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Wednesday Evening, Nov. 20,

19G8

UNIVERSITY

OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LX, No. 61

To 'Assure Maximum Occupancy9

Board Votes To Raise
All Room, Board Rates
Semester room and board rates
undergraduates will be increased from $440 to $460 for the
three meal plan and from $385
to $408 for the two meal plan.
Room rates (excluding meals)
for the summer session will go
up $5 for the eight week summer
session. The room rate of $115
for double occupancy and $145
for single occupancy will be in
effect during the 1970 summer
session.
Room rates in Blanding Two,
which is set aside as a residence
hall for male and female professional students, will be adjusted to $257 for double occupancy and $323 for single occupancy. Current rates are $235
require other undergraduate and $295 respectively.
The semester rate for gract-uatclasses of students to live on
efficiency apartments (Coop-erstowwith the exception of:
campus
will be raised to $285
students who are 21 years
from the current $250 cost. The
or older
students who are veterans rate for graduate
ot ' at least two years of active apartments will be in creased from
$300 to $330.
military service
Monthly rental rates for efstudents who commute from
ficiency apartments for married
home
students will also be increased
students who are married
students who obtain special from $80 to $85 for efficiency
from $95 to $100 for
permission from the University apartments,
apartments and
Housing Office."
The policy statement was proposed by the offices of business
affairs and student affairs in order to meet the $35 million indebtedness incurred by construcBy FRANK COOTS
Kernel Staff Writer
tion of the dormitory complex.
Kentuckians
The
Against
"This is no significant change
from policies that are currently KUAC delivered a general denouncement of the Kentucky
enforced," said Dr. Stuart Forth,
Activities Committee
vice president for student affairs.
"I think it is important that and proposed ways to "educate
we be honest with the students.
people as to how dangerous these
We are not proposing this policy committees are."
Their plans to "educate peobecause it will be good for their
immortal souls ple" include a demonstration in
(the students')
or to keep the young girls safe. Frankfort on Dec. 2 where Gov.
We are doing it because the Nunn will be presented with a
list of grievances, public forums
University's credit standing dein Lexington or Frankfort and a
pends on it."
Dr. Forth added that it was letter writing campaign.
The plans for a forum were
also necessary in order to provide a reasonable room and board not made clear but the group
rate for students desiring to live decided to hold the demonstration in Frankfort rather than
in residence halls.

By DANA EWELL
Assistant Managing Editor
The Board of Trustees Tuesday voted to raise room and
board rates effective the fall semester of 1969 and adopted a
policy which would assure maximum utilization of University
housing facilities.
The policy statement authorizes the Administration "to promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to assure
maximum occupancy of the residence halls at all times.
"These rules and regulations
shall require freshmen to reside
in University facilities and may,
if necessary to assure full occupancy of the residence halls,

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from $105 to $110 for two-be- d
apartments.
Robert Kerley, vice president
for business affairs, explained
that the housing rate increases
were made necessary by rising
labor and food costs.
"Actually we have already
reduced our staff by 60 employees," Kerley said, "on the philosophy that by raising salaries
and decreasing the staff we would
increase the efficiency of our production, but we have wrung this
method dry."
Explaining further, Kerley
said, "We are charging as close
to cost as possible. Assuming
that our cost curve will continue
to rise, by effecting a gradual
increase in room and board rates
we will not be undercharging
next year's students at the expense of overcharging students
the year after that with a sudden
rate hike."
In the past five years room
and board rates on a semester
basis have risen from $365 to
$440. The median charge for the
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transient resting place on hair, in eyes, on
tongues, books and clothes Tuesday as stu- dents were greeted by chilling forerunners
of the winter season. The Kernel brings its
own reminder of the coming season with
the first episode of "Santa and the Hippies" on page seven.

Kentuckians Aganist KUAC To 'Educate'
Pikeville, where most of the
KUAC investigations are being
held, in order to "put the blame
(for KUAC's existence) on Gov.

Nunn."

Karen Mulloy and Margaret
McSurley, wives of the two men
who were charged with sedition
under the Pikeville sedition
statute, (which has since been
declared unconstitutional) spoke
of the "fear, repression and harassment" caused by KUAC.
Mrs. McSurley said the investigators "act civilized in the
court room, but outside they are
snooping around, peeping in keyholes and scaring people."
Mrs. Mulloy explained that

the "groups these committees

are going after are black groups,
student groups and poverty
groups. They want to render them
ineffective."
She said that the liberal professors and students on the Pikeville campus are being "harassed." "Students who tried to
help in the poverty areas were
Red baited. Now they do not
help because they are afraid."
She claimed, "An attack on
one is an attack on all" and
sounded a call for action. "This
committee has existed too long.
We have not done enough."
Robert Sedler, professor of law
and attorney for the group, said

he was not "overly optimistic"
about the success of legal action.
He added, however, "If KUAC
subpoenas McSurley and Mulloy
and their records, we are contemplating legal action to resist

this."

Dr. Larry Tarpey, professor
of
Business
Administration,
stated, "There is repression. It
is already affecting Blacks and
will effect Whites who thought
they were safe. This committee
is a symbol of the sickness in
this society. The time for sitting
is over. We have to get out and
do something about it."
About 35 people attended the
meeting Tuesday night.

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Margaret McSurley, left, and Karen Mulloy, right, wives of the two men
who were charged with sedition under the Pikeville sedition statute, discuss
what they termed the "fear, repression and harassment" caused by the
Activities Committee.
Kernel photo By Dav Herman
Kentucky

By SALLY MITCHELL
Linda Bailey resigned Tuesday night as Young Republican recording secretary because "my views are significantly different from
those of the Republican hierarchy."
And that was the pattern of
the YR meeting, as Terry Lloyd about college students being"in-volved.- "
resigned from his post as fourth
"When I was in college I
regional vice chainnan of the
College of Young Republicans, regretted a great deal that college
and T. Patterson Maneyresigned students were not aware of what
as chairman of the UK group. was going on around them," he
Although Miss Bailey resigned said.
But speaking about the New
because of her political views,
Lloyd and Maney left their posts Left, he said, "These people
because of personal reasons other aren't offering a constructive alternative. They talk about tearthan politics.
Ceorge Anderson, presently ing down things but offer no
assistant to Lloyd, was endorsed direction as to what they are
for the new fourth regional vice going to do after they tear them
down."
chainnanship.
Erie Karnes, a past chainnan
Apple feels the strongest point
of College Young Republicans, of the Nixon administration will
commended Maney on his two-yea- r be the revival of strength instate
chainnanship. "Maybe in government.
"A lot of people in Washingten years instead of working for
Russ Mobley, we will bewoiking ton would like to see state govfor Pat Maney," Karnes said. ernment dry up and go away,"
Speaker for the night was he said. "But that's where the
James G. Apple, administrative
leadership belongs we've got
assistant to Cov. Nunn. lie spoke the machinery."

* 2 -- THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 19G8 ;

Sedler Says Substantive Support
Needed In Integration Movement
By SUE ANNE SALMON

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A personal commitment of money and change
of attitude is needed to solve the prcblems

Sedler
Speaks

of discrimination. Robert Sedler, a professor
of law, told a SWITCH audience, Tuesday
night. He said that law can prevent a worse
situation, if enforced.

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The Creat Society will not
emerge until "whites make a
personal commitment to put sub
stance to the stnicture of civil
rights laws," Robert Sedler, professor in the College of Law,
said.
Speaking to about 25 people
at a meeting of SWITCH
(Social Work In Contemporary
Community Happenings) Tuesday night in the Student Center,
Sedler elaborated on his topic,
"Civil Rights Laws: A Social

Perspective."
The main problem of civil
rights today, he said, "began
during the period of slavery when
the Black was unable to build his
indigenous culture."

A functional illiteracy rate
three times that of whites and an
unemployment rate double that of

whites are among the effects of
this problem, he pointed out.
Sedler distinguished the terms
"discrimination" and "integration" in connection with law
making.
Laws against discrimination
provide opportunities while laws
for integration require Blacks and
Whites to live together without
discrimination, he said.
Law May Help
"We, the white liberals, think
the law would solve the problems.
If enforced, law can keep the
situation from getting worse.
But commitment in terms of
money and change of attitude
is really needed," Sedler told
the group.
"The commitment of white
Americans has not gone beyond
passing laws which don't affect
the accumulative result of years

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the generation gap, the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust has
approved nominating and electing a senior student to the Board
each year.
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it like it is to their fellow Board meeting, when they are no longer
members, and the students can students.
This new nominating process
gain a sense of participation in
guiding the university's future. is apparently
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and one elected by all eligible and elected to the Board next
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of discrimination," he added.
Legal solutions are therefore
unacceptable for Blacks, Sedler
said.
Provide 'Structure'
Three civil rights laws which
have provided the "structure"
but not the "substance" of
were discussed bySedler.
Civil rights laws concerning
public accommodations "on the
whole have been pretty effective
in preventing constant discrimination . . .except in swimming
pools where the color might rub
off," he said.
Their failure has been in
g
the "individual dignity aspect of civil
rights the rest room signs for
'white ladies' and 'colored women,' sitting in the back of the
bus and planning a journey to
include integrated motels," Sedler said.
Open housing provides the
opportunity for middle class Negroes to live in white communities, but there are nearly
always discouraging complications, he said.
"Discouraging incidents can
be documented for every Negro
who has moved into a white
community in Lexington." The
law professor suggested a comprehensive program of rent supplements in place of public housing.
Equal opportunity employment provides jobs for Blacks,
"but how many will work in
the front office jobs?" Sedler
asked.
"Discrimination in employment directly causes poverty. The
Negro man was emasculated
he was denied the opportunity to be. the breadwinner
for his family," Sedler said.
"The majority of the Blacks
are unskilled laborers, and the
need for unskilled laborers is
rapidly decreasing." Perhaps
guaranteed annual income is the
answer, Sedler said.
Overall End
For an overall solution Sedler
advised, "society should do something about the accumulative affect of discrimination to lead
to true integration.
"At the time of the Watts
riots in 19G5, the Blacks saw
they had everything on the books
they could get, and it didn't make
a bit of difference.
"Black control of black communities would build substance"
for a true integration of equals.
He stressed economic control
and advised against segregated
black schools and black police
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Want to know liow to make
says Mrs. Frances Martin, superyeast rolls? Road up on liow to visor of duplicating and distrigrow corn in Kentucky? Or get bution.
The function of the publicathe latest in stretch fabric tips?
tions operation in the bulletin
The University Cooperative
room consists of filling county
Extension Service, Department
home agent orders of bulletins.
of Public Information has these
It also sends youth agents who
and other bulletins published on
wish to order 1 1 publications
practically any imaginable topic,
located in the basement of the with all the materials they may
need in their home counties.
Agriculture Experiment Station,
these brochures are listed under
The Ag Department's bulletin
business is a booming one, acheadings such as Agriculture,
Home Economics, Youth and cording to Miss Hetty Ham, anDevelopment, to name only a other supervisor of duplicating
and distribution, and she says
few.
A potpourri of bulletins range
that they are already in the
from "how to cure hams" to process of working on the duplifolders which include simple cation list for next year.
The office is equipped for
topics for county extension
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agents to distribute to
printing some of its own brofamilies in their areas. chures and it has three offset
Some of these illustrate, in elepresses and twelve workers employed; some of them students.
mentary language,
items
These countless brochures
tips and "how-to- "
such as "liow to defrost your are stored according to their
refrigerator."
series and each bulletin has a
The office also publishes a certain code number, which
weekly newsletter which is is- makes it easy to find just the
sued to extension workers.
topic one needs. The publica"Our main purpose for pub- tions office sends lists of these
lishing these is to provide prac
topics to anyone who wants his

name on the mailing list. "Most
people find lists of our brochures
in libraries of universities and
various governmental vinits and
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One copy of each publication
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live in the state who wish more
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FRANKFORT Miss Anne Marlowe, a University senior from
Frankfort, has been appointed to the Kentucky Commission on
Women.
Miss Marlowe, Kentucky's lief that 'Every Kentuckian
Collegiate Queen represents wo- Counts'," giving the Commission
men under age 30 on the Commis- the responsibility of bringing to
sion.
the attention of women the many
Gov. Louie B. Nunn created opportunities available to them.
the Commission "in the be- Careers will be the first area
of emphasis for the Commission
through a series of
educational television programs,
beginning in January.
The Commission, which is to
include 24 women, has members
representing several professions,
education, and cultural pursuits.

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* The Right To Live In Peace
Some 200 persons

attended an

antidraft forum Thursday night,
but the vast majority of students

chose instead to plod through their
routine lives of booze and, at best,
studying for petty grades. The implication was that these activities
are more important to them than
is the issue of the draft.
But students are among the persons most affected by the draft.
And they should be the ones most

concerned with the issues involved.
Some of these issues are literally
matters of life and death, not just
for the draftees but also for the
persons who are the objects of our
military's actions.
Once again, however, students
at UK, perhaps more so than is
the case at other universities, simply acquiesce to the given order
without making any basic attempt
to confront these issues. And just
what are these students acquiescing
to?

Basically, they are accepting on
its face the existence of what can
only be described as a death machine. The draft enables such an
institution to exist, and as long
as young men go along with the
draft, our military establishment
will continue to exist without being subjected to careful scrutiny.
An overpowering military has
proved to be just too much of a
temptation to use. And not just
for purposes of defense, but also
for the maintenance of a status
quo that could well be corrupt.
Vietnam provides the obvious example.
The existence of the military,
too, helps to create an atmosphere
of international hostility rather
than one of peace and reconciliation. What nation can trust another
if both have massive military es

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tablishments only waiting for the
order to attack and kill? Just think
how much better it would be if
men were taught it was wrong to
kill regardless of ideological reasons. The draft is the enabling
agent for such a prevailing mentality.
Perhaps the greatest evil of the
draft is the militaristic mentality
it tends to perpetuate. There is no
question that men drafted into the
army are subjected to an overwhelming indoctrination process to
achieve stereotyped responses and
attitudes amenable to indiscrimina-tor- y
killing. And when these men
are released from the service, provided they themselves are not killed
first, they diffuse these attitudes
to the rest of society. Needless
to say, this does not aid in attempts to develop more humanistic values in the nation.

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per cent of the vote. And, in the last
student government election, 95 per cent
of the students did not vote. Would
an editor be more representative of the
campus if elected by less than 2 per cent
of the students?
Such an "endorsement" might increase
rather than decrease complaints about the
alitor; it seems plausible that 70 per cent
of the electorate might oppose him.
Further, the recommended election seems
likely to place the editorship in the hands
of an organized voting minority, be it
Creek, Black, conservative or liberal.
One might .ask, too, whether it is
likely there often would be gathered on
campus at one time five men or women
both able and willing to handle the
editorship of the Kernel. Further, even
if it were an election between two
and everyone voted, we would
have strong reservations about turning
the selection of the editor into a campus
popularity contest.
What professions or academic disciplines separate competent or incompe
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NOV. 20, 1968

Editorials rejnesent tlie opinions of the Editors, not of the University.
Lee B. Becker, Editor-in-ChiDarrell Bice, Managing Editor
David Holwerk, Editorial rage Editor
Tom Derr, Business Manager
Guy M. Mendes
, Associate Editor
Howard Mason, Photography Editor
Jim Miller, Sports Editor
Jack Lyne and John Polk, Arts Editors
Chuck Koehler,
Dana Ewell,
Terry Dunham,
Janice Barber
Larry Dale Keeling,
Assistant Managing Editors

Kernel Soapbox: Editorial Election

By HERBERT STRENTZ
Assistant Professor, Journalism
and LEWIS DONOIIEW
Associate Professo, Journalism
In the Kernel of Thursday, Nov. 14,
Barry Ogilby of OZIQ argues far electing
the editor of the paper because, among
other things, (1) it would make students
more aware of the Kernel and how it
operates and (2) if students have a part in
selecting the editor there will be less
bitching about the university newspaper.
We do not see the "problems" OZIQ
does. And, even if we did, we think the
proposed solution might create nore problems than it would solve.
To begin with, the election would
compound what many Kernel critics see
as a weakness of the paper that it is not
representative of the undergraduate campus.
OZIQ states that the editor would
become representative, or at least more
so, by the fact of election. But 1hw? A
field of five candidates is proposed. The
winner could be a candidate with less than

objections to the draft
of a personal nature, the idea of
an individual's being placed in the
position of having to kill another
human being just because the military says so is reason enough. Almost any reflective person can only
come to the conclusion that all
wars are senseless where human
beings are concerned and that the
only wars in any way defensible
are those fought purely as a matter
of survival. And for the latter, no
draft would be needed.
The philosophical conflicts imposed upon truly concerned individuals by the existence of a
military draft, even a fair one
which the present one most certainly is not are inexcusable in
any civilized society. The draft
must be ended: the right to live
in sanity as well as just to live
"period" is at stake.
As for

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tent by a show of hands? A professional
newsman is no more professional if voted
so than a physician, lawyer, judge or
accountant would be if he out polled his
peers in a popular election.
Besides, it is doubtful the editorofany
newspaper should have or should want
the ardent support of most of his readership. Men who write editorials or direct
a newspaper staff should not covet popularity or be criticized for the lack of it,
partly because editors need to serve a
"gadfly" function opening doors others
would want shut, raising questions others
would ignore.recognizing issues and individuals others find unpalatable. It may
indeed be, as
a distinguished correspondent for the London Times once
observed, thatoneof themain responsibilities of an editor should be to comfort
the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
A major criticism of the conventional
press is that it has ignored many closed
doors and sidestepped many difficult questions. The conventional press has been
criticized for focusing on news of conflict

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emphasizing news of domestic violence
and providing meaningless body count
box scores from Southeast
Asia. Until
minority groups have come to fit this
conflict formula by creating disturbances,
their problems have not often been considered "news."
It appears to us that the Kernel has
been sensitive to these criticisms. It has
tried to cover the silent social revolutions
on campus and in the community. It
has aired grievances and dissent which,
if ignored, might well breed more
grievances and more explosive dissent.
This year's Kernel has not ignored those
who disagree with its editorial policies. It
has provided them a right of reply as is
evident in almost any issue of the paper.
This soapbox, however, is not intended
as a defense of all that has appeared or has
not appeared in the Kernel. Our main
concern is with the proposal to elect the
editor. The proposal seems to epitomize
the desires of some to end all campus and
community displeasure with the Kernel,
reganlless of need, regardless of cost.

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, Nov. 20, l8--

5

Mexican Students Face 'Land Of Inequality7

By PHIL RUSSELL
I am a communist because
I see humanity in pain, under
the boot of imperialism, because
I see the peasants suffering, and
because the braccros are leaving.
I am a communist because
the people don't even have the
right to ask that they be treated
justly, and because the salaries
are meagre, and because there is
no equality.
MEXICO CITY (CPS)-A- l-t
ho ugh these words, taken from
Mexthe wall of a strike-boun- d
ican university, reflect the politics of only a few students, they
do reflect the surroundings of
every Mexican student. In a country which makes the American
press with its annual report of a
seven percent gain in gross national product and its elections
every six years, this may seem a
contradiction.

News Analysis
This seeming contradiction is,
however, a reflection of the great
inequalities which have long
existed in Mexico. Even as far
back as the beginning of the
19th century, a visitor to Mexico
called it "the land of inequal-

ity."

A century later the Mexican
Revolution was fought to eliminate these inequalities. In this
struggle most of the fighting was
between rival factions, not between revolutionaries and the old
guard. Early in the war the landed
aristocracy which had been governed by Porfirio Diaz was defeated. What followed was a
struggle between the militant
agrarian reformers, Pancho Villa

and Zapata, and the emerging
cnt repreneural class led by Carta nz a and Obregon. The eventual triumph of the entrepreneurs
set the stage for both the successes and failures of Mexico
in the last 50 years.
In 1927, ten years after the
end of the revolution, the dominant faction founded a political
party which has grown into a
monolithic structure known as
the PRI, Partido Revolucionario
Institucional. The PRI, which
has never lost an election for
president, governor, or senator,
is the dominant factor on the
Mexican political scene.
ThePRI's domination has had
its rewards, but the price has been
high. The PRI has given Mexico
stability and economic growth
which can be equaled by few
other Latin American countries.
One obvious price of this domination has been the inability
to effect change from outside
the PRI. Since the results of the
elections are a foregone conclusion, the PRI holds the power
to choose officials through nominations which take place behind
closed doors. Similarly the labor
movement offers little opportunity for change, as it is made up
of government-controlle- d
unions.
Labor Crushed
In the few instances in which
the labor movement has become
a force of change, it has been
brutally crushed by the government, as was the 1959 railroad
strike. In the past the student
movement has also been impotent, due to both government
control and brutal repression.
The PRI has also been unable, or unwilling, to cope with

rural poverty. (Ironically, this
was the main issue of the Mexican revolution.) The government's program of land rcfonn
lias consisted of giving landless
peasants small plots of land in
agricultural communities called
ejidos. In these communities the
peasant has use of the land and
its crops, but may not sell the
land. Combined with this land
distribution is a program of government technical and financial
aid to the peasant.

tural credit. Rather than diverting resources to agriculture, the
government has promoted investment in more lucrative industrial
projects.
The net result has been to
divide the land into small, often
inefficient units, which have done
little to raise the standard of
living of the rural population
since the Mexican revolution.
Population Crows
In addition, the land prob--

In actual practice the program
has largely been a failure. Most
of the peasants receiving land
have had little education and
don't adjust readily to modem
agricultural techniques. More important, the government has
failed to put sufficient resources
into technical aid and agricul- -

lem is heightened by population
increases. There is little land
left to distribute to the increasing population, and what is distributed is often of poor quality.
The recent growth of large farming operations has taken up much
of the productive land. As a result, there are still two million
Mexican peasants without land.

TODAY and TOMORROW
Today
An exhibit by the faculty of the UK
School of Architecture is on display
daily, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., In the
gallery of Penc3