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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Monday, Jan. 20, 1970

Election Rules
By JIM FUDGE
Kernel Staff Writer
A petitioned meeting of the
Student Government Assembly
met Sunday night with all but
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representatives present
and passed a bill rescheduling
Student Government elections
to the time of Fall

hall

the library and

cafeterias
as
specified in Bright's bill.
Immediately following the
adoption of Tapp's amendment,
a brief recess was called, and
following the recess Bright proposed a reworded version of
Tapp's bill which returned
Bright's original proposals.
This measure was accepted,
which in effect negated Tapp's

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Short Circuit Causes
Campus Power Failure

SG Bill Alters

Sallie BenRepresentatives
ton, David Blair, Steve Bright,
Bruce Carver, Tom Green, Lynn
Montgomery and Buck Pennington were responsible for the
petition to call the meeting.
Bright's bill on rescheduling
SG voting, which prompted a
walkout at last Monday's meeting, was the first to be acted
upon at Sunday's meeting. One
purpose of the bill was to insure wider participation in SG
elections.
Before it was voted on,
Bright proposed an amendment
to provide for specific placement of polling places.
Tapp Amendment Passes
There were several objections
to the bill, in particular to the
proposed increased length of the
elections and to the increased
number of people therefore required to man the polls.
The bill and the amendment
both gained the approval of the
assembly, but were subsequently amended again in a proposal
by representative Rodney Tapp.
Tapp's measure cut election
time to three days from the
Bright bill's full two weeks. It
also moved polls to residence
hall lobbies and the Student
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Physical Plant Division employees worked until after midnight
switch which
on a
blacked-ou- t
most of the central
part of the campus Sunday night.
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By TOM BOVVDEN
Kernel Staff Writer
The light of knowledge at UK
resides in a small underground
dungeon.
And UK students discovered
that little fact rather suddenly
Sunday night when a power failure darkened residence halls,
classroom buildings and the King
Library.
A switch, located in a small
concrete vault on the east side
of the campus, caused the blackout when it shortcircuited at
4:52 p.m. Sunday.
The cutoff left most buildings
in the central part of the campus
without power, with the exceptions of the Administration Building and the Classroom Building.

Funkhouser, Law, Commerce,

Home Economics, Civil Engineering, McVey, Kastle, Pence
and Engineering Quad buildings
were blacked out from 4:52 p.m.
until 12 p.m.
Haggin Hall was left without
power in the rooms from 4:52

until approximately 5:45, when
electrical workers bypassed the
damaged switch.
Physical Plant Division (PPD)
employee C. C. Dunn said the
cause of the short circuit could
not be discovered until the switch
was disconnected and examined.
Dunn said the switch, which
was one of two housed in the
underground room, caused a brilliant flash, like a fireball, when

"arced."
It also caused some damage
manhole
as it lifted the
entrance to the vault and moved
it about a foot off center.
The vault is located at the
end of the sidewalk leading from
Limestone Street to the Administration Building.

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began almost

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mediately to rewire the cables
connected to the switch in order
to return service to the afflicted

areas.
Lexington Fire Chief George
D. Jones said one fire engine
Man in foreground is entering
unit answered the call, but that
the vault containing the switch.
it only stood by for about 20
minutes until it was found there
was no further danger.
Jones described the "arc" of
and the the switch as a "brilliant flash"
Some women came to UK cialist
By JEANNIE ST. CHARLES
Kernel Staff Writer
with their children and some Utopian vision of the full developaccompanied by a "loud boom."
"Women's Liberation is rep- with their husbands. They were ment of every being's health, in- A
quantity of smoke also emaresented in every major urban women with an ambition to learn tellect, and capability," the nated from the
vault, Jones
center of North America. It is more about their movement, and speaker said.
added.
Roxanne Dunbar, a petite, ingrowing at an unprecendented a desire to "rap." They had a
Dunn said that the concrete
rate, so it does little good to chance to do their rapping in tellectual feminist leader of the room which houses the two
WLM tried to explain the reasons switches measures about
hurl epithets at the movement
Saturday workshops.
eight
for the group's "separatism."
since you can't stop it and you
Which Way?
feet high, eight feet wide, and
two to beoppressed. 15 feet
"It takes
can't turn it back. It makes a
But what had they come to
long.
Women are oppressed and men
threat deal of sense to relate to talk about?
Sgt. Don Highbarger of the
Primarily, they were are
and both oppress
oppressed,
it because it's here and it's going concerned with the direction of
campus police reported normal
each other. To break this bond
to stay."
the movement. According to Miss of
activity for the police department
Thus forcefully speaking, Mar-leii- e
oppression, a separation of the last night. Besides phone calls
Dixon, the proper direction lies two
people must result. For peo- requesting information about the
Dixon, a disheveled, abrupt in the destruction of "imperialand robust Women's Liberation ism"
ple to become whole, they must failure, the police faced no inrevolution a revthrough
from the other creased
first be
Movement (WLM) leader, addifficulties, Highbarger
olution to liberate for women half thatseparated
dressed the regional conference
splits them in two." said.
what is "basically theirs" their
at UK Friday night. And the
Participatory Revolution
The King Library closed alidea that WLM is here to stay individuality.
Miss Dixon, however, dismost immediately after the buildwas enforced by attendance of
"Clearly nothing can liberate
cussed the need for separatism ing lost its light and did not
nearly 200 women from seven women but a revolution. We must
only as a "recruiting method" reopen that night.
states, and the interest of nearly do away with the bourgeoisie
to "analysis and diGO men
Holmes Hall lost its power
family and substitute 'Maximum and a path
present.
women and rection." Her cry was that Wom- - at 7:31 p.m. and regained it with
love' between men,
Many participants wore comPlease Turn To Page 6 the rest of the campus.
children. We are working for a so
bat boots, pants, and sweatshirts.

Women's Liberation; A Revolution

Marijuana Most Commonly Used

Legislative Committee Looks At Drug. Abuse

EDITOR'S NOTE: Nobody knows exactly
how many Kentucky college students use
drugs. Recently, however, a Kentucky
legislative committee attempted to learn
more accurately the extent of drug use by
college students in Kentucky. This article,
the sixth in a series of nine about the drug
problem, reports the findings of the com-

Seventeen of the 28 respondents to the
questionnaire said less than one percent
of the student population is involved in
drug use. The other 11 respondents gave
estimates of one to 30 percent. Ten schools
thought drug use on campus was increasing. Two thought it was decreasing, and

mittee.

By RAY

HILL

Kernel Staff Writer
In an effort to determine the extent of
drug abuse by Kentucky college students,
the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission last year conducted an investigation, part of which included the mailing
of a questionnaire to 30 colleges and universities in the commonwealth.
Twenty-eigh- t
institutions replied to the
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state colprivate colleges, one
lege, and six junior colleges). In August
1969 the Commission published Research

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Report No. 57, a report of its findings.
The following is what it revealed.
Marijuana, amphetamines and barbiturates, in that order, are the drugs most
often used in Kentucky.

Ten of the 28 schools indicated they
currently have a person or committee on
campus engaged in the study of drug
abuse and how to deal with it. Eleven
schools have published policy statements
on drug use.
Fifty percent of the college administrators felt the
student is more
likely to be involved in drug use than the
student. The academic level of
the student most likely to be involved in
drug use is the freshman class, the survey
indicated.
students
The total number of
at these schools when the questionnaires
were sent out was 64,396 37,807 men and
26,589 women. Approximately half the
students lived on campus.
Interviews with members of state and
federal narcotics and dangerous drug control agencies by the commission Indicated
that in comparison with West Coast and
East Coast schools, the drug use problem

said there was no change during the
past year.
Mandatory Programs
Only half of the colleges and universities surveyed have an educational program
on drug abuse for students on campus.
At eight schools attendance is mandatory.
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in Kentucky is low. From four to five
percent of the student body is probably
involved, they said.
Home Crown
students receive drugs from
Kentucky
many sources, the commission reported.
The marijuana supply comes primarily

from Kentucky. Other dangerous drugs
are obtained through theft, fraud and
illicit diversion, and are brought in from
surrounding states.
Nationwide, the total poundage of all
dangerous drugs confiscated in 1968 was
35 tons, the report said.
The commission also sent a questionnaire to 18 police departments in Kentucky towns and cities having colleges
or universities.
Agreeing with the college administrators surveyed, police also indicated the
order of drug use among Kentucky students to be marijuana, first, amphetamines, and then barbiturates.
Forty-thre- e
percent of the police departments surveyed said drug use had
increased on campus. No department indicated it had decreased. Fifty-seve- n
percent believed there had been no change
during the past year.
Discrepancy
Police estimates of the number of
students involved vary with college administrators' estimates. Six cities in Kentucky have universities at which 73 percent (47,216 of 64,3) of the
students in the state attend.
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Singer Explains The 'Why9 Of Bines

McDowell Sings 'NatcheP Blues
By DAN COSSETT
Arts Editor
Mississippi Fred McDowell
do not play no rock and roll.
What he do do is play "natchel

blue."

The Reverend Ian Mitchell, founder of the American Folk Mass,
and his wife Caroline will perform in the Lexington area this week.
Tuesday the mass will be performed at Christ Church Cathedral,
And a concert will be given Wednesday at Memorial Hall.

Singing Priest To Appear
Folk Mass, Concert Slated
By BOBBIE BARRETT

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teen-age-

rs

to appear in concert came irom
colleges, coffee houses and church
groups.

He became a roving minister
of music with the permission of
the Episcopal bishop of Utah.
"We decided to meet the demand and make it our life work.
I guess you could say we felt a
call to do this kind of thing."
Father Mitchell's hymns are
found in the Roman Catholic
"Hymnal for Young Christians,"
but are sung in Episcopal and
other Protestant churches.
"I think it (church music)
will be so drastically changed in
we have
the next 10 years
made a breakthrough. Organists
have had an uncommon grasp

...

on church music for centuries . . .
anybody who experiences joy in
the Cospel ought to resent this,"
he said.
A Canadian, Father Mitchell
grew up in the Midwest, and was
graduated from Nashotah House,
a seminary in Nashotah, Wis.,
in 1958. He has also studied at
the American Conservatory of
Music in Chicago. He and his
family of four live in New York
City.

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students and other guests. Join
the University of Kentucky
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Improves Disc Sound
By BETH IIEDCER
Kernel Staff Writer
Crand Funk Railroad has done
it again, topping the fervor and
excitement of their first album,
"On Time," in their newest release appropriately titled "Crand

Funk."

Mel Schacher, Don Brewer
and Mark Farner have renewed
their, musical quest to record on
wax the hard rock sound they
produce in a live performance.
Unfortunately they have been
unable to achieve this.
Even so, their exceptional productions caught on this album
axe worthy of praise. Attaining
national fame after performances
at the Atlanta and the Texas
International Pop Festivals, they
rose to fame mostly on the basis
of live performances, for it wasn't
until their name was fairly well
revered that they released their
first single, "Time Machine,'!
quickly followed by "On Time."
What could perhaps be the

to Room 203, Student Center.

By CATHY CORUM

The first thing I noticed after playing Joe South's new album for about five minutes was
that I was bored. Although the
material in "Don't It Make You
Want to Go Home?" was sometimes a little heavier and more
controversial than that of most
songs aired on a typical "Top
40" station, most of the lyrics

were conspicuously lacking in
originality.
"A Million Miles Away" was
an exception to the general tone
and mood of the album, which
was one of relaxation to the point
of somnolence. In this song, some
catching work on the bass guitar
is turned in by Eddie Far r ell,
in what is basically an instrumental. "A Million Miles Away"
fades at the end, however, into a
telephone conversation in which
Joe South is attempting to place
a long distance call to President

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Crand Funk has 'Railroaded' to
success on the exceptional talents
of their three members. Although
each one is extremely good, Mark
Farner seems to be the valuable
link in the threesome.

Sounding not quite as together on their first album as on
their second, they each manage
to delve beyond the musical
heights they achieved in "On
Time." Tempos vary within many
of the songs but Crand Funk
Railroad handles themselves
quite deftly as they follow
through outdoing themselves as
clearly evident in the driving
sounds of "Winter and MySoul"
and "In Need." Farner, lead
guitarist on "In Need" takes
off on his instrument with a
resemblance to the fury and fervor with which Cinger Baker
attacks his drums.

phenomenon in terms of tension
release. The following quote is
taken from the album's liner
notes.

"You see I have got up out of
bed and played the thing (guitar). And me and my wife have
got into it. And I got up out of
bed. She was sleep. Went in the
other room. Played the blues.
When I got satisfied I put it
down, went on, went to bed
and went to sleep. You see, it
was off my mind, it's a worrisome thing, but it works so many
different ways."

The first cut on the first side,
"Baby Please Don't Co," is far
and away the best cut on the
album. McDowell has Just finished his long opening rap, and
he says "Now we gonna play
the blues." Then he cuts in with
o
a long easy double-strin- g
on the bottleneck guitar.
glis-sand-

The accompanist kicks in with
a strong rising rhythm and both
of them are digging it so much
they decide to play a while instead of sing. When McDowell
does begin to sing, he makes no
effort to stylize his music; whatever way it comes out that's the
way it stays. In this case that
means understating the first verse
and completely swallowing the
last word or two in every line.

"Everybody's Down on Me"
sort of grows out of the rap that
begins the second side. McDowell
is telling how a song kind of
grows out of a mood and if everybody around you is hostile or indifferent, ' a song like "Everybody" is a good way to get rid
of the funk.

Nixon. "Could I leave a message?" is his reply when the
White House receptionist says
that the President is unavailable.
South, on behalf of Atlanta's
"hip" community, then thanks a
White House aide for any progress toward peace which the President can make. This is the only
political cut on the album.
"A Million Miles Away"
merges into "Don't It Make You
Want to Co Home?", title cut of
the album. Here Joe South has
found his forte. "A Million Miles
Away," while an interesting part

of the album, was a little too
psychedelic to fit in with the
mild country-blues- y
waitings
which typify the album.
"Don't It Make You Want
to Co Home?" reflects Joe's country upbringing, which should
form the basis for his singing.
He speaks of simple pleasures,
such as going wading in the
river, as if they were some of
his important memories, and as
though they were basic to his
personality makeup. In this song,
I felt that I was coming to know
Joe South.

Rock History Scheduled
Feature To Begin Tuesday

"The History of Rock and suspend it's regular programming
to accommodate the feature.
documenRoll," a
tary, will be broadcast in eight
Digging back to the blues
and gospel roots of rock, "The
segments on WLEX-Fbeginning Jan. 27. WLEX will History" traces rock music all
the way through
p
and
bubble gum to acid rock and
six-ho-

VISTA

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best thing that has happened
to the Capitol lable since The
Beatles and Steve Miller Band,

Nonetheless,
ignorant, uneducated Fred McDowell goes a
long way toward explaining the

Joe South's New Album? Boring,
High Point Is Nostalgic Selection

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Name

It may seem absurd to some
to talk about why somebody plays
blues. If you have any experience with the medium you know
that you do the blues because
you have to. It's as simple as that.

'Funk' Gets Together,

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The Rev. Ian Mitchell, Episcopal minister and minstrel, will
be in Lexington Jan. 27 to sing
Mass at Christ Church Cathedral.
He and his wife, Caroline, will
perform in Memorial Hall at 8
p.m. Jan. 28.
Father Mitchell became a min-- .
when he'
ister of music'
wrote the first American folk
mass. At that time he was in a
mission in Chicago's inner-citThe unconventional service
began to gain popularity. According to Father Mitchell, "it really
got lauched in a big way at the
Washington Cathedral in 1964
when 3,000
heard it
and 1,500 sang in the choir."
As the Rev. Mr. Mitchell's
calling took him to different parts
of the country, he added folk
songs 2nd other gospel music to
his repertoire. At one point, he
worked with the Navajo Indians
on a. Utah reservation.
"I learned some folk songs
to round out a program that
would have general appeal and
that would get people to sing-- ,
ing." Requests for the Mitchells

to a long monologue by McDowell on how and why he plays
the blues. Since McDowell is undiaeducated and the delta-Negrlect he speaks is so flowing and
slurred and hard to understand,
this monologue is also printed
in the liner notes.
o

What that means is loose
greasey delta blues in the tradition of John Hurt and Robert
Johnson. The lyrics are nigh on
to unintelligible but the beat is
strong and rolling.
The title of Fred's new Capitol release is "I Do Not Play
No Rock and Roll." It's a little
more than just a lot of blues

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songs and guitar runs. The first
bands on both sides are devoted

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psychedelia.

Focusing on some of the medium's major innovators, the report features taped interviews
with
Elvis
Little
Presley,
Richard, Woody Cuthrie, Bob
Dylan, Otis Redding, Frank Sinatra and John Lennon.
One section also investigates
such legendary recording greats
as Denny McLain and the late
Sen. Everett Dirkson.
Taped copies of the program
have been donated to The Library
of Congress, Lincoln Center, and
the music libraries of Julliard
conservatory and Harvard

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Monday, Jan. 26,

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Appeals Board Bill Passed

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Continued From Pace One
proposal and again made the
bill Bright' material
Montgomery Amendment
Lynn Montgomery proposed
another amendment which was
also accepted. Montgomery s
proposal provided for polling
places to be placed in the medical, law and agriculture buildings, in addition to those Bright
proposed.
Montgomery said that placement of polls in these areas was
only fair, due to extensive placement in other areas of

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bill was
The
then passed by the assembly.
Even with the amendments, the
much-modifie-

Kernel Photo by Dave Herman

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remained unlighted last night because a
d
switch knocked out power lights in that area. This
shot, taken well after dark, reveals unlighted classrooms and street lights. Ferservering students and instructors
resorted to candles, gas lanterns and a few PPD flood lamps for
light. The lights came back on around midnight.
short-circuite-

TOGETHER

time-exposu- re

By GRETA GIBSON
And
RON HAWKINS
Kernel Staff Writers
The Human Relations Volunteer Programs Workshop delved
into the problems of community

action Saturday in the Student
Center.

The workshop was divided
into morning and afternoon sessions. The morning session was
devoted to a communication lab,
while in the afternoon session
James Tanck spoke and three

discussion groups met.
Dr. Maurice Voland, associate professor of Sociology, noted
that the purpose of a communica

tion lab was to aid in the

volunteers program.

The discussion groups dealt
with the ghetto volunteer, identifying community needs and creative social change.

Nursing Accreditation
ciation.
Accreditation was granted to
the community college at
Northern at Covington, and Lexington Technical Institute after visitations by nurse
educators from the National
League for Nursing Board of Review for Associate Degree programs.
n,

The educators made a joint
accreditation visit with members
of the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools last November. The criteria for national accreditation are over and above the
requirements for legal recognition within a state and they are
established by the schools themselves, according to Miss Marie

Piekarski, coordinator, Associate
Degree Education in Nursing in
the UK Community College System.
Approximately 400 students
are enrolled in seven associate
degree nursing programs in the
UK system. More than 160 students have graduated from the
program since 19G3, when it was
established by a grant from the
W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Planning for the program had begun
the previous year.
The nursing curriculum is designed to provide a balance between general education and
nursing education, Miss Piekarski
said.
Various local clinical facilities
within commuting distance of the
colleges are used for nursing laboratories, including Ireland Army
Hospital at Fort Knox.

WE ARE INTERESTED IN YOUR

DEGREE

... TO A DEGREE

Your major is not as important as you

are and you

don't need experience or a science background, providing you are willing to work hard. If you Qualify as a

MEDICAL REPRESENTATIVE, we will give you ten
weeks formal training on full salary yi7p0) and expenses, a car, pay your moving, increase, ytour salary to
$725 when you complete your training, Vnd provide a
challenging opportunity for growth. See your College
Placement Office for details. We will bo on campus,

January 30th.

BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO.
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Appearing in the Student Center Ballroom
for the Coffeehouse Series

January 26 thru January 31

teers.

Tanck indicated that President Nixon was interested in the

Sounds

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UK Extensions Receive
The nursing program in three
University of Kentucky community colleges has recently been
accredited by a national asso-

is the Folk-Po- p

process.

To help others, he added,
"We need to learn about our
motivations for helping others."
In the afternoon sessions,
Tanck, youth officer for the National Volunteers Action Office,
told the workshop what he felt
were the needs, limitations and
required abilities of the volun-

bill is still very similar to
Bright's original bill, and was
passed by an 18 to 11 vote.
Following the long debates
on Blight's bill, another bill

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The center of campus

Human Relations Workshop
Discuss Community Action

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camo up, and was passed almost immediately.
The bill, titled Composition
of Appeals Board, provided that
the Student Government would
urge the Board of Trustees'
Committee on the Student Code
to make recommendations to the
board that would put student
and faculty members on the
University Appeals Board.
Futrell said that the assembly
could "do no wrong by passing the bill and that it would bo
a great advantage to students.
Later a resolution was passed
endorsing the UK chapter of
the American Association of
University Professors' proposed
legislation.
The proposed legislation
would make numerous changes
in the Board of Trustees, and
in the selection and voting privileges in particular.

Performances

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

Editor-in-Chi-

Caretaker Carswell
President

Nixon's

nomination anything as a Supreme Court justice to upset the existing system,
perhaps not even if it were an upon our Chief Executive's at- set for the better. As Senator Rustary
titude toward the Court. At one sell of Georgia says: "He'll follow
time the Court, aspired to be a precedents. He'll follow the docbody composed of the nation's out- trine of stare decisis.'' This is not
standing legal minds, trained in necessarily the kind of man needed
the principles of a judiciously con- for a 1970 Supreme Court. In an
ducted society, experienced in the age of change it is a sheer reacways of the bench and progressive tionary attitude to insist on a juin their ideas as to how the nation's dicial system which merely rewords
laws should be applied to a com- previously determined decisions. If
this were the situation we should
plex and changing country.
This description certainly caneliminate the idea of a Supreme
not be applied to Nixon's ideal Court and establish a computerized
court. During his presidential camlegal factory to process the new
Nixon promised to appoint cases, compare them totheold.and
paign
only "extremely qualified" men send down the appropriate verdict.
who were "caretakers of the conNixon's new appointee does not
stitution." He has fulfilled one have the entangling financial obliaspect of this promise in that the gations of Judge Hayns worth who
men he has appointed have at was recently rejected by the Senate,
best been caretakers of the con- and he has rather effectively destitution.
tached himself from his early white
Carswell certainly cannot be supremacy attitude by repudiating
classified as "extremely qualified" his remarks. Nevertheless the Sento serve on the Supreme Court. ate would make a mistake by apof G. Harold Carswell to the Supreme Court offers a sad commen-

He has spent only seven months
on the appellate bench and that
was only through Nixon's appointment. During his tenure on the
bench Carswell has not been noted
for his clear or rational opinions.
Those who have conducted research
into the judge's actions have not
stumbled upon anything that would
distinguish him as a competent
judge.
Perhaps by Nixon's definition
Carswell is qualified. Last year, for
instance, Carswell's court made
some remarkable decisions, including an unanimous one to delay immediate desegregation of schools.
Another outstanding qualification
might be an early remark made by
Mr. Carswell in which he declared
segregation tobe the only way of life
and classified himself as a white
supremist.
, Carswell obviously wouldn't do.

proving this man. The Senate has
a very disappointing attitude
toward the process of approving
an appointee. Instead of analyzing the candidate in the light of
why he should be appointed, the
Senate seems to consider it a matter of whythe President's appointee
should not be approved routinely.
A man's attitude on racial matters, if as narrow as Carswell's,
should be reason enough to disqualify him from the nation's highest court. If one has a basic need
to feel superior to an entire race,
surely his overall orientation
toward matters of social justice
should be questioned.
Given his civil liberties disposition and his failure to convey any
sign that he has an extraordinary
Judicial competency, there is little
doubt as to how the Senate should
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By WAYNE II. DAVIS
But surely something will happen.
Don't you have any faith? Technology
can do anything. Or how about the
power of prayer? Cod would not let
His children perish in misery.
All right. Let's consider these questions. A few people may really believe
that Cod will save us. Perhaps they are
right. But He doesn't save us from auto
accidents. Why save us from ecocatastrophes? Not many people maintain a strong
faith. They scurry like rats to leave a
sinking ship. Many Christian Scientists
will sneak in to see a physician when
they are really sick.
When things are going well the faithful will follow without question. In the
16th century Martin Luther said that
Cod makes children and He will feed
them. In 1961 Father Ignatius, Roman
Catholic Bishop of Buffalo, in response
to warnings by scientists that population
growth is outrunning food supply, called
upon the faithful to ignore the false
prophesies of the pseudoscientists. He
said that Cod will provide for His children.
You don't hear that kind of talk now.
In fact, one of the few bright spots that
has appeared recently in the search for
rational population control is the attitude
among young Catholics. Several Catholics
are now among the leaders in the population control movement. One young fellow
recently told me that as a Catholic he feels
a special responsibility to work for population control because his church is in
large part responsible for the crisis.
A Catholic student told me that when
the Pope speaks on matters of ecology
he is not infallible. Since population
problems are in the realm of ecology
this student feels no need to follow papal
teachings with regard to abortion and
other humane forms of population control.
Finally, a survey by Time last fall
showed that a majority of freshmen at
Notre Dame are in favor of abortion.
What of the prospects of being saved
by technology? Unfortunately most people
have an unquestioning faith in the ability
of scientists and technologists to solve
every possible problem, simply given the
money and brain power.
It is easy to see how such a faith
became established. The accomplishments of technology in communications,
transportation, energy and consumer production have been phenomenal and are
recognized by everybody. Those who have
said flight, space travel, and television
were impossible were shown to have
spoken unwisely. The prudent man has
finally learned not to challenge the possibility of anything in the re