xt73ff3m0m1d https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt73ff3m0m1d/data/mets.xml U.K. S.D.S (University of Kentucky Students for a Democratic Society) U.K. S.D.S (University of Kentucky Students for a Democratic Society) 1966-11 This collection is a part of the University Archives General Reference Subject Files, 2018ua018 Box 223 Folder 9. journals 2018ua018 English Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Bourbon & Tobacco Gazette The Bourbon & Tobacco Gazette Vol. II No. II, November 1966 text The Bourbon & Tobacco Gazette Vol. II No. II, November 1966 1966 1966-11 2024 true xt73ff3m0m1d section xt73ff3m0m1d L E7 T T H E“ [$2,552 (:3 91:59:37 DEC“! ’3’ ‘5:

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WHAT IS SDS

- SDS is.an educational and social)“
acti-oncrganizatioﬁ dedicated to inereas-
ing democracy in all phases of our com-
mon life. It seeks to promote the act-
ive participation of young people in the
in the formation of a movement to
build a society free from poverty,
exploitation, and the inhumanity of man
to man.

It seeks to create a sustained com—
munity of educational and political con—
cerns, one bringing together liberals
and radicals, activists and scholars,
students and faculty. It maintains a vis-
ion of a democratic society, where at
all levels the peOple have control of the
decisions which affect them and the re--
sources on which they are dependent.

It feels the urgency to put forth a rad--
ical, democratic program whose ' ‘
methods embody the democratic vision

The SDS vision is the establishment
of a democracy of individual participaw
tion governed by two central aims:
that the individual share in those social
decisions determining the quality of his

life; that society be organized to encour—~-

age independence in men and provide a
medium for their common
participation.

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THE COST or THE WAR

The cost of the Vietnam war — ex~~
ceeding $20 billion a year- signifies a
sum that could mean quite different
purchases.

It could each month finance the com-
plete seven—year training of almost
70, 000 scientists.

It could each month double the re-
sources of the Agency for International
Development for a full year's economic
programs in 38 foreign countries.

It could each month create three
Rockefeller Foundations.

It could each month pay the full j .
year's cost of state and local police

in all 50 states.

CITIZ ENS FOR PE ACE

On October .22, 1966 several people
concerned about World peace and par-
ticularly the war in Vietnam met to dis-
cuss what they could do individually and
as a group to promote peace, not only
in the country, but in our own commun-
ity.

At this first informal meeting it was
agreed that we would call ourselves,
CITIZENS FOR PEACE . Meetings and

legal structure would be kept to a min-

imum. The idea is to have members
work as special interest teams on peace
projects they are personally interested
in. Among some of the projects men-
tioned were‘preparing programs on
conscientious objection for students;
promoting peace and non-violence lit-
erature in our local libraries; forming
a speakers' bureau; writing letters to
the editor, congressmen, etc., and
supporting peace candidates.

Since many interested people could
not attend our first meeting, we are
planning a second meeting on Friday,
November 11th at 53:00 P. M. at the
home of Larry and Maureen Tarpey,
2124 Oleander Drive (Garden Springs).
If you share our concern for world peace
and feel you must make a commitment
please come, bringing your ideas and
enthusiasm. Call us at 277-3213 if you
have any questions. Also, please feel
free to bring any interested friends.

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Cost of War, cont.

It could every year provide a 10 per
cent salary increase of every U. 8.
public school teacher.

It could every year double the social
security benefits paid to 20 million
Americans.

And as for the puny worth of just
one modern heavy bomber. . . it could
buy 1 million bushels of wheat.

Emmet John Hughes (Newsweek, 7-11—
66)

Letter from home received by a member
of SDS at UK

I enjoyed your letter. However, I
must say that it confirms my feeling that
there is a real gap between generations.,
which is very hard to bridge completely,
with the best will in the world. I just read
an interview with Lauran Bacall in Mc~
Calls, in which she said, among other
quite bright things, that she considers
herself the most modern and understand-
ing woman in the world but that her kids
consider her a terrible old fogey. I guess
it was ever thus. I do think that the gap
is greater in this generation, because ‘
those of us who lived through the depress~
ion and the war have a somewhat different
slant on things than those who didnét. I
feel that I have a good deal of sympathy
for young folks nowadays. I think they are
living in difficult times and the pressures
toward conformity and the extreme com-
petitiveness of life are hard on them. How-
ever, and it is a large however, I am
basically not much in sympathy with the
”hip” generation, and the feeling would
probably be mutual. I can‘t see doing very
many things for ”kicks. " Understanding
and awareness are not things to be achie
ved by any magic drugs or just by being
open to experience. They require the
applicatibn of intelligence and a certain
amount of experience of the world and a
willingness to look beyond your own ego I
and really notice all those other people
with their problems and their needs.

I can never remember in my whole
life being much exercised about whether
I was accepted or rejected by the world.
I am just here, whether I really like it or
not, and feel myself fortunate to have a
few friends and several .hildren who
tolerate me pretty well and keep me from
feeling useless. I don‘t feel that I have
done nearly as much with my'life as I
might have had circumstances been diff—
erent or I had been smarter sooner. I
certainly don't expect all and sundry to

love me. Love is a very difficult and com-,-

plex emotion. Not many of us are all that
easy to love oVer the long hawl, and it

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takes brains and guts and just plain
staying power to survive in any kind of
decent order in this world and to live

with other people-«that and a large de—

' gree of tolerance and willingness to

look. beyond our own egos, and perhaps
most important of all, a basic kind of
self-(respect that doesn+t depend too
much on the opinion of other people. We
all need to feel accepted, of course, but

‘ we have to accept ourselves first, and

beyont that, the respect of other people
is not an automatic right in the world

but something we have to earn. I think

young people ought to have ambitions

' to be useful in the world, to use their

talents and abilities to contribute some-
thing to the sum total of human well-
being, and to strive for greater under-
standing of themselves and other people
If they do, they will probably be happy,
in spite of all the cruelty and injustice
in the world and the disappointments
and troubles that are the usual human

' lot.

Your poor father is a good example 0
a person who feels rejected by the
world—~and I guess he really is. He has
never found a place where he could get
along, and I feel desperately sorry for
him. But from my vantage point of
having lived and suffered with and on
account of him all these years, I feel
that he has almost asked to be rejected
He is very insecure and full of hostili—
ties and has always felt himself to be
different from other people. Of course,
in some ways he is--we all are, which
is why communication is difficult. But
we are probably more alike at bottom
than we realize, and I think it is al‘way:
a mistake to consider ourselves too
1 different. People generally reSpond to
other peOple who like themselves, you
will notice. And I do think there are
others besides your father who almost
ask to be rejected, for no very good
reason, and not consciously, perhaps.
I am sure you know the kind I mean.
The beatniks of a few years ago who '.

, affected just the kind of dress and be—

haviour calculated to annoy the most

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all out to make peOple love them. Maybe
it is superficial of people to be offended
by weird styles of dress and unorthodox
behaviour, but we are most of us that
superficial. And I do think people are
obligated to try to make themselves rea-
sonably attractive to look at and to be-
have with the the kind of manners that
oil the social wheels and make life plea-
santer for those around us. That prob—
ably sounds pretty superficial, too, but
I do think pe0p1e should save their re—
bellion for the things that really matter.
Conforming in outward ways ( of dress
and ordinary social behavior) is surely
not important enough to make such an
issue of, and the failure to do so can
be very costly. As I have said before
(ad nauseum, no doubt), it is certainly
no way to win friends and influence peo-
ple. With all that has been said and
written and thought about conformity in
our society, it really is still possible to
think as we please, and do most of the
things we want to do. At least, I feel
that I live pretty much as I please ex-
cept for the obvious limitation of not
having any money!

This is a pretty garbled up letter.
I just read it over, and almost hesitate
to mail it, but I guess I will. Maybe
you will understand. I don't really
think I am dogmatic about all this. I
enjoy young folks: with ideas and orig--
inality and a capacity to care about
things, but I think you are just about as
likely to find those things behind a con-
ventional facade as one complete with
beard and sandals! As for myself .when
young, I remember myself mostly as
being very timid and insecure and an-
xious to be one of the crowd, which I
never was able to be'. Now I am no lon—
ger timid or insecure (very) and have no
desire to be part of any crowd I know
anything about. I still have problems, _
but they are different ones.

Love,
Mother

COMMENTS
by Walter Lay

In a news conference recently, Presi-
dent Johnson expressed firm confidence
in the economic situation. Johnson's
chief economic advisor, Gardner Ackley,
gave the Show away when he said: “Bar-
ring a sudden end of hostilities in Viet-
nam, 1967 will be as good a year for
business as 1966. ”

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There are some new additions for

your list of subversive organizations.

They are Esso, Caltex, and Shell Oil
companies. It’s a fact that U. S. oil
firms are paying off the Viet Cong not to
molest their trucks and facilities in
in Vietnam. Yes, the people who keep
our cars running are keeping Ho’s guns
firing. and you know who they’re firing
at.
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The United States Army has recently
superceded even Nazi Germany in the
infringement of the moral right to follow
the dictates of one's conscience. Every

' German soldier, upon inductibn into the

army, signed an oath stating that at no

’ time would he allow the orders of his

commanding officer to override the

the dictates of his own conscience (the
trouble is, they didn't have any). Here,
in”the land of the free”, men are per-
secuted and prosecuted for exercising
this individual moral right which was
made international law by the Nuremé
burgtrials, where men were condemned
and convicted for following orders
rather than conscience.

Three U. S. soldiers, stationed at
Fort Hood, refused to fight in Vietnam
on the grounds that it is, in their belief
an unjust and immoral war. For this
stand they have been jailed and made to
stand at attention for entire days. The
home of freedom and democracy be
comes more like the Reich every day.

I urge each and every one of you to make
your stand for individual freedom by
adding your name to the petition being
circulated in defense of the Fort Hood 3.

UNIVERSITY REFORM

We fear the institutionalization of
education. We are dismayed that the
university has become, in Clark Kerr‘s
words, a ,‘.'.knowledge factory”, pro—
ducing cogs for society’s wheels.
Courses have become textbook oriented,
and the pleasure of learning has become
routine memorization of facts. The
university should be the training ground
of really good professional people, but
it should be more than this. It should
inspire those who are capable to become
truly creative and/or scientific indi-- '
viduals. And it should be the proving - .
ground for ideas of all kinds. A truly
great university should give its students,
even its technicians, a clear awareness
of the what, where, and why of society,
and feel for his culture.

The faculty and administration has
developed the New Academic. Plan, in-
tended to create a more academic atn
mosphere on campus. But nothing has
Course
requirements are more general but
courses are still taught by highly Special~
ized graduate students and professors,
usually highly bored by or, worse, high-
ly ignorant of, anything not in their
field of specialization. Such teachers
totally isolate their students, and the
spirit of academic community is lost.
Students have .‘zladvisors'-' in their tenta-
tive major from freshman year, telling
them What to take to be prepared for
this major and probably no Other.’ The
psychological pressure of this'type of
advising is sometimes irreverSible.

Working from this premise, we
would like to suggest innovations that
could be tried within the nresent sys—
tem, and could perhaps pave the way
for a real change in the total structure
of the university. We propose that the
honors program become the proving
ground for these ideas.

We suggest that in the freshman
year the student be given a rather thor—
ough grounding in the elements of his

cultureﬂshrough topical courses called
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been fundamentally changed.

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“Physmal Science”, or Literature, or
Philosophy, or History, etc. These
courses should be taught from a con-

ceptual, rather than factual, basis, yet

basic tools of investigation should be
developed where needed. These cours-
es would necessarily be taught by the

steam-teaching method, as no one man

knows all of any one of these broad field
fields. This method would allow stu—
dents to examine the field frOm many
angles. Perhaps a fourth-hour course
could be set up, where students could
integrate the concepts given them in

the other three lectures. Our academic
worlt has become terribly overSpecial~
iZed, so there wouldbe plenty of con-
'flist among teachers in the classroom.
The students could then not be influ-
enced by the bias of one teacher, and
hopefully would learn that there are .few
”right” ways of thinking.

To facilitate the learning prOCess,
grading should be greatly simplified.
Perhaps pass, fail, and distinction
would be suitable for a start. Grades
are now a major preoccupation for both

‘ faculty and students all out of proportion

to their true value.

Lab courses now conduct what they
wrongfully call ‘~_’experiments”, which
are recipe book affairs bearing no re-
semblance to experiments. Yet the
learning potential for lab courses is
great. If, after the students know some
of the problems in the field, they were

given access to equipment, limited ad-

vice, and much time, a real learning
experience would result. When the
professor says, ”We can't tell”, stu—
dents should prove him right or wrong
in the lab, or at least TRY. This pro-—

cess would give coherence to the course,

relating the lecture to the lab in a mean-
ingful way.

We prOpose that Junior and Senior
level courses be taught primarily on a
seminar basis, with students going deep-

” _.ly into various specialized areas. Those

who wish to be purely technicians will
be learning technical skills in these j -
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Poem on America's War Against Vietnam

One eye cowers. Both
want blood.
At night
he finds no question,
his helmet
a tortoise shell
sheltering ignorance.

He imagines the stars in rows,
ordered, medals on a breast,
and pledges his allegiance to murder.

Wounded before battle, darkness ”
stains the bandages on his eyes--
blood drips from his rifle's bore--
dead trOOpS‘ camp on his tongue--

-Joe Nickell

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West Wind Words

street and campus wind,
the panic Spoken,

dead stems not pipes

are fetters whirling.
struggling leaves,

sighs exploding,
trembling hard their starved faces,
writhe and dive.

scurry tripping

naked leaping

scraping dragging
fractured wing and Spine.
crack;

the scream to die again,
then came wet gray,

the happy smell of colour.

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62- War Words .
. 3. furmall

Men have always walked out upon the
fields; the soldiers have met clanking and
shiny, green and leafy creeping, and
they have always fallen. There exists in
this action glory; for both contestants
life is enriched with a new experience,
and the young are ripe for activity and
for channeling their sea of new feelings.
But no glory for the armies there, only
for some aching man alone with his
mind, numbed with the flashes of the
struggle, the surges of pain and the

,Weariness driven deep for a purpose he

can almost envision.

Verily, some harmony exists along
strewn beaches and among scattering
guerillas, but it seems sad that by na-

ture it does not need men to understand

it, formulate it as he has his own life
and his occupations at home in civiliza-
tion. But while he is crawling and
watching, guarding and defending some-
thing he has acquired, he is strong, as
he must be, for he is at war with some-
thing very similar to himself; it is an-
other man, and one who is not less sen-
sitive.

However, this opponent is dangerous.
He carries a dispassionate instrument
of death wherever he lurks. And he
rarely tries to appreciate the unique
state of things back home, the love of
the family and the better American sys-
tem of gaining things, good food and so
many other things. This enemy is so
ignorant of the great institutions which
can be established beneath the truly
democratic way, and the freedom our

, unyielding forefathers fought and died
I to win.

Yes, died to win. And now this
prize must be preserved, even while it
seems that death comes easily out here

. in the bush where so many men with

guns move about.

So, what is the answer, a solution,
when the reason for fighting is enshroud-
ed, obscure within the living processes
andthe need to remain alive? The need,
a desire not to lose consciousness of

, the good things stumbled upon in the

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War Words

(cont’d)

crystalline society, is a personal and
individual force which is capable of
even homicide to achieve its end; it is
selfish. This inherent preservative is
unfortunately, through association and
participation in a society, coupled
with national defense and the entire '
concept of martial discipline. These
(n‘nntﬂnic (and therefore social) needs
must be fulfilled on a national scale,
for one man alone cannot defend a
nation against another nation of ”agreei-
sors”, also having large scale needs.
Thus , it can be seen how the individual'
within a society becomes adept for kill-
ing, with naticnal patriotism, duty, and
fear of death fed into him to satiate, to
replace thatquestion born in himself.
When a human animal is born, sen—
sitive self—centered life becomes
immediately encrusted by some ancient
trial whereby a system of living to~
gether, and thereby a limited thought
process, was once shared but not al-
lowed to develop through prejudice to—
ward the weak, designs of the parent
toward the child, patterns and institu—
tions for the Sensitive, the loving.
Men should find the way to shed the
shell and become the child again, to
find the self. Every man is able to
attain a close communion with his fel-
lows, but it means losing his alienation
and gaining a rather foreign sense of
insecurity and freedom.

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UNIVERSITY REFORM (from page 5)

years, but for those who have deeper
ambitions, these can be years of ser—
ious intellectual achievement.

This is a working paper, not a
neat plan for the university. If you
have criticisms, amplifications, or
comments, please write. We would
like for this to grow into a series ex—
amining the university.

Frances Frampton

.‘via) where man is free.

GR EENjCOMMODE ‘1

The award of the Green Commode is
this week to be divided between two

spirited defenders of the true faith, .for
their sterling remarks on public dissent:
John Y. Brown and President Tito of
Yugoslavia.

Brown was referring to civil rights
demonstrations such as those in Chicago.
for open housing. ”The only way to
reach (demonstrators) is by federal law.
I want a law that will make my children
and my wife safe from peOple carrying
cards who don’t agree with me. "

' (Louisville Courier~Journal, 10/30/66)

Tito was referring to the formation
of an independent newspaper by a non~
Communist critic of Tito, Mihailo
Mihailov. ”We are in the process of
founding a true democracy (in Yugosla~
We cannot al-
low men to live in fear. He who is op—
posed to the fulfillment of socialism
should fear, but not so our good com -
rads and honest citizens who together
with us, and in good faith, are engaged
in the task of building our socialist
society. These citizens cannot be al—
lowed to live in fear. Let the enemies
of our country live in fear. Those
who wish to harm our socialist task and
our Party, our League of Communists. "
(Borba, 7/6/66)

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Editorial Staff:

Linda J. Manning
Martin Wheeler
Walter Lay
Frances Frampton
Jim Furmall
Darryl Harrison

Please send all articles, letters, etc. to
U. K. SDS
Box 5026 University Station

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Cast your vote, not a strip of paper
merely, but your whole influence. A
minority is powerless while it conforms
to the majority; it is not even a minority
then. . . Thoreau

College Young Democrat Clubs of America

National Executive Committee ~ September 2—4, 1966
Nashville, Tennessee

VIETNAM RESOLUTION

Whereas, the National Executive Committee of the CYDCA assembled in Washing—
ton, D.C. an April 24, 1966 expressed its earnest and sincere disapproval of the
present administration policy in Vietnam, calling for immediate ceaseufire on the
part of hothwccmbatatants and a prior halt in Americanwbombings of North '
Vietnam; and

Whereas, present policy is embarrassing and distressing to many of our
staunchest allies, especially in the United Kingdom and Japan, who have felt
increasing annoyance as the war has been escalated; and

Whereas, present administration policy.in Vietnam hampers the efforts of our
nation to improve liVing conditions in underdeveloped countries throughdur the
world due to the hostility toward official U. S. policy in Vietnam on the part
of most of the governments of these countries; and

Whereas, the cost of the war effort in Vietnam is being paid by tt: pear of
America in that services and opportunities legislated and enlivened by the U“ 8.
government, as recently as a year ago, are becoming symbols of an empty drea
due to the government expenditures for the war which should more ideally and
morally be channeled into giving aid and opportunity to the poor in our own
nation; and

Whereas, the American college student is most directly affected by the course
of the war, although he has had hardly any voice in deciding this policy due to
his inability to vote; '

Therefore, be it resolved, that we, the National Executive Committee of the
CYDCA assembled in Nashville, Tennessee, do hereby assert that the administration
policy is generally unsound; and we most vigourously call once again for an
immediate end to the bombing of North Vietnam, followed by the entrance of the
United Nation's peace force to replace the American forces now in Vietnam in
order that a plebiscite be held as soon as possible under United Nations
sup ervision in the Republic of Vietnam to decide what status the southern
half of Vietnam shall have in the future and that this plebiscite be either
simultaneous with or immediately predeeded by a correSponding plebiscite
in North Vietnam.

Passed 10 to 3
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U. K. SDS
Box 5026 University Station
Lexington, Kentucky 40506

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