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THE KENTUCKY

Wednesday Afternoon, Sept. 13, I967

 

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The South 3 Outstanding College Daily

McSurely Claims

Alan McSurely, antipoverty worker indicted by the Pike County
grand jury on a charge of sedition, said here Monday that “fear
is the biggest problem in this country."

”Fear pervades the Negro
ghetto, the hollows and moun-
tains of Eastern Kentucky and
our classroom," he said,appear-
ing with his wife before several
hundred UK students at the noon
Student Center Patio Forum.

Mr. McSurely and his wife
Margaret were arrested Aug. 11
by Thomas Ratliff, Pike County
commonwealth's
Republican candidatt' for lieuten-
ant governor.

The McSurelys were charged
with teaching, writing and dis-
tributing literature suggestingthe
overthrow of the federal, state
and county government.

To “Siphon Fear'

“1 see our job as siphoning
some of this fear from the peo-
ple," he continued, emphasizing
his role as a worker for the
Southern Conference Education-
al Fund (SCEF).

Robert A. Sedler, professor
of law at the University of Ken-
tucky and an attorney for the
McSurelys, appeared before the
forum ”on behalf of Kentucky's
Civil Liberties Union."

"Taking the case to federal
court will not determine the guilt
or innocence of the McSurelys,"
he said, but will answer certain
questions.

They are, he said, whether
Kentucky 5 state sedition law is
unconstitutional and whether
federal courts should get in-
volved.

According to the first amend-
ment to the Constitution, Sedler
contended, the state sedition law
is unconstitutional. ”There has
never been a conviction under
the law inthestateofKentucky,"
he added.

Book Store Sedition?

During Sedler's talk, one stu-
dent asked whether or not, un-
der the state sedition law, the
University Book store could be
closed for possessing seditious
material.

Sedler said this was one of
the arguments of his defense.
”Our contention is that there
is no such thing as seditious

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material—no reading material
can be seditious,” he said.

“These kinds of laws can be
used to suppress free speech,"
Sedler emphasized.

To familiarize the several hun-
dred students present at the for:
um with his case, McSurely gave
a short” , rnary of his arrest

and the following court action.
“Fifteen armed men and Rat-

liff ransacked my house and in
two hours loaded a truck with
half our books and personal be-
longings," he said.

During a quest ion-and-answer
period, one student asked Mc-
Surely to specify the types of
literature found at his home.

Das Kapital Taken

Sedler named a copy of Das
Kapital, The Care and Feeding
d Cats and several letters to Ap-
palachian Volunteer directors as
the only ”seditious" volumes he
could remember.

“According to several local
newspapers, pictures of Fidel
Castro and Nikita Khrushchev
were found in my home," he
added.

Sedler said the only picture
he possessed was one of Che
Guevara, “Castro’s left or right-
hand man. " -

One student was puzzled over
Sedler's contention that no sedi-
tious material exists. ”Are you
saying you're not aseditionist,
he asked, or that their: is no
such thing as sedition?"

Sedler, in reply, likened the
phrases sedition and Communism
to ink blot tests, in which peo-
ple “project their hates, preju-
dices and anxieties into the blot."

The same student asked Mr.
Sedler whether he was a Com-
munist. Sedler responded by ask-
ing the student if he knew what
a Communist was.

Has Graduate Training

McSurely was born in Day-
ton, Ohio, but was raised in
Virginia. After graduate train-
ing in psychology, he worked

Continued on Page 8, Col. 1

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"Xernel Photo by Dick Ware

Students d all ages and inclinations crowded the Student Center
patio Tuesday to hear Alan McSurely tell them that “fear is the
greatest problem America faces today.”

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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

‘We Siphon Fear,’

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Alan McSurely spoke at the Student Center patio Tuesday, ridi-
culing the sedition indictment returned against him by 2 Pike
County grand jury.

 

Ratliff Could Get Hurt
Fighting ‘Commuriists’

By DARRELL CHRISTIAN
The Pike County Grand Jury's indictment of three antipoverty
workers and a Louisville couple on sedition charges closely echoes
New Orleans District Attorney'James Garrison's investigation into
the assasination of President John F. Kennedy.

There has been speculation
that both cases were initiated
for political reasons.

Mr. Garrison, once known as
the ”Perry Mason of New 0-
leans," has gained an indictment
against Clay Shaw for allegedly
conspiring to kill the late Pres-
ident.

Critics—including some close
to the district attorney's office—
have charged Mr. Garrison with
launching the investigation be-
cause of sinking popularity. He
also has been accused of brib-
ing witnesses and inventing evi-
dence.

Similarly, critics of the sed-
ition case contend that Com-
monwealth's Attorney Thomas

Ratliff of Pikeville is using that '

[robe to spur his chances for
lieutenant governor in November.

Mr. Ratliff, running mate 'of
Louie Nunn on the Republican
ticket, participated in the in-

News Analysis

vestigation leading to the arrests
d Alan and Margaret McSurely
and Joseph Mulloy.

‘Catch-22' Snatched?

The Commonwealth said it
uncovered ”subversive litera-
ture" in recent raids on their
homes. Since then, however, the
literature confiscated has been
said to include the novel Catch
22," a copy of the Communist

Continued on Page 8,001.1

 

 

ERNEL

Vol. LIX, No. 12

Brown Active

As Teachers’
Strike Grows

_ United Press International

NEW YORK — Black Power ad-
vocate H. Rap Brown injected
himself into the controversial
New York City teachers' strike
Tuesday shortly after angry Har-
lem residents attacked a group of
white picketing teachers. One
person was arrested.

The violence erupted when
teachers in the nation's largest
public school district returned to
picket lines throughout the city
for the second day.

The United Federation of
Teachers (UFT) claimed Tuesday
that 95 percent of the city's 58,-
000 teachers stayed away from
their jobs, crippling the school
system. The union said the walk-
out was 90 percent effective Mon-
day and had predicted 100 per-
cent effectiveness ‘for Tuesday.

Brown, head of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Com-
mittee (SNCC) entered Intermed-
iate School 201 Tuesday mom-
ing and said he was going to-
teach as a volunteer.

Shortly before he arrived, Har-
lem residents, angry over the
teachers' walkoutf began a
counter demonstration against
the teachers. Police said one of
the counter‘ demonstrators
reached across the police bar-
ricade to tear the picket sign
from a teacher.

The barricades were doubled
and the counter demonstrator, la-
ter identified as William Hall,
29, tried to lead a group around
the barriers to attack the all—
white teacher group.

Police stopped the group of
about 20 Negroes and scuffle
ensued in which police Sgt. John
Karninsky was slightly injured.
Hall was arrested and charged
with obstructing police, interfer—
ing with a peaceful assembly,

.harrassment and resisting arrest.

When booked at a police sta-
tion, Hall gave his address as
100 Fifth Avenue, the New York
headquarters for SNCC.

The Board of Education de—
nied that Brown had taught in
IS 201, that he was teaching in
the school or that he would
teachthere.

Antici arette Law Won’t Im eril
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Tobacco Research At University

A change in law further restricting the sale
of cigarettes would not decrease the amount
of tobacco research conducted at the University,
Dr. John Ragland, chairman of the Agronomy
Department, said Tuesday.

Research has already been done in the area
of adjusting nicotine content in cigarettes, Dr.
Ragland revealed.

A cigarette was deveIOped by the department
a few years ago with almost no nicotine, but
smokers turned it down because it didn't have
any taste, he said.

Sen. Robert Kennedy (D-N.Y.), contendingthat
cigarettes are a health hazard, said Monday he
would introduce three bills to the Senate to
restrict advertising and selling cigarettes.

4 Sources Of Revenue

The University gets the revenues to carry
on its extensive research from four sources, Dr.
Ragland said.

The US. Department of Agriculture has been
granting UK $1.5 million earmarked for tobacco
and health research annually since 1964, when the
surgeon general made public his findings on cig—
arette smoking.

State tax funds, apprépriated through the Uni-
versity budget and Federal Hatch Funds, also
support the research.

UK is among leading institutions in total dol-
lars spent in tobacco research.

"It may seem that the federal government is
contradicting itself by aiding tobacco research
on one hand, and on the other hand placing

warning signs on cigarette packages," Dr. Rag-
land said.
‘Easily Understandable' _
“It is easily understandable, though,"
claimed.

government doesn't want people to lose."

Dr. Ragland said that if restrictive cigarette
legislation were passed, more money might be
Spent on research to maintain tobacco 5 tax con—
tribution

About 80 percent of the total tobacco research
done at UK is done in the Agronomy Depart—
ment, Dr. Ragland said. “

Some work is also being done in the College

, of Arts and Sciences, the Chemistry Department
I and the Medical Center. The latter does most of

the actual work with health implications.

“We are working to find the harmful products
in tobacco, if in fact there are harmful products,
and see what can be done to let persons continue
to smoke," Dr. Ragland said.

Research is being done with tobacco seeds,
plants, leaves, smoke and cigarettes themselves.

 

  

 

 

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Cave Dwellers

Deep in the subsoil of Ed:
monson County there lives a
unique society which few Ken-
tucfiamgknow about. ,

. We allover the Iwofld'flfe"
familiar with Mammoth Cave
‘lé'and

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Sigmund, scenic attractions. But

its neighboring under-
-.what they' don’t see when they
visit‘ the famous Kentucky.

caverns are the millions of

l‘ organisms which iii/Hand have

lived for thousands of years~
‘in total darkness within the
maZe of cracks and crevices of
the estimated 150 miles of the
Subterranean chambers.

Dr. Thomas C. Barr ]r., Uni-
versity associate professor of
zoology, has been studying the
ecology, or the relationship be-
tween the organisms of the cave
and their environment, since the
mid-fifties.

The project continued to in-
terest UK scientists until 1961
when the first National Science
Foundation grant was given in
support of the research and it
gained momentum.

“We have obtained a trailer
which we will keep in the park
area for sleeping quarters and
storage space," Dr. Barr said.
“It is rather difiicult to store
research equipment in a hotel
room.” "

The longest “underground"
stay by the UK researcher has
been 18 hours.

Dr. Barr and two UK grad-
uate students recently com-
pleted one stage of the research
—classifying the various organ-
isms, their species, varietiesand
general environmental factors
which makeup the underground
society.

“Atmospheric conditions; ' im "

the —cave are dependent upon
the weather outside. Only the
temperature remains constant—
56i9degrees—except near the
entrances."

‘Caves Breathe’

“Caves breathe,” Dr. Barr
said, pointing out that when the
temperature outside the cave
is above 56 degrees, the cooler
air within the cave “breathes
out.” During the winter, the
process is reversed. As the
cooler, winter air blows into the
cave it lowers the humidity.

“Just as the organisms within
the cave have lost their eye-
sight, they also cannot live un-
less the humidity is around 99
percent," Dr. Barr said. “Eighty-
per cent humidity produces a
desert-like condition.”

Cave life consists of fish, bats,
worms, snails, and arthropods
with such plant life as algae,
fungi, and bacteria.

One ultimate result of re-
search in caves, such as the

study underway at the Uni-
versity, is information applicable
to long-range space flights in
which astronauts may live for
years without energy supplied
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top d the Student Centen Tuesday finished their’work and de—

scended safely. ,

State Groiap To File
Maine Chance Report

By SY RAMSEY
FRANKFORT (AP)-—The Legislative Audit Committee investiga-
ting the Maine Chance farm dispute is expected to recommend
new statutes which would clarify the relation ofschools and founda-

tions.

The report, to be presented
tothe Legislative Research Com-
mission Wednesday, may not
fully satisfy either sidein the con-
troversy which began when the
UK Research Foundation tried
to buy the TQO—acre property at
Lexington.

Among the possible highlights
ofthe watchdog committees con—
clusions:

There was nothing basically
wrong or financially improper in
the Universitst attempt to ac-
quire the land.

But tax money probably is
involved in the proposed pur-
chase and this is against public
policy as understood in the stat-
utes.

One answer, the report is ex-
pected to say, is a revision of
the laws tO“rnake the school-
foundation relationship abso-
lutely clear.

If the audit report does come
out with these views they would,
by coincidence, be quite similar
to those of the Kentucky T Paj ty,
a non-partisan political group
which was formed duringthe heat
of the Maine Chance squabble.

Actually, although the audit
report may not mention it, an
earlier change in statute seems
to have been responsible for the
current arguments and confus—
ion about Maine Chance.

' Until 1936, no state university
or college could acquire real prop-
erty without prior approval of
the Finance Department.

The statute specifically ap—
plied to “any state officers, de-
partment, board, commission, in-
stitution, division or other per—
son or functional group exercis-
ing any function of the state."

Then the statute was changed
to apply to specific agencies—
and the University was not listed
amongthese agencies.

The obvious solution, if the
LRC so wishes, would dovetail
with the audit committee report:
simply make the “new" law a
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Land Cost $2 Million

The UK foundation, a private
non-profit corporation, bid $2 mil-
lion for the land in question.

That topped an offer by Cali-
fornia horseman Rex C. Ellsworth
and Lexington veterinarian Dr.
Arnold Pessin, who in turn raised
their bid to $2.06 million.

When the bank of New York,
execututor of the late Elizabeth
Arden Graham's estate, did not
respond, the Ellsworth faction
filed a $30 million suit in US.
District Court at Lexington to
block the sale.

They charged UK conspired
with the Keeneland Association
to stop potential competition
from thoroughbred horse sale op-
erations planned by Dr. Pessin
and Mr. Ellsworth, an allegation
denied by the University and the
association.

AFROTC Sets
Officer Test

The Air Force ROTC Depart-
ment will administer the Air
Force Officers Qualifying Test
at the Euclid Avenue Building
at 5:00 pm. Sept. 18, 19 and
20.

The complete test will be
given on each of the three eve-
nings.

The test is for all freshmen
enrolled in the AFROTC pro-
gram, but is open to others in—
terested in entering the two-
year AFROTC program.

To qualify for the two—year
program, one must be a full-
time. student with two years re-
maining at either the under-
graduate or graduate level, and
be a United States citizen. You
must be able to receive your
commission before you are 27%
years old. 1

Applications for the program
may be obtained at the
AF ROTC office in Barker Hall,
or from Capt. ]ames A. Rash on
the nights the tests are given.

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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, Sept. 13,1967—3

World Starvation Predicted For Year 2000

Several University scientists
predict that by the year 2000,
millions of human beings
throughout the world are going
to be at the point of starvation.
Some of them even before. Some
of them now.

The results of a staggering
food crisis— —a crisis that is pre-
dicted in many quarters— —would
be a catastrophe It is doubt-
ful, the scientists believe, that
even the food-rich United States
could escape.

Although it is doubtful that
by the year 20(XIthe United States
will be at the brink of starva-
tion, Americans would have to
tighten their belts and sharetheir
food reserves or face the hostile
nations of the world that could
be driven to desperation.

Dr. George W. Irving Jr. of
the US. Department of Agricul-
ture estimates that today more
than half the people of the world
are hungry. Within 20 years—
or less—the number of hungry
people will exceed today's pop-
ulation.

Agricultural experts point out.
that 70 million people are added
to the world each year. Living
space for them means less acre-
age available to raise food.

Latin America's population
will increase from 25 million to
70 million by the year 2000. India
will add 200 million by 1980.
By 2000, another three billion
people will be added to the three
billion now competing for the
world's food.

More Mouths To Feed

In the United States the resi-
dent population is expected to
increase by 25 to 30 percent by

Memberships

Available
For CKCLS

Season memberships for the
1967-68 Central Kentucky Con-
cert and Lecture Series may be
purchased from Mrs. Burton
Milward at 266-1038.

University students will be
admitted on a valid ID.

Featured in this year's sched-
ule of speakers and performers
are pianist Van Clibum, the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra,
humorist Sam Levenson, journal-
ist Harrison Salisbury and Dr.
Ralph Lapp, a nuclear scientist.

The series will again be held
at Memorial Coliseum, which
has been outfitted with a new
acoustical system for the con—
certs.

1980. This means that Kentucky
will have to increase farm pro-
duction —estimates range from 15
to as high as 65 percent—if the

state contributes its share to the .

national production picture.

Hayden Timmons, executive
director of Gov. Edward Brea-
thitt's Commission on Agricul-
ture, reports that Kentucky has
the potential to [reduce 3.2 mil-
lion acres of corn—about three
times the 1%6 production.

‘ He says Kentucky could pro-
duce almost twice its present
soybean output from 4100])
acres; more than four times the
1966 wheat crop of ZBIJXIO acres,
and five times the present barley
and oat crop of 60,000 acres.

Dr. Milton Shuflett, Univer-
sity of Kentucky agricultural
economist, with the help of other
UK economists, recently com-
pleted a study or projected needs
of Kentucky agricultural produc-
tion in 1980, when the pressure
of the world food crisis will be-
gin to be felt.”

Dr. Shuflett found that in
some categories— —beef, for in-
stance— production requirements
evoke a long—drawn whistle."
Nationally, it should be up 65
percent from its present level.
Wheat, the eternal diet staple,
mist go up 15 percent.

Both figures are national es-
timates. In some food categories,
the economists say, Kentucky can
match or exceed the estimated
national needs level. Beef is one
of these, pork another, dairying
a third.

But in wheat, for instance,
Dr. Shuffett and his associates
have some doubts.

Grain Needs Cited

”We probably will be bélow
the national increase. One reason
is that other principal wheat
states are geared (land, equip-
ment, tradition) for wheat pro-
duction. We need a 50 percent
increase in feed grains, but prob-
ably will not realize that for
the same reasons," he said.

“Poultry, where we need a
45 percent increase," Dr. Shuf-
fett continued, ”may be another
such area. Though thousands of
layers and: broilers now are being
raised successfully in Kentucky,

‘we are not'really geared to it as

are some Southern states like,
say, Georgia. There, raisers oper-
ate in big units, thousands and
thousands of birds in each hand—
ling period. We probably would
have to change our methods to
equal or exceed the egg and
broiler figure.”

Sheep and lambs, also, would
need a sizeable increase— —about
30 percent. But this is a risky

 

business for most operators. Al-
though steady sheep-raisers do a
good job, the inexperienced ones
get in and get out. One reason
is predators, such as uncontrolled
dogpacks. Labor alsocomes high
for sheep flocks.

In round numbers, the case
is interesting, Dr. Shufldt said.
Beef now numbers about
1,777,“)0 anirmls. A 65 percent
increase in 15 years would mean
close to three million beef ani-
mals. Kentucky probably can do
this, because the state is now
surging steadily upward as an
important beef producer.

Pork animals now number
about 1,423,(X)0, and by 1980
another 426,900 would be needed.
Dairying also will add about
100,000 animals to its present
501,(XIO, for a 20 percent rise.

Land presents a problem, Dr.

Shuffett's survey shows. Ken-
tucky now has 16.2 million acres,
but by 1980 the acreage probably
will be down to 14 million. Losses
will be to highways, urban de-
velopment , parks, city expansion ,
and for dher uses.

The number of farms which
now total about 1331!!) will prob-

ably be below 100,000 by 1980;

Farm labor will probably be down
to 1501130, from the present
1%,(XX).

Dr. Shuffett said: ”Essential-
ly, we think we'll have 40 per-
cent fewer farms that must [:0-
duce 30-35 percent more food and
fiber than now, and we'llhave
to do it with 40 percent fewer
farm workers. We'll have more
commercialization of farms, that
is, a farmer will have to be a

to come in and see all our new

fall and winter campus fashions.

We will be happy to help you select the
fashions just right for you.

An account will he opened for you

when you bring your ID card to our

credit. department. You may charge

your purchases now and throughout - ‘13 f

the year. A.

businessman and not just a cit-
izen trying to subsist on a farm.

George D. Corder, of the UK
Extension Service, said that Ken-
tucky farmers should evaluate
land resources to see what land
is best suited for crops in highest
demand on the market or for
livestock feeding programs.
“Kentucky farmers have a mil-
lion acres of land capable of .
producing high yields of these
crops: corn, wheat, soybeans and
grain sorghum, but on which
land such crops are not now
grown.

He agrees that through wise
use of Kentucky's farm land and
through new methods of farm-
ing brought about by University
research, the state’s farmers can
help meet the challenge of the
year, 2000.

 

 

 

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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

The South’s Outstanding College Daily

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

ESTABLISHED 1894

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13, 1967

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

 

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

 

 

Paralyzing Combat Must End

Saturday afternoon a University
student broke his neck. His condi-
tion remains quite serious.

Three weeks ago another student
suffered a spinal bruise that left
him at least temporarily paralyzed
and in critical condition.

The name of the game is foot—
ball-big-time college football.

In both cases the men’s injur-
ies seem to be a risk of the game.
'One of those things that happens.
And everybody’s sorry; some are
even shocked. But no one seems
to have been outraged enough yet
to do anything about it.

Who’s to blame for the injuries,
then? To whom do we attach re-
sponsibility? The answer is not so
obvious as it might seem, and
fault cannot be attached simply
to the coaches or to the players.
For given the kind of football we
have come to expect, Coach Char-
lie Bradshaw can well say there
was little he could do to avoid
the accident which hagened in
the Saturday scrimrmge. Perhaps
he could have used safer equip-
ment, but the technicality of that
point is highly debatable among
football specialists.

But just because a broken neck
and a paralysis can’t be hung on
the coach doesn't mean that no one
is responsible for the injuries and
the conditions which allowed them.
Who, then, is responsible'erany:

) Students, for accepting the ne-
cessity of this kind of sport which
entertains students but can render
its players vegetables.

) Faculty, for not- crying out
long ago that the game will have
to be altered, made safer for par-

    

ticipants and more meaningful to
the University's educational exper-
ience, if it is to be supported
by the University.

> Administration, for allowing
public, legislative, and alumni pres—
sures to persuade them to lay laurels
on the kind of athletic 'combat
that can paralyze and break the
necks of students who participate
in it.

And, least responsible of all is
the Athletic Department, its direc-
tor or its coaches, who have been
hired to perform a service for the
University community but toward
whom the whole University com-

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munity has abdicated responsibil—
ity.

The issue is not so simple as
whether the University should
sponsor an intercollegiate football
team. Instead the issue is whether
anyone in the University commun-
ity has the intestinal fortitude to
examine and try to change—ifne-
cessary—the purpose and the man-
ner in which the sport is played.

Put most simply, one must won-
der whether anyone here cares what
happens to the students who are
placed betyveen the two goal posts
to do combat with one another.

At Long Last,

UK Will Have
Draft Counsel

At long last, after the program
has been de-bugged at the leading
colleges and universities, UK is
about to have a draft counseling
service. Though it comes years late,
in typical UK catch-up—pool fash-
ion, SDS is to be commended for
bringing the program to the Univer-
sity. .

As outlined by SDS member
Roger Woock, the counseling ser-
vice will help students retain their.
2-8 deferment standing or help stu-
dents obtain conscientious objec-
tors classifications. Efforts on both
counts are needed and will serve
University students well.

Past experience has demon-
strated the kind 'of student defer-
ment problems which arise due to
the red tape of getting school cer-
tification of student status to local
draft boards. In the process of
filling out the special computer
cards, getting them transferred to
the Registrar’s office where they
are to be mailed to the boards,
certification has occasionally ar-
rived too late, and in some cases
'not at all. Result: the student may
be'classified LA and soon be in—
ducted into military service.

If SDS’ counseling service can
aid the student with such prob-
lems, or clarify student understand-

ing of the new draft law, and help “

students retain deferred status,this
alone will give the service merit.

Some students may benefit from
the second prong of the program:
to help gain conscientious objec-
tor sthatus for those legitimately de-
siring it. Both the unwillingness of

draft board to grant CO status'

and the stigma often attached to
it in local communities frecmently
combine to defeat the man whose
moral convictions wiH not allow
him to do military service.

Any help based on accurate in-
formation' about'the intricacies of
selective service, modes of defer-
ment and mechanisms of appeal,
can be of tremendous value in
guaranteeing the student his rights.

 

 

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Student Government Travel Aid
Will Make A Great Innovation

The newly initiated Student
Government Travel Service is the
kind of service program students
could gain real value from.

As SC Student Services Direc-
tor Brint Milward described it, the
plan will allow UK students to get
to Europe at a far cheaper rate
than is ordinarily available, even
on special student tours.

If implemented as planned stu-
dents will arrive there early enough
to go- to summer sessions at lead-
ing foreign universities, thereby
adding a meaningful facet to their
undergraduate experience.

Yet one of the best parts of
the project is the leeway it gives

Letters To The Editor

 

students in spending an entire sum-
mer however they wish in a dif-
ferent culture at a price which
will allow more and more students
to go. For, as educators have
pointed out innumerable times,
there is no substitute for living
abroad when it comes to learning
about how another people View
life. Stanford University, and others
like it, even have branch campuses
around the world for the express
purpose of giving their students
experience in a foreign culture.

That UK Student Government

should become a part of that ed—

ucational process sounds too good
to be true.

Go To Vietnam—With Compassion

To The Editor of The Kernel

It would be a welcome relief to mil‘
lions of people if the world's problems
could be easily solved. However, there
is no such thing as an easy solution.
Wearing a white arm band or displaying
a poster which reports the deaths ofyoung
Americans in uniforms does nothing to
solve a problem, it is only a means of
protest. While mentioning the poster dis-
play on the Student Center bulletin
boards, I can not help but wonder whether
the mothers and fathers of these dead
Americans would approve of this use of
their sons' deaths to protest the Vietna