I Chandler, and the state’s largest col- While controversy has not been a called for the resignation of embattled
lege housing complex are now located. mainstay for the Kenluckirm, the Kemel basketball coach Eddie Sutton, who was
During the anti-war movement of the is the state’s most cussed and discussed embroiled in a massive investigation by
. late 1960s and early-1970s, more than student newspaper. As it has gone the NCAA. “Buying out Sutton’s con-
just passing attention was also provided through the transition from weekly to tract would not be a comment on his
for student protests from which UK semi-weekly to five—ti1nes-a-week publi- character or guilt, but instead a demon-
, could not remain immune. cation during the school year, the Ker— stiation by the University that it is sen-
l In fact, the 1969-70 Kentuckirm was nel has maintained an editorial ous about cleaning up its men’s
» almost entirely devoted to societal independence from UK’s administra- basketball prog1am,” the Kemelsaid.
I problems its staff considered crucial- tion, even though there were times Sutton later resigned.
I the Vietnam War, the peace move- administrative restraint was difficult. Breathitt, today chairman of UK”s
ment, poverty in Appalachia, the envi- More than once have UK’s ofiicials and trustees, calls the Kernel` s independent
I ronment, women's lib and emerging, trustees barely hidden their annoyance voice a needed one. "The university, to
but slow movement toward racial inte- at editoiial barbs by fledgling staffers. its credit, has supported that (editorial)
gration on the campus. The book There was little patience in many independence, though at times l`m
included some 200 pages of sometimes quarteis in 1963, under the editorship of sure it was an annoyance,” he said.
I biting pictorial commentary and com- jack Guthrie, when the Kernel questioned The state’s historian laureate, Dr.
l ments from such social critics and the university’s morality when it would Thomas D. Clark, notes that both the
, activists as jerry Rubin, Harry Caudill, not pave the way for integration in the Kernel and Kent/uclcion have played a I
  Timothy Leary and William Kunstler. “lilly-white" Southeastem Conference. major role in UK affairs over the years.
l “This is the situation -—- the land, “We can stand up and tell the world “If we didn`t have those (publica- I
I the people, the problems — and these that we, a Southern university, are sick tions), we’d be impoverished from a I
I are the people who are going to have of having a doctrine of racial infeiioiity lack of information," Clark said.
to deal with it ...” the editors said rammed down our throats," roared the Clark, a UK history professor for 37
I before presenting the only part of the Kemel s March 22 editorial. years before his 1968 retirement, said
I book representing traditional annuals. On May 29, univeristy president he believed the Kernel, in particular,
I Following were nine pages of small pic- Frank Dickey announced that all of has had a “wholesome influence" on
l tures of graduates and only 10 more UK’s intercollegiate athletic teams UK over the years. "You clicln’t agree  
, pages of members of campus organiza- would be open to any student regard- with it in many respects, but you knew l
tions. It contained no individual pic- less of race. UK became the first SEC that some students had guts enough to I
tures of underclassmen or members of school to desegregate its athletic teams. speak. They may have been right or ’
fraternities and sororities. Other examples abound. wrong, but they exercised their right to
“The ’70s book was the most radical- Years later, in 1988 the newspaper speak out,” he said.
ized, politicized yearbook in the coun- again offered unsought, and probably Clark and others noted that the Km- I
try,” said Gurney Norman, editor of unwelcomed editorial advice when it nel was a typical student newspaper, f
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