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THE KENTUCKY

Monday Afternoon, Oct. 16,

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Ex-Beret
Urges Draft
Cards Burnt

By HARVEY WASSERMAN

00110!th m.- Service

CHICAGO — More than .5“)
Univesity d Chicago students
heard speakes ranging from Yale
history professor Staughton Lynd
to ex-Green Beret Gary Rade
urge non-compliance with the
Selective Service System at the
campus' first learn-in on Viet-
nam, which stretched into the
nnorning hours Thursday night
and Friday rnnorning.

Sponsored by Chicago Area
Draft Resisters (CADRE) which
proudly announced that over If!)
young men are making use of its
draft counseling facilities each
week, the meeting began with a
report from Richard Flacks, a
Chicago sociology professor re-
cently returned from a meeting
with mennbers of the National
Liberation Front in Bratislava,
Yugoslavia.

”They wee not despairing,
frustrated, or feeling powerless
like we were," he said of the
NLF. “These Vietnamese are su-
premely confident of securing
their objectives. They believe
they defeated the Americans on
the ground, that the political
situation is quite good for them
and that they are successfully
protecting citizens in the north.
Further, they feel that the bomb—
ing has done them little dannge
while unifying and boosting the
rrnorale of the Vietnamese peo—
pie."

"The success of the NLF,"
he continued, ”creates the corn-
ditions for building a movement
against the anticommunism rac-
ist politics, and militarism under-
lying our politics." “

Flacks concluded by discus-
sing the idea that American men
could send their draft cards to
the NLF to demonstrate that we
are not at war with them. ”It
is a healthy experience to be rid

Continued on Page 6. 00L 3

 

1967

The South’s Outstanding College Daily

 

Using a Louisville Republican rally Saturday
to call for party unity in Kentucky Republican
ranks, California Gov. Ronald Reagan spoke be—
fore a crowd of nearly 10,0“) at Freedom Hall.

spring.

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

 

During a press conference after the gathering,
Gov. Reagan reemphasized his plan to be only
a favorite son in the Republican convention next

 

Lip Service To It Increases, But

Campus Freedom ‘May Be Waning’

By WALTER GRANT

WASHINGTON (CPS)—Al-
though lip service to academic
freedom is increasing in college
and university communities, aca-
demic freedom itself maybewan-
ing, according to a university
president.

Dr. W. Allen Wallis, presi-
dent of the University of Roches-
ter, says there are a variety of
academic freedoms which seem to
be diminishing, and as a result
universities are likely to have less
control than ever before over their
own coherence and priorities.

Dr. Wallis' remarks were
rrnade in a background paper pre—
sented Friday at the 50th annual
meeting of the American Council

Picnics take strange twists sometimes, but the gnarled driftwood

above, hung with junkyard paraphernalia, should take sonne kirnd

of prize. ~Originally it bepn as a picnic planned by several Uni-

versity art students at Booneshomugh Beach on the Kentucky
River.

on Education here. The paper
was entitled "Institutional Co
herence and Priorities.”

The freedom to present con-
troversial views on campus ex—
ists at few institutions of higher
learning, Dr. Wallis said.

Conservatives Denied Hearing?

“Stokley Carmichael can
speak without hindrance, but
George Wallace creates so grave
a threat of disorder as to pre
clude the possibility that he could
be listened to calmly and fairly.
Sen. Fulbright would be given
a respectful hearing on any
campus; few would dare invite
Secretary McNamara, since his
appearance would almost cer-
tainly precipitate tensions, prob—
ably protest, and possibly disor-
ders that would prevent free and
open discussion. Timothy Leary
enjoys freedom of speech on most
campuses, J. Edgar Hoover on
few: Nelson Rockefeller and Rob-
ert Kennedy on many, Richard
Nixon and Hubert Humphrey on
few," Dr. Wallis said.

Adminstrators cannot take
steps to preserve genuine freedom
of speech for unpopular speakers
“without incurring the charge of
suppressing free speech," he
added.

Dr. Wallis also said the free-
dom of institutions to set their
own priorities is being further
limited as faculty members be-
come more subject to outside in-
fluences.

Cites Federal Funding

In addition, he said, the free-
dom of universities has been
eroded as the importance of funds
from the government has grown.

"The constraints operate not
because these funds are of pub-
lic rather than private origin but
because the source of funds is
centralized," he said, addingthat
centralization begins about the
loss of institutional autonomy.
However, Dr. Wallis does not
advocate that universities with-
draw and convert themselves into

”ivory towers" in order to re-
sist these threats. Rather, hesays
institutions of higher learning
must define their central and uni-
que role and adhere tddhat role.

Panelists at the conference,
which ended Friday, discussed
the three major roles of the uni—
versity—teaching, research, and
public service. Most agreed that
institutions can give adequate
emphasis to all three roles with-
out undermining any one ofthem.

However, one panelist, John
Padberg, assistant to the dean of
the Graduate School at St. Louis
University, said institutions
should recognize that teaching
must come first. "Whenthe other
functions 'of the university be—
come equally important with
teaching, our priorities are get-
ting out of control," he said.

He also said if universities set
such priorities, they will have
"far less trouble in resistingthe
encroachments on free speech, on
faculty freedom, or on institut-
ional autonomy."

KERNEL

Vol. LIX, No. 35

Gov. Reagan
Asks Unity
In State GOP

Bv LEE BMER
Special To The Kernel

LOUISVILLE — California
Gov. Ronald Reagan used a Re
publican rally here Saturday
night to call for party unity in
Kentucky Republican ranks and
expound on party philosophy.

Speaking before a Freedom
Hall crowd of nearly 10,000, Gov-
enor Reagan said there was “an
inspiring example of unity in the
presence here and in the partici-
pation in tonight's dinner by
Judge Marlow Cook."

Judge Cook of Jefferson Coun-
ty was defeatedbyLouie B. Nunn
last spring in the Republicans
first bitte primary in years. The
party split has been hard to heal.

”Take your example from
them," Gov. Reagan said. ”Let
us have unity now, not out of
despair, but out of determina-
tion.

Asks Burying 0f Grudges

”Resolve now that no remem-
bered bitterness as a result of or-
ganizational strife, no remem-
bered grudge will keep you from
supporting a cause that brings
us togethe," he said.

Gov. Reagan, often mentioned
as a candidate for President in
1%8, blasted out at the actions
of the national Democratic ad-
ministration.

“In 1% the Democrats cann-
paigned with the slogan ‘All the
Way With LB],' but we didn't
know how far they meant."

He said the success of welfare
programs should be judged by
the number of persons taken off
of them each year. The number
continues to ineease, he said.

”The time has come to face
the fact that our welfare pro-
grams have been a colossal and
almost complete failure."

Has Protested ‘Big' Government

”1 have been protesting the
growth of government for a num-
ber of years," he said, ”express-
ing concern lest government grow
so complex as to become un—
manageable by the people.

"Recently I found how I had
been underestimating the case."

Gov. Reagan charged the lead-
ers of the Democratic party with
”repudiating the constitutional

Continued on Page 3, Col. 1

‘I’m Not A Candidate,’
Reagan Affirms Again

Special To The Kernel

LOUISVILLE—Califomia Gov. Ronald Reagan at a press con—
ference here Saturday reiterated his plan to be only a favorite
son in the Republican convention next spring.

"I'm not a candidate," he
said, ”I'm not undecided. I'm
not a candidate."

Gov. Reagan said it was too
early to express preferences for
the presidential nominee, and
that he was especially not in-
terested in being a candidate for
the vice presidency.

"I think there is greater op-
portunity in the position I now
hold," he said.

The governor was here for a
Republican rally for gubema-
torial candidate Louie B. Nunn.
He spoke at Freedom Hall at
8 pm.

War ‘Going Better”?
He said he had a feeling that

the war in Vietnam ”is going
rrnnch better than we are being
told," and that the people would
be told of this when it became
politically prosperous for the ad-
ministratiorn to do so.

He also said he didn't think
"forces had been unleashed fully
to do the job" in Vietnam.

He was unfavorable toward
a bombing pause because in the
past they have"only caused more
difficulties."

He also said hethought Mich‘
igan Gov. George Romney with
his ”brainwash charge' ' had done
the country a service "in point-
ing a finger at the credibility
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Ronald Stewart, director of
engineering for the Kentucky Au-
thority for Educational Televi-
sion, will speak to the members
of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers Thursday
at the Student Center.

0 O O

The Glst annual meeting of the
Kentucky Nurses’ Association
will be held Wednesday, Thurs-
day and Friday at the Kentucky
Hotel in Louisville.

Among the speakers at the
meeting will .be Dr. Jean Hay-
ter, Professor at the UK‘College
of Nursing, and Dr. Howard
Boast of the UK—Medical Center.

0 O 0

"Vietnam: What Next?", the
first in a series of student dis-
cussions, debates and speeches
concerning current issues, will
take place at 7:30 p.m. in room
2060f the Student Center. _

Sponsored by the UK Student
Forum, a panel will discuss pre-
sent U.S. policy in Vietnam, the
student's role in evaluating and
criticizing the present US. role
there, and future policy toward
wars similar to that in Vietnam.

Panelists include Larry Gure-
wich, chairman, junior political
science major; Gary Davis, fresh-

man chemistry major; Roger
Woock, junior philosophy major,
and Ronald Com, sophomore po-
litical science student.

0 O 0

Bill Strode, photographer for
the Louisville Courier-Joumal,
will be on campus Monday and
Tuesday taking pictures of activi-
ties of the Donovan Scholars to
accompany an article to be writ-
ten for Topic magazine, official
publication of the United States
information Agency. The photo-
graphs will include students of
advanced age in folk-dancing;
fencing, men’s glee club, ceram-
ics and Japanese classes.

I O O

Sixty speakers and panelists
will participate in the 19th annual
Kentucky Highway Conference
to be held Nov. 14-15 at the
University.

The conference is sponsored
.by the UK College of Engineer-
ing, University Extension, the
State Department of Highways
and the Kentucky Association

' of Highway Contractors.

Talks on technical and ad-
ministrative aspects of design,
constmction and maintenance of
public roads and streets will high-
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Drake, assistant state highway
engineer, and Prof. David K:
Blythe, chairman of the UK Ci-
vil Engineering Department.

Prof. Blythe expects “an un-
usually large attendance" this
year. The program features talks
on the latest developments in
transportation and management
planning; project safety, signing
and public relations; structures,
pavements; urban highways and
streets; county and rural roads
and rights-of-way.

Registration begins at 8:30
a.m. Nov. 14 in Memorial Hall.
Governor Edward T. Breathitt
will speak at the luncheon meet-
ing on the opening day.

0 O O

,The University Alumni Asso-
ciation will establish a library
in the Helen C. King Alumni
House featuring books written
by UK graduates and former stu-
dents, announces Ervin ]. Nut-
ter, president of the association.

The volumes are to be housed
near the association's Hall of
Distinguished Alumni and will
include fiction as well as non-
fiction.

Joe Creason, Louisville Gour-
ier-Joumal columnist, and Wil-
liam B. Ardery and Mr. Gilbert
W. Kingsbury, both ofLexington,
were named members of the
Alumni library committee and
will gather books for the collec-
tion.

UK alumni-authors include
Wendell Berry of the English De-

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partment, Dr. A. D. Kirwan,
historian and former dean of the
Graduate School: Mr. Forrest
Pogue, biographer of Gen. George
Marshall, Don Whitehead, Pulit-

zer Prize winner, and others.
0 O O

The UK Board of Trustees
will meet Tuesday at 2 p.m.
in the Board Room of the Ad-
ministration Building.

The agenda for the meeting
will include recommendations of
the president, budget revisions
for 1967-68, and the financing
capital constmction program. Al-
so on the agenda is the estab-
lishment of a Department of
Speech in the School of Com-

munications.
O O O

The UK Research Foundation
is paying a six percent interest
rate on the $1.5 million obliga-
tion on Maine Chance Farm,
officials said in clarifying an ear-
lier erroneously published report.

The transfer papers, setting
forth financial conditions, are on
file in the Fayette County clerk's
office.

The erroneous report, founda-
tion officials said, apparently
grew out of a paragraph within
those documents which called
for a higher rate of interest ”if
"if there was a default in meet-
ing payments." Officials also
pointed out that such penalty
payments are normal in many
realty transactions.

    

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concepts of individual freedom,
local autonomy and states rights.

“Today the leadership of the
honorable party of Jefl'erson and
Jackson has abandoned the dream
of individual freedom, has lost
its faith in the people’s ability
to determine their own identity,
believes only in centralized gov-
ernment and an all-powerful
state."

Cov. Reagan said that on the
other hand the Republican party
is “polarized around a belief in
constitutional limits on the power
of government, belief in the right
of the individual to freedom of
choice, a belief in the federal

 

  
  

\ TODAY AND
TOMORROW

 

 

 

Announcements for University groups
will he published twice—once the day
before the event and ones the after-
noon of the event. The deadline is it
IJII. the day prior to the first publi-
cation.

Today

John Breckinridge is scheduled to
speak at the Young Democrats meet-
ing at 'l p.m. in 245 Student Center.
He will talk about the education
plank of the Democratic Party Plat—
orm.

Tomorrow

Eta Sigma Phi. National Classical
Languages Honorary. will meet at 7
p.m. in the Student Center. Dr.
Bergson of the Classics Department
will be the guest speaker.

Coming Up

The University lndia Association
has arranged to make available two
weekly lndian newspapers. “Over-
seas Hindusthan Times" and the Cal-
cutta "Statesman." The papers are
available in 106 Student Center.

Students can pick up their Ken-
tuckians irem 8:30 am. to 4:30 p.m.
on the third floor of the Service
Building.

Dr. Guy Davenport is now accept-
ing applications for Rhodes Scholars.
Candidates must be a male citizen.
unmarried. between 18 and 24. and
either a Junior or Senior.

Any faculty member requesting a
copy of the 1967-68 student directory
should mail a request to the Student
Government office. 102 Student Cen-
ter. or call 2488.

The National Council of American-
Soviet Fr.endship has available speak-
ers from the USSR for forums. de—
bates. lectures. discussions. and ques—
tion and answer periods. Speakers
include Alexei Stepunin. first secre—
tary of the USSR Embassy in Wash-
ington. D.C., and Mrs. Clara Boyko.
attache of the USSR Embassy. For
further information. contact the Stu-
dent Division of the National Council
of American-Soviet Friendship, Suite
304. l55 Fifth Ave.. New York City.
or the USSR Embassy in Washington.

All students interested in intra—
murals should contact Joe White.
2774489. or come by the OCSA Office.
107 Student Center.

Below are the job interviews for
Oct. 16 and 17. Contact the Place»
ment Office for further information.

Oct. l6—Duriron Co.. lnc.—Mathe-
matics. Chemical. Mechanical. Metal-
lurgical Engineering.

Oct. l6—lndiana Farm Bureau Co—
operatives Assn.. Inc. —— Agriculture.
Agricultural Engineering.

Oct. iii—Kentucky Utilities Co.
Civil. Electrical Engineering.

Oct. iii—William S. Merrell Co. -
Botany. Zoology. Chemistry. Advertis-
ing. Business Administration. General

Business. Marketing. Merchandising.
Sales.

Oct. l&—A. O. Smith Corp.——A i-
cultural. Electrical. Mechanical n-
ginecring.

Oct. 16 —— Bell Telephone System
Companies.

Oct. ”—5. S. Kresge Co.—Business
Administration. Business Management.
Economics. General Business. Market-
ing, Merchandising. Retailing.

Oct. l7—Marathon Oil Co.—Market-
ing. Sales, Accounting, General Busi-
ness. Management. Secretarial Science.

Oct. 17—11. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Marketing.

Accounting.
Mechanical

——Chemistry.
Chemical.

Architecture.
Engineering

Oct. 17— oberts and Schaefer Co.—
Civil. Electrical, Mechanical. Mining
Engineering.

Oct. 17 —Joseph E. Seagram and
Sons—Chemistry, Accounting. Chem-
ical. Electrical. Mechanical Engineer—

ing.

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system of the soveriegn states
and not just 50 administrative
districts of the federal govern-
ment."

Gov. Reagan said the many
Republican victories last fall in-
dicate a “wind of changeis blow»
ing across our land."

He said the people are going
against the Democratic adminis-
tration and called on Kentuckians
to join in the movement.

“No political party can fulfill
its obligations on the national
level unless it has control of the
states and the state houses,"
he said.

Gov. Reagan was introduced
to the crowd by Kentucky Re-
publican Sen. John Sherman
Cooper.

Also present were the three
Kentucky Republican congress-
men, Rep. Cene Snyder, Rep. Tim
Lee Carter and Rep. William O.
Cowger.

Senator Thruston Morton, also
a Republican, is vacationing in
Europe.

Mr. Nunn’s running mates
also were on the speakers stage
as was Louisville mayor Kenneth
A. Schmied.

 

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everything from space research to electric tooth-
brushes. We call them product departments. Each

one is autonomous with its own management and

business objectives That’s why a job at General
Electric Offers the kind of immediate responsibil-
ity you might expect to find only in a small busi-
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demonstrate your initiative and individual (napa-
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will move ahead. As you do, you’ll find that you

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don’t necessarily have to spend a lifetime working
on the same job in the same place. We have opera-
tions all over the world. Chances are you’ll get to
try your hand at more than one of them. Our inter-
viewer will be on campus soon. If you’re wondering
whether it’s possible to find challenging work in big
business, please arrange to see him. He speaks for
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VOte In Tuesday Referendum

Question One—Student Ombudsman: Yes

Question Two—Kentuckian Smear: Void

Tuesday, students Will be able to participate directly in their gov-
ernment by voting on a two-question referendum.

Question one permits you to vote for: no ombudsman, a stafl om-
budsman, or a student ombudsman.

Question two permits you to sound off on the 1966-67 Kentuckian.

The referendum represents in its two questions both the sublime and
the ridiculous.

Sublimity in a democratic government occurs when the voters are
oflered the decision about a major program. Isn’t it time for America
to have a national referendum on Vietnam?

The Kernel believes there should be an ombudsman. He should also
be a student. The rationale of those who believe the ombudsman should
be an administrator appears on page five. Ifone applies the absurdity
of their rationale to other student endeavors, then the University should
hire Barry Bingham to edit and publish The Kernel; Everett Dirksen
to run Student Covemment; George P. Hunt to publish and edit The
Kentuckian; and Paul “Bear" Bryant to coach intramural football.

Those student government representatives who favor an adminis-
trator-ombudsman have been brainwashed into believing that admin-
istrators care about the students now on campus. Soon this naivete
will disappear, and these perfidious representatives will discover that
students are mere ciphers to administrators.

DID NOT PRESIDENT JOHN W. OSWALD SAY THAT A STU-
DENT SHOULD NOT BE ON THE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUS-
TEES?

At best, when administrators do concern themselves with students,
they see us onlyinebband flow,and bodies here today and gone tomor-
row.

Ask a professor whose extraVEcurricular judgement you respect, this
question: Does the University care about its faculty? You will not need
to ask him if the University cares about its students now on campus.

Ridiculous and suspect, are the motives of a student government
which submits a question to the student body, unanswerable by the,
vast majority of students.

Examine closely question two. It has as its operative premise that
you “have seen both the 1%6-67 Kentuckian and previous issues of The
Kentuckian.

Therefore:

)That overwhelming majority of the class of 1968 who did not buy
the 1966-67 oKentuckian, and the 1965-66 Kentuckian, and the 1964—65
Kentuckian, nust honestly write V-O-I-D across the face of question
two;

} That overwhelming majority of the class of 1969 who did not buy a
previous Kentuckian must honestly wrote V—O—I—D across the face of
question two; ‘

tThat overwhelming majority of the class of 1910 who did not buy a
previous Kentuckian must honestly write V-O-I-D across the face of
question two;

And none of the 6,000 new students on campus can honestly write
anything but V-O-I-D across the face of question two.

Every student should express his belief on the ombudsman question.
And all students not engaged in asmear campaign should write V—O—I-D
across the ugly face of question two.

Polls will be open all day in theCommerce Building and in the Stu-
dent Center. Polls will be open during lunch and supper in Blazer
Hall and at the Complex Cafeteria.

 

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Student GovemmentA Muchadumbre

By DAVID HOLWERK

The weekly meetings of the Univer-
sity's Student Covemment Assembly have
taken on a function previously reserved
for crowds at football games: The cast
of this year's edition of watch-Democra-
cy—At-Work seems firmly committed to a
course of loud clamor, only marginally
directed at any particular goal. At football
games this attitude makes no difl'erence,
for the moans or curses of the crowd are
unlikely to change the method or the
value of the actions of the football team;
but in the case of this years Assembly,
the continued furor is rapidly destroying
the goals of the most constructive Stu-
dent Covemment administration to have
taken office in a long time.

If, back in April, SC President Steve
Cook thought that he had indeed ”beaten
the machine" the truth is now painfully
obvious to him and his constituency.
Of the twenty-nine voting members of the
Assembly, nine line up with Cook, four-
teen will consistentlv vote against his
bills, and six representatives attend so
infrequently as to make their presence
meaningless.

The leader of the opposition in the
Assembly is Speaker Oliver Kash Curry.
Curry is the heir to the majority of the
power of the old Creek rmchine, and
is their nepotistic choice to mnfor the
Presidential post next April. His support
is varied, coming mainly from three fra-
ternities and the vocal support of Repre-
sentatives Alan Youan and Michael
Davidson.

Cook’s already few supporters, on the
other hand, seem to have been even
further discouraged by the fate of the
ombudsman plan. After the rejection of
the plan by the assembly, and the sub-
sequent decision to place it on a student
referendum, the interest and drive of
the pro-Cook faction seems to have been
exhausted. Representative Phil Patton,
a leader of Cook's supporters, commented,
“I'm sick of the whole mess." He did
not attend the last meeting.

With an assembly stacked against the
SC administration it is no wonder that
the most meaningful piece of legislation
passed to date is one calling for every
representative to spend one hour per
week in the Student Covemment office,
performing the function of the ombuds-
man. Characteristically, very few of the
representatives spend their self-appointed
hour.

The real pitfall of such apathy, how-
ever, lies not with the discouragement
of Cook's supporters but with the inabil-
ity of the antagonistic representatives
to instigate any meaningful legislation
on their own. They have the power to
muster a clear majority on every vote,
but obviously do not have the desire
or the capability to turn this advantage

into program of their own choosing.
And, as apathy breeds apathy, it is un-
likely that anything will come out of this
year's Assenbly.

If no meaningful legislation is passed
this year—and it looks more and more
doubtful that any will—then the blame
will belong to Speaker Oliver Kash Cur-
ry. Whether he will realize the political
advantage of initiating legislation himself
is impossible to say. But if, as Thomas
Mann said, "In our time the destiny
of man presents its meaning in political
terms," it is unpleasant for the carn-
rms' junior politicians to think of their
destinies in light of their political achieve-
ments.

Letter To The Editor
Ombudsman Needed

The student body, by means ofa ref-
erendum to be held on Tuesday, will
decide whether the University will be one
of the first universities in this country to
have an ombudsman.

In order to clarify certain misunder-
standings concerning the ombudsman i
feel it is appropriate to make somerex-
planation with regard to the roleand fimc—
tion of such an office.

First, let me emphasize that an om-
budsman is not another representative. His

function is not the same as that of a rep-
resentative.

The ombudsman will hear problems of
individual students, and will have the
power and the duty to investigate and to
solve these problems. He will be trained
so that he knows exactly where to go
and who to contact in order that these
individual problems are solved.

Whereas the function of the Student
Covemment representative is to handle
problems concerning the student body as
a whole, the ombudsman willconcentrate
on individual problems.

He will not be another Student Gov-
ernment "politician," but he will be a
constructive critic of Student Covemment.
He will not wait for problems to come to
him, he will go out and look for these
problems.

We need a student ombudsman, not a
staff ombudsrrlm. Our Student Covem-
ment has complete autonomy from the
University administration and we should
keep it this way.

It is my opinion that a student can
understand better the problems and con-
cerns of his fellow student, for he most
probably has had these same problems
at one time or another.

The need for a student ombudsman is
evident. It is up to the student body to
voice their approval.

 

Rafael Vallebona
Vice Pruidmt
Student Covanmcnt

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Soapbox: Two Debate Ombudsman

She Favors
Student Role

By PAT FOGARTY
Student Gov't. Representative

Do you feel like Alice inWon-
derland in your journey through
this awful confusion known as
college? Whai you have a prob-
lem, do the people that you need
to see for help become as elus-
ive as the notorious Chesire Cat,
and as dificult to comprehendas
the Caterpillar with his rather
pointed, derisive question of
“Who R U?" Do you ever feel
like your problem is insolvable
because it is unlike that of your
peers and therefore no ofiicial
policies have'been set up regard-
ing it? Do you have a complaint
or gripe and no sounding board?

Too often a large bureaucra-
tic organization like a state uni-
versity becomes depersonalized,
and the students are thought of
in terms of nine-digit numbers,
instead of as individuals. Poli-
cies are democratically forrnu-
lated to suit the majority, and
sometimes the “maior” minority,
but even in these ”fair" dic-
tates, there is a group that is us-
ually left without any group iden-
tification; they are caught in the
twilight zone of anonymity.

'Need For Action'

Certain people on this campus
have seen this problem evolv-
ing, and feel that there is a def-
inite need for substantive action.

Thus the idea of an ombuds-
man for this campus was forum-
lated from a policy used in sev-
eral places both nationally and in-
ternationally. An ombudsman is
an individual who receives and
investigates complaints and ques-
tions made by people, and
through this process helps the
people to help themselves by
pointing them in the right di-
rection for action.

What better person to fill the
job of ombudsman for students,
to deal with the problems of stu-
dents, than a fellow student?
Just as in any oflicc, the person
chosen to save as ombudsm