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This
Monday Evening, November 3, 1909

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

LXI, No. 49

Vol.

Blacks Organize
State-Wid- e
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By RON HAWKINS
Kernel Staff Writer
After the last session of the
Intercollegiate Conference on

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want Whites to help them. They
added that Whites generally tried
to take over and quite often ruined

any black movement.

Relations this weekend,
Several Black students, howe
a
organization of Black ever, said there was a role Whites
could play in the eradication of
college students was formed.
Although the meeting to form racism. They said "informed"
the organization was closed to whites should "go into the white
whites, a Black student from community and educate" its resthe University of Louisville said idents.
The conference was designed
the purpose of the new group
is to unite black students across to set strategy to deal with institutional racism in college housthe state.
The new organization is an ing, scholarships, and curricuoutgrowth of workshops and cau- lum. Although some groups at the
conference's general session precuses sponsored by the Intercollegiate Conference on Intergroup sented statements of intent and
Relations.
complaints about certain situathe workshop tions, most Blacks refused to
Throughout
Black students said they felt discuss strategy in the presence
Whites "don't know their role." of Whites. (Whites were a miVarious blacks said they didn't nority of 15 to 20 percent at the
state-wid-

"In White America," a dramatic documentary which describes racial

injustice throughout the history of the U.S., was presented Friday
night in the Complex Commons as part of the institutional racism
sessions held here. The play was presented by the West Side Flayers

White America

from Louisville.

Kernel Photo by Bob Brewer

conference.)
At the general session, however, one group demanded that a
Black man be appointed new

Burned Draft Files

Priest, Teacher Explain Protest

By MIKE HILDEBRAN
Kernel Staff Writer
A Jesuit priest and a teacher
explained to a group of 80 peo-

Chemicals files in Washington
D.C. and goes to trial in January.
"Dow Chemical was symbolic
of the total U.S. foreign policy
ple at the Student Center last whereby we enter a poor country
night why they burned industrial with out huge capital, only to
and draft files in protest of
exploit their people,"- Father
O'Rourke said.
society.
Sponsored by the Campus ReElite Benefit
ligious Liberals and the Lexington Peace Council, Father Joseph
"The only people who beneO'Rourke and Joan Nickelson fit are an elite group back home
warned about complacency and in the states."
an all powerful establishment.
Joan Nickelson, a petite,
former teacher, was mo"We are told war and the Selective Service System is wrong," tivated to protest by the bombFather O'Rourke said, "but at the ing of innocent Vietnamese peosame time the president and other ple as part of the U.S. economic
leaders tell us to sit at home and tyranny.
drink beer."
"I chose to disrupt the SeFather O'Rourke burned Dow lective Service System by de- -

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reproduce them is stunning,"
Father O'Rourke said. "Even
machine."
though the selective service sysShe went on to say that the tem recruits men for the estabmotto of the draft was to "come lishment, they are in - terrible
financial shape."
kill and die for Selective Service,
or get as many deferments as posAsked about the punishment
sible."
they face from their actions, Miss
Both Miss' Nickelson and Nickelson revealed she has been
Father O'Rourke felt that the arrested eleven times and charges
draft was weighted too heavily are pending now for burning files
in Queens and the Bronx.
against the poor and Black.
files in South
"When the draft
"I don't have time to think
were destroyed," Miss about the case," she said. "I
Chicago
Nickelson said, "the burden was let the court worry about trying
placed on middle class people of me. So far they seem to have
Illinois. They vehemently articuforgotten about me."
lated their displeasure."
Father O'Rourke admits that
lie could receive up to thirty-fiv- e
'Symbolic'
years imprisonment. He said
Father O'Rourke said he chose his case in January "is to be preto burn the Dow files because sided over by a
it was a form of civil disobedience which was disruptive to
''With jail imminent I am trysociety.
files is symbolic, but ing to make the best use of the
"Burning
the amount of time it takes to time I have left."
stroying files because it is the
most essential cog in the unfair

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director of the Kentucky commission on Human Rights. They
also said "We wish to indicate
our repulsion of Yokum's Motor
Inn" for treatment received there.
They concluded their report by
saying they did not want this
to be just another report and
that they wanted something to
be done.
After the other groups delivered their reports, a Black
woman stood and said she did
not want to see reports to be just
reports either. She referred to a
meeting of black students after
the conference and said she feli
it could be the best thing to happen during the conference. Minutes later the conference adjourned and a new black student
organization was formed.

UK CKCLU To Meet
The UK chapter oftheCentral
Kentucky Civil Liberties Union
(CKCLU) will meet at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday in Room 153 of the
Chemistry-Physic- s
Building.

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Fifth Dimension Tunes In To Audience
By DAN

COSSETT

That broke it right there.
People started screaming and
jumping up and down and dancing in the aisles. When 15 or
20 exuberant fans rushed up on
how successful they are.
stage to dance with the performThroughout the entire concert, the more the audience re- ers, campus police began coming
acted, the more the Fifth Di- out of the woodwoik, pushing,
mension poured themselves into shoving and generally behaving
their music. The climax came in a hostile manner.
with the last number, "Age of
That ended the concert, howAquariusLet The Sunshine In." ever, because the group had to
Billy Davis, who sings lead on rush to catch a plane to Louisthe song, had the crowd clapville.
ping in rhythm and singing with
hirn. Then, the three remaining
Despite the fact that all of
group members (Marilyn Davis the historionics were reserved for
the end of the show, the entire
was absent because of sickness)
concert was excellent. The Fifth
left the stage.
Thinking the concert was over, Dimension are professionals in
the crowd rose to its feet for a every sense of the word. Although
standing ovation. Much to the each of them approaches the auelation of the thundering au- dience as if he or she were the
dience, the missing three group only one on stage, their sound
members, Florence LaRue, Ron is very much together. Even the
is polished and
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Townsend and Lamont
choreography
smooth, although Ron Townsend
suddenly appeared on the
Coliseum floor with the audience, dancing is roughly similar to a
still singing.
baby rhinoceros
to the applause of over 12,000
people. That kind of
response is enough to turn on
any performing group, no matter

In communication theory"
terms, this is called feedback
and it very seldom is effective
in situations involving mass audiences.
An exception to the rule came
Saturday night when the Student Activities Board presented
the Fifth Dimension in concert
as part of Homecoming Activities. The ambiance between
crowd and performers began
when the group came on stage

Arts Editor
It is not very unusual, even
here in Lethargy City, for an aud
dience to become
over an excellent musical performance. It is unusual, though,
for the audience to be able to
transmit their enthusiasm in such
a way that the performers sense
the approval of the crowd and
make an even greater effort to
super-psyche-

entertain.

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Associated Press
By
The record "Everybody's
Talkin" sung by Nilsson, is
mark
nearing the million-sellin- g
and it's used in the movie "Midnight Cowboy." Still, Nilsson is a

bit disappointed. He didn't write
the song. Fred Neil did.
The producer of the movie
heard "Everybody's Talkin' "on
Nilsson's RCA album. "Aerial
Ballet," in 19G8, and said, "This
is the kind of song we want."
Nilsson says, "He called and
asked if I'd write a song for the
picture and I did write a song. I
tried very hard. Joni Mitchell,
John Barry and I each wrote one.
All were rejected. They stuck with
'Everybody's Talkin'."
The record was a mild hit,
some 125,000 copies, when it was
released from the alburn as a
single in 1968. Now that it's
with the movie out, it
is nearing a million copies sold.
Also, because of the hit single, buyers are "discovering" Nils-sobuying his LPs and finding
that the songs he writes are low
key, highly pleasant and listen-abl-

before the
new single,
results were beginning to be felt,
Nilsson
was still pondering
whether he'd done the right thing.
Nilsson, who is 28 and was
born in Brooklyn, took an
suggestion that he use
just one name. "Harry Nilsson
Swedsounds like a middle-age- d
ish businessman. " But he's called
Harry by friends and his third
RCA Victor album is named
"Harry." The first is "Pandeas

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The song that Nilsson wrote
for the picture, that didn't get
used, is "I Cuess the Lord Must
Be in New York City." It was
released the second week in October as a single, as the B side to
"Maybe." Both are on Nilsson's'
new album. "Harry."
Putting out the single threw
Nilsson into a quandary. His
first impulse had been to have
"Marching down Broadway" as
theB side to "Maybe."
Since Wayne Newton had put
out a single of "I Guess the Lord
Must Be in New York City,"
Nilsson was hoping that Newton
could have a hit with that Nilsson
song while he might get a hit with
a different one. But he was talked
into putting "New York City" out
with "Maybe." If radio stations
turn over "Maybe," and play the
B side instead, he'll be in direct
competition with Newton.
Even after it was too late to
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the Fifth Dimension's sidemen
did not match that of the singers.
Only the drummer seemed to pay
very much attention to staying
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Undoubtedly, the wierdest
part of the show came when
the group sang the Declaration
of Independence. Whatever that
document was intended for, it
seems unlikely that Jefferson et
al intended it to be sung as

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The best number of the performance was Jim Webb's
Park." Everyone from
Richard Harris to Soupy Sales
has recorded an arrangement of
this song, but no one has been
able to bring as much emotion
or excitement to the song as Ron
Townsend, who sings the lead
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formerly an operatic tenor and
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Black School Staffs 'A Vanishing Breed9

VVASHINGTON-(CPS)-The
black principal and the
black school teacher may be a vanishing breed in the
South-a- nd
the cause is the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The act requires Southern school districts to desegregate their classrooms. Desegregation frequently
means nosing aown iormerly black schools. And school
closings are just the excuse that many districts need
to fire their Negro personnel-rath- er
than transfer them
to "white" or integrated schools.
Thousands have lost their jobs through this "displacement," according to the National Education Association (NEA). The practice doesn't always end in
firing, NEA says; sometimes school staffs are simply
demoted-giv- en
lower pay, less satisfactory assignments.
Sometimes, for example, principals of black schools are
reassigned as assistants to white supervisors in central

would miss their most important assignment driving
the supervisor to lunch."
The pattern pupil integration and black staff displacementwas evident as early as 1954 after the
border states began compliance with the Supreme Court
'decision (Brown vs. Board of Education) which ruled
that racial segregation could no longer be tolerated
in the schools of the nation. It picked up steam and
moved south after 1965 when the implementation of the
civil rights act penetrated into the southern states.
According to an NEA task force on the subject,
"In 1965, implementation of that act accelerated the
pace of integration and increased the number of children
In general, the more
attending integrated classrooms
extensive the desegregation of students, the greater the
chance that Negro teachers will be adversely affected
by demotion, displacement, or dismissal."

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offices.

"Then," as an NEA spokesman put it, "they'd
better not let their cars break down, because they

The techniques employed by school districts in the

South to displace their teachers and principals are
many and devious. They include: wholesale dismissal,
failure to renew contracts, using other "reasons" to
Justify firing on an individual basis, and requiring
certain scores on the National Teachers Examination
(run by the Educational Testing Service) before certification is granted. An additional device recently uncovered
is: Reclassifying general teaching positions under such
special federally aided categories as Title I (poverty
aid under the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act), then failing to comply with federal civil rights
requirements. When federal funds are cut off (as a result of noncompliance), the teachers are told simply
that their jobs have been abolished.
The displacement pattern is particularly hard on
principals. It's bad enough, many Southerners feel, to
have black teachers instructing their children but nearly
impossible to countenance black principals supervising
their teachers.

Profs Fret Over Missing Chalk

By IIAZEL COLOSIMO
Kernel Staff Writer

Security means different
things to different people.
y
For Linus, security is his
blanket. For a baseball
fan, it is knowing you have
backed the Mets when they
weren't THE Mets.
Security for a student may be
knowing you have a blanket-in a course, even if you flunk
the final.
But alas, the UK professor
often is without one of the traditional security symbols of his

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profession. Where have all the
pieces of chalk gone?
It is really a pity a professor without a piece of chalk.
After all, when you are standing
in front of a class, what other
substance can you discreetly
mash in your hand when
frustrated over a bad answer-th- us
keeping your cool in the
eyes of the students? "But I can
never find any!" a professor
mournfully asserted.

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When there's a tough business decision to be made, the Certified Public
Accountant is a man everybody wants
to have around.
His advice often makes the differ- ce between success or failure.
He's a key man in developing and
interpreting economic data.
And in every type of enterprise.
You name it: television, steel, oil,
government, hospitals, aerospace.

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spiracy afoot, with the planned
result being nervous breakdowns
for all teachers. Is there a more
forlorn face than that of a professor when he whips around to
the black board to illustrate a;
point and all he finds is a pencil, and a dull one at that?
Chalk dust is pure status
because a professor
largely
s
covered with chalk dust
that he's been teaching
'emphatically. But how can a professor have "chalk dust status"
is: when there is no chalk? One
imaginative professor commented
"It's gotten so bad that I have
to carry mine in my pocketl"
thus saving face.
Chalk is a visual symbol. It
is visual because one can sec it
on the board, but more importantly, it can be held in the hand
to stress valuable facts. With its
secondary function of head rapping for instantaneous attention.
Eating It?
The mystery of the missing
chalk goes on "are the students
eating it?" Oh, who will come
to the aid of the hundreds of
frustrated professors with no
"chalk security?" "I wish someone would do something!" Is
there a crusader to come to our
demon-strate-

rescue?
Will whoever is sadistically
hoarding our homeless chalk,
please return it? We miss it.
It misses us. The professors need,

their peace of mind "piece" oft
chalk that is.
Chalk, please return, even in
pieces.

WhatqualitiesshouldaCPAhave?

He should be able to think creatively,

analyze problems, and come up with
imaginative solutions. And he should
be the kind of man that people can

put their confidence in.
A CPA might join an accounting
firm and eventually become a partner.
Or he might open a practice for himself and go it alone. Or he can work
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Speaker Policy Reviewed

The

committee apBoard of Trustees
pointed by the
to examine proposed revisions of
the Student Code has recently made
public its draft of the proposed
Speaker Policy. Before the draft
was available it was accurately
rumorred that the "academically
relevant" clause of the document
would be eliminated; however, it
was not commonly known that an
equally potentially dangerous addition was made to the document.
The proposed "Policy of the University of Kentucky Governing
gives'
Speakers from
the president the power of requiring
special

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a "University official or a senior
faculty member" to preside at any
gathering which the president
thinks might prove embarrassing.
The committee did not state their
reasons for including this set of
supervisory restrictions. Nor can
one call to mind any justifications
for such an action.
In recent years the University
has had some of the more controversial speakers in the nation address its community. In no instance
has there been any cause to be con-

Wednesday's morning demonstration, "Moratorium," emphasizes an essential aspect of the personality of our times; we live in
an age when we must question our

politics. We have discovered new
sensibilities, new emotions, new
involvements, and they have expanded into social movements protesting race relations, poverty, and
war. We have sat, picketed,
marched, hoped, and prayed for
peace between all breeds of men
and this we have clearly conducted

cerned about disruptive actions.
In no instance can one point out
the benefit to be derived from
having a University official or senior faculty member preside at the
gathering.
In view of the lack of necessity
for having such a clause, we can
only speculate on why the committee insists on supplying this

with the underlying belief that the
pen will become mightier than the
sword. America is engaged in a war
in Vietnam, a war in which she
did not intend to become so massively involved; and it is this war
which we question most in our
age of inquiry.
Political and social protest in
the United States is for the. most
part channeled along the limits of
our Constitutional rights as citizens. More often we have gathered
our bodies in protest than our be-

superflous restriction.

Perhaps the trustees are overly
concerned that a situation develop
over which they would not have
even indirect control of what was
being said. Suely this is not the
case. If not, then why?

liefs. A spokesman for a crowd often clouds your own beliefs and
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MONDAY,

NOVEMBER 3,

1969

Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.
James W. Miller,

By BILL STOCKTON
Perhaps in about fifteen or twenty
years, when even a grease monkey has
at least a bachelor's degree, but the gen-erstate of affairs, from foreign to
has deteriorated to a condition far worse than today, some professor or administrator will come across
the following article, along with several
other pieces of related writing, and think
about their content with the same intensity which he uses to scrutinize ponderous tomes or talk in nebulous terms
about student rights or academic freedom:
"Today's college "education" is, at
least in the derivative sense of the word,
not a very good one. The word education comes' from the Latin verb "edu-care,- "
meaning to rear or to bring up.
al

If the "higher educators" think they are
doing a fine or even adequate job of
raising today's youth to adulthood, they
had better take a hard look and think
again
"Colleges and universities have, duror so, made a
ing the past
great evolutionary change which we shall
now focus on. Fromthe
spawning grounds of youi-patrician males,
steeped therein in the liberal arts, the
university gradually but surely metamorphosed into a training area which enabled

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If the majority of the public

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veyed their true convictions
the Vietnam war at enc
time by writing the President one
letter a day for one week, the commonwealth of our concern for peace
will be substantially communicated
without the fear that the good will
of our personal opinions will be
overlooked or lost in the words
of a spokesman for the crowd or of
our elected representatives.
The timetable for your protest
is to mail your letters daily beginning November 9 and continuing
through November 15 to Richard
M. Nixon, President of the United
States, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, D.C. 20006.
Use the following procedure in
mailing your letters: 1) Type the address. Use the Zip Code. Business
and institutional envelopes may be
used. 2) Use first class postage . . .
Special Delivery and even better,
registered mail (it must be signed
for) will insure faster delivery.
President Nixon may never read
your letter as such but he will
be intimately reminded of your
convictions for peace. We have a
message to give to President Nixon.
Let us be united in a common effort to express our beliefs as Amer-canpon-cerni-

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s.

Editor-in-Chi-

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of mainly middle class economic
to pursue careers in science,
business, and teaching, among other
things. Liberal arts were still taught, to
be sure, but they were now relegated
to a mere share of the curriculum.
"These newer students had little use
for the academic disciplines which had
hitherto prevaded the university. The
middle class products had to have their
degrees to hell with the joys of learning; if they didn't make the grade, there
was no daddy's bank to run back to
the were Titanicized.
Because, then, of this movement,
and because of its own stagnancy, having changed little in centuries, old
academe rolled over and died, and was
replaced, through the more bourgeois
tastes of the middle class, by the social
frolicing and semiprofessional athletics
evident in today's university
"As mentioned before, liberal arts were
and still aie retained. The"l.a." student, however, is very often the "leftover" the person who can't make a
choice of careers. Many of him (or her)
wind up going into business or housewifery, where the value of a liberal education is minimalized. Many take precious little liberal education away with
them, having, via their background, come
into the university with little desire for

vinced by your involvements. Americans have not availed themselves
of one of their most effective channels for protest, the Post Office.

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learning, and leaving in the same way,
having not been imbued with the love
of learning while in college, but only
with the necessity of passing tests. Despite this, and the huge increase in the
volume of knowledge in the last fifty
years, and the increased specialization
in just about every liberal arts department, educators still seem to insist, at
least by their lack of action, that they
are doing a just dandy job of educating
their "l.a." people comprehensively in
four years, and in accordance with the
tradition of the liberal arts
"Almost all of the curricula in today's
colleges and universities either instructs
the student in, or helps him make an
objective living. The necessities of his
subjective life are largely neglected. In
the old days, a student's liberal instruction very likely aided him greatly in the
formation of philosophic attitudes toward
life which he could w ell apply and afford,
especially if wealthy, in the relatively
timeless and unpressured world of yesterday.
"However, as we all know, times
liave changed but the universities lave
not altered their curricula nearly enough
to accommodate the changes. Therefore,
many a student sorely needs instruction
in the following areas, just to name a
few; consumer credit; pollution; the work- -

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ings of corporation, labor unions, and
state and local governments;
major industries of the region
in which the student lives; sundry courses

in current events and international

prob-

lems; the critical method; sectional differences and attitudes of Americans.
"The reader can probably think of
other subjects not taught in the curriculum of today in which he or his
friends could use instruction. It is obvious that the university has been lagging behind for too long in this field
yet who do we hear speaking out about
this? A relatively small number of professors and administrators not very vociferous for the most part; concerned no

doubt, about the future of their jobs if.
they dare speak out too harshly, and a
smattering of discontented students, some
of whom are interested in the overthrow
of the entire system, not in affecting
needed change.
"This, then, is one aspect of where
the universities have come from and where
they are now. The author holds that the
decreasing relevance and retentivity of
higher education is in part responsible
for the state of affairs today, especially
on the domestic scene. Immediate change
is not in sight; one can only hope that
future college and university denizens
have better foresight than we . . . ."

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Monday, Nov.

Ohio, N. J. Offer Voting Age Test
WASHINGTON

(CFS)-Ho-

for lower-- 1

pes

ing the voting ae nationally may hinge
upon the outcome of two hotly contested
rcferendums Nov. 4 in Ohio and New Jersey.
The two states are the first to put the
issue before the people, and the results
are expected to give a strong indication as
to how voters in other states will react,
says Youth Franchise Coalition Coordinator
Ian MacCowan. Thirteen states have approved public referendums on the issue so far.
The New Jersey campaign hopes to lower
the voting age to 18, while the Ohio contest
is over the
old vote.
"It looks very, very close," according
to Stewart Hothskin, executive director of
the New Jersey Voting Age Coalition. "We
may be a tiny bit ahead, but only a few
percentage points."
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due in part to "the more conservative nature" of Ohio voters, Rothskin maintains.
Mass Rally
While in Ohio rallies liave been used
only to encourage volunteers to canvass,
a massive public rally was organized for
'Trenton New Jersey's capital-- to excite the
state's voters. Several thousand 18-- to
olds were expected to participate in the
peaceful rally Oct. 26.
Rothskin said the rally was planned to
old
"prove that the people under
really want the vote." To appeal to the
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patriots across the state, the