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SG

"I think this is by far the most active assembly

KEELING
Assistant Managing Editor
It is the middle of January and the football season
finally is over. No longer can you listen to the television
sportscaster giving the halftimc statistics and comments
By LARRY DALE

while you are in the kitchen getting reinforced for
another half of action.
It also is the middle of the school year, so there
are some more halftime statistics tlwse of the Student
Government Assembly during the first semester.
The bare facts would show that 40 bills and nine
resolutions were introduced in the assembly. Of the
40 bills, 25 were passed, three were defeated, two
were tabled, one died for lack of a second and nine
have yet to be acted on.
The resolutions fared better. Eight were passed and
one was tabled. The tabled resolution actually was a
different version of one that passed.

THE KENTUCKY

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Vol. LX, No. 77

University of Kentucky, Lexington

Monday, Jan. 20, 1969

Unitarians Asked To Provide
Sanctuary For Draft- - Resisters
Dave Collins and Mike Falla-haUK students, andJoeMulloy
Assistant Managing Editor
The congregation of the Lex- and Don Pratt, former students,
ington Unitarian Church will de- took part in a panel discussion
cide sometime this week whether at the church yesterday, and exto use its church as a symbolic plained their position on the draft
sanctuary for persons resisting at the church's Sunday service.
Collins is asking for a coninduction into the armed forces.
Similar sanctuaries have been scientious objector draft classiset up in churches in the Boston fication, and Fallahay is actively
have resisting the draft.
area where draft
resided until federal agents esPratt and Mulloy are appealcorted them away.
ing their conviction for draft reBy FRANK COOTS

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sistance.

More Speakers
Sigma Phi Epsilon resumes
its speaker series tonight at 6:45
when Dr. Sheldon W. Simon
will discuss "Elements of Communist China's Foreign Policy."
Dr. Simon is a UK professor
of political science and has
worked with the Central Intelligence Agency. The house is at
440

Hilltop.

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the three years I've been associated with Student
Government," said VVally Bryan, SG president.
Steve Bright, speaker of the assembly, and Thorn
Pat Juul, unofficial spokesman for Students for Action
and Responsibility (SAR), both agree with Bryan's
assessment.
According to Bright, only 54 bills were introduced
during all of last year. The assembly is fast approaching
that number already.
Bryan gives partial credit for the stepped-u- p activity
to SAR.
"I think they have contributed greatly in two
respects," he said. "They have been good on their own
and they have also stimulated other representatives to
be much more active."
Bright, while saying that SAR has helped make the
assembly better this year, added that "I don't think

"Stupid, Immoral"
Collins started the round of
comments by stating that "This
war is not only stupid, but immoral. If more people will take
this position, maybe we can end
the draft."
Mulloy blasted the " hypocrisy ":of American life.
"You find that 90 percent of
the things you were taught were
true, are not. Don and I were
sentenced (for resisting the draft)
the day after I heard President

Johnson, speaking of Martin
Luther King's assassination, say
we needed more men of nonvio- -

lence."
Fallahay mentioned Ghandi,
the Indian pacifist prime minis-

ter, as his ideal. "When you are
faced with evil, how do you
react? I might have gotten a CO
but I could not see carrying a
draft card."
While Fallahay questioned the
morality of the draft, Pratt struck
out at the social wrong he sees
as inherent in the Selective Service System.
War On Me"
"The reason I resisted was
that the government has declared
war on me. It declares war on
anyone who dissents. I too could
not accept a deferment because
I see it as an out. The CO is
a political thing. You get a CO
if you have enough political pull
on the local board."
Collins then commented on
Continued on Page 3, Col. 1

"...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in
series on American
a three-par- t
in Canada. The author, editorial
page editor of the Kernel, was in Toronto
over the Christmas holidays.
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By DA11RELL RICE

Editorial Page Editor

TORONTO, Ont. -- There's a good
from the Lexchance that a
area would head for Toronto,
ington
Canada's largest
city.
out
He would pick up Interstate-7of Cincinnati and follow it norUjall
the way to Detroit where he would cross
ithe tall and majestic Ambassador Bridge
into Windsor, Ont.
From there he would head east along
the MacDonald-Cartie- r
Freeway, or Route
401, directly to Toronto.
drive.
All in all, it's about a
Getting into Canada physically presents
almost no problem at all. But that is
not to say there are no factors discourdraft evaders from taking
aging would-bthis step.
Most of the problems are psychological. First, there is the realization that
once one enters Canada to avoid induction, he likely will be cut off forever
from family, friends and things familiar.
And A Communist
Also there is the likelihood that dodging
the draft will put one in a category
roughly akin to that of a cowardly, criminal,
dirty, filthy hippie peace
queer. And a Communist.
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the United States to Canada, and is a
bridge for many seeking to avoid
the draft.

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Whole Assembly
said SAR's intentions have been good but
Bright
that work on the part ofthe whole assembly accomplished
the first semester's record. He singled out Juul, Robert
Duncan and John Cooper as SAR members wlio have
made significant contributions.
Juul, of course, has a higher opinion of SAR's
contribution.
"I think SAR has been the driving force," he said.
"The record tells us that this year a small group of
students who haven't been executively active, but
active in the assembly, has moved the assembly more
than anyone else in recent years."
Continued on Page 8, Col. 1

Shum pres!
Malted By Opposition;
Paper's Staff Quits

BEREA-- A
student revolt in the state this
second
of Berea Col- school year has resulted in the apparent
lege's campus newspaper.
of some 1,350. Last month
The first revolt occurred at body
the petition was presented to the
Pikeville College with the stucabinet, which redents opposing the school's governing
sponded by forming a special
liberal administration and incommittee to investigate the matstructors. But the revolt at Berea ter.
apparently represented a coaliAbrams said he was not altion of students and administralowed to attend the special comtors against the liberal paper, mittee's
meetings, except for one
the Pinnacle.
which he was summoned to withMost of the paper's staff, inout being advised of what had
Gary gone on beforehand.
cluding
Abrams, voted to resign at a
He also complained that the
meeting Saturday after Berea's committee was "stacked" with
governing body, or cabinet,
students and administrators who
reached a decision last Thursday
were disposed against
to put the paper on a voluntary already
the Pinnacle. One of these was
subscription basis.
M cNew.
Abrams feels the cabinet's deNevertheless, the committee
cision was unfair. "There hasn't
narrowly voted in favor of keepbeen any due process at all.
ing the paper under its former
This is my main gripe."
students being
of
The editor traced the contro- plan operation for subscriptions.
required to pay
versy, resulting in the paper's
But those in opposition filed
being denied school finances, to a minority report recommending
his liberal editorial policies.
that voluntary subscriptions be
The first overt opposition to
implemented, and as it turned
the Pinnacle began last Novemout, this was the recommendation
ber, Abrams said, when Paul that the cabinet accepted last
McNew, a Berea student, began Thursday.
advocating that the weekly paper
Abrams assessed the decision
be placed on a voluntary subby saying "I really can't see
scription basis.
any future for the Pinnacle."
Petition Begun
He added that with the small
McNew then circulated a peadvertising revenues available
tition to that effect and collected and with the small Berea
on Page 3, Col. 1
715 signatures from the student
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Canada1 Haven For American
AMBASSADOR

its been as big a help as some people would like to

Brqft-Bodger-

But once a person makes the decision
to go, what can he expect to find?
The most obvious difference between
Toronto and, say, Lexington, is that the
former is much colder. There are places
in the United States which are further
north and at times colder than Toronto,
but the temperature does dip quite low
here. (The January mean temperature is
25 degrees.)
Toronto is a city where it is not
unusual to see people on the streets
carrying hockey sticks and snowshoes.
Television stations carry ads for snowmobiles. And there are public service
threats
messages featuring
tail gunners
to put sadistic, trigger-happon snow plows if people don't stop running into them.
Lack Of Hostility
But more important than the weather
is the social and intellectual climate.
The most striking thing about Toronto,
a city of two million people, is the lack
of hostility and fear of crime so prevalent
in American cities.
All sorts of people can be seen walking
unconcernedly onthe streetsduringalinost
good-nature-

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y

all hours of the day. It is not un isual to
see young girls thumbing rides at night
in the middle of the city (no, they're not
doing it to earn spending money).
Parts of the city are new and
Other sections, of course, arc
older but do not seem to be as run
ultra-mode-

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down and neglected as their counter
parts in American cities.
Easily more than half the young people one sees in downtown Toronto would
fall into the "weirdo" category in Lexington. Long hair and
trousers are the current style for young
men.
The girls are wearing old fur coats,
or, despite
often over either
the weather, the tiniest of miniskirts.
The older inhabitants and the police
seem relatively tolerant of the young
people's behavioral habits. In fact, it is
only rarely that one hears the wail of a
police siren for any reason in Toronto.
Yorkville Avenue and its vicinity proto gather.
vides a center for the
The area is lined with had shops,
boutiques, discotheques and coffee shops.
Canada's young and swinging prime
minister, Pierre Trudeau, is another factor
in the country's atmosphere. Trudeau
has captured the imaginations of many,
especially of young people.
Continued on Page j. CoL
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from the Peace

Corps
Representatives
will be in the Student Center and the
Blanding-KirwaCommons Jan. 4 to
discuss corps programs.
A
language placement test
For further
will be given Jan.
information, see the recruiters at either
site.
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KENTUCKY KERNEL, Monday, Jan. 20,

19

Tokyo Students Use Bombs, Acid On Police

ice
crushed
TOKYO
a revolt on Tokyo University's
main campus Sunday after 22
hours of fighting with radical
striking students who hurled
rocks, firebombs and acid.
Spokesmen said arrests in the
twtxlay operation totaled 629.
More than 100 persons, including 64 policemen, were injured.
The prestigious university was
left a mess, with valuable research papers and equipment re
(AH-Pol-

ported destroyed.
More than 700 students were
holding out in a dozen buildings
when 8,500 riot police moved into
the campus Saturday at the invitation of university authorities.
The police cleared out 11
buildings soon after entering the
campus Saturday, but ran into
stiff resistance at the auditorium.
They fended off rocks with their
shields, dodged Molotov cocktails and then were drenched by

hoses as they tried tobrcakdown
barricades at the front door.
Helmeted students on the
auditorium
roofs of the
clock tower and adjoining wings
wrapped towels around their
faces and some hoisted umbrellas
to protect them selves against tear
gas dropped from helicopters and
shot up from the ground.
The radicals waved banners
saying "Long live Chairman
Mao." They belong to a faction
nine-stor-

ricades of furniture and streams
which considers the Japanese
of flaming gasoline.
Communist party too conservaChances appeared dim for retive, and have clashed violently
on the campus with Communist-affopening soon of classes at the
iliated
students advocatuniversity.
c
The trouble goes back to a
ing a more moderate strike poll
strike last January by medical
Police withdrew at dark Saturday, but during the night built students objecting to their inwooden tunnels to the first floor ternship system. It snowballed
windows of the auditorium. They after some of the strikers were
By
entered the building Sunday and disciplined.
spent most of the day fighting most of the university's main
their way upstairs through bar buildings were occupied.
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Canada Is Haven For American
Continued from

Paje One

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paperback book entitled
"Sexand the Single Prime Minister," on sale in the country's
largest bookstores, provides evidence of the light and human
aura Trudeau evokes.

The liberal prime ministcrhas
been quoted as saying, too, that
Canada needs to fear more than
Communism the spread of U.S.
violence to Canadian cities. He
has refused to suppress radical
groups, saying that Canada is

a free country and has nothing
to fear fiwi the free expression
of ideas.
As for the cost of living in
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Revolt Silences
Berea College Student Press
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Continued from Fage One
dent body, even a popular newspaper likely would be unable to
support itself.
No. 2 Reason
This, then, was the main reason for the staffs decision to
resign. Abrams said he did not
expect the school to have any
official student newspaper unless
the new financing policy is rescinded or modified.
He said he now is considerof a
ing the establishment

ling of the Pinnacle controversy,
but that was before the cabinet's
policy decision was made.
Abrams said his staff also
received informal support from
other professors and from Berea
President Willis Weatherford.
One of the students who
played a major role in the
Charles
movement,
Stines, said his main complaint
about the paper is that "We don't
feel we should be forced to pay
for it, no matter how good it

mineographed

He added that he also was
against the Pinnacle because it
had become "a New Left paper."

underground
newspaper, but added "I don't
know how effective this would
be here."
Other moves to be undertaken
are sending letters to students
explaining the reasons for the
staffs resignations and possibly
working with the state American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to censure the
school for its move.
The Berea AAUP last Tuesday passed a resolution condemning the cabinet's "hasty" hand

anti-Pinnac-

le

is.

Stines Surprised
Asked about the staffs decision to resign, Stines expressed
surprise and said, "I would have
thought the staff would at least
have faced a challenge."
Abrams himself feels there
were some specific complaints
that led to the controversy about
the Pinacle's policies.
Among these were the paper's

what lower than here in restaurants. Casoline is higher, cigarettes are about twice as high.
The exchange rate for American currency is 106 percent, which
can be appreciable if any sizeable amount of cash is brought
into the country.
The public transit system in
Toronto is a strange combination
of buses, trolley cars and subways. The subways are clean
and
and are used in
conjunction with the other transportation facilities.
well-mark-

d
news coverage of the
SDS chapter at Berea
and its picture coverage of a
student walkout at a heart transplant symposium (but with no
story about the symposium itself because of a production deadnewly-forme-

line)

Not Perfect
While Toronto offers a number
of advantages over American
cities, it is by no means a perfect Utopia.
As Nancy McClean, a former

Continued from Page One

Pratt and Fallahay's inability to

accept a conscientious objector
status:
"Maybe it is an escape route.
Maybe that is the only way to
survive when your only other
choices are to leave the country
or go to jail."
The panel was then opened to
questions from the church members.
The first question was easy
enough. "Could the panel members support any war?"
All generally concluded they
could not. If the congregation
did not agree with them, it
seemed to be at least sympathetic
to their cause.
From that point on; the discussion became rather spirited.
"Can't you have an apprecia- tion for a government that lets
you protest?"

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It appears, ironically, that the
real explosion hit the Pinnacle

itself. But it remains to be seen,
if the reverberations will spread
to the rest of the campus.

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Fallahay said he could have
country very dearly but I do not gone to Canada, but "We do
love my government. If I did believe we have a moral responnot love my country, I would, sibility to question the governleave it."
ment."

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UK student now living in Toronto
(though not to avoid the draft,
of course) put it, "Canada has
its problems, but you might say
it has at least one less than the
United States."
When one en ten Canada from
America, he is immediately struck
by the profuse display of bright
red and white Canadian flags
with their large single maple
leaves in their centers.
Although the flags are in
abundance, they do not seem to
call up the same militaristic associations as do waving American flags.
And this is what the migration North seems to be all about.
TOMORROW: Conversations
with some
now living in Toronto.

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One of the complaints leveled
against the Pinnacle by Stines
was that "In one edition they
refused to print some news because they said they didn't have
room for it, but in the same
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the case "with any student editor, but they think we're part
of the great Communist conspiracy to put something in their

Unitarians Asked To Provide
Sanctuary For
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Check-U- p
For the second time this academic year, serious questions have
arisen 'about the kind of care patients are receiving at the University Medical Center.
The most recent incident was the
death last Monday of a
woman reportedly after a four-howait for treatment. Also, at the first
part of last semester a coed died
after being admitted to the hospital.
A five-da- y
autopsy concluded that
she had died of a heart ailment,
although she had no previous record of heart trouble, and, in fact,
that a physical examination administered not long before her death
showed that her circulatory system
was in perfect condition.

of the autopsy, although this fact
was never publicized. But it seems

that in light of the second death
which has again raised questions,
a careful look at the Medical Center's operation should be taken.
We are not charging the Medi

cal Center

with being negligent
in either death but we are saying
that a careful investigation should
be undertaken. Most students must
rely on the Medical Center for
treatment during their years here,
and they, as well as other persons

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Several knowledgeable persons
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Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.
Lee B. Becker,

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Darrell Rice, Editorial Page Editor
Guy M. Mendes III, Managing Editor
Tom Derr, Business Manager
Jim Miller, Associate Editor
Howard Mason, Photography Editor
Chip Hutcheson, Sports Editor
Jack Lyne and Larry Kelley, Arts Editors
Frank Coots,
Dana Ewell,
Janice Barber
Terry Dunham,
Larry Dale Keeling,
Assistant Managing Editors

who utilize the facilities, have the

right to be assured they will receive
competent and efficient care should
they need it.
Even if subsequent investigations prove that the Medical Center was to blame for the two deaths,
and we have no grounds for believing this to be the' case at the
present, this would not necessarily
indicate that personnel and administrators should be removed.
Shortage of hospital personnel
of all types is common across the
country, and the University Med
Center may be suffering this plight.
If this is so, andespecialfyif such
a situation turns out to be a factor
in the deaths, then steps must be
taken immediately to properly staff
and equip it.
Human lives are at stake.

Kernel Forum: the readers write
To the Editor of the Kernel:
Recently, three members of the
ton-Fayette
County Human Rights
Commission presented a statement to the
HRC and to the City of Lexington Board
of Commissioners which they felt reflected
the attitude of black people in our community concerning the role of the HRC
in preventing discrimination in our community. The statement emphasized the
need for the HRC to become more initiative
in its actions and programs and not to
remain conservative and ineffective. A
specific affirmative action program was
presented which outlined in what areas
the HRC could become more affirmative
and more active.
It was also requested of the Board
of City Commissioners that members appointed to the HRC be considered on the
basis of their willingness to improve the
problems of discrimination against black
people. It was specifically stated that those
persons who would act to thwart progressive programs or had demonstrated
little or no sympathy for such programs
not be appointed to the HRC. It was
requested by myself that names of new
appointees or reappointees being considered be made public three to four
weeks before the appointment was made
so the "feeling of the community" could
be considered. It was suggested by one
of the City Commissioners that it would
be preferred that a list of persons interested in serving as HRC commissioners
be provided to the Mayor and these
persons would be considered in any selection.
Such a list was prepared of 15 persons
in the community who would be willing to serve on the HRC. They were
both black and white candidates, with
various professional and civic backgrounds, as well as people who are living and working within neighborhoods
where discrimination is occurring. Tire
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list was sent to the Mayor and City Manager John Cook. It was made clear to all
City Commissioners by myself that in
their selection of HRC commissioners in
the future, consideration of these people
would be appreciated.
At the Board of City Commissioners
meeting of Dec. 26, 1968, Mr. Julian
Hutchinson was reappointed to the HRC
for a three-yeterm. It had been made
clear to Mayor VVylie and several
very
commissioners that it was clearly the feeling of several HRC commissioners and
certainly of our black citizens that Mr.
Hutchinson was not improving the situation of discrimination in Lexington by
his presence on the HRC. For example,
at our last public HRC meeting, it was
necessary for the HRC to apologize for
unsupported statements Mr. Hutchinson
had made in reference to Brother Andre
LaFontaine, who had witnessed discrimination in a local restaurant and
testified to same at a recent public hearar

Wylie, who many persons in the black
community feel would be an excellent
appointee for the other vacancy present
on the HRC. It is hoped in this appointment and in other appointments
available to the City Government after
the HRC is expanded, that more consideration be given to the public's desires and to strengthening and improving the HRC. As the statement presented
by the three HRC commissioners stated,
it is our feeling that the black community
wants a strong, effective HRC or no
HRC.
Dr. George C Hill
Fellow
Biochemistry Department

"Carsa Calls Dixie Racist,"
"Disenchanted Protest 'Hollow' Election," "SDS Schedules Draft Memorial
Service," "Cleveland Sellers, Anti-DraAction Here Thursday," "Demonstrators
Show Disapproval of Society," "Picketing and Speeches Challenge Draft System," and many, many more too numerous
to list. Thus, most students do not, I
believe, want the above type of news
selection to dominate "their" paper.
Equally disturbing is the Kernel's news
management. This writer has attended
numerous activities covered by the Kernel
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and what he saw was in many cases
the Kernel readers
were told, not because the Kernel lied in
its coverage but because it reported
and omitted essential portions. A
To the Editor of the Kernel:
glaring example was the coverage of Don
With regards to (The Courier-JournaPratt who spoke at the
article of
"The UK Kernel Takes Forum on November 11. Sigma Phi Epsilon
In response to this
Its Lumps, Absorbs Them
come! How do you really know writer's question asking "if he would like
(Come
what is going on on the University of to see all draft able men resist the draft
and those in the service desert?" Pratt
ing.
Kentucky campus? You don't have a cam- mumbled
several things not related to
I feel the public should lave the pus correspondent do you? Or, do you
the question including (as reported in
get your information via the Kernel?) the
following questions answered:
Kernel) "John Kennedy said 'All wars
You stated in your recent editorial
(1) Why, if opposition was clearly
will cease when men refuse to fight'
expressed to Mr. Julian Hutchinson's re- .that "Campus groups contend its (the I would like to see
this happen. I know
appointment, was he reappointed? Was Kernel's) editorial policy should reflect it won't."
Whereupon the question was
to have a conservative view expressed c