& THE KENTUCKY

Thursday Afternoon, August 31, 1967 a

The South’s Outstanding College Daily

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY; LEXINGTON

KERNEL

Vol. LIX, No. 4

 

Undergraduates

Insured 4 Years

Against Draft ’

By DARRELL CHRISTIAN
The pinch of the draft is off the undergraduate and on the grad-

uate student.

Col.Taylor L. Davidson, Ken-
tucky selective service director,
said Wednesday the new law
passed by Congress this summer
“should take a lot of worry off
the undergraduate student."

He now is guaranteed at least
four years of uninterrupted col-
lege, with deferments granted on
a year-to—year basis as the uni-
versity confirms his enrollment.

His deferment mayberenewed
each year until he earns his de-
gree, drops out of college or
reaches the age of 24—whichever
comes first.

Guarantees to graduate stu-
dents, however, are more restric-

ted Ia'sts Criteria

Col. Davidson listed three cri-
teria for graduate deferments:

D If a student is entering grad-
uate school this year and earned
his undergraduate degree last
year is granted a one—year de—
ferment regardless of his field of

study.

) If the student is entering his
second year of graduate study,
fe has two years from the time
he earned his undergraduate de-
gree to complete work on his
master's degree.

) If the student is pursuing a
doctoral or professional degree,
he is given five years from the
time he entered graduate school
to complete his study.

Next year, it will be even
harder for a graduate student to
get a deferment. The new law,
which became effective July 7,
specifies that students entering
graduate school will be deferred
only if their study is in the ”heal-
ing arts."

(lher Deferments Possible

The President may add other
fields of study to the list.

Col. Davidson said any stu~
dent entering college can get a
deferment, but he must request
it—either by letter to his local
board or by completing a sel-
ective service card at registra-
tion.

The deferments are for a full
academic year—.12 months—thus

protecting the student from sum-
mer induction.

"The old law placed empha-
sis on the student's ability to
go to college," Col. Davidson
said, adding that this was de-
termined by voluntary selective
service tests and class standings.
”But under the new law, there
is no emphasis on standing. It
is on time spent in college."

He explained that students
pursuing a four-year curriculum
must complete one-fourth of their
work toward a degree each year.
The same applies to a five-year
curriculum. ~

An undergraduate who loses

his deferment has. in effect. a
second chance to complete his

education free of immediate ser-
vice for Uncle Sam.
He may be granted a l-SC

deferment if he enrolls in col-
lege after being reclassified LA.

The new law also extends from
10 to 30 days the time a student
has to appeal his classification.

Peace Ticket?

 

 

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Kernel Photo by A. Robert Bogosian

Studying So Early?

Maybe, but perhaps Marky McDaniel. one of thousands of new

freshmen, is just trying to find out where she is. If she is con-

fused, she is not alone. Many bewildered students looking for di-

rection emerged on campus as the first day of fall classes came
and went.

 

Auctions “Kept Out,9
Judge Johnson Says

The Associated Press
Fayette County Judge Joe
Johnson, in a deposition filed
Wednesday in US. District

Antiwar Democrats
Debate Best Course

By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK
The Asseelated Press
WASHINGTON—The sizeable elements in the Democratic party
opposed to the Vietnam war are divided and uncertain about how
togive political expression to their view.

Whether they can unite on a
course of action is one ipter-
esting angle to watch in» the
developing 1968 political picture.

It is antiwar sentiment which
energizes the ”draft Kennedy"
effort.

This is of course not the sole
motivation. It embraces admirers

News Analysis

 

 

of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy,
(D-N.Y.), as a man and those

 

Women SharpShooters

The University women's Rifle Team has been named “Number
One Girls’ Collegiate Rifle Team" by the National Rifle Associa-
tion, an award based on the team's last season record. The UK
men's Rifle Team placed seventh in nationwide competition in a
separate category. From left, "are Nancy Redmond, Elizabethtown;
Loretta Haggard, Iexirigton; Babs Heinicke. Miami, Fla.,and Becky
Gardner. Ashland. A. fifth member of the team, Margaret Denham,
Lexington. Was absent when the photo was made.

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attracted by what he has said
about domestic matters.

But without the antiwar feel-
ing the draft Kennedy movement
would have wrecked long ago
on the rock of Sen. Kennedy's
repeated assertions that he sup-
ports President Johnson for re—
election.

As it is, Citizens for Kennedy,
with headquarters in New York,
claims some 60 chapters scat-
tered across the country. Dr.
Martin Shepard, the New York
co—chairman, says it is contin-
uing to grow.

‘New Politics’

Opposition to the war also
has fueled the organization of

-- the National Conference for New

Politics which convenes Friday
in Chicago. It embraces antiwar
and civil. rights groups. There
is talk "this gathering may lead
to the fielding d a national tick-
et of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. for president, and Dr. Ben-
jamin Spock for vice president.
Both are strongly critical of Pres-
ident Johnson's Vietnam policies.

However, Dr. Spock, a pedi-
atrician nationally known for his
writings on baby care, depre—
cated the likelihood of a national
ticket in a letter to a Washing-
ton aCQuaintance.

”If it should decide on a na—
tional ticket, which I think not
very likely, it would probably
be a standby ticket, pending the
selections of the Republican and

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Court, quoted Keeneland Assoc-
iation President Louis Haggin
H as saying he has been keeping
horse auction sales companies
out (i the Bluegrass.

The deposition was the first
to be filed in a $30 million suit
filed by Califor ‘a horseman Rex
C. Ellsworth a d Dr.
Pessin, a local veterinarian,
against the University of Ken-
tucky Research Foundation and
Keeneland Association.

The suit charges the two de-
fendants with trying to protect
the Breeders Sales Co., a thor-
oughbred auction sales business
operated by Keeneland. It claims
the University, which paid $2
million for Maine Chance Horse
Farm, was being used to keep
Ellsworth and Pessin, who had
announced plans for a similar
sales pavilion on the farm,.out

of Kentucky. _

The deposition quotes Fred
B. Wachs, general manager of
The Lexington Herald-Leader
Co., as telling Johnson during
a meeting in Wachs' office, that:

”Louie Haggin and I have
talked UK President John W.
Oswald into this thing(the Maine
Chance purchase) and you 'd bet-
ter stay out of it. Because Keene-
land gives all this money away
to charitable institutions, it can't
stand any competition. Whether
you know it or not, the Breed-
ers Sales Company carries the
race track. "

 

Arnold .

‘T’ Party
Announces

Chairmen

More Attacks Seen

Over Maine Chance

By BILL GRANT

Republican Marlow Cook and
Democrat Andrew J. Jolly
Wednesday accepted positions as
cochairrnen of the Kentucky Tax-
payers Party.

Mr. Cook said the positions
had been offered them by F ay-
ette County Judge Joe Johnson.

The Kentucky ”T" Party, as
it is being called, appeared only
recently—as the sponsor of radio
and television commercials de-
nouncing the University's pur-
chase of Maine Chance Farm.

Judge Johnson has been the
strongest critic of the University's
purchase of the farm, but Wednes-
day was the first sign of an open
connection between the judge
and the party.

Mr. Cook, county judge of
Jefferson County, said that the
Maine Chance issue is not the
only one the party will con-
sider. ”But it is the first," he
admitted.

(Xher Issues Cited

He said that the high costs
d engineering a mile of highway
in Kentucky and of building
lodges at state parks would also
be considered by the party.

“Our aim is to protect the tax-
payers of Kentucky," Mr. Cook
said, "and we will look out for
their interests. "

Mr. Cook was narrowly de-
feated in his bid for the Repub-
lican nomination for governor
this spring. Judge Johnson was
his campaigi chairman.

Mr. Jolly, county judge of
Campbell County, also is well
known in state politics. He made
an unsuccessful bid for the Dem—
ocratic nomination for lieutenant
governor in the spring, running
on a platform opposing the
Breathitt administration.

The formation of a party and
the naming of two politically ac-
tive men to head it seem certain
to prolong the Maine Chance
controversy and could propel it
into the thick of the governor's
race this fall.

Breathitt Steers Clear

The Breathitt administration
has steered clear of the Maine
Chance issue but it is doubtful
the governor, who is by law
chairman of the Board of
Trustees, would criticize the Uni-
versity at this point even if he
thought the criticism justified.

Mr. Breathitt has said that
he would~ try to help Rex C.
Ellsworth, the California horse-
man who was outbid by the Uni-
versity, find suitable property
in Kentucky for his enterprises.

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School’s Out Labor Day, ‘

But Services To Continue

Although classes will not meet
Labor Day (Monday), other fun—
ctions of the University will be
operating.

Blazer and Complex cafeterias
will serve as usual, but the Dono-
van Hall and Student Center
cafeterias will be closed. The
Student Center Crille will be
open from 10 a.m.‘to 10 p.m.

K—Lair and Complex grills will
open at 4 pm

No special activities are sched-
uled in the Student Center but
the building will be open from
7:30 am. to 10:30 p.m.

The library will open at 8
am. and close at 6 p.m. The
University Book Store, Kennedy's
and Wallace's all will be closed
Monday.

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