Tie Kentucky Kernel
The South' s Outstanding College Daily

'Graduate' Here
For McCarthy
By GUY MENDES

Dustin Hoffman, a man who
in his hit motion picture "The
Graduate" was billed as "a young
man concerned about his future,"
swept through Lexington Thursday campaigning for tlte man lie
feels will best serve that future
Sen Eugene McCarthy.
Mr. Hoffman made three
in town, including an

emotional
address to
nearly 1000 UK students in the
Complex cafeteria.
After arriving at Bluegrass
Field at 6:30 p.m. where he was
greeted by about 60 people
many of them screaming
who swarmed around
him trying to get his autograph
or simply touch him Mr. Hoffman was whisked off to the UK
sorority courtyard where he spoke
briefly to about 300 people and
signed autographs.
Later, lie told the overflow
Complex crowd, "You make me
very nervous This is the first
of its kind for me; it is
the first time I've lieen in polite

rs

teeny-Ixippe-

tics."
Except for his shoulder-lengt- h
hair ("It's for my new movie

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I'm doing the life story of Mrs.
Robinson," he joked later) Mr.

Hoffman presented the same
image which characterized his
part as Benjamin in "The Graduate," which won him a
for an Academy Award.
He spoke in the same reticent,
boyish monotone and stood looking naive and innocent, his hands
nom-inatio-

n

Saul Bellow
Here Tuesday
Saul Bellow, novelist and drawill speak on "The
Author and the University" at
7:30 p. in Tuesday in tlie Student
Center Ballroom
Mr Bellow won a Guggen-IieiFellowship in 1948 and
spent a year in Paris. Here he
ln'gan "The Adventures of Augie
March," which won the National
Book Award for fiction.
Some of Mr Bellow's other
lxxks include "Seize the Day,"
"Henderson the Haiti King" and

matist,

"Herzog."

OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

UNIVERSITY

Friday Evening, April 2f, 1908

plunged deeply into his pockets.
He drew laughter from the
crowd when he told of one of
his first steps in his campaigning for Sen. McCarthy when he
took the senator's daughter Ellen
to the Academy Awards presentation a few weeks ago.
He said before he took her,
he wasn't sure that it was a good
idea "I didn't think Mrs. McCarthy would approve . . but
I had heard tlie
McCarthy's were

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pretty liberal."

Mr. Hoffman, who stands 5
feet, 6 inches tall, said Mrs.
McCarthy insisted he take Ellen
and not their other daughter
Mary, because Ellen was shorter.
"She wore her formal . .
barefoot," he said.
Mr. Hoffman became serious
when he told the crowd why
he had become so active in politics.
"Being an actor is a very
selfish profession," he said. "I've
only been concerned with myI was unknowledgeable
self.
about the world . . the only time
1 read the
newspaper was when
"
my name was in it
But he said he soon became
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This Is Benjamin
but he doesn't appear too worried about his
future. Dustin Hoffman, famous for his role as
Benjamin in "The Graduate," faces several hundred admirers Thursday evening from the steps
...

Kernel Photo by Rick Bell

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of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority house. Campaigning for presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy,
he also addressed a crowd of nearly 1000 students
at the Complex cafeteria later in the evening.

Grad Students Ask. Receive A Voice
By

ELAINE STUART

Craduate

students

were

granted a voice in faculty
by the Political Science Department in a depart-

decision-

-making

mental faculty meeting Thursday afternoon.
Tlie graduate students' request for representatives on several department committees was
readily accepted by faculty members, according to Dr. Sidney
Ulmer, chairman of the de-

partment.

Resolutions

were passed by

the facidty to allow one graduate student to attend and join
in debate of the Craduate Program Committee,

and for two

graduate students to attend faculty meetings. Voting rightswere
designated to the graduate student chosen to attend the
Col-loqui-

Committee, which schedules paid guest lectures.
In addition, the faculty ai- -

proved appointment of one undergraduate nonvoting member
to the Undergraduate Committee. The student probably will
be selected by the department
chairman.
In commenting on the faculty's decision. Dr. Ulmer said
"the normal process is not to
have students so involved (in
decision making); in fact, I would
be surprised if any other department on campus does this."
Voting rights were not given
to graduate representatives in the
Craduate Program Committee
and faculty meetings. Dr. Ulmer said, because the graduate
students' proposal specified as
its aim "an opportunity for graduate students to make their views
known. They were not demanding to make the decisions. They
will be allowed to participate
in debate and use their powers

of persuasion."

The faculty granted votinc the department. Dr. Ulmer said.
But Bruce Bowen, president
power to the colloquium representative. Dr. Ulmer said, "be- of the political science honorary
cause it does not make educa- society and a graduate student,
tional policy for which the Uni- put it this way:
"We want to get in at the
versity holds the faculty responsible."
ground floor when they are makThe graduate students made ing policy in each individual
their requests prior to spring va- committee. By the time an issue
cation in March. An ad hoc comgets to the faculty meeting, we
mittee appointed by the faccan only say yes or no."
ulty to handle the requests, and
Having a representative on
it was this ad hoc committee each of the department commitwhich made recommendations to tees also would serve an informathe faculty Thursday.
tion function, Bowen said.
The faculty approved all reBut primarily, the graduate
quests which were submitted. students said they were interDr. Ulmer said. Requests for ested in representation on the:
Graduate Program Commitmembership on the Advisory
Committee, which makes faculty tee, which sets the rules for gradappointments, and the Prelimi- uate students, such as "what
Committee, courses are required and what
nary Fellowships
which prepares and gives prelimconstitutes a qualifying examination," Bowen said.
inary examinations for doctorates, were not made by the ad
Advisory Committee, "so we
hoc committee, nor granted by
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Report On Kentucky College Newspapers

Student Press: 'Neither Free Nor Responsible
Kentucky Collegiate Press Service

Late last semester, the editor of The Asbury Collegian prepared an editorial saying pointedly that the
central Kentucky school might be "headed for years of

academic mediocrity.
The lengthy essay, signed by seven student leaders,
documented the charge by noting an exodus of top
professors and discontent and inexperience among the
This is tlie first of two articles on the state of trie
student press in the Commonwealth, written by the
president of the Kentucky Intercollegiate Vress
ion in conjunction witli statewide Scholastic
Vuhlications Week.

remaining faculty. A basic cause, said the editorial,
was too much emphasis on the spiritual rather than
the academic.
Two members of Asbury College's faculty Publications Committee weren't pleased when they learned
of the editorial. They drove to Islington and yanked
it from the printer's hands. The editor substituted an

editorial he had on hand for emergencies; its title was
"Censorship and the Student Press.
This editorial put forth a standard argument against
control of the student press a philosophy shared by
Asbury 's board of trustees.
11 ,iaJ intlicatt'J disfavor
Qtf
of the censorshin imnnsfd
tj.
earlier by the school president, and sought to eliminate it altogether. The
loard ultimately attempted to fire the president,
partly because of his attitude toward the campus
press.
Freedom, KejHmibility
KIPA SEAL
The Asbury incident is
(Adopted thitf year)
signihcant because it in- eludes the two points crucial to any discussion of the
student press-freed- om
and responsibility. The Gllegi-an'- s
stand on an important issue the quality of
n-exemplifies
the new responsibility being prac

r.

educatio-

ticed by better student papers. Its censorship indicates
the suppression still plaguing most student newspapers.
Making generalizations about Kentucky college newspapers is not easy; they are as diverse as the institutions they serve. But one thing is obvious. The campus
press in this state fits the national pattern: on the

whole, it is neither free, nor responsible. But gains are
being made.
What follows is a combination of impressions based
on my experience as president of the Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association and attitudes formed while
working on the Kernel for three years, and from research. This is a report on the state of the student press
in Kentucky, and on hope for improvement.
To Ik "responsible," a contemporary student newspaper must do more than adhere to journalistic principles of fairness, accuracy and truthfulness. It must
cover and comment on news of special relevance to its
readers, who are now more than ever concerned with,
and caught up in the world around them.
No Hulleiiu Hoard
In the words of Paul Delaney, the Asbury Collegian
ContlnurtI on I'fe 7, Co

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