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THE KENTUCKY

The South’s Outstanding College Daily

Friday Afternoon, Dec. 1, 1967 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

 

Seventeen seniors were initiated Thursday night
into Phi Beta Kappa at the Studait Carter. New
members of the honorary are Marilyn Hirschberg
Gall, Sarah D. Cline, Louise D. Midkifl', Ralph

New Phi Beta Kappa

K. Moores, Linda J. Atcher, Karen S. Bmke,Linda

‘It Gives The Voters A Choice’

 

D. Crabtree, David C. F annin, Terry R. Girill,
Michael T. Heath, Arvin Jupin, Leslie R. Lisso,
Laura L. Muntz, Katbaine Peterson Osolnik,
Robert Trent, Edith Vance, and Victoria Vetter.

Kernel Photo by Rick Bell

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McCarthy Off And Running

AP, CPS Dispatches

NEW YORK—Sen. Eugene].
McCarthy's decision to challenge
President Johnson in four presi-
dential primaries could polarize
the movements of dissident Dem-
ocrats already under way in a
number of states to block the
renomination of the President
next year. ,

Like Sen. McCarthy, they op-
pose Mr. Johnson's policies in
Vietnam.

The Minnesota senator said
he will be a contender in the
elections in Wisconsin, Cali-
fornia, Oregon and Nebraska. He
said he will decide within two
weeks whether to enter the pri-
nnries in New Hampshire and
Massachusetts.

There is already a group call-
ing itself “Concerned Wisconsin
Democrats," headed by Don Pet-
erson, chairman of the 10th Dis-
trict. He said of Sen. McCarthy's
announcement:

Offers A Choice

”It gives the voters of Wis-
” consin and the United States
a clear choice regarding the war
in Vietnam. Sen. McCarthy will
articulate this issue and help
reunite a country divided over a

war they have yet to compre-
hend."

Political observers in Califor-
nia said Sen. McCarthy is virtual-
ly certain to have the backing of
the California Democratic Coun-
cil, a 14-year-old organization
with an estimated 33,“ mem-
bers. The group voted recently
to oppose Mr. Johnson in the
California primary by entering
a slate of ”peace" delegates. It
had named no specific candidate
for the presidency.

In New Hampshire, the Presi-
dent's supporters are trying to
turn back what appears to be a
growing revolt against his Viet-
nam policies. A top Democrat,
who asked not to be identified,
said a recent poll indicated that
Mr. Johnson would not do well
in New Hampshire.

Efforts to promote Sen. Mc-
Carthy's candidacy started be-
fore his announcement. David
Hoeh, a Dartmouth College ad-
ministrator and faculty member
is heading the movement.

Kennedy Organization

New Hampshire is among the
states where anti-Johnson Demo-
crats have organized to place
the name of Sen. Robert F. Ken—
nedy of New York before the

Graduate Deferme’nts
Are Being Scrutinized

WASHINGTON (CPS)—Within the next few weeks, the White
House is expected to resolve two important questions that are not
taken care of under present draft laws.

One of them is the question
of who among the draft—eligible
miles should be drafted first.‘

The second is the question of .
what kinds of graduate studywill
enable students to get graduate.
deferments.

Although it is reported that
the President and his advisers
are studying a variety of pro-
posals relating to these twoques-
tions, the basic issues involved
are relatively simple. '

In the matter of who should
be drafted first, the basic decis-
ion will be between taking the
oldest draft-elibible males first
and setting up some kind of pro-
cedure for taking a cross-section
of age groups.

Presidential Power

According to the 1%7 law,
the President may designate any
age group as the “prime age
group"-—the one, that is, from
which draflees will be chosen
first. Although the President has
designated 19-year-olds as the
group, it has also been suggested
that students who have been de-
ferred should be put intothedraft
pool as if they were 19 when
their deferments expire. Under
the “oldest first" ruling, these
students would then be high in
the order of call.

According to John Morse, di-
rector of the Commission on Fed-

Contlnued on Page 7, Col. 1

voters next year. The state's pri-
mary, first in the nation, is
scheduled for March 12. Sen. Ken-
nedy has consistently disavowed
all such movements.

Massachusetts Democrats said
they would be in a difficult po-
sition if McCarthy decides to
enter the primary there.

Should he win, Massachusetts
delegates to the Democratic Na-
tional Convention would have to
vote for him on the first ballot.
Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill ex-
pressed the belief that the Pres-
ident would have a hard fight
to beat Sen. McCarthy in the

primary.

Other Democratic sources in
Massachusetts said Sen. Mc—
Carthy has a good chance of
winning there “unless the Viet-
nam war is ended one way or
another before next April."

Oregon Organizing

A McCarthy for President
Committee was organized in Ore-

gon Nov. 13. About 150 persons °

attended the meeting and elected
Joe Allman, assistant professor
of political science at the Uni-
versity of Oregon, as chairman.
The state Democratic chairnum,
Edward Fadeley of Eugene, said
such activity is healthy. Mr. F ad-
eley said, “No mu owns the
presidency. He must earn the
nomination."

One of the national cochair-
men of the Citizens for Kennedy
is '68 is Charles 0. Porter, a
two-term congressmn from Ore-
gon. Rep. Porter was defeated
in 1950 and has since failed to
win the Democratic nomination
to the House.

Rep. Porter said his organi-
zation would back Sen. McCar-
thy in the ()egon primary and
then hope to win for Sen. Ken-
nedy at the nominating conven-
tion.

Among the reasons Sen. Mc-
Carthy gave for becoming a can-
didate were a "growing evidence
of a deepening moral crisis in
America and the "sense of alien-
ation" he has found on college
campuses around the country.

 

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Vol. LIX, No. 67

Matthews Granted
Authority To Push
Suit Against UK

By BOB COOPER
The Associated Press
A state court gave permission Thursday for the attorney general
to sue to void the sale of Maine Chance Farm to the University

d Kentucky Research Foundation.

However, there retrained some
doubt-because of the pending
change in state administration—
d whether the case will reach
trial stage.

Fayette Circuit Judge L. T.
Grant overruled motions to dis-
miss the suit filed by Atty. Gen.
Robert Matthews, on behalf of
UK, to void the sale.

Defendants had argued that
Matthews had no right to repre-
sent the University without its
permission. Judge Grant said Mr.
Matthews had that right.

Mr. Matthews, however, ends
his term d ofiice Jan. 1, when
John B. Breckinridge becomes
attorney general. It is unlikely
that the case could come to trial
before that time.

Breckinridge Undecided

Mr. Breckinridge said, ”As a
nutter of practice, I feel that an
attorney general should pursue

those cases that are pending when
he takes office.

”However, it is his preogative

- to throw out any cases that he

feels are not in the state’s best
interest. I have not studied this
particular case and will have to
make a decision when I take of-
fice."

Mr. Breckinridge said Judge
Grant’s ruling was an important
matter, however, in deciding
”whether the attorney general
could sue to undertake to protect
the interests of the state in this
nutter."

The attorney general-elect
also said he felt this case might
be argued in a written form—
briefs by lawyers rather than an
actual trial on the mttér.

“There is no difference be—
tween the two sides on the facts
of the case, such as that in the
$30 million action in federal
court," he said.

VP Johnson Clarifies

Recruiter Policy

In a statement released Friday by Robert L. Johnson, vice-
president in charge of student affairs, University policy toward
military recruiters on campus was clarified.

' Mr. Johnson's statement said
that military recruiters would not
be prohibited from recruiting on
campus and emphasized the Uni-
versity’s tolerance of the ”right
to dissent." Following is Mr.
Johnson's statement:

”Recent statements by Lt.
General L. C. Hershey, Director
ofthe United States Selective Ser-
vice System. regarding Selective
Service reclassification, have pro-
mpted the request that the Uni-
versity of Kentucky consider wit h-
drawing permission for military
information teams to visit our
campus.

”In reviewing General Her-
shey's statement, we find that
any potential reclassification of
students engaged in antiwar pro-
tests must be the result of 'il-
legal activity which interferes
with recruiting, or causes refusal
d duty in the military and na-
val forces . . . '

‘ ‘ After considerable discussion
and evaluation among the ad-
ministrative officers of the Uni-
versity and the University Senate
Council, it is the University’s
position to continue permitting
military information teams on our
campus. It is our policy that any
student should have an oppor-
tunity to interview any recruiter
representing a legitimate field of
interest to him; thus, a student
interested in a military career
should have the same opportunity
as those students interested in
other careers.

“At this time, some of our
students believe that their en—
gaging in peaceful demonstra-
tions or protests will jeopardize
their deferment classification, but
we doubt that any Draft Board
would penalize or punish by re;
classification any student who is
involved only in a peaceful and
legal protest that does not in-

terfere with the recruiting pro-
cess.
”The University of Kentucky
is committed to and upholds the
right to dissent, and 'peaceful
picketing will be permitted so
long as it does not directly in—
hibit the carrying out of an ac—
tivity on University property.”

Basketball
Ticket Vote
Set Monday

A student referendum on bas-
ketball seating will be held Mon-
day.

Much criticism, mostly from
students, has been leveled at the
basketball seating arrangements.
All 4,800 seats allocated for the
first three home games were taken
by students in five hours Nov. 27.

Student Government will
sponsor the referendum as a result
of a bill passed in Thursday
night's SC session. SC President
Cook said even if students vote
for a change in the seating pro-
cedure, an alteration could not
take place until next semester.

Students will be asked to vote
on two questions:

1. Do you favor the present sys-
tem of obtaining tickets for
University of Kentucky basket-
ball games?

2. Do you favor the previously
used system of obtaining
tickets for University of Ken-
tucky basketball games?

The previous system used, left
unexplained in the second ques-
tion and unclear to students who
have never attended the Univer-
sity before, refers to presenting

Continued on Pare 7. Col 1

 

 

  

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Royal Gambit, now being pre-
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through Sunday evening provides
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exciting evening of theater. Writ-
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award in Berlin, and opened to
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sance all the way to the twentieth
century, as Henry continues on
his humanistic journey away from
God. The longjoumey, however,
as Katarina of Aragon points out,
has only led him back to God. At
the end of the last act, Katarina
voices the hope that the end of
Henry's “modern age" may bein
sight; indeed, if man is to sur-
vive, the end of the Godless hu-
manistic philosophy that lead
to the present chaos, must come.
She says, “ . . . that age is now
near its end. A new one ap-
proaches. It must be different
or there'll never be another for
the creatures of this earth."

The cast, assigned the difficult
task of portraying flesh and blood
people as well as symbols, was
uniformly excellent. Robert
Cooke, as Henry, ran the gamut
from young, proud, arrogant man-
hood, to old, but undefeated se-
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sincerity. His performance was a
winning one. Each of the wives
were, in their own right, superb.
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who represented Henry's spirit,
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Aneaaeeraente for University groups
will be published twieo—enee the day
before the event and ease the otter-
neen ef the event. The deadline is ll
a... the day prior to the first publi-
setters.

Today

The annual Christmas pageant.
"Hanging of the Greens." will be pre-
sented at 10:45 p.m. in Memorial Hall.

Admission is free.

The Department of Psychology will
present Dr. Jack Richardson. profes-
sor of psychology at SUNY at Bing-
hampton at 3:45 p.m. in 213 Kastle
Hall. Dr. Richardson will speak on
“Positive Transfer and the Duration
of Implicit Verbal Responses in
Paired-Associate Learning.”

Christmas tree decorating will be
the order of the day at 4 p.m. in the
Great Hall of the Student Center.
Everyone is invited to help trim a
tree and put up lights provided by
the Student Center Board.

e Newman Center will host a
“TC F" Party from 8 p.m. until mid-
night. Come as you are.

Tomorrow

The Block and Bridle Club will hold
its Little International Livestock
Showmanship contest at noon at the
Bee! Show barn on Coldstream Farm,
Newtown Pike.

Coming Up

Theta Sigma Phi will meet at the
Journalism Building at 7 p.m. Mon-
day. Guest speakers will be members
of the City Society. Members are
asked to bring their $2.50 semester
ues.

Students may sign up in the Stu-
dent Center game room for the Chess
Tournament beginning Dec. 8

The Sixth Annual Concrete Confer-
ence :11le be held at Carnahan House

College Life, sponsored by the Cam—
pus Crusade tor Christ. will meet at
9 p.m. Sunday at the Lambda Chi
Alpha house.

An open forum entitled “Alterna-
tive" will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday
in 245 Student Center to discuss the
problems of housing, education. em-
ployment. and response. Four speakers
from Boston College will begin the
discussion.

Transylvania College will present
of Christmas Music
with John Jacob Niles" at 8:15 p.m.
Sunday in Haggin Auditorium in the
Mitchell Fine Arts Center.

The opening of the Advent Season
will be celebrated at 7:30 p.m. Sun-
day at St. Augustine's Episcopal
Chapel, 472 Rose Street.

A group will be leaving the Student
Center at 7:15 p.m. Monday for
Montessourl School. The group will
counsel with officials at the school
about philosophy and the school's
equipment.

The UK Chapter of the Association
for Computing Machinery will meet at
1123(1)l p.m. Monday in 257 Anderson

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UNICEF Christmas
French-Eng‘ish calendars are avail-
able from the YWCA Office. Student
Center.

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Berry: Pacifism Necessary \i

‘ By VICKY SHULMAN

The United States is falsely
assuming that what is best for
it is always best for the world,
a University English professor
said Thursday.

Speaking against the Vietnam
war at the YWCA-sponsored fac-
ulty-student dutch lunch, nov-
elist Wendell Berry said the three
major crises of our time-war,
civil rights and conservation—
are interrelated. War, he said,
is a natural enemy of civil rights
and a waste of lands and their
natural resources.

"Violent emotion tends to the
use of the greatest power avail—
able," Mr. Berry told the audi-
ence of 11. He predicted future
use of nuclear weapons because,

he said, men have yet to suc—
ceed in creating powerful wea-
pons without eventually using
them.

He said pacificism is both
justified and necessary on moral
and practical grounds. Although
such a stand is unpopular and
against human nature, it must be
taken, he said.

U.S. ‘Not Perfect’

Mr. Berry believes the U.S.
is wrong in claiming it is a
peace-loving country and that
others are warmongers. ”We are
not always right and everyone
else wrong," Mr. Berry said. No
war has ever advanced the cause
of peace, he added.

The UK writer asserts one of

‘Tired’ Kentucky Southern
President Will Retire Soon

LOUISVILLE, (AP)——Dr.
Rollin S. Burhans announced
Thursday that he's “tired" and
is stepping down as president
of Kentucky Southern College.

Dr. Burhans, the only presi-
dent of the Scyear-old school

which called off a merger Wednes-
day with the University of Louis-
ville, said he will retire soon.

He said that would be when
the college can hire ”a top-flight
business manager, a top-flight
dean of students and a top-flight
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the greatest obstacles to Opposi-
tion of militaristic tradition is an
enormous monetary investment.
The U.S. does not want to see
its war machine idle, he accused.

All that dissenters have been
able to do so far is speak out in
public, write letters, sign peti-
tions and conduct demonstra-
tions, Mr. Berry said. These met h-
ods are inadequate, but keep the
issue alive, he continued.

In an ensuing discussion the
question of the alleged intrinsic
evil of communism was raised.
The audience responses indicated
many believe it a ”scare word."

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Prior to the start of each season
Coach Adolph Rupp, basketball
coach of the century, invites the
members of press, radio, and tele-
vision “and The Kernel," to a
dinner.

The banquet’s purpose is to
christen the new season, and pro-
vides Rupp with a forum where he
can impress upon the members of
the mass media that if nothing
good can be said about either him—
self or the team, then nothing
should be said. ‘

Many such pseudo-events are

staged for the benefit of the press ,

and the mass media. Usually such
banquets are hail-fellow well-met
blowouts.

Last night, however, Coach
Adolph Rupp, whose genius is un-
questioned on the basketball floor,
and man of stellar accomplishments
that he is, pontificated in an area
where he is not infallible, freedom
of the press and constitutional law.

Coach Bupp announced that no
member of the mass media will
be permitted into the UK dressing
room or training room following a
game. He further said that the
press will not be permitted to talk
to the team players without his
prior approval.

When asked how such a policy
could apply to a student news-
paper, since the announced Rupp
policy would prevent students at
the University, from speaking to
fellow students, he replied: _

”The Kernel fell flat on its
face with that Tallent editorial
last year. I don’t want comments
from my boys in the paper."

(Tallent, dismissed from the
squad last year for "disciplinary
reasons” was the subject of a Ker-
nel editorial which sought to af—
firm Tallent’s rights as a student
at the University and also sought
to prevent the cancellation of his
scholarship).

Though Assistant Coach Harry
Lancaster attempted to explain that
what Bupp was saying was “the
boys will not be permitted to
answer questions from the press,"
Rupp went on to say:

“ .(urinate) on the first
amendment."

These events have thus far re-
mained unreported in the mass
media, particularly Rupp’s com-
ment about the first amendment.

Present at the banquet were
members of the AP, UPI, The Lex-
ington Herald, Leader, and mem-
bers. of. the local radio and televi-
sion, stations. They lifted not a
word in, defense of freedom of the
press and its lifeblood, the first

suggested?

amendment of the Constitution.

Does their silence tacitly be
speak agreement with news manip-
ulation?

Rupp can, it appears, bar the
press from the dressing room and
training room. This works a hard-
ship on the commercial press. It
is news nunipulation. ‘It severely
hampers those few rermining mem-
bers of the mass media who insist
on access to the ascertainable facts
in lieu of handouts from news
sources. '

Rupp can, and apparently has,
used coercion and threat of repri-
sal, to prevent his team players
from answering media questions.
To speak to the press for publica-
tion or to remain silent should be
the independently arrived at de-
cision of each student athlete.

Such individual rights can not
be coerced away.

Is the Kernel sports editor, who
played freshman basketball last sea-

 

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son for UK, thereby making asso-

ciations and friendships with
present team members, supposed
to cease to speak to people who
sit beside him in classrooms of
the University? ,

Freedoms will erode if there is
not firm, vigorous resistance to at-
tempts to coerce away individual
rights and liberties.

The press can speak freely to
whom it chooses. All men can
and must be pemiitted to decide
for themselves whether to speak
in return. No student athletes right
to free speech should be coerced
or intimidated away.

Apparently the members of a
student newspaper are the only
remaining members of the mass
media who stubbomly resist in-
trusions on the freedom of the press
and the rights of individuals.

For this reason, if no other, the
coach was correctvin singling out
The Kernel from the. rest of the

_mass media.

 

 

THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

The South’s Outstanding College Daily
UNIVERSITY or Kmrucxr

ESTABLISHED 1894

FRIDAY, DEC. 1, 1967

 

Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.

 

William F. Knapp Jr., Editor—In- Chief

 

 

Helen McCloy, Managing Editor

Dick Kimmins, Associate Managing Editor
Kerry Powell, Graduate Assistant

Ossilyn Ellis, Women's Editor

assurrnrr MANAGING nnrmns
Martin Webb, Io Warren,

Robert Brandt,

Joe Hinds, Arts Editor
Bill Thompson, Cartoonist

Rick Bell, Director of Photo
Guy Mendes, Sports Editor

Lee Becker, Darrell Christian

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By DONALD BUBKHOLDEB
DAVID ELKINTON
PETER SINCLAIR
Several members of the UK academic
community, .both students and faculty,"
protest against the participation of the
U.S. military forces in a war that is
inconsistent with American ideals of free-
dom and democracy. ,

This war has impxed a cruel toll upon
American young men: 14,630 had been
killed and 91,081 hat! been wounded be
tween January, 1961, and November, 1967,
according to 0113ch U.S. estirmtes.

Today we are spending at least 4 mil-
lion dollars an hour and are employing
about 500,01!) American young men in a
tragic conflict for which our oflicials have
presented no clear, consistent, satisfactory
purpose.

Recently four young Americans felt
constrained to register their protest by
deserting from the U. S. Navy and finding
asylum in the Soviet Union. Many ”adult
Americans, including fathers of at least
two of these boys, smugly seek demean-
ing motives for the action of these youths
rather than posing answers to their ques-
tions.

We refuse to sit on our hands apathe-
tically and safely while our country's
youth must face the decision either of
accepting the social and economic con-
sequences of rejecting military service or
of submitting thenselves to an institution
that orders them to kill "enemy" sold-
iers, to drop napalm on “unfriendly"
villages, and to demolish villages and
cities of North Vietnamjeven though the
Senator Mansfield Report asserts that
”only about 400 North Vietnamese sold-
iers were . . . in the South" when the
leaders of the U.S. democracy initiated
this bombing.

We must address ourselves tothe issues
posed in the following statement by a

Letters to

ToThe Editor (I The Kernel:

Thanks for printing everything that
comes over those hot UPI wires. I am
certain the students of this campus were
happy to hear that Dr. Sylvia Herz(“psy-
chologist-sociologist ' ') has discovered that
“sex is easily attainable, available . . . "
but perhaps many were as disappointed
as I was to be assured that it (sex, of
course) is now "taken for granted .
has lost its yesterday spirit. . . "and“the
use of drugs ...has relegated sex to
second place."

It is gratifying to learn, however, that
sociology has developed these theories
from factual evidence showing a positive
correlation between the use of drugs and
”second place" sex: "Of those tested, in
all cases where a student had experi—
mented with drugs, he, self admittedly,
had also participated in the sexual act
at some time."

Although I am not trained in the
mysteries of sociological'theory—construc-
tion, I would like to contribute some
additional data to the commodious port-
manteau of sociological fact: of those
questioned, in all cases where a student
had experimented with sex, he, self ad-
mittedly, had also participated in church
services at some time.

I will leave the construction of a
suitable hypothesis from these findings
to those who have been formally trained
in the new science.

Steve Boesai
Graduate School

ToThe Editor Of The Kernel:

I, along with nnny others, would like
to know something about the University’s
new system of allocating student tickets
for the home basketball games. Why was
this new system instituted? What are the
benefits of this system supposed to be?

I fail to see the reasoning for dis-
tributing the tickets in advance. The old
system of giving the student his ticket
as he passed through the gate and pre-
sented his ID. card seemed to work per—
fectly last year. There were seldom any
rmjor hang-ups with that system, where-
as several objections to the new system
seemed to be clearly evident. Having to
get the tickets in blocks of two or three
games seerm to be the rmjor problem.
If a student took a date to the ball game
and found out that he could not stand
her (or she him), he would then be stuck
for two more games. A solution to this
would be not to go to the next two games,
but then this would bring up another
problem, that of empty seats.

When there are students who were

 

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group of veterans, young American vet-
erans, of the Vietnam war: ‘We believe
that this conflict in which our country
is now engaged in Vietnam is wrong,
unjustified and contrary to the princip