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The Souttis Outstanding College Daily

Friday Evening, April 28, 1967

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Westmoreland
Uses Soft Sell
For Congress
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With a call
for "unrelenting but discriminatingmilitary, political, and
psychological pressure," Gen.
William C. Westmoreland addressed the Congress today.
The commanding general in
Vietnam told the House and
Senate that the U.S. can defeat
the communist foe in Vietnam
and he pledged continuing determination in the field while
asking for strong support at
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Senator Morton, who has generally supported President Johnson's military policy in Vietnam,
also joined critics of that policy
in decrying General Westmoreland's criticism of dissent to the
war in this country.
"The appearance of a gallant field commander before a
joint meeting of the Congress,
while intended to pour oil on
troubled waters, is instead pouring salt in a wound," Mr. Morton said in a brief senate speech.
"This is overkill."
Continued On Page

12

Kerr.el Photo By Randy Cochran

The Complex At Night
The new Complex has provided the campus with one of its most
beautiful night scenes. Lights aglow in thousands of windows
light the imposing structure.

Parker Confirms
Pratt Agreement

By JOHN O'BRIEN
Col. Howard Parker, director of the Army ROTC program on
campus, confirmed a story in The Kernel earlier this week that
he and Don Pratt, an opponent of the Vietnam War, had made an
"agreement" that it "might be best for Pratt and the Army if
he did not go on active duty in December."
Colonel Parker took issue with
trying to find himself and work
a Kernel headline stating that
out the problem (of serving in
ROTC officials had pressured
the military)."
Pratt. "What I'm trying to do
Colonel Parker stated that
is to create a situation that will
he and Pratt had discussed the
for
be best for the boy and best
several occasions and
the Army. It isn't because of matter on
the nature of the discussions
We
any peace demonstration.
was "more in terms of how
talked about the Vietnam sitPratt felt about military service
uation and he (Pratt) talked
could do to help
about the problems he would and what we
him solve some of his problems."
have there due to his beliefs,"
Colonel Parker said that after
Col. Parker stated,
the discussions, which took place
stating that "Pratt is a dedicated
over a period of several months,
and serious individual and he is
he and Pratt agreed that "possibly it would be better that he
would not accept the commission

AAUP Hears Report

right now."

Of Rising Salaries
The CollrfUte

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SG Waters Down

Special and New York Times Dispatches

However, General Westmoreland's call for military action
was tempered by the use of the
word "discriminating," one of
the few departures from his text
The speech itself was reworked this morning, the Pentagon said in answer to press queries for an advance text, and was
possibly toned down in the wake
of congressional criticism of the
general's remarks in New York.
Critics of the general and
President Johnson took their appeals to the Senate floor again
Thursday as they had Wednesday.
Sen. Thruston B. Morton of
Kentucky said Thursday that the
was
administration
helping
spread "an epidemic of verbal
overkill" by bringing Gen. William C. Westmoreland to speak
before the joint session of Con-

Vol. LVIII, No.

Tress Service

CLEVELAND Faculty salaries have risen at a rate exceeding
6.5 percent for the second year in a row, Prof. William J. Baumol
told the annual convention of the American Association of Univer
sity Professors today.
The Princeton professor, vey, both fully accredited, said
chairman of the AAUP's Com- the faculty salaries offered avermittee Z on the Economic Stat- aged between $4,175 and $5,034
us of the Profession, noted that per year.
Despite their leadership in
while this year's 6.8 percent increase in compensation repre- standards of compensation, there
were growing indications that the
sented a good overall performnation's private universities are
ance, it was below the preced7.3 percent growth running into serious financial
ing year's
troubles.
figure.
AAUP figures showed that
reThe increase percentages
both salaries and fringe the rate of increase in average
present
compensation at private univerbenefits.
Professor Baumol said the sities, 12 percent over a
was lower than that
growth rate, because of slower of
any otlier comparable cateadvances in earlier years, was
not sufficient to achieve a 1957 gory.
Public universities were reproposal by President EisenEduca- ported increasing salaries at a
hower's Committee on
biennial rate of 15 percent, and
tion Beyond the High School
liberal arts colthe doubling of salaries over
leges at 18 percent.
the 1959-6- 9 decade.
At these rates, Professor BauAnd despite the national increases. Dr. Baumol said, there mol said, within two decades
are still cases of extremely low the private universities would
have trie most poorly paid facfaculty compensation. Two colulties in the country.
leges reporting to the AAUP sur
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"Our program is strictly voluntary. No one is forced to take
a commission. Once one gets
into the military he subscribes
to certain rules. We enroll
On Fare 12

Recruiting Bill,
Removing Censure

Student Government Thursday passed a watered-dow- n
version of
a bill proposing censure of the Athletic Department for "token"
result of talks with Negro athle
recruitment of Negro athletes.
Instead of censure, the bill tes who were supposedly reresolved that SC "avail itself cruited by the Athletic Departto the UK Athletic Department ment.
for any active role in the recruitBill Turner, president of the
ment of athletes that the Athle- CCHR, spoke to the assembly
and said it was his opinion that
tic Department may deem necesJim McDaniels, a prime UK prossary."
However, the measure did put pect, "really wants to come
here."
SG on record as saying the Athletic Department's attempts lo re"Jim says he will go here or
cruit Negro athletes were "token to Western," Turner said. "Either
(efforts) to the present date." he is a good liar or is very serious
The first three sections of the about coming here."
Turner 'said he had changed
bill, which passed unamended,
read: "The University Athletic his opinion of the Athletic DeBoard in 1963 issued the policy partment in that it "really wants
the fellow here."
statement saying that the UniThe recruiting measure passed
versity would recruit athletes
without regard to race, and . . . the by a unanimous voice vote.
Another bill submitted by
implementation of this policy
statement has been token to the Patton in last week's SG meetbe it resolved
present date
ing was reported out of comthat the Student Government go mittee and passed.
This measure deplored the
on record as supporting the rigorous recruitment of athletes "question" policy of towing away
without regard to race."
illegally parked student cars and

...

The section of the original
bill proposing censure read, "Be
it further resolved that the UK
SG view a continued laxity by
the Athletic Department as deserving public censure by the
Student Government."
Proposing the amendment,
Rep. Dave Ratterman said, "We
have no definite means of proving the laxity . . . passing this
section might create undue criticism of the University which
might hurt further recruiting efforts."
However, no attempt was
made to soften the section charging "token (recruitment)."
The bill, introduced last week
by Rep. Phil Patton, was brought
to the floor early in the meeting.
During discussion of the bill,
about 10 members of the Campus
Committee on Human Rights sat
in on the meeting.
The report of a review committee considering the bill concluded, "in summary, there are
obvious discriminatory practices
in the recruitment of athletes."
Don Pratt, a member of the
SC Human Rights Committee,
said the conclusion came as the

the alleged illegal search and seizure by campus police of students attending theLKDon April
15, 1967.

Patton' s bill called for creation of a committee of students
Continued On Page

14

UK's Lone Negro

Prof, Dr. Scott,
Plans To Leave
By JOHN ZEH
Kernel Associate Editor
The University's only Negro
professor is leaving, but not because he doesn't like it here.
Dr. Joseph W. Scott, who
integrated the UK faculty two
years ago, will join the University of Toledo's sociology department for purely "personal"
reasons.
He is not being "pushed"
out of Lexington by racial discrimination or pressure from bigots, he emphasizes. In fact, because his two years of teaching
and research have been so

on Fare

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Parking: Supreme Frustration

CHRISTIAN
Kernel Staff Writer
It is 9:45 a.m. A student who lives off campus
is rushing to his 10 o'clock class, but when he
enters the stream of University traffic, he is faced
with the discouraging realization that he will be
late.
His excuse, a quite legitimate one, is parkBy DARRELL

ing.

Each day a few thousand motorists tour the
inner boundaries of the University on a shopping
spree for a parking space. Their task often difficult, sometimes hopeless has become a major
concern of the Administration.
In September 1964, the first steps to alleviate
the problem were taken. A paid parking program
was begun and at the same time planning for
the construction of parking towers for which parking fees would prov ide part of the cost.
The towers, to be built near the Student Center, the Quadrangle, and the Medical Center,
are intended to house 600 to 900 cars apiece, but
they have yet to be built. "We're in the preliminary stages with the architect ami deciding the
exact sites," explained Lawrence Coleman, University plaimer.

The cost of the towers will be approximately
$3.6 million, $1.2 million for each. Barring delay caused by architectual planning difficulties,
the project is supposed to be completed by Fall
1968.

However, Coleman said it now appears that
only two will be ready by that date. "We have
had various problems with (the other) one," he
added. "There possibly will be several months
delay. It should be ready in December or early
Spring 1968."
However, until the new structures are completed, the headaches of parking will remain.
Col. Fred Dempsey, director of the Department of Safety and Security, has pushed for
some changes to help ease the pain:
A new method of issuing parking permits.
Additional parking spaces, including some
specially for students in resilience halls, have
been built.
Towing away of illegally parked cars.
Even with these improv isions, the situation
still has not improved much. In September 1964,
there were 3,919 surface parking spaces on the
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this pressure, and actually perform better. But for others, Dr.
Scott thinks, the strain might
be destructive, or at least very
frustrating.
The only complaint Dr. Scott
will discuss publicly he aims
not necessarily at UK, but at

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ductlve and to good, he would
like to come back.
And he would recommend UK
to other Negro professors considering coming here except for
one thing, the "closed" housing

market.

But psycological and social
strains do exist at this border
state's largest university, so he
thinks few Negroes would be
overly anxious to work here anyway.
For example, Dr. Scott has
had to watch his behavior, and
be an especially good teacher,
while white colleagues probably
have not had to be as careful.
Some Negores could rise to
the occasion when faced with

most schools.

"Administrations don't recognize the value of a professor until he accepts an offer elsewhere,"
he said Thursday over the telephone from South Bend, Ind.,
where he is attending a sociological meeting. "My work relations with this college have been
the best anywhere. My research
has been supported well by the
University's foundation."
He purposely omits the Administration from his compliment, but won't elaborate on
this subtle slam.
. During his two years here, Dr.
Scott shunned publicity, saying
he came here as a professional,
and not as a Negro. He did not
even think of his move as the
it
integration of the
was, and aside from the housing
situation in Lexington and his
involvement with civil rights
groups, he has had no consciousness of race at UK:
Since previously he had been
the only Negro at other schools
where he taught, he does not
consider integrating UK's faculty

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"If continued study upholds
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human habitation in this hemisphere," the announcement said.

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years.
There has been talk recently
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caused a disturbance on his lawn
once, which nearly ended in
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a house, and decries without
hesitation this discrimination in
the Lexington real estate business. Last Sunday on a televised
panel discussion he called this
city "one of the most segregated
places on earth" and predicted

police action. Dr. Scott refuses
to clear up the rumors, saying
it's better a dead issue."
His reception in the neighborhood was "good" from about
four residents, and ''indifferent"
from the others, who he says
don't even speak to each other.
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liberal than the average lower-mkldl- e
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Holwerk's First Annual 'Golden Fork' Awards
By DAVID IIOLWERK

This year it is the privilege
of this corner to give out the
First Annual IN AHOUND AND
ANOUT Golden Fork Awards.
The criteria used in the selection of those here honored may
be unclear to the recipients. To
many others, though, the rationale will lc explicit. If anyone is,
however, tempted to laugh (cither
too hard, or at all for that matter) it would be well for them
to remember that countless others
could have lxen honored:
The Golden Fork is no Award
of exclusion.
The DEAD MIKE AWARD,

awarded to BRAD WASHBURN
for his stirring socialism speech.

THAT
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awarded to DUSTY HALL (whoever he is) for logical thinking
on the home front.
The

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a UK senior, has been elected
chairman of Collegians for Henry
Ward.
Youth chairmen generally are
appointed, so his election is considered a unique effort in involving young people in political
workings.
Miller, a political 'science
major from Mt. Sterling,, was
elected by some 40 delegates from
Kentucky
colleges and universities Saturday.

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* Damn It All Anyivay: A Case Study
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By BRADY J. DEATON

Then
a pervading suspicion crept
into my mind. The sun seemed dimmed;
I didn't notice the breeze; and the atmosphere suddenly seemed not so nice
after all. You see, second only to my
wedding in future anticipated events is
the upcoming visit of a Peace Corps
friend whom I have not seen since we
parted ways in Bangkok, Thailand in
May 1964.
Fred will be staying a week with mc
prior to my wedding in order to catch
up on the events of the past three years.
(Wc had worked together as Peace Corps
Volunteers in Thailand.)

Patterson School of Diplomacy
A beautiful spring afternoon; in love;
flowers, trees, breeze a great time for
idyllic appreciation of life. Anyway, that
is the way it seemed to both my fiancee
and me this afternoon.
Needing a break from the pressure of
studying for finals, we found the atmosphere highly conducive to an afternoon drive and our first experience in
"apartment hunting".
A quick check in the previous day's
classified section of the newspaper and
a few phone calls provided us with several exciting prospects for the afternoon.
Two of the apartments we visited
turned out to be just what we had in
mind; in fact quite a bit better than
we had expected, (The landladies thought
we were a darling couple). So . . . the
late afternoon found us in the perplexing situation of trying to decide between
two perfect places a rather satisfying
thought even with the uncertainty of the

Fred happens to be a Negro who is
presently completing an M.A. at a major
university west of here. Being a true
"Kentucky gentleman", the last thing
I want is for our reunion to be marred
by this thing called "racial prejudice".
And thinking back to those two delicate,
d
landladies, I suspected that
we might run into problems.
So checking back in order to preempt
any unfavorable reactions that might
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arise, I asked each of the ladies if there
wotdd be any problems if Fred stayed
maybe three days with me in the apartment. Sure enough, I had greatly underestimated the prevailing "racial fever".
The angelic face of that grandmotherly

matriarch suddenly contorted into the
most despicable, tortured expression that
I have ever witnessed. (Dear God, I did
not think anything could be so tragic!)
I was stmck with feelings of pity and
disgust in the same moment. A vision of
a crossbred caricature from Hamparts
and Mad magazines came into mind.
The second was a great deal more
diplomatic. She gave me the usual spill
of imminent financial loss that would
result (but gee whiz, he is only going to
be here for three days); described the
warnings that she had received from
her tenement owning neighbors if she
should dare be the first apartment house
to integrate; etc. Even said she admired
someone (Fred) who was trying to "lift
up his race"; but, she had a bunch of
"stick in the mud" tenants and they

would really give her a hard time.
Scratch two of the nicest apartments
in Lexington.
Oh sure, I realize that there are other
apartments in Lexington which I can rent
that will allow me to visit with whomever
I choose. (I rule out the
deplorable situation of keeping a best friend in a motel.)
But, damn it all anyway, why do I have
to explain that I will have a Negro friend
visiting me in order to insure that those
visits w ill not be simply another harrowing
experience for the person involved. (Fred,
like most Negroes, has had several other
such experiences.) I do not like to subject
my friendship selection to the criteria of
someone's tortured mind.
Then it all builds up at once Southern
racism, the
atmosphere at
UK, the putried ador of a decaying city
that supports such outrages, . . . Example
after example of what we Americans and
especially. Southerners just do not like to
admit Sometimes we all are revoltingly
disgusting. Freedom? Where? How? Unfair, superficial generalizations? Probably
so! Is there something else?
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Over The Hill Lies The World
By GENE CLABES
Kernel Associate Editor

not much to
look at from the outside. But
to about 60 persons in Stray
Branch hollow it means schoolJACKSON-I- t's

ing for 16 elementary students
and a community center for the
rest of the folk.
Breathitt County school officials have sought ways to conschool with
solidate the
a large elementary complex being
built just outside of Jackson.
However they have run against
two obstacles. First about two
miles outside Jackson and a mile
from Stray Branch stands Stray
Branch hill which is a natural
barrier between the hollow and
the outside world, at least for
all vehicles except a jeep. Secondly folks in the Stray Branch
community are anything but
cheerful about the possibility of
school.
losing their
Eugene Sebastian, assistant
county school superintendent,
says the board has considered
ways the road leading over Stray
Branch hill might be made passable for school buses but the
cost prohibits construction.
Mrs. Bertha Watts, the Stray
Branch, teacher, principle, and
counseler lives in Jackson and
daily must make her way to the
school. During winter months
she often must walk the mile
long gravel road that snakes
across the hill.
"Sometimes the road gets so
bad that we have to leave the
car at the foot of the hill and
walk over," she said. "When it
gets that bad I carry the milk
over on foot for the students."
Because of Stray Branch's isolation, Mrs. Watts not only trans
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ports milk for the students but
also books from the Jackson library since the bookmobile can't
make it over the hill.
Mr. Sebastian says the only
way the students can get out to
where the bus could pick them
for transporting to a consolidated
school is to walk over the hill.
That is the way high school students from Stray Branch now get
to the bus.
But even though students
would have a better education
at the consolidated school, Mrs.
Watts, explains that they show
no interest in going over the
hill to the outside world.
"The children all come every
day," she said. "When I get
here about 8 a.m. they are usually out in the school yard playing."

Mrs. Watts, a medium height
greying woman, has firm control of the class. She boasts that
she has been teaching for 42
years, 40 of which have been in
schools.

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Despite her extensive experience within the
school,
she is not at all sold on their
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values.

"Students have a better opportunity at a large consolidated
school," she says. "I went to
school when I was
a
a child and I have taught in
consolidated schools and think
students have a better chance
there."
However she is quick to boast
about the most noted visitor at
Lick Branch, another of Breathitt's
schools, while she
taught there.
It" was in 1964 when Lady
Bird Johnson came to visit.
"You expect dignitaries to
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go to those fine schools," she
said.
The one-roohas a cozy atmosphere. Curtains at the windows, charts and posters on the
wall. American flags are placed
around the various shelves that
line the wall. At one end is a
large circular table where Mrs.
Watts brings the various grades
for their lessons. In the center
of the room sets a huge pot
belly stove. At the rear of the
building is a small kitchen where
one of the neighborhood residents prepares a hot breakfast
and lunch for the 16 students.
By day the building serves
as a school for the students
and by night it serves as a
gathering place for neighbors.
They come from all over the
hollow to meet with National

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