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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

AAUP Group
Objects To
VP Selection
The American Association of
University Professors Student Advisory Committee (AAUPSAC)
met last night and expressed
"deep regret" at the procedures
of selection of the vice president
for student affairs.
The committee charged that
"areas of tokenism" in selecting
a student advisory committee
makes that committee useless.
They enumerated the following objections in a proposal which
will be presented to AAUP for
consideration:
Students were never charged
with any real power and were
told that President Otis Single-tar- y
could completely ignore their
recommendations.
Although the students selected have worked "very diligently," they do not represent
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of the student
body.
The procedures of the committee were too "limited"; that
is, the lack of prerogative fori
interviewing candidates, the;
"closed-door- "
policy of the committee in regard to student opinions and the short period of time
in which the committee had to
work were factors which "greatly
diminished" what utility it might
have had.
The committee urged President Singlet ary to delay final
action until the charges have
been dealt with.

Vol. LXI, No.

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This concept confronted some UK coeds Saturday
as Ann Braden of the Louisville Women's Liberation
Movement (WLM) spoke in the Student Center Theatre
against the "trite trappings" of marriage supposedly
represented by the Bridal Fair upstairs.
In the Grand Ballroom, girls registering for door
prizes were barraged with pamphlets from local and
national firms on how to make beddusters, how to
choose your china and silver and how to pick out a
diamond ring.
Downstairs, the WLM provided literature on birth
control pills, venereal disease, diaphragms, family planning and inner uteral devices.
or
Should you choose a
diamond
china pattern? Can he afford that
O. G. Wilson & Sons thinks would complement your
hand?
As these problems plagued troubled damsels upstairs,
Mrs. Braden in the theater expressed resentment toward
businesses who "use" women to make money.
'Collect Beaux
Mrs. Braden said women's position in society results
from what she called childhood osmosis. "A little girl is
taught that she should collect as many beaux as she can
corral," remarked Mrs. Braden.
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The Student Government Committee of
the Whole met yesterday to investigate
the manner in which the new Vice Pres- id ent for Student Affairs is being selected.
The group decided to request the Morris
committee which is screening the names
to attend their next open forum. Story on
Kernel Photo by Paul Mansfield
page 8.

Liberation

By HAZEL COLOSIMO
And
JEANNIE ST. CHARLES
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The "academic relevancy" respeakquirement for
ers has been dropped in the current draft of a policy released by
the Board of Trustees Committee on the Speaker Policy.
Further, Student Government
President Tim Futrell announced
Sunday that the trustees' Committee will hold open hearings
on the speaker policy Nov. 11 in
Student Center 206.
The purpose of the hearings,
which will be open to all University community members, is
to help cast the speaker policy
in final form.
Futrell sees the hearings as an
"excellent opportunity for all
community members, of divergent viewpoints, to express to the
trustee committee their feelings
with regard to our speaker policy."
According to the current policy draft, the historic role of a
"democratic institution of higher
learning" is to "search for the
truth." It also should promote
"vigorous, uninhibited debate
and discussion, as well as critical
and objective evaluation of divergent points of view."

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But what happens to the lucky girl after she catches
her man? As if in response to the question, Bridal Fair
presented a fashion show of "exquisitely regal creations" featuring wedding gowns of "statuesque satin
and lace," "pure white velvet" or "touches of delicate
ribbon"; trousseaus, and featherings for the bridesmaids.
Dim lights and romantic music were the background
for the fashion show. "Traditional and elegant" gowns
worn by coeds were modeled against the background
stained-glas- s
of a
window. Candelabra decked with floral arrangements decked the stage
where the
modeled like figures in a Cinderella dream.
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Mock Marriage
In the finale of the fashion show, a mock marriage
ensemble was presented complete with the father (played
by Jack Hall, dean of students) and the mother of the
bride (portrayed by Betty Jo Palmer, also of the dean of
students office). The groom was there- -a dark silhouette

in his black "traditional" dress suit, with the spotlighted bride in her elegant white gown.
Actually, the
relationship is one of the
man domineering but the woman manipulating, Mrs.
Braden asserted downstairs. In "liberating" the woman,
the
relationship would become one of
"comrades going in the same direction and each traveling on his own power," she said.
"Woman's role now is highly convenient for men,"
Mrs. Braden charged. "Women do the drudgery while
men do the important things."
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The draft continues to explain
the proposed policy on speakers,
saying the University "expects"
facility and students will invite
outside speakers to the campus
who "will represent different
shades of opinion and some who
will express controversial and unpopular views."
The proposed speaker policy,
as outlined by the trustees, contains no "academic relevancy"
requirement, but it does state that
the University will act "responsibly in inviting speakers and expects its guests to act responsible. Its (the University's) policies require that no law or governing regulation of the University be violated by the proposed
speech or program."
The University also would remeetings
quire that
with
speakers be
"peaceful and orderly and in no
way interfere with the proper
functioning of the University."
Prexy Sets Conditions
The proposal, if passed, also
would give the University the
power, through the Office of the
President, to prescribe the conditions for the conduct of programs at which off campus
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The WLM leader's talk caused an eruption of questions from the audience. One man felt that "males
seek fulfillment in women, not duplication." Mrs.
Braden answered that women were not on earth to make
life better for men.
Equality Stressed
The same man expressed fear for the "loss of poetry
between the sexes." Some of the women members of
WLM said "there's nothing poetic about girls sitting
around waiting to be chosen to share a relationship
with a man."
They added that there is "no greater poetry than
that of a relationship between two equal beings."
According to Mrs. Braden, the 1960's have brought
"a new surge of life" that produced the WLM. As a
result, she felt, women must look at themselves not
as "appendages of men" but as "worthy human beings."
They must, she said, organize with other women.
Through organization, she added, they can work to
eliminate "role stereotypes" and the idea that a woman
must have a man to survive.
They can look beyond their own problems and try
to end their "exploitation" "The world needs the
values and leadership that women can bring to it,"
Mrs. Braden said.
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It was probably a very valid
national prominence by intro- reason is in the comparison beducing "Alice's Hestaurant" at tween the song and the movie. point for Penn to make, includthe Newport Folk Festival, he In the song, you hear of the ing Alice and Ray in a greater
role in the movie "Alice's Reodyssey of Arlo and Roger tryimmediately captured the admiration and imagination of the ing to do a good deed, getting staurant." After all, the rationale
nations under-3- 0
populace. His busted for it, and how that kept and the spirit of the story-song- 's
dittyesque lyrics and absurdly Arlo out of the Army. Alice is undertones grew out of what
funny narratives told the story mentioned just as a nice lady Alice and Ray Brock offered to
who cooks great meals for kids who couldn't quite get their
of his life.
It seems natural that all the Tlianksgiving and bails people heads together.
The film currently is playing
Arlophiles would become elated out of jail. But still the song is
at the Chevy Chase Cinema.
at the thought of a movie based about Arlo.
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likewise natural that lots and movie is as much about Alice
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to go and see a movie named Arlo. This switch in perspective
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use
ly, when it was first released, the the film's producer and director,
nationally prominent critics who lives in Stockbridge, Mass.
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* Trustees Show Relevancy

Filial Midterms
campus, so has the student body.
Tradition is a valued framework,
not to be discarded lightly. But

Midterm grades are in, results
are anxiously awaited by thousands
of students, and a bolster of encouragement supports a large portion of the campus. The encouragement comes not from having done
well on the exams but from the
fact that this may be the last time
the University will have to contend
with the harassment of midterms.

progress is an endeavor of greater

importance, not to be hindered

necessarily. Midterm grade reports
are not necessary. The University
Senate must realize this fact of
progress.
This semester's midterms seem
more bearable when regarded in this

bill was recently passed by
the Student Government Assembly
which would eliminate midterm
grades for all University students.
This proposal was drawn up by
the University Student Advisory
Committee and has received wide
support from the faculty. The Undergraduate Council approved the
proposal which would cancel the
traditional practice of midterm
grade reports for a period of one
year, at which time the success of
the program would be evaluated.
A

The proponents of the measure
have stressed the shortcomings of
midterms by saying that they merely constitute an atmosphere similar
to that of finals, but without the
time in which to prepare for the
exams. They also cited numerous
examples of 'blanket' grades which
give a false representation of the
student's progress and may serve'
to mislead him.

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are still those who beg for the continuation of the practice because
they need the crutch it provides.
They insist the student population
is not mature enough, nor the instructors capable enough to provide
the necessary motivation for
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student body realize that midterms
are not necessary to the pursuit of
knowledge, and may serve as a

As time

The University's Board of Trus- demic relevancy" clause from the
tees is, with good reason, often the University's statement regarding
target of severe criticism. The time
speakers. If approved by
has come for a scotch to this trend. the Board, this will mean that the
A recent action taken by a special sticky problems entailed in detercommittee of the Board has shown mining relevancy of speakers will
that our Trustees are not completely be avoided.
hostile to student needs.
The issue at stake is not of
A committee consisting of Mr.
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importance, but the
Griffin, Dr. N. N. Nicholas conclusions one can draw from it
George
and Mrs. Rex ford Blazer has are far reaching. This decision could
stricken the controversial "aca- - possibly be indicative of a change
in the Board's orientation. Perhaps
the Board, or at least this portion
of it, is coming to grasp the distinction between the academic comareas.
munity and
Our University need not demand a
multitude of special privileges that
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are denied a
environment,- but neither can it be denied
the basic rights
Mw$ campus enjoy. those outside the
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There is no valid reason far the
inclusion of the relevancy clause in
the speaker policy statement. Even
our student member of the Board
seized the issue as a possible target
on which to. release his barrage of
talents, because there was such an
obvious injustice involved. Whether
Futrell decided this was a good
gamble on which he could bet his
prestige and run slight risk of failure
is of no consequence at this point.
What is important is the fact that
the special committee acted under
little pressure, and as is seldom
the case, showed concern over a
legitimate student grievance.
The action of the Board's committee could have a double edged
lesson. First, it might remind the
student body that its governing
board is not completely incompetent. It might also show the Board
that there need not be a confrontation on every issue of student concern, and that most of these issues
are motivated by a sincere concern
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Kernel Forum: the readers write
Who Cares Who's Who
To the Editor of the Kernel:
I was informed by last Thursday's
Kernel that I had been nominated for
Who's Who Among Students in "American Colleges and Universities. I would
like to decline that nomination mainly
because Who's Who Among Students in
American Colleges and Universities is
nothing but a business enterprise which
capitalizes on one of the great needs
of our society STATUS,
Operating out of Tuscaloosa, Ala.,
WWASACU accepts approximately the
same number of nominations from schools
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with widely varying enrollments. For instance, there were about 35 selected at
both Morehead and UK last year. Now
I'm not saying there weren't 35 deserving
(?) students at Morehead last year, but
obviously the proportions just don't jive.
To support the public service of distributing the names of the nation's "outstanding students," the company charges
about $16 for its book. It also makes
available trinkets such as silver and gold
charms, key chains, tie pins etc., all appropriately priced. The promo material
for these goodies goes not to the student
but to the proud parents, who readily
scarf up evidence that theirs was a brilliant contribution to the world.
Hopefully, others here and at other
schools will also refuse nominations to
WWASACU and in doing so will lead
people to see that it is merely a business
enterprise seeking financial gain in what
they see as a lucrative market.
GUY MENDES
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Senior

Two Quickies
and 3 of Oct. 21 Kernel.
Two quickies:
1. ) Which way, (pant, pant,) to the
after dark route for unescorted
2. ) If a student knew virtually nothing at birth, how can his knowledge increase "four times" by age 20, or was
the author referring to herself?
W. L. MAHAFFEY
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Craduate, Pharmacology

Ticket Questions
After having received Section "E"
football game,
tickets for the
I have begun to wonder what the exact
procedure for distributing the tickets can
be. I received my tickets one and
hours after the ticket office opened
on last Tuesday, Oct. 14. Surely so many
tickets could not have been given out to
individual students prior to 1:45 p.m.
I would estimate that the maximum
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number of tickets which could have been
given out by this time would be about
5,000. (This is based on 12 tickets per
minute per window for
minutes.)

Therefore, my actual questions are:
How many tickets are made available
to us students? Which tickets are reserved for the group distribution on Thursday? Are any of the better seats ever sold
to the general public (those on the north
side, anyway) while students sit in the
end zone? My worst thought is that the
better tickets are being saved for the group
distribution, and if this is the case, something is wrong with the system.
FRANK P. EVANS
School of Allied Health, Junior

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Nixon Administration: 'Don't Give Up Ship'

WASHINGTON

(CPS)-- In

chosen to attempt to ride out the
storm of public protest against
the Vietnam war, invoking innuendo of
to
plug the leaks in his constituency, and the phrase "peace with
honor" to justify our continued
military presence in the Southeast Asian country.

And if Nixon turned on a radio
television, he heard about the

publican congressional leaders,
Representative Gerald Ford ami
Senator Hugh Scott, follow ed A
100,000 in Boston, 15,000 on Wall
cue and tried to nish
St., 50,000 in New Haven, Conn,
20,000 at the University of Michthrough a resolution callingupon
igan, 50,000 in downtown New all Americans to "disassociate"
themselves from North VietnaYork City, 15,000 at the Univerof Wisconsin and many more mese support. The resolution
sity
who came out for bringing the failed to pass, but the message
was clear: see, America, dissent
boys home.
Earmuffs?
is bad, for it gives aid and comNonetheless, the administraNews Commentary
The President had to be aware tion's
fort to the enemy.
remains espublic posture
of what was going on
before
The next day, facing a roomIt is doubtful whether the Oct. 15. If he peered out a White sentially the same as
when Nixon announced he ful of reporters, White House
was hung on the wall House window during the day,
painting
would not be affected "whatpress secretary Ron Ziegler said
a visual metaphor to deas
he saw protesters holding antihe had nothing to report concernever" by the demonstrations, Secscribe the Nixon administration's
war placards and standing
of State William Rogers ing the President's reaction to the
handling of Vietnam or reaction solemnly along Pennsylvania retary
of a speedy moratorium.
to the moratorium, but the work, Ave. When he walked a block said the consequence
U.S. withdrawal would be "masZiegler said Nixon had already
contrasting sharply with the through the fenced in grounds sacre" of the South Vietnamese, expressed himself sufficiently on
rather mundane illustrations of to the Executive Office Building
the moratorium in a letter replyNixon's face that constitute the at 9:45 p.m., he either saw some and Vice President Spiro Agnew,
ing to a Washington D.C. college
seizing an aspect of the moraroom's most noticeable aesthetic of the thousands who carried
that might be construed student who had criticized the
serves that function admir- lighted candles for peace, or he torium
fare,
as negative in the public mind, chief executive's insensitivity to
ably all the same with one in- was staring straight up at the called
upon moratorium leaders popular will in a letter to the
accuracy.
sky or down at the ground. Unto repudiate a letter of endorse- White House. Nixon's letter of
In the painting, the crew has less he wore earmuffs, he must
from Hanoi.
reply, since made public, said
deserted the sinking ship; in life, have heard chants of "peace ment
On
itself, prompted government policy can't be made
President Nixon has apparently now" and "stop the war."
by the White House, the Re- - in the streets because then slogans and anarchy would override the rational decision-makin-

the White House press briefing
room is a painting of a sailboat
floundering in choppy seas, its
mast broken off and deck flooded.
The crew members have abandoned ship. Grey clouds of an
impending tempest loom ominously in the background.

withdrawal of, say, 25,000 men,
or establishes a plan of troop
withdrawals to be carried out by
1972, or suddenly decides to replace all U.S. draftees in Vietnam with volunteers?
Will they observe November's
planned two days of moratorium
in the same numbers they did

October's?

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M-D-

To Conspire Or Not Conspire

By JESSICA MITFORD
EDITOR'S NOTE: Jessica
new book, "The Trial of
Dr. Spock, " has just been published by Alfred A. Knopf. Last
year she spent several months
investigating the background of
the case, interviewing the defendants, their lawyers, prosecutor and jurors, exploring the complexities of the conspiracy law
under which the five defendants
were charged, and attending their
trial in Boston.
NEW YORK (CPS) -- "Have
you ever ironed a contour sheet?"
"No, actually."
"Well, first you press down the
sides, and you've got a large
rectangle. Then you fold that in
half, and you've got a smaller
rectangle. You fold that over
again
Mit-ford-

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News Commentary
My interlocutor was General
Hershey, sitting across from me
at his pristine desk in his huge,
office. He was drawing an analogy: those who don't
know how to iron contour sheets
should not attempt to give advice
on the subject to those who do.
Dr. Spock may be a very fine
baby doctor, but he should stick
to his own field of expertise and
let the generals worry about running the war and the draft.
Diverting our discussion from
the subject of these diminishing
rectangles, I asked General Hershey whether Dr. Spock and the
others, accused of conspiring to
"counsel, aid and abet" draft
resistance, had succeeded in this
objective: did he know of any
young men who had refused induction because of the Spock
flag-drape-

d

message?

"No,"

he

replied.

"None of these people have done
more than irritate us in doing
what we 4ave to do." Pressed
further, he said that he knows
of no instance where anybody
has been prevented or discouraged from induction by the activities of the defendants which,
in view of the charge against
them, seemed an astonishing admission.
Why?

The apparent contradiction
was cleared up for me later by
John Van de Kamp, chief of the
Justice Department unit responsible for the prosecution. If General Hershey was right (I asked),
and the defendants had not succeeded in counselling, aiding and
abetting young men to resist the
draft, why were they indicted?
Ah! They were not charged
with that, they were charged
with conspiring to do so, he
explained. The Government did
not have to prove that they hid
"substan
actually committed

tive" offenses, for the crime of
conspiracy is established by proof
merely of an agreement, a "meeting of the minds" to commit the
offense. I recalled what Clarence
Darrow once said about this
weird legal concept: If a boy
steals candy, he has committed
a misdemeanor. If two boys plan
to steal candy and don't do it,
they are guilty of conspiracy, a
felony.

Probing further into the wonderland of the prosecutorial mind,
I stumbled almost by accident on
a curious use of FBI facilities
in trials the government considers
politically Important.
Jurors Screened
Because of recent newspaper
disclosures of how the FBI operates, those of us who attended
the trial were hardly surprised

to learn that the defendants' telephones were tapped, that they
were spied on (kept under surveillance" was Van de Kamp's
more elegant term) because of
r
their
activities, that undercover agents haunted not only
their private lives but their press
conferences and other public appearances for the purpose of constructing a case against them.
Yet to me it still came as a.
shocker to learn that potential
jurors in the case were subjected
to FBI scrutiny.
After the trial, I interviewed
John Wall, the gung-hyoung
prosecutor of the Boston Five
"Mr. Clean," the press called
him. "At what point did you
give the names of prospective
jurors to the FBI for screening?"
I asked. (This was actually a
fishing expedition, a question
that one of the defense lawyers
had dared me to ask, for nothing
had been said at the trial about
FBI screening of jurors).
As soon as the list of the
array (meaning the hundred-odpersons from whom the twelve
were chosen) was drawn up by
the clerk of the court, said Mr.
Wall. The names were first
checked at FBI headquarters in
Washington, then submitted to
in Boston, presumlocal
ably to ascertain whether any of
the prospective jurors were known
to have suspect political leanings.
Spying on jurors may seem a
highly questionable use of the
vast investigative powers of the
FBI, yet apparently this is standard operating procedure In political trials.
No End
Does the recent decision of the
appellate court, reversing the convictions, freeing Spock and Fer-bwhile ordering new trials
for Coffin and Coodman, mean
there will be an end to this kind
of prosecution? Not at all.
Civil libeities lawyers tell me
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Or will they cast their lot in
the slightly more militant peace
activities coordinated by the New
Mobilization Committee to End
the War in Vietnam the march
on Washington for easterners and
the march on San Francisco for
the westerners, both on November 15?
The answers can only be predicted, but one thing is certain:
if the current peace movement
follows even remotely the course
of protests in the past, some of
those who are just a little more
radicalized as a result of the moratorium will, if Nixon fails to
end the war, give up in disgust at their impotence.
And others, tapping their
political consciousness, will And in their frustration
a source of power to preserve.
Where To Now?
There's a line that goes "Red
sky at night, sailors delightred
The question that lingers is
sky in the morning, sailors take
what "they" will do next.
Will they return to business warning." The sky is red, and the
as usual next month if President storm's .a comin'. Is the Nixon
Nixon announces another troop administration a ship of fools?

Quietly Demanding
History, wrote Nixon, would
be right in condemning a President who igno