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Faculty Shows Faith,
Doubts For UK's Future
By LEZ WARD

Optimism that the educational programs and attitudes of University President JohnW. Oswald
would remain and develop despite his resignation pervaded
the comments of several UK faculty members responding Tuesday to Oswald's decision.
But others expressed the belief that nimors of growing restraint on academic freedom here
and increasing intervention by
state government officials could
doom Oswald's
plans
for UK.

William Plucknett, professor
of chemistry at UK and presi-

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Dr. Oswald responds exuberantly to the support he received Tuesday
afternoon from more than 600 students and faculty members as he
enters the Administration Building to announce his resignation
from the University's presidency to the Board of Trustees.

American Association of University Professors, said in an interview Tuesday afternoon that Oswald's departure could set off
an "exodus" of faculty members.
"I think it could have a great
effect on some of our younger
faculty," Dr. Plucknett said. "I
think people are going to wait
and see just how Oswald goes
out and what he says in leaving.
"Should there be an indica- -

Rcsignation Followed Free Speech Crises

Oswald 'Upheld Freedom
By ROBERT F. BRANDT III
Controversy over free speech
and academic freedom have risen
to prominence in the latter days
of Dr. John W. Oswald's ad-

ministration.
President
Oswald
spoke
against a speaker ban resolution
offered by state legislators. Almost simultaneously, he defended the right of the
Conference on the War and the
Draft to congregate at UK.

but say "we regret to see him
leave."
Paul Oberst, a UK law professor and member of the Board
academic community.
of Trustees, said the most imCritics of Dr. Oswald's stand portant action Dr. Oswald has
have been open in their attacks taken on behalf or academic freeon him. Some claim Communism dom was his statement to the
General Assembly opposing the
is flourishing at UK.
speaker ban.

He also upheld the right of
the SDS National Council to
meet here, and the right of Marxist theoretician Herbert Apthe-ke- r
to speak later this month.
All the while, the president
has stressed his personal disa

tion that academic freedom was
the reason, I think we could
have an exodus," he said.
One younger faculty member,
William Lyons, of the Political
Science Department, indicated
he fears the worst.
"I am very unhappy to hear
of Dr. Oswald's decision to leav e.
One of the main features used to
recniit me to the UK campus
was the promise of a dynamic
and intellectually exciting environment promoted by the administration," he said.
"The rumors now are ominous. The appointment of the
interim president and the members of a committee to seek out
a new president are important
factors," Dr. Lyons commented.
Such comments of this nature
were essentially echoed by the
statements of at least two members of the UK Board of Trustees,
Dr. Ralph Angelucci, and Sam
Ezelle.
Both said, in effect, that Dr.
Oswald's resignation would present setbacks in Kentucky's higher education system.
But such fears were bypassed
by two other young faculty members who expressed optimism that
the University's programs would
continue despite the fact that
Dr. Oswald would no lpnger be
here to guide them.
Dr. Donald Williams, of the

stature will be named to follow
Dr. Oswald.
Dr. Lyman V. Ginger, dean
of the College of Education and
a member of the Board of
Trustees, was the most optimistic of all regarding the University's future.
"There won't be any setbacks
in our present programs. Dr. Oswald's progress in emphasizing
gradu at e educat ion , t he commu
college system and all the
other programs will continue,"
he said.
Dr. Ginger termed Dr. Oswald's decision to resign "very
unfortunate for us, but an excellent promotion for him."
Dr. Oswald will become executive vice president of the
University of California, comprising nine campuses throughout the state.
Steve Cook, president of Student Government and student
member of the Board ofTrustees,
said the factor most important to
the continuation of President Oswald's programs is whether many
professors choose to leave the

University.
"If most faculty members will
stay, there is no reason UKran-no- t
stay the same and continue
moving forward. But if many decide to leave, we could have a
real problem in keeping up with
the advances of Dr. Oswald's

Chemistry department, said "we administration," he said.

greement with much of what
the leftists have had to say on
campus. But he insisted free discussion of issues is vital to any

Dr. William Plucknett, UK
professor and president of the
state conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), said Dr. Oswald
deserves a "great deal" of credit
for strengthening and preserving
academic freedom at the University.

Vol. LIX, No. 128

will miss him." But Dr. Williams
said, with some reservations, that
he thought the president's programs and attitudes would survive.
Robert Sedler, of the University College of Law, was more
optimistic about the University's
future sans Dr. Oswald.
"I'm not wary at all," he

said.

"The University has made
great strides under Dr. Oswald
and that's why I came here.
Since I have been here I have
found it an exciting and stimulating place. I plan to stay," he
said.
Prof. Sedler said he is assuming that a successor of similar

Creech Runs
In SG Race
Herbert Creech, junior in Arts
and Sciences, announced Monday night his intention to file as
a candidate for Student Government president.
Creech said he would be running as an "anarchist, as a protest candidate, and if elected
I would abolish SG all together."
He said he does not believe

He added that AAUP can do
nothing under the circumstances

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Win In Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (UPI)-Se- n.
Eug aej. McCarthy and his
IH'ate candidacy won the Wisconsin Democratic presidential
primary over the ghostly but still
potent entry of President Johnson Tuesday. Richard M. Nixon
took the Republican race with no

"He has promoted high standards of academic freedom," Mr.
Oberst said. "He has also promoted

adherence

tenure regulations."

"He has been a great leader
in developing a better, sounder
University."

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all 30 Wisconsin GOP delegate

votes locked up.
Some observers said Mr. Johnson, picking up 36 iercent of the
Democratic vote, had done as
well or better than he would if
he had not taken himself out
of the race. And Sen. Kennedy
trouble.
was an unknown factor, picking
The Minnesota dove, on the
up 5 percent of the vote from
56"
basis of a
percent share of writeins even when his
inople
the Democratic vote, will take in Wisconsin were
ostensibly ge
votes to
4(J Wisconsin delegate
out the
vote.
the convention at Chicago. Mr. ting Sen. McCarthy
To
McCarthy's "flower
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Johnson, nnncandidate though
power" brigade of devoted colsays he is, will have eight. Two legians at his Milwaukee headvotes the national committeeare quarters, happiness was a win
man and coinmitteewotnan
in Wisconsin. They shrieked and
to state
uncommitted according
yelled as their tall,
law.
leader appeared before them and
Mr. Nixon, with 80 ercent paid grateful tribute to "student
of the Republican vote and 31 power."

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Tuesday for next year's squad. New members are
Lynette Branson, Betsy Sanders and Cindallosea.
Returning members will be Cheryl Hughes, Jenni

fer Dure ham, Martha Boone and Diana Parker.
On the masculine side of the squad will be Terry
Brown, Vic Caven, Mike Fisher, Ben Harper and
Steve Weissmueller, the only returning member.

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3, 19f8- -3

SDS Says University
Violated S
The UK Chapter of SDS re- wishes, but by (x)litical pressures
leased a statement Tuesday night brought by the state governcharging the administration with ment . . .
violation of the Student Rights
"In light of Dr. Oswald's
Code and condemning "manipuresignation, it appears even more
lation" of the University by state likely that the University is to
become a pawn in Kentucky polipoliticians:
tics and that student rights are
"We, the members of SDS,
charge the University of Kentucky to be ignored.
"We ask the Faculty Senate
administration, with a direct violation of the Student Rights Code and Student Covemment to
in the handling of the SDS con- maintain the integrity of the Univention and in the handling of versity by attempting to assign
the four UK students arrested the solution of the problems of
the University to those directly
by the UK" police at a demonstration against recruitment by concerned with what the University does, not to those who
the DIA.
it from a political view"The actions were arbitrary regard
point.
and devious, exerting pressure
"To achieve this objective,
in such manner that the vio- we
Sefurther ask the
lations could not be disclosed. nate and Student Faculty
Government,
"We call upon the Faculty for the reasons listed above, to
Senate to investigate and to take request that the Board of Trusdecisive action against such vio- tees appoint no president of the
lations, so that the Student Rights University without the approval
G)de will not become merely of the Faculty Senate and Stuan inconsequential roadblock in dent Government."
the path of any action which
SDS has called a meeting
the administration might desire to discuss violation of student
to take, but might instead become rights, University approval of the
a strict guideline for the handpresident, and participation in
the Student Mobilization "Ten
ling of student affairs.
"We further charge that these Days in April." The meeting will
v iolations w ere
brought alxmt not be at 7:30o'clock tonight in Room
merely by the administration's 309 of the Student Center.

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Peace And Freedom Party
Makes Last Ballot Attempt
KEELING
The Peace and Freedom Party
is making a last minute effort
to get the 1,000 signatures required to place the names of
its candidates for president and
vice president on Kentucky's ballot this fall. The deadline for the
By LARRY DALE

signatures is 4 p.m. today.
The Peace and Freedom Party
in Kentucky is supporting black
comedian Dick Gregory forpresi- -

LKD Bars

'Open' Liquor
of

alcoholic beverages at LKD events will not
be condoned," announced LKD
Steering. Committee Chairman
John Southard at a committee
meeting Tuesday night.
Southard said that coolers will
not be permitted at the LKD
races scheduled for April 20. Accordingly, there will be no search
and seizure activity.
Dick Webb, committee bicycle derby chairman, said time
trials for the races will be held
at 1:00 p.m. April 7.
After two days of ticket sales
for the April 19 Bob Hope concert, floor seats have been completely sold out.
Tickets for students, faculty
and staff will still be sold Wednesday. Sales for the general public
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now under indictment for counseling young men to avoid the
draft, for vice president.
John Haag, one of the initiators of the California Peace and
Freedom Party, told the Kernel
Tuesday that party workers were
not sure how many signatures

they had.
"We hope to have enough by
4 p.m. tomorrow to get on the
ballot in November," he added.
Mr. Haag and Jane Gordon,
also of California, are in Lexington to help with petitioning.
"Our intention is to actually
form a political party which will
be an ongoing organization,"
Mr. Haag said. "The petition
justs puts the candidates on the
ballot for 1968. It is not ongo-

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He said the main groups working with the Peace and Freedom
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Alan Lanman, a local spokesman for the party and a former
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The policy guidelines of the
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Trustees Hear Statement of Resignation

By JANICE BARBER
Reassessment of the Kennedy
campaign in Kentucky in the
light of President Johnson's decision not to seek reelection will
be the main topic of discussion
tonight of a special meeting of
Citizens for Kennedy.
Gene Mason, assistant professor of political science, and
Don Sturgill, Lexington attorney,
will speak to the group at 8 p.m.
in Memorial Hall. Prof. Mason
and Mr. Sturgill are state leaders
of Citizens for Kennedy.
The group had previously
called for an unpledged slate of
state delegates to the national
Democratic
convention.
John
Meisburg, acting chairman ofthe
group, said this call will be reexamined.
"It's obvious that the Kennedy and McCarthy forces are
now on the road to a head-o- n
collision. The Indiana primary
on May 7 will be a crucial test,"

All Sides

Dr. Oswald Speaks To Trustees

Kennedy Group To Plan Strategy
said. Details of the
group's campaign plans for
Indiana will be given at the
meeting.
"Outgoing President Johnson
decided not to seek reelection
this year because he realized
Meishe could not win
burg said. "President Johnson's
decision relieves him of a bitter
struggle with Sen. Kennedy for
Meisburg
UK

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the presidential nomination."
"Needless to say, Kennedy
forces here on campus and in
Kentucky are revitalized and expect victory at the Democratic
convention," Meisburg said.
The student role in the Ken-

be released at tonight's meeting.
welcome demonstration is being planned, and Kennedy caravans from Eastern, Morehead,
U of L, and Bellarmine are anticipated. The campus group is
planning to distribute over 5,000
leaflets in Lexington publicizing
Sen. Kennedy's speech.
Plans for the UKCreat Debates will also be announced.
The debates are to be held on
two successive nights preceeding
Choice '68, the national mock
presidential election on April 24.
A representative of every presidential candidate is being asked
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Citizens

in the debates,

for Kennedy will also

elect officers and an executive

committee at tonight's meeting.
Croup membership is estimated
at 150.

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college students in general and
students for Kennedy in particular will play a major role in the
campaign for delegates here in
Kentucky," Meisburg said.
The Focus '68 Kennedy speech
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Wc may not in our narration
fully realize what the resignation
of Lyndon Johnson from the Presidential race means. But the resignation does suggest an admission
by the administration that our policy in Southeast Asia, a policy of
armed containment at any cost,
is wrong.
This admission carries with it
the inference that our job in the
world community is not one of
policeman. Rather it
relegates our role to one of example.
We must, in order to preserve
our concepts of democracy, clean
our own house. We cannot on the
one hand force our form of government onto another while at the
same time deny our form of democracy to minority groups within
our borders.
Another inference that stands
out with Johnson's decision is that
the incumbent president can indeed be beaten. Watts plus Detroit plus Newark plus New Hamp
self-impos-

shire plus Memphis united many
citizens against Johnson. Their
common cause, led finally by Gene
McCarthy and Robert Kennedy, defeated the President. Johnson fully realized that his chances of winning the election were not at all
certain; his advisers informed him
of this, as did the public opinion
polls inform him of national opinion.
Monday night Lyndon Johnson
drew back his forces from the torn
lands of Vietnam, then he said
"I've done what I thought was

best."
We salute Mr. Johnson for his
move, for his sincerity, for his

conviction. His decision will in
all probability forge his way into
the line-u- p
of great presidents. A
draft from the people is now the
only way he will run, and Lyndon Johnson stepped from the realm
of strong-arsympathy politics to
the world of a sensitive leader
Monday night.
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Lexington riots: near or far?

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves,
and under a just God, cannot long retain it."

Abraham Lincoln
faces Lexington. Civil rights demonstrations that erupted
challenge
into violent riots, street fighting, and looting last summer have begun
early this spring. The recent protest led by Dr. Martin Luther King,
against Memphis's handling of a strike by garbage collectors, started
out orderly but soon became anything but a nonviolent demonstration.
march and attacked police,
Youths broke away from King's 3,000-ma- n
hurled rocks, bottles, and stones, and looted stores.
Certainly this riot was not planned. Rather it was expected, judging
from similar and previous events in the last few summers. The Mem- phis police force was well prepared with clubs, tear gas and chemical
maseto put down the fighting.
Race riots that have occured in many American communities during
1960's are usually outbreaks of violence caused by large numbers
of youths who feel frustrated, with no clear racial or ethnic animosities or grievances. They are spontaneous mass protests against de
grading living conditions and a sense of helplessness, touched off by
frustrated conditions of unhappiness. They can occur in any community.
Once a riot occurs there is no magic formula to inhibit it, and
there is no guarantee which direction it will go.
It is unrealistic to think that riots can literally force change in
job opportunities, living conditions, or attitudes. Riots may be difficult for police forces to control but such occurances in themselves
cannot result in a powershift. The only realistic hope for Negroes is
through increasing opportunity to participate and benefit from the major
institutions in our American society, and this can only happen if whites
in the many positions to make key decisions are favorably inclined,
Heavy responsibility rests on both races for preventing riots in Lexington and for moving rapidly with cooperative planning that will
change the sordidness of conditions in this city.
Saul Remstein. in his book. Alternatives to Violence, stated: "Grant- ing that riots are a release, therapeutic, and constructive of an image
self, what then? People cannot live by emotional releases." Realizing
this truth, let us all take preventative steps in combating some of the
that we presently live with in Lexington. The unwillingness
to do so lias obvious consequences.
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"In a fxirticipatory democracy
the jx)litical life would be based
on several root principles (to revitalize American society) . . . that
politics has the function of bringing people out of isolation and
into tlw community, this being
a necessary, but not sufficient, way
offinding meaning in trsonal life;
that political order should . . . provide outlets for the expression of
personal grievance and aspiration. "
from SDS Port Huron

founding statement

The rational behind a statement
made by an American military officer, "that to save a Vietnamese
city we would have to destroy
it," resembles the rational inherent
in the 19G0's student leftist movement which while attempting to
bring people out of isolation and
into the community has at the
same time become a movement
of fundamental alienation. The SDS
National Council meeting held last
weekend at UK drew more than
400 members intend on founding
a healthier style of life; a beautiful world out of broken dreams.
Their obvious betrayal of many
middle-clas- s
standards, (dress and
language for example) had a tremendously shocking effect on UK
students in general, so great in
fact, that their lofty goals were
only transported farther from the
very people they someday hope to
reach. This is lamentable because
the "straights,"
the "plastic
people, could learn much from the
New Left.
This radical student activist
movement considers itself alienated
from, and opposed to, the "legiti-th- e

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two-part-

Unfortunately, because of the
press ban, students at the University were only able to gawk and not
witness a radical movement whose
goal is to undermine the society
the majority of students rev erbe rate
in. And to gawk at the
d
here this past weekend
was to stare stupidly.
super-alienate-

Subsidy for rich?
Should all taxpayers subsidize
the entertainment of a small elite
who can afford to pay for their
pleasures? The question was raised
recently by Ronald Coase, a professor of economics at the Univer- sity of Chicago, at a seminar on
educational television conducted
by George Washington University.
The Johnson administration has
rammed a public television act
through Congress. The present appropriations are modest, the prece- dent of tax subsidies for television
programming hasbeen set.Thedeal
was sold in the high name of
ture, as a means of broadcasting
"educational programs not pop- -

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ular enough to attract commercial
sponsorship.
Dr. Coase suggests that subscription television, with program
viewers paying the cost of programming, would be a less objectionable means of broadcasting
commercially unmarketable art
than tax subsidies. True enough
and of course subscribers could be
institutions such as schools, as
well as individuals. The existing
program Dr. Coase describes as a
f
"poverty program for the
well-to-o-

do."

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y
mate channels of the
system. "The Democratic and Republican parties," they say, "are part
of a system in which the economic
and social interests of a few determine the policies which affect the
whole society and which cause the
evils we arc committed to fight."
The movement can be traced to the
initial dissatisfaction with American society that was characteristic
of the Beat Generation ofthel950's
and has been a result of a genuine
confrontation with their own consciences. They have been products
of the pressures of modern society
and education, extreme competitiveness and impersonal nature of
the 20th century. They have been
victims, along with the rest of us,
but their outrage at the injustices
done to themselves has caused them
to form a movement.
Of the many radical groups in
America today, the SDS has come
out while others have died, the leading and most persuasive. They are
concerned with poverty, civil rights,
and more recently the war and the
draft, or protest against the war.
Clearly, they mark the appearance
of a new student activism, full of
rage, fury, discussion, etc. try ing to
stimulate
change
among the
masses.

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path will remain muddy ami unseeded because UK Campus Planning

may have to use part of the field to More construction materials for the new parking
structure to go up on Woodland this fall. Judging from territory anticipated for storage, this should be the parking tower we've all been dreaming about.

And let no one rely heavily on
the notion that government television would always deal only in
innocuous fine arts programs. For
one thing, culture and xlitics can
overlap. Some of Shakesjx'are's
plays, for example, when they were
first produced, worried Queen Elizabeth I no little, because they were
politics as well as literature. For
another thing, what government
with its hands on a mass medium
can Ik; tnisted to restrict itself to
fine arts programming?
Dr. Coase has reminded the pub-li- e
of one among many reasons for
opposing government television.
Chicago Tribune

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, April 3, l!68-

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Five Chosen For Honorary Degrees In May

Two educators, two business
executives, and the director of
tlie National Institutes of Health
have been approved by the University of Kentucky Hoard of Trustees as candidates for honorary
degrees at the University's 101st
annual commencement exercises
in May.
Selected to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
(L.L.D.) were Philip Dav id Sang,
Chicago, 111., business executive
and supporter of UK's Sang

Award for excellence in graduate
teaching; Bell Irvin Wiley, Candler professor of history at Emory
University and an alumnus of
the University, and Clarence
Hobert Yeager, Attlelxno, Mass.,
business executive and a UK
alumnus.
Robert Henry Baker, professor
of chemistry and dean of the
Graduate School of Northwestern
University, and James A. Shannon, director of the National
Institutes of Health, will be

awarded the honorary degree
Doctor of Science (Sc.D.),
the May 13 commencement

of
at

Historical
Society, which he
serves as an officer.
Dr. Wiley, a scholar of international recognition, conducts research dealing mainly with the
Civil War and its aftermath. Included among his man) publications are ten Ixioks and 13
edited volumes on the Civil War.
He served as chairman of the
executive committee of the Civ il
War Centennial Commission,

ex-

ercises.
Mr. Sang's record of public
service includes
memberships
and official positions with many
civic, cultural, and educational
organizations. He is a trustee
of the Chicago Medical School
and a member of the Board of
Governors of Hebrew Union College. In 1962, he received the
award of merit of the Illinois

1961-6-

In 1948, he was appointed
professor of history at Emory
and in 1960 was named the Giles
Howard Candler Professorof HisIn 1965-6he was Harms-wort- h
department to a school now gives
During the past year the UK" tory. P