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The South's Outstanding College Daily

Tuesday Evening, June 13, 1967

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Grille
Will Open
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The Student Center grille
will "hopefully" open on Wednesday, according to Stanley Ingram,
Cafeteria Supervisor. The newly
remodeled grille had been scheduled to open with SummerSchool
Registration, but has been delayed because of unfinished
painting.
The new arrangement, which
features self service drink and
salad lines, has been criticised by
some Student Center staff as being poorly designed. Mrs. Anne
Garnette, Line Supervisor for the
Student Center, points to the
sandwich bar as an example.
Among other problems, the area
designed as an egg grille has no
outlet for a toaster. There are
also no outlets for a soup machine, nor is there room alloted
for a hot dog brazier or spreads
for the sandwiches. "We didn't
have a sink at first," she added,
"but they finally put one in."
Other problems Mrs. Garnette
forsees center around the drink'
machines. "They can drink as
much as they want right here
and never pay for it," she said,
standing a small puddle of water
which had leaked from the milkshake dispenser. She then demonstrated how a bank of refrigerators opened so as the block
access to an opposing bank of
coolers.

Ingram did not seem too concerned about these fears, pointing out that the new arrangement has yet to be tried in full.
He expressed general satisfaction
with the new setup, saying it
would offer greater service to a
larger number of students. He had
no comment to rumors that the
new grille was designed by an
itinerate graduate student from

Indiana University.
Ingram also disclosed plans
for weekly pizza and steak nights
during the regular school year.
"We'll also try to have a band
in here," he said leaning on an
empty place which Mrs. Garnette
had identified as the ideal location for some still
ice cream syrup dispensers.
Mrs. Garnette also expressed
non-exista- nt

outlook. "It'll
probably be real nice . . . when
they get it finished." A cashier
in the cafeteria line had another
opinion, however. "Bleah," she
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Inside the great wall work on the

office classroom complex
is progressing rapidly.

Aides Reject
Honorary Degrees
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of the college variety and about
two at commencements, an aide
said. But Rusk had not spoken
NEW YORK, June
States college students appear to last June either because the comhave scored a major victory and mencement period coincided with
forced the opposition to surrenthe NATO ministerial conference
der.- None of the spokesmen of as it does again this year. He
the administration, whom the received no degrees last year and
students hold most responsible will accept none now, although
for the war in Vietnam, includhe received one from
University in Abilene,
ing the president himself, have
appeared on the commencement Texas, last January.
No commencement speech by
platforms either as speakers or
President Johnson was expected,
as recipients of honorary degrees.
This marks
a significant although it was pointed out that
the President sometimes decides
change over last year, when protest demonstrations erupted in late and on the spur of the momany places, notably over the ment to speak, without prior
appearance of defense secretary announcement.
The question may be raised
Robert S. McNamara at Amherst
and New York university and whether an apparent surrender
subsequently, during the year, to student protests represents
at Harvard.
censorship curtailment of debate and diminution of free
While some university spokesmen at the time scolded the stuspeech.
Those who disagree with this
dents for their discourtesy and
view, however, point out that
intolerance, the administration
commencement speeches are not
was persuaded not to test this
year the efficacy of last year's really part of the process of
either education or debate. They
reprimand.
are ceremonial courtesies, and
As over 700,000 students on
since they honor the new grad- more than 2,000 campuses claim
their degrees this month, the folContinued on Page 2, Col. 5
lowing facts could be ascertained.
An aide to McNamara told
the New York Times last week
that the secretary is not making
any commencement speeches this
year. There was a possibility,
he added, that McNamara might
accept one honorary degree but
The Executive Committee of
he was uncertain even about
that and would not disclose the the University Board of Trustees
has approved an expansion of
possible source of the degree.
the UK extension program. UnThe aide stressed, however,
der the new plan the extension
that the secretary gets about 600
will attempt to provide
speaking invitations a year, half program
of them for commencements, and specialists in fields and profesthat the number had remained sions necessary to specific geographic areas.
stable this year. This would indiIn the past, the program has
cate that he, rather than acabeen largely agricultural.
demic leaders, had decided that
In order to provide additional
for the moment silence was the
services, the Board has estabbetter part of valor.
lished different geographic areas
Last year the defense secrewithin the states. The communtary spoke and received an honoity colleges have been designated
rary degree at Chatham College
as geograpluc centers to implein Pittsburgh and accepted dement the new program.
grees at Amherst and N.Y.U.
The main goal in expanding
At the state department, the
the extension program is to
Times was told that Secretary
specialists to deal with the
Dean Rusk will make no needs of specific areas in an
speeches. Normally he averages
attempt to encourage greater dealwut 15 speeches a y ear, mostly
velopment of resources.
By FRED M. HECHINGER

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New Yerk Times News Serrlee
10-U- nited

Hardin-Simmo-

Extension
Service

Reorganized

Seminar
In Progress
Professional leaders of youth
organizations are assembfed for
a national seminar at the Kentucky FFA Leadership Training
Center in Hardinsburg, June
12-1- 6.

According to Dr. Harold Bi alley, professor of education the
seminar's main purpose is to
determine how youth organizations can contribute to vocational education instructional pro--'
grams.
The seminar will also seek

clarification and agreement upon
how youth organizations can be
upgraded to fit the need of the
modern day boy and girl.

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Last night the U of L faculty
went on record as favoring "sisterhood" status with the university citing the proposal as "the
only hope for further growth."
Dr. Melvin Greer, chairman of
the local chapter of the American
Association of University Professors, said the faculty probably
would prefer to retain independent status.
But he said the U of L needs
money and there is "no evidence
of substantial financial support
from other sources."
University administrative officials were mum yesterday on
the proposed merger between UK
and the University of Louisville.
The proposal, made public
Sunday, recommends UK and
U of L operate as "sister institutions," with each school having its own chancellor. A single
president and board of trustees
would govern the two institutions.
The proposal, which would
require enabling legislation and
financing by the General Assembly, also recommends:
Retaining the names of both
schools but adding to them "a
part of the Commonwealth University of Kentucky." The community cole
munity colleges would also be a
part of the setup.

Making

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related" school with the state
providing a substantial portion of
the budget but with local private support continuing
Giving U of L full state support and a new board of trustees, but keeping it independent
from all oilier state institutions
Giving U of L full state
support and a board of trustees
in common with UK, but with
each school having its own president and own internal administration
Giving the U of L full state
support, but aligning it with UK
as a single state university with
two or more campuses, a single
president and a single board of
trustees
Giving U of L full state support and making it a branch of
UK with the UK president and
board of trustees in charge of

Uof L.

SEC Lags

In Negro
Recruiting

board of tnistees
NEW YORK -- The Universities of Mississippi, Alabama, Auappointed by the governor.
r
A
transition period burn and Louisiana State in the
beginning July 1, 1968, with the Southeastern Conference have
state allocating $9 million to the not recruited Negro athletes, acU of L in the first year and $48.8
cording to an editorial in the curmillion in 1972.
rent issues of Sport Magazine.
Reduction at the end of four
The chancellors at these uniyears of U of L tuition from
other colleges that
rate versities and
$1,200 a year (the
do not have Negro athletes all
for residents of Jefferson County)
tried or are trying
to $280, the present UK rate. say they have
to recruit Negroes. "Apparently,
UK President John W. Oshard enough,"
wald, in California this past they haven't tried
comments the editorial.
weekend, could not be reached
In another case, Sport cites
for comment on the proposal.
the difficulties encountered by
Three University vice presidents,
basketball star Artis
in
meetings according to seven-fotheir secretaries, were also un- Cilmore of Do than, Alabama,
available. UK Provost Dr. Lewis who has offers from 115 colleges.
Cochran told the Kernel he did According to a spokesman for the
not want to comment now on U.S. Office of Education, "Auany possible consequence the proburn said Gilmore wasn't good
posed plan might have on the enough athletically, and AlaUniversity's newly adopted Acabama said he was n't good enough
demic Plan.
academically."
The
report outlined
In the Atlantic Coast Confersix alternatives to the "sisterence, whose academic standards
hood plan":
are similar to the SEC's, league
Maintaining U of L as a commissioner Jim Weaver
points
private institution
to a number of Negro athletes
on scholarships and says emphatically, "As far as this conference
is concerned, race is no longer a
question."
"Race should no longer be a
question in the SEC, either,"
From Combined Dispatches
states the editorial. "It's time the
ColAn English instructor at the Southeastern Conference
Cumberland Community College
leges stopped dragging their feet.
has been run out of town by It's time for them to face up to
residents angered by the publithe law of the land, or face loss
cation of a collection of protest of federal financial assistance,"
concludes the Sport article.
poems authored by liis creative
writing class.
Professor Lee Pennington had
to leave town during final week,
spring semester because he feared
for his life and no longer felt
safe among the angry citizens
of Harlan county,
shortly after the book of poems,
entitled "Tomorrow's People,"
was published April 17 and dedicated to Harlan County. The
power structure of Cumber land
county officials, ministers and
academicians said the poems
3,571 students have registered
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are in poor taste and bring discredit to the county and to the
college.
All of the poems in the book
were written by 13 university stu-

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by Angie Skidmore, a sophomore,
refers to God as an "omnipotent
book." Another poem by freshman Carson Hansel contains a
statement that upon his return
to earth Christ will fall in love
with and marry Brigette Bardot.
The third one, by sophomore
K. D. Petrey, characterizes a
sheriff in an unnamed county,
as a lawman whose chief activity is the gleeful dispensation of
overtime parking tickets.
Pennington thinks the poems
are literary offspring of his stu-

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creative writing gives the students a chance to. express their
attitudes, according to a close
friend of Pennington who asked
that he remain anonymous. This
source also said the book has
received the praise and blessing
of Jesse Stuart, Kentucky's poet
laureate. Pennington is a disciple of Stuart.
Community reaction to "Tomorrow's People" has been bitterly critical condemnation of
Pennington. The source said the

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Pennington's status at the

college remains unclear as does
his whereabouts. His mother,
Mary Pennington of South Portsmouth Kentucky, does not know
where her son is now nor when
he will return home.
It has been widely rumored
that the advisory board of the
Southeast Community College of
Cumberland has recommended
that he be fired and that the
college's director, Dr. James
has asked for Pennington's resignation. Neither report
could be confirmed.
Dr. Falkenstine said the advisory board has no authority
to hire or fire instructors. He
said the board has discussed
Pennington and the poems but
has not asked that he be fired.
The college's director said
"People have been critical of the
book and I think rightly so,"
but he said he has not called
for Pennington's resignation.
"We have academic freedom.
Pennington has academic freedom. And the students have academic freedom," Falkenstine
said.
But some of Falkenstine's
statements indicated his displeasure with the controversy. "We
can't grow and survive in a situation of turmoil," he said. "We
need to keep peace and harmony
in the area and to do constructive-things.e,

Though most Harlan County
residents are angry at Pennington, his students apparently are
sticking with him. Two student
poets who were contacted said
they were upset with the way

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threats of violence and that his
life has been threatened.
"Pennington and his wife
slept on the floor at night before leaving Cumberland because
they were afraid their house
would be shot at," the source
said, adding that Uie professor
would not go out unless accompanied by other people.
Another informed source said

the fact that some of th poems
protest against strip mining pardetially explains the hysterical
those
nunciation of the lx)ok by
residents of the community who
comprise the monolithic power
structure. "Pennington's students started demanding change
and the people struck back," he

out," he said.

"The people around here are
enough to read
the book," Asher concluded.
In Lexington, during early
May, Dr. Ellis Hartford, dean
of the UK Community Colleges,
discussed the situation and commented that "the matter of teacher tenure is not something for
the general public to decide
upon."
"As far as I am personally
concerned," Hartford said, "it's
not for any outside group to tell
us how to deal with our faculty.
not

broad-minde- d

And I

don't feel that anyone

should question whether students have a right to raise questions about the world they five
in. They have a sacred privilege,
a right, and a responsibility to
raise questions."

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uates, they should not be insensitive to the students' preferences. Toastmasters do not antagonize the guests of honor.
One penalty for looking at
commencement speeches in this
fashion is that they are likely1
to become even blander than
many of them have been in the
past. In the absence of live controversy, cliches will take ov er as
salute "Tomorrow's
speakers
Leaders" and urge them to "sally
forth unafraid into a world which,
though not of their making,
nevertheless
beckons to them
with opportunity and challenge."
Be this as it may, the change
of ton and perhaps of heart,
too, has not escaped this year's
students. The Columbia Daily

Spectator, the university's undergraduate newspaper, said in
its report: "commencement
speeches are traditionally dull,
but this year Columbia and many
other major universities have
been careful to avoid speakers
who would discuss the greatest
problem and concern of the day:
the war in Vietnam."
Two days later Dr. Grayson
Kirk, Columbia's president, did
raise the controversial question
stu(in a way the
dents might have wished).
"Someone must ask the awkward questions," he said at the
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defensive strength at home?"
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Pennington was treated.
Jody Cluck of Cumlxrland,
student contributor to the book,
said, "He got a raw deal from the
very beginning. Most of the students arc behind Pennington. It
was very unjust."
Another student poet, Jimmy
Asher of Whitesburg, said he
thought the college administr"
tion should back Pennington.
"He has always backed the students, but nobody will help him

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prominently sounded this year.
And this, in turn, may be the
reason why the administration
sent out the cabinet's peace and
welfare rather than its defense
and foreign policy team.
John W. Gardner, Secretary of
Health, Ldueation and Welfare,
was scheduled to speak to at
least four graduatingclasses.and
Harold Howe 2D, the Commissioner of Education, to at least
three. Hobert C. Weaver, Secretary of Housing and Urban De-

velopment, Stewart

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Secretary of the Interior, William
H. Stewart, the Surgeon-Genera- l,
were currently in demand.

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, June

Summer Theater
Sets Opening
Kernel Arts Editor
Nothing is as so dramatic as the human drama itself. There
are passions no more fervent, hatred no more intense, devotion no
more sincere than those emotions found alxnit our very lives. Such
a credo was the belief of playwright Luigi Pirandello.
In "Six Characters in Search of an Author," the premier production of the Centennial Theatre June 16, Pirandello presents
the viewer with the startling confrontation that reality is indeed,
as evasive element.
What arc people really like?
Pirnadello's work was imitathe play asks. In the business of ted, perhaps surpassed, by
Edward Albce in the play and
everyday life, nothing is commoner than the categorical judg- subsequent
motion
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ment sweeping and assured in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?"
its affirmatives. But as we cut a Albee's work, as does Piranlittle deeper into the living mat- dello's, lets the reality of the
ter of the spirit, the problem be- production involve the viewer,
comes more .complicated. Do we and eventually overwhelm him.
ever understand the whole moti"Six Characters'" director,
vation of an action not in others
Charles Dickens (no relation),
only but even in ourselves?
calls the drama" one of the most
The play opens upon the
another Pirandello play. exciting in modern theater. A
The stage manager, the leading master playwright has created
an eerie and provocative play
lady and man, and the whole
that is frightening yet amusing,
stage crew are gathered.
"six characters" ap- humorous while very serious."
Suddenly
pear and ask for an author; their
Dickens agrees that this is
drama they already possess. The not a play for just any audience.
seeming absurdity of the situation "The audience becomes a part
is explained by one of the charof the play," he said, "and must
acters saying "Oh sir, you know develop a close identification
well that life is full of infinite with it. It's not one
just to sit
absurdities, which, strangely back and watch."
enough, do not even need to ap"Six Characters" runs June"
pear plausible, since they are
16, 17, and 18, and again June
true."
Then the real drama of a sen- 23, 24, and 25. Reserved seats
sitive Father, an unfaithful Mo- are available at the Fine Arts
office or by callther, and their children begins to Building box
ing University extension 2920.
unfold.

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Samuel Barber opera.
"Hobgob" is not the first
composition of Cornell. While
at Auburn as an undergraduate,
he wrote and had produced a
musical comedy. This is his first
opera, however.

"I've always been interested
in opera," mused Cornell, "If

you work long enough in a field,

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Charles Dickens, director of Centennial Theatre's premier produc lion, "Six Characters in Search of .in
Author," addresses his cast before the first rehearsal. "Six Charac ters" opens June Hi. Other pel for man c
are scheduled June 18, 23. 21, and 2!.

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a Woman' More Than Just Nudity

By TERRY PARSONS

man commenting on "I, A
Woman" might call it just another sexy movie, but an honest woman must admit an understanding and sharing of the sensual emotions involved. Siv
the woman, expresses the
universal woman's awakening to
sensual experience, an awakening
that men cannot pretend to understand.
It is sad that this movie which
has so much that is true about
woman is not a better production. It is full of arty gimmicks
that cloud the real story it seeks
to tell. One almost feels that the
actors themselves areembarrased
at times.
The fault with "I, AWoman"
decide to which art fonns
you
lies not in acting or direction,
you are best suited. I've always
had an affinity for music in a but in the handling of the story.
Both sex and nudity are exploited
theatrical situation."
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to the fullest. In fact, the film
is almost overly pornographic several times.
It is easy to see why this
movie should not be approved for

general public consumption. Its
major fault is that it tries to be
honest and in the process gets
out of hand. It takes the camera
into a very private domain, often
unnecessarily.
In spite of its faults, "I, A
Woman" tells a story that we
women know too well. None of
us can deny the pride and tingling nerves we feel upon recognizing the desire that burns inmen's
eyes. We share the same yearning
that Siv does as well as her

inner conflict when confrtonted
with sensual emotion.
In the final analysis, perhaps
"I, A Woman" is only for other
women. Only those men perceptive enough to look beneath the
arty facade will learn some of
the truths that we women refuse
to admit about ourselves.
Because it is so honest, there
are many women who will try to
escape by calling it just another
dirty movie that should be banned. Nevertheless, while a man
leaves the theater with an ample
eyeful of sex and nudity, a woman
realizes she has seen a bit of herself mirrored on the screen.

ARE YOU SURE YOU
KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING?

"There are seven singing roles
and two speaking roles in the
opera," said Cornell. "The plot
concerns the competition between a cafe, which is not successful, and an inn, which is."
The singers include Norrie
Wake, Melissa Kelley, Luther
Stripling, Harry .Clark, Mitch
Douglas, Mike Sells, Bill Craft,
and Donald Ivy.

Cornell emphasized the increasing amount of English opera written chiefly by Samuel
Barber, Cian Carlo Menotti.and
Leonard Bernstein.
"In the last 50 years," said
Cornell, "the American public
has reached the point where the
culture is condusive to the support of opera."
Cornell pointed out that the
Metropolitan Opera of New York
began its recent season with a

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Fantasy Opera

The libretto to the work was
written in colaboration with Bill
Gaitwell, who attended Auburn
University with Cornell as an
undergraduate.
"There's no reason why English can't be used in opera. If
the work is originally conceived
in the language, then it will
have a flow and the melodic
nature needed," said Cornell.

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"A Figment of Hobgob," an
opera written by UK Graduate
student Doug Cornell, will be
presented free of charge at 8 p.m.
June 20 and 21 in the Taylor
Education Auditorium.
Cornell described the opera
as a "fantasy, an 'Alice in Wonderland
glass type opera." Written
to satisfy a music requirement,
the opera will be presented by
the Department of Music.

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The Kernel deplores Lee Pennington's forced exodus from his
teaching duties in the English department of the Southeast Community College at Cumberland.

planet. This poem exhibits
overstatement with an attempt to avoid trite images in order
to make a statement about our very
material world. Judaeo-Christia- n
readers recoiled at the choice of

red-neck-

images.

His exile, forced upon him by
citizens of Harlan
is a lamentable spectacle.
County,
No member of a University community ought to have to run for
his life particularly when he has
done nothing wrong.
Pennington used to teach creative writing in Cumberland. He
stimulated the 13 students in his
class to write about the community in which the students reside.
An all student committee selected
the poems to appear in a paperback collection titled "Tomorrow's
People." The students decided to
dedicate the book to the residents
of Harlan County.
Pennington's only other contribution to the book was securing
a

printer.
The first and to date only print-

ing of 500 copies sold out in five
days, though perhaps 150 of these
copies were given away free to
potential reviewers.
The Biblebelt hysterical fringe
was particularly upset by one
poem which referred to God as
an "omnipotent boob." This very
short poem focused on the social,
political, and economic ills in the
world community. The author suggested that if God put together
such a torn and troubled world
He must indeed be an omnipotent boob. "Sacrilege!" was the
hue and cry from the pulpits which
felt called upon to defend God in
a libel case as it were. The plain
meaning of the poem, however,
seems to be that man is to blame
for the torn and troubled world
we live in. The figurative interpretation of the poem suggests
that its author subscribes to a
Deistic conception of the relationship between God and man, with
God as an
These same pulpits vibrated
with hysteria over a poem which
hypothesized that if God were to
send Christ to earth again to shape-u- p
the planet that Christ would
become so enmeshed in this materialistic world that he would
succumb to the allure of Brigitte
Bardot whom Christ would marry,
causing Gal himself to return to
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The poem about the sheriff by

sophomore K. D. Petrey must have
really rattled a skeleton in the
memory closet, as the following
quotation from the May 4 edition
of the VVhitesburg "Mountain Eagle" indicates:
"The Harlan County Sheriff,

Jason Howard, telephoned Pennington demanding an explanation of
Petrey's poem. Pennington explained that the poem was literary
and not political, but he feels that
the Sheriff was unsatisfied by the
explanation. According to Pennington, Howard told him, 'You
either clear this up or I'll be to
see you.'"
Somewhere near the center of
the Pennington problem is a conflict between academic freedom
versus public relations and the
coveted desire by the Cumberland
college administration for the goodwill of the community in order for
the college to prosper.
Pennington successfully filled
his role in the University community. He set his class in quest of
truth and knowledge through reason, reflection, enlightened inquiry,
with introspective focus on each
student's home community.
The search was fruitful. It bore
a book of poems: freshmanish, some
immature, and some of questionable taste but all on the right
path honest inquiry into the
causes and background of the
blighted conditions in which most
of Appalachia finds itself.
The good will of a community which reacts as this one did
is hardly worth seeking. Academic
freedom should never be subservient to public relations. The director of the Cumberland Community
College, Dr. Falkenstine, is mistaken in his belief that it is better

that Pennington the boat-rock's
is out of his hair. For Dr.
troubles have just begun.
If the
can run a professor out of town then the transforition to letting the
colmulate the curriculum at the
lege, choose the texts to be read,
and censor the idealogies to be
discussed at the college may not
be far behind.
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Save for one
point
statement of personal support by
Dr. Ellis Hartford, dean of the
UK Community Colleges, the University has turned its back on Lee
Pennington. A new catechism of
academic freedom at the University
seems to be emerging with this
slogan: After Eddington comes Pennington and after Pennington comes
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Good luck to Lee Pennington
wherever he is. Better luck to him
wherever he goes from here. likewise to the university and its community college system, wherever it
may be going.

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Social Inversion To Result
From New Grille Design
By DAVID HOLWERK

The Student Center Cafeteria Staffs
dissatisfaction over the design of the
new grille goes deeper than the immediate functional problems of the new
setup. In fact, the prospect of inadequate electrical fixtures, spilled trays,
mass milkshake- pilferage, and general
disorder are pleasant in comparison with
the impending battles for student power.
The most serious design error made
in the new grille was the relocation of
the juke box. For years this instrument
has delineated the top of the social order,
defining clearly just where the back of
the bus is and who belongs there. The
dozen tables around the juke box are
staked out for permanent possession, by
the various fraternities and their inevitable counterparts, the
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hardly-various-at-a-

ll

sororities.
Beyond this oasis of social activity
lies the area of the grille reserved for the
out groups of the campus: SDS, Negroes,
graduate students, Woodrow Wilson Fel-

lowship winners, and assorted
Occasional basketball players eat t