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Wednesday Evening, Oct. 23,

UNIVERSITY

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OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LX, No. 41

BOARD OF TRUSTEES:
Shively To Be Honored;
Ph.D. In Pharmacy Set

By DANA EWELL
Assistant Managing Editor
Proposals for expanding the
Henderson Community College
campus, creating a doctoral program in pharmacy and naming
the Sports Center in honor of
the late Bemie Shively gained
approval of the Board of Trustees
Tuesday afternoon.
The University will begin negotiations immediately to acquire
21.5 acres bounded by the existing Henderson campus and presently owned by Hey ward H. Barrett.
All 51.54 acres owned by Barrett may be purchased if negotiations proceed favorably without the exercise of eminent domain.
Dr. William Willard, vice president of the Medical Center, presented the recommendation for a
doctoral degree in pharmacy, explaining that the University will
not be the first to initiate such
a program but it will be ahead
of the majority of pharmacy
schools in the country.
The program, which according
to Dr. Willard will not necessi- -

tate the addition of new faculty questioned Dr. Willard on the
at least in the near future, will adequacy of the Medical Center
be optional to students at the which bears his name. "I never
end of their second professional thought it should have been built
on that
plot."
year.
But Dr. Willard seemed opDivide Department
timistic about the present faciliBy careful scheduling, it will
ties, saying, "With high rise
be possible for students to gradof
uate with the Pharm. D. degree buildings and careful use
space, we can manage for some
in six years (two preprofessional
time yet."
and four professional years).
Revise Budget
Dr. Willard also gained apA budget revision, channeproval for dividing the current
Department of Radiology in the ling $27,811 into Medical Center
College of Medicine into two programs, also received trustee
approval.
separate Departments of DiagThe Trustees named a comnostic Radiology and Therapeutic
mittee to make arrangements for
Radiology.
a formal dedication of the Sports
Division of the departments
Center in memory of Bemie
is a recognition of the basic
differences in the two disciplines.
Shively, who served as athletics
Dr. Willard explained that for director for 28 years. Shively died
last December.
all practical purposes the departThe $320,000 Sports Center,
ment has been functioning along
built in 1960 on the south side
two separate lines anyway.
of campus near Cooper Drive,
Former Gov. A.B. Chandler
encompasses five football practice fields, a baseball diamond,
a track dressing room, intramural
field and weight-liftin- g
room.
The board, upon the recommendation of Robert F. Kerley,
vice president for business affairs,
voted to renew $33,200,000 in one-yeBy DARRELL RICE
bond notes in the private
Managing Editor
market.
Preliminary hearings have been set for Nov. lfor six persons, inKerley explained that it would
cluding four UK students, wIkj were arrested Monday night on
be wiser for the University to stay
charges of narcotics trafficking.
market at least
in the short-terThe six also were placed under $1,500 bond by Police Court
for the present because of the
Tackett in arraignment proceedings Tuesday afternoon.
Judge
Those arrested were Allen Holmgren, 23; Eric Friedlander, 21; changing market status of long-terbond issues.
Jeanna Butler, 20; William Shelby, 20; Virgil Estepp, 22 and
Margaret Humphrey, 18. The first four are UK students.
Market Improves
All of the students were known to have been released under
"The bond market is improvbond Tuesday following the arraignment. Four more persons were
ing and if we wait another year
arrested on narcotics charges Tuesday, but none were UK students.
it may be even better," Kerley
The four, all
were Marshall Allen
Lexington residents,
said.
Green and William Joseph Jones, both charged with selling drugs;
Kerley also noted recent passJamie Carl Asher and David Francis Deatley, charged with use of
age of a law providing for federal
drugs.
Conviction under narcotics charges carries a penalty of one to assistance to universities in paybonds.
ing interest on long-terfive years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
"The law, however, has not
Detective Sgt. Frank Fryman said he, several recruits and a
received funding yet," Kerley
federal agent are conducting a continuing investigation on narcotics laws violations.
Continued on rage 8, Col. 5
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senatorial candidate Duane
Independent
Olson tells a Tuesday night audience that he
supports an immediate bombing halt in Vietnam and a withdrawal of troops "within a
reasonable time." Kernel Photo By Dave Herman

Olson Says SDS
Upholds Principle
By SUE ANNE SALMON

Kernel Staff Writer
Duane Olson, independent candidate for the U.S. Senate, said
Tuesday night that Students for a Democratic Society is one of the
few organizations in Kentucky wliich upholds the democratic
principle.
Several people have called him called "instruments of the establishment."
since he accepted SDS's invitation to speak at UK and had
"In disguise of news interadvised him to read a magaviews the Federal Communicazine article, "SDS: Engineers of tions Commission grants special
Campus Chaos," he said. He privileges to broadcasters to seek
out major candidates over other
noted, liowever, that the publication is a "conservative magacandidates," the independent
candidate said.
zine."
As an example, he said a
Mr. Olson's thirty minute
Louisville radio station invited
speech included many views differing from those of his major Ids two major party opponents
to participate in ateleplioneopen
party opponents:
forum. When he called the staOn the war in Vietnam
"We should cease bombing imtion to request equal time, Mr.
mediately, and withdraw all Olson was told the station did
reasonable
a
not have time to present his
troops within
amount of time. Averell Harri-maprogram.
He is now appealing the case
the peace negotiator in
Paris should be replaced with to the FCC which he says rea representative of the populaquires equal time only for "news
interviews" of candidates.
tion as a whole."
The professional photographOn inflation "Interest rates
on loans made by the Federal er from Louisville is ninning for
Reserve System should be raised office for the first time "to test
from 5 14 percent to 6 percent.
the democratic theory that a man
of humble means can seek a
We should cut federal spending
since we spend $27 billion more public office."
than we take in. Tariffs must be
increased to govern imports. Foreign aid is only a drop in the
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On law and order "Those
demonstrating peacefully for civil
rights and for peace in Vietnam
should be protected by the law.
I believe in law and order
with justice."
On voting age "Kentucky
and Ceorgia are the only states
with voting privileges for
I believe all
sliould have the rights of

adults."

On the presidential election

"I favor popular election of

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Creat days for "belly skiing" may be coming up if a new fad catclies on. The flyer
lies on his stomach and grabs the parachute straps to have a rugged ride across
the grass as the wind catches the silk. The men of Haggin
who initiated the
fad maintain they have done it all to publicize Fhiffi Boom for Homecoming Queen.
Kernel Photo By Elaine Knapp
(See Story OI1 Page 3.)
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the president rather than election by the electoral college. I
would work toward constitutional reform to let people have a
choice in electing the vice president."
Olson also expressed opposition to the Kentucky
Activities Committee.
He complained aUmt inadequate coverage of his campaign
by the news media which he

Democrats
Get Support

The Young Democrats heard
speakers Mike Mills, chairman
of the Kentucky Crime Commission, and Dr. Carey
a political science professor at Brooklyn College, give
support Tuesday night to

the

Humphrey-Muskie-i'eden-Wat-

ts

campaign efforts.
Mills, a former candidate for
attorney general, said he saw
"law and order" as the major
issue that has developed during
the campaign and said that he
believes Hubert Humphrey is
the only candidate with a real
understanding of the problem.
Mills said Nixon has "no
dear cut, positive answers" to
any of the major issues. Wallace,
on the other hand, always has
a clear-cu- t
answer, but invariably
gives the wrong one, he said.
P. C I A
Continued on Pa-

* 2 -- THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 1968

Kentucky Youth For Wallace Map Strategy
By FRANK COOTS
The UK chapter of Kentucky
Youth For Wallace met Tuesday
night in the Student Center to
map their strategy for the closing
two weeks of the presidential
campaign.
The members decided to set
up an information table Friday
in the Student Center and pass
out handbills around campus to
arouse interest in Wallace's cam

paign. As Phil Disney, vice president of the group, said, "Our
problem is the people on campus who support Wallace and
won't say anything about it. That
(supporting Wallace) is not the
cool thing to do this election."
Disney also claimed "As it
stands right now, Wallace will
carry Kentucky but Governor
Wallace's strength is eroding.
This erosion can best be stopped

Ballots Notarized Now

11
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Absentee ballots must be in the County Clerk of Courts Office
by poll closing time, November 5.
Ballots may be notarized in the Student Covemment office.
Room 102 Student Center, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday and
Thursday.
Secretaries in Room 206, Administration Building, will also
notarize the ballot from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.

Every
lit tor hit

0 Sleep. of Prisoners

clearly than Nixon." He did not
elaborate.
Dunlap also said they need til
cars to drive members to the
polls to "tell people which lever
to pull in case they can't read."
In other action, CeorgeLundy
was appointed treasurer and a
membership fee of one dollar
was approved. This fee purportedly will have the dual effect of providing much needed
funds and keeping those "who
are not sincere about Ceorge
Wallace from voting at the

not bar anyone from the meetings.
There was a great deal of
discussion as to who should represent Wallace at the Haggin
Hall Forum Wednesday since no
one felt prepared to give a speech.
They decided that someone
should give the speech and that
the members should attend to
throw questions at the Nixon
and Humphrey people.
Regarding the recently published platform of the American
Party, Dunlap said
, Independent
"Wallace comes out much more

on the college campus."
Approximately 20 people
the meeting but many of
them walked out when Duane
Olson, Independent senatorial
candidate, started to speak in
another room. This left seven
people to continue the meeting.
Alluding to those who walked
out and SDS's endorsement of
Wallace, Alex Dunlap, president
of the group, said "If they are
willing to make telephone calls
and work for the election of
George Wallace, more power to
them." He added that he would

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POPE To Promote
New Queen Concept

Ed Steckel, a second year law student, has formulated a new
organization on campus called IX3PE (PhilTi Over Positively Everybody), which he says has received "spontaneous support."
Phiffi Boom, the organiza
tion s mystery candidate for
POPE plans to have a mass
homecoming queen, is explained rally for Miss Boom on Nov. 2
by Steckel as being a totally new in front of the Library at 8:30
concept in queen candidates.
p.m., " . . .but we suggest the
"I feel the time is right for people get there by 7:30 p.m.,"
the University to
its Steckel added.
homecoming queen elections. We
Darby Turner, chairman of
just might win," Steckel said.
Steckel also said various the homecoming steering comgroups on campus ranging from mittee, told Steckel that POPE's
BSU to YAF to the law school chances of getting candidate
and the faculty are backers of Boom's name on the ballot were
Phiffi.
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While it is not surprising to
learn that the United States is resuming arms shipments to Greece,
this piece of news is hardly the kind
of knowledge which is reassuring
or even promising.
The announcement that two
minesweepers and a number of jet
aircraft will be provided to the
Greek armed forces marks the first
such aid in seventeen months. This
pause in our aid was designed as
a lever to force the military governconment of Greece to
stitutional forms which had been
ignored since the coup of April,

free to resume the shipments.
The fact is, unfortunately, that

the present government of Greece
is still restrictive and repressive,
but that seems to be of little consequence. As Secretary of Defense
Glark Clifford commented," The
obligations imposed on us by the
NATO alliance are far more important than the kind of government they have in Greece, or what
we think of it."
Perhaps so, but somehow it is
hard to imagine the United States
sending arms to Greece if the Communists had taken over there and
1967.
had expressed a desire to stay in
Therefore, after the Greek gov- NATO. Apparently the foreign polernment announced last week that icy of this country is still that
constitutional
government was there are good forms of repression
once again in effect, the U.S. was as well as bad ones.

Short Memories
Alas, politicians have mighty short memories. And Vice President
Humphrey is clearly no exception. Today he is quite understandably-twitti- ng
Richard Nixon up and down the land for what he charges is
the latter' s refusal to debate with him over television. Yet it was just
four short years ago when Mr. Humphrey was a key figure in a political
maneuver to prevent a like debate between President Johnson and Barry

Goldwater.
The crucial point was a vote in the Senate to suspend the
"equal time" (for minor party candidates) amendment, thereby
opening the way for Senator Goldwater to increase his pressure on
President Johnson for a debate. The move lost by a vote of
with Mr. Humphrey, shortly to become the Democratic vice presidential
candidate, voting against. Had he voted otherwise, and persuaded
g
senatorial colleagues to do the same, the move
but one of his
would have succeeded.
We have stated our belief that television debates are, on balance,
helpful and desirable. But we also recognize that the purpose behind
them (on the part of the candidates) is wholly political. And in this
particular instance, when Mr. Humphrey and his entourage express
failure to debate with
indignation over Mr. Nixon's
can only say: Remember 1964.
the vice president, we
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Guy M. Mendes, III, Associate Editor
Howard Mason, Photography Editor
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Chuck Koehler,
Dana Ewell,
Terry Dunham,
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Larry Dale Keeling,
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University Soapbox: Questioning The Morality Of Bombs
By BURTON S. GUTTMAN

Assistant Professor
For a physicist of his generation, VVas-le- y
Krogdahl shows a surprising lack of
knowledge of events surrounding the development of the atomic bomb and the
decision to use it militarily. An examination of the facts does not support his
idea that there was any "Communist influence" in this decision, nor his contention that there has been any hypocrisy
on the part of that segment of the academic community that is now protesting
our foreign policy, particularly our involvement in Vietnam.
First, as to the decision to use the
bomb: President Roosevelt, who was of
course involved in the entire project from
its inception, was advised on matters of
atomic energy by a committee consisting
of Vice President Wallace, Secretary of
r
WarStimson, Ceneral Marshall, Dr.
Bush, and Dr. James B. Conant.
Their principal concern from 1941 to 1945
was the development of the bomb; it was
known that the Germans had full knowledge of possibilities of nuclear weapons
and were hard at work on their own
project. The knowledge of the consequences of the Germans' success was a
powerful Incentive for all those involved
in the Manhattan Project; the bomb was
developed with full expectation that its
use might be necessary, and at no time
was it suggested that it should not be
used.
By the time President Truman took
office, Cennany was a defeated nation
and the Manhattan Project was virtually
completed; the only question remaining
was the use of the bomb against Japan,
and on this and related matters, the
President was advised by a similar committee, again consisting of Bush and
Conant, along with James F. Byrnes,
Under Secretary of the Navy Board, Assistant Secretary of State Clayton, and
Dr. Karl T. Compton. This committee
was assisted in its work by a Scientific
Panel consisting of A. 11. Compton, En
Van-neva-

rico Fermi, E. O. Lawrence, and J. R.
Oppenheimer.
The Scientific Panel was apparently
asked only to consider how the atomic
bomb could be used most effectively
to end the war. Its recommendation was
that the bomb should be used militarily
against one or more strategic Japanese
targets. That recommendation was then
echoed by the President's advisory committee. This decision was made entirely
on military grounds, taking into account
the known strength of the Japanese army
and the terrain over which any ground
war would have to be fought. A demonstration of the bomb in some wasteland
before a group of international observers,
including Japanese representatives, was
considered and rejected, primarily on the
basis that a bomb dropped from a plane
was still untested and if the demonstration failed, our efforts to secure a Japanese surrender would be seriously damaged.
While the final decision to use the
bomb rested with President Truman, all
of the weight of his advisors was behind
the action he took. The implication that
there was any Communist influence in
this decision is absolutely ridiculous, considering the men who were involved in
the process.
However, the academic and scientific
community by no means agreed with the
recommendations of the Scientific Panel.
At the suggestion of Conant, a committee chaired by James Franck and including such prominent scientists as Eugene
Rabinowitch, Clenn T. Seaborg, and Leo
Szilard, prepared a report that reflected
the views of most scientists involved in
the project. A quotation from the Franck
Report shows this attitude:
"Thus, from the 'optimistic' point of
view looking forward to an international
agreement on the prevention of nuclear
warfare the military advantages and the
saving of American lives achieved by the
sudden use of atomic bombs against Japan
may be outweighed by the ensuing loss

of confidence and by a wave of horror
and repulsion sweeping over the rest
of the world and perhaps even dividing
public opinion at home.
"From this point of view, a demonstration of the new weapon might best
be made, before the eyes of representatives of all the United Nations, on the
desert or a barren island. The best possible atmosphere for the achievement of
an international
agreement could be
achieved if America could say to the world,
'You see what sort of weapon we had
but did not use. We are ready to renounce its use in the future if other
nations join us in this renunciation and
agree to the establishment of an efficient
international control.' "
Franck went to Washington in June,
to communicate this report to Stim-sobut succeeded only in delivering it
to a minor official. When it became clear
that the government did not appear to be
receptive to the opinions of the scientific
community, Leo Szilard circulated a petition that was signed by many members of
the scientific staff of the Manhattan Project, again urging that the bomb should
not be used, and communicated this directly to the President on 17 July 1945. This
petition was also without influence; the
atomic bomb was used against Hiroshima
on 6 August and against Nagasaki on 9
August.
In spite of their failure, the scientists
did not give up. The Committee of the
Atomic Scientists was fonned; through
its Bulletin it has consistently pressed
for a rational United States policy on
international control of nuclear weapons
and related matters. After the war, Szilard
and other physicists and chemists were
instrumental in developing the science
now generally known as molecular biology; they brought with them not only an
attitude toward scientific work but a
scientific humanism and a great concent
for public affairs, as well. Many chemists,
physicists, and molecular biologists have
1945,

n,

been leaders of national movements designed to influence government policy
on such matters as control of nuclear
weapons, the arms race, testing of atomic
bombs, civil defense, international cooperation, and specific foreign issues such
as the Vietnam war.
About 19G0, Szilard founded his Council for a Livable World, an organization
in which scientists have played an important part and which has been instrumental in helping to elect many liberal
senators and representatives. There has
been no inconsistency or hypocrisy in these
efforts; indeed, the scientific community
has voiced consistent opposition to various
military policies for the past 23 years,
though our voices have gone largely unheeded.
Those of us who derive our scientific
foundations from Szilard and his colleagues also feel strongly his humanistic
and social legacy. We are inclined to just
the opposite of the opinion expressed by
Dr. Krogdahl on academic freedom. We do
not feel constrained to limit our public
pronouncements to some very narrow research specialties; rather, we share the
view that C. P. Snow has voiced so
strongly in several of his works-th- at
as molecular biologists, or chemists, or
physicists, we have special knowledge
and special training on matters of great
public concern and that we therefore
have an obligation not merely a right-- to
express our opinions on these matters.
The fact that our opinions have had
relatively little effect on government policies is sometimes discouraging, but it is
not a reason to condemn us for hypocrisy.
The attitudes of a man like Dr. Krogdahl are difficult to understand. The essence of the scientific endeavor is the
fonning of intelligent opinions about the
nature of the universe on the basis of
reasonably secure experimental data. To
fonn opinions on any matter-a- nd
particularly on matters so vital to our nation
and to the human race without first obtaining the facts is intolerable.

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, Oct.

Doran Suggestion Rebuffed
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Morehead State University
President Adron Doran's suggestion that the UK system of 15
two-yecommunity colleges be
reorganized and administered by
the state's regional universities
met with disapproval Tuesday
from UK officials.
Dr. Doran, speaking Monday
at the inaugural luncheon of Dr.
Harry M. Sparks at Murray State
University, said that the com

don't regard it as that at all,"
Dr. Kirwan said. Dr. Kirwan
was present at the Monday
lucheon where Doran spoke.

munity college system should be
administered by Murray, More-hea- d,
Eastern Kentucky and
Western Kentucky Universities,
"rather than to be operated as
edug
colonies of a
cational empire administered
from
y
Lexington."
Interim Dr. A.D. Kirwansaid
Tuesday night that he believed
the suggestion was "merely the
opinion of one man."
"We think he is in error in
regarding this as an empire. We

"The system has been a great
success and service," Dr. Kirwan
said. "We don't look at it as an
empire . . . We're firmly committed to the present system. I
believe everyone connected feels
this way."
No Revamping Now
Dr. Kirwan said there are no

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plans now for any reorganization
of the community college system,
which by law is administered as
a part of the University of Kentucky by the Hoard of Trustees
and the administration of the
University system.
Ellis F. Hartford, dean of
the community college system
which extends from Ashland to
Paducah, said from what he had
heard of the Doran proposal, he
foun