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Will computers become man's equal.
A Newman Club discussion:
Page

Generation politics can also be seen
in Europe: Joseph Kraft mites: Page

Two.

Five.

team is studying the effects of
OEO programs in Knox County: Page
Three.

The highly regarded Pikes have their
third major victory: Page Six.

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When should the public be informed?
An editorial: Page Four.

Two are held over to the Fayette
Grand Jury on marijuana charges:
Page Seven.

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University of Kentucky

Vol. 58, No. 55

LEXINGTON,

K.Y.,

WEDNESDAY,

NOV.

Shoppers9 Revolt

Leaders Planning
Saturday Bonfire
Lexington housewives boycotting five food chain stores because
of high prices will burn trading stamps and game coupons at
JJ p.m. Saturday in Woodland Park.
City Manager John Cook con
effect around Lexfirmed Tuesday that a permit weakened its
and the boycotters have
had been granted to the "Lex- ington,
turned to a telephone campaign
ington Shoppers Revolt" for use to enlist more support.
of Woodland Park to hold the
bonfire.
Boycott leaders announced
The housewives have attack- last week they would be in front
ed the supermarkets' use of of the chain stores Monday
stamps, games and other "gim- through Saturday to petition
micks" to lure shoppers to stores shoppers. Previously, they had
with higher prices. They are de- petitioned only on Thursday, Frimanding a price rollback to April day and Saturday.
1966, saying the "gimmicks" are
The housewives, however,
responsible for an food price in- have been hindered in their efcrease.
forts by a flu virus that has
Mrs. T. S. Budzinski, organconfined many of the LSR memizer of the boycott here, said bers to their homes.
the group first appealed to the
Petitioning was canceled last
City Recreation Department on weekend and
again Monday and
Nov. 7 for use of the park. PerTuesday of this week. It is exmission was granted Monday.
pected to resume Wednesday.
Working at the bonfire will
be 10 to 15 members of the
LSR, Mrs. Budzinski said, with
the stamps and coupons contributed by boycott supporters.
Firemen will be present in
observance of a city ordinance.
Meanwhile, the boycott seems
to have hit some rough spots.
strucThose
What Mrs. Budzinski likes tures that campus parking
were approved by the
to call a "news blackout" has
Board of Trustees in February'
1964 for "anticipated completion
smyv a
in September 1965" have yet
Li
to materialize on campus.
The structures, estimated to
cost about $800,000 each are to
be located between Stoll Field
and the Student Center and
across from the Quadrangle on
A proposal to change the bid- Rose Street.
A third structure, which was
ding system was tabled for
week by the Interfrater-nit- y not included in the 1964 okay
another
Council (IFC) Tuesday by the Trustees, is placed near
the Medical Center in the camnight.
pus building plan.
The proposed change was
The shape and form of these
made by Oscar West erfield, presistructures is still undetermined,
dent of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. Lawrence Coleman, the campus
If it is accepted, the fraternities planner, said this week. He also
will not tell rushees that they said that construction would be
have passed chapters, and will subject to land availability, innot extend bids. Instead, the terest in the program and "other
rushee will pick up an envelope conditions."
Coleman told the Trustees in
at the IFC office on the morning of bid day, containing in- 1964 that the ideal plan would
vitations from the fraternities be to have all surface lots for
which have passed him.
University parking but that the

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The shaded areas on the above map of the central campus area
indicate the planned locations of two
parking towers that
were scheduled to be completed in September 1965. They have yet
to reach the blueprint stage and the final design is still not known.
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Income from campus parking permits was to be used for
building the structures, the Trustees were told.
Fredrick G. Dempsey, Director of Safety and Security, said
the university first recognized
the need for extra parking spaces
in 1964, and that the program
was initiated by the Ceneral Development Plan.
Sjudents had always paid for
their parking permits but in September 1964 the administration,
faculty, and staff were also assessed for their parking stickers.
At that time a system of graded
parking areas was also established, Dempsey said, and the
cost of a sticker is determined by

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the location of the area which,
in turn, is determined by the
person's rank.
He said 155 parking spaces
were eliminated in the construction of the Engineering
tower and the dormitory complexes. The University is adding
"handfuls here and handfuls
there" to make up for the loss.
Yellow lines around the campus are also being checked, and
he said, "Where yellow lines are
not needed, we are taking them
out. We have found 20 to 30
extra spaces within the last 10
days."
"We are not out to give
tickets," he saia, "but it is not
fair for those who pay to let
others use the parking spaces
free."

Howard II. Shanker, a freshman law student, will be editor of
the Student Government's course evaluation guide. Shanker, right,
talks with Rick Stevens, left, the project's business manager. In
the background, SG President Carson Porter discusses the project
with Marsha Manshil, a volunteer.

ness associate, that Earle
Clements made a "deal" to settle
his tax problems with the federal government and the "FBI
and Internal Revenue couldn't
do a thing."
The conversation was included in an affidavit presented to
federal court Tuesday by FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover that
covered all the Baker conversations on which the FBI eavesdropped.
The government says Baker's
role in the conversations was only
coincidence and that the eavesdropping had nothing to do with
his indictment for tax invasion,
grand larceny and fraud. The
transcript was released at a U.S.
District Court hearingon whether
the conversations should be
suppressed because of Baker's
claim they can be used against
him.

Justice Department officials
said the telephone taps were part

of an investigation into organized

crime.
Some of the "bugged" conversations were monitored from
Black's hotel room, where Baker
said he might have made 500
calls between February and April
1963. Eleven calls are in the

transcript.
Baker said some conversations
there involved Wayne Bromley,
a prominent figure in Jiis indictment for evading $23,090 in
federal income taxes and obtaining $100,000 by fraud. Government officials insisted there
are no other records of Bakr
conversations.

'No Cause For Alarm,' Doctors
Say Of Campus Meningitis Case
JOHN ZEH

Kernel Associate Editor
University health officials say that one case
of meningitis is no cause for alarm.
The disease "is not necessarily epidemic,"
Dr. Frank S. Cascio of the Health Service told
the Kernel Tuesday afternoon.
He is the attending physician for Cay Kirk,
a sophomore Keeneland Hall resident now "doing
An editorial is on page four.

Course Guide Outlined

involvDemo-

cratic secretary.
Baker is quoted as telling
Fred B. Black Jr., a former busi-

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"bugged" conversations
ing the onetime Senate

Promised, Have Yet To Be Built

Again
Tables New
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Eight Pages

from Combined Dispatches
former
WASHINCTON-- A
Kentucky senator and governor
was injected into the Bobby Baker
case Wednesday in transcripts
released by the government of

Parking Structures, Okayed And

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nicely" at University Hospital after a meningitis
attack Saturday.
About 20 of Miss Kirk's "close contacts" have
been given penicillin tablets as a precautionary
measure, Dr. Cascio said.
Dr. Cascio and Dr. Jack Mulligan, director of
the Health Service, said they feel it is not necessary to treat anyone else. Some physicians, they
explained, believe that treatment of even close
contacts is not required. "Actually, the danger
of reaction to penicillin is worse than the danger
of getting the disease" considering modern treatment, Dr. Cascio said.

The doctors concede there is a clanger, but
add that the danger exists constantly. It is possible that as much as five percent of the campus
population is carrying the organism which causes
the disease without necessarily getting the illness
itself, they said. The penicillin was given the
close contacts to help reduce the germs in the
carriers' bodies, they added.
Miss Kirk's illness was conclusively diagnosed
Monday morning as meningococcus meningitis,
caused by bacteria, the Medical Center said.
The disease is contagious and very serious, the
doctors said, but with adequate treatment ami
modern dnigs the chances of recovery with no
ill effects are very good.
Dr. Cascio met with Keeneland's residents
Tuesday night "to help allay their fears and
reassure them there is no cause for alarm." About
half of the 400 coeds attended.
Miss Kiik is feeling much better, is sitting
up, eating, and completely coherent, the doctor
told the coeds, and is ready to be transferred
out of the intensive care unit at the hospital.
Continued on Page

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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, Nov.

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Will Computers Be Equal To Man?
The fear that computers will
someday rule mighty and
man has causal some
to wonder if the day
persons
will ever come when man and
computer will be on an equal

DREIIER

By PRISCILLA

Kernel Staff Writer
Dear Computer:
I am afraid that someday
will be afraid of you.
As always,
Irrational Man.

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intelligence that would be more
equal than man has perhaps
caused man to ask the rather
silly question, "should computers be baptized."
Martin Dillon spoke Tuesday night about the computer,
man, and baptism but he inwardly seemed to question the
seriousness of his discussion.
Dillon said that it seems we
should ask the question some
questions. For example, how
would one recognize the correct
answer?

baptize computers," an illegitimate question, said Dillon. If
we reply yes to the question,
it commits the person answering to at least two propositions,
that baptism is in some way efficacious, that it does something
in the world; and that computers
fit the specifications of those
classes of beings for which baptism is efficacious, Dillon said.

French Play Here Thursday

However, we might answer no,
said Dillon. In that case a no
answer could be inperpcrted as
agreeing with the assertinan of
the value of baptism, this is, he
said that some things ought to
be baptized, but excluding computers from the range of those
who should rccieve it.
A no answer could also mean
lhat computers fit the specifications of those to whom baptism
could normally apply, but that
baptism is worthless, or possibly
harmless, it could lead to rust
in the machine or some such

Francoise Bartot, left, and Dominique Mac Avoy are featured in
the French play "Lcs Femmes Savantes" which will be presented
at 8:15 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Hall. The performance is being
cosponsorcd by the Student Center Board and the French Department.

Executive Roundtable Has
Students Meet Businessmen
Students will get a chance
business with business executives
the Executive Roundtable.
"What industry says on a
public relations level can be completely different from what the
officials really feel," said Jack
Dalton, campus YMCA director.
In the Roundtable, students will
be able to "challenge the thinking of today's business executives," he added.
Dalton said that students will
try to get officials to commit
themselves on where they stand
on major issues. They have the
opportunity to ask any questions
they have, he said.
The Roundtable will be held
at 7:30 Wednesday night at the
IBM plant. Those needing rides
are to be at the YMCA office
in the Student Center by 7 p.m.
Wednesday's topics will be
"Career Opportunities in Management." There will be three
speakers one in sales, one in

There are a whole slew of thing, said Dillon.
Man and computers both
assertions that make "should we
think. Yet, said Dillon, what is
it about man as opposed to such
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the computer can justifiably sing,
"Anything you can do, I can do
better," our problems will have
been solved.

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The purpose of this program
is to make it possible for students to meet business management and discuss with them the
problems they face, hecontinued.
It is designed to give students
practical orientation in the problems of the business world to go
hand in hand with their courses,
Dalton said.
And it's not geared to just
Commerce or Engineering students, it's not just a "vocational
kind of group," he said, all
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UK Studying
By GRETA FIELDS
Kernel Staff Writer
The Bureau of School Serv ices
is conducting an evaluation of a
poverty program with the help
of several members of the University faculty.
Last December, the Office of
Economic Opportunity contracted the University Research Foundation to sponsor an evaluation of
a Community Action Program in
Knox County, Kentucky.
The evaluation project is one
of eight initiated by the OEO
to determine the effectiveness of
community action programs in
the war on poverty.
Project staff are in Knox
County now gathering data to
determine the effect of the program on the living standard of
the people and to measure
changes in attitude whether or
not the people are accepting
change.
Dr. Paul Street, director of
the Bureau of School Services,
said that people in a poverty
area "have never thought about
playing different roles in society,
and they won't in order to

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0E0 Programs In Knox County

Dr. Willis Sutton and Dr.
J. C. Gladden, UK sociologists,
are measuring the impact of the
community action program on the
established political structure of
Knox County.

The centers are close enough
to keep the people happy where
they are, Dr. Street said, but
"far enough away to draw them
out of the hollows."

Dr. Street said one problem
been collecting base-lin- e
data, which should be collected
in an area before a program is
established there. The Knox

Dr. Tom Collins, education,
is studying early childhood and
youth development in the area.

The program evaluation will
try to determine whether or not
these centers actually do break
down the provincialism which
results in the isolation of a poverty area from outside change.

County program, one of the earliest established rural community
action programs in the United
States, was in operation before
the evaluation staff moved into
the area in April to collect data.
Dr. Ottis Murphy is resident

The Community Action Program in Knox County operates
under the Knox County Economic Council, an incorporated
group of citizens.

The council has established
community centers, most of
which are in old school houses
in mountain hollows.
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has

The evaluation will also try
to determine if the program
changes the level of living of
the people, and improves their
level of health. A study of participation in the program will
also be done.

observer and serves as a liason
field director the Bureau of School
Services evaluation project.
The project is about two years
from completion, at which time
the results may be published.
Community action programs
operate under the OIX), which
provides a grant to an area's
citizens to form a council, of
of the members
which
must belong in a jxnerty group,
to attack poverty in their area.
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the people sit down and talk,
mix, and imagine themselves in
other roles, they will develop an
attitude to change."
Dr. Lewis Donohew, assistant
professor of journalism, is chief
consultant on sampling and
methodology for the evaluation
project.

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When To Inform?
Dr. Frank S. Cascio toldKeene-lan- d
coeds Tuesday night there
is no reason for alarm concerning
the hospitalization of one of their
dormitory residents for what has
been diagnosed as a form of meningitis.
Admitting the coed is now "recovering nicely," Dr. Cascio said
the disease she had contracted
meningococcus meningitis is contagious and possibly dangerous.
The doctor added that students
having direct contact with the hospitalized student were being given
preventive medicine. This is all
well and good, but in no way
comes close to the real point of
the entire episode and the manner
it has been handled by Medical

Center authorities.
Shortly after the coed's hospitalization Sunday afternoon, other
Keeneland coeds began questioning
the severity of her disease. As could
be expected when no answers to
their queries or concern were forthcoming, they started worrying
their own
about
Throughout Monday and early
Tuesday this concern for their
health, as expected, was only intensified. Yet no information or
solace was forthcoming from the
Medical Center.
Medical Center authorities asked
that the story not be published,
indicating it would only spread concern for something that was already under control. Kernel editors
disagreed, contending the obvious
concern displayed by many Keeneland coeds necessitated the story,
particularly when the information
was not forthcoming elsewhere.
In approaching this story the
Kernel felt its first obligation was
to those who may have come into
direct or indirect contact with the
coed, i.e. students living in the
same dormitory, sitting beside her
in classes, the grille or elsewhere,
those using the same telephones, or
faculty members who may have had
her in their classroom.
well-bein-

Their health and

well-beingw-

Too, of interest perhaps only to
us, why did he tell the coeds
Tuesday night the Kernel had made
no attempts to contact Medical
Center authorities prior to the front
page story in Tuesday's edition?
This is completely untrue and Dr.
Cascio, of all people, should know
this, for not only was he called
but was present at a meeting when
Kernel editors discussed their reasons for publishing the story and
for wanting information from the
Medical Center.
True, the Medical Center policy
is to not release names or the extent of diseases contracted by hospitalized students. While such a
policy has merit at times though
this raises an important question-su- ch
a binding policy has little
merit, particularly when a large
number of persons have a very
good reason to be concerned with

UNIVERSITY SOAPBOX

Freshmen Failures Questioned

g.

as

very much involved in this matter
and the Kernel felt a particular
responsibility to let them know of
the potential hazard, if any, to their
own health. However, Medical Center spokesmen said nothing of the
case prior to Tuesday's story except to ask that its publication be
y
withheld. The
Health
even had to find out
Department
about the case themselves, as the
Medical Center did not notify them
through official procedures as required by the Kentucky Revised
City-Count-

Statutes.
It seems obvious that Dr. Cascio should have held the Keeneland
meeting earlier than Tuesday night.
Did he or his colleagues feel no
responsibility to allay the fears
andor questions the coeds obviously had?

"What's This Crazy Left Hand Doing?"

the incident.

By PROF. ROY MORELAND
College of Law

Recently I read a statement in
the Kernel which in effect said 50
percent of the freshmen would not
maintain suitable grades. It, therefore, was concluded that 50 percent
of the UK freshman class will fail
and be dropped by the University
in May. To drop more than 25
percent is too severe.

this question: What is
the difference in a drop-oand a
"flunk-out"- ?
I would answer: The
"flunk-out- "
has made an effort to
his education, but has
continue
been denied this by the sadistic
bureaucratic machine of the UniI pose

ut

versity.

It puzzles me as to the real
and objective manner in which
an institution decides one young
student will pass and another fail.
This is especially true of an institution the size of the University. While recognizing that there
must be certain standards desirable, I cannot help but feel that
the University is becoming a pros-- .
titute to bureaucracy.

It is well recognized that elementary education in Kentucky
is among the worst in the United
States. Students who arrive at UK
come from many and varied backgrounds and the only sure thing
is that most have a poor secondary education, especially if they
are Kentuckians.
While we are busy researching everything from the habits of
the proverbial tsetse fly to human
sexual responses not necessarily
unimportant fields we do not
make the effort to teach our students. It is impossible for me to

conceive that 50 percent of the
students who enter this institution are incapable of passing if
they are given proper instruction
andor counseling.

the lack of a horseshoe nail the
war was lost, for the lack of understanding and common sense a fine
student and young person might be

No longer is it a question of
passing or failing on the merits.
In many instances pure chance
decides who will pass and who
will fail. I would say it is getting the "breaks" on classes and
instructors that determines who
passes and who fails, particularly at the freshman level.
It is a sorry state when a University forgets its basic purpose
and is completely caught up in
the idealistic world of research.
Were there more devoted teachers,
especially at the freshman level,
this University would come closer
to fulfilling its purpose. We call

While we arepouringthousands
and even millions of dollars into
such things as the Job Corps we
care not one whit about the capable student who had the mis-

this an institute of higher learning and, while it may be, we
have neglected the effects of our
inadequate institutions of lower
learning on prospective scholars.
The entering freshman is not
taught as a freshman. Much of the
teaching is done on the sophomore
level by graduate students or other
persons who are disinterested. This
is bad, very bad, both for the students and the integrity of the University.

lost.

fortune to fail in his freshman
year. His potential at the advanced
age in life of approximately 18
years is certainly still great.

What now prevails is an inconceivable situation. Half the people who want to continue their
education cannot while certain persons, such as those in the Job
Corps who incidentally were told
not to come back to Lexington for
three months because of rowdyism,
have it shoved down their unde-sirin- g
throats.
Before it is too late I think
it is necessary that there be a
revolution of our purpose in reference to the teaching profession.

think that the University has
already become an impersonal machine and it does not necessarily
have to be one. It is not impersonal as long as interest is shown
in the students by those in authority. It is impersonal when they
are treated as rats and guinea
pigs. In fact, they may be treated
worse than that. We are treating
half of them as if they were dolts
and unmotivated beings.
I

Once tainted with the stain of
being a failure, a young and interested student has an almost
insurmountable task. He must try
to gain entrance to anot er college
or university and then prove that
Something is wrong somewhere
he is capable. This is regrettable and I want to know where!
Surely
in many cases because many other
all those at this institu'among
institutions make unrealistic qualition of higher learning someone
fications for sucli a student. For can
put his finger on it.

* THE KENTUCKY

"Inside Report"

KICK

NIX, WYiIiiimIiv, Nov.

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By Rowland Evans and Robert Novak

Vietnam War Win Depends On Army Shake-UPresident JohnSAIGON
son's success or failure-- to end
this war now hangs not on winning big battles but on nothing
less than a major reorganization
of the Vietnam army.
Under plans that are still
secret, the reorganized army will
of "pacbecome the spear-poiification" in the hamlets of this
unhappy land.
The strategy to use the army
in this wholly unaccustomed way
has been quietly developed here
over the past several months. It
is fraught with danger, because
reorganizing any army in the
midst of war is never easy. But
it is also filled with hope. It
amounts to a command decision
at last to come to grips with

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tion experts who have learned
subtle arts of village security.
new techniques of working with
This is a very large task.
the villages in several areas
South Vietnamese army comin Danang under Marine Genmanders regard themselves as
eral Lew Walt and near Saigoti
characters. As a class,
privileged
under Army General William
they represent the upper middle
Depuy will help the Vietnahave never had
stratum. They
mese army make the transformamuch contact with village peation from combat to pacificasants. They glory in the traption.
of military life,
pings
That is the obvious limit of
medals and special prethe U.S. in pacification. Forrogatives.
eigners can no more be agents
Now they are going to be
of pacification than they could
asked to turn over their field
write the new constitution here.
units for training courses to preBut the question remains: (.'an
pare them for
an army trained to combat
occupation in the hamlets, not
against an organized enemy psyas heroes but as housemothers.
chologically adjust to the danThey will be instructed how to
gerous drudgery of dealing with
deal with the peasants without
the unorganized enemy the
alienating them, in police work
in the hamIt's Vietcong guerillasof the war deand in
lets? The course
not a glamorous calling, but it
pends on the answer,
happens to be the single most
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