University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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 Hi % '• r k %=9» -- As part of rush festivities. Kappa Delta junior Karen Hawk- ins prepares to take part in a skit as Snow White. —Photo by Chuck Perry After an anti-climactic finale, several diehard football fans and cheerleaders celebrate a 21-10 victory over bowl-bound Tennessee. The win was, perhaps, the highlight of UK's third losing season in as many years. —Photo by Chuck Perry aTUCKY |H M TENNESSEE 6(1 E1 ■- c c m ■V ---------- And the band played on. The late-summer Kentucky sun shone with force onto the Euclid Avenue practice field where the Wildcat marching band practiced rigorous drills. Passersby 1 could catch a preview of the traditional marching K formation playing . On, On.UofK. Occasionally, the drone of heavy construction machinery being used to mold the new student center addition would drown out the music. At another point on campus, construction crews were busy readying materials to perform $650,000 worth of handicap renovations on five buildings. The University appeared as healthy as the students t Blues who returned with golden tans after a summer in the sun. But there was also tension. Weeks earlier, several thousand middle- class students had opened a piece of mail that could have spelled disaster for their academic careers. The mail was from the Office of Student Financial Aid. The enclosed letter The flagship University in the state has paid for the expansion of higher education. expressed the regrets of the University that it could not provide financial assistance for the 1981-82 academic year. It was accompanied by a form to return if the student chose to return to the University despite the cuts. Any unclaimed monies were to be distributed among the returning students who completed the forms. The money supply, you see, was low. Very low. Jim Ingle, director of student financial aid, explained. We were down about $240,000 in NDSL (National Direct Student Loan) and about $150,000 continued on page 5 Opening 3

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The family of the late House Speaker William Kenton gathers at a memorial service held at the state capitol. Kenton's wife, Carolyn (center), made a successful bid two months later for her husband's vacated seat. —Photo by David Cooper Donovan Scholar Jessie McDonald studies for a class as part of her work as an arts and sciences student. —Photo by Robin Barnes In protest of the proposed succession amendment and other phases of the Gov. John Y. Brown ad- ministration, Rhoda Kyle, a graduate student in education and co-ordinator of the UK chapter of the National Organization of Women, hoists a sign at the budget rally in front of the Administra- tion Building. —Photo by David Cooper in supplemental grants. We were up about $50,000 in work study. Overall, then, we were down about ten percent. The alternative for most of the students who chose to return came in the form of loans—loans from banks, parents, grandparents. Some students had to borrow more than we would have liked to see, said Ingle. But they had to meet the cost of an education. The cuts hurt the middle income students the most. First priority was given to students with the greatest need. Anyone with under $2,000 need, we had to deny. Financial aid, however, was not the only problem. Various colleges within the University faced overcrowded classes and increased student-faculty ratios due to a freeze in hiring that resulted from the cuts. The student- faculty ratio in the college of Business Economics, for example, climbed to 28 to 1. Students were scared about the future of their University. About 2,500 of those concerned students converged upon the front lawn of the Administration Building in October for the Student Association's Rally to Save Higher Education. The rally was attended by, among others, Gov. John Y. Brown Jr. During the rally. President Otis Singletary said, The flagship University in the state has paid for the continued on page 6 B udget Blues