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The South's Outstanding College Daily

Thursday Evening, Feb.

1, 1968

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

LIX, No. 89

Oswald Takes Stand

Reborn,
Sigma Nu

Pledges 24
UKt reborn Sigma Nu

Vol.

fra-

ternity, whose chapter here lost
its charter at the request of the

alumni in 1965, pledged 24 men
to conclude its formal spring
rush Wednesday night.
The Cam ma Iota chapter began its rebuilding last semester
under the guidance of Colony
Director Jack Keith, who was an
active of Sigma Nu chapters at
Kentucky Wesleyan and West-eKeith is now a senior UK
law student.
Thirteen men pledged last
semester, and they rushed this
spring, using the Nexus for their
smokers and Jthe Springs Motel
for parties. Sigma Nu's national
and local alumni helped finance
the new colony.
The colony's excellent start
was reflected when 12 of the
first 16 men given bids made
verbal committments to pledge

the fraternity.
The colony will be installed
on Feb. 10. This means that the
13 men pledged last semester
will be activated and the 24
pledged Wednesday night will be

officially pledged.
With the installation, two
firsts will have been recorded:
it will be the first colony at
UK ever to have been given a
charter in less than two years;
it will be the first time that a
charter has been restored to a
chapter here after the charter had
been taken away.
Concerning nish, Keith said
that the Sigma Nu's were lookd
men."
ing for
"The people who pledge our
fraternity are serious college men
who realize that they are at the
University to get an education,"
he added.
Keith said that Sigma Nu has
two goals: "to oppose hazing,
and to help a man better his
"all-roun-

education."
The old Sigma Nu chapter was
cited for not living up to the
fraternity's high ideals, when
they lost their charter.
The new chapter will move
into the house it owns on Rose
Lane (now occupied by Zeta Beta Tau fraternity) next August.
The field secretary for Zeta
Beta Tau fraternity said he knew
nothing of the Sigma Nus plan.

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Kernel Photo by Dick Ware

Two new Sigma Nu pledges sign their official pledge forms

Wed-

nesday night at the Student Center.

UK Bidding For

Negro Hoop Star

By CHUCK KOEHLER
"The University wants UK's Negro population to help out
in recruiting black. athletes," according to Theodore Berry, president of the Black Student Union (BSU), formerly Orgena.
And this week they will get
This weekend's action will
their chance to do just that.
mark the first formal recruiting
Curtis Price, a Negro basket- of a Negro athlete by a recogball star from Charieston, W.Va., nized URNegro group.
will visit UK Saturday with other
Berry announced the recephigh school basketball recruits. tion after a
meeting with Vice
BSU members will entertain Price
President for Student Affairs
at. a catered reception in the Robert L.
Johnson, during which
Student Center after he is forcooperation
other the University-BSmally introduced with the
was planned.
recruits at Saturday night's game.
The members voted to change
Last year, members of Orgena the name of their
organization
picketed UKrhome basketball from Orgena ("a Negro" spelled
games in protest of the school's backwards) to the Black Student
basketball team. With Union, to "more fully
explain"
this and other actions, charges the nature of the club.
were made that UKs recruiting
UK President John W. Osof Negro athletes was inadequate.
wald earlier cancelled his enCountercharges also were
to speak before the
made that the Negroes themselves gagement
Black Student Union on Wedneswere doing nothing to remedy
day. Instead, he will address the
the situation.
group Feb. 14.
U

all-whi- te

Heightens Moral Dilemma

To Kill A
United Press International
member of South Africa's transplant
team said Tuesday a new technique developed
in North Carolina deepens the moral dilemma
involved in heart transplants.
In the new teclmique, outlined to The American Society of Thoracic Surgeons by Dr. Francis
Hobicsek of Charlotte, N. C, the heart is kept
"alive" for up to 24 hours by taking it and one
lung from the donar.
"We didn't feel we were morally justified
to take the heart until it quit beating," Dr.
Terry C. O'Donovan, Chief Assistant to Dr.
Christian Barnard, said. He said the new technique might be unacceptable in many countries.
Dr. Hobicsek, a former Hungarian physician,
said the innovation was an improvement over
two current methods placing the heart in cold
saline solution or hooking it up to a heart-lunmachine and pumping blood into it.
"And both are more or less damaging to the
donar leait," Robiscek said. "What's better-- to
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kill a heart and then resuscitate it or to keep
it alive?"
O'Donovan said he found the North Carolina
method "very interesting" and "definitely will
discuss it with Dr. Barnard."
He said other organs, such as kidneys, are
transplanted alive now and the practice of transferring live hearts eventually may be adopted.
In Home, Barnard said "We must respect
the public's feeling" when it comes to determining the moment of death.
Barnard said in a televised discussion with
Italian surgeons after an audience with Pope
Paul thtet doctors feel a person can be considered
dead when brain activity stops.
But he said the public view that death comes
only when the heart stops must prevail.
Delighted with piogress made by the world's
only surviving complete cardiac transplant patient, he said Wednesday night he would be
ready to inrfonn another such operation within
six or eight weeks.

Editor's Note: Following is the
formal statement by UK President Oswald concerning possible
legislative action trying to ban
the antiwar conference at the
University. At press time, the
legislators proposing the ban indicated he would not introduce
a formal resolution.
Universities exist to promnte
in a responsible manner the free
and open investigation ot ideas
and the discussion of ideas however controversial they may be.
American universities are great
universities and one of the reasons for their excellence is that
the United States is a free nation which protects freedom rrf
discussion. The University is a
respected university, partly because it functions in a state where
freedom and the right to differ
have always been a way of life.
The University is the site of
hundreds of conferences every
year on every subject under the
sun. The participants assemble
to explore ideas, their differences
of opinion or their areas of agreement, and to leam from each
other. The proposed conference
on War and the Draft is not
sponsored by the University or
its administration, but rather by
two registered student groups.
Under University policy, set by
the Board, any registered student
group wishing to sponsor a conference may request facilities and
they are freely furnished "as

available."

A sponsor of the conference
on the War and the Draft is the
UK chapter of the Students for
a Democratic Society, which was
registered here some years ago
on the saa e day that another
organization, one strongly conservative, the Young Americans
for Freedom, was registered. It
has been free to meet, to bring
in speakers, to hand out literature and to hold conferences. It
continues to be one of the smallest, least influential, and most
beset organizations on the campus. This is because of the freedom the University has given the
organization, not in spite of it.
I disagree with the views of these
students I think they are dead
wrong but I will uphond their
right to express them, in the firm
conviction that the way to combat error is with truth, not with
suppression.
The announced subject of the
conference is the War and the
Draft, a subject which is discussed daily in the Congress and
in every newspaper and University in the land. Unless students
are to be barred from discussing
a subject which is of as much
and more
interest to them
than to their elders, there must
be an opportunity given them
for expression of their views.
There is a similar controversy
about the Draft. Some citizens
are critical of the administration
of the law while others criticize
the law itself on the ground that
the exceptions for college students are unfair; a few criticize
the very concept 6f compulsory
military service. I need not tell
you where I stand! I did not
serve for ov er four y ears in World
War II on IT boats without a
firm conviction about the legal
and moral duty of a man to serve
his country in war as well as in
peace to the limit of his abilities.
A few students disagree with this
or at least they disagree with
this in the context of the undeclared war in Vietnam. But
every year from this campus

hundreds of men go off to serve
their country around the world
in the armed forces, with courage, with high intelligence, and
with firm convictions.
We too easily fall into the
notion that the campus is full of
immature children who need to
be protected from ideas. The great
majority of them are Kentuckians
over eighteen, legally declared
adult and able to vote by the
Kentucky Ceneral Assembly. It
does them a great injustice to
suggest that they lack intelligence, understanding, courage
and loyalty. They usually see
through false arguments as well
as their elders do and are often
the first to challenge unsound
ideas.

It is the policy of the University to protect freedom of discussion on this campus. It expects that this freedom will be
exercised responsibly. Our policies are clear in insisting that
(1) speech on campus is speech

relevant to the educational function of the University; (2) meetings are orderly and do not interfere with the proper functioning of the University; and (3)
there is no violation of the law.
The Conference on War and
the Draft is no exception to these
policies and there is no reason
to suppose it will be. The SDS
chapter on this campus has acted,
in the past in a responsible,
way. To deny it permission to hold its conference
in the future would put the University into the business of licensing speech, that system of
"prior restraint" or censorship
which the founding fathers most
despised. If you ask me can I
guarantee in advance that all
speeches and meetings on the
law-abidi-

University campus will comply
policy, the
University
answer is "of course not." Free
speech always involves a bit of
a risk, but it is one Americans
have been willing to take. Rather
than risk the censor, if the law
is broken, violators will be subject
to court action. America historically has preferred judge and
jury to the censor.

with

The sponsors of the Conference are the UK chapter of SDS
and the Peace Action Council.
As far as the University is concerned these are the groups responsible for the conference, although other organizations interested in the War and the Draft
may be participating in some
way.
Some critics have said that
they do not object to free speech,
but that free speech should not
be allowed in a publicly owned
place or on a University campus.
But where should constitutional
free speech be allowed more appropriately than in facilities
owned by the people themselves
and in their universities particularly their public universities?
If we believe in free speech
enough to protect it by our constitution, surely we believe it can
most properly be exercised in
those places our government provides.

The right of free expression

is the basic right of liberty. Can
we teach our students to respect
the Bill of Rights and the prin-

ciples of freedom and at the same
time deny them the freedom of
speech? I believe we should prae-tic- e
what we teach!

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, Tcb. I,

DuBois Stirs
SACB Sleep

Commentary
It's interesting to see that

President Johnson doesn't have
ALL the troubles of the world
on his shoulders: Sekou Toure,
president of Nigeria, is busy these
days trying to pursuade males
to marry only one wife.
It's an idea unlikely to spread
in the nation, where one French
auto manufacturer advertises his
new compact as exactly what "a
man with four wives needs." The
maker claims the compact "is
big enough to seat yourself and
four buxom ladies in complete

comfort."

Which reminds us of the concise explanation of polygyny
given by one Associated Press
reporter: "The custom of marrying several women," he said,
"goes back to farm society, when
a man, needing all the help he
could get, married it."

it was interesting to

read that

the tremendous number of

Cu-

ban refugees now living in Miami
a fourth of the city's total
population are considered an
economic and cultural blessing
for the city, rather than an unwelcome burden.
Many of them set up their
own businesses, employing Cubans and catering to Cubans,
and a study showed the educational backgrounds of the refugees was higher than that of the
native Dade Countians.
They seem to have earned the
right to be proud.

isn't science wonderful?

A St.

Petersburg psychologist reports
that thumb sucking is being replaced by underachievement in
school and failure to share

Dismiss Hershey Lawsuit,
Justice Department Asks

WASHINGTON (CPS)-T- he
Justice Department has asked afed-ercourt to dismiss a suit brought by several student organizations
and student body presidents against Selective Service Director
Lewis B, Hershey.
that the suit be dismissed on two
The suit asks for an injunction grounds:
ordering local draft boards not to
VThe court does not have the
enforce Hershey s order that demauthority to review draft classonstrators who block military re- ifications before the person is
cruiters or induction centers be actually inducted. The draft law
reclassified and drafted. The passed last June specifically says
federal courts have no jurisdiction
plaintiffs in the case are the National Student Association, Cam- over the processing of a draft
pus Americans for Democratic
registrant before he is ordered to
Action, the University Christian report for induction.
Movement, Students for a DemThe plaintiffs have no
ocratic Society, and 15 student standing to bring the case bebody presidents.
fore the court, since none of
them have been reclassified or
The Justice Department asked inducted under the order.
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SubThe
versive Activities Control Board
may be coming back to life after two dormant years, nourished
by a law some senators had hoped
would put it out of business.
The board scheduled its first
hearing in two years for Monday in New York to explore the
U.S. attorney general's contention that the W.E.B. DuBois
Clubs of America are "substantially directed, dominated and
controlled by the Communist
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The DuBois organization asked for a delay in the hearing
until Feb. 26 and it's expected
to be granted.

There is a 38 percent budget
boost of $117,000 for the SACB
in the spending program President Johnson has sent Congress,
and it carries this explanation:
"increase will permit implementation of legislation enacted on
Dec. 14, 1967."

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1, 1968

And More For Educational Research

LB Wants More Student Aid, Less Building
for existing student financial aid programs. But the
budget shows a decrease of $82
million in the amount of federal
funds for construction grants to
colleges.
The administration's budget
also asks $23 million for proposed
new legislation in the area of
federal assistance to students.
This apparently refers to President Johnson's promise in his
State of the Union Message that
he will recommend passage of
an Educational Opportunity Act
"to step up our drive to break
down financial barriers separating our young people from colmillion

WASHINGTON (CPS) -Pr- esident
Johnson has asked Congress
for modest increases in federal
student aid programs during Fiscal 1969, but the increases will be
offset by severe reductions in
higher education construction
funds.
In his budget message to Congress this week, the President
requested an increase of $112

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Mr. Cohen conceded that the
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The increases in federal aid
to students are spread over a
number of different programs,
resulting in only modest increases
for each program.
The President asked Congress
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President Johnson's budget also provides that educational improvement grants be awarded to
medical, dental, and other professional schools to be used for a
variety of activities, including
recruitment of additional faculty,
broadening the range of courses,
and improving laboratory resources. About $66 million will
be available for this purpose in
1969, an increase of more than
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Protest Plan

are by definition petty
BERKELEY, Calif.
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But when people get together and conspire to commit misdemeanors, then the penalty at least in California can be as severe
as three years in the state pen.
Frank Coakley, the county disSeven young men, all of whom trict attorney explained that even
were active in protests at the though the seven had committed
Oakland Induction Center last only misdemeanors, they could
October, have been indicted by face a stiff sentence for conspiron Alameda County Grand Jury ing to commit them.
for conspiring to violate state
"Conspiracy under California
laws.
law is a felony," he said, "and
The indictments came after an is punishable by imprisonment in
investigation of October's anti-dra- ft a state prison, like San Quentin,
demonstration at the In- for up to three years."
duction Center.
The accused are all students
or former students at the University of California at Berkeley.
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The Other War: Must It Wait For Peace?

By STEVE D'ARAZIEN
SAIGON (CPS)-T- he
war in
Vietnam is really two wars: one
military and the other
and 'the two must be
fought together, administration
officials explain.
But in truth Vietnam remains
overwhelmingly a military operation with military brass calling
the shots. The excuse is often
made that the Other War cannot
really be waged until the military situation is under control.
The Other War means the
battle against the poverty, disease, and illiteracy which plague
Vietnam. The more sophisticated, political science-oriente- d
advisers here understand the
causes of the Vietnamese civil
war. They realize Vietnamese society is divided between rich city
dwellers and rural peasants. But
their understanding has not
helped them win the war.
There are a number of fundamental reasons why the Other
War cannot be won, reasons
which are not considered by the
men waging it. All of the reasons are tied up with the question of our motivation. In the
administration's eyes helping
the Vietnamese, winning their
"hearts and minds" is a means,
not an end. Dean Rusk, in an
unusual display of candor, has
admitted as much.
socio-economi- c,

.

Sometimes it seems our real
reason for being in Vietnam is
to deny the Chinese a traditional
sphere of influence in Asia. Or
perhaps we seek a wider purposeto send a message to re-

volutionaries throughout the

world
Asian, African, Latin
American; Maoist or Fidelista
that we will zap them with our
counter-insurgenc-

techniques.

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Underlying this is our real inwill not
tent: that the have-noget what we have without a fight,
that they might as well submit
to U.S. domination, enjoy the
munificence of our foreign aid
program, and not cause any trouts

ble.

Simply put, America's ideology precludes winning the Other
War. We support the very elements which profit from the poverty of the Vietnamese peasants.
Eisenhower and Dulles defended
U.S. intervention in Vietnam in
the fifties because they felt the
U.S. couldn't afford to lose the
valuable natural resources in
Vietnam to the Communists. In
fact, only a small but powerful
group of Americans stood to profit from U.S. involvement, the
major shareholders in the companies which process the raw
materials. The American public
was neither harmed nor helped
economically.
The Vietnamese civil war. is
an example of class warfare. Our
allies there are
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trained element of Vietnamese
society, unrepresentative of the
whole. Their opponents, always
referred to as "Communists" in
our press, although few are ideologically motivated and all are
nationalists, represent the aspirations and needs of the Vietnamese peasantry.
Naturally the strongest allied
support force comes from the
Park dictatorship in South Korea,
a force which fights for the same
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defend in South Vietnam. The
same can be said of the Thai
contingent. The Fillipinos come
because of Uncle's aid money;
the Australians are fervant
One Australian attributed this to their guilt com-ple"You see," he said, "we
have this huge underpopulated
country and the Chinese, well,
you see what we are afraid of."
The fundamental contradiction of maiming people one day
and patching them up the next
disturbs many sincere, concerned
Americans working in Vietnam.
These few Americans like the
Vietnamese people, speak their
language, wear Vietnamese dress
and work for AID or for voluntary agencies like the International Volunteer Service (IVS).
This group is deeply disturbed
about the war.
I met a local AID chief who
was sympathetic with the Vietnamese and who had been successful in pacifying his area because he was trusted. He agreed
with me when I said our aid
was inauthentic. Vietnamese also find our aid program an exercise in duplicity. It is fraudu-lato drop bombs, create refugees, and expect gratitude when
you feed them.
I never came to grips with
the truth of Stokely Carmichael's
pronouncement of American's underlying racism until I came here.
Generally the "gook" talk is
in the presence of the
press. "Of course," an officer
"we
explained apologetically,
never let the Vietnamese hear
it." Yet I heard the Embassy's
marine guard making wisecracks
about Vietnamese as Vietnamese
embassy employes were within
earshot. They know Americans
neither like nor respect them.
Only military might prevents
more dramatic expression of their
resentment.
The Pentagon would prefer
improved relations with the natives. The Army handbook warns
soldiers not to abuse Vietnamese,
women, talk loud, drive recklessly, or wave their money around.
It says, "Join with the people.
Understand their life. Use
phrases from their language. Honor their customs and laws." But
the racism is too deeply rooted.
Soldiers do insult the women,
run the men off the road, and
turn children into beggars.
In a land of poverty (relative

to the U.S., not India), American affluence causes resentment
and raises expectations beyond
the point at which they can be
fulfilled. American aid personnel
frequently live quite grandly,
sometimes in former French
villas. Doctors in Quang Ngai
paid $30,000 to rennovate a villa,
then continued to pay $400 a
month rent. Almost any Vietnam assignment is more lucrative than a similar stateside job.
Heavy equipment operators for
the
consortium make
around $2000 a month, far more
than the Vietnamese make in a
year. And Vietnamese doing a
similar job for a Vietnamese firm
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here giving them legitimacy, nor
would any other government allow us to stay.
Using a combination of the
carrot and the stick, the
government has not
been able to win the allegiance
of the peasantry. The U.S. mission has been trying to teach
its proteges the gradualism which
has served, at least till recently,
the U.S. corporate liberal state,
so well. But the Thieu-K- y
government has not been responsive
and that is why the American
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press talks about the failure of
the other war.

Among knowledgeable Americans it is recognized that the
Saigon government's anticorrup-tio- n
campaign is a farce, much
talk and little action, something
like putting a wolf in charge of
sheep. Occasionally someone is
netted, usually one of the smaller fry. The corruption flows from
the top down. It is impossible
to assess the extent of corruption without an active press,
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U.S. troops are not paid much
by American standards but by
local standards they have money
to burn. Soldiers, even in remote
outposts, frequently have Vietnamese cooks and servants. While
Vietnamese civilians with near-fatinjuries must be moved over
the rough roads for, I've heard,
as long as nine hours, U.S. helicopters are involved in keeping
isolated U. S. installations
stocked with American beer. A
reporter can, on a whim, get
a helicopter to take him just
about anywhere.. When the Vietnamese
minister
of welfare
wanted helicopters to move rice
to refugees threatened with starvation, he was told they were all
busy fighting the war. What is
involved is America's profoundly
misplaced set of values.
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stations throughout the country,
and so it is probable that a soldier
could come in off a patrol, plop
down in his easy chair, pop a
can of beer and watch his favorite
cowboy program on the tube.
It really happens. Compared with
the fairly austere French, our activity must look chrome-plateand much more permanent.
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