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The South's Outstanding College Daily

Wednesday Evening, Oct. 2, 1968

UNIVERSITY

OF KENTUCKY,

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LEXINGTON

Vol. LX, No. 26

At Haggin Hall

SDS Tells View

Of Student Role

By DOTTIE BEAN
Kernel Staff Writer
With student power as the main issue, three members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and about 70 residents of
hour
Haggin Hall participated in a lengthy two and one-ha- lf
Haggin
symposium Tuesday evening.
The symposium, which opened
with the three SDS representa- taxpayers own the buildings but
tives presenting their views on do not have the right to hire
student power and its role in administrators to decide educathe UK community, lapsed into a tional policies regarding the stuheated discussion of SDS views dents themselves.
In the questioning and heated
and objectives with residents
both supporting and opposing discussion which followed, the
SDS members were asked what
many of the ideas projected.
In the
presenta- the University belonging to stution by the SDS members, Jeff dents meant in actual policy.
DeLuca, a graduate student, Hoban replied, "I'd like to see
Doug Morrison and Joe Hoban, administrators administrate not
make policies concerning a stua national SDS member and
organizer student power dent's education and private life.
Educational decisions should be
was defined as essentially "commade by the students and faculmunity power."
DeLuca said that he, as an ty. Administrators are to adminSDS member, feels the University istrate policies made."
is a community and those inQuestioning Ability
volved directly in this communIn response to questioning on
students and faculty
ity
of students to make
the
should make the decisions con- theirability
own policies on educationcerning it.
al and
life, the
SDS members said that students
Right To Make Policy
Qualifying this, DeLuca said are not expected to administrate,
there are two points in the aca- but that they are qualified to
demic area in which students make decisions which concern
and faculty have the definite them. A debate followed.
Hoban stated that he believed
right to make policy decisions
the curriculum and the grad- many administrators are not qualified to make educational deciing system.
Hoban asked his audience, sions affecting the student com"Who does the educational sys- munity. "I really don't think
a lot of administrators know what
tem belong to the administration or those involved in the education means today. We have
educational system the students to be realistic and question their
and the faculty?
abilities to form policies regard"We think it belongs to the ing this."
After a discussion of this point,
students," he stated. He went
on to say that he believed the
Continued on Page 7, CoL 3
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Students at the Koinonia House Tuesday night discuss the problem
and image of the homosexual in America today. A film investigation
by researcher Bryan McCee was shown prior to the discussion.

Psychiatrist Leads Talk

On Homosexuality Today
By CLAY GAUNCE

"Homosexuality In Men And
Women," an investigation by

Bryan McGee, was a film viewed
in the Koinonia House Tuesday
night. The Him was followed by
a discussion concerning homosexuality today, led by a local

psychiatrist who requested
anonymity for fear of jeopardizing the confidence and rapport
he shares with homosexuals under his counsel.
The film was made primarily
in England and Amsterdam, and

Police Evict Rubin Again
From Chicago Investigation
WASHINGTON (AP)-Pol- ice
evicted 14 antiwar protestors and
lawyers Tuesday when they tried
to disrupt a hearing by a House
subcommittee
on
activities probing the bloody Chicago street battles at the Democratic National convention.
Bushy-bearde- d
Yippie leader
Jerry Rubin, a major figure in
the demonstrations, was led from
the House Office Building by
police for the second time in one
day.
Police had grabbed Rubin by
the arms earlier and hustled him
out of the House Office Building
after he tried to enter the hearing room wearing a leather band
dolier ribbed with

to stage a silent protest against
the hearings.
Police ushered them out without resistance.
No immediate arrests were
made, although the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Richard
warned the proIchord,
testors they could be charged
with trying to disrupt Congress.
He told their attorneys they could
be cited for contempt.
"We'll be back Thursday,"
said Rubin, who has been subpoenaed to testify when the hearpause.
ings resume after a one-da- y
D-M-

Pentagon Protestor

Among those evicted was David Dellinger, a leader of the
bullets.
massive peace march on the
Rubin, readmitted after shed- Pentagon a year ago. Dellinger,
ding the live ammunition, car- also a participant at Chicago,
ried a toy M16 rifle into the has been summoned, too.
signs
hearing and made child-lik- e
The subcommittee
voted
of shame at the subcommittee.
Fellow Yippie Abbie Hoffman unanimously to have police restood in the audience to ask move the 14, including four atif he could go to the bathroom. torneys, when the protestors reRubin and Hoffman were lead- fused a request from Ichord to
ers of the antiwar protests dur- take their seats or leave the hearing room.
ing the Democratic National Convention.
Those evicted included Rennie
Removed Twice
Davis and Robert Greenblat, both
The subcommittee ordered the under subpoena to testify Thursprotest leaders and their attor- day, and prominent civil liberties
neys ousted from the room a attorney William Kunstler.
second time when they stood
Rubin, who was booted out
brass-jackete-

two years ago when he appeared
at the hearings in a rented Revolutionary War army costume, was
hustled out again at the outset
Tuesday when he appeared in
guerrilla garb with a painted
face and the bandolier bristling
with live bullets.

Probe Red Involvement
Ichord said the subcommittee ,
would probe the extent of Communist involvement in the bloody
street clashes between protestors
and police during the convention
in Chicago five weeks ago.
He ruled out any inquiry into
d
in
whether police
trying to put down the demonover-reacte-

strations.

Sgt. Joseph Crubisic of the
Chicago police testified that the
protest leaders began planning
for the confrontation at the Democratic convention nearly a year
ago. He quoted minutes of a meeting at which one leader, Tom
Hayden, was reported to have
said that the protests "should
have people organized who can
fight the police, should be willing to get arrested."
Callagher listed groups involved in the demonstrations and
said they represented "Just about
the complete spectrum of the
new left and the old left."

exposed such men as Socrates,
Plato, Alexander the Great, Julius
Caesar, King James I, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Percy
Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Hans Christian Anderson, Tschaikovsky, and
Lawrence of Arabia as possibly
having been homosexuals.
The film revealed that the
ratio of homosexuals to heterosexuals in the world is about
20-and in Amsterdam, where
homosexuality is legal, there are
several clubs where homosexuals
can meet and socialize.
Several confirmed homosexuals were interviewed in the film
and each one of them, when asked
if he or she would rather be
heterosexual if they had it to do
over again, replied yes. The reason they said was that it is so
difficult for the homosexual to
live unpersecuted in a basically
heterosexual world.

Have Hostile Fathers
The movie was concluded by
Dr. Irving Bieber of the New

more promiscuous, although he
did say that just as the movie

illustrated, homosexuals are
searching

for something

more

than just kicks in the sex act.
"They are lonely, frustrated kind
of people," he explained.
In further discussion on the
amount of promiscuity among
homosexuals, the leader stated
that even on the college campus
where people are pinned and
going steady, these people are
also promiscuous. Therefore, the
homosexual can hardly be condemned for this alone, we said.

When the question of homosexuality in nudist colonies was
raised, the speaker said that homosexuality would not likely take
place there as nudist colonies
try to establish more of a "family" relationship where incest is
not allowed.
Complex Problem

The psychiatrist related,
"This is such a complex problem
York Psychological Research Cento really understand it
ter who stated that in most cases one must listen to more than
the homosexual male comes from just one theory." The group leada family where the mother was er further said, "I firmly believe
and the father was that it is an environmental kind
literally hostile to the boy, and of thing. Heredity has little to
vice versa with the female homo- do with it."

...

over-protecti-

sexual.
Immediately
following the
show, a Lexington psychiatrist
held an open discussion concerning the problems of homosexuality, comparing the film with life
today.
It was the opinion of the
homosexuals interviewed in the
film that a homosexual can not
be spotted at first sight. One
student in the discussion group
strengthened this statement by
explaining that he had roomed
with a homosexual while attending Eastern Kentucky University
and didn't know of his roommate's perversion until 18 months
after their introduction.
Searching For Something
Lasting relationships were
prevalent in the film, but the
discussion leader said that on the
surface, at least in the United
States, homosexuals appear to be

One interviewed homosexual
in the movie said that he first
became aware that he had homosexual tendencies at about age
14. The discussion group further
elaborated by concluding that
everyone has some homosexual
tendencies
even though they
aren't always aware of the fact.
They agreed that homosexual
tendencies begin during the age
of puberty.
Regarding homosexuality in
life today, the group discussed
the college student and how he
might tend to take the way of
the pervert. Their main deduction was that the many frustrations which the college student
encounters can be manifested if
the student is not properly counseled, and make a normal student
more prone to become

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, Oct. 2,

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By GARY REXROAT
Art Critic
For anyone who has not
visited the Reynolds Building
over on South Broadway I can
tell you that its looks are truly
deceiving. Outside, a blank brick
finish but inside a blank wood
finish!
Yet inside also are the most
artistically elite of the University campus. It was here tliat I
was to meet a renowned and distinguished member of the circle
of contemporary artists: Ay-Dusty, barren steps led to a
landing that was empty of people. A
sort of sound sauntered subtly
across the floor. (Whew).

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lived a brave and bold young
warrior and a beautiful princess . . . Thrfs, or almost so,
begins the story of "Hagbard

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The story is simple and
straightforward, proceeding from
point to point, like a simple
ballad or folk tale.
The story is basically a tragedy
in the classical sense and if it
seems melodramatic it is because it is not meant to be a
slice of life, but a story of pure,

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An informed smile creased my
face.
Rushing in the direction of the
sounds, I met with a fellow who
had just come out of the men's
room.

"Excuse me,"

I

interrupted,

"but could you direct me to

the studio where those inspired
sounds of creativity are coming

from?"
A puzzled look, then a grin,
then a laugh.
"Yeah," he giggled, "go in
that door that says 'men's,' take
a left, go down three stalls and
there you'll find a freshly flushed
toilet, a truly great sign of man's
creativity on this earth."
Embarrassment reigned heavily on my head.
Anyway, many wrong turns
and several questions later, I
who was readfinally met Ay-ing what looked like a Japanese
novel at the time. I found that he
was born in Japan in 1931 and
at 23 graduated from the Kyoiku
University in Tokyo. Since then
he has presented his various
works in one man shows and in
group shows such as the International Art Exhibition in Tokyo
and the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York. He
has also exhibited his talents
in Germany, Canada, Venice and
throughout the United States.
A novice to the art of art,
I could not even begin to exart forms. He is
plain Ay-O-'s
a contemporary artist and has
experimented successfully with
a form of art called "environment." Which are solid structures
like little houses, built with only
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By JEANNIE LEEDOM
Kernel Staff Writer
How culturally oriented is UK?
According to the UK calendar of campus events, this year
seems to be abundant with concerts, theater productions and
guest lectures.
Some of the concerts sche- end for only fifty cents per person.
duled for this fall are the Univer- Some of the movies to be shown
sity Symphony Orchestra, Oct. 3; are "Barabbas", "Georgy Girl",
the University Choristers, Nov. "A Raisin in the Sun", "A Man
17; the Lexington Philharmonic,
for All Seasons", "Cat Ballou"
Dec. 5 and 6; the University and "Elmer Cantry".
Chorus and Symphony, Dec. 8;
If this cultural entertainment
and the Men's and Women's Glee
seems to be a drag, there are
Clubs, Dec. 11.
The Central Kentucky Concert always jam sessions. Creek acand Lecture Series are also avail- tivities and UK intramurals to
able for UK students. This term liven up the campus scene.
The Student Center Board
the series is presenting Coldovsky
with "Carmen" sponsors jam sessions frequently
Opera Company
on Oct. 14, speaker Jules Bergman during the semester in the Grand
on Oct. 22, Metropolitan Opera Ballroom or the SC Patio. Several
of the bands they feature are the
soprano Birgit Nilsson on Nov.
Wellingtons, the Mag 7, the Stu11, the Minneapolis Symphony
dents of Soul and Gary Edwards
Orchestra on Nov. 15, news commentator Elie Abel on Nov. 25 and the Embers.
Greek activities include
and duo pianists Ronald and
jam sessions, derbies, forJeffrey Marlowe on Dec. 11.
The Cuignol Theater is ma Is and parties.
Intramural events offer chalplanning two productions this
fall which will be available to UK lenging experiences in golf, tenstudents for a small fee.
nis, badminton, ping pong, volThe Student Center Film leyball, basketball, bowling and
Series provides movies each week
handball.
hay-ride-

Big Brother and the Holding Company, featuring the vocals of
Janis Joplin, will appear in Cincinnati at the Music Hall on Sun
day, Oct. 13.
The group, one of the best
of the underground rock sounds,
will give two performances at 4
and 8 p.m.
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forceful style and undulating delivery.
Big Brother's latest album,
"Cheap Thrills," has sold rapidly
since its release about a month
ago.
The performance is sponsored
by Squack Productions. Tickets
are available by mail from the
Community Ticket Office 29 W.
4th St., Cincinnati 45202. Prices
for the tickets are five, four and
three dollars.

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N. Vietnam Spurns HHH
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American military action against solutely nothing new" in Humthe North must be unconditional.
phrey's offer.
The implication appeared to
In a campaign broadcast Monday, Humphrey said that if be that it did not differ from
elected president he would stop President Johnson's position. The
bombing the North but only if North Vietnamese have offered
he saw "evidence of Communist verbal assurances that "positive
efforts" would follow an unconwillingness to restore the demilitarized zone between North and ditional American bombing, but
the Humphrey pledge was viewed
South Vietnam."
Le Due Tho, Hanoi politburo as by no means unconditional.
The Soviet news agency Tass
member and one of the North
Vietnamese delegates at the Paris also said "no new approach"
could be detected in Humphrey's
peace talks, said he saw "ab- speech broadcast from Salt Lake

President

Hubert H. Humphrey's qualified
t
pledge was brushed
off by a North Vietnamese spokesman in Faris Tuesday as "still
the same demand for reciprocity
which we reject."
The North Vietnamese have
long spumed American demands
for prior assurances that the Com-

bomb-hal-

munists display matching restraint after a halt in the bombing of the North. They have insisted instead that a cutoff of

Berkeley Course Starts
With Quiet, Caution
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP)

Bomb-Hal-

An experimental

course on racism,

with Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver scheduled as a future lecturer,
got off to a quiet start Tuesday at the University of California.
Chancellor Roger Heyns read
demanded by sponily conceded that the simmering lectures as
sors.
controversy over Cleaver's ap"If the senate takes a very
pointment could boil up into a confrontational posture then very
campus disruption, depending on
a diswhat the Berkeley faculty senate possibly we could have said.
rupted campus," Heyns
does Thursday.
Cleaver is minister of inforThat influential body is being
asked to decide whether to ac- mation of the militant Negro
cept a regents' decision that there Black Panther party. An
should be but one Cleaver aphe is on parole from conpearance and no credit for the victions including assault with
course or credit and 10 Cleaver intent to commit murder.

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Pledge

em diplomat, "Just like Humphrey said he's ready to take a

visiting foreign ministers
from the Philippines and The
Netherlands demonstrated the diverse overseas reactions sparked
by Humphrey's pledge.
York,

risk."

Officials in the U.S. peace

delegation here declined all

com-

ment on Humphrey's speech,
obeying orders to steer clear of
the presidential election campaign.
At the United Nations in New

J.M.A.H. Luns of The Netherlands called it "a real concession" and "a very constructive

proposal."

Card Section Full
Of Spirit, Students

City, Utah.
It said Humphrey's speech
was "clearly calculated to win
over to his side the numerous
"Co Cats!" will be the familiar cry of thousands of UK supvoters resolutely denouncing the porters again this Saturday when the Wildcats take on Auburn
dirty war in Vietnam and de- in the second home game. Foremost among the leaders of the
Wildcat spirit will be a full section of card flashers, which sponsors
manding that it be ended."
Some foreign diplomats feel, say is unique to the Southeastern Athletic Conference.
however, that Hanoi might surAccording to A. W. Morgan of
prise its Moscow supporters, as it the Student Ticket Office, bv white cards will spell out hopedid when it accepted President
1:30 p.m. Tuesday all of the 400
fully victory for the Wildcats.
seats reserved for the Wildcat
Johnson's offer of preliminary
The Wildcat Card Section,
Card Section had been taken. newly formed this year, will be
peace talks in Paris.
As the spirit is aroused as kick-oon hand to back the Cats, not
They reason that Hanoi could
calculate Humphrey will prove
time Saturday approaches,
only orally, but visually with
easier to deal with than any of Section B of the north side of cheers spelled out in poster cards
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his rivals. Following this logic, the stadium should be a focal during
and between
the North Vietnamese might de- point when a mass of blue and quarters.
cide to make a response to his
speech, thus hoping to ease his
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way into the White House.
"The North Vietnamese would
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State Junior Colleges
Seek Federal Funds
MOREHEAD (AP)-S- ix
Kentucky junior colleges announced
plans Tuesday to cooperate in seeking federal funds i
ihe six include Alice Lloyd, recruiting and find ways for stu- Lees, St. Catherine's, and South dents to earn more money for
east Christian, all private insti- college expenses.
tutions, plus the Henderson and
The
agreement was
Southeast Community Colleges reached at a two-da- y
meeting at
of the University of Kentucky. Morehead State University. A
The federal aid will be sought specific program is expected to
to improve faculty education and be presented to the U.S. Office
administrative efficiency, add of Education for financing next
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* Boycott Grapes
The efforts of California grape
pickers to organize themselves into
a meaningful labor union deserve
the support of every citizen concerned with the basic issues of
human dignity and freedom.
The grape workers, under the
leadership of Cesar Chavez; are now
in the 43rd month of a strike against
the grape industry. The concessions
which they are seeking are so elementary that many may not believe the workers have not already
obtained them The demands are
for a minimum hourly wage, sanitary working conditions, a seniority system to protect workers of
long standing and an end to
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Although several of the large
wineries have agreed to the workers
demands, the table grape industry
remains largely untouched by the
strike. It is clear that if the struggle
of the grape workers is to succeed,
it must have support from the
public in a meaningful fashion.
The most meaningful way that
members of the UK community
can contribute to this cause is
through a boycott of California
table grapes. If the efforts of Chavez
and his United Farm Workers are
successful, a new era will be opened
in labor relations in this country.
Abstention from grape eating seems
a small price to pay social justice
for thousands of Americans.

A Good Yank
George Wallace has revealed in an interview with the New York
Times that a syndicate of wealthy Alabamians have created a fund
to reimburse any policemen docked pay for wearing political (Wallace) buttons while on duty.
He urges the lawmen to wear the buttons despite the fact that
doing so violates the regulations of most police departments. This
lack of concern for adherence to the rules, by those whom we most
expect to conform to them seems a clear contradiction to the candidate's expressed concern for "law and order."
But then, we never really believed the
impassioned
pleas anyway. He himself demonstrates the height of hypocrisy when
he
shouts, "and if they (hippy protestors) lay down
in front of my car, it'll be the last time they ever do." He doesn't
say he'll run over them, of course, but this is clearly what he would
have his listeners believe.
Perhaps his performance is no better than that of the demonstrators
who assert the errors in his ways. They criticize his political beliefs,
his legal interpretations, his proposed methods of law enforcement.
He criticizes the nation's highest court, its legal interpretations, its
views on law enforcement.
What is the difference between "righteous indignation" and "wanton
disrespect?" George's hair is also long enough to "give a good yank,"
as he advocates, and perhaps it would be just as appropriate to do so.

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OCT. 2, 1968

Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.
Lee

B. Becker,

Editor-in-Chi-

Kernel Forum: the readers write

To the Editor of the Kernel
I think it rather ironic that our Faculty
Senate wants to impose a speaker policy
on students which is designed to keep
irrelevant speakers from using the University as a forum. It is ironic because
most of the speakers who visit our campus
each year to give public addresses are
irrelevant. The latest case in point is Al
Capp, that great intellectual from up East.
These speakers are irrelevant in the sense
that they usually have very little to say
of intellectual importance. If they aren't
outright banal, prosaic, or inane, they
are little more than entertaining. Thus,
our new speaker policy says in effect Al
Capp and people like him are relevant
and the Elridge Cleaver's are not.
Our new campus speaker policy is
amoral victory for the administration and
all of the other apathetic academicians
who think the principle of free speech has
been soundly established. The AAUP proposed a speaker policy which contained
no subtle provisions for censorship. A
good speaker policy should function as
a reminder to everyone that the hallmark
of a genuine university is its willingness
to provide a forum for speakers whose
ideas are alien and oftentimes offensive
to society in general. Our present speaker
this commitment
policy does not
to free speech, but rather it signifies the
academic community's
willingness to
make a political compromise as a means of
pacifying those in our society who have
never understood or appreciated the free
speech principle'.
The Faculty Senate preceives speakers
who visit our campus in the same light
as athletics. University sponsored athletic
events have traditionally served the entertainment needs of the larger society.
Campus speakers, almost by definition,
cannot be selected for either their entertainment value or their popularity, otherwise the process of education would be
impaired. One test of whether a proposed

speaker is relevant to the educational
goals and mission of the University might
be to see if the proposed speaker is
designated as a "troublemaker" by the
community. Unfortunately,
our new speaker policy has the potential
for keeping such individuals off the
campus. As suggested in the first paragraph, we only need to protect the free
speech of the Elridge Cleaver's of the
world and not the Al Capps; and if our
own Faculty Senate can't fathom this
point, then we ought to resign ourselves
to being in the entertainment business.

Is Kirk so absolutely sure that the remedies espoused by his own country are
the only workable ones? Are these remedies accomplishing anything in Vietnam or must 25,000 more men die to
prove their futility?
If Kirk is not willing to respond objectively and honestly to these questions,
then at least let him allow others to do
so freely.
I suggest that John Kirk investigate
more thoroughly and openly the ideologies
of dedicated thinkers before he unjustly
assails others who sincerely seek solutions,
regardless of their sources.
Lawrence S. Tarpey, Sr.
If Kirk's aversive attitude, which is
Professor, Business Administration based not on sound reason but on
emotionalism and unfounded misconceptions, is indicative of even a minority in
To the Editor of the Kernel:
this university, we need not one but many
Democracy, the ideology that has
Leonard Jordans who, by their courage
liberated myriad individuals from the coercive dictates of would-b- e oppressors, was to speak out, guarantee the rights of
founded upon the inalienable and innate all to dissent whenever it is necessary.
Kirk's attitude catalyzes such a necessity.
right to dissent without fear of recrimiic

nation.

There is an "outspoken" would-b- e
oppressor on this campus who would deny
this right to others under the mistaken
guise of patriotism, as if patriotism were
the sole and complete embodiment of what
it means to be a responsible citizen. This
would-b- e
oppressor fails to distinguish
between the primary responsibility implicitly endowed in all men toward the
ideals of mankind by virtue of his solidarity with all men and the secondary
responsibility toward the ideals of his
country which may be in conflict with
the former. Does not the former take
precedence over the latter?
Chauvinism in excess, as John Kirk
seems to revel in, very often renders one
incapable of recognizing possible alternative or opposing solutions to the problems of humanity such as those propounded by Karl Marx, who certainly
would not endorse the tactics of modern
Kirk implies in his letter.
Communism.

John Rotter
Graduate Student
To the Editor of the Kernel:
Had a freshman from his sheltered
home in rural Kentucky written the letter concerning Leonard Jordan and Karl
Marx, it could have been lightly passed
over. Dut the fact that it was written
by a graduate student in our academically
respectable College of Law is nothing
short of an intellectual atrocity.
In the Arm belief that Mr. Kirk should
begin immediately to bridge the intellectual gap between freshman and graduate student, I offer a few initial suggestions that may help him to begin
this task:
That he read the article in question
in its entirety so that, when he is searching
for his
quotes, he doesn't
miss complete ideas such as Jordan's
"we certainly wouldn't, .equate. hinv
extra-contextu- al

Marx with Communism as we know
it today."
That law student Kirk personally inspect the real humanistic and social
scientific writings of Marx before pronouncing the man guilty without benefit
of a trial.
And that, before he sends any information concerning Leonard Jordan to
the Governor, h