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Thursday Evening, Jan.

16, 19G9

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LX, No. 75

Relations Center To Deal
With Various Problems
By FIIANK COOTS
Assistant Managing Editor
A Human Relations Center
has been established here to deal
with problems arising from racial,
difreligious and
ferences.
The Human Relations Center
is the result of a union between
the International Student Center
and the Office of Religious Affairs.
Jon Dal ton, coordinator for
religious affairs, said the union
does not represent a "compromise of the functions of any
group" since each will retain
its own individuality. Daltonsaid
the groups joined when they
found they had common interests.
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of international student affairs,
and Anna Rolling, director of
volunteer programs. The Human
cerned about and will act on Relations Center will have no
regardless of whether I have a over-al- l director.
The center is located on the
mandate to act from the stufirst floor of the Student Center
dents."
at the in space formerly occupied by
Dalton' s
center are Alan Wame, director the Housing Office.
While Dalton said he expects

"some feedback," he added that
"There are some things I am con-

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Cesar Chavez To Speak
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a series of seven seminars scheduled
here will feature Cesar Chavez, leader of the
strike.
Also scheduled to appear are
Dr. Cordon Sahn, author, so- partment, whose topic will be
Concern Cited
"Why I Believe in Nonviolence."
"The thrust of the Human ciologist and Catholic philosoand William D. Herod,
Sahn Added
Relations Center is a concern pher;
returned from relief work
for and relating to broad issues recently
Cordon Sahn, a sociology proin Vietnam.
fessor at the University of Mason campus." lie added, "We
Chavez and Dr. Sahn also
about all the difwas a late addition
are concerned
will appear at an tipoverty forums sachusetts,
to the schedule and his speaking
ferent phenomena that characscheduled on campus this sedate has not been announced.-Hterize students today: religious,
mester.
diversiracial and
is a board member of several
The "Nonviolent Way" seminational peace organizations.
ties."
He said the center will be nars will be coon sored by the
The seminars are described
Committee on Peace Education
campuswide in its outlook and and
more completely in a brochure
Research, a group comprising
that he is expecting "some feed- 13 UK
available from Dr. Lewis Dono-hefaculty members. The comfrom individual students."
back
in the Journalism Building
Dalton said the significance of mittee is not an official organ
Continued on Page 5, Col. 1
the merger is that "The Univer- of the University.
Schedule Announced
sity realizes that human relations
on campus is an important area
The seminars scheduled by
that needs consideration, and the committee so far include:
that for the first time the UniA Jan. 28 meeting featuring
versity has officially recognized William Herod, characterized by
the importance of volunteer pro- the sponsoring faculty group as
grams."
a "war resister and member of
The Office of Volunteer Pro- the Christian Church."
A group of students in the
grams, a department now operA "University Dialogue" on College of Law has formed a
ating from the Human Relations Feb. 11 to discuss "the disen- speakers bureau for junior high
Center, will be concerned with gagement of physical scientists,
and high school civics and hissuch projects as tutoring.
social scientists and engineers tory classes in Fayette County.
from works of violence and soThe bureau is headed by Larry
Flans Listed
cial degradation."
Roberts, Lexington senior in the
Dalton said he hopes to ask
A seminar on Feb. 25 featurCollege of Law. Roberts said
minority groups on campus to ing Cesar Chavez, who is schedspeakers in the bureau might
a series of "small uled to discuss "Nonviolence and
help sponsor
be made available to schools
workshops" where stugroup
the Struggle for Social Justice." in
adjoining counties in the
dents can discuss problems they
A second "University Diafuture, depending on the speakencounter.
logue series scheduled for March ers' class schedules.
An open forum also has been 11, and a "Community Dialogue"
In addition to Roberts, speakproposed in which students could planned for March 25.
A seminar on April 8 to feaers are Gregg Wehrman, Covingbecome "aware of the problems
in communication that diversity ture Wendell Berry, novelist, poet ton; Wayne Shepherd, Corbin;
and member of the English De John Adams, Leslie E. Renkey,
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This view from the outside shows that work
is proceeding on the renovation of the interior of Memorial Hall. The building is
scheduled to get upholstered seats, new
lighting and new carpeting for the aisles
The hall
as well as new
will seat 900 persons when the work is comKernel Photo By Dave Herman
pleted.

Law Students Speak To Classes
In Fayette County Schools
Smith, all of Lexing-

the right to trial by jury granted
in the Constitution."
Roberts said the speakers con"We explain the various as- duct
question and answer sespects of the legal system. For sions and provide answers to nuexample, we might outline what merous questions involving the
takes place from the occurrence
of a crime on through the levels juvenile.
"They want to know what
of trials and appeals," Roberts
happens to a juvenile if he's
said.
convicted of stealing a bicycle.
"Some of the ninth and tenth They ask about juvenile court
grade students have difficulty procedures. They want to know
understanding the role of the about Kentucky Village and other
criminal lawyer. They take the detention homes for juveniles."
The bureau has been conattitude, 'Why does he defend
a criminal?,' " the chairman of ducted on a limited scale to date,
the college's law forum noted. but plans are being made to ex"We remind the youngsters of pand it, Roberts said.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the 'launched has poured nearly
first of two articles on the probeight million dollars into the
area encompassing parts of 12
lems of Apjulachia. The author
states from southern New York
is a former student at UK and
to central Alabama. Appalacliia
atromjKinied Sen. Robert Kenon his tour of Eastern came to symbolize the most
nedy
pressing item on the nation's
Kentucky last February. He resocial agenda short of urban
turned recently to ujnlate his astroubles. Visionary federal and
sessment of Appalachian problems.
private programs were seen as
its hope.
Uy JOHN ZEII
John Kennedy had planned
"The Other America, the to return in December 19G3 to
America of foverty, h hidden gauge the effect of the poverty
today in a tvay that it never was program's promises. He went to
Michael Harrington,
before."
Dallas first, and the trip was
19(2.
never made.
WASHINGTON
Last February, Rn' 4rt Ken(CPS) -Fight years ago John F. Kennedy took up his laie brother's
nedy learned how poverty was task, tramping up the hollows
hidden in Appalacliia
camof Eastern Kentucky to get a
look at rural poverty.
paigning through the grimy
mining towns, promising that In the battered Fleming-Neowith his administration the fedHigh School gym, he saw stueral government would help the dents hold a banner reading
vast mountain region.
"Don't give us any more promThe war on poverty he ises. We ain't ..eat your fancy
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promises." That was the substance of what Kennedy learned from the whole tour.
Federal Programs Fail
Now, as the freezing winds
of another winter approach, the
failure of federal programs is
again obvious. The government's
grand ' solutions have soured.
The other America in Appalacliia is once again becoming
forgotten-hidde-

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Americans still sweeping up
after ghetto riots haven't realized that the urban disorders
were in a way a violent consequence of rural poverty. Migration from the farms to the cities
creates and complicates many
problems.
People like Fdward Rreathitt
(head of President Johnson's advisory commission on rural poverty and, now, the Ford Foun- big-cit- y

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KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, Jan. 10, 19f9

MR. DqYOUNG:

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Dear Mr. DoYoung

:

"Is Dusiness Bluffing Ethical?" is a recent

article which appears in the Harvard

Dusiness Review (January-Februar- y
1968).
In that article the author, Albert Z. Carr,
raises some difficult questions about the
nature of competition among business
organizations and about the relationship
of a person's ethical and moral standards
to the conduct of daily business. Several
examples of conflicts between ethics and
"business sense" were cited. Let's
consider a concrete example.
Tom was a sales executive with a Southern
firm. He told of an instance when he had
lunch with one of his most important
customers, a Mr. Colby. At the time of
their meeting, the state was having a very
heated political campaign over which
Tom and Colby were of different
persuasions. Colby mentioned that he was
treasurer of the citizens' committee
supporting the candidate Tom opposed.
Before the two men got down to business,
Colby asked if he could count on Tom for
a $100 contribution to the Lang campaign
fund. Tom's reaction was the following:
"Well, there I was. I was opposed to
Lang, but I knew Colby. If he withdrew
his business I could be in a bad spot.
So I just smiled and wrote the check
then and there."
Upon discussing the matter with his wife,
Tom found that she was bitterly
disillusioned with the business world
because it could put such pressures on a
person to go against his own values.
Tom's perception of the incident was that
"it was an eitheror situation. I had to do
it or risk losing the business."
Mr. Carr suggests that such situations are
part of the "game" which governs the
business world. He goes on to compare
ethical standards of business organizations
poker
today with the ground rules of a are
not
game. "That most businessmen
indifferent to ethics in their private lives,
everyone will agree. My point is that in
their office lives they cease to be private
citizens; they become game players who
must be guided by a somewhat different
set of ethical standards."
Finally, Carr cites a Midwestern executive
as saying "So long as a businessman
complies with the laws of the land and
avoids telling malicious lies, he's ethical.
There is no obligation on him to stop and
consider who is going to be hurt. If the
law says he can do it, that's all the
justification he needs. There is nothing
unethical about that. It's just plain

business sense."
Mr. DoYoung, the student whom business
wants for its management ranks is not
interested in playing games where he
must maintain two identities and two sets
of ethical values one as a private citizen
and one as a businessman. I would bo
interested to know how you personally
reconcile the conflicts between your
ethical beliefs and your "business sense."
Sincerely yours,
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Graduate Studies, Stanford

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Dear Mr. Clark:
Indeed thsre are some men of the calibre
you cite in business; probably in greater
number than most responsible
executives know.

suspect also that there are many
instances where a man like your sales
executive, Tom, compromises his personal
"ethics" to make a sale. But wasn't he
trapped by his own supposition? Didn't he
write-of- f
his own company's integrity,
along with the history of the customer's
satisfaction with their product line and
rervice backup, when he wrote the check?
I

It strikes me that a little intestinal
fortitude, and a tactful remark about his
own political convictions, would have
brought the issue to a proper test:
business based on quality products and
service versus "bought" business.
If the man won't make the test, then he
ought not to make business a whipping
boy because he chose to compromise his
own standards. If his employer won't
stand the test, then his choice is obvious:
quit, and join a company whose standards
measure up to his own. In the long run he
will have done himself a favor because an
ethical man, who is competent, always is
in high demand. A posture aligned with
high standards will gain more respect of.
significance than any setbacks sustained
through loss of a few sales.

quality product, greater performance,
longer life expectancy.
of
and
jobs requiring
employees to better-payin- g
greater skills when automation phases out
various work slots. Results: moro
highly-skille- d
employees, better-earnin- g
potential, greater job security.
Consider the direct personal involvement of
more executives, and the application of
their company resources, in efforts to deal
effectively with such urban crises as
ghetto unemployment. Results: more local
a
employment, a step toward self-helbase for stability.
broadening
None of these actions are compelled by
law . . . they are taken voluntarily by
businessmen acting under the compulsion
of their personal ethics. It is the beliefs
underlying such actions that I regard as
the criteria for responsible businessmen's
ethics. Critics may question this criteria as
t.
I'll buy that. It is. But it is
which is simply
enlightened
good "business sense," and reflects the
ethical standards that broadly prevail
in our free society.

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The point is that in business, ethical
standards encompass not only questions
of personal conduct and integrity, but the
whole range of business' activities with
the public as a whole. Yet in the final
analysis it is always the individual who
must make the decision; a decision that
will reflect the influences of one's family
life, religion, principles gleaned from
education, the views of others, and one's
own inherent traits of character. It is these
factors that show up in a man's business
decisions, not the other way around.
The man, therefore, who maintains his own
convictions and sense of moral values will
be a better businessman, and will find that
there really is little problem in developing
a business career without fear
of compromise.
;

As for the Midwestern executive who

equates business' ethical standards simply
to compliance with the law it being
implied that this falls short of what
society would expect question both his
awareness of the law's comprehensiveness,
and his insight into most businessmen's
motivations.
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Responsible executives don't make
decisions on the basis of legal
permissiveness; of seeing what they can
get away with at the risk of courting
punitive actions at law, or the public's
displeasure. Those are negative yardsticks,
and the thrust of business thinking that
involves moral judgments is affirmative.

Sincerely,

Check product specifications, for example, Russell DeYoung, Chairman,
and see how many exceed standards
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
established by regulation. Results: a better
WHO CARES ABOUT STUDENT OPINION?
BUSINESSMEN

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Three chief executive officers TheG oodyear Tire &
Rubber Company's Chairman, Russell DeYoung,
The Dow Chemical Company's President,
H. D. Doan, and Motorola's Chairman, Robert
W. Galvinare responding to serious questions

and viewpoints posed by students about
business and its role in our changing society . . .
and from their perspective as heads of major
corporations are exchanging views through
means of a campus corporate Dialogue Program
on specific issues raised by leading
student spokesmen.
Here, David G. Clark, a Liberal Arts graduate
student at Stanford, is exploring a question with
Mr. DeYoung. Administrative activities in Greece
and Austria, along with broadening experience

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in university administration, already have claimed
Mr. Clark's attention and auger well a career
in international affairs.
In the course of the entire Dialogue Program,
Mark Bookspan, a Chemistry major at Ohio
State, also will exchange viewpoints with Mr.
DeYoung; as will David M. Butler, in Electrical

Engineering at Michigan State, and Stan Chess,
Journalism, Cornell, with Mr. Doan: and
similarly, Arthur M. Klebanoff, in Liberal Arts at
Yale, and Arnold Shelby, Latin American Studies

at Tulane, with Mr. Galvin.

All of these Dialogues will appear in this

publication, and other campus newspapers across
the country, throughout this academic year.
Campus comments are invited, and should be
forwarded to Mr. DeYoung. Goodyear. Akron,
Ohio: Mr. Doan, Dow Chemical, Midland,
Michigan: or Mr. Galvin, Motorola, Franklin
Park, Illinois, as appropriate.

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, Jan.

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Sentimental Rod McKuen Offers Love And Humanism
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poet and lyricist, is popping up
most everywhere.
"Lonesome Cities, "Listen
to the Warm," and "Stanyan
Street and Other Sorrows," his
three most recent collections of
poems and lyrics, may be found
in almost every book store.
And his records are coming
out of Warner Brothers-SeveArts
studios at an almost unbelievable
rate.
The dear little man (is that
hair really natural blond?) has
even found his way onto the late
night Johnny Carson Show.
People Listen
The discrepancy between what
the man is trying to say and
what he actually says is a bit
uncertain, but the fact is that
when he talks, lots of people
listen. If "Lonesome Cities" isn't
on your neighborhood bookstore
shelf, it is probably because the
Random House publication has
sold out, and the same may be
true of the records.
Warner Brothers released an
album entitled "Each Of Us
Alone" late in the summer which
featured McKuen's lyrics sungby
Clenn Yarbrough. This was followed in the fall with "Lonesome
Cities," poetry from McKuen's
book put to music. Early this
year "Home To The Sea," (music
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by Anita Kerr, words by Rod
McKuen, The San Sebastian
Strings) made the scene.
Poetry Syrupy
Asa poet, McKuen is a
out.
"Lonesome Cities," which
was released last year and is
his most recent book, is syrupy,
and sticky. He has a fetish for
the four letters
Hardly a
poem lacks it.
But as a lyricist, he makes
it, with the help of correct musical accompaniment.
The "Cities" album is effective, and in places, even more.
flop-stra- ight

"The Art ofCatchingTrains,"
first piece on the recording and
prologue to the book, flows with

the "Lonesome Cities" theme:
"Sometimes I feel I've always
been just passing through. On
my way away, or toward. Shouting alleluias in an unseen choir
or whispering fados down beneath my breath waiting for an
echo not an answer."
Raspy Voice
In McKuen's raspy,
voice, this passage stimulates empathy.
And, perhaps for other reasons, empathy is near at hand
when McKuen, in "Morning,
Three," describes a morning-afte- r
scene in detail: "Rolling now
together in our bedroom world
we'll map out elbows and each
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Kentucky Review Released
EDITOR'S NOTE: The autumn edition of the Kentucky Review
goes on sale today at all campus bookstores. Copies can also
be obtained in Room 111 of the Journalism Building.
By LAURA DERR
Kernel Arts Critic
The autumn edition of the Kentucky Review, combining short
stories, poetry, creative photography and critical articles, is overall a work of high quality. The Review includes exciting and
varied poems, ranging in subject and focus from cynicism to the
sea and vitality. In certain poems, however, the imagery is so
personal as to be difficult to understand.
The short stories are all very
good and experiment with natu less fear in a young boy's mind,
ralistic, psychological and arche- which requires only solitude to
typal approaches. Extremely dif- overthrow his rationality. In a
ferent in style and statement, work that is psychologically
the two critical articles which honest and probably a part of
appear are nevertheless both the experience of every child, she
studies of scholarly value.
manages to get at a deeper fear,
an almost mythical fear of what
Shutter Successes
is not known, but only felt. A
The photography selections of framework of tension and buildVan Deren Coke and Dick Ware,
achieves this effect.
which add grace to the cover ing suspense
as well as the inside of the ReKenner Weighs Pound
view, prove that photography ami
"The Rope in the Knot,"
art can become one. Van Deren
Coke's selections create exciting Hugh Kenner' s critical study of
new pictures out of old subjects, Ezra Pound, is at first a puzzle
and Dick Ware's nudes are ex- to the reader. Kenner's style is
quisite, combining light and very complicated and highly inshadow to achieve original and tellectual. The idea of patterned
lovely effects.
imageries, however, which he
Certain of the contributions conveys through a series of what
are very memorable for one rea- seem to be intellectual wanderson or another. Charles Fother-gilings, is not one to be easily
in his poem "My Students," cast rt side, once grasped.
characterizes in a particularly apt
Some pints of the Review,
way the contemporary student:
are not of equal quality.
And now they sit Rut all
art well worth then place
Like the cannibals of apathy in this publication. It is an
Without the freedom of pas- endeavor of University status,
sion
and promises with this edition
And the gift of teafs.
to continue to be so in the future.
Karen Kemper's short story.
"The Thing Without a Name,"
is a fascinating study of the name- -

other's backs. There are some
.
parts of you that have no
forests cover even
Hairy
paths
For some reason, several of
the more harmless lines of the
poem are left off the record. And
it suffers.
The Clenn Y a rb rough-MKucn album is perhaps the easiest
to listen to, or sleep to, as you
choose.
Offering a more masculine
voice than McKuen, but still going easy, Yarbrough is there and
more. Some of the syrup is gone,
while the strong points of the
music and words remain. "I'll
Catch the Sun" is a most notable example.
higlr-ways-

manner different from any of

"Cities." The voice, whom we

are forced to call "anonymous"
('cause McKuen isn't telling), is
too strong, too deep, too hard
for the words. I Just couldn't
bring myself to believe such a
barrel of a man was all that
hung up. And even if he were,
he would cry differently.
Rut the music is terrific, and
the San Sebastian Strings redeem
the whole thing. Again, the album comes off as very relaxing.
McKuen is offering a humanistic solution to the problems
of the world. It is simple, by
his own admission, based on
love and honesty.
"My hair is almost white from
lying in the sun," he says in
Song Suffers
"Home To The Sea" also "Venice." "I'm tired of being
suffers from the vocal, but in a next to you just to engineer a
tan. I'd be the same man pale."

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But even McKuen seems to
admit that his solution may not
work in the 19CX)s and '70s. It
may be as outdated as "Travels
With Chariey" (Steinbeck) and
"On The Road" (Kerouac).
"I do not think Codot will
come tonight. But all the same
I leave the window open," he
says in "Berkeley" ("Waiting for
What?" on the album).
But, again, maybe that's all
OK. McKuen is a lyricist, not
a poet, and we really haven't
come to expect too much from
the lyricist. Sgt. Pepper hasn't
fully caught on yet.

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Misappointment
The Lexington-Fayett- e
County
Human Rights Commission is fast
approaching a crisis stage that
should concern not only Mayor
Charles VVylie and the city's board
of commissioners but all Lexing-tonian- s.

Either the commission is going
to have to step up its activities
against discrimination or cease to
have the support of the black community.
This more than anything else is
the main issue in the current dispute over the reappointment of
Julian Hutchinson last week to his
position on the commission by
Mayor VVylie.
Mr. Hutchinson, who has demonstrated on several occasions his
unwillingness to investigate alleged
discrimination, is a symbol of what
many blacks feel is a too timid
approach on the part of the commission to race problems.
That discrimination exists in
Lexington in various phases of its
life cannot be denied. In fair employment, in housing, in representation on government boards, it
exists although there has been advancement in all three areas.
But Lexington's Fire Department, for example, does not have
a single Black employed. This is

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a shameful aspect of city government when one considers that about
30 percent of Lexington's population is black. It is a condition
that should concern all city officials, most of all, Commissioner
Harry Sykes.
We may be approaching a time
when all these considerations of
race will be irrelevant. But we are
not there. We are still in a period
in which a main concern of the
community has to be the undoing
of a structure of segregation built
over a century, and race obviously
cannot be ignored during this interim.
Dr. George Hill, a member of
the commission and a professor at
the University of Kentucky, put his
finger on that fact Friday in a talk
before the city commissioners when
he said that the black community
wants a strong, effective commission.

He was calling for racial consciousness and responsibility and
progress of the right kind, not the
kind leading to separatism, hatred,
and greater inequity. An effective
commission can guide this community down the path of racial
harmony, and city officials would
be wise to listen.
The Lexington Herald

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emplified by the ideology he preached
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and the other the reality of the
record he produced.
So now he's leaving UK, and the
nonbelievers will bask in the glory that
they were right about this man all along.
His philosophy is hogwash, they'll say.
There's no such thing as "inner resources."
Though I'm in a different comer of the
world and in an entirely different profession, I beg to dispute their claims.
While a student at UK and even as
sports editor of the Kernel, I must honestly
admit I found his credo hard to accept.
But now as an infantry platoon command,
stationed at Con Thien on the DMZ in
Vietnam, I see that Charlie Biadshaw
belief in winning being put into practice
everyday. The actors this time are not
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scliolarship holders who can pick
and cloose from countless college offers,
combat veterans
but 18- - and
who "draw from within" for 13 months
and not just on fall Saturdays through
November. That creed is carried out here,
by infantrymen in Vietnam and the
victories Itere are measured in steps taken
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1969

Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.
Lee B. Becker, Editor-in-ChiDarrell Rice, Editorial Page
Guy M. Mendes III, Managing Editor
Jvn Miller, Associate
Tom Derr, Business Manager
Howard Mason, Photography Editor
Chip Hutcheson, Sports
Jack Lyne and Larry Kelley, Arts Editors
Frank Coots,
Dana Ewell,
Janice
Larry Dale Keeling,
Terry Dunham,
Assistant Managing Editors
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Editor
Editor
Editor
Barber

Historical Step
With the fear of a period of
national conservatism setting in
and the possibility of its setting
back recent educational progress,
it is heartening that a black history
course has been approved for this
semester at UK.
Members of the Black Student
Union had sought to establish the
course last year but ran into administrative red tape and some actual hostility within the history
department. As a result, they settled for the Arts and Sciences 300
course taught last semester on a
more or less makeshift basis and
which was a disappointment to
many of the students who took
it.
The new class, "The Negro in
American History," should provide

a more scholarly format for an
area of American life that has been
so badly neglected by our educational system.

The new course should be valuable to Blacks in their quest for
an identity, but more importantly
it should help to reduce the poverty
of knowledge among white students
about Blacks' contributions to our
society and their historical role.
We can only hope, however,
that the course itself will be a
more enlightened pursuit than its

title indicates. Many Blacks,

toward peace and not in the standings of
the Southeastern Conference.
It's ironic, I know, that this philosophy should come to light in Vietnam
and not in Lexington, Ky. But if in some
small measure that philosophy is followed
here and, as a consequence, we move
toward a justifiable and honorable peace
because of it, then who can really say it
never worked, let alone never existed.
Yes, then, the nonbelievers might
retaliate, tHen let Charlie Bradsliaw command a unit in Vietnam. And yes, I'll
answer, we'll serve under him with pride.
2Lt. Phil Straw
"L" Company, 3rd Bn., 3rd Marines
3rd Marine Division (Rein).
Vietnam
To the Editor of the Kernel:
Computerized, depersonalized, man is
playing a numbers game into oblivion.
Or so we are told. How often is it heard
that our mass society is but a mindless
blob win rem individuality is cms lied
and conformity is the essenu? Idealism
and sensitivity are often said to be incompatible with the steam roller machine

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pecially students, have developed
a hostile attitude toward the word
"Negro" and its associations with
the past.

Kernel Forum: the readers write

To the Editor of the Kernel:
I'm sorry to learn of Charlie
decision to resign as head football coach of the University of Kentucky.
So now, because of this decision to leave,
and before he does, I'd like to put into
print a personal testimony that endorses
the religion he preached at UK for seven
long seasons.
Last fall Dave Kindred of the Louisville Courier-Journauthored an excellent
article on Charlie Bradshaw, the true
believer. His story told about the man,
his boyhood, his background and his
beliefs. He echoed Charlie Bradshaw's
philosophy perfectly with quotes that
said great football players come from
good homes and are the sons of straight-arroparents who Instill in their children
the sense of pride and accomplishment by
the examples they set themselves.
But Dave Kindred's article said the
people of Kentuc