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Thursday Evening, Jan. 30,

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LX, No. 85

Kirwan's Term Prolonged;
Trasltees Change Proposal
On Library Addition Site

By DANA EWELL
Assistant Managing Editor
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Interim President A. D.
will remain as acting UK
president until next December
when he reaches retirement age
unless the trustees make a permanent choice before then.
The Board of Trustees gave
Dr. Kirwan its vote of confidence Wednesday afternoon after
Gov. Louie Nunn read a letter
from Dr. Ralph Angelucci, retiring chairman of the presidential screening committee, which
recommended that Dr. Kirwan
be named "president."
Dr. Kirwan questioned the.
wording of the letter, pointing
out that it should have read
Kir-wa-

"acting president."
Gov. Nunn responded that the
letter made no mention of the
word "acting," but Dr. Harry
Denham, trustee from Maysville,
moved that Dr. Kirwan be continued in an acting position since

left by Dr. Angelucci, whose term side of the present library strucon the board expired in De- ture and the construction of a
ft. addition.
cember, and by Dr. Kirwan, who 200,000-sresigned from the committee in
The plan approved by the
early January.
board Wednesday calls for only
100,000 sq. ft. of additional space,
Lancaster Named
a reduction caused by construcEarly in the meeting the tion costs and the desire to reboard erased the "acting" from serve the larger Maxwell Place
the title of assistant basketball site for more efficient developcoach Harry Lancaster
and ment later.
named him UK's athletic direcAlthough Robert Kerley, vice
tor, a job he has been filling president for business affairs, said
on an interim basis since Septem- th-- new library addition would
ber.
probably be open to students by
March of 1973, he could give no
The trustees decided to change date for the demolition of Pence
the site for construction of a new and the annex.
addition to the Margaret I. King
George Ruschell, an adminisLibrary, and it will now be ex- trator in Vice President Kerley' s
panded on the property occupied office, said the School of Archiby Pence Hall and the Geology tecture would probably be reAnnex.
located in McVey Hall and that
the Mathematics and English DeThe original plan, approved
by the board in November 1967, partments now in McVey would
called for the demolition of Max- move into the new office-claswell Place on the Rose Street
Contlnned on Page 5, CoL 1

By CHIP HUTCHESON
Kernel Sports Editor
The selection of Harry Lancaster as athletic director Wednesday created a gap in the UK
basketball structure.
Lancaster, in accepting the.
post as head of the Athletics
Department, said he would give
up his coaching duties at the
end of the current season.
Who will fill the assistant's
position vacated by Lancaster
Coach Adolph Rupp, who
prides himself with having the
"best people for the job at hand,"
plans on selecting a coach after
the season ends.
" I've given it a lot of thought,"
said Rupp. "After the season
I'll sit down with Joe (Hall)
and we'll go from there." Hall

raitee.
Drs. Rudd and Nicholas are
filling vacancies in the committee

Zahn To Speak
Dr. Cordon Zahn, a sociology
professor at the University of
Massachusetts will speak tonight
(Thursday) at 8:30 in the
Seminar in Room 222 of
the Commerce Building.
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Joined the UK basketball staff In
1965.

Searching for an assistant is
nothing new to Rupp, "I've had
about seven assistants since I've
been here' he explained.
Rupp said he knows what he
wants in an assistant.
"I don't want any applications," he said. "In fact, if I get
any, they'll go in the wastebas-ke- t.
I don't need any applications
to tell me what I want."
Rupp said it would not be a
haphazard selection, however.
"I'll go over it very carefully.
My time is running out, sol want
a good man to carry on from
there.
"I'm very anxious to get a
good freshman team this year.
I want to have a good bunch
here when I leave."

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Interim President A. D. Kirwan talks with
A. B. (Happy) Chandler after the Board of
Trustees gave him a vote of confidence
Wednesday. Dr. Kirwan will continue as
acting president until December or until
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Bemie Shively as athletic director.

Lancaster, a native of Paris,
Ky lettered in football, basketball and baseball in high school
under Blanton Collier, a former
football coach here.
He attended Georgetown

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lege, where he played football
and basketball and was an
halfback three years.
In basketball, he earned three
nominations and
was team captain two yean.
Lancaster served as assistant
football and basketball coach at
Georgetown College and Paris
High School. He was head basketball coach at Bagdad at
Cleney rie High Schools in Shelby
County.
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baseball team for 17 seasons in
addition to coaching basketball,
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asking that Student Government President Wally
be censured will be introduced at the SC Assembly meeting
Bryan
tonight.
The resolution, according to 97 percent of the nearly 4,000
sponser Joe Maguire, will con- students who voted were opposed
tain a motion to censure Bryan to a "housing policy which would
and a request that Bryan for- allow the University to enact
mally apologize to the assembly regulations
sophorequiring
for "insulting its competence."
mores, juniors or seniors to live
The censure move is ap- on campus."
parently the result of Bryan's
Bryan's actions were questionpresentation of SC'f housing referendum results to the Board of ed by the assembly at last week's
meeting. At a meeting of the StuTrustees last semester.
told the trustees that dents for Action and ResponsibiBryan
"in my opinion, the referendum lity (SAR) later in the week,
Maguire said Bryan's answers
is the result of a misunderon the part of more had been "totally inadequate."
standing
members of Student Government.
Also to be introduced tonight
I think they read too much into is SAR's proposal for reorganizait."
tion of all student affairs under
The referendum showed that one body.
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Gov. Nunn appointed Dr. Robert Rudd, professor of agricultural economics and one of two
faculty representatives on the
board, and Dr. Nicholas Nicholas, a trustee from Owensboro,
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The letter from Dr. Angelucci
charged that "premature coverage of the presidential search by
the news media made the work of
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Kernel for "judicious restraint

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The proposed site of the new library addition was changed by the Board of
Trustees Wednesday to the position shown on this plan. The 100,000 sq. ft
addition will be built on the site presently occupied by Pence Hall and the
Ceology Annex. Original plans called for the addition to be built where Maxwell Place now stands. The addition, with all its extra study room, will probably be open by March, 1973.

* KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, Jan. 30,

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Testifies In Maine Chance Case

CLASSIFIED

Matthews Tried To Slow Purchase
Former Atty. Gen. Robert
Matthew testified in U.S. District Court Wednesday that he
was refused when he asked the
University to delay proceedings
in its purchase of Maine Chance
Farm.

of the farm to the UK Research

Foundation.
The University bought the
farm from the estate of the late
Mrs. Elizabeth Arden Graham
July 31, 1967. Dr. Arnold C.
Pessin, a local veterinarian, and
California rancher Rex EllsMatthews, a Shelbyville law- worth also bid on the
farm, but
yer, told the jury of nine women filed suit charging a
conspiand three men that he wrote
racy prevented them from the
two letters to UK, each time
purchase.
requesting the University to deThe UK Research Foundation,
lay purchase of the farm until the Keeneland Association and
he had investigated the matter The Bank of New York are
to seeeif it conformed to state
in the case.
law.
The defense attorneys failed
Matthews testified for the in an early bid to stop Matthews
plaintiffs in a $30 million anti from testifying about the letters.
trust suit dealing with the sale The letters were dated Sept. 6
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and Oct. 9. The University received the deed to the property
Oct. 11.
Presiding Judge Mac Swin-for- d
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F. Selby Hurst, representing
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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, Jan. 50,

Rock, Jazz Wedding Announced
Best
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Male
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Musician(s)
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sic of the early sixties with those
endlessly repetitive piano triplir
cates, the monotonous
drum work ("lewd, pulsating
rhythms," Frank Zappa would
call them), with four adolescent
voices
it up in the
d
back ground, while our
lead singer ground through
lyrics inevitably built around the
central theme: "Come on, baby,
and ride my motorcycle ancVor
go to the high school hop
widme." Chorus: "Iwannaluv-yewyeah.- "
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During that period a term
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in terms as, say, army intelligence.
Blood, Sweat and Tears has
moved so far up the scale of
musical Darwinism that such
tripe seems only a bad memory.
They have earned the title of
an American Music Band, using
all the influences from classical,
country and blues to rock and
jazz.
They still utilize those lewd,
pulsating rhythms, but varying
and molding them in a manner
that would oblige Miss Joplin to
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BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS, blowing only simple, repetitive "Cod Bless The Child" that so
Columbia Records
"whap whap" figures in the stage often has reduced it to a musical
shibboleth. Throughout the piece
style of Motown.
DyJACXLYNE
Kernel Arts Editor
It was this overwhelming sy- he holds a slight edge ofreitraint
"Janis, would you name some cophant syndrome of Kooper' s over that Blue Ox voice, giving
of your favorite groups?"
that finally galvanized his eight us the first believable version of
Janis Joplin s damp brow fur- partners into the tense mutiny the standard in yean.
It is on "Blues-Pa- rt
rowed, the co men of her mouth that forced the split. With Kooper
II,"
contracting into little balls of gone, the survivors have suddenly though, that Blood, Sweat and
muscle. It was question 18 from found themselves free to utilize Tears pulls out all the stops,
the unabridged edition of Questalents.
their
running from H alligan s drab
tions To Ask The Stan, immediThe result has been an ex- organ dirge to crisp, sharp solos
ately preceded by "Star, who citing, often stunning, turn by Fielder and drummer Bobby
made you what you are today," toward improvisational Jazz techColomby, then to some roaring-biband work, now suddenly
and immediately followed by nique. The liner notes trumpet
the album as "the wedding of stilling the cataclysm and work"Star, how do you define souP" rock
and Jazz." The musical mu- ing into the opening bass riff of
The freckled fire hydrant that
tation is not of the shotgun va- Cream's "Sunshine of Your
doubles as the Joplin nose
twitched several times and finally riety, however, for most of the Love," building layers of sound
the shaman ess rasped "Blood, Tears have deep, widely ranging over it and then stealing a few
bar s from M uddy Wat en' " SpoonSweat and Tears. They're better musical backgrounds. Saxophonist Fred Lipsius comes from an ful," whereupon Thomas launchwith Kooper gone. Honey, they're
almost exclusively
es into a raunchy, venomous blues
stone heavy to death." (Translascreamer that makes you wonder
background, while
tion: "My, but they play their
Dick II alligan holds a mas- whether all these months Janis
instruments well.")
That was November. At the ter's degree from the Manhattan Joplin has been David Clayton
Thomas in drag. The Tears end
time funeral arrangements for School of Music.
Fortunately, the bits of jazz the album on a classical note
inBlood, Sweat and Tears were
have extracted are the more with flutes and recorders gently
complete, although the cause of they
visceral, driving, exciting ele- running through the first movedeath had been ascertained. Al
mentsment of "Variations on a Theme
Kooper the brash, ebullient,
Blood, Sweat and Tears have by Eric Satie." t,
shameless Kooper lead
It's a long way from Muddy
who wrote, arranged wisely utilized the harmonic and
"
and produced almost all the cuts rhythmic subtitles of jazz in a Waters to "Les Trois
manner that pumps fresh blood
the group is polyet
on the first B, S and T album
"Child Is The Father To The into forms too long harbored and ished enough to make all these
sheltered like museum pieces. transitions smoothly.
Man," had severed his connec- For
With this album Blood, S weat
instance, the group takes
tion with his eight musical sibTraffic's "Smiling Phases" and and Tears emerges as the prelings, just as he had done earlier
with The Blues Project, leaving runs it through at a driving pace, mier rock band utilizing brass.
with that mother heartbeat bass The horn section is far and away
them leaderless and directionless.
of Jim Fielder thumping away. the best on the contemporary
With Kooper and his organ
Suddenly in the midst of the scene. Other groups, most nottransplanted, it seemed only a melee, the horn section coasts
ably the Butterfield Blues Band,
matter of time until the group
z
into a beautiful, complicated
have tried the
experishriveled and died a collective
that becomes almost too ment before, but B, S and T is
death. It was Czechoslovakia fugue
without Alexander Dubcek. The complex, almost reaches the the first bunch to get it all toheadnodding level. gether.
Jets without Joe Nam at h. The Thomas
Their ascendancy further unpulls it out, running
of Kentucky without
University
headlong back into his bellowing, derlines the development of
a president.
vocal.
American popular music. In reHowever, several funny things driving
Thomas also avoids the
trospect it seems hard to conhappened to Blood, Sweat and
with the evergreen ceptualize the sound of the mu- Tears on its way to the grave,
one being David Clayton Thomas.
The bullish Thomas was lured
Complete Optical Service
to the New York base of B, S
and T from his native Toronto
to Central Kentucky
(the first reversal of the current
Since 1923
balance of draftees' deficit) to
into the rather large tracks
step
left by the egomaniacal, talented
Kooper.
Thomas, who studies vocal
technique by listening to the
guitar of B. B. King and the saxophone of John Coltrane, looks
and sounds like a paperback Paul
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* The Last Mile
In a time marked by assassination, confrontation in the streets
and violence in public forums, at
least one strong sign of civilization
emerged statistically: No one in the
United States walked the last mile
to death by decreed execution in the
last twelve months.
We hope that the new Attorney
General, John N. Mitchell, will
work to keep this record intact. At
his first news conference he said,
in reply to a question, that he was
"not opposed to capital punishment" but he has set no policy.
Mr. Mitchell's predecessor, Ramsey
Clark, set the right standard when
he said: "Our history shows that the
death penalty has been unjustly
imposed, innocents havebeen killed
by the state, effective rehabilitation
has been impaired, judicial administration has suffered."
The death penalty is still on the
books of 37 states. The last Federal
execution occurred in 1963 and only
executions took
two state-orderplace in 1967. Although 435 persons
waited in death rows in 1968, court
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delays and stays of execution halted
what many jurists consider "cruel
and unusual punishment" under
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There are several challenges to
the death penalty coming up in the
Supreme Court this spring. The
most important forward step occurred last June when the Court
ruled that persons with conscientious scruples against capital
punishment could not be automatically excluded from juries. Since
the ruling was retroactive, many
executions were blocked.

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When too many individuals
think they can defy law, the state
should not be an ally of vengeance
and barbarous customs. Modem
justice and penology demand that
the death penalty be abolished by
the Federal Government and all the
states. Civilized nations from
Canada to Great Britain have done
so. The record of 1968 abolished the
practice in fact; abolition should
now be written in law.
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Repairing Democracy

The Jeffersonian Airplane

Much of the current discussion about needed election reforms has
centered around the electoral college. While changes are needed there
and would be the easiest to effect, the greatest need for revision exists
in the method by which the candidates are nominated.
In the last election the American people were forced by the two
major parties to choose between candidates who were both second-choicamong the public according to national polls. This was where
the real travesty in democracy occurred and this is what most needs
to be corrected. The right to choose who will run for office should be
placed in the hands of the party at large, not under the control of
interest-veste- d
party professionals.
We realize that the system now operating cannot be revised overnight with any assurance that whatever replacement is made will be
even as good as the present system. But until basic changes are made
no one can honestly call our system a democracy.

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JAN. 30, 1969

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Darrell Rice, Editorial Page
Guy M. Mendes III, Managing Editor
Tom Derr, Business Manager
Jim Miller, Associate
Howard Mason, Photography Editor
Chip Hutcheson, Sports
Jack Lyne and Larry Kelley, Arts Editors
Frank Coots,
Dana Ewell,
Terry Dunham,
Janice
Larry Dale Keeling,
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Kernel Forum: ike readers write

In the Friday Jan. 24 edition of the
Kernel there appeared a rather interesting, although biased, editorial written,
no doubt, by one of the illustrious editors
of this publication. The editorial entitled
"New Pueblo Crisis" attempts to do two
things. First, absolve the commanding
officer of the USS Pueblo, Cmdr. Bucher,
of any blame for the loss of the ship
and praise him for his good judgement
in surrendering. Secondly, the author takes
a swing at the higher echelon of the Navy
in particular and our entire military structure in general for being so nasty as to
even have spy ships and armies in the first
place. Being recently discharged from the
Navy, the subject is one which interests
me in more than a casual way and I
would like to take exception with the editorialist on a few points.
He says, "The Admirals apparently
are most concerned about losing a ship
and the secret information it contained,
some of which might reflect questionably
on the activities of this country." There
are two points I would like to make
here. First, the Admirals are and should
be most concerned about the compromise
of the installation aboard the Pueblo,
not necessarily because it might reflect
on this country's activities, but because
of the military significance of the material
lost. My tour in the Navy was spent in
the aviation branch of Electronic Intelligence, and I know that the information
gained by the Communist powers with
the capture of the Pueblo proved most
interesting and our losses cannot be measured in dollars and cents. Secondly the
author hints that the United States should
be ashamed of the fact that we carry
on such operations in the first place.
That's asinine. If he really believes what
he is saying, he has his head stuck
in the sand, or in some other conspicuous place. Surely he realizes that all of

the major powers carry out such operations. It is a matter of national security.
I suppose he thinks that the Russian
"fishing" fleet that operates off both the
East and West coasts of the United States
is really fishing. The Russians couldn't eat
that much fish if their entire population
were made up of Irish Catholics. Those
trawlers are doing the same thing that
the Pueblo was doing, gathering Electronic Intelligence. I've flown over some of
those "fishermen" and their masts are so
full of antennas they look like aluminum
Christmas trees. At least our Navy makes
no attempt to hide under the guise of
honest fishermen.
The author goes on to make the state-- '
ment that Cmdr. Bucher was concerned
deterwith the lives of his men and
mined that they should not be needlessly
lost." I wish I had that kind of insight.
The Navy has convened a Board of Inquiry
and has gone to considerable expense to
find our just what Cmdr. Bucher had on
his mind the day his ship was captured.
Meanwhile the author, with his amazing
capabilities, has spanned the distance
from his typewriter to California, looked
into Cmdr. Bucher' s mind and "AH HA!
He was concerned about his men and
determined that they should not be lost
needlessly." Amazing. I don't suppose it
ever occurred to him that Cmdr. Bucher
might have been thinking about his own
hide. I'm no more personally acquainted
with the Captain of the Pueblo than is
the man who wrote that editorial but from
the newspaper and television accounts
I had read or seen about him I would
suppose that had he had something more
substantial than two SO Caliber machine
guns on board the North Koreans would
have paid a dear price for the capture of
lii$ ship.
The author goes on, "But whatever
usefullness they (Armies and spyships)

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were once thought to have has been
exposed for its idiocy by the morass of
militarism exemplified by the threat to
Bucher. (He is talking here about the
Board of Inquiry advising Cmdr. Bucher
that he is suspected of having violated
Article 0730 of the Uniform Code of
Military Justice.) The most interesting
word in the quotation is "threat." As
defined in my copy of Webster's New
World Dictionary a threat is: "A statement or expression of intention to hurt,
distroy or punish." The word, as used
by the author leaves the impression that
the Board is using a Court Martial as an
'ax over Cmdr. Bucher' s head, and this
just isn't so. What actually happened is
that the Board, from the testimony it had
heard, decided that the Commander might
be in violation of Art. 0730 in that he
permitted his ship to be searched and the
crew removed, and that in all fairness to
him they wanted to warn Cmdr. Bucher
that he was suspected of having violated
this article and that he need say nothing
more since anything he did say might
be used against him in a trial by Court
Martial. The word "warn" as I used
it above is defined as "To tell of danto put on guard against a person
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to be wary or cautious."
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This word has a considerable different
connotation than "threat" and I think
the author realized that. What the Board
of Inquiry did was not