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THE KENTUCKY

Thursday Eveningjuly 13, 1967

 

Reflection Of The Vietnam Forum At The Student

The Shiith’s Outstanding College Daily
UNIVERSITY or KENTUCKY. LEXINGTON

Kernel Photos by Dick Ware

Center Patio

Non-violence advocates, urg-
ing dissent as our responsibility,
strongly criticized as illegal the
Vietnamese war in statements at
the Student Center patio forum
yesterday.

Voicing strong criticism of the
“evil act" in which the United
States is participating in Viet-
nam, David Watkins said "we
can kill every communist in the
world but we've done nothing
to kill the concept of commun-
ism. You must condemn the in-
stitution, not kill the person."

Comparing communism and
Christianity as competitive ide~
ological systems demonstrates a
basic contradiction between the
two, said Watkins, member of
the peace caravan from the Am
'erican Friends Service Commit-
tee, a Quaker organization, visit-
ing Lexington this week.

 

EKU Pres. Martin Criticizes

UK’S‘ Community College Hole

By MARTIN E. WEBB

Local community college of—
ficials were quiet yesterday
concerning, Eastern Kentucky
University president, Dr. Ro-
bert Martin's statement that
he is not convinced the state's
community college system
ought to be run by the Uni-
versity of Kentucky.

Dr. Ellis F. Hartford dean
of the Community College Sys-
tem, said that he did not feel
he could make a statement
unless authorized by Univer-
sity of Kentuckky president,
john W. Oswald. President Os-
wald, away on business, was
unavailable for comment.

Dr. Martin's comments
came at a Monday meeting
of the state Council on Pub-
lic Higher Education, Rich-
mond. During the meeting he
suggested that the question of
who should run the community
colleges be considered by a

colleges

Dr.

consulting firm. system since 1961 without mis— a “sister institution" of UK.
The council approved acon- hap. The two institutions would
tract with Cresap, McCormick The council's chairman, share a president and board

and Paget, a Washington con-
sulting firm, to conduct ayear-
long study of the physical fa-

cilities and needs of the state's
colleges and universities.

"I'm not convinced we're
doing it the best way,"
Martin said.

"‘We ought to see alternate
ways of doing it," before set-
tling permanently on UK as
administrator,
Dr. Martin said that other
states don't do it that way.

Associate Dean of the Com-
munity College System, Dr.
Stanley Wall, remarked that
the Kentucky Legislature enac-
ted a law pr0vidin
community colleges
istered by the University of
Kentucky.

”Just because other states
do not run their community
under
doesn't necessarily mean they
have a better system," he said.
The University ofKentucky,

Wall said, has been run-
ning the community college

William H. Abell, of Louis-
ville, said the matter would
receive attention from the con-

Dr.

next 10 years.
he continued.

ticular attention

that the
admin—

this

system

of trustees,

sulting firm. The contract with
the firm anticipates an expen—
diture of about $58,000 on the
study. It will seek to forecast
the needs for new academic
buildings by the state's col-
leges and universities for the

The firm is already under-
taking a study of the role of
the council itself, with par-
to its rela-
tionship to the state-run in-
stitutions of higher education.

The council is the state's
research and planning agency
in the area of public higher
education. It also reviews and
forwards to the state finance
director budget requests ofpub-
lic colleges and universities.

In other business, the coun-
cil agreed to meet in Louis-
ville on Aug. 2 to discuss a
recommendation that the Uni-
versity of Louisville begin re—
ceiving full state support as

but each would
be headed by a chancellor.
Continued on Page 2, Col. 3

"Communism justifies the
means with the end and Christ-
ianity does not. It is a ques-
tion of methods. In Vietnam we
are using military methods to
reach the goal. We are Editing
fire with Fire,” Watkins added.

Defining non—violence as ”a
refusal to violate any human be-
ing," Watkins said, ”we ques-
tion the whole chain of effects
leading to violence and ultimately
to war. This includes exploitation
of workers, psychological vio-
lence and war."

”There is no guarantee that
non-violence will remedy the sit-
uation, but we do know that
violence will not remedy the
situation."

Kirk Halliday, second speaker
in the forum held on the Stu-
dent enter patio Wednesday as-
sert that ”dissent is not aright
but rather a responsibility."

Halliday, a June graduate d
Wilmingtai (Ohio) College, said
that because of the basic ideal-
ism of the United States "we have
always accepted that whatever
war we entered was a just war.
Its legality ha been accepted
unquestionably. But we question
it."

The four arguments against
the non-violent movement were
then outlined by Halliday as:

p the intellectual Uncle Tom
ism that assumes the Covemment
has all the information;

D that Peace demonstrators are
helping the communists;

) that you can't msh peace,
and;

Key Issues In Contemporary Higher Education
Topic 0f Student Press Seminar In New York

By FRANK BROWNING

BRONXVILLE, N.Y.—Sixteen collegiate
newspaper people gathered here Wednesday
on the campus of Sarah Lawrence College
to begin a six-week experiment in higher
education.

Sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation
through the U.S. Student Press Association,
the seminar's goal is an examination of
key issues in contemporary higher education.

Organizationally the seminar embodies
some innovativé\ notions about how higher
education works best. For example, the col-
lege students are living "co-educationally"
in two off-campus houses, each of which
is equipped with comfortable lounge areas
and minimal kitchen facilities.

Specific plans within the seminrl are
intentionally unstructured to allow the stu—
dent-participants to develop their own educa-
tional process.

Rita Dershowitz, co—director of the seminar
and an USSPA staffer, told the group at
the onset that it would work in an educa-

tional situation so students might be better.

able to closely evaluate themselves and their
responses to new educational ideas.

Kicking off the seminar are alinost a week
of ”T—group" sessions where students attempt

simply to encounter one another individually,
to break down individual barriers, and dis-

cuss individual feelings and differences in
small units.

Directing the T-group work is Jerry Cold,
a member of the student affairs office of
City College of New York.

The seminu students may develop indi-
vidual projects, study programs at nearby
Eastern schools, interview leading educa—
tors and educational commentators, or strike
out in whatever ways may seem femible to

grasp the nature of changing higher educa-
tion in America.

The seminar will last until Aug. 20 after-
which partici ants will be sent to the nation-
al USSPA ongress for a week at Min-
neapolis, Minn.

Heading up the second annual seminar
are Dershowitz, former editor of the Hunter
College Arrow, Barbara Stallings, former edi-
tor of the Mt. Holyoke News, and Ken Win-
ter, former managing editor of The Michigan
Daily.

Partici ants from Kentucky Ire Kathleen
Ogden, the Catherine Spalding‘Stub and
Frank Browning of the Kernel.

Others are from the Universities of Den-
ver, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Delaware, Min-
nesota, and Oregon; East Carolina State
College, Webster College, Stanford, St. Louis
U., Smith, Portland State College, Wellesley,

‘ and Bard College.

ERNEL

Vol. LVIII, No. 151

Peace Caravan
Urges Dissent,
Non-Violence

) the method of non—violence
is all wrong.

Halliday countered these argu-
ments in the reminder of his
statement, quoting the positions
of Sen. Richard Russel (D—Ca.),
SenJames O. Eastland(D-Miss.),
and Rep. Mendel Rivers (D—S.-
Car.) with the assertion that
these "intellectual giants” are
well-known to the American pub-
lic.

The open forum drew approxi-
mately 75 participants. It began
with formal statements by the five
young people who comprise one
of 17 such peace caravans spon-
sored by AFSC. The group was
sponsored on campus by the Citi-
zens for Peace in Vietnam.

The avowed purpose of the
Peace Caravan members in town
this week is to stimulate thought
and discussion on the Vietnam
war, but their motives are not
wholly unselfish.

The five American Friends
Service Committee volunteers be-
lieve once their listeners learn
the facts they too will become
doves.

The visitors are not, however,
overly optimistic about convert—
ing conservative hawks in Lex-
ington, however.

But, too, they arepleased that
their local’sponsoring group, the
Citizens for Peace Committee,
did not welcome them with dire
warnings of staunch conservative
opposition like they've heard else-
where.

“It has been suggested that
Lexington has its conservative
elements," Kirk W. Halliday, the
only Quaker of the five, says.
"But that doesn't frighten us."

The Peace Caravan, in town
since Monday, is sponsored by
the AFSC, established 50 years
ago by the Society of Friends
(Quakers) as an alternative to
military service.

Halliday will soon begin two
years of alternative service be—
cause of his religion. He, andthe
four others are giving up seven
weeks this summer to promote
peace in the Midwest. Two other
5—member caravans are hitting
cities in other parts of the coun-
try.

Informal discussion is the
caravaners' main tact. Meeting
with local officials, callege stu-
dents and administrators, civil
rights leaders, newsmen, minis-
ters, and church groups make up
their schedule in Lexington.

A panel discussion open to
the UK community will be held
at 6:30 pm. tonight at the Bap-
tist Student Union near campus.

The group will wind up its
five-day Lexington stay with a
public meeting at 7:30 Friday
evening at All Souls Presbyter-
ian Church, 475 W. 2nd Street.

“The Sunday School class I
visited said I really dropped a
bombshell," Phyllis Lund, a col-
lege student from Curlew, Iowa,
told the Kernel. Three adult
hawks monopolized the conver—
sation, but an "unwelcome at-
titude was widespread in the
church group, she commented.

The caravaners were to meet
this morning with University
President john W. Oswald after
sessions with Transylvania Col-
lege head Irvin..E. Lunger and

Continued on Page 2. Col. 1

 

 2 —THi: KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, July 13, 1967

 

Peace Group PrOtests .War Classes

Continued From Page 1

Lexington mayor Fred Fugazzi.
Meetings were also scheduled
with County Judge Joe Johnson,
Congress of Racial Equality lead-
ers, and an aide to Gov. Edward
T. Breathitt.

Miss Lund, Halliday, and the
other caravaners, David 1. Wat-

Chester,

kins of London, England; Dan
Mathews, an Oregon college stu-
dent; and Cynthia Metzger, Man-
(1nd.) College sopho-
more, said the schedule here was
the best yet.

They have been to Loraine
and West Milton, Ohio, and Col-
umbus, Ind.

 

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Closing
Rapidly

In the first two days of F resh-
man registration, nearly 100 sec-
tions were closed to students.
Less than 400 freshmen have reg-
istered in the first two days, with
some 2500 yet to go through the
procedure.

Such lower division courses
as Physics 151, Etymology, Bot-
any, Cerman, Geology labs, His-
tory 109, and Hygiene were full
or very nearly so.

Other sections of the courses
are expected to open up as the
demand for them increases and
the available seats decrease, ac
cording to Mr. Robert Larson,
associate registrar.

The English Department
alone had 16 classes closed, in-
cluding nine upper division sec-
tions. Education $12 was “bit
heavy” by the influx of fresh-
men.

Including pre—registered stu—
dents returning in the fall, Mr.
Larson said 8720 students had
registered, of which 83 percent
had complete schedules.

”We have enough spaoeavail-
able for all students except in
certain areas,” said Mr. Larson.

”He pointed out that he expects
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the Fall. All of these students
scheduled to formally register
August 28, and those with im-

Criticizes

UK’S Role

Continued From Page 1

Abell said the
should be private.

meeting

The council also recommen-
ded curriculum regulations for
a new requirement that Ken-
tucky's schoolteachers gain
either a masters' degree or
a fifth year of college within
10 years after they begin teach-
ing.

The state Board of Edu-
cation has already established
the fifth-year requirement. At
its September meeting, it will
consider the council's recom-
mendations on the nature of
the coursework needed.

The requirement applies on-
ly to teachers new to Ken—
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the next day.

Mr. Larson said 14,9(X) stu.
dents are expected on the Lex-
ington campus in the Fall. He
emphasized that the majority of
students would get the classes
they wanted, but not necessarily
the times they desired.

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economics 251 sections.

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closed sections, 25 percent were
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Mr. Larson said the closing
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actually a healthy sign. “We'd
worry if they weren't closing."

Closed classes and the de
mand for these classes will be
used an indicator to designate
the opening and reopening of
new sections and classes, he said.

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UK Aid F of County Officials

The Kentucky LeagueofWom—
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proposed Institute cf Public Ad-
ministration to provide informa-
tion, training and technical as-
sistance for county officials.

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urging the programs to UK
trustees and officials, Gov.
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Members of the cast of the forthcoming Centennial Theatre pro‘

duction “Street Scene" rehearse “Children's Game-Catch Me, If
You Can.” The singers are (l—r) Diane Sells, Norris Wake, Judy
Waren, Mitch Douglas, Margaret Dickinson, and Jim Mobley.

 

Book Review

Education Study

Lacks Credence

By CHARLES DEAN

WALK THE WHITE LINE: A PROFILE OF URBAN EDUCATION by Elizabeth
M. Eddy. Anchor Books. 1967. paperback. 95c.

 

The author of this book utilizes some elementary sociological
concepts to describe and explain the role of the school in the
urban area and the problems faced by those schools. While the
book organizes some rather commonplace information ina new way,
it is safe to say that the author, by no means, contributes to the

knowledge explosion.
The material which she pre—
sents could have been reduced to

an article with relative case.

There Wt'lt some places wile?)
her sensitivity to the problems
facing urban schools was appar-
ent. However, the road to good
reading is not paved with gtxxl
intentions and, overall, the book
leaves much to be desired.

One of the frustrating things
about sociology is that today's
expensive research finding be
comes tomorrow's folk wisdom.
The author of this books takes
advantage of this situation and
bases her analysis upon some
sociological concepts such as “to—
tal institution." She begins with
a discussion of the trend toward
urbanization and the problems
resulting from a policy of free
migration. She notaa that this
policy fills the New City with
the "urban poor" who are pre
dominantly Southern Negroes
and rural or Appalachian Cau-
casions. This is about all that
is in the first chapter.

Then, in the second chapter,
she summarizes four community
studies. After this, in the next
chapter, she reports studies which
indicate that slum schools are
overcrowded and have inferior
facilities, faculties and students.
In the fourth chapter, the school
is compared with a total insti-
tution and Dr. Eddy plays Irv-
ing Coffman for twenty pages.

In chapter five, she begins to-

report the data which she men-
tioned in the introduction. She
does not describe her procedures
for selecting classrooms to ob-
serve. Her data consists of notes
taken by a "team of observers
comprised of three social scien-
tists and two public school teach-
ers," who kept running accounts
of the events in the classrooms
which hey observed.

She then lifts quotes from
these nrnning accounts to illus—
trate points she wants to make
in chapters five and six. The
quotes range from a few lines
to over three pages long. The first
of these chapters discusses the
classes for the gifted children
and the second discusses the dis—
cipline classes.

She very effectively describes
the mechanisms the teachers use
to prepare the gifted children for
participation in the public world.
This training includes correct
grammar, clear speech, leader-

ship, proper grooming, neatnesss

etc.

ller discussion of the disci—
pline classes, variously referred
to as ”zoos” and “jungles" are
good case studies in cruelty. it
is' for these students that the
school is an inadequate transi-
tion from the family to public
life. It is in this chapter that
her message comes through most
clearly. She shows considerable
insight intothe underlying causes
for the differences in these two
types of classes.

Dr. Eddy does not say any-
thing that has not been said more
effectively by other writers. She
has collected .much of the lit-
erature which is relevant to her
topic and has some discriptive
data to make it a little more
interesting. The book cannot be
considered a scientific work. Her

“research" was pedestrian. If
she wanted to get a point across,
she makes her reader go through
numerous pages before she comes
to the int.

    
 

Centennial

. Theatre
July. 1 9-23

Kurt Weill and Langston
Hughes’ Musical drama “Street
Scene" will be presented July
19-23 by the Centennial Theater
in cooperation with the UK Opera
Theater.

Based on Elmer Rice’s play
of the same name, “Street Scene”
has been described as a white
man’s “Porgy and Bess" as it
tells of the events of a day and
a night on the West side of New
York City.

Mrs. Kay Whitehead, UK
graduate assistant in music, plays
Mrs. Maurrant in the musical.
Mrs. Whitehead has played in
“Patience" and ”Most Happy
Fellow," both Centennial pro-
ductions.

Her husband is portrayed by
Donald Ivy. Ivy is recreating
the role he began in the 1955
UK production of"Street Scene."
Ivy is one the faculty of the
Music Department and has ap-
peared recently in “A Figment
of Hobgob. " “’

Appearing also in ”Street
Scene" are Miss Sheila House,
Mitch Douglas, Phyllis Jenness,
Luther Stripling, Norris Wake,
and Sheldon Simon.

The score of “Street Scene”
has been varioulsy described as
folk opera, musical drama, met-
ropolitan opera, and a dramatic
opera. The numbers range from a
down—to—earth blues, "I Got 2
Marble and a Star,” to a tone
poem “Somehow I Never Could
Believe."

The plot revolves around the
relationship of Frank Maurrant
and his wife, who rejects her hus-
band because of his impotency.
The musical has its lighter mo-
ments provided by the colorful

West Side characters—the gos-

sipy neighbors, the house trollop,
and the immigrants.

”Street Scene" is staged by
Wallace Briggs and is musically
directed by Sheila House. Set
design is by Charles Crimsley.
Reservations are available by
calling University extention 2929.

Tuska Drawings

‘Remarkable,’ ‘Coy’

By W. H. MCNEW

One who darkly suspects that the figure arts disappeared some-
where between Cezanne and yesterday goes to an exhibition of
today's art with, to say the least, trepidation.

To so approach John Tuska's one man show at Doctor’s Park,
however, is to be happily surprised. For out on Lime amongst
smiling doctors, efficient nurses, and suffering patients is an ex-
hibit worthy of a far better setting.

Mr. Tuska's mediums are four: baked clay, scratch board,
acrylics, and pen, silverpoint and pencil drawings. His' subject
is the one most difficult and most rewarding, the human figure.

The clay figures seem to inhabit a region somewhere between
Crivelli's embossed panels and aboriginal artifacts. In that limbo
I would fain leave them. Both texture and color seem inappro—
priate to the subjects.

The scratch point and more conventional drawings are dis-
tinuiished by the artist's remarkable feeling for line. “Study,"
in ink, evokes its response with wondrous few lines while “Seated
Male," a silverpoint sketch, blends shadow and line to striking
effect.

There is a certain coyness about “Grass" and “Nude Back,"
two scratch point studies. They tend almost to illustration, but
are more than redeemed by Mr. Tuska’s lines. The ”Nude Back"
with its harsh texture and lines particularly shows this medium's
value to the artist.

Of the acrylics ”Descendants of Eve" is distinguished by its
figures; and the panel, “Fabric in Garden," is one of those wonder-
ful pictures whose perspectives and shadings will be different
each time it is seen.

I do not mean to suggest that Michelangelo is reborn. (If he
were, he would probably be either freaked out or in jail.) It is
rather that a serious and talented artist has grappled with some of
art's most difficult problems. The results will be at Doctor's Park
untilAugust 4. Go, see, and enjoy.

 

Three short plays by Samuel Beckett will be presented Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday nights at 8: 30 p. m. in the Laboratory Theatre
of the Fine Arts Building. Starring in the three productions are
(l- r) Paula Peelle, Clairie March, and Julia Beasley. All tickets
are $1 and reservations are available by calling University extention

 

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UNIVERSITY or KENTUCKW

ESTABLISHED 1894

THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1967

Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.

William F. Knapp, Jr., Editor— In- Chief

Richard Kimmins, Managing Editor

 

High Cost Of Vietnam War
May .Kill Higher Education

“Mambo-jumbo, rhubarb-rhu-
barb, give the democrats more cash.
Helps the nation, stops inflation,
how‘s, your father?”

Sometimes the artist is seer.
These lines from Stop the World—
I Want to Get Qflr are about to
come true. The democrats are about
to get more cash through a pro-
posed tax increase, allegedly to
help the nation and stop inflation.

The great white father in Wash-
ington is uttering much mumbo-
jumbo these days about escalation
and a tax increase, matters which
eflect us as individuals, certainly,
and matters which may efiect upon
our University.

For we receive many federal
dollars at the University. Today's
News Briefs contain reports of the
most recent federal grants to the
University, grants which involve
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Just one illustration of the untold
amount of federal money being
spent here at the University is the
new 19-story office complex build-
ing. If the federal money were to
be withdrawn from just this one
construction project the building
would only rise as high as the Ad-
ministration building.

UK, as one of the 1,800 insti-
tutions of higher learning in Am-
erica participating in federally sup-
ported or sponsored programs,
would sufler severs setbacks if the
money from Washington fails.

And fail it may.

Depending upon decisions in
Washington. The increased costsof
the Vietnam war have curtailed
many federal programs, particularly
ones for which there was so much
hope and promise, like the teacher
corps, and the war on poverty
program.

Further escalation will mean in-
creased defense spending and cause
and still greater drain on the tre-
asury to prolong a rhubarb in Asia.
The reasons for our involvement
there grow hazier with each press
release. Rationalization for US.
involvement is just so much
mambo-j umbo anymore.

And for all the Keynesian talk
about deficit spending, unbalanced

budgets, and tax increases to stop

inflation, one clear fact remains.

'If they spend more, as Washington

seems to be planning, in the il-
legal Vietnam war, then they’ve got

\to raise money somehow. Like tax-

increasewise.

But what if the tax increase
is deemed politically suicidal in
a pre-election year? Then a further
curtailment of federal expeditures,
particularly at the higher-educa-
tion level, may be in the offing.

What a shame the partnership
evolving between the federal gov-
ernment and the nation's colleges
and universities is threatened with
dissolution by the nasty, morally
reprehensible U.S. involvement in
Vietnam.

It Is High Time For Experiments

In University Education

Education should never shrink
from innovation and experimenta-
tion. The State University of New
York, fast forging ahead in the
educational world, now includes
57 diverse campuses. Some fthese,
such as Stony Brook and Euflalo,
confidently expect to be among the
top academic institutions in Amer-
ica.

Nextwyear, at Old Westbury,
N.Y., an exciting new liberal arts
campus will be added to the state
system. It will be given unusual
leeway to innovate and experiment.
A prime goal will be to integrate
college experience more directly
with the practical problems ofthe
world beyond the campus. Public
service will be strongly emphasized.
Students will be encouraged to
spend part of their time in the
Peace Corps or in urban poverty
programs.

Rather than a prescribed four-
year course, students will shape
their courses of study to fit in with
their own developing concerns.
Language study, for instance will

quip them for their service exper-
ience in Zambia or amongthe Puer-
to Ricans in New York’s city slums.
Students will, moreover, be en-
couraged to contribute to policy
planning, to challenge the univer-
sity and, in turn, to be challenged
by it intellectually. All will work
with a Great Books curriculum, to
include both contemporary and his-
torical classics. And in addition,
students can request unusual cair-
ses which expecially interest them,
the sort now available only in the
so-ealled "free universities.”
Pioneering this experiment at
combining intellectual proficiency
and practical, action-oriented ed-
ucation is college president-to—be,
Harris L. Woflord Jr., former White
House aide to President John F.
Kennedy and associate director of
the Peace Corps. His venture should
inspire educators elsewhere to ex-
ercise similar courage and ingen-
uity. The time is ripe for the in-
troduction of fresh thinking and
learning, beyond the confines of a
few small campuses.
Christian Science Monitor

 

 

 

 

 

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Letters To The Editor

 

Two Students C riticize 'Senff

To the Editor of The Kernel:

After reading Tom Senfl’s letter of
June 29, I wonder which of the two, Mr.
Pratt or Mr. Senfl. is ”intellectually en-
closed . . . misled . . . and sick." In
the first place Mr. Pratt has not refused
to serve his country in some capacrty;
instead, he has expressedinterest and will-
ingness to serve in such capacity as the
Peace Corps.

Second, he suggests that although Mr.
Pratt has the right to dissent, he should
not do so; instead, he should swallow his
dissent and fight for his country merely
because he could dissent if he wanted to.
And because he does exercise his rights,
Mr. Scuff would have them taken away.

References to his other grosslyillogical
statements seem superfluous. I, too, won-
der how a college graduate could be so
“intellectually enclosed; and feel more
inclined to blame any "Communist bury-
ings" on those who have followed the
logic of Mr. Senff and refused to pro-
test' what they consider mistaken or un-
just merely because it was their right to

do so.
April Lillud
A St S Senior

To the Editor of The Kernel:

()11 June ‘29 there appeared in The
Kernel a letter by a Tom Scuff. which
\\ as tarpp 1re11tly intended to criticize both
Don Pr 1tt for his stand on the Vietna-
me se w 1,1r and the editorial policies of
The Kernel.

This letter was one of the best exam-
ples l have ever read of precisely that
caliber of editorial to which Mr Senff
\s1s objecting and it was not written
by The Kernel staff.

Mr. Sneffs letter was a stereotyped

example of that breed ofjournalism ear-
111arked by trite cliches, illogical infer-
ences. word-twisting, and unthinking
e111otio11a|ismf To wit, I quote the fol-
lowing remarks from that letter: “Any-
one who followzs the views of Martin
Luther King can‘t be all bad.“ Just i11-
c’rulibly stupid . asinine remarks
like he 111d the rest of the radicals make .

snowing the unwashed masses

these days ‘. Sounds like a poor man s
Bertrand Russell”. ‘ . buried by the
(Io111111u11ists", and finally" . poor mis-

led imbeciles like Don Pratt".

(Iriticism, in the accepted academic
sense of the word, is characterized in
both purpose and content by thought-
ful evaluation of the s