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Pratt Over Peace Activity
By JOHN O'BRIEN
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University senior may be (he first ROTC student in the
nation to lose his commission because of his activities in opposition to the war in Vietnam.
W,,en contacted about the al- A source close to Don Pratt,
a campus leader and avid on- - ,cKed agreement Pratt said I
ponent of the war, revealed Mon- don t want to embarrass the
day that Pratt will not receive ROTC personnel on campus in
a scheduled commission as a any way. Col. Parker (the prosecond lieutenant in the Army fessor of military science) was
due to "an agreement between very fair and just about it. There's
Don and ROTC officials. Pratt no reason for anyone to be emsaid he would like to join the barrassed. I just feel that young
men can best fight for their
Peace Corps.
The source, who asked not country in the Peace Corps."
Pratt stated that he is not
to be identified, declined further
comment on the "agreement" but a conscientious objector but deit was learned later that Pratt clined further comment on the
agreed not to press the matter commission agreement. Consciof a ROTC commission when entious objectors are usually exconfronted with ROTC officials empted from military service in
the United States.
about his anti-wactivities.
A spokesman in the Pentagon's Policy and Programs
ROTC Division in Washington
said that such an agreement is
unique in the history of processing and denying commisar

Lexington Bank
Merger Increased
Competition Here
By RALPH WESLEY

A case involving a Supreme
Court decision and an act of
Congress has demonstrated that
the monetary theories of a professor of economics are not
limited to the classroom.
The practical demonstration
of the ideas of Dr. John T. Mas-te- n
concerning commercial banking arises out of the experiences

News Analysis
of the First National Bank and
the Security Trust Company of
Lexington since their 19G0 merger. The Justice Department used
the merger as the first test case
laws
applying the
Act
of the Sherman

sions.

"This type of situation has
not come to our attention before. The usual reason for cancellation of a commission is inaptitude which may involve lack
of leadership or some other comparable problem," the Pentagon
spokesman said.
He went on to say that a
"board of officers" on the college campus must recommend
the cancellation to make it
official. All recommendations of
this type are reviewed by the
Department of the Army in Washington.
If cancellation of Pratt's commission is approved, he would
be the first known ROTC student in the country to have a
commission canceled because of
his public protest of the Vietnam War. ROTC students on
other campuses have affiliated
with groups opposing the war,
but they usually have ceased their

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Eugene F. Mooney, left, Richard Butwell, and
Don Pratt were among those who attacked U.S.

involvement in Vietnam at a Vietnam Forum
Monday on the Patio.

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Butwell Challenges
To Look Seriously At Vietnam War

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'Know-Nothing-

Prof. Richard Butwell Monday
warmed up a cool Vietnam Forum on the Student Center Patio
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by verbally lashing the
in this country and on
this campus.
"We are involved in a very
serious crisis," said the director
of the University's Patterson
School of Diplomacy, "It behooves everyone to examine all
points of view."
Professor Butwell said that he
noticed one student in the crowd
who turned down a copy of his
speech, saying "I don't read
such stuff."
"I question the open
of that student, and of
every American," the former
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"If the

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examine the war, they would find
some surprising things," he said,
then launching a discussion of
the political, military, and moral
aspects of the Southeast Asian

If the United States stops short
of colonizing South Vietnam and
withdraws, there is no likelihood
that country will endure. Our intervention will be totally useless
and every death a useless one,
he said.
"There are more Americans
fighting the Communists in Vietnam than there are South Viet-

winning. I am extremely skeptical of that," Dr. Butwell said.
He added, if the Viet Cong are
so unpopular, why were they winning the war before the United
States intervened.
There was a time when Ho
Chi Minh, North Vietnam's leader, was a sympathetic character
and our responsible allies saw
namese fighting Communists," fit to help him, Dr. Butwell said.
he said. Professor Butwell called The Office of
Strategic Services,
this "a reversal of the principle father of the Central Intelligence
of
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"We are told today we are

Catholic U Strike
Over; Prof Back
By

JOHN D. MORRIS

New York Times Newi Service

WASHINGTON-Strikiteachers and students won the reinng
statement and promotion Monday of a liberal young theology professor at the Catholic University of America.
Classes, suspended since
Wednesday, were resumed today. Charles E. Curran, 33- The settlement was a com- - assistant professor of moral the-to banks.
pletc victory for the strikers, who ology.
One colleague described Dr.
The Most Rev. Patrick A.
had accused the governing Ro
Mastcn's role as "caught beman Catholic hierarchy of vio- O' Boyle, archbishop of Washingtween the devil and the deep
lating the principle of academic ton and chancellor of the uniContinued on rage 2
freedom by dismissing the Rev. versity, drew wild applause and
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cheers from several thousand students when he announced from
the steps of Mullen Memorial
Library that the board of trustees had rescinded its April 10
By HELEN MCCLOY
desirability of a snack service as part of tion decided to close C 'nN this year. Funds order
against Father Curran's reKernel Staff Writer
the women's program.
allotted the halls are to be spent by July
appointment.
of the new fiscal year.
Alberta Limbach's kindness was worth
The coeds, Dean Seward indicated, took 1, the beginning
The students applauded and
$29,000.
and its
Never again would there be such a windto the
cheered when the Most Rev.
p.m. open kitchen
Three decades ago, as a UK dietician.
fall, Dean Seward told The Kernel of the William J. McDonald, rector of
milk, cokes, hot dogs, hamburgers and sunMiss Limbach made possible a snack service
dries so well that enthusiasm, in the form $29,417.56 in the fund in the University the university, announced the
whose accumulated funds, this spring, have of
workers, turned the Business Office. She and Dean of Students
voluntary,
young priest's promotion to asbrought everything from ice machines to a
operaRobert L. Johnson said it was thought only
into a
sociate professor.
project
pool table into the women's residence halls. tion. And where else could women take a reasonable that the present-daThe board of trustees, concounterparts
Concocted by Miss Limbach, the name coke break in their gowns?
of Chat 'n Nibble patrons ue those to benesisting of 33 cardinals, arch'n Nibble" was quickly adopted by
"Chat
fit from its wealth. Some halls made joint
bishops and bishops and 11 laythe coeds who patronized it in its beginning
Over the years. Chat 'n Nibble, which
as duplicating machines-a- nd
men, had decided at a secret
Hall's new dining the University could not subsidize and had purchases-su- ch
year, 1939, in Jewell
as a "guideno hall was given over
meeting April 10 that Father
enterroom. The food service, according to Mrs. not intended to be a
Curran's employment was to be
line for expenditure," Dr. Seward said.
head resident, was
V. W. Turner, Jewell
prise, on occasion enabled living units to
ended when his contract expired'
subsequently moved to Patterson Hall's baseEach residence was instructed it could
buy items not available to bonded resiAug. 31. No reason was given.
ment.
dence halls. Color television, once such a make purchase requests within a particular
When the decision Ixrcame
There, today's only vestige of the underwas considered standard equipment financial limit (such as $2,000 for Blazer
known on the campus last week,
lettered on a luxury,
taking is "Chat 'n Nibble"
in the building of the Complex. Other such Hall), which. Dr. Seward said, was really
virtually the entire faculty and
wall in chocolate colors and dominating
items ranged from pink candles (UK stores only "a stimulus to listing" equipment destudent body decided to stay
a setting of orange doors, a round blue sold only white to a Steinway piano for sired. A review board made some adjustaway from class until the action
table with a maroon ashtray, a green ping Blazer Hall.
ments: if a dorm allowed $3,000 "spent"
had been rescinded.
pong table and the very objects which
$2,500 of it, $500 went towards purIn response to a formal reNu money has been added to the fund only
the end of its usefulness: vending
signaled
chases for another unit. Representatives from
instatement appeal from the theout in 1965,
since Chat 'n Nibble's phasing
machines.
every residence were on the board, which
ology school's faculty, ArchAccording to Dr. Doris Seward, dean for Dean Seward said, nor has any money been hat! final consideration over the requests.
meanwhile
O' Boyle
time. Since it
bishop
student affairs planning, the service was taken from the fund in that
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of UK staff who saw the was not an active account, the Administra
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conflict.
South Vietnam is slowly becoming a colony of the United
States, he argued. "Wc are taking over more responsibilities"
and are "doing so much for the
South Vietnamese that they
would not be able to stand on
their own feet in the event we
left."

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