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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LXI, No. 25

Civil Liberties Union Upset

Forth Criticized Again

For His Free U. Position

By DOTTIE BEAN
"It is our understanding that
Associate Managing Editor
in rejecting the Free University's
The Central Kentucky Civil application for recognition as a
Liberties Union has for the sec- student organization, the Univerond time this month sent a let- sity's administrative officers have
ter to Dr. Stuart Forth, vice asserted that a free university is
president for student affairs, con- an instructional program and,
demning the administration po- therefore, cannot qualify as a
sition on the Free University student organization.
and expressing disappointment
"Inasmuch as many presently
in Forth's cancellation of a dis- recognized student organizations
cussion with the group on the have programs that are instrucmatter.
tional either in full or in part
Dr. Forth, on the advice of (religious groups. Fencing Club,
counsel, cancelled the conference Karate Club, iDS,
which was to discuss the Unifraternities, etc.), we beversity's action in banning the lieve that the Equal Protections
Free University from campus. Clause of the Constitution reIn asking Dr. Forth for the quires similar treatment for the
conference prior to ' action de- Free University.
termining whether the CKCLU
Narrow View
would take a position on the
"Moreover, we think that the
matter, the group stated that the
announced assertion by Dr. Sinreapplication for student organizational status by the Free U. gletary that only faculty controlled and accredited instrucwould raise "a number of imcivil liberties questions tion is entitled to exist on camportant
narrow view
is
concerning constitutional guar- pus a surprisingly
antees of freedom of expression of the University's function, an
and association and of equal unsound pedogogical principle
and a violation of free expression
protection."
The letter to Dr. Forth re- and association."
Another charge concerned the
stated the CKCLU view that
the denial of status to Free U. University's position that the
could involve an infringement Free U. would involve letting
of civil liberties and said that the "outsiders" into the inner sancgroup, having been denied the tum of the University. stated that
The CKCLU letter
opportunity to discuss the aspects administration "determination to
of the case with Forth, would
now "make public its position reject" the Free U. application
would involve an infringement
based on the information availof the constitutional rights conable in the public press."
cerning free speech and associaReasons Not Valid
tion.
Also contained in the letter
Also objected to was the reawere charges that the adminissoning behind the administration
tration reasons for denying status "belief that it would be the
to. the Free U. were not valid. Free U's "best interest" to
locations.
"From the reported statein
ments of you (Dr. Forth) and
Charging that this provided
Dr.. Singletary, it appears that "Big Brother overtones," the letter said, "This observation sugat the heart of the Free University controversy are several im- gests that substantive constituportant policy decisions made by tional rights of freedom of assothe University's administrative ciation and expression are
threatened. The Administration's
officers, the letter stated.
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notion of what is best for the
Free University is not a legitimate basis for weighing that
group's application for student
organization status."
Should Be Reviewed
Concluding the letter was a
recommendation that the administration "seriously review the
pedagogical and legal implications of the present position"
and an offer to Forth of assistance in the review.
The letter was signed by the
CKCLU board of directors, and
a carbon copy was sent to Dr.
Singletary.

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Outgrowth Of Free U Class

Environmental Crisis Seminar
Examines Contemporary Problems
One participant blamed the
lack of a "community sense" for
Kernel Staff Writer
"Modern science developed environmental pollution and popout of Christian theology. The ulation problems.
"We must bring ourselves
early scientists were looking into
the makings of Cod's world, and back into the cycle of nature,"
have scientists said another speaker. "We must
only recently
worked for the sake of science. return to" a more primitive life,
as Cod intended."
Technology grew fromthe realization of Christian doctrine of
In addition, there was some
man's ability to conquer nature.
disagreement over the role of
Thus Christianity bears the major
technology. "Technology does
blame for our problems."
not cause problems people do,"
With these words Dr. Wayne stated several
participants.
Davis of the Zoology DepartDr. DavLs maintained, "Techment prefaced Monday night's
nology will not solve our prob-

ByTOMBOWDEN

meeting of the Environmental lems."
Crisis Seminar.
Another man suggested that
Dr. Davis continued: "Al- more
people "look seriously at
though we know better, we still the Bible" for answers to environthink man is the center of the mental
problems.
universe. The. governor of California summed it up when he
Organization Recognized
said, "You've seen one redwood,
Closing the meeting with anyou've seen them ail."
nouncements and suggestions,
35 Persons Attend
Seminar Secretary Jerry ThornOriginally a part of the Free ton said the UK. administration
University program, the seminar has recognized the seminar as a
drew 35 participants Monday
bona fide organization. Volunteers also were accepted for memnight to Room 125 of the
Biological Science
bership on the seminar's steering committee.
Funk-hous-

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Receiving Facelift

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By JEANNIE ST. CHARLES
Kernel Staff Writer

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Landscape operations are underway at the sorority row, Hag-giDonovan and Holmes Halls
areas.
Haggin's "prison courtyard"
is being torn apart and replaced
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Campus Facelift

Kernel Photo by Dick Ware
Campus construction, progress-

ing rapidly as winter closes in,
includes the extension of a parking lot behind sorority row. Hag
gin and Holmes Halls are also
undergoing facelifting.

by extensive sodding, several
trees, nearly 750 bushes and some
benches. Bags of lime, pipes, saws
and flying brick chips are preludes to the $31,000 yard.
On the other side of campus,
the Holmes Hall area is being
given a $55,000 renovation Job.
Here, the grass and trees are
being uprooted for a special finished concrete courtyard. New
sidewalks already have been put
in.
As one student commented,
"What they need to do is load

Urging those present to write
letters to prominent officials
about
the
"environmental
crisis," Thornton said that he
has written two letters personally to state senators calling for
more federal money to aid research in contraception, and for
a "luxury tax" on people who
bear more than two children.

UK Travel Fund

Is Cut By State
FRANKFORT (AP)-S- ix
agencies, five publicly-supporte- d

state

universities and Kentucky State
College were limited Monday on
funds to be used for travel expenses.

The ceiling was set by state
Finance Commissioner Albert
Christen in a letter to the agency heads and university presidents.
Christen told the agencies
they could not spend past the
level established in the fiscal
year ending July 1.
Ceiling Necessary
Christen noted that the expense ceiling was necessary to
curb what he termed excessive
travel. He said all state agencies have been asked to restrict
travel but that success in the
request lias been limited.
The finance commissioner
said the affected agencies are
those whose travel budgets have
shown the largest increase in
the past four years.
Haggin's courtyard on a
Ceilings were set for the detruck. Then someone
n
partments of Education, Agrishould delegate a
to culture, Public Safety, Child Weldynamic fleet of helicopters
fare, Economic Security and
transport that expanse of conHealth. Travel funds were also
crete to Holmes Hall area for an
restricted for University of Kenexchange."
tucky, Morehead, Murray, EastSorority row mall is getting ern Kentucky,
Western Kena
a $20,000 face-lif-t,
tucky universities and Kentucky
concrete countenance. State.
Benches and lights will decorate
Christen said letters are l
the mall. No additional planting
ing prepared to notify at least
is planned.
six other agencies of restrictions
Boone alley, also in sorority on travel funds.
row, is having a $38,000 operaUK Top S ponder
tion. The alley was extended,
Christen said he is more connew sidewalks were put in, and
cerned with
trael.
lot renovation is underparking
He said University of Kentucky
way.
is the leading educational spendCampus renovation in these er at $255,024. The leading state
areas is scheduled to be comagency spender is the Department of Education with $39,611.
pleted by Christinas.

UK Residence Yards
.

Kernel Photo by Kay Brookshire

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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL Tuesday, Sept.

Barb Ray Coach Ray's
Most Important Fan
Saturday nights,

Mrs. Barbara Ray is all smiles as she watches her husband's team
win the Olc Miss game Saturday night. She cheers from the press
Kernel Photo by Dave Herman

DOX.

Exchange Student Finds Life In
Sweden 'One Big Happy Time'
By Jean

renaker

Assistant Managing Editor
Bake 400 cookies, 800 Danish
rolls, five cakes and 15 loaves
of bread.
You'll have just enough food
for one Swedish birthday party.
Melva Edrington found that
out the proverbial "hard way"
during her first week in Sweden.
Melva, a senior English ma
jor at UK, recently spent seven
months in Sweden under the International Foreign Youth Exchange (IFYE) program, sponsored by the National
Foundation.
IFYE sends approximately 100
students from the United States
each year to70 countries throughout the world. In return, 100 students are sent to the United
States. To be eligible for the
program, one must be between
20 and 30 ye&rs old, and should
have been active in
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Melva's stay began with the
preparation for her Swedish
"mom's" birthday. It took them
three days to bake the pastry
for the party.
And it tasted "just as good"
as Swedish pastry is reputed to
taste.
Melva's home was with seven
"host families" whom she lived
with for three to four weeks.
Each home was in a different
region of Sweden, and when
she wasn't traveling, helping out
in the kitchen, or working on the
farm, she presented lectures for
the people of the area.
As a member of the IFYE
program, she gave slide lectures
on America, traded information
on agricultural methods used here
and on U.S. home-lif- e.
Any new
information she gained from her
experiences was sent to her hometown newspaper in the form of

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"I hate to miss the games,
but I have to fly commercial,
and I can't be sure about flight
connections. I like to be here
when the team gets home."
Ray has coached in Michigan,
Ohio and Indiana, their home
state. Mr. Ray says she feels
at home in Lexington now.
"The people have been so nice
to us and tried to make us feel
at home."
Like her husband, Mrs. Ray
is keeping busy this fall. She
belongs to the UK Women's Club
and the Lansdowne Elementary

wife?
Mrs. Ray said it is generally
the same as any wife to keep
things smooth on the home front,

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wedding anniversary last June.
They were married during World
War II when he was stationed
in Alabama as a paratrooper.
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Since
the games, is the only time her
husband can be home, Mrs. Ray
doesn't plan to go to the

By GWEN RANNEY
Kernel Staff Writer
There's a saying behind
every great man, there's a woman.
Like Mary Todd Lincoln, Jacqueline Kennedy and Barbara
Fuller Ray, wife of UK football
coach John Ray.
The Rays celebrated their 24th

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Basically, however,
Sweden wasn't a great deal different from life in America. Contrary to what she had expected,
they had "as many machines"
as we have.
And of the many things they
asked her about America, the
most-aske- d
question was: "Do
you know my cousin
in America?"
Between lectures, she saw the
Swedes as the Swedish live. She
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Mrs. Ray is hostess on week-

ends, when friends come here
to see the Wildcats play.
But as long as her husband
is on the go, Mrs. Ray has to
be too, and as she explains.
Coach Ray doesn't have an "offseason."
"People don't realize what
e
a
job coaching is. He
hasn't had much spare time since
he's been here. And after the season ends, there is the banquet
circuit, then they study films
of the other teams, then recruitfull-tim-

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"But," she added, "It's all
worth it when you win."

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She also found out what it
was like to live where the sun
shone only from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
She drove a tractor for the first
time, and she milked cows at
5:30 a.m.
Melva even became a chimney sweep for a day. Dressed
much like the movieland "Mary
Poppins", she and two "real
chimney sweeps" cleaned the
chimney of a bank in a nearby
city.
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It wasn't the simplest thing
in the world to do.
Melva spoke no Swedish when
she first arrived, and among the
seven host families she lived with,
only one family spoke any English at all. For her, learning to
speak Swedish was almost like
"osmosis" she absorbed the
language being spoken around

mind the house and the children.
The Rays have two sons, Jeff,
15; and Christopher, 9; and two
Kathy, 13; and
daughters,
Debora, 11.
"I guess the most important
adjustment for coaches' wives,"
Mrs. Ray continued, "is beingby
themselves during the football
season."
She said her husband leaves
the house at 7 every morning
and doesn't get in until 10 or
11 at night. She doesn't have to
worry about fixing his favorite
dishes during this time, since he
eats at the training table with
the players.
Mrs. Ray is an avid fan of
her husband's work.
"I have always loved football, and I still get excited and
yell and holler at the games
like everybody else."

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Melva Edrington takes time out to entertain one of the families
she stayed with in Sweden. During her seven-mont- h
visit she
traveled to various parts of Sweden, farmed, lectured, and even
took a turn at chimney-sweeping.

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A Definite Need For Student Participation
Winter approaches and temperatures drop, as does our optimism
in regard to the selection of the
new Vice President for Student
Affairs. The urgency of this decision is apparent. It is now up
to Dr. Singletary to initiate steps
to fill the gap in his administration.
Once again we wish to air our fervent hope that the president involve students in the decisionmaking process.
Dr. Singletary obviously has a
definite idea of how his administration should function at all levels.
He is expected to search hard for
the best man for the vice presidency, but to conduct the search,
and especially the decision, alone.

The latter is understandable, for
this will be a decision Singletary
will have to answer for and live
with. At this point we can only
offer our opinion in regard to the
students' role in the search.
The gift of hindsight has taught
many educators the bitter lesson
of the necessity of having an administrator in charge of students
whom those students can trust and
with whom they can identify. We
reiterate this factor. Advance preparation is the surest way of gainas well as
preventing undesirable ones.
ing beneficial

ends,

Every day of the UK student's
life is affected by the Student Af

fairs office. If the student can find
no recourse in that office he has
reason to feel alienated from the
University and its hierarchy. By
the same token it is imperative that
students be placed in positions that
carry some weight when the time
comes for deciding on the new vice
president. Surely the views of Singletary and those of the student
body are not so incompatible as to
occasion a serious conflict in the
selection process. For this reason-Dr- .
Singletary should be very comfortable in deciding to involve students in this matter.

the vacancy. Neither should they
settle for a kindly, but stern old
gentleman who would occupy the
post for a few years, step on no one's
toes (except maybe a few students
here and there) and then return
to his professorship. The modern
University has outgrown that concept.
Our president has not gone out
of his way to acknowledge students,
let alone accommodate them. Perhaps this is the opportunity for
President Singletary to show that
he is at least aware that students
exist at the University. Next would
come his realization that some of
them care.

Students need not hope for a
father image to be found to fill

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By FRANCES

Why do most expectant parents want
a boy at least at first? Why are little
boys asked what they're going to be and
little girls who their boyfriends are? Why
are women intimidated by the fashion
and beauty industries? Why do women
look to men for their definition, direction,
and strategy? Why do women spend all
their time worrying about men when they
spend most of their time worrying about
their work? Why do we still believe that
women are somehow different from men
in ability, intelligence, talent, and seriousness of purpose? (Motive, vol. XXIV,
6, 7, 1960)
It is to these questions and many
more that women are addressing themselves, spawned by an increasing conviction that to be a wife and mother is only
one of many alternatives to meaningful
living instead of the only alternative
open. A serious striving for a redefinition
of women's role in society js critically
need.
Women are oppressed, they are second
class citizens subject to the same
discriminations suffered by oppressed minority groups and minority
group women have the worst of two
worlds. Women work in the lowest paying, lowest skilled and most boring jobs
available and are paid less for the same
job than equally or less qualified men.
They are thrown in and out of the labor
pool and work as temporary or part-tim- e
stero-typinga-

laborers.

Women are educationally disadvantaged, one in three bachelor's and Master's
degrees are conferred to women, one in

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ten of the PhD's, less than the one out
of seven of the 1930's. Women are discriminated against in entering the medical,
veterinary, and law professions as well
as most graduate programs. Women are
programmed to see marriage as more important than education and the statistics
amply demonstrate this.
Women are viewed as objects, they are
the center-foldthe Bunnies, the Miss
Americas, the stewardesses and the receptionists, chosen and admired not for their
personal integrity and dignity but for the
proportion of the figures and the smile
on their otherwise blank faces. They are
a commodity to be used to make men
happy, to add a little spice to a man's
life. A woman is channelled and programmed to devote her energies and talents
to the art of being a pleasurable object,
with 'catching her man' and marriage
uppermost in mind.
In marriage the woman becomes an

latest fashion, hair does, and home furnishextension of her husband and lives vicariously through him and their children. ings has forced the woman into the conHer identity, if one remains by this time, sumer role she occupies, spending the
is subsumed under and swallowed by money her husband, the producer, brings
home. The economy's quest for readily
the family and she devotes her time, inavailable markets accessible to its advertelligence and energy to cooking, cleantising manipulations has found a ready
ing, shopping, and being a good Maxand eager listener in the woman. "You've
well housewife.
In an attempt to assert a lost identity, come a long way, baby" women are told
the woman turns to the fashion and cos- you've got your very own cigarettes!
The male of the species has done litmetic industries and is exploited by their
tle to change the situation content to
for profit. She becomes the Capquest
italistic system's spender, buying the fam- be manipulated by society's definition
every day,
ily's china, silver, furniture, and clothes of his role, he works from
and feeling important in the decision mak- bringin money home so his wife can spend
masculine ego is easily
ing process of her day which toothpaste it. His
to buy, how much meat, what color threatened by women who assert themselves as individuals rather than beaubathroom tissue.
The roots of this situation are deep tiful objects and looks upon these women
and far reaching. They lie in the very with scorn, or worse, condescension.
structure of the society itself. The "keepFinally, women themselves are to
"
ing up with the Jones' syndrome which blame for their current situation for they
demands visual symbols in the form of have quietly acquiesced to the roles defined for them and have not demanded
to be treated equally. Just as a growing
has lifted the Black man
from the morass of culturally defined
roles which have kept him oppiessed,
so too will a growing
on
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present state of oppression.
Editoriul represent tlie ojrinions of the Editors, not of the University.
Helmer. Before all else you are a wife
and mother.
James W. Miller,
Nora: That I no longer believe. I beBob Brown, Editorial Page Editor
Ceoryc 11. Jepson, Managing Editor
lieve that before all else I am a
Dottie Bean, Associate Editor
HoUit Duncan, Advertising Manager
human being, just as much as you
Dan Cosset t, Arts Editor
SfHtrts Editor
Chip llutelieson,
are-- or
Don llosa, Cartoonist
at least that I should try
Carol) n Dunnavan, Women' Vuge Editor
to become one.
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A World Of Opinions
Via Poem

Via Editorial

America, America
By Thomas Baker

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The carnage of our ultimate rage,
in the lying down cornfields,, i.
will lie like appendaged sacks
draped over plows as
the weighted wind picks fences
into crazy kindling
the patchwork raisoning into ruin,
a clothed ape running . . .
the pause, the breath
to speak, the pause
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the seriousness of the American
in vol vemen t Un Lao v nor t he- - i
of the proposed inquiry of
Senator Symington's Foreign Relations subcommittee into it. We
have reached a state of affairs
where everyone in Laos and Thailand knows what is going on,
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The morning
like the inside of
a large box fills
up my sleeves with
my woman pale with

child, child stirring
in her belly,
quietly constant with
the movement of morning.
This infedelic, delicate
woman,
the slack gape of shoulder,
the jointed touch, the
stuffed palm
palm up on a violent pillow,
her hands slowly slying in flaw
with the laughter of a stripper
with blood in her slippers.

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America, America like a grim fat man in an apron,
slicing the afternoon into windows, swollowing
the sun into a cold stove
as the red striped stripper
stands in line at the five and dime
a leggy lepper leaping the world
with the sliced glance
of a woman prone to dance
with men of size and seizure.

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O fateful, fearful woman
of schizophrenic passions
have you not seen our son,
a sickle on his shoulder,
wandering among the headstones
at the very height of zero
when the shadows throw no boulders
and the wind is stilled into your echo?

And the red striped stripper
wins one for the Cipper
but eats a ham on jewel
in the grave of an empty noon
shine on
shine on
harvest moon way up in the sky
ain't had no lovin since January,

February, June, or
July when the sky
fell into the history
of a woman, my woman dancing,
carving up the air with
her slick, slack body,
her breasts bouncing noiselessly
on her chest.

insiders inVVashingtonknow
what is going on, but the American people do not. The truth is
that the United States is waist
deep in a war in Laos, and the
authorities here deny it. The State
Department insists that the only
American military personnel in the
country are, the 19 members of the
air attache's staff in Vientiane. But
that isn't true, and we can only
hope that the hearings of Senator
Symington's committee will demonstrate that it isn't true.
American aircraft are now flying
more sorties in Laos than they
were in North Vietnam at the height
of the bombing, which is some
12,500 sorties a month. To a degree, bombing in Laos has replaced
the bombing in North Vietnam.
American advisers, both civilian
and military, are instructing Lao
troops, American pilots are flying
air cover, and last week a dispatch
from the field disclosed that Thai
troops dressed in Lao army uniforms
penetrated the Plaine des Jarres.
Those Thai troops were provided
with heavy United States logistical
and air support. The American
air program currently pumps about
$300 million a year into Laos. Senator Symington put it succinctly
enough: "We have been at war in
Laos for years and it is time the
American people knew the facts."
The nature of Laos and the Laotians makes it an infinitelymore
complicated and treacherous proposition than even South Vietnam.To
begin with, Laos is no country
at all but a collection of diverse
peoples around whom an arbitrary
boundary has been drawn. The

Communist Pathet Lao are only
slightly less.indolent than the rightist and neutralist Lao now in possession of the capital, Vientiane.
That is of course a grotesque oversimplification because the overwhelming majority of Lao have no
political preference at all. For what
it is worth, they prefer opium.
American military officials have
long had an eye on Laos as a surrogate battleground for the war in
South Vietnam. There had been
some talk of a strike by land across
Laos into North Vietnam, in the
period when Washington officials
were thinking in terms of a military
solution. The undeniable presence
of large numbers of North Vietnamese troops in Laos ptovoked
the obvious question: Why not deal
with them there, before they penetrated the south. Sound enough
strategy, and one result is the
bombing of Laos, 12,500 sorties a
month.
The losers in all of this are the
Lao, for whom no one cares very
much. The country is now as it
has been for years a battleground
of contending forces of which the
people are only dimly aware. The
administration, or whoever is in
charge of American foreign policy,
ought to undertake now to tell us
what is at stake, and where our
interest lies. Is there now a surrogate war in Laos, and if so what
are the prospects? In the argot of
the Pentagon, the roles and missions of the Americans there should
be defined and the definition
should go further than the patently
ludicrous claim that 19 air attaches
constitute the total American military force. But until that unlikely
event, we will watch the Symington subcommittee's work with interest, keeping in mind of course
that it's findings will be of little
value unless released to the public.
Waist-dee- p
tomortoday, chin-higrow.
The Washington Post

Via Kernel Soapbox'
SDS
ByPATMANEY
The Students for a Democratic Society have a problem . . .
themselves. Almost without exception, they violate every right
they advocate.
Freedom of Assembly, speech,
and press is "a good scene," some

say. A good scene only if it is
is closer to the

"their scene"

truth. Weren't the bearded pickets on hand to shout down and
ridicule Wallace and Nunn at
UK? Haven't Goldwater, Nixon,
and Thurmond also received similar treatment, while counter
pickets were called "fools," "bigots" among other unprintable
epitaphs.
UK's "enlightened" hippies
were also out in force if you can
call it that-- to
picket the Republican Governor's Conference
last spring. What about the governor's rights, SDS?
Others who tried to express
their beliefs at the infamous Student Center ballroom takeover

were shouted down and ridiculed
w hen they dared express thoughts
alien to the majority.
Fairness? Equality for all?
Is that what they really promote?
And what about Chicago? Not
the riot that was bad enough
but the SDS convention last
the conspring. By a vote of
vention barred the press. Why?
Because the capitalistic press distorts the news, it was reasoned.
All the coverage they needed
could be supplied by their own
rags, which as everyone knows,
are in no way slanted to either
the left or right!
The convention was a fiasco,
so says the capitalistic Esquire
magazine. One group shouted
down another . . . good liberal
tactic. The halls rang with
3-- 2,

"Power to the people," "Power
to the workers," and "Let's go
Mets." Evidentially the last
phrases was the most effective.
There must not have been many
bleacher bums present.
Then came the inevitable

Libs are good at that,
know. If they don't like
you
what's going on, walk out. The
only time to stay and fight is
when you want to promote a
riot, I guess. Hell, that's strategy!
The situation at UK is just
about as bad as Chicago. Perhaps
by the time this is printed, SDS
walk-ou-

t.

will have already had at least
one reorganization and change
of leadership. Change for the
sake of change is old. Probably
even older than thirty.

UK
By A NEW STUDENT
Hello, there! I dare you to
bark back. I've been here four
weeks, and I guess I'm probably
five weeks behind, as far as
classes go.
But, I think I'm going to take
some time off, just to think out
loud for a little while.

I've been in college for awhile,
but have been at UK four weeks,

this evening. Impressions of the
campus? Well, no one has asked,
but I think I'll blast off anyway,
since there seem to be a number
of other "new" people around
with the same impressions.
I think I've managed to feel
pretty much "at home"