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Schools And State Seek Better Services

ROUCH RIVER STATE PARK (AP) Academic and
state governmental officials agreed yesterday, after a
weekend "brainstorming" gathering at this quiet state
park, that more such encounters would be beneficial.
Nearly CO professors and administrations of private
and public colleges in the western half of the state met
with about 30 top state officials at the invitation of
Cov. Louie B. Nunn in an effort to improve state
services. A similar session with personnel from colleges
in the eastern half of the state will be held next month
at Cumberland Falls.
Nunn told the educators that Kentucky state government at this unique session was turning "earnestly and
openly to its colleges for substantive ideas on new pro"
grams and approaches to
"Kentuckians, through public and private sources,"
Nunn asserted, "channel an enormous amount of revenue
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for higher education, and certainly an educated citizenry
is well worth this investment."
"Could De Getting More"
"Still it seems to me that we could be getting more
for our money."

Nunn declared that still more important then having
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educators Join state government
or
would be to have the colleges become independent
"think tanks" to relay current innovative thinking to
state government.
"The goal of this administration, and one of the primary purposes we are here today," he asserted, "is to
tx.gin the creation of an environment in which any
professor or college administrator will feel encouraged
to come directly to appropriate public agencies with
ideas for the improvement of our Commonwealth."
The format of the conference was to divide into five
full-tim-

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subpanels to explore different areas of state government.
Less Academic Orientation
One of the recommendations offered at a general
session Sunday was that college and university personnel
should get a less academic orientation by working in
or with state government.
Mutual distrust, lack of respect and misunderstanding between academic circles and state government
officials was suggested as a factor reducing the effectiveness of both.
Finance Commissioner Albert Christen said at the
conclusion of Sunday's session that he was disappointed
that the academic community did not know more about
state government than was displayed at the two-dasession. He suggested that new courses of study were
needed to inform students of needs of their government.
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Monday Evening, April 21, 19G9

Vol. LX, No. 135

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Committee Tells

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'Elections Valid'
By LARRY DALE KEELING

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Robert Duncan and Barbra Ries last night presented the SG
Elections Committee with "some" of their reasons for contesting
the April 9 election, and early this morning the committee released
statement rejecting the claims.
a three-paThe seven-pag- e
report issued
Duncan and Miss Ries listed
by the elections committee and
signed by its three members will seven points on which their ap"be serittothe Judicial Board,
peal will be partially based:
Not enough ballots at .the
which is to consider Duncan's
and Miss Ries's complaints Tues-v
Complex.
The Donovan Hall Cafeteria
lack of ballots, a change of
polling policies, and an unclear polling place being moved from
policy concerning the necessity inside the cafeteria to outside
of activity cards were some of the cafeteria.
No breakdown of voting by
Duncan's and Miss Ries's
individual polling places.
An unclear policy concerning
the necessity of having an activity card before being able to
vote.
Poll workers who had no
of two students arrested in Octoidea of what the election rules
ber of 1968, was denied probawere.
sention Friday of his two-yeViolations of the rule protence for possession of marijuana
hibiting soliciting votes within
and was ordered to begin immed50 feet of the polling places.
iately his term in the state peniUnused ballots not being actentiary in La Grange.
counted for.
Fayette Circuit Court CrimIn the committee report, says
inal Judge N. Mitchell Meade committee member Scott Richrefused Holmgren's probation
mond, "We go into the history
and refused to allow the UK of SG elections and state that,
senior to complete this current according to history. nd past
semester of work at school.
interpretations, the presidential,
and representaMeade said he would
Judge
have allowed Holmgren to finish tive elections are different electhe term if he had been due tions.
"We therefore consider the
to graduate in May. However,
Holmgren was not scheduled to spring elections three different
elections held on the same day.
complete his studies until
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Barbra Ries, left, listens while Bob Duncan presents some of their
allegations of election irregularities to elections committee members
Debbie Clarke and Scott Richmond, right. Last night the committee
released a statement on its findings for the Judicial Board, which will
hear the charges Tuesday. (Sec story at right.)
Kernel Photo by Dick Ware

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Appeals Ruling On Suspensions Is Due Today
By JOE HINDS
Kernel Staff Writer
Five suspended UK students
arrested by Lexington police a
week ago in drug raids appeared
with their attorneys Friday to
appeal their cases before the University Appeals Board.
Joe Burch, vice president of
Student Affairs at the University,
said, "All the students asked to

be reinstated and then the Board Board.
asked them what they would do
Burch said, "All five classes
if they were reinstated."
were heard Friday and since the
The students were temporarily appeals lasted so long, they desuspended last Monday under cided to break up the meeting
provisions of the Student Code with no decision. The Board will
which state that the temporary get together late Sunday night
sanctions would exist until the and send their recommendations
court trial is completed. The stu- to the vice president in writing
dents were entitled consultation tomorrow.
Allen Marcus Holmgren, one
with the University Appeals

YB's Pick Curry As President
And Establish A 'College Council9
appointed offices, he said, will help centralize
Kernel Staff Writer
activity. The new offices are state publicity direcDemocrats formally es- tor, state liaison, and chairmen of speakers bureaus
State collegiate Young
tablished a College Council Saturday and elected and farm relations.
The council will also function to "get the rest of
O.K. Curry, a University senior, the new statewide
the schools that have Young Democrats into the
president.
Approximately 83 voting delegates, representing council and organize groups in schools that don't,"
10 state colleges and universities, adopted a conCurry noted.
Convention delegates also heard an address
stitution which provides for five elected and four
from fonner Kentucky Cov. Edward Breathitt, who
appointed officers.
They thus formalized a group originally be- urged collegians to become more involved in the
gun by former state YD president Clifford Smith state Democratic party.
"If the Democratic party in Kentucky is to reJr. The action came at their convention in Lexingmain relevant to the needs and desires of the peoton.
council president Curry, said ple, then the party needs your thinking and inSmith received recommendations about a statevolvement," he said.
He said political organization and activity
wide college council in January. At that time he
on the college level and on the campus is vital
appointed John Lovill, Berea College, as chairto the future of the Democratic party and an
man.
Lovill was elected first vice president at Satur- ideal laboratory for training and pumping fresh
day's meeting. Others elected are Herb Well, vitality into the bloodstream of the party.
Breathitt also called for the Young DemoWestern Kentucky University, second vice president; Linda McCoy, Pikeville College, secretary; crats to work for the election of Democrats in
1970 and 1971 as they rebuild the party and
and Charles Peden, Hopkinsville Community Coltreasurer.
bring about "advancement to Kentucky through
lege,
Curry said the council is a centralizing agency the sound, imaginative, orderly aim ilisciplincd
for the state collegiate clubs. Creation of the four administration of state government."
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Tau Alpha sorority house.

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19G9

Concern For Students Ranks Low

Universities9 Actions Contradict Their Goals
UNIVERSITY COALS AND which rank ahead of a concern
ACADEMIC TOWER, By
for students.
Cross and Paul V. Cram-bscFew Coals Aid Students
American Council of Edugoals were listed
cation. $3.50.
and the singular scarcity of stuReviewed By
dent oriented goals in the top
BILLY O. WIREMAN
group is revealing. For example,
EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Wircman both the
perceived and preferred
is president of Florida Presbytergoals were listed in terms of
ian College and a 1954 graduate
as follows:
of the University of Kentucky priority
1. Protect the faculty's right
College of Education. He re- to academic freedom.
ceived his masters in education
2. Increase or maintain the
here in 1957. This review originalprestige of the university.
ly appeared in The St. Petersburg
3. Maintain top quality in
Times.
those programs felt to be especial
Educational research normally is so esoteric that it is of little
interest to the general public.
But University Coals and Academic Power strikes at the tap ANATOMY OF
root of a problem which is very
A Report Prepared for the
much in the news these days, Peace Education Division of the
student unrest.
American Friends Service ComThe book reports a study of mittee. Hill and
Wang. $4.50.
faculty and administration in 63
universities in America concernReview By
ing perceived and preferred goals
The Associated Press
of American higher education.
The gist of this report is that
One .would think that a concern "a blind, fanatical
g
for students'
and enIs and has been disadvanhancement would rank high in tageous to our country and its
the minds of those who know people. It has not
'stopped comeducation best. The study inmunism;' It has not advanced
dicates that quite the contrary human liberty abroad or at
is true that there are other goals home."
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academic freedom of the faculEnsure the continued conty. While a tmly worthy objecfidence and hence support of tive, one wonders how this could
those who contribute substantialpossibly have priority over into the finances and other ma- volving the students in a relevant
ly
terial resource needs of the uni- and rewarding educational experience. Interestingly, a concern for
versity.
5. Keep up to date and restudents appears first as the sixth
goal.
sponsive.
6. Train students in methods
Complaint Based On Fact
of scholarship andor scientific
Cross and Gramsbsch conresearch andor creative enclude, "Apparently the current
deavor.
complaint that universities give
7. Carry on pure research.
little attention to the interests
Most striking is the promiof students has considerable basis
nence given to protecting the in fact."
ly important.
4.

Study Finds RadicalAnti-Communis-

well-bein-

On the contrary, say the authors, it has blinded American:
to the nature of indigenous,
revolutions of rising
nations, sometimes causing our
nation to support
regimes. And at home, they
say, it has aroused fears that
have led to the erosion of our
traditional concepts of freedom
and constitutional rights.
The book's major premise is
that blind, irritational
does not work' that it
does not understand the real nature of communism as a theory
ultra-conservati- ve

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This is a severe indictment,
indeed, of the modern university
for failing to give student problems and concerns proper attention. Predictably and inevitably students resent this and
often express their resentment
in irrational ways. While the
book might not have wide appeal,
it nonetheless helps to explain
the reasons behind the current
student unrest. For that reason,
if for no other, this is an important contribution to the clarification of a current national
problem.

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or practice. So there is a chapter
devoted to analyzing what communism really is like with its
real faults and real weaknesses.
The report concludes with a
chapter on alternatives to what
it terms the outmoded concepts
of blind
"It is not that communism is
good," say the authors. They
challenge it and criticize it.
"But we do not consider
to be the opposite
of communism
it has become
a political strategy that fights
not only communism, but neu- --

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The "Now" Sound of

tralism and democratic revolution as well," they say.
This is strong talk on a controversial and touchy subject,
but it deserves to be heard, under the aegis of a Quaker organization long devoted to pacificism.

The teachers and writers who
prepared the report are James E.
Bristol, Holland Hunter, James
H. Laird, Sidney Lens, Milton
Mayer, Robert E. Reuman, Athan
Theoharris and Bryant Wedge.

Politician Says
The Filmmakers
Corrupt Censors
NEW DELHI (AP)-- A socialist leader, C. Muhari, charged
that Indian film censors were
being "corrupted" by Indian
filmmakers and were passing
movies not worthy of exhibition.
Indian films are not permitted
to show kissing.

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But Judge Refuses To Drop Charges

ROTC Decision Brines Trace At Harvard
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP)
The Harvard Corporation, one
of two governing bodies at Harvard University, agreed yesterday
to the demands of faculty and
students that BOTC be reduced
to an extracurricular activity. The
decision produced a truce in the
weeklong campus strike.

after the

About five hours

corporation's announcement,

more than 3,000 students voted
to suspend their strike for seven
Sec Related Story, Page 5

days, during which the students
will evaluate the university's re--

sponse to their demands. A secret
student ballot will betaken at the
end of the moratorium on whether
to end the boycott permanently.
Two dissident groups the
radical Students for a Democratic Society and the Black Students
Unio- n- said they will continue
to boycott classes.

ministration building Wednev
The
Harvard
,
Corporation said it would accept day.
a resolution passed overwhelm"Thesedcfendants are charged
ingly Thursday by the Faculty by this court," Viola said, "in
of Arts and Sciences asking the some cases charged with minor
university to treat HOTC as an- infractions of the law. But they
are entitled to be acquitted if
other ordinary extracurricular acinnocent, or to be found guilty
tivity giving it no special privif the facts so determine."
ileges or facilities.
The resolution also asked that
all contracts between Harvard
and HOTC be terminated as soon
as legally possible, and that the
university refrain from entering
into any new HOTC agreements,
formal or otherwise.
A spokesman for the corporcampus police of instigating an
fra
MONROVIA, Liberia
white stu- ation said Harvard's other govattempt Saturday by
is prepared to accept an
dents to retake the hall.
erning body, the
internationally policed arms em"We only leave now with the Board of Overseers, could dispute bargo to
in the
get a cease-fir-e
understanding the university will the corporation's action, but Nigerian war, a secessionist
would not.
out
the agreement probably
carry
spokesman said Saturday.
In the meantime, in East Camreached," he said. "Failure to do
"We are prepared to accept
so will result in further confrontabridge District court, Judge M. an embargo and have it policed,"
tion.
Edward Viola refused to honor said Ignatius Kogbara, Biafran
The black students, labeling a personal plea from Harvard
representative in London and a
Cornell "a racist institution president Nathan M. Pusey to senior delegate to the conference
which holds nothing but degra-tio- n drop criminal trespass charges of African heads of
state'trying
for black students," said against 38 students. The charges to start peace talks in the
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their action was spurred by stem from the seizure of an ad-,'
conflict.
Thursday's decision by the Student Faculty Board on Student
Conduct to impose reprimands
on three members of the
Society allegedly involved in harassment last winter
during agitation for a stronger
studies program.
The Negroes contend the
board is illegal and has no jurisdiction ovei the society. Their
main demand, outlined Saturday,
had been that the university must
void all judicial proceedings
against the Negro students involved and that charges against
1. Pipe broken?
them be dropped.
No, I'm trying to find
seven-memb-

Armed Black Students End Siege
At Cornell And Win Concessions
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dents ended their
seizure of the student union at Cornell University yesterday after
signing an agreement with the
school administration.
Society chairman Edward VVhitefield led about
100 society members from sprawling Willard Straight Hall shortly after 4 p.m. amid cheers from
about 2,000 onlookers.
Later, VVhitefield read the
agreement reached between his
group and the university from
the steps of the headquarters of
the
Society. Lined
behind him were several Negro
students with rifles and shotguns,
many wearing bandoliers of
hells slung over their shoulders.
Others carried
ticks with a blade attached to
ne end.
Lowell T. George, a univer-it- y
proctor, headed a
ampus security detail which
d
idped clear a path from
for the Negroes.
Straight
In the agreement the univer
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or criminal charges against those
who occupied the hall, and to
provide legal aid for any Negro
students who might be prosecuted in connection with the
occupation.
The school also agreed to recommend that action against black
students reprimanded for harassment in earlier demonstrations
be dropped, to undertake an investigation into police activity
g
in connection with a recent
at the school and to meet
with the
Society
to work on formation of a new
school judiciary system.
The school agreed to assume
responsibility for damages to Willard Straight Hall. For Cornell
the agreement was signed by Vice
Provost VV. Keith Kennedy and
Vice President Steven Muller.
It also was signed by VVhitefield and Zach Carter of the
Society.
VVhitefield then issued a separate statement for the
Society accusing the
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is concerned enough about the nonexistence of student rights at UK
to propose changes in the Student Code. The changes are designed to
eliminate the misuse of certain parts of the code which were cited in
the suspensions last week of five students arrested on drug charges.
.But the question must arise whether or not these changes in the
Student Code will be sufficient to prevent further abuses. It seems
quite apparent that administrators here are capable of distorting any
provision for their personal purposes.

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done. And the committee's recommendations could be at least a good
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions exrepresent opinions contrary to those of
pressed in this column arc those of the the editors. Again, I leave the decision
author.
to the judges.
By TERRY DUNHAM
Knapp's Question: "The advertisement
Assistant Managing Editor
was not specifically directed at theKemel
staff. What occasioned your demagogic
In a recent, almost comical
law school graduate Bill Knapp outburst?"
assumed the role of prosecutor and angrily
Answer. It is naive to think Mr. Wachs
made a variety of charges against the was not at least partially addressing the
Kernel because it editorialized about the ad to the Kernel staff. As evidence to
Communist "Rules for Revolution" adsupport this conclusion, I offer the followvertised by Mr. Fred VVachs. I've had ing: The previous week Mr. Wachs rah A
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much less contact with the law than
ad of conservative opinion and
Mr. Knapp, but his accusations are so
addressed it as "AN OPEN. LETTER
immature they seem like a good oppor- to the Editor of the School Newspaper
tunity for me to try my hand as defense and The Student Body." In that same
attorney. Besides, I'm mad, too, because week he gave our business editor a copy
his angry and childish complaints aren't of the "Rules for Revolution" to bring
necessarily recognizable as such by many back for the persons in our office. Judges,
readers who aren't completely familiar was our conclusion a fair one?
with the facts. I'd like to present those
Knapp's Question: "Did the Kernel
facts, and let the readers be the judges.
strain to place the advertisement on its
Knapp's Question: "Does the honorpage (page opposite the editorial
able editor of the Kernel open his edipage) so as to make it the basis for an
torial columns for one issue or one day editoriaP"
to Greeks, Alumni, Administration, YAF,
Answer. Our advertising manager, Tom
YD, YR, Student Government, Athletic
Derr, is quite capable of laying out ads
without help from the editorial staff, and
Association, Faculty or other constituent
did so by himself in the case of the
groups in the University's organizational
order?"
Wachs ad. I don't know how Mr. Knapp
Answer No, the Kernel doesn't open operated when he was advertising manits columns for one issue or one day. ager, but I doubt that Tom would tolerWhat it does do is open its columns ate interference like that. I'm also curious
every day. With what organization is as to how Knapp operated when he was
Steve Bright connected? Student Governeditorial writer for the Kernel, for his
ment. Bob "MiddleMan" Brown? Greeks. suggestion that it is easier to editorialize
Dr. WasleyKrogdahP Young Americans about an ad that ran on the d page
for Freedom. They've all had columns
than it is to editorialize about one which
in the Kernel. Many others have had
ran on another page is totally without
letters published. And any organization
journalistic basis. I even think it's funny.
is free to use column space in the future.
But I'll leave that up to the judges, too.
Mr. Knapp complains that such colKnapp's Question: "Why didn't both
umns are preceded by "disclaimers" which an objective news story and a
state that the opinions expressed are not
story precede the Kernel's edithose of the editors. Look at torial, so that an informed readership
necessarily
the disclaimer, which also precedes this could then radiate objective information
column. Is it really offensive? Does it against the Kernel's editorial opinion to
detract from what I say? Does it reduce aid the reader in his search for truth?"
the privilege of comment that the Kernel
Answer. Now I'm curious as to how
If he
grants me or any interested contributor?
Knapp performed as
You're the Judge.
had a staff big enough to permit such
valuable but
investiga-- .
Knapp's Question: "Does the moralistic
editor of the Kernel tions, more power to him. But he did
structure the flip side into his monopoto devote more attention
quit in
listic publication within the tenor of his to his studies. We all have to study
editorial columns?"
too, but we're sticking with the job
Answer. I object, of course, to the
and doing our best. His demand is unfair.
prosecutor's use of thelabels"moralistic,"
Furthennore, the answer to the next question will, I believe, demonstrate that such
"monopolistic," and
But no, the Kernel does not include ediInvestigation would have been fruitless
torials representing the opposite point of anyway.
view of its editorial staff. I can't imagine
Knapp's Question: "Was Mr. Wachs
how Knapp might have handled such
interviewed'"
matters when he was editor, but it is
Answer. No. But we tried. 1 called
Mr. Wachs only the day before and asked
inconceivable to me that one can justifiahim to submit to an interview on the
bly demand that, for the sake of fairness,
a paper run editorials for both sides of earlier ad he had run, and he refused.
issues. The signed columns are to be used He said he believed a "journalist"
for expressing dissenting opinion. Edishouldn't get involved in the news that
torials by their very definition can not way. Honest he did. Judges?
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Knapp's Question: "Since the advertisement was paid for by the Herald-LeadCo., do you know positively Mr. .
Wachs contracted for it, and as such it
is his personally?"
Answer We can't be sure, but he did
call our advertising manager to his office,
discussed the ad with him personally,
and handed it to him personally. It seems
like pretty good grounds for our conclusion that it was Mr. Wachs who contracted
personally for it. Judges?
I hope it's evident the type of assault
Knapp used. His main criticism, of course,
was that liberals (i.e., the Kernel) should
be tolerant of others' opinions, and therefore not editorialize about them. But
tolerance doesn't mean that one should
not care enough to seek to change those
opinions or, for the sake of others, comment upon them. Tolerance, it seems to
me, is what Knapp does not demonstrate
when he suggests that if the "orthodoxly
conservative beliefs" Wachs advocated
are, in the eyes of the Kernel staff, "villainous heresy" (that's his term) "then
the Kernel staff ought to be purged."
Being a member of that Kernel staff,
the suggestion is somewhat frightening.
The Kernel did not advocate purging
Mr. Wachs. I do not advocate that Mr.
Knapp be purged. But Mr. Knapp suggests
that if we can ridicule (if that is what
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we did) such expressions, we should be
in
purged. He should be a real
the courtroom.
"The Kernel reads as if
editorial page editors make news assignments to permit them to further pontificate, editorially," Knapp charges, and
again evidences his ignorance of how a
quality editorial page editor and
operate.
The people responsible for news coverage and play are not subject to the interference of either of the editorial page
editors. The only news stories I have
been told to run in more than a year
on the news desk were corrections. The
six persons who select the news and determine its play are a diverse group,
including fraternity and sorority members,
underclassmen and seniors, a ROTC mem-btwo Phi Beta Kappas, single and
married students and a former UK basketball player. They make their decisions
without interferences.
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I trust in the ability of our readers
to recognize the numerous discrepancies
in Knapp's childish complaints. He
charges "shoot from the hip," "splatter
Kernel bias" and "unethical conduct."
His charges are false, his questions easily
answered and I suggest he is guilty of
his own accusations.

Kernel Forum: the readers write
University has been denied the benefit

Congratulations

of a challenge from students.

To the Editor of the Kernel:
I am dismayed, though not surprised,
at the outcome of the Student Government elections. Once again an election
has been won by those who belched
forth platitudes the loudest and longest,
and had the most money to spend on
campaign advertisement. Since the majority of voting students insists on voting
according to fraternity loyalties, popularity, B.M.O.C. image or whim, any
meaningful representation of students'
interests has been postponed for at least
another year. Of the three parties
olved-the
winning candidates, the student body and the university, only one
really won: the officers-elec- t.
If Mr. Futrell is indeed interested in
his own political future, he may well
congratulate himself, as he has achieved
an excellent stepping-ston- e
into higher
places. If this is so, however, we may
look forward to a year of
leadership, more interested in making contacts
than in making changes, and shunning
relations with any but the least radical
of campus groups (i.e., Creeks). The student body has passed up the chance
for real, thoughtful leadership, and the
inv-

yes-ma- n

Congratulations fellow students, we've
done i