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Detroit man hat to tight tor
a draft deferment as well as for his
wife's life: Page Two.
A young

There are many fears about the future
of the United Nations among the

member

nations

themselves:

Poge

Five.

Medicine Dean tells Faculty
gathering that LSD is "the
potent drug": Poge Three.

University of Kentucky
Vol. 58, No. 56

The New York Times News Service is

LEXINGTON, KV., THURSDAY, NOV. 17, 1906

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As negotiations continued
Thursday, it appeared it may
not be long before an end is
in sight.
old strike has
The
forced some 17,000 daily bus
riders to seek other transportationeither by car pools or on
foot. Until Wednesday, neither
side gave any indication of arbitrating their original offers, and
negotiators were in a stalemate.
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Now, however, it appears
both sides are willing to compromise on a settlement.
The Amalgamated Transit
Union which claims 96 strikers as members softened its
stand Wednesday by lowering
its original demands for a
per hour wage increase and
higher benefits. At the same time,
the union rejected a higher offer
by the company.
20-ce- nt

Bob Mahon bet on Kentucky last Saturday and . . . well you
know. So to pay off he agreed to push a football the length of
Stoll Field along the Euclid Avenue sidewalk. He did and the specified pushing tool was, you guessed it, his nose.

International Studies
Meeting Planned Here

Although no settlement was
expected today, the fact that
both sides are altering their proposals indicates negotiations are
now serious.

The company's offer of a
raise now and another three
cents in May was rejected earlier
by the union in the form of an
ultimatum proposal 20 cents or
nothing.
Tuesday's offer by the company was believed to be five
percent of the hourly wage under the expired contract. That
would amount to 9.6 cents.
five-ce-

Upgrading international studies programs in the
institutions of Kentucky and surrounding states is the mission
of a conference to be held here Friday and Saturday.
More than 100 educators rep
Education and World Affairs,
resenting 50 colleges and univer- New York.
sities are expected to attend the
Registration of delegates will
event in the Student Center.
begin at 11 a.m. Friday. The
Sponsored by three UK age- conference will close after a
nciesthe College of Education, luncheon at 12:30
p.m.
the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, and the Center for Developmental Change the conference will deal with curriculum
planning and reform in the
public-schoteaching of social
studies.
Featured speaker will be
Harold Taylor, New York City
educator and author, who will
By DAVID R. JONES
address the delegates at a 6:30
c) New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON-Secreta- ry
p.m. dinner Friday in the Stuof Labor W.
dent Center .ballroom. He will
Willard Wirtz proposed Wednesday night
discuss the education of Amera new "policy for youth" that would regisican teachers in world affairs.
ter all
boys and girls for two
Peter Muirhead, associate
years of education, employment, military
commissioner of higher educaservice or community service.
tion for the U.S. Department
Wirtz said that such a policy initially
of Health, Education and Welwould require developing about 750,000 added
fare, will discuss the Internaeducational or job openings and could be
tional Education Act of 19G6
financed by a variety of sources. Drawing
which gives his department auin advance on anticipated Social Security
thority to make grants estabbenefits could help finance it, he said, but
lishing graduate centers for rehe offered no details of how that would
search and training in internawork.
tional studies. Muirhead will
The cabinet officer indicated that mili11 a.m. Saturday in
speak at
tary and nondefense service both should
the Student Center Theater.
be offered, and that the choice of a
Other speakers will be Robert
program would not exempt a youth
F. Byrnes, director of the Infrom the military draft. The nondefense
Affairs Center at
ternational
service
would include domesIndiana University; Jerry It. tic or presumablywork.
foreign social
of the North
Moore, director
Wirtz, in a speech prepared for deCentral Association Foreign
livery here at the Catholic University of
Project; James Becker,
America, also deplored "inequity" in the
director of school services for
the Foreign Policy Association;
present military draft that he said "almost
Dr. Edward W. Weidner, direccompels, as I see it, some kind of lottery
tor of the Center for Developsystem for selection for military service."
Wirtz thus became the third
mental Change here, and MauJohnson Administration official in recent
rice Harari, vice president of
teacher-trainin-

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a significant addition to the Kernel,
editorial says: Poge Four.

Doug Dickey leads the new breed of
Southeastern
Conference
Coaches:
Page Six.
The Governor's roce has oil of the
material for a good if mixed
ovel:
Page Seven.
up-n-

End Now Appears Near
In Lexington Bus Strike
A small crack
appeared this
week in the solid wall blocking
negotiations between the Lex-

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No specific figures were discussed concerning the union's
counter offer.
The strike began on Oct. 9,
idling the company's 71 buses
and the city's only bus service.
City Manager John Cook
hinted Tuesday at a meeting of
the Mayor's Advisory Committee
that temporary bus service may
be provided if the negotiations
fail.
"The mayor has said some
kind of bus service is going to
have to be provided for the people," he said.
The most recent negotiating

sessions have been conducted by
a federal mediator. Thursday
morning's session, held jointly

between management and labor
without the mediator's services,
adjourned at noon and was
scheduled to convene again at
2 p.m.
The meetings are expected to
continue Friday if no settlement
is reached Thursday.
To date all phases of the new
contract except wages, holiday
pay and split runs pay have been
resolved. The old contract expired Sept. 9, a month before
the strike was started.

Few Voted To Elect
Council
Off-Camp-us

About
of the University's
students voted
Student Association
Monday to select officers for the
(OCSA).
According to Keith Brown, OCSA vice president, "a little more
than 200" of the 8,000
students voted for the organizations officers and 20 legislative council members.
In addition to Brown as vice president, Lee Rosenbaum was
elected president and Carol Michler was selected secretary.
The ballot listed 32 students running for the legislative council positions. However, 33 were actually vying for the council.
The omission of Thomas Juul from the ballot brought a protest of
the election.
OCSA officials attempted to write Juul's name on the ballot,
but misspelled it. This caused further upset. Juul had been chairman of an OCSA committee and after talking with other members
he decided to remain as committee chairman and drop the protest, Brown said.
Those elected to the legislative council included Judy Adams,
Russ Adkins, John Baxley, John Cook, Steve Cook, Hank Davis,
Logan Gray, Connie Hart, David Holwerk, Ronnie Huebner, Carol
Johnson, Ann Lail, Jim Lambert, Linda Lloyd, Patty Magee,
Tom Post, Susan Stratton, John Thierman, Charles Thomas, and
Terri Vance.
The OCSA constitution was also approved in the election.
one-fortie- th

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Labor Secretary Deplores Draft,
Proposes 'New Policy For Youth9

non-defen- se

high-lev-

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days to speak out favorably about the use
of a lottery to select young men for military service.
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNa-mar- a
said last week that a lottery would
be one way to achieve a more equitable
draft system. Dr. Harold Wool, the Defense Department's Director of Manpower
Procurement, called last week for consideration of a lottery system.
President Johnson has appointed a national commission on Selective Service to
make recommendations in Janurary on
possible revisions in the draft system.
"Whatever this country's need may be
for a fair and effective method of distributing the obligation of some young men
to fight," Wirtz said, "it is only a small
part of the infinitely larger and encompassing need for a fair and effective method
of distributing the opportunity for all young
men and women to learn, to work, to serve
all the nation's and the world's needs, and
to make sense out of their own lives."
The secretary therefore proposed his "policy for youth" as a way "to arrange for
every American boy and girl to proceed along
the course education, employment, trainhe or she wants or
ing or service-th- at
ought to take."
The policy would require every youth
at the age of 18 or upon leaving school

before that

in each community to "register" with "an Opportunity Board" composed ot an outstanding local educator, doctor, minister, businessman, labor leader and
one male and one female aged 16 to 21.
The local board, part of a national system, would have a "sizable staff of professional workers to provide a physical examination and other necessary tests aimed at
channelling each registrant into two years
of further education, training, "meaningful
national
employment" or a new "broad-scalservice program" of military or nondefense
e

service.

"The board would have no authority
whatsoever to dictate or compel the individual's following one course or another,"
Wirtz said. "There would, however, be insistence that he, or she, use the opportunities afforded," he added.
Implementing the program would "have
to depend on social invention more than
on increased appropriation, on fuller exploration and development of ideas we hav e
so far only toyed with or even locked at
and set aside," he said.
Wirtz also suggested a "broad expansion" of
programs now employ ed
by some colleges, "tax credits to encourage
enlarged employer training programs" and
Continued on Pate 2
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Prof. Brewer Discusses
20th Century Economics
and the entrepreneurial

Husbatid Made A' While hi
Fighting For Wife's Life
From Combined

Dlxpatrbri

former student is appealing to his
standing because he must
draft board for reclassification of his
for his wife's life.
fight
Michaels said, "I could pass out
Tom Michaels, who is classi
or something. It's just not safe.
fied
or qualified to enter
She said Michaels was the
military service immediately, by only person in their families who
Selective Service Board 303 in could
spend the 10 hours needed
suburban Warren is needed by
to filter her blood through the
his wife.
artificial kidney.
Mrs. Michaels kidneys failed
Michael's student deferment
first
Sept. 9, shortly after their
revoked after
DETROIT-- A

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he dropped
was
out of the senior class in electrical engineering at the Lawrence
Institute of Technology.
For nine weeks and at over
three hospitals Michaels spends
most of his time. He also took
three weeks off his
job at the Dodge truck plant.
In October the family priest
and Dr. Elsie Eng, their family
physician, wrote to the draft
board explaining the situation.
"The board said the letters
weren't specific enough as to why
he was needed at home," said

wedding anniversary.
In order to stay alive, she
must have her blood filtered
twice a week on an artificial
kidney machine.
Mrs. Michaels said that her
husband must work to pay for
her hospital care.
The young couple hope to
avoid a bill of $10,000 yearly
by purchasing a $6,200 artificial
kidney. Michaels, who has already made a $1,200 down payment, would be trained to operate
the machine.
"I can't operate the machine
myself while I'm on it," Mrs.

$5,500-a-yc-

ar

Mrs. Michaels.

"The doctor couldn't believe

New Youth Policy Asked
Continued From Page

out a voluntary program "before
considering .a possible requirement of participation in it," he
. added. .
But VVirtz said that "those
who present the most serious
problems" for themselves and
the community would be the
ones most likely to "fail to take
advantage of any or all of the
.options" offered.

1

"A very broad educational or
training loan program, with the
loan to be repaid by' adding &
very small percentage to the
borrower's income tax rate for a
specified number of years."
VVirtz said that "ideally there
should be no need for compulsion," which he said could
create "at least the shadow of
doubt" about the program's constitutionality. "The practical and
wisest course" would be to try
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that she had to write two letters," said Mrs. Michaels.
Mrs. Michaels also said that
Rep. James G. 0'Hara(D-Mich.- )
had contacted the state Selective
Service director, Arthur Holmes.
There was no immediate indication what action would be taken
on the case.
Mrs. Michaels taught school
in nearby Utica before she fell

ill.

If Michaels is exempt from
the draft they would be able
to purchase the machine, Mrs.
Michaels said.
She. said, "I just haven't let
it bother me" whether the draft
board will exempt Tom.
"They just have to that's
all there is to it."

The new, the traditional, the business
of economic history in the 20th century,
are major
Dr. Thomas Brewer told an audience Wednesday.
These four divisions, whose
are economists with much trainlines "often overlap each other
ing in mathematics and little in
and other social sciences," re- history.
flect which contemporary proThey are "less interested in
blems in economic history pre- results than in methods" and
occupy our generation, he said. use "quantitative evidence to
(In the late 19th century, for verify qualitative hypotheses."
example, people were interested Because of these tendencies, Dr.
rather in what the discipline had Brewer said, whose courses in
to say about laissez fa ire, the American Economic History are
movement westward, and state new to UK this year, it should
control.)
be remembered that the new ecoThe "new economic history" nomics is a "tool of analysis
is written by "econometricians,"
not analysis."
Dr. Brewer said, who generally

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And some might have agreed last
night as they witnessed a meteor
shower from constellation Leo.
The shower, which occurs
about every 34 years, was comparable to some of the more
spectacular ones of the past as
observed in Europe, according to
Dr. Wasley Krogdahl, a UK

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Isbell Calls LSD 'Most Potent Drug'

By SANDRA HEWITT
Kernel Staff Writer
Scientific theories regarding
LSD its uses, how it works,
what it does were discussed by
a world authority on drugs at
Wednesday's faculty Forum on
Contemporary Issues.
Dr. Harris Isbell, professor of

Dr. Isbell described the effects
of the drug according to gradual
increases in dosage. At first, with
a small dosage, "there is a heightening of effects, an increase in
perception."

"For some people, a small

dose may produce an euphoric effect, a tremendously exhilarated
pharmacology and acting chair- feeling of gaining insight," he
man of the Department of Med- said. For others, the same dose
icine, described the drug as "the may cause the person to become
most potent dnigknown to man." frightened and bewildered.
"LSD causes marked spectac"As you keep increasing the
ular aberrations of the sensory dose, perception becomes disperception," he said, which are torted, parts of the body seem to
increased with the amount of float away, you perceive things
you have not noticed before,"
dosage.
What it does is difficult

to

describe, depending most importantly on the dosage and the person's sensitivity. "Reaction can
also be affected by the environmental suggestion of others who
have taken the drug," he said.
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he said.

Eventually the person begins
to take "trips" "where one has
the feeling that he leaves the
place where he is and actually
goes to another place."
Hallucinations begin as the
sortflof heightened visual perceptions to the form where "pictures or experiences the person
can name take place," he said.
Finally the person may experience synesthesia, "where one
sensory impulse may be transformed into another. For example
the person may claim to see
music being played," Dr. Isbell
commented.
"All the reactions occur in
clear consciousness," Dr. Isbell
said, and it is in this connection that experiments have been
made using LSD to similate psychotic conditions.
There are marked differences,

in LSD schizophrenia
Dr. Isbell said. However, when juana is about like drinking 3.2
and natural schizophrenia, one daily use was stopped, the tolbeer." LSD has been described
erance was lost.
being that in LSD reactions,
by addicts as "something like
Claims of the therapeutic
reefers but different, and they are
the hallucinations aremainly visual whereas in natural schizovalue of LSD have been that it probably right," he said.
Asked to comment on the
phrenia "they are emotional and benefits individuals, alcoholics
linked to a thinking defect." and others. "The scientific sigsocial significance of LSD, Dr.
Though the person retains innificance, however, is that it has
Isbell said he would leave the
been a tremendous catalyst," he judgments up to the national
sight, "the dangers arc all evident and all psychologically re- said.
magazines such as Life.
lated. LSD can lead to serious
The advent of LSD, has
"Social concern over the dnig
depression and suicide, even days started much theorizing as to how is and isn't warrented," he said.
after the experiences," he commental disease comes about and "LSD is a drug with jxitential
mented.
Dr. Isbell feels that "if we ever danger any number of suicides
reach the point where we under"Also suggestibility is heighthave resulted from taking it and
ened, there may be a paranoid stand the drug, we will be very a large dose may be fatal. On the
close to understanding the brain other hand, the public will
reaction or it may trigger a
and how it functions."
usually explode such a problem
episode," he said.
out of proportion to reality. I
The current neurophysiolo-gica-l
Asked to compare the psychotheory as to how LSD logical effects of marihuana and feel alcohol is an even greater
menace."
LSD, Dr. Isbell said that "mari
actually works is that "it imthe mechanisms in the nerpairs
vous system that filter out extraneous information and enable
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"Therefore, when a person
takes LSD, he is suddenly aware
of all these extraneous stimuli
which he has been conditioned
to ignore."
Dr. Isbell, who before coming
to UK was head of the Narcotics addiction research center of
the U.S. Public Health Service,
explained some of his own research with LSD.
In attempting to simulate
chronic schizophrenia, volunteers
were given LSD daily. "The subjects developed enormous tolerance to the effects of the drug,"
however,

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Wai.tf.h M. Chant,
Stfvk Kocco, Editorial Page Editor

Editor-in-Chi-

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Significant Addition
Today the Kernel uses its first
dispatches from The New York

Times News Service. This is a
significant event for this newspaper
as well as for the entire University community.
The Kernel becomes only the second student paper in the country
to offer this excellent service to its
readers. We consider this a prestige factor of no small import to the
paper, its staff members and the
University.
But more important, The New
York Times News Service enables
the Kernel in a small wayto
push back the confines of the campus and offer members of the University community greater and more
adequate information of the world

about them.

We think this particularly significant for those living andor working in a University environment for
here the questions of today and the

mean the Kernel will only be a
copy ofThe
daily, eight- - to
instead of the
New York Times
UK student newspaper. The answer
is an u nqualified "No." The articles provided by this news service
are only an additional dimension
of information which we believe
every intelligent citizen needs to be
aware of in order to understand
the world beyond the confines of
the campus. We will be exerting
even more energy than in the past
to adequately cover the campus
and the various events occurring on
it or elsewhere effecting it.
Contrary to what many persons
may believe, members of the cam-pu- a
community do not get all the
news they need from other sources
of information. Readership surveys
have demonstrated that a large
majority of students do not see any
newspaper other than the Kernel
12-pa- ge

with regularity.
Therefore, the staff members of
answers of tomorrow are sought.
this newspaper have always felt
information the weighty responsibility to furnish
Only through adequate
can these questions be put in their its readers with a balanced news
proper perspective. We believe the picture. This involves news from
Times service to be such a source both on and off the campus, news
of information.
of significance and lighter features,
editorial judgments, and letters
Additionally, the Kernel's operafrom the readers.
ting philosophy, adopted by the
Board of Student Publications in
No small amount of thanks for
1965, requires the news coverage of the addition of the New York Times
this newspaper to be evaluated in News Service goes to Barry Bingthe broadest context in terms of ham, editor and publisher of the
what is significant and not what Louisville Courier-Journa- l.
The
is, in a strict sense, local. No great
amount of intelligence is needed
to recognize that there is no real
"local" news in modern society.
Decisions in Washington, a battle in Southeast Asia, a cold wave
in Canada, all have their effect
on Kentuckians, the University and
those within the University
com-munit- v.

Many

have

already

asked

whether the Times service will

holds exclusive territorial rights to this service and
had Mr. Bingham not waived this
right, the Kernel could not have
obtained the service. His interest
and cooperation to student journalism in general and the Kernel
in particular are a significant comment as to how professional journalists can and do aid those presently preparing themselves for
journalistic careers.
Courier-Journ- al

Opportunity For Students
student committee has been
appointed to plan an Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference to be held in the spring
in conjunction with the High School
Leadership Conference. This is indeed a worthwhile project and one
we hope will have the support of
the entire University community.
The Student Centennial Committee initiated the research and
creativity contest, and this year's
contest will be modeled after last
year's successful effort.
Oswald Awards will be presented for outstanding undergraduate achievements in either the phyA

sical sciences, biological sciences,
social sciences, the humanities or
the fine arts. The winners will be
announced at a special conference
in April.

Any undergraduate can submit
a research project or paper in any
of the five fields. A student cannot
submit more than one entry in any
one field, but more than one person can work on a particular project. The projects will be judged
by a faculty committee.
This is a significant opportunity
for students wishing to undertake
a creative research project and receive recognition for it. We encourage students to begin thinking about a project now and to
submit abstracts of their plans this
semester to Dr. Robert L. White in
McVey Hall.The abstracts, however, are not mandatory. Although
the final project will not be due
until March 3, students should get
the jump on their competition by
starting now.

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An editorial in Wednesday's
Lexington Herald, "Hardly The
Time For Student Takeover," accuses students of trying to do
everything short of run for president of the University.
This is an editorial which, we
think, missed the point, a point
so obvious it could have been
easily discovered had the Herald
undertaken a bit more research.
It has been mentioned numerous times this semester in news
items and editorials in the Kernel
that students are attempting to
become a more integral part of
the University community by assuming voting positions on various
policy-makin- g
boards. An attempt
was made earlier this semester to
have a student given the full rights
and responsibilities of a seat on
the UK Board of Trustees.
Such a concept is not peculiar
to the University; at the University of Minnesota for example, three
students are being allowed to vote
on a panel that is selecting a new
president.
The Herald would have us believe this is an undemocratic plot
by student bodies of our nation
to usurp university administrations
so as to be in complete control.
This is nonsense. It reflects
the inept, backward thinking of
a newspaper that strives only to
maintain the status quo, whether
it be good or bad, and which has
but one guiding principle: never
rock the boat.
We have endorsed more control for students because we think
the University exists for students,
and that students do have some
concept of what they hope to gain
from higher education. A university
is supposedly training leaders for
future generations; what better way
to form leaders than to give them
experience in leadership?
The corporated structure of the
University, as the Kernel has previously stated, places the Board
of Trustees and the Administration officially on top, with the
student body on the bottom. This
leaves a tremendous gap between

student and administrator. Recently, more liberal and modern-thin- k

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ing educators have seen one solution to this problem as giving
students a true voice in the formation of University policy.

The Herald editorial states,
"University of Kentucky students
recently have been seeking more
'rights in various fields where
policies are fixed by administrative officers, by the faculty and
by the Board of Trustees. Some
of the proposals have been somewhat surprising, and some even
shocking."

It immediately becomes amusing that we have here the stereotype of the university constantly
shocking the citizenry of the small
town in which it is located. What
is shocking is the fact that the
Herald is so impregnated with this
mentality it only reflects it and
refuses to stimulate it.
Also mentioned in the Herald's
editorial was the fact that "some
students have suggested changes
in the methods of grading students
on their work, the obvious reason
being the hope that 'getting by'
might be easier than high scholarship insofar as some students are
concerned. One suggestion advanced recently is that all grades
be dropped and that 'failure or
'passing' be the only marks given."
How revolutionary of us! Many
educators have agreed for years
that grades are one of the major
drawbacks of a University education. The Herald is so imbued by
traditionalism, yet it failed to discover the original concept of a

university, i.e., students and professors in academic discourse for
the purpose of obtaining knowledge
and continuing the search for truth.
Today's university system is a
ratio rat race, very dissimilar to that original notion. The
issuance of pass-fagrades might
be a step in the right direction.
Certainly there would be some
students who would attempt to
take advantage of this, as the
Herald mentioned. But if they
would look into their crystal ball
a little more closely, they would
see numerous students "getting
by" under the present system as
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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tlitiruliiy, Nov.

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Nations Have Grave Doubts Over U.N.'s Future
By DREW

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diplomat recently expressed grave
doubt whether continued membership in
the United Nations was in the national
interest of his government or any "advanced, responsible government."
Comments such as this are increasing among delegates of countries that
have been members of the organization
since the 1910's and early 1950's. They
question the future effectiveness and responsibility of the organization, fearing
that unless procedures are changed to
conform with the United Nations' changed
character, the organization will swiftly
lose such influence as it now has.
Their basic complaint is that the
U.N. is being turned from a forum for
responsible discussion of world problems
into a shouting match between
and
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The rules of parliamentary order are flouted. Irrelevant material is injected into debates. Questionable manners increasingly rep