefully they will be
able to raise the money needed
for legal expenses to halt or at
least delay the dam.

Opponents should continue to
badger Ford and educate the
public on the realities of Red

Perhaps Ford‘s
consciousness will never be
raised. Still. he‘s a shrewd
politician and will only recon-
sider when he can translate a
flood of public sentiment into
votes.

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Published by the Kernel Press the. Begun as
the Cadet in 1094 and published continuously
as the Kentucky Kernel since 1915. The
Kernel Press. Inc.. founded in 1971.

Editor-in-chiel, Kay Coyle

M .nagino editor, Nancy Daly
Editorial editor, Larry Mead
Photo editor, Phil Groshonq

Arts editor, Clark Terrell
Sports editor, Jim Manoni
Copy editor. Bruce Winges
Copy editor. Clare Dewar

Editorials represent the opinions ol the editors, not the University

You just have to speculate

EAST HAMPTON. L.l. — The
summer circus is cranking up
here in the green lush, where
some of America‘s Waspiest
richies will aestivate in fresh sea
breezes while they practice the
more refined forms of anti-
Semitism on the well-to-do Jews
who also come here. Neither on
the golf course nor in the pool are
the Anglo-Saxons easy to see, for
the stockbroker conceals himself
and his wife and children more
cleverly than nature‘s shyest,
best-camouflaged, nesting
creatures.

Among themselves. however.
they tend toward the boisterous.
A weekend in the High Hamptons
is 72 hours of unremitting alcohol
and athletics. When they aren’t
bashing some kind of a ball
around, they are descending on
each other with their weekend
guests in tow to drink whiskey on
ice and say nasty things about
their guests who, “if they had
nice places of their own, wouldn‘t
want to visit.“

THEY SNll-‘F ()L‘T each
other‘s property and, being rich,
they talk prices and money. Rent,
buy or sell, after they‘ve swar-
med over the real estate and
inwardly appraised their host's
holdings, the conversation turns
to the larger world of business
back there in the heat of
Manhattan Island, where the
stock market languishes and the
kids splash in the spray of fire

hydrants. The tone of talk is of
the suppressed scream. of
hysteria held in check.

Even though the rich are
always worried that somebody,
God or a Bolshevik, is going to
steal their money, this is dif»
ferent.

'I'HEY‘VE PET their hope in
the former fuel czar, William
Simon. The new Secretary of the
Treasury has taken a house here.
which his neighbors point out to
visitors while they reassure each
other that, “Bill Simon is one guy
who will take on inflation. He
must be smart. Look at all the
money he made.“

Whether Simon was also smart
enough to get that money out of
investments whose value is being
eroded by inflation isn't known
now, but a lot of the people here
haven‘t. They don’t know where
to put their money to save its
value. They would be even more
concerned if it occurred to them
that the government may not be
serious about its anti-inflation
posture.

Washington is giving off signs
of terror at the consequences of
any deflationary movement, of
any drop in prices. Apparently
none will be tolerated, so that we
are to fight inflation while
allowing prices to continue to
rise

WITH INFLATION at the H
percent rate. Mr Simon and

associates are laboring to keep
prices up in the cattle industry
Emergency loans are being
rushed through Congress. and the
crustiest of free-marketeers will
vote for it out of fear that. if the
cattlemen go under. they will
take their banks and other
creditors with them.

Thus, with all this cheap money
the shortage of cash, "the
liquidity crunch," prohibits any
drop in prices anywhere in any
industry.

The government must foster
inflation while seeming to fight it.
Cattle, banking, railroads,
housing must get money, The
presses on which it is printed
may have to run through the
night. but in the morning the
paymasters and tellers will have
something resembling dollars to
pass through their wickets.

It turns the economy into a vast
Ponzi game. In the Ponzi game.
the first people to buy the wor-
thless stock are paid off with the
money coming from the people
who buy later. They're the ones
who get stuck. The same with
inflation. He who can borrow first
and buy first with the cheap
money robs him who must buy
later. The folks here are always
first in line, but where will you
be?

Hoffman is a
King Features

Nicholas von
columnist for
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Comment

The going gets

H) HENRY S. CUMMAGI‘IR

Opinion in the Nixon and the
anti~Nixon camps has come
around to supporting im-
peachment rather than
resignation as the proper solution
for the Watergate crisis. and for
the souiidest of reasons: im‘
peachnient will answer fun-
damental questions about
Presidential power and the
nature of the American cons
situtional system, whereas
resignation will leave these
questions forever unanswered.

But Presidential tactics,
together with Congressional
timidity and confusion. may
forfeit the advantages of im-
peachment. For if Richard M.
Nixon has his way. his guilt or
innocence will be judged almost
wholy on technical issues of
complicity in ordinary crimes
and will therefore neither solve
nor illuminate the great
questions that confront us.

Till-I PRESIDENT has so far
won two strategic victories in the
realm of public. and perhaps
even of Congressional. opinion.
First. he has succeeded in con-
centrating attention on
Watergate and its associated
chicaneries to the exclusion of
most of the great constitutional
issues that his conduct has
raised. Second. he has won
widespread. if uncritical. support
for the wholly erroneous
argument that impeachment is a
"criminal" trial and that the
Senate must find him guilty of
some ordinary “criminal” act in
order to remove him irom office

This argument finds no support
in law or in history It was con-
tradicted by the three men who
contributed most to writing the
('onstitution: James Madison.
Alexander Hamilton and James
Wilson It was speCifically
rejected in the Federalist Papers

still the best explanation of
what the authors of the Con-
stitution meant.

If the House Judiciary Com»
mittee accepts the Richard M.
Nixon James I). St, Clair in»
terpretation of impeachment, the
consequence will be to make the
whole process irrelevant and
faintly absurd and to deny to the
country an opportunity to clarify
once and for all the great con—
stitutional issues that are in
controversy.

FUR WE IN) not. after all. need
a Congressional verdict to know
that Watergate was a crime. that
the break-in at the office of Dr.
Daniel Ellsberg’s former
psychiatrist was a crime. and
that payoffs to burglars are a
crime. Nor do we need further
evidence to prove that Mr. Nixon
is totally unfit to be President.
The character of the men he
chose as his associates and as
instruments of his will and the
transcripts of his conversations
with them amply demonstrate
this.

The real crimes ior which Mr.
Nixon should be tried by the
Senate fall into Iiye major
categories:

OI“irsi is the usurpation oi war

 

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power in the secret war against
Cambodia The Constitution
lodges the power to declare war
in the Congress. Prsident Nixon
had no more right to bomb
Cambodia without Congressional
authority than he would have had
to bomb China or France.

0 SH‘UNI) IS the denial to the
Congress of those powers that are
confined to it by the Constitution

a denial particularly
dangerous in the realm of foreign
relations.

How is the Congress to fulfill its
constitutionalfunction to declare
war. to advise and consent to
treaties and to vote ap—
propriations if it is not allowed to
know when the President makes
war. or against whom: not
allowed to know the contents of
secret agreements with foreign
powers; not allowed to know
what the (‘entral Intelligence
Agency ~ which is a quasi—war
agency and a quasi-foreign af-
fairs agency ~ is up to . and not
allowed to know how its money is
being spent.

o'I‘hird is the effective
nullification of the legislative
power over the purse. the most
important weapon in the arsenal
of Congressional independence
and the most important in
strument of democracy.

BY “IMPUl'NDING” some $15
billion appropriated by the
Congress. Mr. Nixon Iias not only
usurped a basic Congressional
iuiiction and denied to the people
the right to spend their money
as they see fit. he has gone far to
destroy the delicate iiieeliaiiisins

set up to control Presidential
vetoes.

0Fourth is the nullification of
the guarantees of the Bill of
Rights in the effort to apply prior
censorship over the press: in the
intimidation of the television
media; in the illegal arrest of
12,000 Americans exercising their
constitutional rights of assembly
and petition; in the use of that
most-hated device of the police
state. the agency provocateur; in
the wholesale invasion privacy.

0 Fifth is the corruption of the
democratic political processes by
the readiness to resort to “dirty
tricks“ against political op-
ponents and to undermine
elections by violating laws
regulating campaign gifts and
expenditures; by character
assassination of political
enemies; by using the in

'strumentalities of the Govem-

ment such as the Federal Bureau
of Investigation. the Central
Intelligence Agency. the Secret
Service. the Internal Revenue
Service and even administrative
agencies for political harassment

or profit.
These are the “high crimes and
misdemeanors" that the

Founding Fathers had in mind
when they wrote the im-
peachment clauses into the
Constitution. These a re the issues
we must clarify if we are to avoid
a recurrence of them in the
future, These are the grounds for
impeaching Mr. Nixon.

lleiiry Steele (‘oiiiinageiz the
historian. is author of the newly
published “Britain 'l’liroiigh
\niei'ican I‘Iyes,”

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quilts, shuck dolls, chairs,
mountain toys, woven mats and
rugs, baskets, and woodcarvings
reflect the rich craft heritage of
eastern kentucky. All are on
display at the guild gallery,

which is operated by the kentucky
guild of artists and craftsmen.

the gallery is open 10 to 5 except
sunday, and is located next door

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Ombudsman

Dr. Lewis D. McCullers. the
new academic onbudsman. is a
good man to know.

A native Floridian, Dr. Mc-
t‘ullers came to UK five years
ago. He is not much of an out-
doors type. but he does enjoy an
occasional game of golf or tennis.

Created four years ago. the
office of the ombudsman is set up
as a go between in cases of
academic conflict between the
student body and members of the
faculty. He operates much as a
union negotiator, trying to reach
a satisfactory
between two parties.

The selection of the academic
ombudsman is the reponsibility
of the ombudsman search
committee. a panel of students,
faculty
ment heads. Any campus
organization is free to submit
nominations to the committee.

The Academic Ombudsman
usually assumes office on the
first day of July. but Dr. Mc-
Cullers assumed office at the
start of the summer session. He
will replace Donald Diedrich.

in the past, Dr. McCullers has
served as the undergraduate and
graduate coordinator in the
department of accounting. as
well as being an instructor and
the faculty v.p. for the beta alpha
si. the accounting honorary.

“We seem to deal only with
cases after the fact. I wish that
we could make students aware of
what their rights are, what is
expected of them, and the same
with the faculty members," said
Dr. McCullers.

In looking ahead to the coming
school year, Dr. McCullers is
rather optimistic. He is ready
and willing to help. and urges
students, “Come and see me —— i
can’t go to you.”

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College of Pharmacy
gets capitation grant

By LES LACKEY
Kernel Staff Writer

The UK College of Pharmacy
received a $248,142 capitation
grant to be expended over a
period of 24 months.

“The receipt of the grant
depends on attaining a student
enrollment quota. When you
attain that quota of qualified
students then you receive funds
corresponding to the number of
students the college has enrolled.
This college attained the ap-
propriate number of students."
said Dr. J.V. Swintosky. Dean of
the College of Pharmacy.

“The purpose of the capitation
grant is to increase the number of
health care people who are
receiving degrees in pharmacy
specifically." Swinlosky stated.

Faculty salaries. student ac
tivities and equipment and
supplies used directly in the
teaching or learning process are
someof the functions in which the
money will be used.

Swintosky stressed that a grant
of this type would not be used to
sponsor or purchase research
projects or equipment

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HELP WANTED

now TAKING applications for full and
part-time help, day or night available.
Positions open at 3 locations including the
new campus store to open soon. Burger
Queen, 339! Tates Creek Pike (tJytb.

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occupations -— s7ms3,ooo monthly. Ex
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The 1975 Kentuckian. UK‘s yearbook, is now
accepting applications from students in any
class or major for the following positions:

'lxm photo editors -1

('opy editor

Sports editor
1 Special features editor

.3 tli'ganizalions-l’oi'traits editor

FOUR~BEDROOM APARTMENT: three
private rooms, female roommate needed
766 8257 217-0059. 12J26.

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'Chinatown' recreates
classic private eye story

By RICK DEITCHMAN
Kernel Correspondent

When dispensing credit for
parts of a movie, it is always
difficult to know where it should
go. How much should go to the
director, the screenwriter, the
actors? ln (‘hinatown I think
everyone concerned deserves
high praise. As indicated by the
feel of the movie, the camera
work, the screenplay, Polanski
and Robert Towne (who also
wrote the screenplay for The
Last Detail) are clearly well
versed in the nuances of the
American private eye genre,
both cinematic and literary.

The film, which stars Faye
Dunaway and Jack Nicholson. is
set in Los Angeles in the 1930s
The opening scenes recall John
lluston's classic Maltese Falcon.
with the nondescript office, the
secretary placed out front, the
lettering on the door. Nicholson's
entry into his inner office. where
he sees a female client tback to
the camerat looking out a
\t’llt’ililll~i)illl(l(‘d Window. is
straight out of the Maltese
Falcon.

THE ”\‘lrIRAltl,
(‘hinatown though. including
plot. dialogue, and
cinematography seem to me to
owe much more to Raymond
(‘handler than Dashiell Ham—
mett. In fact Towne‘s screenplay
reads like a ('handler novel. The
tough dialogue, the pervasive
cycnicism. the Los Angeles
location. but especially the
cynical but still human private
eye are so strongly reminiscent
of (‘handler that I expected
('hinatown to be based on one of
his novels it isn‘t. but it plays
like it should have been.

texture of

Jack Nicholson, as the private
eye J.J. Gittes, has turned in
another first rate performance.
He hits just the right chords of
cynicism and humanity. Gittes-
Nicholson gets fooled, gets cut, is
tarnished, but he is the only
character in the film who comes
out with any integrity as a
human being. He is, at the most
basic level, morally uncorrupt.
Amid the pervasive ethical and
moral corruption of Polanski's
Chinatown. that is a difficult way
to be.

The plot of (‘hinatown has a fair
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fairly routine case of trailing a
husband who is suspected of
philandering. The only unusual
aspect is the prominence of the
husband. a city official in the
midst of a public controversy.
Still the case seems easy
enough _ Gittes and his
associates follow the man,
Mulwray by name, get pictures
of him with another woman, and
consider the job done. Then
funny things begin to happen — it
begins to look like a set up.
Gittes. needing to protect his
reputation, wants to get to the
gets, the farther away the bot-
tom seems to be.

As 1 indicated earlier, the
screenplay by Towne is superb,
Polanski's direction excellent,
and the camerawork (Joseph
Alonzo) very good. Nicholson is
magnificent as Gittes. Faye
l)unaway. looking less flashy but
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bankrupt Evelyn Mulwray, wife
of the city official. John Huston,
as her wealthy father Noah Cross
turns in a very neat per-
formance, although a trifle over-
acted in spots. Perry Lopez and
John Hillerman as the two cops
on the case are nottoo bright, and
always a step behind Gittes, but
are not stereotyped dummies.

They just don’t have the integri-

ty or intelligence of Gittes.
Polanski, in a small role, is very
menacing and obnoxious.

THERE ARE A lot of unex-
pected occurances in the plot. In
many films, this technique is
more of a gimmick to keep the
audience interested than part of
the story. In Chinatown though,
it is intrinsic to the perspective of
the film. We only know what
Gittes knows, so when he is
surprised, we are surprised.
Nicholson is not a superhero or
supersleuth who is always on top
of things. He is a small man in
what turns out to be a big,
complex case.

The portrayal of Nicholson ties
into the ending, which is cer-
tainly no triumph for the hero.
While this left me down rather
than up, I find this ending to be
satisfying, finally, because it
seems more real. There is the
additional appeal of identifying
with the hero. who is tough and
cynical. but still gets hurt,
although he walks away with his
integrity intact.

Should you see Chinatown? I
definitely think so. [am biased in
favor of hard-boiled detective
movies, but this film has quality
over and above my natural in-
clination for the genre. It is not
going to leave you laughing, or
happy, but it is very good
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