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In residence units across the campus, as here on Blanding Tower's 23rd
floor, students stared at the "tube" for hours as network broadcasters
reported the election returns. They waited and waited and waited and . . .
and so did Nixon and Humphrey. Still nothing was decided and the hours
Stolen from Study were wasted.
Kernel Photo By Dave Herman

Election
Zombies

ReWASHINGTON (AP)
Richard M. Nixon
publican
scrambled to victory in California early today, cracking a barrier that put him on the verge of
election as the 37th President of
the United States.
electorThe Colden State's
al votes, combined with the commanding lead Nixon was building
up in Ohio, pushed the" Republican past Democrat Hubert II .
Humphrey as they carried their
photo finish race for the White
House hours past poll closing.
The California victory pushed
Nixon's electoral vote total to
235 with 270 required for victory. Ohio would give the Republican another 26.
Still, the dramatic battle to
succeed Lyndon B. Johnson was
not settled. Although Nixon held
a lead in Illinois, Democrats
were not conceding its 26 electoral votes or Ohio's 26.
Nixon's surge to an insurmountable lead in California lent
support to a claim by Herbert
C. Klein, his press chief, that
the former vice president would
carry the state by 300,000 votes.
The count in the state at 5:30
a.m. EST gave Nixon 723,178,
Humphrey 703,343.

In Drug Case

Appeals Board Urges Student Reinstatement
By LARRY DALE KEELING

Assistant Managing Editor
Eric Friedlander, one of two
students suspended from the University after being arrested on
narcotics violations, will be reinstated, according to Dr. Stuart
Forth, acting vice president for
student affairs.
Dr. Forth said the University
Appeals Board had recommended
that the suspension be lifted and
that the recommendation will be
followed.
"This action comes under the
student code, as did the sus

pension," Dr. Forth continued.
"Your (the Kernel's) editorial to

the contrary, these decisions are
not made by one man. They are
made
following consultation
with the Appeals Board."

Friedlander had appealed to
the Appeals Board after he was
suspended last week.
Dr. Forth said Allen Holmgren, the other suspended student, had appealed his case also.
His appeal will be heard by the
Appeals Board this week, Dr.
Forth said.

Dean of Students Jack Hall
William Shannon Dillon, a
Transylvania student held over said that the University had reto the grand jury for illegal sale ceived an inquiry from Frankfort
of narcotics, has been suspended Monday night asking if there was
a student at the University by
indefinitely from Transylvania.
There were reports Tuesday that name. He said there was
that another UK student had not a student who spelled his
been arrested in Shelby County name that way at the University.
for narcotics violations.
He added that they were checkState Police said that a James ing with Frankfort again on the
E. Deaton, who claimed to be matter.
a UK student, was arrested for
The student directory lists a
possession of marijuana. They
said they had not received ver- James Deaton but with a difification that he was a student ferent middle initial from that
here.
given by state police.

The Los Angeles Times predicted a California victory for
Nixon.
Humphrey went to bed early
in the morning without making
any specific predictions. He said
the election count was "adonny-broo- k
and anything can happen."
He said he is "optimistic."
Klein said canvasses of party
leaders indicate Nixon would carry Illinois by up to 250,000 votes.
He said Ohio is "clearly going
to Nixon" but gave no estimates
on the possible margin.
In incomplete tabulations of
Tuesday's record balloting, Nixon
had won in 26 states with 191
electoral votes and Humphrey
in 11 with 151 electoral votes.
The popular balloting looked
this way: Nixon 26,081,338, or
43 percent,
and Humphrey
25,775,631 or 43 percent.
Third party Candidate George
C. Wallace of Alabama collected
a minimum of 39 electoral votes
exactly the number chalked up
in 1948 by then Gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina when
President Harry S. Truman won
a clear electoral majority.
The close battle between
Nixon and Humphrey increased
chances that Wallace's electors
might get the opportunity to make
a winner of either the Republican or the Democrat.
A stalemate in the Electoral
College would send the election
to the House, where Democrats
retained numerical control although Republicans inched up
their strength.
In the Senate, which would
pick a vice president, Republicans tallied gains, but the Democrats were left with clear numerical control.

In the governors contests, that
national imhave little over-a- ll
pact but offer the winning party
grass roots power, Republicans
increased their present majority
of 26.

Nov. 5th: WBKY Reports, Campus Watches

The political center of the campus
election night was on the third floor of
McVey Hall in the studios of WBKY where
political scientists and student broadcast-e- n
joined forces to cover Election '68.
WBKY's election prediction team, projecting Kentucky's vote from the returns
of five key counties, Kenton, Boyd, Fleming, Madison and Mercer, came within
one percent of United Press International's
figures with 94 percent of the precincts
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Fifteen students, most of whom were
radio-Tmajors, although a few
were from Eastern Kentucky State University, telephoned in precinct totals from
the five key counties.
Although the students had trouble
getting their calls through to the campus
station and a calculator broke down
toward the end of the tabulations, the
three men heading the prediction team,
Dr. Fred Vetter and Michael Baer, political science professors, and Bruce
lio wen, political science graduate student, were pleased with the results of
effort.
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"The cost of doing this commercially
would probably have been between $20,000
and $35,000," Bowen said, adding that
they could have used more legmen in the
precincts and more computer consoles.
Between 6 and 9:30 p.m., when the
final Kentucky projection was made, students beat a track between the telephones
located in one
and the computer hook-uof the WBKY offices. Another group of
students watched two televisions, one
tuned in to NBC, the other to CBS,
gathering data on the presidential race
in other states.
Political Scientist Analyzes Vote
Still another group kept a vigil at
the UPI machine, relaying the latest
counts to Pete Matthews of the University Relations staff and Dr. Malcolm
Jewell of the Political Science Department, who were manning the election
analysis desk.
Don Wheeler, network producer, Bill
Peters, operations manager and his assistant, Clay Nixon, kept up the lines of
communication between the 30 or 35
people working on the election coverage,
while taking turns at the microphone
of central control.
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It was a
atmosphere that
pervaded the WBKY studios where professors and students, munching sandwiches and drinking coffee, invariably
turned to the TV screen as new results
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lock continued.
Crowd At Student Center
Elsewhere on the- - campus about 60
students crowded into the second floor
Student Center TV lounge for several
hours to watch the voting returns. Few
were conversing or studying; most were
intently glued to the TV. Elsewhere in
the Student Center, students heard results
over the radio intercom, which played all
evening.
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In the north campus dorms,
people watched the TV coverage in each
residence hall. Several people stuffed
chicken wire for Homecoming displays
as they watched and listened. In fact,
some seemed more interested in stuffing
the wire than in watching the returns.
Walking down the alley between Patterson and Keeneland Halls, election news
could be heard blaring from radios in the
dormitory rooms along the way.
Contrasting trie election news over
the intercom radio in the Student Center,
an announcement over the Intercom in
Holmes Hall asked, "Does anyone know
who's making the outfit for Cretel in the
homecoming display?"
In the south campus, the six to twelve
people watching TV's in the houses along
fraternity row generally said they favored
Nixon in the presidential race. Some
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watched the returns while playing bridge
with their dates.
At the Tau Kappa Epsilon house,
two boys kept tabs on the election returns by writing down the newscasters'
minute by minute report. The chicken-wir- e
stuffing went on in the south campus, too.

Students Wander In And Out
In the TV lounge of the Complex
Commons, students wandered in, watched
a few minutes and wandered out again.
Few stayed for any length of time.
As the long night of counting went on,
the students talked, studied, ate, slept
and one couple even necked in the comer.
It is interesting to note that the Pat
Paulsen special of a week ago drew
more people to the lounge than the election coverage. The students who did
watch the coverage did not appear to
have a real strong interest in the outcome. The biggest reaction of the night
was the laughter when a CBS reporter
interviewed Wallace supporters at his
headquarters in Montgomery, Ala.
The night ground on and on. Nixon

led; then Humphrey inched ahead. The
few faithful waited and waited, and in

the end hud to leave. Still there was
no decision.

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THE KENTUCKY RERNtlVWcilncsday, Nov.

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TODAY and TOMORROW

Pick up applications now in Room
of the Student Center for the
fccumenicai Seminar to
be held in Chicago, November
Dcad.ine date for applications in Monday, Nov., 11.
The University Art Gallery would
like
Information
about paintings,
decgraphics, scuipture, or unusual memorative arts owned by faculty
bers that might be available for loan
for a Collector's Show which will feature works from private collections in
this area for the spring exhibition,
March 9 to April 6. Te.ephone University ext. 2597.
Advance registration for Spring Semester, 1969, will be Monday through
persons whose last
Fr.day for those M-name begins With
All current. y
enrolled students should
The Kegisirar will then notify students at their home address by Jan204

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uary 3 whether their advance registration is complete or incomplete.
Members of Alpha Epsilon Delta,
and
honorary,
in cooperation with Dr. Pisacano, will
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be advising
and
students in Room 8 of Bradley Hall
from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day
dur.ng
Recent paintings of Suzuki will be
exhibited from October 13 to November 10 in the Art Gal.ery of the Fine
Arts Building. The gallery Is open
Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to
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p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday
from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The Student Center Art Gallery will
have an exhibit, the Mid-StaSculpture Invitational Show, from October
27 to November 9.
Anne Frye's sculpture will be on
exh.bit in Pence Gallery of the School
of Architecture until November 12.
Applications for the Student Information Team are available in the
Student Government Office in Room
102 of the Student Center. They must
be returned by November 15.
Venustiano Olguin of Delano, Calif.,
will speak on the California Grape
Strike at 7:30 p.m. in the Student
Center Theatre. Everyone is invited.
for the Little KenApplications
Comm'ttee can be picked
tucky Derby 203
of the Student Center
up in Room
until November 31.
"Goethe's Personality" will be the
subject of a talk by Dr. Heinrich
Meyer at 7:30 p.m. in Room 220 of b
9
the Commerce Building.
Dr. N. Rashevsky of the University
of Michigan will give a seminar entitled "A Unified Mathematical Approach to Biological and Sociological
Phenomena" Nov. 6 at 4 p.m. In
Room CP153, Chemistry-Physic- s
Bldg.
Nathaniel Patch will present a piano
recital at 8:15 p.m. In the UK Agricultural Science Auditorium. The recital
is part of the University of Kentucky's
Facu.ty Recital Series and is open to

vations may be made by sending a
check for $2.00 per ticket to the
Alumni House or by telephoning Extension 2153.
Lou Rawls will be in concert at
8:00 p.m. in Memorial Coliseum on
Friday. Tickets are $2.00 in advance
and $2.50 at the door.
"Night of the Generals" will be
shown In the Student Center Theatre
on Friday and Saturday at 6:30 and
9:13 p.m., and on Sunday at 3:00 p.m.
Admission Is 50 cents.
"The Curse on the Marquis de
Sade" will be the topic of Dr. Georges
May of Ya'e University Friday at 8:30
p.m. In Room 245 of the Student
Center. The lecture will be open to
th pub'ic and free of charge.
The deadline for submitting applications to the fifth annual coripeti-tio- n
under the Undergraduate Research and Creativity Program is Friday, Nov. 22. Interested Students
should stop by Room 301 of the Administration Building or call extension 2266.
Dr. Wa'ter Lawrence Jr. will speak
on "So't Part Sarcomas" at S p.m.
of
Friday In Room is 3 first the Medthe
ical Center. This
program
Cancer Teaching Lecin this reason's
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the public without charge.
There will be a reception sponsored
by the Student Center Board at which
students may meet the Homecoming
candidates from 1 to 3 p.m. in Room
214 of the Student Center.

FOR ADULTS!

FIRST RUN!

The fa'l ejection of members to
A!pha of Kentucky, Phi Bea Kappa,
will be he!d at 4 rt m. Thursday in
Room 183 of the Chemistry-Physic- s
Phi Beta
Bu'ldmg. All members of A
quorum
Kapna ar" urged to attend.
will be ncssary.
There will be a Cwens meeting
Thursday at 7 p.m. in Room 111 of
the ctudent Center.

Coming Up
Faculty, staff, students and the general public are Invited to attend the
Brunch from
annual Homecoming
11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturday in
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Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, which lost its chapter house this school
year and for a time appeared about to go inactive, has rejuvenated
its program and will have another house by Fall, 19G9.
The chapter faced serious dif
of the brothers, and active meetficulties when the Sigma Nu fraternity moved back into its house ings are held in the Student Cenon Rose Lane. The Zebes had ter. Meanwhile, the actives conoccupied the house since Sigma ducted an infonnal rush and
Nu lost its charter, but the chap- pledged five men on Wednesday.
Next semester they will parter returned to campus last year
and moved back into the house ticipate in formal rush, operating
out of Koinonia House. The Sigthis Fall.
The action caught the Zebes ma Nu's operated a successful
"After we found out rush program last year from the
we were out," MarcSotkin, chap- same place, when it was known
ter historian says, "our basic as Nexus. Sotkin says the chapter
problem was a breakdown in won't be affected greatly by gradcommunications with the Trust- uation this year.
The house for next Fall was
ees.
"We didn't get another house, secured through the help of field
and the brothers scattered to secretaries from the national orapartments." After a period of ganization. Negotiations still unthe derway prevent identifying the
doubt and
actives decided to continue as a location.
Zeta Beta Tau was the first
fraternity and maintained participation in Creek sports and national fraternity to eliminate
all religious restrictions on memother activities.
The 24 actives hold chapter bership. About two thirds cf the
parties in a house rented by four chapter here is Jewish.

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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, Nov. 0,1968- -3

Joe Creason Reminisces
On 'Incredible Kentucky'
By PAT HOLCOMBE

credible Kentucky,"

he stated.

"Incredible Kentucky," the
Creason cited examples of
land of contradictions, was the unique place names,
pronunciasubject of a talk Riven by Joe tion of proper names, superstiCreason Tuesday night. Creason, tions, and speech habits as his

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nist, addressed about 50 persons
as part of the Student Center
Board's Personality Series.

Creason began, "My subject
will be Kentucky and
Every year since 1948
I've been in each Kentucky county at least once each year. I'm
not an historian. If anything, I'm
an observer.
"I'm sure there are many
things about Kentucky that are
unique. I want to talk about in
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reasons for calling Kentucky an
"incredible" state.
"This is perhaps the most
regional state in the nation. The
people themselves, as the land
they live on, are a contradiction,"
Creason said.
Nation's Shoe
As background to understanding Kentucky, Creason discussed
the history of the state. "Kentucky was the shoe this nation
wore in moving West," he said.
Creason pointed out four areas
of Kentucky which were settled
as pioneers moved West.
He said that many people who
came through the mountains
chose to remain there. They retained their heritage, their way
of life, their languages, and many
of their folk legends and myths.
The second area settled, according to Creason, was the Blue-gras- s
region. Creason stated as
the reason for this, "Daniel Boone
was the first great real estate
salesman in the country."
Water Croup Came
Then came the settlers which
Creason termed the "water
group." He pointed out that this
group included traders and businessmen and soon developed industrial centers along the rivers
bordering Kentucky.
Finally, Creason spoke of the
overland group which settled in
the westernmost tip of the state.
The remainder of Creason's
talk consisted of giving examples
of contradictions found in Ken

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tucky. "In many ways we seem
to contradict ourselves. The different terrains in the state helps
determine this," he asserted.
Good Future
Following his talk, Creason
answered questions from the audience. Asked about the future
of Eastern Kentucky, he gave
his "own home-bake- d
conclusion." "I think it has a good
future. The population is slowly
falling to a level where it can
support itself. There are good
roads, dammed streams, and the
people are willing to work. This
'won't work claim
is hog wash!"
Creason responded to the
question of why we have so many
dry counties as another of the
true contradictions in Kentucky.
"The state was settled by rather
Puritanical people, and is found
in the Bible Belt."
However, he concluded the
evening with, "An awful lot of
people vote dry but drink wet."

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* The Negotiations: Whose War? Whose Lives?
Just whose war is this we've
been fighting in a series of flooded
fields and defoliated mountains in
Southeast Asia? If it isn't our war,
who have we been helping? And, if
we've been helping someone, how
can we end the war without their
consent? These are some of the
questions raised by the apparent
willingness of the United States to
negotiate with the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation

Front without the presence of South
Vietnam at the table.
If, as this country has been
maintaining all along, we are in
South Vietnam only to help out
the South Vietnamese on the basis
of our treaty commitments, then
how can we possibly negotiate without our allies? The answer to this,
as explained by the State Department, is that the United States and
North Vietnam can negotiate on the

basis of each having troops on foreign soil.
Well and good, of course, but
to give real credibility to this assertion, the troops of Australia,
South Korea, New Zealand, and
other Southeast Asia Treaty Organization members would have to
be represented at the conference
table as they are on the casualty
lists. The fact that only the United
States, the NLF and North Vietnam

are negotiating throws the whole
problem of the war and this nation's involvement in it into new
perspective.
If this nation can negotiate without any of its allies, then clearly
the effort in South Vietnam has
not been merely as an aid to the
struggling governments of that nation. This is our war, in numbers
of men given, in amount of money
spent, in planning and in execution.
The North Vietnamese have long
understood that it is our war, and
the people of this nation have understood tacitly that it was our
war that was taking their sons,
but it is only now that the Government has willingly shown whose
war it is.
Understanding that it is our
war, it is important to further
understand that our willingness to
negotiate without the South Vietnamese is clear support for the
frequent charge that the Saigon
government has little legitimacy,
regardless of the elections which
installed it into office. If we can
negotiate over the protests of that
government, clearly that government has less power over the fate
of its people than does the government of the United States.
We are fighting, then, our war,
in a land governed by what may
be our government. The whole land,
in fact, may be our land. This is
what the negotiations tell us, and
what they tell us we don't like.
Our war, our government, our land;
these are not in Southeast Asia.
They are here at home, and that is
where our brothers and friends and
countrymen should be as well.

'Kernel Soapbox: Krogdahl Replies'
By W. S. KROGDAHL

Professor of Astronomj
Professor Guttman recently mounted
the Soapbox to chicle me for suggesting
that Communists may have had any influence upon the course of events which
led to the use of atom bombs against
Japan. Mr. Cuttman concludes by stating
tli at "to form opinions on any matter
first obtaining the facts is
. . . without
intolerable." With this last point I can
agree. Therefore, let us consider some of
the facts not mentioned by Mr. Cuttman.
To begin, a war between Japan and the
United States was one of the cardinal
aims of Soviet Policy. More than six years
before Pearl Harbor, our ambassador to
the Soviet Union, Mr. William C Bullitt,
dispatched these prophetic words to Secretary of State Hull: "It is. . . the heartiest
hope of the Soviet Government that the
United States will become involved in war
with Japan.
to think of the Soviet
Union as a possible ally of the United
States in case of war with Japan is to
allow the wish to be father to the thought.
The Soviet Union would certainly attempt
to avoid becoming an ally until Japan
had been thoroughly defeated and would
then merely use the opportunity to acquire
Manchuria and Sovietize China."
Consider also the testimony of Benjamin Citlow, onetime Ceneral Secretary
of the Communist Party USA and lonor-ar- y
member of the Moscow Soviet: "Stalin
hopes through the activities of the American Communist Party, to create a public
opinion in the United States that would
favor a war, presumably in the defense
of democracy against the encroachment
of Fascism, but actually against Japan.
Stalin is perfectly willing to let Americans
die in defense of the Soviet Union even
if they are not members of the Communist
Party." A great volume of additional
evidence establishes beyond reasonable
doubt that the Communists desired an
e
American-Japanesconflict to facilitate
the removal of Japanese power in the

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Onent and the communization of China.

a flimsy excuse for not lifting a finger
Given these Communist goals, one may for peace, and in a country which sixteen
well ask whether they were achieved years later elected a Roman Gatholic
as president! This, mind you, was the
passively by some inexorable unfolding
of history or whether history was shaped same State Department which, less than
by the energy and purposes of the agents three years later, was to be reprimanded
of Communism. A generally satisfactory
by a Senate appropriations subcommittee
answer to such a question would require in these words: "It is evident that there
an extended and honest review of diis a deliberate, calculated program being
plomatic and military history. Limited carried out not only to protect Communist
as I am by space, I can only urge upon personnel in high places but to reduce
Mr. Cuttman and his friends that they
security and intelligence protection to a
consult such histories at length. I believe mullity. On file in the department is a
that any student of the matter will be copy of preliminary report of the FBI
impelled to subscribe to the assessment on Soviet espionage activities in the
made by Ralph de Toledano that "If United States which involves a large
ever a handful of men, working singly number of State Dqiartment employees,
or in league, motivated by the Devil some in high official positions."
or by the mixed purposes of a tarnished
The Japanese attempted again, before
liberalism, changed the course of liistory, the Potsdam conference, to
negotiate
tliis was the time. The forces and the
The Soviet government, however,
which led to the Pacific war peace.
passions
refused even to inform the United States
were vast and impelling. But at the of
Japan's efforts to make contact through
moment of crisis, when the balance could
with whom Japan was then still
have swung toward peace, this handful Russia,
at peace. As Professor Anthony Kubek
of men tipped the scales for war. In
says, "We know today that Stalin played
Japan, Richard Sorge and Ozaki Hozumi a Machiavellian game. To Britain and
lent their weight. In China, there was
America, at Potsdam he appeared as a
Owen Lattimore. In the United States, defender of "unconditional
surrender,"
Lauchlin Currie, Edward C. but in
there were
reality he was deliberately foreCarter, and Harry Dexter White." Sorge, stalling any mediation between
Japan
Ozaki, and White were Soviet Agents. and the United States."
Lattimore and Currie were identified unNone of this