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The South's Outstanding College Daily

Tuesday Evening, Oct. 22, 1908

UNIVERSITY

OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LX, No. 40

More Arrests Expected

Four Students Arrested
For Illegal Drug Sales

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By GUY MENDES

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Associate Editor
Six people, four of them University students,
were arrested Monday night and charged with
illegal selling of narcotics. According to police,
more arrests will follow in what is the culmination
of a
drug investigation.
UK students arrested were: Allen Holmgren,
23, 418 Aylesforcl Eric Friedlander, 21, 344 S.
Upper; Jeanna Butler, 20, and William Shelby,
20, both of 429 Aylesford.
The other two arrested were Virgil Estepp,
22, 516 VV. Third; and a Lafayette
student, Margaret Humphrey, 18, 527 VV. Third.
The six people were held overnight without
bond and were scheduled to be arraigned today at
1:30 p.m. If convicted, they face one to five years
in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Confiscated
Three bottles of pills, 16 bags of marijuana, a
needle and syringe were confiscated by police.
The pills were not identified.
According .o city detective Sgt. Frank Fryman,
the arrests were "a result of an investigation by
myself, several recruits and a federal agent." He
said the investigation is continuing and further
arrests will be made.
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The arrests were made after warrants for the
six people were sworn out. No actual raids were

conducted. Apparently the police got their information through the work of undercover agents.
Dean of Students Jack Hall met with the UK
students following their arrests. Hall later said
the University was "going to look into the charges,
as they concern students."
No Disciplinary Action
Hall said he anticipated no disciplinary action
would be taken by the University against the
students. Under the Students' Rights Code which
was adopted by the University in the Spring of
1967, the scliool is not responsible for actions of
its students. Action can be taken against students
only if their actions endanger other students or
UK property.
When asked if the University played any part
in the investigation, Hall refused comment.
The drug "bust" was the third concerning the
University in the past three years. Last April a
UK law students was charged with possession
of marijuana and LSD. In the spring of 1966, a
technician at the UK Medical Center was arrested for making LSD.

Black Athletes Refused Service
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Maine Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, vice presidential
running mate of Hubert Humphrey, will speak
at 11 a.m., Oct 31 at a Presidential Convocation
m Memorial Coliseum. Both Humphrey and
were inviled by tne University.

By JIM MILLER
Kernel Sports Editor
Wilbur Hackett and Houston
Hogg, the two black members of
the University football team,
were refused service Saturday
night in a Baton Rouge grill following the Wildcats' 13-- 3 loss to
LSU.

The two, both sophomores,

Role Of Community College Debated
By CHARLES BOWEN

Kernel Staff Writer
The role of community colleges in the relation to the Lexington campus was the topic of
debate at the University Senate
meeting Monday night.
The special meeting, attended
by representatives of the UK it
community college system,
was called for the purpose of discussing the proposed revision of
the governing regulations of the
University of Kentucky.
Why are there no members
of the University Senate from
the community colleges? that
was inevitably the question of
the evening.
The suggested revision says
that community colleges would
form their own faculty councils
to recommend
) academic policies of the
Community College System;
curricula, courses and other
academic offerings of the community colleges;
policies and regulations
eming admission, promotion,
probation and dismissal that are
applicable to community college
students;
Academic Calendar
an academic calendar consistent with the University System calendar;
regulations concerning student affairs as they affect academic policies of the Community
College System;
College System;
'
criteria for appointments, reappointments, promotions and
granting of tenure in the Community College System;

candidates for associate degrees and certificates from the
Community College System.

'Consistent
One member of the senate
said that the phrase "consistent
with the University System"
should be added to most of the
described functions of the community college.
Lewis W. Cochran, Craduate
Dean, asked what would happen
UK Senif the two faculties-t- he
ate, and the Community College Senates would arrive at policies that were completely incompatible.
Dean Ellis Hartford dean of
community colleges, said that

colleges'
community
policies
st rived to meet the Lexington
campus standards.
Another member said that
community colleges take "the
prestige of UK without the academic (standards)

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Poor Communication
Ellis said that communication
between main campus and the
community colleges, especially
concerning class changes, was
poor. "In some cases," said one
community college representative, "we teach a semester of a
class that has been dropped because we didn't hear soon
enough" about the class change.
It was mentioned that there

is a ten day waiting period before a class schedule is changed.
A community college representative pointed out that mail to
the community colleges is sent
in a bulk and "by the time
it's sorted out and sent to the individual colleges, and sorted out
and sent to the individual instructors, the ten day waiting
period is pretty useless to us."
Dr. Ralph II . Weaver of the
Biological Science Department,
who was head of the revision,
said that there would be no voting by the University Senate on
the revised regulations until they
have discussed all new aspects.
The discussion will continue
Monday.

Soldiers Lead Peace March
By PHIL SEMAS
SAN FRANCISCO (CPS) --

Superficially it looked like most
other peace marches. There were
the disorganized throng gathering
in a park, monitors with bullhorns trying to get order, and
people selling peace literature.
But this march was different.
It was not led by draft resist ers
or pacificists or radicals or hippies, but by soldiers.
The difference showed in
many ways. It was a quiet march,
without the singing and chanting
of slogans that usually mark such
affairs. And there were no right-win- g
hecklers, for who could call
these peace marchers cowards?
There were about 20,000 who
either marched or attended the
rally afterward half of them

were servicemen, reservists, and
veterans of Vietnam and previous
wars, or both. They set out from
the Panhandle of San Francisco's
Colden Cate Park, led by about
300 active-dut- y
servicemen, a few
in uniform.
Leaves Cancelled
There might have been more
active duty servicemen marching,
but local armed service bases
scheduled special marches and
maneuvers for this weekend.
Leaders of the march had failed
to get an injunction against the
special maneuvers. One installation, the Presidio of San Francisco, abruptly cancelled all
leaves and pusses.
Several soldiers went AWOL
to join the march. Four of them,
accompanied by some of theden- -

and Don Porterfield, went to a

had gone with the other team nearby grill where they sat down
members to the Holiday Inn reto order.
staurant, where the Kentucky
Can't Serve 'Friends
group was staying, but the HI
restaurant was four places short.'
"The woman at the counter
told Hugliie (Bland) that she
Hogg and Hackett along with
would serve them," said Hackett
white teammates Hugh Bland
a starting linebacker from Louisville, "but that she couldn't serve

onstrators, went to the Presidio
afterwards to turn themselves in
to military police.
The organizers of the march
also had trouble getting information onto some of the bases.
One group, including Navy nurse
Susan Schnall, who marched at
the head of Saturday's parade,
dropped leaflets on several Navy
installations from a private plane.
The Federal Aviation Agency
threatened to fine the plane's
pilot for flying too low and although a Navy spokesman said
no action was planned at present
against Lt. Schnall, he added
that a "higher authority" might
lave more to say about the incident.
After a march through the
Continued on Paje 8, Col. 3

their two friends ( Hogg and
Hackett).
"The woman pointed around
a corner to a little counter outside where we would have to
eat," said Hackett.
Hogg said they refused to
leave, but that when it was apparent the woman would not
serve them, the four UK players
left. The four went back to the
motel and reported the incident
to the rest of the team.
Hogg said one player told
him, "They can't do that to you,"
and proceeded to return to the
grill with several other players.
The woman at the counter, on
seeing the players enter the
restaurant, said, "I know I won't
serve you now,"and called the
parish county sheriff and state
police.

Wanted To Co To Bed
Hogg said the state police
came to the motel, took the
Blacks' names and addresses, and
left.
"That was the first time it
had ever happened to me," said
Hogg. "It made me feel pretty
bad. After it happened I just
wanted to go back to the motel
and go to bed."
Hogg said the grill was more
of a second-rat- e
restaurant.
"They served beer and a couple
of fellows in there were drunk. We
only went there because we were
hungry after the game and didn't
want to wait for the restaurant
at the motel to have a place."
The grill, denying the axiom

of "southern hospitality,"

dis-

played a large George Wallace
poster, with the slogan "Let
George Do It" underneath. "The
woman and most of the people
in there looked like they d just
come out of the boondocks,"
said Hogg.
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TUE KENTUCKY KERNEL Tuesday, Oct.

22, 1W8

Dr. Elimaim Elected A&S Professor Of Year
By SUE ANNE SALMON
Dr. William D. Ehmann, professor of chemistry, is the 19G8-0- 9
Distinguished Professor of the
Year in the College of Arts and
Sciences.
The
radiochemist
and meteorite specialist was
elected in May by his faculty
colleagues in the college as the
25th Distinguished Professor of

the Year.

Dr. Ehmann will be given
leave spring semester to do research at the Institute for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
lie will prepare a public address to be presented at the annual lecture of the Distinguished
Professor in 1969. Dr. A. D.
wan, Distinguished Professor of
1967-Gpresented thelecturelast
year.

"My interest is in the chemistry of meteorites," Dr. Ehmann
says. "And my background is in
the field of radiochemist ry applications of techniques of nuclear physics to the solution of
problems of chemistry."
Nuclear Reactors
He uses nuclear reactors and
accelerators instead of chemical
procedures to work with his collection of meteorite specimens
he obtained by writing to museums like the Smithsonian Institution.
As an assistant professor, Dr.
Eluii an n in 1958 came to UK
because he "thought the opportunities were good." He was
promoted to associate professor
in 1963 and to full professor
in 1966.
Dr. Ehmann was a Fulbright
Scholar in Canberra, Australia,,
when he was ap--'
in 1964-6-

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Graduate and Professional Students
APPLICATIONS
for positions on the Graduate &
Applications
Professional section of the University of Ken-

5,

are now available in the office
tucky
of the Vice President for Student Affairs and
the Dean of Students Office. The application
period has been reopened due to a scarcity of
applications. Applications must be returned
before October 25, 1968.

Olson To Speak
Independent senatorial candi-

pointed

the

an lionorary fellow of

Institute for Advanced

Studies, Canberra. He received
a $300 UK Alumni Research
Award in 1964.
In May, he signed a $15,000
contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration through the UK Research
analFoundation for an
ysis of returned lunar samples.
Contracts
Since 1959 he has received
a total of $291,478 in research
and equipment contracts from
governmental and other agencies,
plus a $13,500 contract not yet
funded from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for neutron
analysis of tobacco products.
Since I960 he has served as
project director of a research pro

Julian Bond, founder of the
Committee on Appeal for Human
Rights, will speak here October

31.

Olson, of Louisville,
vited to speak here by
dents for a Democratic
He is running on a
which includes an
War plank.

Bond, currently serving as a
member of the Georgia House of
Representatives, was first elected
to that seat when it was created
by reapportionment in 19G5. He
was then prevented from taking
office by members of the legislature who objected to his state- -

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ject for the Atomic Energy Commission.
He has written for 41 publications in the field of meteorite
research and neutron activation
analysis.
A native of Madison, Wis.,
Dr. Ehmann received degrees
from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. degree from
Carnegie InstituteofTechnology.
While at Carnegie Tech he was
a research assistant withtheU.S.
Atomic Energy Commission and
research
later was a
associate for the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences at Argonne National Laboratory for which he
still serves as consultant.
Dr. Ehmann has fourcliildren
and belongs to several professional organizations.

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After winning a second election in 1966 to fill his vacant
seat, a special House Committee
again voted to bar him from membership in the legislature.
Bond won a third election
in November, 1966, at which time
the United States Supreme Court
mled unanimously
that the
Georgia House had erred in refusing him his seat.
Bond is a member of the Executive Committee of the Atlanta NAACP, and a member of the
Board of the Highlander Research
and Education Center. He has
been a Research Associate of the
Voter Education Project of the
Southern Regional Council.
Bond will speak at 7:30 p.m.
in the Crand Ballroom of the
Student Center.

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OZIQ Mails Kernel Petitions To Student Leaders
The "dissatisfied with the
Kernel policies petition" recently
posted in several dormitories has
now been sent to campus student
leaders.
An accompanying letter with
the petition reads:
"Dear Student Leader.

Enclosed you will find a petition which we would hope to be
circulated among the members
of your organization.
Please read the petition care-hill- y
and also request your members to tk) the same. We are not
requesting your promotion of this
petition we are only interested
in assuring that every organira-Niger- ia
zation member as well as every
student of this University has
the opportunity to sign.
If any member has already
A Nigeria-Biafr-a
relief fund, signed a petition please have
sponsored nationally
by the 'them to sign again as a member
United Nations Children's Fund, of your organization. You will
has been initiated on the UK
campus.
The national organization has
been attempting since last April
to bring emergency relief to millions of helpless children and
their mothers trapped on both
is turning up the fever this
sides of a civil war without food
and medicine.
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TUESDAY,

OCT. 22, 1968

Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.
Lee D. Becker,
Darrell Rice, Managing Editor
David Ilolwcrk, Editorial rage Editor
Tom Derr, Business Manager
, Associate Editor
Guy M. Mendcs,
Howard Mason, Photography Editor
Jim Miller, Sports Editor
Chuck Koehler,
Dana Ewcll,
Janice Barber
Terry Dunham,
Larry Dale Keeling,
Assistant Managing Editors
Editor-in-Chi-

Black Truth
The United States Olympic
Committee, by its dismissal of athletes Tommy Smith and John Carlos has brought embarrassment to
this country and has, at the same
time, shown itself to be pitifully
ignorant of the real nature of
the competition which makes up the
Olympic games.
What Carlos and Smith are guilty of is raising a gloved first while
the "Star Spangled Banner" was
played. They raised their fists because, as men and as Blacks, they
knew only too well that what this
country has to offer them is not
what it has to offer to
When Smith and Carlos raised
their fists, they were only giving
visual protest to the conditions
which the Kemer Report delineated. What these two athletes
were really guilty of was revealing
to the whole world that America
is indeed a racist country and that
the oppressed people in this country know it. This is, apparently,
why the State Department immediately repealed both men's passports, giving them only forty-eighours to get out of Mexico. After'
all, it just won't do to have a
couple of guys going around winning races and telling the truth.
But this is strange thinking indeed. It implies that the Olympic
Games and the Olympic Committees exist only for the furthering of
the various nations involved. It implies further that athletic ability
alone is not enough to insure a
man the chance to compete in the
non-Black-

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competition; rather, it
a man must agree to all
seems,

world-wid-

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the petty rules and whims of the
nation in which he is living.
But this is not what the competition is about. When the runners step on the track it's not the
United States versus the Soviet
Union versus Poland. Nor is it any
ideology versus any opposing ideology. It is the individual athletes
against each other, each man proving that he is the best in the world.
Smith and Carlos are the best
in their specialty,
the 200 meter sprint. And having
just proven this, havingjust proven
that they were the best men in
the world, what were they expected
to do? Were they expected to stand
by while a song played which
reminded them of the injustices in
this country? Were they, the best
men in the world in their fields,
supposed to stand there like sheep,
supposed to act only when the Man
said to act?
Of course not, and therein lies
the fact which the American Olympic Committee and the United
States Department of State seemed
capable of understanding. The
Olympics is proud, fierce competition, contested by proud, fierce
men. To ask that a man would
repress his pride and dignity because this country allowed him
to prove his greatness is sheer
stupidity. And only if Smith and
Carlos had done it should this
country have been embarrassed.
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Kernel Forum: the readers write
To the Editor of the Kernel:
In Reference to your October 7 Editorial, "Dead Dixie."
Your apparent delight in the defeat
of the Dixie Bill obviously stems from the
fact that it was "a major victory for the
New Students for Action and Responsibility," and that "many other campus
activists from CARSA and SDS" were
in attendance at that "most memorable
Student Government meeting in that grand
old body's history." How the SDS,
or a Kernel reporter, for that
matter, could enhance any gathering is
beyond me, especially since their representatives were in complete ignorance
about the words of the tune that they
were trying to do away with.
As for Dixie being "widely recognized
to have racist overtones," I would like
to see the statistics that back up that
gross generalization! I personally witnessed the playing of Dixie at Saturday
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night's football game, and though it was
played softly and had been altered somewhat, few students that heard it failed
to recognize it.
I further witnessed sincere remarks of
disbelief that the UK students had used
the song as a means of expressing hatred
for their fellow students. Admittedly, a
few students may use Dixie to vent their
feelings, but this prejudiced minority
shouldn't be allowed to hinder the spirit
that has been traditional at UK athletic
events, by forcing them to eradicate their
traditional fight song!
As for a student referendum on Dixie,
I think the thunderous applause that it
receives and the enthusiasm that it provides should be sufficient testimony to
the feelings of the vast majority of UK
students.
Ken Fem
A 6c S Sophomore

By BOB BROWN

LEXINGTON (BS) Here in the region
that is usually regarded as the apathy
apex of America an issue of chaotic proportions has erupted, the ramifications

of which may generate universal upheaval.
The issue seems to center around something as insignificant as a song, but as
both proponents and opponents can tell
you, it is far more complicated than that.
The encounter began to brew several
months ago when a member of the concerned clique found something he could
become concerned about. While visiting
a nearby campus tliis student noticed that
the campus newspaper, The Progress,
had printed numerous stories concerning
the performance of the song "Dixie"
at athletic events. One of the stories
was a reprint of an earlier article printed
in a major national daily suggesting that
by means of indirect connotation perhaps
the song was offensive to a segment
of the campus. Immediately the alert
UK student realized that he too sltould
be offended for it was to his race that the
article referred. After a good deal of
rationalized tliought the student was
jolted to think this smaller institution had
made such an issue of the affair while
Ids beloved UK had completely ignored it.
Upon his return to UK the unidentified
student notified his sore brothers of their
inistreatment, and they, seething in anger,
proceeded to pull at the threads of the
traditional cloth which had so long

smothered them without their knowing it.
Only a limited amount of dissent could
be aired at the time, but during the summer months definite plans were formulated wliich were designed to shread
the cloth of racism from seam to seam.
Fall 1968 brought the magnitude of the
issue to the forefront. Members of most
concerned minority groups on campus
coalesced to form the Committee for The
Rapid Institution of Very Intense Action (Committee for TRIVIA). The purpose of this committee was to acquaint
the entire population with the injustices
inherent in their actions.
The proponents of TRIVIA multiplied
at a geometric rate. The President of the
University soon advocated TRIVIA's demands, as did a vice president, a number of deans, and the college newspaper
which hail been renamed The Damn
Dixie Daily. The Office of Stupid Affairs once again went to bat for the students allowing Dean Howl to do just that.
"On an issue of this imiwrtance," he
may have said, "we shall follow the
guidelines set by the administration's
actions regarding Sophomore housing, student votes in selecting the new president,
etc. and enforce the policies we deem of
most benefit to the student body."
By this time the worm of Dixie lovers
had begun to turn. Independent bands
sprang up from the mass of football fans

to sing and play their beloved fight song.
Mass outrage resulted from the subversive
attempts to destroy the "heritage and
tradition that has kept the South alive."

After numerous high jinx, fdibuster
attempts, clown acts, and a songfest
the time for the momentous decision
arrived the exhalted SG solved the issue
with a typically decisive vote of
The controversy n eared its head when
thus passing the irresolution and enda bill designed to beat TRIVIA at its
the act.
own game was introduced to the Student ing
Meanwhile, back in reality, tempers
Government. The feature act of the weekly flair
and bitternesses take foot. Nocturnal
circus was staged with due pomp and cirvisits of juvenile proportions are visited
cumstance in a convenient classroom. The
on two representatives who had the courperformers were in their assigned places.
to vote as they thought best, not
To the speaker's right (physically) was age
necessarily as they thought their house
the intriguiugly innocent Betty Ann Brown felt. Even
the housemother let it be plainflashing her knowing eyes from one actor
ly known how she wanted to be repreto the next. The aloof Linda Lou Smith
sented. Grotesque exhibitions gave way to
made one wistful of a Banium placard
gross serenades as the issue slow ly burned
before hers and sawdust underfoot to lend
itself out of fuel.
proper atmosphere. The RAS party flanked
At the next football game "Dixie" was
the two ladies, grouping itself symetri-call- y
played faintly. There were no repercusaround party lxss Juhl who took on
sions and no one fainted from exhalation,
the characteristics of a puppeteer manipuperhaps that an issue of this
lating the lesser members of his party showing can be
coped with by mature
through their various exlubitions. Sadly gravity
and responsible students exerting their
Sinori followed on cue, prophetically Irrac
defound his proper place the brunt of a influence where it is most needed-ideviated from his ciding to sing or not to sing.
joke, Hooper cautiously
It was Itoped that the final mention
siblings to inject a worthwhile remark. of
"Dixie" would be in a column in the
On the other side of the issue Delrein stituted Kernel, but alas, there turned
aware, Hill and Vail illustrated the graviout to be students at the University who
ty of the situation by both their remarks had not had enough to say about the
and their nervous glances at the BSU matter and proceeded to voice their opinmembers lining the room. On the silent ions until their peers prayed for peace
left the Veep and the President remained and voiced their desperate liope that no
other crisis develops soon.
shrewdly silent.
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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Oct. 22.

Student 'Liberation' Emphasizes Demands

Two-Da- y
By ROBERT JOHNSTON
FT. COLLINS, COLO. (CPS)
stuThe spacious,
dent union at Colorado State
University was "liberated" for
two days last week by officials
of the student government in action designed to dramatize demands issued by student president Doug .Phelps to the State
Board of Agriculture, the university's t