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Philosophy Club is sponsoring a
series of fire lectures on Marxism:
Page Three.
The

Eight Pages

Editorial discusses Corson Porter and
his place in the language: Page Four.

There is a rising concern among the
New Middle: Page Five.
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Hoggin Hall team walks off with the
basketball title: Page Sii.

dorm

Or. Joseph Engelberg discusses appli-

cations of the
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FACULTY PASSES SECOND SECTION
OF CODE; MEETING AGAIN TODAY
Slight Amendments Do Not
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By TERENCE HUNT
Kernel Managing Editor
By a wide majority, the University Faculty
Senate Monday
accepted the second portion of the student rights and discipline
rejxnt relating to "The University as a Community of Scholars."
The Senate recessed at 5:25 careful
preparation of the comp.m. until Tuesday when final mittee and the
very studied conaction on the
report was sideration of the Faculty Senate.
expected. The Senate had still No one can
say it was enacted
to consider the section on stu27-pa-

dent organizations.
The section of the report
passed Monday clearly delineates
the academic and disciplinary
i offenses for which a student maybe held responsible and the proProf. J. E. Reeves, left, and Dr. Michael Adelstcin address the Faculty Senate
Monday as the cedures for handling theoffenscs.
group debated the second section of the student rights code. Dr. Adelstein is a member of the A section passed early in Jancommittee presenting the code.
uary defines a new University-studen- t
relationship in the area
of housing.
As a whole, the report is interpreted by many, including top
Co-O- p
Administration figures, as a move
away from the old "in loco parentis concept." The document was
drafted under a philosophy that
"The University is not responsible for imposing punishment
students who request the opporBy TERRY DUNHAM
more valuable after five years;
a B.S. degree and a masters, for violation of state or local
Cooperative study, an educa- tunity, Prof. Walton said.
tional method so popular in other
This was done, according to
a B.S. degree and a year's work laws ... the sole concern of a
areas of the U.S. that the numProf. Walton, because "in the
experience after graduation, or University is to provide prober of students studying under past we've had problems with
a B.S. degree with a little more tection of, and facilities for, those
the system is expected to grow it." The program offers draft
than a year's experience obtained who seek knowledge."
from 35,000 to 70,000 in the next deferments to the students while
Vice President for Student Afas a
undergraduate.
four years, has attracted only four they are on "work session" and
Finally there is disagreement fairs Robert Johnson said he was
of the 1,400 engineering students he says students were abusing
on whether the work experience
"delighted" with the proposals
at the University, according to the privilege in order to avoid
does more good by creating inapproved by the Senate.
Prof. Warren Walton of the Enterest in academic studies than
the draft.
"The whole report is sound
and I hope part three will also
it does harm by taking the stu"Before the Army situation
gineering Department.
dent away from those studies be endorsed. Of course parts one
The program is designed so got to be what it is now," he
and two are the very essence
for a semester.
that students alternate semesters
said, "many students used to
p
of school study with semesters
"It's a difficult question to of the report, and I am very,
on their own. Now they
of work in industry related to need to be covered, and we are
very pleased with them.
resolve," says Prof. Walton.
"It brings fair play and 'justheir major field of study. At glad to extend this protection
"Therefore, we're not going
to have a rigid plan for
tice to the whole matter of the
both the University of Louisville to them."
But if a student and an emstudent" s relationship to the UniDue to the abuse of the proand the University of Cincinnati
the engineering colleges are exployer can reach an agreement, versity."
gram, mention of it was omitted
Mr. Johnson explained that
with or without our help, we'll
from the college catalog last year.
all students parclusively
in the plan.
However, with the installation of
gladly protect the student by while the report must ultimately
ticipate
stuget approval of the Board of
granting him official
"Here's the difference be- Robert M. Drake last Sept. 1
dent status."
as dean of the Engineering ColTrustees, "it has received the
tween UK's program and the
of most other schools," lege, the program again became
programs
favored.
says Prof. Walton: "UL, UC,
"I feel we need the program,"
and others guarantee the 'buddy
to employers; that is, says Prof. Walton, "and this is
system'
of the new dean. Menthe
they assure the companies in- tion feeling
of the opportunity will again
volved that they will have two
men working in opposite periods, appear in the school catalog for
next year."
so that the company will have
"There are arguments both
filled."
a
position
favoring and criticizing
"However," he says, "with
Prof. Walton said.
stuthe small number of p
The program gives valuable
dents we have, we can't offer
experience in industry, gives exemployers this guarantee of an posure to the operating methods
alternate."
of one or more company, and
Why is student interest so low often offers good employment
that the guarantee can't be opportunities upon graduation
made?
with the company which has
For one reason, the program employed the student, although
has been "played down" at UK. such offers are not guaranteed.
Those who question the value
It has never been pushed, but
rather is merely av ailable to those of the program ask which is

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Small Attendance llnrts Program
Creek Week got underway with a faculty-studenight Monday
but the program was hurt by low attendance. Here, students
talk with faculty members at the Alpha Tau Omega house. Story
on page eight.

hurriedly."

Prosed in the section passed
Monday is a formal definition of
10 disciplinary crimes, two academic offenses, a rev amped judicial Ixmrd, and a formal appeal
structure. W. Garrett Flickinger,
chairman of the Senate Advisory
Committee for Student Affairs,
the body which drafted the report, has called this portion "the
most important area of the re-

port."

Mr. Flickinger said he was
surprised, but pleased, that there
was not much opposition to this
section of the report. "I think
members of the Senate had more
time to think over the report
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CIA Funding
It Will End
By NEIL SHEEHAN

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WASHINGTON
The National Student Association, the
largest student organization in
the United States, conceded
Monday that it had received
funds from the Central Intelligence Agency from the early
1950's until last year.
Eugene Groves, president of
NSA, said the CIA funds had
been used to help finance the
association's international activities, including the sending
of representatives to student congresses abroad and the funding
of student exchange programs.
The CIA refused Monday
night to comment on the matter.
NSA has chapters on more
than 300 American college campuses where about 1.5 million
students are studying. The local
student government organizations rather than the individual
students form the membership
of the association.
Groves made his statement
in response to inquiries about
a forthcoming article in the
March issue of Ramparts magazine, which details, according
to a Ramparts spokesman, the
relationship between NSA and
the CIA.
Groves said the money was
received through foundations
that acted as
for
the CIA. He declined to name
the foundations, but a Ramparts spokesman. Marc Stone, a
New York public relations executive, said that the two that
would be listetl in the Ramparts
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Iouis Ilillenmeyer was crowned king of the Golddiggcrs Hall.
The tnisidentified picture was actually that of Jim FJkins
being crowned by Sandra Lay. Klkins was sponsored by Alpha
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the report. The committee chairman said lie thought most of
the discussion Monday was constructive.

One of the amendments
passed, proposed by Dr. Joseph
Engelburg, associate professor of

biophysics,

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the

examples of offenses which UniAlthough differences with versity officials could report to
these colleges were resolved by state and local police authorities for action. However, the Unia number of amendments, it was
that the report might versity' s pcrogative to report vioexpected
come under attack Monday from lations of state and local laws
was retained.
proponents of the "in loco parentis" theory.
An amendment proposed by
However, criticisms were mild J.E. Reeves, associate professor
and a number of amendments of political science, would have
passed were considered by Mr. relieved the University of jurisFlickinger to be merely clarifi- diction over cases of students
cations of what was inherent in destroying property belonging to
a member of the University community, if it were not located
on University property. However,
the motion failed.
Expected opposition to the
Starts Tomorrow
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an adult. Dr. Gesund also said
that the substitute parent system
(in loco parentis) has worked
satisfactorily to some extent.
According to the report, deans
who are counseling with students in connection with disciplinary difficulties "shall not contact the parents of a student who
is over 18 unless the student
agrees; except when, in the considered judgment of the appropriate dean there is a threat of
serious danger to the physical or

mental health of the student himself or to other members of the
University community."
Responding to Dr. Gesund's
letter, Dr. Michael Addel stein,
a member of the ad visory committee, said "on no other point in
this report has the committee
deliberated so long.

"The committee feels that a
student is now treated as an
adult politically, economically,
and academically. Only in the
area of discipline is he not treated
as an adult."
Whether or not to consult
parents is "the student's decision, and we should respect it,"
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Add el stein said.
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Dr. W. E. Krogdahl, left, said the University should make clear to parents of incoming students
what its relationship with students will be if the proposed rights code is formally adopted. Dr.
William F. Axton, right, a member of the Senate Advisory Committee on Student Affairs, also
addressed Monday's Senate meeting.

and seek explanations of questions," he said.
Discussion on the same
portion of the report in January
ended in a stalemate when members of the Dental and Medical
College joined in verbal protests
over sections of the report.

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Krogdahl questioned hat parental responses would be to a proposal which would not allow the
deans to contact parents. "The
University is proposing to discontinue a relationship it has
maintained for many years, and
I think this should be made
crystal clear to parents of prospective students," Dr. Krogdahl

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Philosophy Club Sets Lectures
Ou 'Impact Of Marxism' Today

The Philosophy Club in conjunction with the Students for a
Democratic Society and Young
Americans for Freedom are pres
senting a scries of
on "The Impact of Marxism on the World Today."
The series of lectures (with
the exception of the first address) is designed to deal with
some particular manifestation of
Marxism in the 20th century.
seminar-lecture-

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Four positions are open in
YMCA Cabinet for UK males
with leadership and organizational abilities. Must apply before Friday.
All men and women in Residence Halls (except Complex No.
5 and men's Cooperstown) must
make appointments immediately
for Kentuckian sittings by calling 2825 or going to the Photographer Service, Room 214 in
the Journalism Building. This
is the last notice.

Kach session will be led
some specialist in the area

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professor of political science, will

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March 1.
Dr. Frederick Brouwer, assistant professor of philosophy, will
discuss "Marxism and Existentialism" on March 9.
Dr. Robert Pranger, assistant
professor of political science, w ill
deliver a lecture on "Marxism
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A Little
It is encouraging that a new
political party has been formed
on this campus. Perhaps this will
help end political stagnation and
apathy which are presently trademarks of student politics.
The coalition is composed of
both independents and Greeks,
which immediately gives it a head
start on the Carson Porter-StudeGovernment regime. This is the
first time in three years a political
party has been formed among UK
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students.
Named Student Party for Equal
Representation, this group hopes
to change the representation system of Student Government. Currently, the campus at large has
23 representatives in Student Government, and the overwhelming
majority of these are Greeks, which
results in many independents having little to say about Student
Congress legislation.
An idea

already suggested by
this new party is to elect SG
members from housing units and
districts in town. This certainly
deserves close study. As one member of the Student Party for Equal

Representation, put it, "While

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Fresh Air
It is not likely that the Student Party for Equal Representation will make a sweep in this
spring's election, but members do
hope to gain a few seats in the
assembly and perhaps run a presidential candidate for Student Gov-

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Student Government has continued
to steer into stagnant waters. Perhaps this new type of political
activity is the breath of fresh air
that will sail the ship back to
the high seas.

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"Nothing Slays The Mail But The Mail Itself"

Letters To The Editor:

Shame On You, Carson! (P.S.
To the Editor of the Kernel:
If you choose to print this letter I would like for you to place
it under the heading "An Open
Letter to Carson Porter, Incom-

petent."

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I charge you, Carson Porter,
with malfeasance, in these instances:
Getting elected by interested
students.
Serving as president without
running me and fellow students
down and making us aware we
were dissatisfied.
Taking a vacation (foul, foul).
Incurring the Kernel's wrath.

You have let

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ernment.
We do agree with the party's
members who feel Student Government is presently "ineffective
in representing student opinion to
the faculty, administration and the
Commonwealth of Kentucky."

Shame on you, Carson Porter.
the students at this
University down. All of us, even
the 10 thousand or so who didn't
turn out to vote, were counting
War crimes (might as well
on you to solve all the problems
we have made clear to you through throw everything in).
The Kernel cannot yet endorse our SG
representatives, even though
Stuart H. Reynolds Jr.
this new party in the upcoming a poll might show we don't know
Commerce Junior
election, for its platform is vague who they are.
and its purposes are not completely
A pox on you, President Porter,
clear. The party proposes an alfor your shameless acceptance of
ternate to the selection of legislathe votes you did receive. Didn't
a I Guill
tors on the student governing body,
Kernel show that the number
the
Notwithstanding my great adbut has not, as yet, made further of voters was roughly
equivalent miration for
gadfly Tarpey and my
goals evident. This will, of course,
to the number of members in Greek
dislike for siding with the estaband planning.
take time
organizations? Aha! You can't fool
lishment, I wish to speak out about
the people, C. P. Everyone should
the recruiting of Negro athletes.
have been represented at the polls.
You probably only let the people
In my mind, Brad sh aw should
who showed up vote. Dirty tactic,
be recognized for his progress toIt was interesting to hear of Carson P., dirty.
wards integration and not ignored
We are not apathetic students,
Haggin Hall students carrying signs
by silence. And Rupp, Conley,
night identifying their Carson Porter. The Kernel has
Kron, et al. should be thanked for
Tuesday
dorm president, who they wanted printed many articles and cartoon their efforts to attract Butch Beard
to impeach, as "the Carson Pordrawings recently revealing your and not attacked for their indifter of Haggin Hall."
betrayal. I forget exactly what they ference. But let's move ahead!
But when one of the students said you did but it must have
Are there fine Negro prospects
been terrible.
was asked to identify Carson Porin the state with ACT scores of
I remember now. The lowest
ter, he could only look dumb17 or grade averages of B? If so,
trick of all, C. Porter, was going
founded and admit to not knowlet's at them . . . Larry Tarpey,
to the Mardi Gras. Several friends
ing of such a person.
Mike Adelstein,
Bob Johnson,
of mine got up at staggered hours
Carson Porter, Walter Grant and
this indicates that the
Perhaps
the night to make sure the
name Carson Porter has become an during
Joe Student. If not, let's see if we
University was still standing. Somecan spot one of two in neighboranonymous symbol for campus
how, it did last through your abwheeler-dealepeanut politician sence.
ing states and do our best to con
and all the rest.
them into playing SEC ball.
You, off on your vacation, couldIf this is true, we must con- n't know of the havoc back here
Perhaps we should try another
tact. Why not stop waving ConMr. Porter for we would
at UK. Professors, unable to cope
gratulate
never have predicted that his adwith leaderless students. Student federate flags and start making life
ministration could accomplish so outposts manned 'round the clock more comfortable and pleasant for
much in only one year.
to hail your return. Foul, C. P.,
Negro students? Why not recruit
A synonym all his own. Imagine!
foul and thoughtless.
.... Wpre, Negro faculty, members? .Why

islators are members of different
interest groups, they represent the
people who live in their districts.
This is the way any legislative
body representing a large number
of people should be formed."

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not add more Negroes to administrative and staff positions?
From where I sit, we're all as
guilty as the Athletic Department . . . perhaps more so.
M. Adelstein

Asst. Prof,

of English

The Kasis Of Law
I find that I am in substantial agreement with the comments
made by Mr. Lester Burns, candidate for the Republican nomination
for Attorney General of Kentucky,
at the Law Forum and as reported
in the Feb. 7 Kernel.

However, I cannot agree with
his proposal to "send a truck to
the state penitentiary and haul off
all those law books" used by convicts for preparing appeals. My understanding, naive as it may be,
is that an appeal is decided on
the basis of law, as it exists, and
not on the basis of who submits

the appeal.
It is generally considered a basic
prerogative of the accused to choose
whether he shall procure his own
counsel, ask the court to appoint
someone to act as counsel, or serve
as his own counsel.

Thus the proposal seems to violate a person's guarantee to the
due process of law since part of
that guarantee is the right of judicial appeal, which does not, as
of yet, depend on who submits the
appeal, but rather on the validity
of the reason presented.
I hope that in this case Mr.
Burns will reconsider his stand on
convicts' rights.
Joseph B. Mitchell
A & S Freshman

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The Rising Concern Of The New Middle

Dv ED SCHWARTZ
The C'ollftltie Fttn Service

WASHINGTON The line is shifting.
Earlier in the academic year, it appeared
that the txditical movements which characterized the 1900's would yield to a
national "cop out, dropout" drive. This
has not occurred. What instead has happened is the politicization of the middle.
As the Left wanders off in a cloud of
its own creation, the "moderate" campus factions have emerged.
The Vietnam letter to the President,
signed by over 200 student Ixnly presidents and editors is the most prominent
example, but there are others. The drive
against Ronald Reagan in California is
being spearheaded by student government
leadership.
Student moderates in Illinois have
initiated a campaign to end the state
speaker-balaw. Educational reform
even radical educational reform has been
coop ted by the student Establishment.
vote-o- ld
Tutorials, the draft, the
causes, new marches.
The Old New Left, the Old Old Left,
and the New Old Left can take heart.
All those speeches about involvement
in the late 1930's, all those cries that
people were dying in Mississippi, all
those pamphelts about apathy and alienationpeople who never read them are
offering a belated response.
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It's even respectable the prudent,
responsible, aware course of action for
today's young ingenue to pursue. The
American Council on Education reirts
that 82 percent of last year's entering
freshman class believes "to be aware
of political events" is important.
The tone of the campus political debate has shifted as well. When stability
was the ixmn, belief in the necessity
for change became the radical i)le. Now
that change has become the norm, rejection has become jx)le.
"Traditional politics is a drag, man;
we've got to create a new style. Until
wc do that, none of your steps will do
anything to change the system." The
Old Middle used to say that from another
perspective "there's nothing wc can
do." Now they're insulted at the suggestion.
Yet agonizing questions remain; it's
unfortunate that the Left does not ask
them more precisely. What is, in fact,
the direction of the New Middle? Does
it have any direction? Is it strictly a set
of pragmatic responses to specific issues,
or does a broader set of goals dictate
its new militancy? I would like to believe the latter; I fear the former.
Politics is people only a generation
encapsulated in abstractions could believe
anything else. Students spend their academic lives fighting for something called

"principles" without any consideration
of the impact of one or another of than
on thcconstituencicsinvolvcd. That, more
than any other reason, explains the collapse of the Civil Rights Movement.
We erected theprincipleof integration,
without reflecting that the Negro middle
class was the only group that really
wanted it. Dick Gregory told us: "I
waited six months to get into that restaurant, and then they didn't have what I
wanted." At least he could afford the
price tag.
So the problem becomes not the creation of a "radical critique of society"
or the building of a Movement the grand
images of a search for coherence. The
question becomes whether or not the
premises of our culture and the institutions of our society are conducive to the
development of decent human beings-peowlio are sensitive enough to love,
articulate enough to express it, committed
enough to desire it, and compassionate
enough to realize how difficult it is to
sustain.
ple

That sounds pretty soppy like one
of old Dr. Martin Luther King's speeches
which used to get the masses moving.
Yet if the rhetoric is stale, the prescription is not. There are reasons for all
those principles, friends. We want civil
liberties because the presumption that

there are words which should not be
heard debases the character of those who
would speak them.
We want participation because exclusion presumes that we are inadequate
to the occasion of life. We want some
people to give other pmple their money
or their time or their services because
we think that people want to hclpothers,
more than to exploit them.
Wc want profesyrs to ask us quev
tions or get to know us or stop grading
us because wc believe that thccomplcxitv
of our identity and its creation is a
little more complicated than the lettered
critique of an
essay.
All of that rhetoric has to do with
people. The New Left says this when
they talk about the "game," but they
say it badly, and many of them are less
appealing than their ideologies would
have them become. The New Middle
has picked up the principles even a few
of the programs without the burning
mandate to apply them to the human
dimension which makes a political stance
relevant or irrelevant.
The problem is serious endemic, in
fact, to a mass .society to a society,
"which places no particular value on the
individual." Start worrying about it,
friends; it's more difficult than you think.
Look around you.
c

Washington Insight

The Problem In Seeking Peace

By JOSEPH KRAFT
Embassy who is especially
There is charged with Vietnamese affairs.
WASHINGTON
bitter irony in the charge that Mr. Dean cabled a detailed acSen. Robert Kennedy tried to count of the conversation back
state to Washington where it was cirplay the role of
culated through the State Deby interpreting a condepartment
versation in Paris to be a propartment.
posal for peace in Vietnam.
Eventually word of the conFor the man who took the versation came to the attention
conversation in Paris most of someone who
was, first, jeaseriously was not Senator Kenlous of the Department's
but the State Department to handle all international right
nedy,
afofficial with him. And the whole
fairs; second, disposed to think
episode is worth reporting in de- of Senator Kennedy as a medtail because, while intrinsically
dler, and, third, apt to get things
it shows why the mixed
a
that,
up. That, and
administration seems to fall apart was the basis of the only
ridiculously
whenever anybody mentions
exaggerated reports that Senapeace in Vietnam.
tor Kennedy had returned from
The Paris conversation in Paris with a
peace proposal from
question took place with Etienne the other side.
Manach, the director of the Far
But the triviality of the epiEastern Section of the French
In the course sode only sharpens the question
Foreign Ministry.
of his talk with Mr. Kennedy, of why it, and why all the other
rumors of peace, had to stir up
M. Manach outlined a
for moving from so much fuss. And the answer,
program
I think, lies in the basic posisettleinitial talks to a
tion taken by this country toward
ment in Vietnam.
Being a discreet, experienced negotiations.
and highly intelligent diplomat,
Washington, in public at least,
M. Manach emphasized that the has not so much formulated a
e
plan was only his policy on negotiations as taken
reading of the possibilities that a stance the stance of "I won't
seemed to grow out of various call
you, you call me." It has
conversations with many persons left it up to the other side to
including the North Vietnamese call it emits. It has demanded,
delegate in Paris, Mai Van Bo. in exchange for stopping the
Senator Kennedy understood that bombing of the North, that the
qualification and never imagined, other side give an earnest of
nor claimed, that he had a peace peaceful intent. It has not recentproposition in hand.
ly taken any public initiative to
But the conversation seemed
set in motion a process of peaceterribly important to the State ful settlement.
Department official who had acIn this situation, third parties
companied the senator, First Sec- in touch with both sides have