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The South's Outstanding College Daily

Friday Evening, April 12, 1968

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Black Versus White
What Now?
By ELAINE STUART
Nearly 50 people, black

and
white, sought a solution to the
problems of race riots and white
bigotry

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night at the YMCA's Tavern
Talks with no easy answers being
given or accepted by the group.
The emphasis was on young
people what can they do to discourage racism among their
friends and family.
Miss Doris Wilkinson, a sociology professor and a Negro,
offered these concrete suggestions
to white people w ho want to stop
prejudice.
Do some
and
recognize prejudice in yourself.
Stand up for the Negro w henever a friend or family member
makes a prejudiced remark.
Ask a Kiansman to speak to
your club or friends. "Invite
someone who speaks the language
of hatred and bigotry. See what
this person thinks and then see
how you respond," Miss Wilkinson said.
Help the Black Student
Union.
Historically the black man
"has been viewed as inferior,"

UK Sings Out
At 7 Tonight
Fourteen groups will be singing t on i glit in the University's
annual All Campus Sing in Memorial Hall.
The All Campus Sing, sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha, men's
professional music fraternity, will
begin at 7 p.m.
The program will be divided
into four areas of competition
mixed, women's and men's choruses and a miscellaneous

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Miss Wilkinson said. Behind this
sort of racism, Miss Wilkinson
said, is the established church,
political powers and bigotry ingrained in the family.
The failure of white students
in past civil rights movements
was condemned by Lamond Cod-wia senior in business and economics.
"When we started out, white
students were with us," Godwin
said. "But when the going got
rough, they dropped out. People
say we kicked whites out of the
movement; that's not tnie."
The necessity for Black Power
was discussed by Dr. George
Hill, a Negro in the department
of biochemistry.
"If we're working for the intermingling of the races, then why
do we need Black Power? . . .
When I was growing up, all the
power was in the white man's
sector and it still is. What we
need is a unifying of all black
men, trying to gain themselves
economic and political power. He
who has the power uses it; he
who doesn't, gets stomped," Dr.
Hill said.
Dr. Hill suggested that young
people "use their minds and their
ballot" to help civil rights.
In the discussion a white coed
raised the question of how she
could combat prejudice when "in
a polite society, you may not
even know it exists." She cited
the refusal of her roommate to
attend the meeting for this reason.
Miss Wilkinson answered that
she found the roommate's prejudice "no shock," but only feared
the kind of prejudice behind an
assassin's bullet.
Godwin had a different answer "You better tell your roommate she'd better try to
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(left), a member of the Medical Center faculty,
tried to answer that question last night at Tavern Talks. About 50 people attended the informal discussion session on racial problems held

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at Maria's (formerly Mario's). At the front table
are Allen Brownfield, political science major,
and Jon Dalton, University Office of Religious

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Kernel Photo by Howard Mason

Campus Protests Spreading
By College Press Service

Students in Minnesota, New
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,York and North Carolina held
four demonstrations Thursday,
all related directly or indirectly
to the nation's racial and urban
problems.
Two of the protests showed
no signs of ending, one was

plicant for membership. The fra- student camp-i- on the campus
ternities will now require a ma- of Duke University appeared near
its conclusion,
jority to approve membership.
Architecture students at Pratt
Wright "Tisdale, chairman of
the Duke board of trustees, spoke
Institute in New York City Thursday suspended for Easter vaca- to the students Wednesday and
strike calling agreed to part of their demands.
tion a seven-dafor the resignation of the dean He said the school would raise
the minimum wage for nonaca-demi- c
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employees from $1.15 an

suspended because of Easter vacation, and one appeared near

hour to $1.60 an hour by July
of 1969, instead of 1971 as originally planned. He also agreed
to designate a committee to consider recognition pf a collective
bargaining unit to represent the

its conclusion.

University of Minnesota students were sitting in at the Mayor's office in St. Paul in protest against equipping the city's
police with rifles similar to the
which is used in Vietnam.
They gave notice Thursday that
they plan to continue their vigil.
At Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., about 300 students
and faculty members continued
a sit-i- n against racial discrimination in fraternities. They say they
will stay in the school's admin-

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The fraternities made a concession Thursday when they
voted to end a policy which
allowed any single member of a
fraternity to disqualify an ap

Demonstration

For Pratt Set

and administrative officers of the
architecture school.
Some of the students will meet
with administrators over the vacation period to discuss their
but one student
grievances,
doubted they would be resolved
and said the strike is expected
to resume when the school reopens April 22.
In Durham, N.C., a

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A demonstration in support
of draft resister Don Pratt is
being organized for 2 p.m. Sunday, in front of the Jefferson
County Jail in Louisville, where
Pratt is being held.
Pratt, a former UK student
who was convicted last week by
a U. S. District Court for refusing induction into the military
service on Jan. 26, is in Jefferson County Jail awaiting transfer to a federal prison.

Gretchen Marcum To Serve As
Next Year's Tientuckian' Editor

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'It's About Time9
For a night of vaudeville,

for a night of clowns, singers and dancers, UK Troupers presents "It's About Time" tonight at 8 p.m.
in the Alumni Cym. Admission is 50 cents for children, 75 cents
for students and $1 for adults.

Gretchen Marcum, junior psychology major from Lexington,
will be editor of the 1909 Kentuckian.
A member of the Kentuckian
staff for the past two years,
Miss Marcum was selected for the No. 1 editorial post by the
Board of Student Publications.
The 19G9 Kentuckian will return to sectional coverage of Creeks,
organizations and Sports, but will feature a number of photo
essays as well.
"To the student the book must be a comprehensive account
acaof the year whether the events are planned or sH)ntaiu-ous- ,
demic or athletic, fraternal or independent," Miss Marcum stated
in her prospectus.
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She hopes to do iJiotographic studies on such topics as
History 300, the "dual role" of the professor (research and
teaching), and the student commuter.
A member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, Miss Marcum has Uen
initiated into two women's Itonoraries Cwens and Links.
TUs year, she is writing the text for several sections of the
1968 Kentuckian, in which the emphasis is on the written word
rather than photography.

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