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'Peace Pilgrim9 Pauses At UK

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"I walk until given shelter and fast until asked to
The reason she came to Lexington, she said, is
cat," she says. "But I never ask."
she was asked to come by a University student
Her clothes are all blue (the color, she says, of who has since dropped out of school. She was invited
peace). She wears denim pants, a denim shirt covered to Dillard House Thursday night for dinner and said
with a tunic and canvas shoes. On the front of the she will stay in Lexington
through Friday.
tunic in white letters is "Peace Pilgrim," and on the
Why docs Peace Pilgrim walk?
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The Peace Pilgrim is a living anachronism. She lives
like a 19th century Thorcau misplaced into a world of
metropolises, complex schedules and harried living,
but she preaches a futuristic message of world peace.
If any conflict arises from her situation, it docs not
show. She wears an almost perpetual smile.
She is an old woman, yes. But when she talks, she
does so exuberantly and with a sparkle in her eyes.
The Peace Pilgrim set a goal 15 years ago of walking
25,000 miles for peace. She walked them and many
more and she is still walking. And with a spring to her
step.
All her possessions she carries with her a comb, a
folding toothbrush, a ballpoint pen, some papers of
identification and her unanswered mail.

back is "25,000 Miles on Foot for World Peace."
"My tunic is a selective garment," Peace Pilgrim said
Thursday afternoon. "It filters out the superficial people
and selects the very special people who will want to talk
with me."
She uses no name other than Peace Pilgrim: "I want
to direct people toward peace and not toward my
name."
She began walking in 1953 from Los Angeles and
has been walking ever since. She said she has walked
in the 48 continental states, in Mexico and in 10 Canadian provinces.

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She says it is because she wants to reach people and

teach them three things:

To recognize the necessity for a law and order
situation ( nonviolence ) .
To find inner peace so they will learn to live to-

gether.

To better conditions for those still governed by
their "egos" so they do not resort to killing.
T pray for peace in the world with a special
prayer
for situations as they arise, and now I pray that the
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The South's Outstanding College Daily

Friday, March

15, 1968

University of Kentucky, Lexington

Vol.

LIX, No. 120

SG Threatens Lawsuit

On 'Forced Honsin
By JO WARREN
provision struck from the bill
Student Government Thurs- was defeated.
Wally Bryan said "right here
day night took a strong stand
opposing any compulsory hous- is a good time for us to do
ing rule beyond the freshman something. I don't care what
anybody says, the administrayear.
tion is trying to mess over us."
SG went on record to:
SG will circulate petitions to
forced
Strongly oppose any
after the freshman obtain signatures of freshmen
housing
year.
supporting the assembly's acRecommend to all students tions and opposing a compulthat they not apply for dormi- sory housing ruling.
Some members tried again to
tory housing until the
divert a bill calling for a refhousing rule has been
erendum to abolish Student
necessary funds Government. The bill was ruled
Appropriate
to carry to court, if necessary, out of order last week. Attempts
the question of the University's to have it deleted from the
right to force students to live agenda, thus thwarting its in- in dormitories.
traduction, failed. The bill was
Demand an immediate de- referred to the Rules Commitcision on the issue from Pres- tee. Attempts failed to have it
ident John W. Oswald.
Though it appears no official
policy has been stated, or will
be, until early May, Merrily
Orsini said it was announced in
By ELAINE STUART
dormitory meetings that soph"We are the Citizens for Mcomores must live in dormitories
Carthy and we will remain so."
next year.
There was considerable dis- So said Phillip Patton, senior
cussion about the provision to political science major and chairtwo-ye-

rtw

from committee
and
acted on.
In other action, defeated a
bill asking for a referendum on
use of "C" parking lots.
The assembly also heard bills
for allocating of $250 to the
tutorial project to pay for a bus
purchased by the program, an
allocation of $200 to the Foreign Student Emergency Loan
Fund, and a bill to include a
cloture and censure rule in SG
called

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A resolution recommending
that SG adopt an AAUP statement concerning standards of
academic freedom for students
was referred to committee for
study. These measures should
come before the assembly for
action after spring break.

'Wars Are Wrong9

"To me all wars are wrong." And so she has walked 15 years
for peace. Her name? "Peace Pilgrim." That's all the name she
has now, and she has walked through Canada and Mexico and
the 48 continental states for the sake of world peace. Her travels
took her to the Kernel office Thursday afternoon, where she talked
for an hour and a half.

UK McCarthyites Will

of UK Citizens for Mcgo to court. Joe Maguire said man
it "put bite into the bill." An- Carthy, on learning that Sen.
other representative said SG has Robert Kennedy may announce
no money for a legal battle. his own candidacy for the DemAn attempt to have the court ocratic presidential nomination.

His loyalty to Sen. McCarthy
was echoed by four other members of the group w1k were asked
for comment Thursday.
Faith in Sen. McCarthy's ability to win the presidency and a
fear that Sen. Kennedy's decision
would hurt the chances of nominating a peace candidate dominated each of the telephone con- -

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versations with McCarthy group
members.
The failure of Sen. Kennedy
to risk the race in the New
Hampshire primary caused some
resentment
among McCarthy
supporters.
Such sentiment was expressed in a telegram which Joseph
Cardner, English instructor and
treasurer for the group, sent to
Sen. Kennedy while the senator
debated his entrance into the
campaign.
It read, "You weren't there
when we needed you. We might

w hen you're there."
Thomas Van, assistant Eng-

not need you

lish professor, fears Sen. Kennedy
will cause a party "split because
of the personal animosity between Kennedy and Johnson."
Mr. Van said he backed Mr.
McCarthy because of his stand
on the war, and although Sen.
Kennedy would probably appeal
to more people, a lot of "the
ideals that McCarthy stood for
would have to be sacrificed" in
the process.
Political ideals already have
Continued on Pare 8, Col. 1

Two UK Women Assaulted

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To the sun! To the Sun! A sliort respite, at least, from books and tenn papers
and pop quizzes. Preparing for take-of- f
are Rosemary Robertson, Susan Searcy and
Carline Kipping.

Two UK coeds were assaulted in the Botanical C aniens area
Wednesday night by a man described us "about 20 years old."
Campus police records inch- A second incident occurred
cate there were two incidents,
the first occurring at 8 p.m. in about 9 p.m. when another coed
the parking lot north of the Stuwas walking through t lie gardens
dent Center.
to Blazer Hall. A man passed
The coed apparently was her, then slowed down. As she
was passing him, he clutched
walking to the Student Center
when she heard u sound from her around the wuist. She
A man then grabbed
screamed and he fled.
her dress and she turned and
The second victim described
ran. She later described the asthe man as white, about 5 feet
sailant us slender, white and 8 inches tall, and "about 20 years
between 5 feet 4 inches and 5 old." Both women said the man
feet 9 inches tall.
wore a hooded coat.

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$2,000 Tuition Proposal Seems Dead Nov

By ROBERT F. BRANDT
Bill 391 culling for an

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at UK. This is the figure originally set by the State Council
on Public Higher Education.
However, tuition would be increased to $1,110 in I960 under
the compromise.
The compromise is, in effect,
a revised bill of House Bill 110
which was passed in the House
Feb. 21, but did not pass the
Senate. The restriction clause on

increase in
tuition
for all Kentucky's four-yeuniversities and colleges. did not get
to the floor of the Senate Thursday and is virtually dead.
The bill called for an increase
in
tuition at UK to
$2,000 by 1970.
Several University students
have been in Frankfort this week
students "looks
opposing the bill which would dead," Youngman said. "The Seraise tuition and another which nate dropped it."
would limit the number of
Senate Bill 394 is dead, Youngstudents to 15 percent
man said, because there is no
of total enrollment.
Allen Youngman, SG Representative, said a compromise bill
has been worked out and tuition
almost certainly will drop back
to $980 for
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war. If we were all mature
men, we would not have wars."
Peace Pilgrim said she finds
a great "spiritual stirring and
awakening" in the direction of
peace among college students
now.
"I can better communicate
with the younger generation
than with my own generation,"
she said.
She spent more than two
months this summer in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and
much of the time was spent
among the hippies there. Hut
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this new age requires that we
lift up ourselves to a new level
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a compromise had been worked
out and there is virtually no
possibility that any other measure
would be passed.
Students who had been roaming the Capitol with figures from
petitions opposing the raise in
tuition found a receptive legislator in Sen. Robert Flynn
Sen. Flynn told them
he thought tuition jumps had to
be gradual and that the whole
thing "is a job for the council."

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solve. My generation didn't do
much about the problems, and I
apologize for that. I'm trying
to make up for that."
She said, though, that she
does not restrict her contacts to
college students. "I want to be
able to relate to the uneducated
workers as well as to college

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"A pilgrim's job is to arouse
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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Friday, March

Kernel Forum: the readers write

To the Editor of the Kcmcl:
Sen. Harris' current bill in the legislature to raise
tuition to the
total of $2,000 per year sounds exciting.
It must have taken him months to think
it up. The men in our government never
cease to amaze me. Sen. Harris might
be famous some day. Who knows, maybe,
"LBJ AND TH IN '68."
I sympathize with the Senator's move.
After all, the only reason Yankees go to
school in Kentucky is to take advantage
of the tax payers. Learning, contrary to
popular belief, is a dilemma of the middle-clas- s
mind. People do not go to college,
or
to leam
whether
and earn a degree and to see different
places and to meet different people. They
go to take advantage of the tax payer!
It's as clear as the Kentucky River!
John Hunt Morgan and his faithful
horse, Bess, would be proud of that old
rebel spirit. CHARGE 'EM!!! Not with
men but with a $2,000 tuition bill. Why
you could bring an extra 12 million into
the state treasury. Great thinking. Senator!
But what if the price is too high for the
Yankees to pay? They would take advantage of another state. Kentucky would
be saved. But where is Kentucky going
to get the money the Yankees used to
pay? Two places:
te

1.
2.

The

student

The Kentucky tax payer
I would imagine that the
tuition will have to go up to compenstudents who
sate the loss of
can no longer afford to go to school
in Kentucky, i suggest the Legislature
tuition to $4,000 a seraise the
mester and raise the sales tax to 15
percent. That way they can keep Kentucky for Kentuckians.
I get this warm sensation throughout
my body whenever I think of the great
men who control our government.
Robert C. McNamara
te

out-of-sta-

Junior
Education
To the Editor of the Kernel:
Last March 8th several students went
back on a swom path and tried to destroy the Student Government. These
same students have been continually disrupting the meetings of the assembly
since their election. They use the time
of the weekly Student Government Meeting as their weekly play time. I do not
believe these students were elected to a
weekly recess. They were elected to serve
as best they could their fellow students.
Not to serve their petty interests. The
students I am refering to have used
everything from Robert's Rules to jeers
to walking out of meetings to make their
show spectacular. Last week they played
around until all their pet legislation was
brought up and then they left without
respect for the efforts of any other representative in the assembly.
After their departure a call for a quorum
was made and not enough people were
present. At that moment I was explaining a bill and because of their departure
the bill had to wait another week. I
do not know the reason for the actions
of these people. Maybe they are forming
a party to run someone for president in
the Caped Crusader tradition. Then again
they may be nothing but agitators wliose
aim it is to keep the student body from
receiving any aid from its own Student
Government. Whatever they are they
sltould be stopped. They can only be
stopped by the student body showing
its. disgust. This can be done by attending
Student Government Meetings and seeing
what these people are doing and then
let them know the disgust with which it
is received. Also, letters to the Editor
would be read by them (think) and this
might help calm them down.
Both these metltods are sound, but
the best method is to vote down any
plot they try to pull over the students
this spring. In the American form of
government the final word lies with the
voter. If the student body does not become aroused the conspiracy to disrupt
the school may work. If the students
become aroused the dead wood will be
disposed of.
Besides my disgust with the above
mentioned people I am also curious as to
what happened to Student Government
bills: 9, 16, 19. They were passed by the
Assembly but nothing has come about
after their passage. Other more recent
bills are in the same boat. One bill was
passed concerning thepossibility of creat

ing the Frankfort Semester at UK and
nothing has been done. This was passed
several weeks ago. The reasons for this
lack of action must be very complex.
The first place one must look is to the
executive branch. The president of Student Government has the final word and
action on all bills. It is his responsibility
to see that the action in the bills is
carried out. But I believe the responsibility
goes beyond the President. I believe the
responsibility lies with the representatives
who are not aiding the interests of their
fellow students. These are the people who
have failed to serve the student body.
When I place the blame with the representatives, I do not include all of them.
I do however include a great number of
them. There are of course those who are
doing the best they can to aid the student
body. These students should be praised.
They will be praised by reelection from a
satisfied student body. However these
other representatives need to be stopped.
They will continue to hinder the progress
of the Student Government if they are not
stopped. Under our present system the
way to stop these representatives is to defeat them at the poles. Begin to put these
representatives on the spot. Make them
defend their actions and make them show
the student body what they have done.
When they beat around the bush and say
nothing, VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE!
Thank you for reading this and please
try to do something about the waste
that these representatives are causing.
Joseph P. White
Student Government Representative
Sophomore Sociology Major
To the Editor of the Kernel:
Steve Cook and the Basketball Tickets,
by Kentucky Williams. Act I. (Nov., 1967)
Student Government President Steve Cook
has announced that students will be
seated at Wildcat basketball games more
"efficiently" if they pick up their tickets
in advance. His new policy will allow
students to keep the same date for three
consecutive games. Also, Cook said, the
weather will reduce
long lines in sub-zer- o
student demand for tickets, allowing more
to attend the games and
the administration to reap the profits.
Act II. (Dec., 1967) A campus referendum has shown over 90 percent of the
students in opposition to the Cook seating plan. The Assembly has abolished
non-studen- ts

the plan.
Act III. (March, 1968) Steve Cook
has announced that student tickets for
the Mid East Regionals, according to
his plan, will be given out by a lottery
system. This will prevent the most loyal
fans from getting all the tickets and will
be less burdensome to the administration.
Act rv (April, 1968) Steve Cook has
announced that while posing as Student
Government President, he has secretly
been an agent for the C. I. A., Cautious
Investigators for the Administration.
Ken Williams
AAcS Senior

To the Editor of the Kernel:
I have heard with increasing concern
the recent proposals to increase the tuition
students attending
fees for
Kentucky colleges. I am a native of
Kentucky and lived there for 37 years
until I was transferred from Lexington to
Charleston, West Virginia. Two years
later when there was a vacancy in the
Lexington office I attempted to return
to that city, but the vacancy was filled
by another. I am a graduate of the University of Kentucky (43) as aremy brother
and sister (47). My sister and I are
both lifetime members of the UK Alumni
Association. My father, mother and sister all contributed to the UK Century
Fund.
My oldest daughter had always wanted
to attend the University, which she entered as a freshman last August. This
was her own choice and I was pleased
with her decision even tltough it was not
easy for us because of the much higher
tuition fees than if she had attended a
college in West Virginia. My daughter
told me recently she was very happy at
UK7and the longer she stayed in Lexington, the more she loved it. I would
not be surprised if she chose to live
there after completing her scltooling. I
have a younger daughter, a junior in
high scltool, and a son, wlto may also
want to attend UK. Between visiting my
out-of-sta-

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To the Editor of the Kernel:
The recent tempest in a tea )t stirred
relatives and friends in my hometown
of Williamsburg, I am in Kentucky at up over the letter entitled "Mite Makes
least once a month.
Right" supposedly satirizing Morchead
State University has provided the camI understand some people favoring the
increased tuition fees say the
pus with some fine examples of low
students would .continue to attend any- comedy which may not be as comical
as they appeared at first. While undoubtedhow. In our case, it would be finanand we would have to ly the letter was in questionable taste,
cially impossible,
withdraw our daughter from the Uni- it seems to me that the undignified and
versity of Kentucky. I believe there are unreasonable attack made by Morchead
State's president upon the University of
many native Kentuckians and UK graduates who would be placed in the same Kentucky's administration and the Kernel's staff was totally unjustified.
position.
The letter was of a type that might
I must confess unashamedly, I am
one of those persons who hets a lump well have been ignored by a man conin my throat and a tear in my eye when scious of the wisdom and dignity a unithe band plays "My Old Kentucky Home." versity president supposedly possesses,
No matter where I am, my heart will but if Morehead's president feels he
must answer in kind any and
always be in Kentucky. I sincerely trust
my State will not turn its back on the every person in any part of the state
who chooses to write against him, let
sons and daughters of those native Kentuckians, who through no fault of their him do so without involving others. Let
him deal with the autlior responsible,
own live elsewhere.
H. R. White, Jr. if he must play "thought police," rather
than attacking people who had nothing
to do with the letter and may not share
the opinions expressed in it. Certainly
To the Editor of the Kernel:
there is no justification in the reported
It was with interest that I read your personal attack upon President Oswald
editorial (March 6) in which you ex- and his wife given at a convocation in
pounded your opinions of the new draft Morehead. I tmly hope the reports of
law. My attention was particularly drawn the convocation are exaggerated or unto your assertions that "certain students, true, but a public statement of Morehead's
because of their choice of discipline, re- president to the effect that he could
main deferred. Medical, dental, and di- "write three pages of much worse stuff
vinity students are exempt from being about President Oswald's wife" seems
killed in Vietnam."
to me to indicate a complete lack of the
know of no specific in- most elementary standards of justice and
Although
stance in which the life of a physician good taste. Such salacious statements comhas been lost in Vietnam, I think it ing from a university president are inrather rash to assert that physicians in tolerable. If the reports of the speech
Vietnam are "exempt from being killed." are untnie, then the rumors should be
While it is true that most physicians in denied and laid permanently to rest.
Vietnam stay behind the lines to treat If the reports are true, there is simply
the wounded, it is equally true (as recent no excuse for that kind of indiscriminate
events have shown and as many UKMC malice.
staff can attest) that the lines in Vietnam
The president of Morehead sltould
are neither poorly drawn at that no one, be reminded that, in contrast to the apbut no one in Vietnam is free of the risk parent situation at Morehead, President
of being killed by one side or the other. Oswald does not pretend to control the
I recommend for the editor's education thou glit of every student on campus and
reading a few of the recent articles in the therefore he is not responsible for their
AMA news regarding the risks that physithinking. In fact, it seems to me that
cians in Vietnam incur.
President Oswald's stand on student and
Perhaps an interview or two with some faculty freedom might be considered at
of the physicians who have served in Morehead. A man who has fired, or
Vietnam and are now on the UKMC threatened to fire, three professors for
house staff might prove elightening. Since no other reason than their opposition to
I think that even the editor, if he can compulsory ROTC cannot play the role
constrain himself to think, will agree that of injured innocence. If he chooses to
everyone in Vietnam lives in constant rule by intimidation of the faculty and
threat of being killed, it remains only to regimentation of the students, then he
establish that indeed American interns must be prepared to accept liis "subare exempted into the mandatory service jects" and their friends to defend their
at the completion of their internship freedoms in any way they can. Rule by
and sent to Vietnam.
intimidation invites resistance by satire
Since 100 percent of last year's male or worse. Rather than attacking everyinterns have either been drafted or have one at UK simply because one individual
committed themselves to military service wrote one letter, the president of More-hea- d
should thank his lucky stars his
during the middle of their training or
after its completion by being accepted
own faculty and student body aren't
into the "Bemg Plan" or similar plans, picketing under liis office window.
i can only assume that either the editor's
In any case, an effort to squelch all
ignorance or the editor's stupidity led criticism from individuals by attacking
to the publication of his unjustified asentire institutions is unfair and misguided.
sertion.
A university president above all men
If the responsible function in the edi- sltould not attempt to suppress criticism
tor's inability to carry out a logical process in any way. A little controversy does
of thought, I submit that he sltould a university good, for controversy is really
no longer be allowed to publish for there just another word for thinking, and that's
may be readers who assume he can think. what universities are for. Even Morehead.
If the responsible function be the
Kent Patterson
editor's ignorance, I suggest that he take
Crad. Student at UK
it upon himself to correct the deficiencies
in his conduct that now exist so that he
may minimize the quantity of Ids publication and increase the knowledge of
his readers.
To the Editor of the Kernel:
O. Michael Manphy
At last the English department has
Senior
a defender! Miss Ingleesh, you are to
Medical Student
be congratulated for taking a stand against
all tltose physics, math, and chemistry
students who think they can write poetry.
To the Editor of the Kernel:
Surely they are "making a mockery"
I would like for my fellow students of our field of study. How dare
anyone
in general, and Joe Wlute