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The South's Outstanding College Daily

Thursday Evening, April 13, 1907

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

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Bitch In, But It Was Much More

original focus -t- he Negro and his
place at UK.
Turner said after the session
that "the Negro student here
learned today there were more
stimulating intellectual experience on this campus in mempeople on his side than lie thought
ory.
previously. Wc also found out
The Campus Committee on those who stand on the other side,
Human Bights which sponsored and now wc can begin working
it, along with the Student Cen- on them," Turner said.
ter Forum Committee, had asked
During the session, students
for a "dialogue" on social change.
frequently walked to the microWhat they got was a spontanephone on the patio's east end, and
ous outpouring of soul that lasbe termed a
gave what
ted well past the appointed quit- confession ofmight
their feelings toward
ting time.
the Negro. Often comments were
An estimated 2,000 students
to the Negro's cause
were there at some point during sympathetic
but several times heated argur
Stuthe
session on the
ments evolved.
dent Center patio, and the mood
But that was the way Turner
of the crowd ranged from that wanted it. He
plannedthe"bitch
appropriate for a hootenanny to in" so students could air their
that found in heated conflict, and
as he
about the
touched on many emotions be- "feelingsaudience Negro"
told the
during his opentween.
remarks.
discussions were ing"The
Heated
things I have to say are
waged on integration of athle- not a great speech," he said,
tics, Greek organizations, and the "They are things I have known
acceptance of the Negro at the since I was big enough to know
University.
the color of my skin would make
But the spirit was
a difference. We don't need symand uncontrolled, and the
pathy, we want conversation. Let
most heated point of the afterus hear what you have to say
noon came late in the session
about us and we'll tell you what
when a group of BOTC students we have to
say."
attacked Dr. Neil Eddington, asThe "bitch in" from its beof anthropology,
sistant professor
ginning was antagonistic. In his
for his views on military science.
opening remarks he stopped,
Dr. Eddington was quoted in
to a Confederate flag
a story in Tuesday's edition of pointed
which hung below the podium.
The Kernel advocating the with"See this flag. This is creadrawal of academic credit from
tivity," he said.
BOTC courses because they pre
sent only a "military" view.
The flag had a brown and
And so it went, but always white arm clasped across it.
Bill Turner, the smooth presi- "Keep the Southern tra- dent of the CCHB, sought to dition," he said, "but remember
return the discussion to its the darkies ain't gay."
By GENE CLABES
Kernel Associate Editor
They called it a "Bitch In"
but many felt it was the most

From his remarks the "bitch

in" seemed to catch

fire.

Bobert Fleishman stepped out
of the crowd and said, "the
StaNegro is an
tistically he is an
It is my opinion that the Negro
knows better than anyone else
he is an
He said the militant and
groups are aware that
the Negro is an under-achievunder-achieve-

r.

undcr-achieve-

under-achiever-

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non-milita-

"

"But I think the Black Power
movement is the most significant," Fleishman said. "It gives
the Negro identity as a black
mrtn."
Dr. Eddington, who participated in the "bitch in" at the
CCHB's request said, "Not
enough jxople are get ting rublcd
the wrong way." Things then
lx.gan to happen.
One student asked, "If Negro

students are so damn inteicsted
in helping the situation, where
are they all. I have only counted

10."
Skip Banians, the only Negro
inemlxT of the track team said,
"I have never heard the Athletic Department speak of recruiting Negroes for basketball,
track, or baseball. The coaches
traveled to Michigan to see a
Continued on Page 3

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Eddington'

Violated, AAUP Says
By FRANK BROWNING
Kernel Associate Editor
Responding to challenges of
his academic integrity, Dr. Neil
Eddington Wednesday revealed
a letter from the American Association of University Professors'
local chapter stating that his
academic freedoms had been vio-

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Indians Joining

The Collegiate fres Servlre
NEW YORK-- A
contingent of South Dakota
Sioux Indians will be among the 100,000 antiwar protestors expected to gather in Central Park
Saturday for the "Spring Mobilization to End
the War in Vietnam."
The marchers will assemble in the Park's
Sheep Meadow and proceed to the United Nations building for a rally where civil rights leader
Martin Luther King Jr., will be a featured speaker.
Also addressing the mass meeting will be
Boston University professor Howard Zinn and

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Chairman Stokely Carmichael.
An "End the War" rally will also be held
Saturday in San Francisco's Kezar Stadium. Speakers at that event include Georgia Rep. Julian
Bond and Bamparts magazine staffer Robert
Scheer.

Freedom

lated.
He said he has taken his
case to National AAUP headquarters.
Dr. Eddington, assistant professor of anthropology and moderator of Wednesday afternoon's
"bitch-in"- ,
read the letter in
reply to a student who charged
he had been released for failing
too many students last semester.
Dr. Eddington came into the
news last November when his
department investigated his work
after some students had complained about how his classes
were being conducted.
The AAUP letter Dr. Edding- -

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Nationwide
activities have been scheduled for the pericxl preceding the major inarches,
designated by the sponsors as "Vietnam Week."
Daily rallies are scheduled to take place on the
steps of Berkeley's Sproul Hall, and a mass meeting is to be held at that campus Friday.
ami a march on a plant
A series of teach-in- s
producing napalm have been organized by University of Chicago students. Among the other unir
versities to be the sites of
protests are
the University of Pennsylvania, Brooklyn College,
Roosevelt University (Chicago), Wayne State University (Detroit), the University of Oklahoma, and
the University of California at Santa Barbara.
A fast and silent protest inarch will take place
at Connecticut College, and marcltes will also be
seen at the University of New Hampshire and the
University of Kansas.
anti-wa-

anti-wa-

ton charged the tenured faculty
weighed the issue of his teaching performance on incorrect information.
Further, the letter charged
that his department's decision
not to renew his contract was
weakened by an "unwise and unnecessary" granting of an interview to a Kernel reenter last
November.
The letter continued that the
tenured faculty were prejudiced
by incorrectly taking Dr. Edding-ton'-s
appeal to face the dean

has failed to move on them. Dr.
Eddington said.
Local AAUP findings have
been turned over to the President's Committee on Tenure
and Privilege. The committee's
chairman, Dr. Morris Cicrly, professor of education, responded to
Dr. Eddington that he would
have to submit a formal letter
of charges and the burden of
proof rested with him.
The Eddington case became
Continued on rage 2

of Arts and Sciences as an
ultimatum.
Dr. Eddington had asked for
a vote of confidence from his
colleagues in extending his contract; he had planned to take
that information before the dean
in defense of himself but was
advised not to by his department.
The AAUP charged part of
the decision not to renew his
contract on the basis of wanting
to see the dean was a violation of his academic freedom.
The letter went on to say
certain individuals
to Administrative interest on the
college level in Dr. Eddington's
discussing the conflict with his

Eddington's Car,

over-reacte-

d

classes.

The letter Dr. Eddington read
concluded by charging Department Chairman Henry Dobyns
with violating his ethical responsibilities to his colleagues by
writing to a student in one of
the freshman classes about the
Eddington case.
Having defended his position
with the AAUP letter, the anthropology professor added that
he has taken the case to the
national AAUP.
Executive Vice President A.D.
Albright has been aware of the
allegations for over a month but

House II it By Eggs

A station wagon owned by
Dr. Neil Eddington was pelted
by eggs and a rock late last night.
Dr. Eddington said the station wagon, parked in the driveway of his home, had eggs thrown
all over the luggage carrier and
that a rock had landed on top
of the car.
"If this is the sort of activity that goes on at the University of Kentucky, then I don't
want any part of it," he said,
"and I'm glad I'm going back
to Berkeley.
Earlier in theday Dr. Eddington was involved in a heated
discussion over academic credit
for BOTC during the Bitch In.
Dr. Eddington called County
Police alter the incident but he
said more eggs were thrown at
his house within 15 minutes after
his car was hit. This time his
family was disturbed and he
again called the police.
"1 don't know who these people are," he said, "but if they
have anything to say about me
or my profession, I wish they
would come to my office or talk
to me on the phone and leave
my family alone."

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Wednesday and Dr. Alvin Magid
of political science expressed regret at student charges against
Eddington. "If that
statement was an indictment against Eddington,
many others and I would plead
guilty with him," he said.
Martin Wheeler, an A & S
sophomore defeated for v ice president of Student Government, also
defended Dr. Eddington, expressing deep regret at
feelings," and praised him
for "adding so much to this
University."
Wheeler also said he felt the
case would "set the University
back 20 years."
Dr. Dobyns was contacted
but had no comment about any
of the comments in the AAUP
letter. He said he was unaware
of either the letter or its contents.
Dusty Hall, the student who
challenged Dr. Eddington about
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white athlete but wouldn't walk
down to the University track to
see the Negro state champion
about a scholarship."
"The only way I can get any
recognition around here is put on
my blue and white jacket," he
said.
The CCHR had invited both
basketball Coach Adolph Rupp
and Athletic Director Bcrnie
to attend the "bitch in"
but neither was present.
Alxnit an hour after the session was underway, a student
who identified himself as Lynn
Adams stepped the microphone
and denounced the CCHR for
criticizing Rupp for not recruiting a Negro. He said the committee had not invited Coach
Rupp to the "bitch in."
"I spent this morning with
Coach Rupp and his secretary
and they said they hadn't received an invitation," he said.
"The Coach is trying to get a
Negro on the basketball team.
He visited Butch Beard and Wesley Unseld several times. Both
now play for University of LouisShi-vcl-

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ville.

Coach Rupp, contacted late
Wednesday afternoon, said he
had not sent the student and
had not met him until he came
to his office Wednesday afternoon and told him what he had
said.
Turner said the CCHR did
write Coach Rupp and Shively
invitations to the "bitch in."

After alxnit an hour of heated
discussion and name callingovcr
why Negroes had not been recruited more extensively
in
Sxrts, the subject switched to
Creek organizations.
Turner told the audience he
had conducted a study of fraternities last week about "while
only" clauses in their charters.
"I contacted all fraternities
by telephone and talked to top
officers," he said. "I asked them
if I could see their charters as
a member of CCHR. Of all the
fraternities on campus, about
90 percent refused to let me see
the charters. One fraternity said
"Hell no. We don't want no Negro."
A Negro student said, "Fraternities have lost their appeal
here. "Why has the Interfrater-nitCouncil not let Alpha Phi
Alpha be recognized?" Alpha
Phi Alpha is a Negro colony
with seven members on campus.
Hobby Spalding IFC vice
president, responded saying the
council "would be glad to recognize Alpha Phi Alpha. I think
Negroes should have a place. I
think Negroes should be pledged
to a fraternity who wants them."
Ellis Bullock, president of
Alpha Phi Alpha, affirmed Spalding's remarks and said, "IFC
has supported us. It has done
as much as it can for us. We
need members. We are willing
to take white members. It is our
hope arrangements can be made
y

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is not a Negro problem.

It is a white problem," he said.
"What confronts the white is
change."
He said the dialogue that was
taking place would have fit in

"It reflects that things are
mess," he said. "This is a
living, breathing footnote" of
the problems of our times.
About seven members of the
UK Reserve Officer Training
Corps broke up the dialogue
demanding that Dr. Fddington
comment on statements he had
made concerning ROTC. A
heated debate ensued.
Turner ended the "bitch in"
with a prayer. Fifteen minutes
after the session, students were
still standing around talking
about what had happened.
Turner said alter the "bitch

"People are too bound up in
their own personal gripes," he
said. "He told the Negroes participating they had not been responsible. You haven't given
whites who would like to join
your cause a chance."

One student said he was interested in the Negroes' problems but wanted to know he
could meet Negroes.

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Martin Wheeler, a defeated
candidate for Student Government vice president, asked, "How-loncan 14,000 white students
be indifferent to the Negro? How
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N.ames
is indeed significant .that
1,500 students have signed

about
petitions urging that professors'
names not be omitted from class
schedule books next prcregistration.
We commend this effort and hope

Registrar Elbert Ockerman and
other University officials now will
recognize that students want and
need to know the names of instructors before they register for courses
they will take.
The petition movement was
started by Jane Tiernan, a junior
who will be a Student Government
representative next year. The petitions state that faculty names
should be put back in schedule
books because the value of a course
is determined by the professor who
teaches it.
We realize there are certain problems involved in matching faculty
names and courses in time to meet
the deadline for printing the schedule books. Also, the use of profes- -

Editor-in-Chi-

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Needed
sors' names would detract from the
University's experiments with class
registration handled wholly by com-

puters.
However, we do not think either
of these problems can be used as
valid excuses for not permitting
students to decide which instructors they want to take courses
under. Some professors have excellent reputations as far as classroom instruction is concerned;
others do not. It is not fair for a
student to have to risk being matched with a poor instructor when
actually, as the petitions say, the
value of the course is at stake.
Thus, the students' education also
maybe somewhat at stake.
We hope that the petition movement will be acknowledged by the
Registrar as a significant and influential student voice, and that
next semester faculty names will
again appear in the schedule books.

"Ain't Nobody Here But Jes' Us Sportsmen"

Letters To The Editor:

Eddington Misinformed On Military Science Program
To the Editor of The Kernel:
Hup, two, three, four, let's
chalk up another one for Dr. Eddington. The Champion of Freedom marches on. I fear Dr. Eddington is either sadly misinformed
on the military science program
at UK, or he does not understand
it.
After reading "Some Question
Credit for ROTC" four times, I
still do not understand the logic
of his argument. Dr. Eddington's
"main objective is thatROTCdoes
not have a free exchange of ideas."
I ask you, Dr. Eddington, have you
attended a military science class at
this University? Where is your proof
for this accusation?
After talking with several Air
Force Military Science students,
I was informed
that they have
to question in the classevery right
room. I was also told that one has
every right "to express one's self
openly." Therefore, I fail to see
how this is "inconsistent with the
values of a university."
You have accused the military
science personnel of teaching propaganda. Can you prove to me that
everything you teach in anthropology isn't propaganda? Isn't a
good deal of anthropology theoretical propaganda? You have made

the accusation that frequently
"they do not have the same academic credentials other "faculty
members have." I was not aware
that all other faculty members in
every other subject have their doctorates.
Then, too, you seem to be forgetting that the male students here
have a freedom of choice. No one
is forcing them to take HOTC.

Lastly, Dr. Eddington, I find
you in a rather ironic position,
as the Champion of Freedom. How
strange that you, of all people,
should question the right of your
students to go to the Administration about your teaching and that
the Administration should have
the right not to renew your contract! Do not the students have
the right to question the quality
of their teachers? Does not the Administration have the right to select
their professors?
I feel your argument is best
summed up in these words of your
own: "They have laws against
statutory rape, but yet they have
recruiting sergeants on campus."
Beautiful logic (or was that a
Freudian slip?)!
Laura Vogue
Education Sophomore

Exchange

Of Ideas

I feel I must comment on Kernel Associate Editor Frank Browning's report concerning the final
FOCI program sponsored by the
University Club. While I believe
that Mr. Browning, in general,
adequately reported what was expounded as a lack of innovation
in the general academic program
of the University, I felt the headlines a little "spirited."
I did not feel there was a
"clash" between the professors and
Provost Chocran but rather an
exchange of ideas concerning innovation in the Academic Program
of the University. I also hope I
did not leave the impression that
our Administration has no interest
in innovation and would not support it. Quite the contrary, I feel

that the University Administration
would, with perhaps a few exceptions, welcome and support innovative ideas.
We, as faculty, have not challenged them with new ideas concerning the teaching program and
other facets of the entire academic
program and I believe that we,
as faculty, are derelict in this
respect. I may repeat, however,
in defense of the faculty, that
innovation in the teaching program may not, in their estimation, receive the same credit in
the "ledger book of salary raises
and promotions" as does research
whether it be innovative or not.
Finally, I would like to commend The Kernel on its active
interest in reporting the FOCI programs. Hopefully, these will be
continued and can again be aimed
at topics of interest to both faculty and students.
John M. Carpenter
Prof, of Zoology

Lxcellenl

Journalism

It will be only a short time until you yield the position of editor-in-chi-

well-writte-

College of Medicine

Invitation To Weltner
I should like to encourage

the

public to attend the speech of
Mr. Charles Weltner on Thursday
night in the courtroom of the College of Law. The speaker has been
mentioned as a vice president nominee in 1972, if not in 1968. His
national prominence should be encouraging to all young people since
it was gained solely by bucking
the political gravy train.
He is a man of guts and intelligenceperhaps a rare combination. I hope UK students will
give him an enthusiastic audience.
John Lackey
Senior

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to your successor. Let me
therefore take this opportunity to
congratulate you and your staff on
the very fine work done this year.
This is my first year at the
University of Kentucky, and coming
e
from a small and
I expected to
liberal arts college
find, among other things, a very
mediocre campus newspaper. Instead I found a paper taking courageous stands on controversial and
unpopular issues; I found a paper
giving generous space to issues of
highly-selectiv-

the times even when such were not
directly connected with the Unin
and in
versity; a paper
consistently good taste.
Congratulations to you, and may
your successor continue the excellent journalism.
David Reese
Freshman

College of Law

Kernels
Until you have become really,
in actual fact, a brother to every
one, brotherhood will not come to
pass.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The best, the most exquisite
automobile is a walking-stick- ;
and
one of the finest things in life is
going a journey with it.
Robert Cortes Holliday

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McNeiv's Review Of GuignoVs 'Good Woman' Criticised
To the Editor of The Kernel:
I would like to defend the Guig-no- l
production The Good Woman
of Sctzuan and comment upon The
Kernel's reviewer, V. II. McNew.
McNew attacks the Guignol rendition of the play because, in his
judgment, it did not follow Brecht's
intentions. First, no competent person of the theater would limit any
play merely to what the author said
he would like to have or to what
he said he means (as per the "in-

tentional fallacy"). Shakespearean
theaters today are known not for
doing original Shakespeare but for
their own versions of Shakespeare.
This is why drama critics refer to
"Burton's Hamlet" and "Mr.
Goodactor's Othello. "
Second, if anyone can really
say he grasps all of Brecht's dramatic theories or, and most especially, if anyone believes that
Brecht really meant everything he
said, I would like to meet that
person. Today, artists are seldom
consulted on "what they meant"
and are seldom listened to or believed completely when they make
statements about their own work.
Brecht did not want his audience to identify with his characters but rather to remain aloof but
it is quite telling to note that
Brecht's plays are so written that
no sensitive Western audience can
avoid identification. To say that
the Guignol production never challenged anyone to think, as McNew
says, must mean one's mind is incapable of that activity for important questions were asked, dramatically and unmistakably, about
the nature of good and evil.
McNew goes on to charge the
leading lady, Susan Cardwell, of
playing "Shen Te (good woman)
in the first half of the play and

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like Shui Te (practical man) in
the second." What he apparently
does not realize is that in the
latter part of the play, Shen Te
is both personalities; she says exactly this in a confession to the gods.
In fact, the set included the Oriental symbol of duality (good interlocked with evil) prominately in
this scene. This duality was there
in the production and in Card-wellShen Te she is a woman
with the fences of good and evil
at battle in her and around her.
McNew also chose to direct
his shotgun at the set (a "Pon-deros- a
barn"). Here again he lacks
delicacy of taste for not only did
this flexible set, one set, mind you,
provide seven distinct playing areas
(not counting "down stage") but
it mixed Oriental and Occidental
styles just enough so that the cast
who could not be
of
to copy an Oriental acexpected
cent, would evoke the settingwith-ou- t

tin Esslin's Brecht. Mr. McNew lias
been an assistant director of the
Harvard Dramatic Club and has
been an arts reviewer for The Christian Science Monitor.

Keeneland Melodrama
This is a true story. It is a rather minor event in the life of a
student, but much great literature
has been the direct result of minor

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Graduate student
in English

events (i.e., a sailor shooting a
little white bird.).
Time: 10:30 p.m. April 9 (three
weeks before exams).
Setting: The third floor of Keeneland Hall. There is chaos as students work frantically to complete
papers and projects before exam
week.
Characters: Housemother, UK
coed.
Housemother (knocking
on
door): Hello girls. Just dropping by
to tell you that your rooms will be
painted tomorrow.
Coed (stunned): Tomorrow!?!
House: Yes, isn't that nice? It
will be so nice having all the rooms
painted for the girls next year!
Coed: How about the girls this
year?
House (ignoring the question):
Now, let's see. Do you know the
procedure for getting the room ready
for the painters? It really is very
simple: (1) Remove everythingfrom
walls and from table tops of dressers. You may move everything out
into the hall if you like, but please
leave rooms for passage. This means
record players, trunks,
books,
chairs, lamps and everything in the

Editor's Note: Mr. McNew is
studying history, not English. The
reviewer had told The Kernel that
there is an epilogue to be found in
Brecht Stucke (Vol. 8) or Mar

bathroom.
(2) Have everything cleared by
7 a.m. (including beds stripped and
yourself out of the room) because
the painters will arrive at that
time.

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non-Chines-

accents.
McNew speaks of an "epilogue"
not delivered in the production.
What epilogue he has in mind,
I would like to know. My copy

of the play (Parables for the Tlie-atrby Brecht, English version

e,

by Eric Bentley, Grove Press, N.Y.,
1963) has no epilogue.
Such a review as McNew wrote
is typical of the slick, smug English major who is trained to be
hypercritical of everything he experiences.
Charles H. Harpole

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Need college students to work 14 weeks during Summer.
begin work anytime after completing finals.