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Vol. LVII, No. 74

LEXINGTON, KY., THURSDAY, FEB. 3, 1966

Eight Pages

Protest, Snow Join
To Darken Classes
Ihronhont state
By

GENE CLABES

Kernel Staff Writer

Statewide public school class-

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UK Beats Vandy

rooms were dark tcxlay as snow
and a teacher's walkout, protesting low salaries, kept students at home.
Inclimate weather conditions,
which grip the state, are not
being blamed in most cases for
the closing.

See related story, page eight.
105-9- 0

teleA record crowd of 7,500 Wildcat fans watched the closed circuit
last night at Memorial Coliseum. The
cast of the
game
Cats ran their unbeaten string to 16, trouncing the Commodores
105-9See story on page 6.
UK-Vand- y

Some 29,000 teachers across

the Commonwealth were committed to take part in the "protest day" proposed Jan. 15 at

Security Council Accepts
U.S. Resolution Seeking
Settlement Of Viet War
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. -- The Security Council of the United Nations voted yesterday to
resolution seeking a
debate the
settlement of the war in Vietnam.
negotiated
The move was the latest peace effort by the
U.S.
The decisive vote accepting the resolution was
cast by Dr. Waleed M. Sadi of Jordan.
The Soviet Union and Bulgaria voted against
the resolution, and France, Mali, Nigeria, and
U.S.-sponsor-

Uganda abstained.
The two communist bloc delegations expressed
strong opposition to the debate request.
Voting for the measure with the U.S. were
Britain, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Japan,
Nationalist China, Argentina, and Uruguay.
U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg called the
vote a vindication of the role the Security Council
should play under the United Nations Charter.
Goldberg said that the resolution's passage
expressed the "overwhelming sentiment" that
the war in Vietnam should be sent to the conference table at Geneva.
The resolution calls for:
1. Immediate discussions without conditions
to arrange a conference to apply the Geneva
accords of 1954 and 1962 to establish peace in
Southeast Asia;

2. A cease-fir- e
to be the first order of business
at the conference; and
3. The U.S. to accept arbitrators and mediators
as provided for by the U.N.
Goldberg said that one issue will be that of
the representation for North Vietnam and the
Vietcong when the council resumes the debate.
The Soviets sneered at the "hypocritical, new-

the Kentucky Education

move in to close the schools
and binder the children iron:
but to;ni
getting an education, would
the teacher. Teachers
be asked to leave the state,

Asso-

ciation meeting.

Participating teachers spent
the day at various district schools
discussing salary problems that
now face the Kentucky public

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school teacher and further action
to take if a remedy is not offered.
Dr. Lyman Ginger, dean of
the College of Education, spoke
to Fayette County and Lexington city school teachers, figured
to number about 1,300.
Student teachers from the
University's College of Education joined in the protest. Many
agreed with the protest but said
they were not sure the "walkout"
was the right method of protest.
student teacher
However,
concern with the salary raise
is currently unimportant to them
in comparison to their graduate
colleagues.
Dean Ginger, presently a
member of the National Education Association's executive
board, pointed out aspects of
NEA sanctions that may be
sought if action is not taken.
Recently Dean Ginger said
if the KEA applied for sanctions
he would be a member of the
board that would decide if the
need requires sanctions.
If Kentucky is blacklisted,
he said, the NEA would move
into the state and aid teachers
to get jobs in other states, if
they wanted them.
He said the NEA did not

found United States angel of peace, carrying a
cargo of bombs in its arms."
The U.S. does not expect the Soviet delegation
to veto the resolution because this would place
it in a position of opposing peace.
Sources said that a counterresolution is more
likely. The Soviets in that counter move will
probably introduce a resolution calling for support
of North Vietnam's position on peace talks.
The move would probably also seek support
for the Communist National Liberation Front
as the spokesman for South Vietnam. The NLF
is the Vietcong.
Goldberg said he felt that debate would lend
support for the underlying U.S. concept of negotiations.
He repeated U.S. willingness to go to the
conference table whenever the Soviet Union, with
Britain as a cochairman, agrees.

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In other areas, Dean Ginger
pointed out that the NEA would
attempt to discourage industry's
coming to Kentucky. It would
also attempt graduate teachers
from coming into the state after
finishing school.
Sanctions in Oklahoma and
Utah helped to raise public
school teachers' salaries in those
states, he said.
walkout
The
state-wid- e
today unleashed a
teachers
Most
controversy.
agreed the $400 pay raise over
the next two years, allotted by
Gov. Edward T. Breathitt's budget, was not acceptable. However, some did go against the
protest day, calling it "unproKEA-approv-

fessional."
The KEA decided to ask for
NEA sanctions after "all known
avenues" of solving the Commonwealth's educational crisis
have been tried.
Gov. Breathitt has established a commission to study
the problem and has asked for
a report for later this month.
An occupational tax is being
sought. It would be similar to
the one Jefferson County put
into effect after a teacher demand for a pay raise.

S.V.

Pushes Bureau To Control
Solicitation Of Students At UK

SC

Implementation of a student
solicitation control bureau is
underway, according to John
O'Brien, vice president of Student Congress and the bireau's
sponsor.
The bureau, which O Brien
said is predicated upon the printo
ciple that "students ought
a right in deciding who can
have
solicit them and who cannot,"
will be coordinated with the
Office of Student Affairs.
Created by a bill passed at
the Jan. 27 meeting of Congress,
the bureau will become operative
following discussions with the

deans of men and women to
determine procedural structure.
O'Brien said a board to study
student complaints would probably be appointed by SC president Winston Miller.
O'Brien,

author of the bill,

cited "recent complaints and inlocal
quiries from students and
insurance companies in regard
to soliciting by illegitimate
firms" and present restrictions
which are "inadequate and not
for
being enforced" as reasons
the bill.
Currently solicitation control

by the offices of
the deans of men and women.
Under the bill's provisions
is regulated

all firms wishing to solicit students would be required to register their credentials with Congress and obtain a solicitor's
card to be presented to the stu-

S

dent.
Students questioning the legitimacy of a firm would inquire
at the Congress office which
the firm,
would investigate
making any recommendations to
the vice president of student

War On Poverty
seminars wUl tour

poverty areas
traveling
to check on the progress of the War on Poverty. See story on page 7.
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JohnBreckinridgeMay Run
In Opposition To Cooper

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Fonncr Atty. Gen. John B.
P.rctkinridne may be favored as
the Democratic choice to oppose
Sen. John Sherman Cooper in
November.
He is considered by the
party's inner circle to be a good
vote-gettwho could draw support from all Democratic factions.
Breckinridge said yesterday
he does not know yet if he will
run in the May primary.
"A lot depends on financing,"
he said. "I am also particularly interested in the sentiment
of the people.
Political leaders have found
few. men of stature willing to
take on the task of opposing
Sen. Cooper, the greatest vote-gtttsince the late Alben W.
liarkley.
Breckinridge said he had no
illusions about the monetary situation, although he ran an effective campaign for lieutenant
governor in the 1963 Democratic
primary with a shoestring as his
symbol, a campaign the political
professionals have not forgotten.
"It's difficult to take a shoestring and crack it like a
he noted.

"We have a moral as well
as a political obligation to offer
the best candidate available for
any race," he said.

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after apparently because his
nancing hopes fell through.
It seemed for a time that
David Francis of Bowling Green
might seek the nomination after
resigning as Public Service Commission chairman. But Francis
Mardi Gras
announced
recently that he
The 51st annual Mardi Cras
would not run.
dance has been rescheduled for
Breckinridge came in on a March 5, according to Dennis
landslide in 1959 as attorney
Bricking, president of Newman
general on the ticket of former
Club, the organization which
Gov. Bert Combs.
sponsors the dance.
Top Democrats have been
It was previously scheduled
arguing for months whether it ifor Feb. 4, but was rescheduled
is worth the effort to challenge
so the Little Kentucky Derby
Sen. Cooper seriously for recould sponsor the Johnny Mathis
election.
concert on that date.
e
One side believes that
Bricking said tickets for the
challenge would merely perMardi Gras dance will go on.
mit the Republicans to respond
sale soon.
with a big campaign kitty.
'
At least one Democrat stalwart, Senate Floor Leader J. D.
Buckman of Shepherdsville, has
insisted the party cannot afford
NOW! Last weekend!
to give up the race by default,
Sean Conner as James Bond
no matter what the odds.
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ROTC
Army To Give
1,000 Grants
The Army will award ROTC
scholarships to 1,000 outstanding
high school graduates who will
be entering college for the first
school
time during the 1966-6- 7
r
year.
Students now in their second
year of ROTC training w ho have
sliown above average ability in
the military program also will
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Each scholarship pays for
tntion, textbooks, laboratory
I'vs, and provides an additional
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urs and 600 for two years.
Final selections will be made
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Sophomore students interested in applying for the two-yea- r
award may obtain detailed
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Applications must be postmarked no later than March 1.

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Heritage Strings To Perform Tonight

By MARGARET BAILEY

Kernel Arts Editor
When the last twang of the
guitar, wail of the singer, and
vibration of the drum have
heralded the end of another
swinging campus party, exhausted students might be surprised to witness another group
of music lovers chamber music
enthusiasts still going, strong
for another two or three hours.
"There's nothing we enjoy
more than starting early and
going on until two or three in
the morning," said Dr. Kenneth
Wright, UK professor of music
theory. Dr. Wright was one of
the original meiubers of UK's
Heritage String Quartet which
will perform tonight at 8 p.m.
in Memorial Hall.
If this isn't evidence enough
of the fraternity which exists
among performers of chamber
music, Dr. Wright went on to
point out that through the National Society of Chamber Music
Players, no musician need be
lonely in a strange town.
"We just call up one of the
Society members in a new town,
and go over to play at his house,"
explained Dr. Wright.
What is it about chamber
music that can make friends out
of strangers and night owls out
of its enthusiasts? "Chamber
music is a very personal type
of music. It provides the most
entertainment when performed
in a private home," Dr. Wright
said.
"It also demands more of its
audience because of the few instruments which perform," he
continued. "The renaissance of
chamber music in this country
in the last 15 years is just part
of the cultural explosion of the
20th Century."
Tonight's performance will be
in the best chamber music tradition as three quartets from
different periods of music history
will be featured. From the classic
period comes Mozart's "Quartet
in D, K575;" from the 19th Century Beethoven's "Quartet in E

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and Shostakovich's "Quartet No.
1, Op. 49" will represent the
modern period.
Wright is a violinist with the
group which he and Gordon
Kinney, UK professor of music
theory, helped to found in 1950

and was voted "Distinguished
Professor of the Year" by the
college of Arts and Sciences for
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the exiierience of many young people entering the
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paintings entered in the State
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is in its first year and is for
artists from 11 to 21 years of age.
The exhibit w ill be open until
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* "Duln't It, Though?"

Control Of WBKY
We were disappointed to see
Student Congress Vice President

John O'Brien withdraw his last
semester charges of excess faculty
control of the campus radio station,
WBKY, saying that after an investigation he found nothing wrong.
We think there is something
wrong and fail to see how Mr.
O'Brien could have missed it in
his "investigation."
WBKY apparently lacks the freedom a student radio station should
have. In fact, the term "student
radio station" is a gross misnomer,
as major decisions primarily are
the responsibility of the faculty
members in the Department of

tions."
The committee described this
freedom as liberty to "establish
their own publications (broadcasting media) and to conduct them
free of censorship or administrative
determination of content or editorial policy."

Radio-TV-Film- s.

The student voice in decisionmaking has varied with a series
of advisers to the station, just as
the editor's control of the Kernel
varied with advisers before the
newspaper came under control of
the Board of Student Publications.
At WBKY, Jiowever, the last word
is not that of the station manager.
Last year at WBKY students
charged that faculty members prevented them from airing editorials.
This year the adviser has admitted
making major programming decisions.

WBKY Purpose
Surely no one could argue that
WBKY is, or should be, conducted
primarily for instructional pur-

poses. The new ETV network will
serve that purpose at UK as well
as on the campuses of the state's
other colleges.
WBKY is an educational and
cultural station, true. But its primary programming is not classroom
instruction.
It serves
as much as it does the
Lexington
University in many respects.
If the University feels it is necessary that some safeguard be installed to keep the level of WBKY
high that could be donejustaswell
by the Board of Publications as the
RTF faculty. A philosophy statement such as the one under which
the Kernel now operates could stipulate the latitude of WBKY's programming. Although having these
guidelines to follow (as does the
Kernel editor) the student manager
would have more freedom than
under the present system where he
is a "manager" in name only.
Last year a committee appointed
by the Board of Publications came
up with several proposals for a free
student radio station including an
entirely
wire station, but no action
has been taken on the committee's
recommendations.
The policy of the Administration that has the Kernel controlled
by a campuswide board while
WBKY still is operated by a department is contradictory at best.
It certainly seems unwise that Student Congress should drop its

When the Kernel complained
about the WBKY situation last year,
the RTF staff listed two seemingly
invalid points in support of no
change in the present system. The
Kernel had suggested that control
be vested in an expamded ;Board
of Student Publications which
would, in turn, delegate responsibility to the student staff.

Objections Listed
Contained in the RTF report
were the following objections:
1. In the case of the Kernel, Dr.
Niel Plummer, then director of the
School of Journalism, has requested
the change of control for the Kernel.
The RTF staff had made no such
request, and therefore, no change
should be made. I 2. FCC regulations would permit no other system other than the
one currently in use.
The first point is irrelevant.
Whether a change has been requested or not is of no concern. If
before making alterations in the
structure and power of any department the University waited for a
request for change, we daresay
precious little progress would be
made.
The second assumption is
equally absurd. The WBKY license
has been issued to the Board of
Trustees, not to the RTF Department. It would, we maintain, be
possible that it be delegated to the
Board of Publications in the same
manner.
Technically, under libel law, the
University ultimately is responsible
for the contents of the Kernel, yet
the responsibility for the paper's
contents is delegated, through the
Publications Board, to the student
editor. In the same way WBKY responsibility could be delegated to
the student station manager.
The American Association of

University Professors supports this
idea of student control. The committee on Faculty Responsibility for
the Academic Freedom of Students
outlined in the Sept., 196-- AAUP
Bulletin:
"Student directors of campus
television and radio stations not
operated primarily for instructional
purposes within the institutions,
should have the freedom of programming, subject to FCC regulations, comparable to that of the
editorial staff of campus publica-

student-controlle-

d,

us

so-call- ed

"investigation" until the
matter is clarified.
Certainly the Administration,
first of all, needs to define WBKY's
role before it can determine in
whose hands the control should be
placed.
This remains an unanswered
question Student Congress notwithstanding.

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Letters To The Editor

Stephenson's Remark
Criticized By Reader
To The Editor:
I refer my letter to the story,
"State's College Men Must Be In-

find disgusting,
should mean
certain induction.
The arguments about the war
are numerous and vague. There
is room for disagreement. Col.
Stephenson's remark is no less than
harrassment of the citizenry.
A citizen, especially concerning
something "voluntary," must not
suffer at the hands of a spiteful
draft board for taking issue with
some government official. No official should have the power to
punish dissenters.
We must see that no man of
such ideas ever obtains the power
to enforce such a doctrine.
JIM WAINSCOTT
A&S Sophomore

ducted, Draft Director Says," in
Monday's Kernel. This report
strikes a note of fear not merely
at the gripping thought of being
drafted, but more because of the
calibre of thinking that may control
so many lives.
Without making any reference
to the character of the state draft
director, Col. Everette S. Stephenson, for a whole man cannot be
judged by a few words, I feel that
a sinister idea is put forth in his
statement: "If I were the local
board and one student took the
test while the other did not, I'd
draft the one who refused to take
the test, regardless of his grades."
The test is voluntary, but in
accordance with this type of reasoning, the government may regard one
who does not take the test as
"subversive," and he may incur
punishment in the draft.
This same witch-hun- t
tactic has
been spoken by those who believe
draft-car- d
burning, an offense I

The Kernel welcomes letters from readers
wishing to comment on any topic. Because of
space limitations, letters should be limited to 2u0
words. We reserve the right to edit letters received. Longer manuscripts will be accepted at
tne editor's discretion.
The letters submitted should be
as
follows: for students, name, college andsigned and
ciass
local telephone number; tor faculty memocn,
name, aepartment ana academic rank; cr
ammnl, name, hometown and class; for University staff members, name, department and position; tor other readers, name, hometown and
hometown telephone numoer. Unsigned letters
cannot be considered ifor publications. All letters
snouid d typewritten and double spaced.
Letters snouid be addressed to: tne Editor,
the Kentucky Kernel, Journalism Building, University ot Kentucky, or they may be left in tne
editors office, Koom 113-- a of the Journalism
Building.

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By ARRON FINESTONE
Tlic Collegiate Press Service
When philosopher Paul Goodman suggested in 19G2 that students and teachers "secede" from
their universities and form independent communities of scholars,
there was not exactly a rush to
begin education's civil war.
Yet three years later, gaining
its impetus from the student uprising at the University of California's Berkeley campus, the
"free university" has become part
of the scene near several
campuses. In Palo Alto, Caines-villAnn Arbor and Austin, and
at perhaps a dozen other centers
of higher education, free universities are in swing this year.
During the Berkeley demonschool
strations of the 1964-6- 5
year, leaders of the Free Speech
Movement called a student strike
and invited faculty members to
join a free university and lecture
on subjects such as civil disobedience.
"There comes a point when
you can't go on acting alone,"
Carolyn Crave, an organizer of
San Francisco's New School, said
at the time. "Wc feel that we
must provide some intellectual
basis for what we arc doing."
Since then, free universities
have taken roots in New York,
Los Angeles, and
Chicago,
Boulder, Colo. Others are in operation or being planned near many
of the nation's major universities,
Florida,
including Stanford,
Texas and Michigan. At strife-tor- n
St. John's University in New
York, striking faculty members
have started a "university in
exile" to keep students in touch
with their regular teachers.
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Some of the free universities,
like San Francisco's New School,
are operated by New Left groups
such as Students for a Democratic Society. Others, like the
Free University of New York and
the New School of Los Angeles,
try to encompass a broad
spectrum of radical thought while
remaining independent of any
specific organization. The Los
Angeles school has accepted
$1,100 from the Communist Party
but claims to be free of all groups.
Free University classes usually consist of evening lectures
held
in
college
facilities,
churches,
apartments, coffee
shops, or any other facility with
four walls and a roof. None of
the universities are accredited,
none of them grant degrees, and
that's the way most of them want
it. The three largest at Boulder,
Chicago and New York each
have about 300 students. Though
all the schools plan expansion,
total national enrollment at present is about 3,000.
Typical is the Free University
of New York, whose shabby headquarters are above a Manhattan
coffee shop. Policy is set by the
students and the faculty. In spite
of its name, FUNY charges $24
for one course and $8 for each
additional course so it will not
have to rely on any private benefactor.
Most of the 46 courses offere 1
are Marxist-orienteThey include Marxist economics, the
theory and practice of radical
social movements, experimental
cinema, and the search for
authentic sexual experience.
Other course titles include
community organization, litera
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ture versus LBJ's 20th Century
theology, the literature of the
Vietnam lihvr.it ion fronts since
1936, hallucinogenic drugs, and
black ghetto radicalism.
Many of the 54 faculty
members like most of the student body are either full time
teachers or students at various
colleges and universities in the
New York area. The catalog lists
only half of the faculty members
as having any college degree
themselves.
FUNY is headed by Dr. Allen
Krebs, an Adelphi University
sociology professor who was fired
for traveling to Cuba in 1964.
Other faculty members include
James Mellen, a Drew University
political science instructor who
was fired because of his statements on Vietnam; Milton Rosen,
the chairman of the Progressive
Labor Party; and Levi Laub, a
member of the PLP who is under
indictment for leading an illegal
student trip to Cuba.
Staughton Lynd, the Yale
assistant professor who recently
returned from a trip to North

Vietnam, and Russell D. Stctler

Jr., an organicr of the May

Second Movement who made
headlines by showing a Victcong
film at FUNY last spring, arc
also listed as faculty members.
The faculty also includes
members of the editorial !xard
of such periodicals as Liberation,
International Socialist Review,
t,
Studies on the Left,
Minority of One, Free Student,
and Spartacist.
The catalog says that FUNY
was organized "in response to
the intellectual bankruptcy and
spiritual emptiness of the American education establishment.
"Students have been systematically dehumanized, deemed incompetent to regulate their own
lives, sexually, politically, and
academically. They arc treated
like raw material to be processed
for the university's clients-busin- ess,
government, and the
military bureaucracies."
College faculties, the catalog
claims, are "underpaid and constantly subject to investigation
and purge. They have been rele
Viet-Repor-

gated to this position of
required, for regular
promotion, to propagate xints
of view in harmony with the
military and industrial leaderservant-intellectual-

s,

ship."
FUNY aims to develop "the
concepts necessary to
hend the events of this century
and the meaning of one's life
within it." It seeks, the catalog

continues, to "examine
beyond the scope of
the usual academy and promote
the social integrity and commitartistic-expressio-

ment from which scholars usually

stand aloof."
The curriculum of the Free
University at Ann Arbor, which

was formed by University
Michigan faculty members,

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stu-

on
dents and
Jan. 20, takes inspiration from
established centers such as
FUNY, but offers a less esoteric
choice of subject matter.
"non-student-

Note: Finestone is a staff
writer for the Temple University
News in Philadelphia.

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