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The South's Outstanding College Daily

Wednesday Evening, Jan. 31, 1968

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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

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Vol.

LIX, No. 88

Speaker Ban Is
'Awful Danger,'
Legislator Says

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By LARRY DALE KEELING
Two Republican legislators expressed doubt Tuesday night that
any joint resolution to stop the statewide antiwar conference at
URnext month would pass the Kentucky General Assembly.
The legislators, Rep. Arthur
L. Schmidt of Cold Spring and
"But we must remember
Rep. Ken Harper of Ft. Mitchell, whose university this is," the
were speaking at a meeting of two-terrepresentative continthe URfoung Republicans.
ued. "It isn't just the, students'
The legislature cer"First of all, the resolution university. a right to voice its
has
hasn't been introduced as far as tainly in the matter."
I know," Rep. Harper said. "I opinion
haven't seen the resolution as
The two legislators differenyet."
tiated between two types of resolutions. They said a "simple"
The representative added, "I
resolution would merely voice
B.
think the governor (Louie
the "opinion" of the House of
Nunn) answered the question
well when he said no legislation Representatives.
is needed that it is entirely up
"It has no force, in effect,"
to the Board of Trustees."
said Rep. Harper.
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Animal Shelter

Tuesday's showers were bad enough for this
homeless puppy. But the dog was apparently ill
and campus police called the Lexington Animal
Shelter to have the dog taken away. An official
at the shelter said the dog will be destroyed

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unless it gets over its sickness within a few days,
Then the dog will have a few more days' re-prieve to see :f someone wants to adopt it. Any- one need a dog?

"I think there is an awful
danger in passing legislation to
keep someone from speaking,"
added Rep. Schmidt.

LincolnSchool: UK Breakthrough
GRETA FIELDS

State College, plus one faculty
member from the College of Ed-

It's the first school of its kind
in the United States a boarding
high school for culturally deprived, gifted children that operates
for a full academic year.
Lincoln School is at Lincoln
Ridge, near Simpsonville, in Shelby County.
It's operated by UK's College of Education in contract with
the school's board. The state
puts up the money.
Lincoln opened last Sept. 5
with a student body of 60 freshmen and sophomores. Sixty more
will be added each year until
an enrollment of about 250 is
reached.
The student body is integrad
are Negro and
ted; some
the rest white, Dr. William J.
Tisdall, director of the school,
ratio is about
says. The boy-gione-thir-

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ucation.
The criteria the committee use
to select students are flexible,
Dr. Tisdall emphasized. "You
have to take each case on its
own merits."
There is no set IQ
point used in choosing, he said,
since IQ scores may be spurious
when used to measure the intelligence of culturally deprived
cut-o-

palachia. The remaining fourth
are from homes scattered all over
the state.
They come from 18 counties,
from, as far as Covington in the
north, Columbia in the south
and from Grayson in the east
to Princeton in the west.
Students are nominated by
their home scliools and are examined by a selection committee made up of school superintendents, officials of the state

and Louisville.
come from Ap--

one representative of Kentucky

one-four-

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He lives in residence for the
full academic term. His life outside the classroom is governed
according to rules set up by a
student government in conjunction with a Student Life Committee of faculty members and
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"I must admit that I signed
the resolution," said Rep. Schmidt. "But when I signed it, I
was informed that it was a simple resolution expressing the opinion of the House."

"I am in favor of a simple
resolution," he added, "but I
am not in favor of a joint
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children.

About 60 percent of the students come from urban areas.
About half come from the Jefferson County
About

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The representatives said a
joint resolution of both houses of
the legislature requires the governor's signature and has the effort
of a law.

Department of Education and

Teacher's recommendations,
however, are a major consideration. Teacher's comments, students' past grades and other
school achievement records are
looked at closely, because they
may reflect effort, willingness to
learn and expressions of concealed potential.
And the school's psychologist and social worker visit the
home of the child to talk to
him and his parents.
Then, if he is accepted, the
student goes to live at the school
in one of its dormitories.

Hold U.S. Embassy For Hours

Communists Storm Saigon
By

EUGENE

V.

RISIIER

(UPI)-Commu-

six-ho-

battle.
Frightened residents were

dered evacuated from Viet

areas on the outskirts
allied planes could divebomb
guerrillas threatening Tan Son
Nhut airbase, nerve center of the
allied war effort.
Casualty figures in Saigon
were incomplete but were
to number hundreds on
infested

nist
SAICON
guerrillas invaded Saigon today
and turned this city of two million into a battleground. The govevacuated contested
ernment
areas and allied planes bombed
the Viet Cong strongholds.
President Nguyen Van Thieu
declared nationwide martial law.
Guerrilla infiltrators in army
uniforms but wearing red arm
bands for identification battled
with machineguns, bazookas and
hand grenades in the Saigon
stieets and invaded the U.S. Embassy. American paratroopers
landed on the roof by helicopter
and retook the embassy in a

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each side. A spokesman reported
1,788 guerrillas killed in the countryside fighting and that allied
losses were "light." One report
said 40 American were killed
and 100 wounded.
One of the casualties was an
news photographer
American
shot to death near national police headquarters in Saigon,
accidentally by MP's.
President Ho Chi Minh of
North Vietnam, in a broadcast
over Radio Hanoi, said he was

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"very happy with the victories"
of the Viet Cong in the past
two days. He said this was "an
answer to a speech by (president) J ol in son two weeks ago
saying the Americans were winning the war."
The only fairly quiet area
was around the big U.S. marine
bastion of Khe Sanh in the extreme northeast corner of South

Vietnam. U.S. officials said they
believed the next big blow by
North
Vietnam would come
there.
President Johnson was being
kept informed moment by moment of the progress of the Communist offensive which was the
greatest they have ever mounted
and the first to hit this sprawling
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Students often wonder about the function of the brick "silo" next
Chemistry-Physic- s
Building. It actually contains a Van ii
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Craaf generator used to create
eration of atomic particles.
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