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By LINDA MILLS
Kernel Executive Editor
Rumblings of student discontent, administrative
sanction, and an enthusiastic faculty committee are
strong signs in favor of reform in "due process," but
most agree that reform will be no easy matter.
Not all forces within the University agree that
reform is necessary.

News Analysis: Final article in a scries.
Acting Dean of Men Jack Hall admits some reluctance
to see formal courtroom procedures creeping on to campus.
"Our goal is primarily educational, to help the student
rather than to judge him," he said. Many members of the

student boards seek no greater power, feeling their
capacity as advisory bodies to the dean is best.
Often students themselves are reluctant to cut all
dependent ties in nonacademic matters from the University, "No graduate student sees the University in the
role as a parent, but let one get in trouble downtown
and we will hear from him," Robert L. Johnson, vice
president for student affairs, said.
Parents, whom a state university also must regard as
taxpayers, often demand preferential treatment within

the Lexington community for their children.
The University's role as a landlord and an owner and
administrator of dormitories complicates cutting the
apron string between students and administration.
Paul Oberst, UK professor of law and American Civil

Liberties Union member, said the University, as a landlady, can justify imposing more regulations than it could
as just a teacher. "As longaswerun a housing program
for 16 and
girls, we are not going to let them
run around loose," Prof. Oberst said.
"In an ideal world, University students would be
mature adults," he said.
The basic question underlying all considerations is,
according to Dr. William F. Axton, assistant professor
of English and member of the faculty committee now
considering due process reform, "exactly what relationship does the University have to its students?"
Dr. Axton said University regulations contain only
about half a dozen statements concerning
relationships, and a basic task of

Breathitt Promises
Vol. LVII, No. 128

University of Kentucky
1966
APRIL
LEXINGTON, KY.,
WEDNESDAY,

27,

Twelve Pages

Revision Will Aid
Local Government
More home rule and greater
freedom for local communities
will result if the proposed state
constitution revision is passed,
Gov. Edward T. Breathitt told
a University assembly Tuesday
afternoon.
Cov. Breathitt spoke in the
Law School auditorium in the
second of a series of informational
meetings with members of the
Constitutional Revision Assembly at universities across Kentucky.
Reading from a prepared
speech, the Governor said that
both executive and legislative
branches of state government
would be strenghtened by the revision.
"You have not weakened, but
rather have strenghtened the effectiveness
of the executive
branch for in the long run a
strong, independent and
legislature will add to,
rather than subtract from, the
effectiveness of the Governor in
his leadership.
Political commentators have
suggested that the revision would
tend to lessen traditionally strong
executive influence over the legiswell-equipp-

Gov. Edward Breathitt presents his special Medal
of Merit to Earle C. Clements, chairman of the
Constitutional Revision Assembly. The award has

been presented only once before to Courier-Journwriter, Allan Trout. Clements is a past Kentucky
governor.

Clements Urges Passage
Of Revised Constitution
By FRANK BROWNING
Asst. Managing Editor
Former Gov. Earle C. Clements told about 50 people at a
Constitutional Revision Assembly meeting here Tuesday that
by voting against the 1966 draft
they would be voting for Kentucky's 1891 governing rules.
Mr. Clements, also chairman
of the Assembly, declared that
many local and county officials
will support the constitution
even though it is in the area
of local government where most
opposition is expected.
Opening the meeting to discussion, Edward Prichard, lawyer from Versailles and Assembly member, said that the two
camps of criticism are from

county and municipal officials.
"The criticism is based on
the fear that provisions specifically enumerate constitutional
offices and that these offices
would be weakened with the
result that the legislature would
be given the power to eliminate
or consolidate them," he said.
Mr. Prichard explained that,
instead, the revision would seek
to spell out the duties of constitutional officers. He stated the
new draft would assure that both
key governmental offices at both
the state and local levels including district and circuit judgeships would be elective.
"All local officials must be
chosen by local authority regardless of what that authority

be, elective or appointive," Mr.
Prichard continued.
He further stated that tra-

ditionally municipalities' position has been as a "creature of
the state" deriving all the

power from the state.
Describing the situation somewhat flippantly, Mr. Prichard
described the traditional position as one in which the General Assembly giveth and the
General Assembly taketh away.
Blessed be the name of the General Assembly.
However, he pointed out,
"The municipality has all the
power under this draft which
the legislature doesn't take away.
Concluding the informational
meeting, Mr. Clements countered
a charge of an "apparent growing weakness in the legislative
branch of state government" by
stating seven ways by which
the revision would strengthen
Mike Pratt, a 4 , 220 pound
forward from Dayton,
it:
Ohio, became the tenth high school basketball player to sign a
grant-in-ai- d
1. It would
scholarship to the University. He was signed Tuesday
be continuing
night in Dayton by UK assistant coach Joe Hall.
body which would be in office
to meet for four
During his four years at
by Dell Magazine. He will also long enough
Meadowdale High School, Pratt
for the South team in the years.
play
2. House members would be
scored 1,396 points, 474 his senior
All-StOhio North-Soutgame
to break the individual high
year,
to be played in Marion, Ohio. given four year terms instead of
school scoring record for the
Pratt narrowed his choices two y ear terms.
3. Senators would be given
Dayton area.
earlier this week down to UK,
Among his many honors are Cincinnati, Rowling Creen of six y ear terms.
4. The legislature would be
being named to the Ohio
Ohio and Day ton, after receiving
on a salaried basis.
team last year,
contacts from over 100 schools.
5. It would meet every year
team twice unanimously,
He saw the Wildcats play twice
y
for a
period.
Dayton area team twice,
last season and was particularly
6. It could have a 30 day
once unanimously, and was a
selection
Continued On Paje 11
special session at its own call.

Pratt Signs With Cats
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er

60-da-

pre-seas-

lature.
Gov. Breathitt cited local government as the area of "the
greatest controversy largely, I
think, because of misunderstand-

ing."
"The issue here

is whether
local government can survive as
a vital factor of our system of
free institutions," he stated.

The governor analogized

growing federal power over states
due to the latter's slowness to
meet responsibilities to the
of local government
its lack of flexibility, its crippling
by constitutional fetters."
Mr. Breathitt left his speech
at this point to emphasize that
he commented as an observer
and had tried in no way to influence the Assembly.

"I am convinced that the
recommendation of the Assembly would result in more home
rule, not less; in greater freedom
for local communities, not less;
in a more workable method of
adapting local institutions to
changing needs," he continued.
"There is nothing in the proposed revision which would
threaten the legitimate interest
or welfare of our county or local
officials," Gov. Breathitt declared.

Study Team
Recommends
Lower Rates
Lower tuition rates for Kentucky's universities, in an effort
to perpetuate the theory of free
public higher education,has been
recommended in an official study
of higher education.
The study was conducted by a
three man team headed by Dr.
M. M. Chambers, visiting professor of higher education at
Indiana University under contract for the Governor's Commission of Higher Education.
The report, in direct opposition to the increased tuition
rates for the University next y ear,
said when students are required
to pay fees they are subjected to a
narrowing opportunity and a
squeezing out of the financially
handicapped, which would be a
disaster for the state and the
nation.
Dr. Chambers recommended
that the general public pay for
higher education through taxation.
Speaking unofficially for the
University Associate Dean of Admissions Keller Dunn said he felt
Continued On Page

9

State Draft Director Urges
Continued Liberal Policy
Kentucky will try to maintain its hands off policy for college
students and the draft, the State Selective Service Director said
Tuesday

"I don't think we have in
ducted any man out of college
who was not
and doing
full-tim-

e

satisfactory work," Col. Everette
S. Stephenson said at a meeting
of the Kentucky Association of
Collegiate Registrars and Admissions officers.
Col. Stephenson pointed out
the criteria used in the past to
determine deferments full time
status and satisfactory work
and said two more factors will be
considered for next semester.
He was referring to the deferment examinations to be giv en
throughout the nation this sum

mer, and the student's ranking
in the class.
While the final decision in
determining draft status is up
to the local draft board, they
should use the two new criteria.
Col. Stephenson urged.
To point out Kentucky's
liberal stand for students and
the draft, Col. Stephenson noted
that there are now 25,000 young
men in Kentucky deferred to go
to college just in the schools
within the state.
Dates for the draft deferment
examination are May 14 and 21,
and June 3.

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'Due Process ' Reform Not Easy
committee had "agreed on the
need for a review of procedures,"
but could not yet predict what
changes they would recommend.
"We hope to have some suggestions for revisions by next
fall," he said.
One major problem facing his
committee. Prof. Flickinger said,
was w hether or not to recommend
"stopgap" reforms before the
e
study was
planned
completed. Foremost among the
committee's goals will be a definition of offenses and an outline
of procedure for prosecuting student offenders, the chairman said.
It is his personal opinion that
the University must move away
from the in loco parentis doctrine.
Vice President Johnson agreed
that the legal support for in loco
parentis was eroding away and
UK w ould be forced to abandon
the concept, even if student and
parental opinion favored retention of in loco parentis.
"The doctrine ir reflective of
the mores and values of a previous generation," Mr. Johnson
said. "It could easily be enforced
with everyone living under one
roof, on campus."
"The University has neither
the time nor the resources for in
loco parentis," Prof. Flickinger
commented.
But not all problems in establishment of due process and
avoidance of double jeopardy, a
situation in w hich a student may
be punished tw ice for one offense
(by town and school) center
around the in loco parentis controversy.
Professional school ethics pose
a problem, Mr. Johnson pointed
out. Should, for example, the
University permit a medical student involved in fraud to continue studies, knowing that

Continued From Pace 1
the committee Is defining the
many relationships that actually
do exist.
Included in the committee's
task, Dr. Axton indicated, are the
following points:
and evalu1. Examination
ation of present regulations, at
UK and elsewhere.
for
2. Recommendations

long-rang-

change.

these

to get
3. Attempts
recommendations adopted.
Just who has jurisdiction in
student discipline is a problem in
itself. W. Carcett Flickinger,
associate professor of law and
chairman of the faculty committee, said. Under current rules,
the faculty has responsibility for
governing student conduct, but
the University governing rules
themselves now are in the process
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ethic for medicine?
Most agree that procedural
specifications must retain some
flexibility, some aura of considering each case individually.
"We are lookingfor something
that will be applied equally yet
will take into consideration the
different kinds of students and
relationships within the UniverDr. Axton exsity community,
plained.
If forthcoming
regulations
favor greater rights and more student control in disciplinary procedure, as they seem likely todo,
how to accomplish a transfer of
power may prove a problem.
Prof. Oberst said he sees as
possible a situation in which all
power for disciplining students
might lie with a joining student-facult- y
board. This board might
also have power to discipline
faculty members and administrators.
"I fear entrusting too much
pow er to the students before they
are ready to handle it, though,"
he said.

Language
Meet Slated
The University's 19th annual
Foreign Language Conference
will be held Thursday through
Saturday.
The conference will include
sessions' involving the Classics,
the
East Asian languages,
French, German, Italian, Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Slauc
and Spanish.
A lecture on "The Fine Art
of Collecting Manuscripts" will
; open. ihe. - conference .Thursday
Jnighl. The lecture will "be given'
t!S-3.Tin the Laboratory!
Theater of the Fine Arts Building
by Richard E. Banta, of
Ind.
A manuscript exhibition is on
display at the Margaret I. King
Library in conjunction with the
conference. Nearly 200 items are
displayed just inside the main
entrance to the library and in
the Rare Book Room.
Included in the exhibit are
documents signed by Napoleon,
Queen Isabella, and an autoof Tolstoy,
graphed
picture
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* Close The Gap
The whole of a university, like
any complex organization, works
only as well as its most minute
part. Before a university can function smoothly, it must make efforts to close the natural gap between component parts created by
its bureaucratic nature.
A university, therefore, must
make special efforts to close the
gap between its staff, faculty and
students. There is some indication
that UK apparently has been unsuccessful in closing this gap, and,
as a consequence, personnel relations may be worsening rather
than improving.
The center of the problem seems
to lie with the internal communications system, which frequently
has not functioned as it might.
Board of Trustees members apparently think of the University
as a factory with President Oswald
the hired manager to oversee factory operations. Members of the
University community are seen as
factory hands with the obligation
of executing a specific task with
the greatest efficiency.
But most modern industrialists
recognize the value of a strong
internal communication system
and the involvement of employees
in managerial decisions as an effective technique for reinforcing
allegiance to the institution.
The
relationship is hardly the one which
should predominate at an institution of higher learning, though.
In a university where interchange
of ideas is a major premise on
which other goals are built, all
members of the community should
have easy access to information
and the decision-makin- g
processes,
especially in areas directly concerning them or their interests.
The "memo to the hands from the
boss" technique which sometimes
seems evident here is not in keeping with the tradition of free interchange among scholars.
Under current operational procedures blunt administrative orders
and secret committees aretheorder
of the day. Often faculty members
who by all rights should be in on
primary planning of changes in
academic programs or physical
hard-hande- d

boss-employ-

ee

"Maybe

facilities affecting them and their
departments hear about these
changes for .the first time when
notified in an administrative memo.
We realize that administrators
must make decisions every hour
and could not possibly discuss
all these with staff and faculty.
This is a natural consequence of
a big and rapidly enlarging university. But there remain too many
areas where faculty and staffmem-ber- s
are left in the dark or included
only as an afterthought.
The recent questions on tenure
policies arising through the Music
Department and the questions from
faculty members on the academic
merits of the proposed faculty office tower are examples of poor
communication between faculty
and administration.
President Oswald has indicated
on numerous occasions that a University is its faculty. In his inagural
address, he said: "Long before the
concept of the 'multiversity' and
the great service roles of the land-gracollege idea, a university
was recognized as a community,
of scholars," adding "We must
create the environment which will
enable us to retain and attract
the necessary scholars to do the
job ahead."
While the University has done
an admirable job in its courtship
with its many publics and the
news media, this external window
dressing has not covered completely the internal disarray of
furniture. Problems from poor internal communication seem to be
increasing.
UK administrators could learn
some things from last year's
Berkeley troubles. As the University continues to grow, the administration should make every effort to keep the channels of communication open. More effort
should be exerted to establish better personnel relations within the
university.
Public support is vital to a
university, but faculty support is
even more so. The University must
recognize and treat faculty members not as hired hands but in
their rightful status as cornerstones
in education demands.
nt

Letters To The Editor:

Reader Criticizes Letter
the Eil it or of the Kernel:
Regarding the letter in the April
26th Kernel, I would like to say
that , I consider Mr. Davis' article
to be biased and lacking insight
into the problems of the people
in S.E. Kentucky. Mr. Davis contention that the people in Appa-lachi- a
aren't really poor is not
supported by fact. For example;
in Harlan County, which is typical
of S.E. Kentucky, 3S.5 percent of
the families have yearly incomes
of less than $3000 and 73 percent
of the homes are
acto basic federal housing
cording
criteria.
I have some questions which
I would like Mr. Davis to answer,
since he seems to consider himself
an authority in this area:
sub-standa- rd

To Planning
Cuban Invasions"

We Should Go Hack

1.

If the people of S.E. Kentucky

aren't really poor, why is the

median income in this area well
below the national median?
2. How do the mountain people
keep themselves "scrupulously
clean" when the majority of the
homes in this area do not have
running water?
3. Do the people in S.E. Kentucky really "hav e only themselves
to blame" for their circumstances?
I feel that Mr. Davis needs to
take a look at S.E. Kentucky without his
glasses, and
before Mr. Davis starts throwing
rocks at someone, he had better
make sure that he is not living in
a glass house.
JOHN M. SHANK
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Another Referendum
Student Congress once again
is attempting to change its constitution in an effort to achieve
a workable form of government.
"In recent years it seems that one
of the major projects of each SC
administration has been writing
and adopting a new constitution.
The latest installment, to be
presented in a campus referendum
Thursday, contains a few needed
improvements, but it also includes
several dangerous provisions. The
constitution delegates an unruly
amount of power to the organization's president.
The proposed document gives
the president the item veto and
extends to him extensive appointive
duties. Also new with this constitution and bylaws is the creation
of six administrative departments,
each having a director appointed
by the president. The bylaws
specify that appointments be made
with the advice and consent of the
legislature. This is a necessary provision, but will mean nothing unless
Congress representatives seriously
review all recommended appointments.
The power structure of the new
administrative departments also
places substantial power in the
hands of a few. The president has
the potential power to stack each
administrative department with his
favorites, and they, in turn, could

do likewise in passing out patronage jobs within their respective
departments.
Legislative power is also somewhat increased, but not proportionately to that of the president.
A politically active president and a
politically inert legislature would
seriously restrict any checks and
balance system.
Perhaps the most significant provision in the charter, however, is
the inclusion of a student "Bill of
Rights" in judicial matters. The
section referring to the rights of
accused students is not perfect, but
it has some important guarantees
enabling students due process in
all judicial proceedings. This proposal's merit, however, rests not
merely with its enaction, but with
the manner by which it is administered.
Passage of the new constitution
will not necessarily mean the University will have a successful and
active student government. Leaders
in the past have contended Student
Congress would be more effective
under a new constitution, but we
have observed that the leadership
per se is far more important than
any form of governmental structure.
A new constitution
will mean
nothing if student leaders make
no attempt to properly represent
the student body.

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"Inside Report"

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LBJ Losing Consensus On Vietnam War?

The continued political turmoil in Saigon, as no other event
before it, is threatening President
Johnson's domestic consensus to
continue the Vietnam war.
Mr. Johnson has held wide
popular support in all major disputes about the war thus far:
on the early 1965 decision to
bomb the North; on the decision
last summer to escalate the
ground war; on the general proposition that we are in to stay.
He got his consensus and held it.
But today,
politicians of
widely differing views about the
war agree that the political instability in Saigon may wreck the
Johnson consensus. The Saigon
disorders, in other words, seem to
have been the one extra straw on
the camel's back that U.S. voters

A somewhat bizarre illustration
of Saigon's
spreading
shadow in the U.S. is found in
Harold Stassen,
Pennsylvania.
the perennial political loser, is
campaigning for the Republican
gubernatorial nomination on a
platform of "peace" in Vietnam
(although he hasn't the slightest
idea of how to get it).
Last month, Stassen's umpteenth comeback attempt wasn't
d
even being noticed. Today,
Republican strategists
fear that Stassen will make an
embarrassingly creditable showing against Lt. Gov. Raymond
Shafcr, the party's hand-picke- d
successor to Gov. William Scran-to-

because it is "vital to our national security," would we stay
there even if the South Vietnamese decided to quit:
"The political turmoil of the
past several weeks brought more
and different explanations," Ribicoff said. First, officials said the
politics of Saigon "was not affecting the main course of the war";
then they termed the unrest a
"healthy development"; then
they said that "military operations were suffering", but the
turmoil was a "sign of new political awareness."
Ribicoffs main point: The
"confusion" of voices in Washington is undermining support for
the war.
Whatever vote Stassen may
What makes Ribicoff s dismay
is the President's
get in the May 17 primary will important
be a protest vote on Vietnam, respect for his political judgment.
a subject that Shafer carefully When in early Febniary, Ribicoff
avoids in his campaign. And what proposed a Geneva conference,
has suddenly given Stassen his the President called him in Hartchance for a few votes is the ford and kept him on the phone
for 45 minutes. It was a conpolitical crisis in Saigon.
Another ominous signal came ciliatory talk in which Mr. Johnover the weekend in Hartford,
son made some highly unflatterConn., where the President's old ing remarks about peace-blo- c
friend, Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, Senators but not Ribicoff.
asked this pointed question: If
But Ribicoff is now saying
the United States is in Vietnam publicly, in mild terms, what
hard-heade-

n.

can't understand.
A combination of continued
military success and a better
understanding of the situation in
Saigon could rapidly change the
domestic climate in the U.S. But
d
as of now,
politicians believe, support of President Johnson's position on Vietnam is becoming a political liability. It is enough to frighten
Democrats half to death.
hard-heade-

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University Soapbox

Inc., and written by Samuel E.
Brownstein and Mitchell Weiner.
Among other things, the cover
lists "10 complete Mathematics
aptitude tests with answers," "10
complete verbal aptitude tests
with answers," and concludes
that this book is an "Intensive,
review and
straight-to-the-poi-

nt

r

practice that will help you score
high on the Selective Service College Qualification Test and continue your college education and
postpone your military obliga-

tion."

This is
America's

tribute to

real

a

free enterprise system. I contemplated dropping out
of school to study for it, but then
I figured Monarch or Cliffs Notes
would come out with an outline
series, soon, entitled "How to
Succeed on the Student Draft Deferment Without Really Trying,"
so I decided to stick around and
hope for the best.
Besides, the whole slant of the
test is backwards. The Liberal
Arts student, who probably
hasn't opened an Algebra I or
Plane Geometry book since he

'University Soapbox mmmmmmmm

Let The Soul Speak
By THOMAS J. McPEAK
The author's name, however without meaning it might be,
for to deny this action
must accompany this poor composition
would be to let these words speak for themselves, a right with
which only the soul has been endowed. Enough said!
How can one divorce himtimes!
a Divine permission it
self from prejudice? Such is the
is, accompanied by a responsistuff men die for. How does one
bility to those men who still
evaluate an achievment without walk in the fog.
acknowledging the one by whom
it was accomplished. Take your
taped lectures, records, diagrams,

...

...

Articles appearing in the
Soapbox are the opinions of
the author, not necessarily that of
the Kernel.

blackboards, films, slides, and
viewers; Give me incarnate inspiration effused in a classroom
or at the coffee table . . . mortal
conversation which inspires immortal insights.
To recall the details of a past
learning for the cause of evaldiffiuating an endeavor is too
The right kind of
cult for me.
price tag is not within my grasp.
Rather, let the new learned abilities speak for themselves. The
perceptiveness of Wordsworth,
Keats, Shakespeare, and Poe is
now partially shared by me. The
daffodils even almost speak to my
long time dull ears and a before
unknown mist has lifted from the
seasons. To think that men are
allowed to see so clearly at

was in the 10th grade, is more apt
to do poorly on the test and subsequently find himself prime draft
bait. But, this Liberal Arts student, while in the heat of battle,
when told by his commanding
officer to charge that hut full of
Vietcong, is likely to look at him
in disbelief and ask something
stupid, like "What for?" or "Are
you crazy?" or "Why don't you,
if you're so brave?" Whereas, the
Scientist or Mathematician, well
schooled in the complex philosoand
phies of
would
likely, in the same situation, be
heard to exclaim "Yes Sir, Yes
Sir, Yes Sir!" or "Anything you
say, Sir!" or "Kill, Kill, Kill!"
and proceed to the task.
Therefore, I propose that
those who score the highest on
the Mathematics section of the
test be drafted, because, in the
first place, they'd make better
soldiers; and in the second place,
all they'd be doing at home is
devising more efficient ways of
killing men or figuring out such
things as the goofy reproductive
traits of a fruit fly. And those who
score highest on the Verbal section of the test be defered, so
that a few may try to deflect the
suicidal course of the world that
technology and blind action have
set.
cause-and-effe-

stimulus-and-respons-

ct

e,

VILLAGE CLEANING

Uni-versi-

COR. BROADWAY
AND SHORT ST.

In truth, the Saigon turmoil
does not mean the U.S. is not
wanted in Saigon. Moreover, the
U.S. is in Vietnam not out of
humanitarian impulses but to
maintain the balance of power

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in Southeast
so.

Asia, and propel

1081 NEW CIRCLE
ROAD

CENTER

(Qntempus

with
MaxShuIman

(By the author of "Hall, Round the Flag, Hoys!",
"Dobie amis;' etc.)

THE COLLEGE PRESIDENT
HIS CAUSE AND CURE

:

Oh, sure, you've been busy, what with going to classes, doing
your homework, catching night crawlers, getting married,
picketing but can't you pause for just a moment and give
thought to that dear, dedicated, lonely man in the big white
house on the hill? I refer, of course, to Prexy.
(It is interes