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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Monday Evening, Jan. 29, 1968

Pratt's Case
Referred
To Attorney

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By DARRELL RICE

Don Pratt, who announced
last week his intentions to refuse
induction into the armed forces,
went through with his plans Friday.
He declined to comply with
draft processing in Louisville, but
no charges have been filed yet,
and he does not know when
legal action against him will
begin.
Pratt's case will be referred
to the U.S. attorney in Louisville and to the state Selective
Service headquarters.
His actions are in protest
against the war in Vietnam and
the draft. Pratt was a student
here until this semester, and he
achas been active in anti-wtivities on campus.
Friday's activities began for
Pratt at 5 a.m. at the Lexington
draft board where he was ordered
to report with other draftees.
About 25 UK"5tudents showed
up in the early morning cold to
support Pratt's stand. Some of
them helped Pratt pass out leaflets to the draftees.
The leaflets were a statement
of Pratt's position.
Two chartered buses took the
draftees to Louisville, where Pratt
refused to comply with the draft.
Most of the draftees were
scheduled for
physicals, but Pratt had thought he
would be among the group of
inductees.
When the group arrived in
Louisville, however, Pratt was
ordered to go with the group
who were taking physicals. The
command was a result of Pratt's
earlier refusal to take a
physical.
Pratt made his refusal to comply at this time.
He was informed then by an
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is be-

ing sought in the Kentucky legislature for a resolution that would
bar a statewide antiwar conference from the University campus.
Nearly half of the 100 members of the House of Representatives have already signed as
according to Rep.
Philip E. King, a Covington attorney credited with initiating
the move. He said Saturday night
that he will probably introduce
the resolution formally tonight
or Wednesday. Rep. King predicted support of 85 percent of
the House.

ar

It's the second year for the Miss

University of Kentucky pageant,
and Donna Lee Taylor is its
Queen. Miss Taylor, a native of
Lexington and a member of Kappa Delta Sorority, was crowned
Friday in Memorial Coliseum.

The conference, planned

"a place where all of us

as

con-

cerned about the war and draft
and their effects in Kentucky
can begin to build a statewide
movement against the war and
learn the skills to organize and
educate others," is set for Feb.
10 at UK.

On Legislative Move

Showdown Near?
Regardless of action by the legislature or the University administration, the Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft will
go on.

That assurance came from
Dave Elkinton, a UK student
who is coordinating the meeting. He said the sponsoring
groups will "resist" the attempt
to "ask the University to deny
our freedoms of speech and peaceful assembly." Elkinton indicated that the resistance would
be court action.
Students from at least 10 Kentucky schools have taken part in

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Leg islators Act To Bar
Antiwar Meeting At UK
Kentucky

Crowning The Queen

Vol.

the

conference planning, he
added. If necessary, the meeting
will be held elsewhere.
University Vice President for
Student Affairs Robert L. Johnson told the Kernel Sunday night
that he would not comment on
the proposed House resolution
until he reads it. He also said
he did not know about the antiwar conference.
Continued on Pafe 8, Col. 1

A brochure lists several peace
groups and the Southern Con-

as
UK

Fund
Included
chapter of Students
sponsors.

is the
for a Democratic Society, which
is the host group.
It is unclear what passage

of the proposed resolution would
mean. Rep. King says it would
have the effect of law, although
it is more an expression of sentiment. The measure is aimed
at Gov. Louie B. Nunn, UK
President John W. Oswald and
the UK Board of Trustees. Rep.
King refused to release the text.
Some legislators contacted
said there were ways to pressure the University into compliance. One representative even
said he would not be against
"blocking" budget funds.
State Attorney General John
Breckinridge, contacted Saturday
afternoon in his Capitol office,
said a concurrent resolution expresses principles and the legislature's opinion and has no force
outside the General Assembly.
A joint resolution does have the
effect of law, is treated as a bill,
and would require the Governor's signature. It is used for
matters of temporary legislation.
Mr. King plans to get his
resolution passed by the House,
and then send it to the Senate
for concurrence.
"It will go
with a bang," one signer
through
said.
Support for the resolution apparently was spawned by raising
the specter of communism and
of the threat of infiltration by
subversives. SCEF, a Louisville
based group led by Carl Braden
who was indicted for sedition

out for

was singled

"That's pretty 18th century

Educational

ference
(SCEF)

last fall,
criticism.

' said
Rep. Foster Pettit
of Lexington, "but then we have
some 18th century type legislators." He indicated the Democratic leadership would see that
the bill was killed in committee. He conceded, though, that
51 legislators could require action on the House floor.
Rep. Theron Kessinger of
Beaver Dam, who circulated the
resolution for signatures, said he
wanted to make sure the public
was warned. "There are professors in on this and they will
be exposed when the resolution
is introduced," he said by telephone.
"This bunch in on this were
in on that stuff at Berkeley, IU
(Indiana University) and the
Nashville riots. And they're trying to infiltrate the Army at Ft.
Knox," he said.
Rep. Kessinger, a Republican,
did not know the specifics of the
resolution. He did say that there
are "other people behind" the
initiation of the measure, but
declined to identify them. Four
legislators refused to sign, he
said, refusing to reveal their
names.
Both he and Rep. King were
reluctant to discuss the matter,
saying they had hoped there
would be no publicity until the
resolution was introduced. Rep.
King at first refused to release
any details. "I don't want any
demonstrations," he said.
Rep. King said the resolution
was aimed not at the right of
the antiwar conference to be held,
Continued on Page 7, Col. 1

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First UK Coed Living Unit

Dillard: New Experience

"One will live and learn much more in a
heterogeneous group than in a homogeneous unit,"
Burkholder said. "The world is not homogeneous,
and units organized like that lack exposure."
The 10 students who now live in Dillard House
are from Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New
York. There are two freshmen, one sophomore,
Limestone Street, six women, four men, a dog, four juniors, two seniors and a graduate student
a guinea pig and some fish are participating in in the group. The group is interracial and plans
an experiment. They are pioneers in coed group have been made for a student from Chile to live
in the house for two weeks for the Experiment
living.
What is group living? It's sitting around the in International Living Program.
Reasons for coming to Dillard House varied
kitchen table discussing the circular flow of
history and calling the others over to hear the within the group. Candy Taylor moved in because "an education can be a lot more than it
whistling sound of bricks as they soak up cleaner
is in many respects."
in a bathtub.
"I can't stand dormitories, they're so very
It's eating three meals a week together where
more than food is passed about the table. Ideas
impersonal," noted Meg Tassie, a Junior in Arts
and Sciences. "Croup living is one thing of the
are exchanged. A shaker may be invited.
It's group support of projects such as The future. I wanted to be around people I could sit
Way of Life seminars, sponsored by down and talk with about real things.
Said Peggy Setzer, a former VISTA worker
the Committee on Peace Education and Research.
And it's being without set rules. There are no and a sophomore in Arts and Sciences, "I wanted
to be around people who care more alout things."
restrictions placed on the students by the Unisense," says Dale Chapman, a junior in the
versity or by the University Campus Ministry,
College of Arts and Sciences.
a sxmsor.
The University leases the house and furnish"The only rule is the sharing of responsings to the students.
ibility," said Don Rurkholdcr, an English grad"Dillard House is an attempt to eliminate the
uate student. "If problems arise within the group,
double standard," Burkholder said. "Unlike the
vt discuss them. We don't generalize."
There are no culls of "man in the hall" in dormitories that segregate the sexes and the fraDillard House. And coed living conditions seem ternities and sororities that have segregated the
not to have presented any problems for the group races, Dillard House is open to everyone."
yet. Because there are only ten students living
Owning three weeks ago, Dillard House is
in Dillard House, each has his own room and the result of more than a year's planning. The
bath. "It's more like apartment living in that residents intend it to continue.

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Dillard House is like a rebel futuristic, full
of conflicting ideas, against generalizing rules and
restrictions, interested in what matters.
Dillard House is the first coeducational living
unit at the University.
Within the big white house at 270 South

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29,

19C.8-

Yugoslavian Chor us Gets Standing Ovation
By CHUCK KOEHLER

It was like switching channels
from the New York Philharmonic
to the Lawrence Welk Show.
But the same group, theDran-k- o
Krsmanovich Chorus, managed to sound something like
both. This group of Belgrade
(Yugoslavia) University students
exhibited the versatility that is
the hallmark of professionalism.
The first half of their Thursday night program included
works from
like Bach
and Monteverdi to the romantic
Schumann. Particularly effective
old-time-

After intermission, the hitherto formally clad chorus appeared
on the Memorial Coliseum stage
in traditional Yugoslavian garb:
shoes with toes which curled in
front, brilliantly colored blouses
and baggy pants. Only the conductor, Bogdan Babich, refrained
from costume. Maybe they didn't
have curly-shoe- s
that fit him.
The chorus went into their
folk songs and presented an added
combo to
attraction: a four-ma- n
add a little gusto to the Yugoslavian "top ten."
The combo (accordion, bass.

guitar and clarinet stole the show. we'd have a top jazz star in LexNot content with backing up ington.
folk songs, the quartet went off
Overall, the chorus left one
into a quasi-jaznumber, each with the feeling of having been
man taking his break. Then it exposed to two hours of cold
happened. The clarinet player, professionalism (with the exceptook off and visions of VVoddy tion of the combo, which picked
Herman and Benny Coodman things up). One person comappeared. He was fantastic. If mented that the chorus sounded
only we could get him to defect, like a tuned instrument, but an--

other retorted that it takes a human being to bring the feeling
out of a violin or an organ. Maybe this was what was missing.
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Pratt

Does Not Sign Statement

Continued from Pajff One
official that Ins refusal is a felony
under the Selective Service Act
of 19G7, which is enforced by a
maximum penalty of five years'
imprisonment or a $10,000 fine,
or both.
Pratt said he was asked to
sign a statement of his refusal
to he inducted, which he refused
to do. The official then asked
if Pratt wanted to submit a personal statement with the report.
At this, Pratt turned in one
of the mimeographed leaflets he
had been distributing among the
draftees. The official questioned
the validity of the leaflet as a
proper statement, however.
But Pratt told him the statement was written by himself the
night before and was mimeographed only so he could share
it with the other draftees. The
official then accepted the statement.
Pratt was released to return
to Lexington at this point, but
no transportation was provided.
He said he came back with some
people who had driven to Louisville from here.
Among these were the Hev.
Ray Brown of the All Souls Presbyterian Church, where Pratt
now lives, and the Hev. Ed Miller
from the United Campus Ministry.
Pratt said the only time he
had any doubt about his actions
was when he was wondering
about the reactions of the inductees when he handed out his
leaflets.

He said there were some negative reactions from the draftees
mostly when some of them
tore up the leaflets he had given
them.
But Pratt said one of the
draftees seemed to respond to
the leaflet and asked him what
he should do.
"I told him to follow his
own decision," Pratt said. "He
eventually went ahead and took
his physical."
Pratt's father, H. Devaughn
Pratt, said he has received an
anonymous phone call from a
jwrson identifying himself only
as an officer in the Minutemen,
an ultrapatriotic organization.
The man called Mr. Pratt's
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threat on Don's life, Mr. Pratt
said.
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caller as a "crawling, creeping
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Pratt said he is incapable of
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Dillard House Recommended
With an enthusiastic ok from
Vice President of Student Affairs,
Robert L. Johnson, Dillard House,
the
living unit, now
serves as an experiment for what
can be. The large white Victorian
home is inhabited by a diverse
group of ten UK students, intent
on proving that education can be
a lot more than it is, that meaning, not monotony can be derived
from group living.
Dillard House presents a personality to the visitor which is
kaleidoscopic. The residents here
form no mutual admiration society
nor do they tend to be alike in
a world that is not alike. They
are not opposed to unity, but oppose unity based on ignorance.
In a world which is changing
fast, it is vital for the college

student to be exposed to as many
different ideas and as many different people as is possible. The
majority of University students lack
exposure, living either in isolated
cubicles, homogeneous groups, or
escape abodes.
The planers of Dillard House
set out purposely to get different
kinds of people; people from different religions and of different
races, living, learning, and experiencing together.
Dillard House living is the wave
of the future. It is the different direction, the meaningful experience
in the form of the extended family,
only without hereditary dictators.
For the people living in Dillard
House,
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Man on a White Horse

Kernel Forum: the readers write
To the Editor of the Kernel:
is no longer unusual to meet a family
The first two parts of this series dealt where every member is engaged in some
with the many subtly destructive forces type of formal education. Quite possibly
education will provide the basis of family
in our society, with particular emphasis
on the effect of our educational institusolidarity in the way religious and political beliefs used to.
tions and techniques.
So far everything that's been said in
(2) The chronic career vs. family conthis series about our society has been flict is gradually being resolved in favor
bad. But it is only fair to mention that of the family, simply because there is
there are forces which have evolved, on less and less time being spent on the
their own and without some pressure job.
group's support, which tend to reverse
In fact, if our economy was nrn more
the trends described before.
rationally, relatively few people would
There are two factors directly affect.have to work for a living; that is, reling our society's educational and economic
structure which will tend to eliminate atively few people are really absolutely
the segregtion of youth, and rest rengt hen necessary to maintain our economic machinery. There's nothing new about autothe family.
mation.
(1) The rising expense of education is
Now there are two principle arguments
rapidly putting the cost of college away
against this: (1) if it is true, it means
from home beyond the reach of the avertherefore we
greater
unemployment;
age family.
should fight this trend, and (2) it is not
There is also a minor revolution going
because automation leads to art exon in the field of education. The value true
panding economy, which increases jobs.
and necessity of the centralized multiBoth these arguments have major flaws
versity is being challenged. The move is in their
logic. In (2) the flaw is that the
toward many smaller colleges rather than
existence of a job represents the economy's
a few large universities.
need for human labor. Automation cuts
There is also a great deal of experidown the need for human labor, period.
mentation in new teaching techniques.
But as was mentioned earlier, most of That's that.
To be truthful, that argument is corthese new techniques are still in the exrect for the present time. The growth of
perimental stage, and as of 1968, none
have become widespread enough to be not yet fully automated industries is still
a few new jobs. But we're apstatistically significant (with the possible creating
proaching the point of diminishing reof the New Math). The traexception
turns. The time is near when the effects
ditional teacher-classroosetup is being of
and many flaws are being found of automation will cancel out the effects
analyzed,
industrial growth; after that there will
in it.
be growth of automated industry,
There is also a growing suspicion that only
and the number of jobs will plummet.
the bureaucratic structure inherent in
our schools runs counter to the concept
This, of course, refers to "real" jobs,
of education. It's a safe bet that the edurepresenting a real economic need. There
cational institution of today will be alare two widely used ways for artifically
tered beyond recognition in our lifetime.
creating jobs (aside from feat herbedding,
For one thing, more education will which is such an obvious waste of labor
take place in the home. The younger that it often disturbs the feat herbedder).
One is shortening the work week, which
generation today can be quite competer.l
tutors considering, of course, that paris no longer done for humanitarian reaents of the future will have enough time
sons, but is a nice subtle way for dividand emotional attachment to their children
ing up work so that everybody can honto teach them. (And this attachment is orably feel he's "earning his living."
not something we can take for granted
The other way is to muddle up all
the little bureaucracies anil so create the
anymore.)
Quite likely formal education will be- need for more bureaucrats ("white collar
come a family undertaking. Partly bejobs," which is, if you'll notice, the
cause of "brain inflation" and partly
fastest growing job category). That last
because of technological changes, there
sentence is the briefest possible description
is no longer that point in the kt son's
of a very complicated process. It is so
life where he leaves school never to recomplicated that millions of dollars luxe
turn. Adult education and retraining has gone into studies of this biueaucratic
become a big business, and it's getting
middling studies which in turn create
mre bureaucracies; that gives you some
bigger. Moreover, formal education is not
idea ol the complications.
only s. .i as a wa to a better job, but
The flaw in (I) is that it assumes that
is more and more a leisure activity. It

unemployment is bad. It is bad, bet only
when the wages a man earns are his only
source of income. Then widespread unemployment means there's a cut in consumer demand, so that production has to
be cut back, so that more people are
thrown out of work, and so forth. It takes
a straightforward mind like Keynes to
see a way out of this mess, and a straightforward plan like the New Deal to clear
it up. For those of us who didn't live
through the Depression, what the New
Deal did was to hand out shovels and
have one half the work force dig holes
while the other half filled them in. People actually got paid for this! So now people could buy things, which pushed up
the demand, which encouraged industry,
which hired people away from their sliov-elw hich made people very very happy,
which elected That Man in the White
House.
They could just as easily give the mmey
away, and so save a lot on shovels,
but that would have been unethical. Only
the old people who didn't dig anything
(even in those days) got their money for
s,

free.

If this thing has suddenly become humorous, it's because I can't help it. It's
impossible to keep a straight face while
examining American economics. Keynes
and Roosevelt must have had loads of
laughs in 1932; you know, that year when
nobody else was laughing. It's a damn
good thing somebody got serious.
The New Deal won't work this time;
automation is here to stay. In a sense,
though, the bureaucratic muddling is this
decade's version of the New Deal, except
that paper work has taken the place of
the shovels. The muddling has a very
peculiar personal effect: say a man educates himself to be a chemist or an architect, and he gets a good position. Ten
years later his company makes him a vice
president in charge of sales; which is still
a good position, but it's not what he
wanted. There's a problem in recruiting
bureaucrats; a lot of people don't want
that type of job. So they're hired as
something else and gradually turn into
what they didn't want to be. As I said,
this is a very complicated situation.
So I'll just have to ask you to take
my word for it when I say there is no
great economic problem txlay w e in fact
now possess the technology to nuke ourselves independent of our economy. Afew
thousand experts and a few million machines would probably run things well
enough.
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