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LXI, No. 103

Marijuana
Police

City
Participate
In SDS Drug Seminar

ducted under the lights of a local
By MIKE WINES
TV film crew. It, too, was interKernel Staff Writer
atmosAmid a circus-lik- e
rupted periodically by applause
phere punctuated by cheers, boos and boos when statements favorand impromptu demonstrations, able and unfavorable to the prethe Students for a Democratic dominantly young audience were
made.
Society (SDS) presented WednesMost of the applause was for
a seminar on the use
day night
of marijuana and other drugs. student McCuire, who often folThe seminar consisted of a lowed up replies by the other
committee members with further
film on marijuana and a
session directed comment and questioning. Writn
committee from ten questions were accepted from
by a
the University and the Lexington the audience and dealt mostly
with the legal aspects of drug
Police Department.
University members included possession.
Prof. Williamson told the
Prof. Charles Williamson of the
College of Law and member of crowd that marijuana laws were
the Kentucky Crime Commission; in the process of being relaxed
A. Norrie Wake, member of the with regard to the user and stifFayette County Mental Health fened in the case of the seller.
The revised marijuana laws
and Drug Abuse Commission;
and Joe McCuire, a senior history have passed the state senate and
currently are before the house,
major.
McCuire was substituting for he said, and while they will
Lew Colten, an SDS steering make possession of the drug a
committee member who was unPlease Tarn To Pare 7
able to attend the meeting.
Representing the police department were Det. JaySylvestro
andSgt. Frank Fryman, a veteran
of nine years in the Lexington
Police Department and currently
serving on the detective squad.
By JOE HAAS
A crowd of about one hundred
Kernel Staff Writer
students alternately laughed and
In anticipation of the procried at the first part of the
which consisted of a film posed march on Frankfort Saturmeeting,
on marijuana narrated by singer day, members of the Student
Mobilization Committee (SMC)
Sonny Bono.
met Wednesday in the Student
The film, which is shown yearCenter to plan and prepare placly at every high school in Fayette
ards, banners and crosses.
County, was later described as
From noon to 9:30 p.m. about
"beneath the level" of college
a score of persons painted posters
students by a member of the
against the war and promoted
committee.
the cause of what Ed Jurenas,
Question-AnswPeriod
SMC spokesman, calls "by far,
sesThe question-and-answthe largest (national) radical orsion following the film was con
ganization in the United States."

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committee composed
University faculty
Drug Abuse Commission;
students and members of the Lexington City Po- Joe McCuire, a senior history major; and Sgt.
lice Department fielded students' questions on Frank Fryman and Jay Sylvestro, both of the demarijuana and other drugs Wednesday night in tective division of the Lexington City Police
the Student Center Ballroom. From left to right Department. Sylvestro is a graduate of
are Prof. Charles Williamson, of the College of
Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio,
Law; A. Norrie Wake, of the Fayette County and attended their school of narcotics research.
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Students Plan March On Frankfort

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During a meeting held at

9:30

p.m. in Room 245 of the Student
Center, Jurenas gave out litera-

a "death contingent" comprised
of marchers bearing black placards with the names of Kentucky's war dead since last October's moratorium, much in the
manner of the Washington
"March Against Death."
At the steps of the New Capitol, a symbolic graveyard will

ture to be distributed around the
state and on the UK campus today and tomorrow.
Jurenas also sent out press
releases which stated that the
plans for the antiwar march in
Frankfort are final.
be formed by approximately 900
Two thousand or more marchpeople the total number of Keners from throughout Kentucky are tucky war dead thus far
lying
expected to gather at 1 p.m. in down with white crosses.
a staging area near the Old CapSpeakers at the rally will initol.
clude Wendell Berry, author and
Their march route, for which English professor at UK; Joe Cole,
the Frankfort police have already former member of CI s United
granted a permit, will take them Against The War at Ft. Jackson,
to a rally at the New Capitol. S. C, and now a nationally-promineMarshals will be on hand to keep
spokesman for the CI
order during the course of the day Civil Liberties Defense Commitif the
can get enough
tee; Kathy Pratt, a member of
volunteers for the task.
the Lexington Women's LiberaThe general theme for the tion Croup (WLM); Cene Mason,
Frankfort action will be the call professor of political science at
for an immediate and uncondiUK; Julius Berry, CORE activist;
tional withdrawal of all U.S. Don Pratt, draft resister whose
forces from Southeast Asia.
case is now before the U.S. SuThe march itself will include preme Court; and a spokesman
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from the CI coffeehouse in
and for an antiwar newspaper at Fort Knox.
According to a member of the
SMC, the purpose of the Frankfort march is "to let Kentucky
people know that Kentuckians,
home folks, are against this war,
and not just the New York and
California people. The 'limousine
liberals' and Berkeley kids can't
stop the war by themselves."
SMC organizers, who have
visited colleges and high schools
throughout the state canvassing
support for the demonstration,
say response has generally been
excellent. In addition, spokesmen
say, each state legislator has received an invitation to the rally.
Leaflets to be handed out
today and tomorrow call for immediate withdrawal of U.S.
troops, free speech for CIs, support for the Chicago 8, and an
end to "militarism" in America
and "racism" in the service and
in American society.
Mul-drau-

Violent America Explored
Dr. Warren Susman, professor

aspect of our generalized conviction that secular, humanistic
effort will improve the world.
Recent acts of violence in
America seem to contradict the
creed, but Dr. Susman pointed
out that violence is not always
an irrational act.
Martial Images
America is violent or to offer
He indicated that many of
any easy solutions . . . but to today's ideas on violence evolved
explore the issues and questions from the 17th century martial
to come to grips with violence' images from the religious, social,
as it burgeoned forth in Ameri-- : and economic struggles in Eng-

of history at Rutgers University
in New Jersey, spoke last night
to the UK Craduate and Professional Students Association
(CPSA). His topic was "Violence
and American Creed."
His purpose in the speech,
he said "was not to show why

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land.
His concern, he said, "is with
That was the day of fights
the "rediscovery of violence." against
They were
The creed Dr. Susman refers spiritual wars in which the whole
to in his topic says, "The domi- of human existence was under
nant American political philosothe need for a constant army,
phy has been that the common and the people were willing to
man would think and act ra- die for the cause.
tionally." The creed also emIt is a continual process by
braces the idea that our faith which belief in crusades and war
in what can be accomplished and sin as the cause of social
through education is a striking conditions, has prevailed.
anti-Chris-

Kernel Photo by Bob Brewer

Dr. Susman
Dr. Warren Susman lectured on "Violence and the American Creed"
to the Craduate and Professional Students Association Wednesday
a history professor from
nght Dr. Susman, concerned with America's Rutgers University,
"rediscovery of vioin New Jersey, is
lence." He examined the issues and questions to come to grips
with violence as it burgeoned forth in America in the 1960s.

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Through the Revolutionary
War in America, clerics actively
advocated the use of violence
against sin "war to over-throSatan." It was the rationalization that "righteous vengeance,
when properly used, was not
a bad thing."
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The revolutionary "saints on
the march" identified the Stamp
Act and the existing social cont.
ditions of that time, as
anti-Chris-

This process of belief in crusades against sin causing social
problems has prevailed according to Dr. Susman.
Evangelical Movements
"Evangelical movements," he
said, "prepared people to accept
the order of affairs preceding a

war."

When considering how people

rationalize violence as a method
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5, 1970

Peace Corps Idea Survives First Decade

WASHINGTON (AP)- -It was
a bright and shiny dream when
the first group of 12 Peace Corps
volunteers boarded an airplane
in 1961 to improve the world,
at least a part of it.
There were critics of the idealistic, loosely structured organization, but certainly few among

the youth young Americans
bom before the SDS, the Dlack
Panthers, three political assassinations, Detroit, Watts and Vietnam.
As those first volunteers headed for the barrios in cities and
villages of Colombia, the corp's
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in by the thousands. Only one
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1970
the world had
By
changed, but the golden idea of
a Peace Corps still survived.
As an institution, the Peace
Corps is far from dead as it
celebrates its ninth birthday: Its
volunteers are serving in GO countries, it still receives lavish praise
in foreign newspaper editorials
and from heads of state in Africa,
Latin America and Asia, and
Congress is still giving almost
everything asked.
Testimony to its usefulness
can be found throughout the
world. In Bolivia, for instance,
shepherds were using rusty old
tin cans to shear their sheep,
before the Peace Corps introduced shears. It raised wool
from 17,620 pounds to
743,000 pounds in two years.
In Nepal, the rice production
of one village rose 1,200 percent
after volunteers introduced abetter kind of rice. In India, vol-

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Corps, claiming it is an extension of "American imperialism."
They charged it supports oppressive governments, helps keep the
people of the third world downtrodden and is a propaganda
machine in behalf of the American way of life.
The new director, Joseph
Blatchford, a tall, handsome lawyer who was president of his

fraternity and captain of the tennis team at UCLA, dismisses
the CRV as a small group of
volunteers who had unsatisfactory experiences in their stints
abroad.
Charles Peters, editor of The
Washington Monthly and former
director of the Peace Corps' Office of Evaluation and Research,
disagrees. He recognizes the
names of some excellent volune
teers among the
Corps
anti-Peac-

group.
Many Interested Students
Blatchford points to a Callup
poll taken in 1968. It shows that
g
unteers introduced
white leghorn chickens to vil- 72 percent of college students
are interested in serving in eilages, allowing farmers to harvest 50 eggs more per chicken ther the Peace Corps or VISTA,
the domestic Peace Corps. The
every year.
Still there remain a small poll also shows that it is the
more active students who are
group of critics, most notably the most interested.
and
Rep. Otto Passman.-D.La- .
Philip Steitz, head of recruitRep. Wayne L. Hays,
ment, believes there is a differwho most recently described the
Peace Corps as an outfit that ence in the type of volunteer the
needed to have its wings clipped. Peace Corps attracts today and
the ones who clamored to it in
New Critics
the early '60s.
Lately a new band of critics
"In the beginning we needed
has appeared, the idealistic youth the
young radical who would go
who had so strongly heard the out and
try the impossible. Now
Corps' call in the early '60s. he probably would be rather
A group of 2,000 former volunfrustrated with the more structeers roughly three percent of tured
program. In the early days
returnees labeled the Peace Corps everybody went out and did his
"the angel's face on the devil's thing. Those who succeeded
policy." The Committee of Re- stayed. Those who didn't came
turned Volunteers CRV demand- home."
ed the abolition of the Peace
The changes in the Peace
Corps have been many since
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do nothing else.
The extensive physical fitness
featuring feats like
program,
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tied, were abandoned within the
first year. Some say Shriver purposefully put in the tough requirements to give the Corps a
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Marijuana Called
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FRANKFORT (AP)-- A bill to
change marijuana from a narcotic to a dangerous drug under
Kentucky law was reported favorably out of a house committee
today.
House Bill 587, reported out
of the Health and Welfare Committee, also would have alcoholics be handled like mentally
ill persons, with a mandatory
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Mental Health Commissioner
Dale Farabee said the present
law on alcoholics has not worked
because the alcoholic cannot be
held involuntarily for seven days,
so a rehabilitation program can
be begun.

On marijuana, Farabee said
judges and juries now have so
little flexibility that youths seldom are convicted.
"A grand jury looks at an
boy facing a
sentence for smoking a marijuana
cigarette, and we don't get many
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HB 587 would allow a judge
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Panthers Target Practice

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.
Cun-totin- g
(AP)
paramilitary
groups such as the Black Panthers and Minutemen need lots
of room to sharpen their shooting eyes. Some factions have
found the space in southern California's desolate deserts.
One elaborate training site
was discovered in the high desert
of San Bernardino County's
Sheephole Mountains by detectives investigating the murders
of two decapitated black men.
More than three miles from
the nearest road, deputies found
manhole-size- d
steel targets riddled by armor-piercin- g
shells.
Targets suspended from welded
pipe frames by heavy chain were
spaced at firing ranges of 100
yards to more than
mile.
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Panthers in camouflaged fatigue
uniforms who had fired 1,000
bullets in one morning's practice.

Although Marines from a nearby base have aided in the search
since the discovery last November, the identity of the group
that built it remains a mystery.
miles to the
Seventy-fiv- e
northwest in the same county,
the trail to another site is marked
by the sign of the Minutemen
painted on rocks, hillsides and
traffic signs.
The Minutemen symbols a
cross in a circle like the view
through telescopic sights were
found along Interstate 15 at Wild
Wash, the only cutoff between
Victorville and Barstow. Four
miles off the road, deputies
found targets torn apart by weapons ranging up to
machine guns.
At Glen Valley in nearby Riverside County, last April 27, a
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Violent America
Continued From Page One
for social reform (combating sin),
Dr. Susman saysheisreminedof
lines in "The Battle Hymn of the
Republic" which say, 'Let Him
die to make man holy, let us die
to keep man free.'
Violence is also considered
by many to be a unifying process.
Abraham Lincoln called it

"the baptism of blood" during

the Civil War. It was the idea
that violence could give a rebirth
to a united America. War is believed to be necessary for the
organization of society.
Dr. Susman refers to the idea
as "politics of apocalypse" the
idea that reform cannot be accomplished through rational means.
Man's thirst for violence and
confrontation are human nature.
He wants blood instead of logic
at times, and he thinks he can
be liberated by blood, dying, and
sacrifice.
Show Of Strength
Violence is used as a show
of strength. Man sometimes fears
that in peace he grows "weak and
cowardly at the sign of death."
Dr. Susman made an allusion
to westerns and detective movies,
saying that "in our society if
there is to be justice against
forces that corrupt and destroy,
it must occur outside the law
and in unorthodox methods by
an avenger."
The plots, he says, usually
picture legitimate institutions in
American society as corrupt, and
pictures the hero as an "angel
of the Lord" wlto does not have
any background knowledgeof the
community. The hero is also unattached, and operates alone or
with a small number, against
the will of the people.
Dr. Susman' s speech centered
on exploration of the issues and
questions on the rediscovery of
violence. He did not offer any
solutions to the problems causing violence.

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party patch on their uniforms
and came equipped with guns,
boxes of ammunition, and field
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groups can operate with near
impunity on the deserts since
his county is the nation's largest
with 22,000 square miles ranging
from Los Angeles suburbs to Nevada. "I hope you can appreciate our problem," he said. "These
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Reheating Dead Horse
One must applaud the progressive mlndedness of an institution
like the University of Louisville for
its cooperation in the student formation of a Free University on that
campus. One must also compare
this favorable attitude with that
expressed by our own administration during a similar effort by UK
students last fall.
It is not that our Vice President
Student Affairs expressly forbade the formation of such an or- -,
ganization; he only refused to have
Free U. admitted as an official
student organ. By so doing, however, he not only expressed a nega-- .
tive opinion on the matter but also
disspelled any hopes Free U. might
have had in meeting classes on the
campus itself.
for

both condoning and even
supporting the
ideals of a Free U., U of L's
vice president was permitting free
student expression and upholding
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what amounts to an educational additive. In short, he was acting in
his official capacity as a sympa-

thetic receiver of legitimate

stu-

dent requests.

additional result of the
Louisville attitude was spurred incentive toward participation by
both students and faculty; hence,
An

the program itself now has a greater chance of - continued success.
Due in part, no doubt, to administrative backing, the program has
d
drawn
instructors
from faculty ranks. All parties involved have benefited.
But all of this is beating a dead
horse, since UK is not blessed with
such good administrative fortune.
The U of L story might, however, serve as a pattern for those
UK vice presidents who would turn
a deaf ear to student pleas. A
truly free university could come
a step closer to reality with just
a semblance of dialog between student and administration.
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of the late Forties-earlmisleadingly, It Happens Every Spring.
A somewhat unusual picture this, because
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it combines two of Hollywood's favorite
themes of that period: baseball (Damn
Yankees, The Dizzy Dean Story, et al.)
and the rather bungling, Eccentric Intellectual (Mr. B landings Builds His Dream
House, The Professor and the Bobby-soxe- r,
etc.)
At any rate. It Happens Every Spring,
which stars who else? lovable, bungling Fred McMurray, is about a research

e
professor who discovers
a formula which will repel wood. And
what's made out of wood? Right! Baseball bats! That should give you some
feel for the quality of the thing, which is
all anyone really needs.
The point of all this is that it occurred
to me the other night that we have a great
movie of the same genre lurking unnoticed
in our midst, right here on the good old
UK campus. It lias very little to do with
baseball or with lovable, bungling Eccentric Professors, although we could certainly cast an epic on that theme. Rather
it has to do with other things which happen here every spring.
There are several categories of these
things, but they all fall under the two
broad headings Sex and Politics. While
the first heading is infinitely more inter- chemist-colleg-

Kernels
Men are generally more careful of
the breed of their horses and dogs than
of their children.
William Venn

Much reading is an oppression of the
mind, and extinguishes the natural
candle, which is the reason of so many
senseless scholars in the world.
William Perm

esting and appealing than the latter, it
seems that the latter causes greater quantities of anguish and suffering amongst
the student populus; and while this is on
the one hand reassuring and as it should
be, I still feel on the other hand an obligation to explain, if I can, what is going
to happen around here in a month or
two.
The thing which Happens Every Spring
at UK is a birth or perhaps the maturingof a spirit in the breasts of certain Outstanding Students to begin their
quest for success by seeking the office
of Student Government President. This
urge is not of the nobler variety being,
as it is, closely akin to the urge to bust
your sister's piggy bank or to put a tack
in your teacher's chair.
Moreover, the urge to run for the illustrious position is rather frightening,
for independent empirical studies seem
to indicate a correlation between the desire to be Student Government President
and the long range desire to Serve the
Public, say from some such position as
the Governor's mansion.
There are those of us, of course, to
whom such an urge is incomprehensible;

it is, however, about to force itself upon
us, whether we want it or not. It would
be pointless to say again that Creeks
will be in control this election as they
have been in control of all the past
elections. It would also be pointless to
put forth a plan on how to Win the
Presidency.
The notion of the Presidency as a
position of power is itself outmoded and
meaningless to an amorphous student
body except in terms of
What is needed, rather than a
President or even an Assembly is a participatory body of undergraduates, graduate students and faculty which is new
not only in form but also in spirit.
Towards this end I will relate a conversation I had some years ago with
Robert Johnson, who was at the time
the University's Vice President for Student Affairs. "If a group of students
organized themselves into a new student
governing body and presented themselves
to us as the legitimate Student Government," he said, "I don't see how we
could do anything but to see which group
had the most support and then to recognize that body."

I'm not sure, of course, that such a
plan would work. I don't even know
for certain how to go about it. But is is
clear, as I mentally gird myself for the
spectacle of my fifth Student Government Election, that for anyone who really
cares about changing the way things are
run in this University to run for SG office
is merely begging the issue. There is no
sense, junior legislators, in thinking about
an alternative educational institution if
you can't even think of and try to create
an alternative to our own version of Watch
Democracy Work.
Which is of course the moral of this
whole spiel. May be somebody will figure
it out this year and save us all a lot of
agony and intrusion by the usual bunch
of functionally illiterate political aspirants. Personally, though, I think I'll say
a little prayer every night for the next few
weeks. Maybe some lovable, bungling
chemistry professor will receive divine
inspiration and think up some magical
formula which repels would-b- e Rotarians.
For unless one of these two things comes
about, dear reader, this Spring as every
Spring It's Coing To Happen. And none
of us will be the better for it.

STAFF SOAPBOX
JANE BROWN
Saturday afternoon
there are a lot of nicer places to be than
Memorial Coliseum. Even if it is a grudge
match and it's tied up with five minutes
By

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to go.

lake out on
Walnut Hall Farm, right near Spindle-toThe naturalness oilers ducks, geese,
mares and foals, and even Welcome signs
instead of No Trespassing warnings.
If y ou decide to make it out that way
One of these places is

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and

smell something

besides hot dogs

Take a slow drive in the general
direction of the low rent districts of
Downtown Lexington. You'll appreciate
the day and country scene more, once
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ou get there.

Meander around for a while among

the miles of white fences that contain
horse farms and black fences that border
the cattle farms. When y ou get to Walnut
Hall, drive around and check out the
huge manor house and the stables that
are bigger than a lot of the apartmen