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Wednesday Evening, April 23, 1969

Judicial Board Uphold
Student Gov't Elections
By LARRY DALE KEELING

Assistant Managing Editor
The University Judicial Board
Tuesday night upheld the spring
Student Government Elections
as valid.
The elections were being contested by unsuccessful representative candidates Robert Duncan
and Barbra Ries.
The
statement said,
"It is the finding of the University Judicial Board that the spring
elections of Student Government
are valid and upheld. Although
discrepancies were reported at
various polling places, it is our
opinion that these did not affect
the outcome of the elections."
The
decision came
after it had heard nearly three
hours of testimony and argument
from both sides in the dispute.
Before the case even got into
the testimony, Sheryl Snyder,
counsel for the Elections Board,
dismoved to have the
miss the case for lack of jurisdiction.
Snyder contended that when
the SG constitution which requires appeals to go before the
was written, the
was a third branch of Student
Government. ,
has since been
The
set up by. the Board of Trustees
under the Student Code. It is
no longer a branch of Student
Government.
"Your power now lies in the
Student Code," Snyder said,
"and the Student Code gives you
no jurisdiction over Student Government disputes."

Vol. LX, No. 137

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The unused ballots had not
He added that Student Govbeen accounted for.
ernment could not confer power
Three students from the Comwhich the Board
on the
ofTmstees did not confer on them plex testified that they were unable to vote because the polling
when they were created.
The motion was denied.
place was out of ballots. Two of
Duncan and Miss Ries did not them said the poll workers told
contest the presidential and vice them they did not know if there
would be any more ballots
presidential races.
Their counsel, Professor of brought to the Complex.
Scott Richmond, chairman of
Law VV. Garrett Flickinger, told
the Elections Board, told the
the board that they agreed with
the Elections Board that there
that Woody Woodall, of
were three classifications of electhe Elections Board, took extra
tions. But he added that if the ballots to the Complex and the
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irregularities were strong enough poll stayed open an extra
minutes to compensate for the
the whole election should be
lost time.
thrown out.
Richmond said he personally
Prof. Flickinger said he did
took ballots to Blazer Hall when
not think the irregularities were
enough to account for the large
Continued on Pace 7, Col. 1
margin of victory in the presidential and vice presidential
races. He said that they were
sufficient to cause the difference
in some of the representative
races.
The election was contested on
five major points:
Polling places at the Complex and Blazer Hall ran out of
ballots.
By TERRY DUNHAM
There were verbal instrucAssistant Managing Editor
tions and written sheets passed
Two UK students and three
out to voters within 50 feet of the others from Kentucky are includpolling places. In some cases ed on a list of more than 250
this was done by poll workers. college student government presiAt least one person voted on dents and editors who say they
an invalid activity card.
will refuse to serve in the miliThe polling place in Dovo-va-n tary as long as the war in VietHall Cafeteria was moved nam continues.
from inside the cafeteria to outThe list, solicited by the
side where it could not be seen National Student Association
by students entering the other (NSA) and released yesterday in
doors to the cafeteria.
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Garrett Flickinger, professor of law, makes a'
point while presenting the case of the contestants
in Tuesday's hearing before the Judicial Board.
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Unsuccessful representative

candidates,

Barbara

Ries (left) and Robert Duncan (right) charged
numerous discrepancies in the spring SG elections.

As Long As Vietnam War Continues

More Than 250 Student Leaders
Announce Intent To Refuse Draft

Meeting Set For 7p.m. Tonight

YB's Support Kernel Editorial
Attacking Student Suspensions

plan," he says, "a show of stu- John Meisburg said the resoludent support prior to that meettion was "in general agreement
which takes place at 4 p.m. with what The Kernel said in
Kernel Editors
ing,
its (Tuesday) editorial." AThe Young Democrats (YD) in the Law School courtroom."
Mendes says, "that lthough the YD's did not say
"I stress,"
digressed from regular business
Tuesday night and endorsed a we intend to work through the they would attend the meeting
e
Kernel editorial dis- proper channels, and hope that en masse, newly elected Vice
President Lynn Montgomery anapproving of the manner in which the Faculty Senate, seeing stuBy JIM MILLER
and TERRY DUNHAM

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ference, includes the following
Kentuckians:
Gary Abrams, former editor.
The Pinnacle, Berea College,
Berea.
Nick DeMartino, editor, The
Cardinal, University of Louisville.
Richard Stephen Hill, former
president of the student government at Centre College, Danville.
David Holwerk, former editorial page editor for the Kernel,
now doing independent work as a
staff member for NSA.
Darrell Rice, editorial page
editor, the Kernel.
The signatures were collected
during the present school year,
and some of the signers have
since graduated or completed
their service with the student
government or newspaper with
which they were working at the
time they signed.
The statement was releasedin
a press conference covered by the
major networks and news services and attended by nine of the
more than 250 signers. Two of the
signers were to appear on the
this
"Today" Show (NBC-TV- )
morning.
Dave Hawk, the NSA staff
member who prepared the statement, said last night a cover
released with the statement requests an audience with President Nixon, but had not yet been
acknowledged by the administration. Hawk, who refused mili

dent support for the issue, will nounced his personal intention
to attend.
in drug raids last week were act on the matter."
In addition to Meisburg and
school.
suspended from
He says he hopes the meetThe editorial urged students ing also will include discussion Montgomery, new YD officers are
Cheryl Davidson, secretary, and
to attend a meeting at 7 o'clock of the local chapter of the AmerMimi Heilman, treasurer.
in Room 309 in the Stutonight
ican Association of University
In other business, Meisburg
dent Center to plan "a rational Professors' proposal, described in
announced a Young Democrats
and appropriate course of action" Friday's Kernel, which calls for
opposing the vague wording of changes in the appeals methods newsletter to be published
monthly next year.
part of the Student Code and its for Student Code action.
misuse by the administration.
In addition, present plans call
Additional students have also
for a committee to contact each
indicated their intention of atmember of the Faculty Senate,
tending the meeting. These innotifying them of the meeting,
clude Tim Futrell,
By RICK FALKNOR
emKernel Staff Writer
Student Government president; urging their attendance and
to them the belief that
Dillard House, a cooperative, coeducational
Sheryl Snyder and Winston Mil- phasizing of
great importance is housing experiment for UK students, lost its supmembers a matter
ler, student
and to be discussed at the meeting.
of the University Senate,
porting agency Sunday night when the United
The YD endorsement stated Campus Ministry Board voted to discontinue the
members of Young Republicans,
project.
Community Alliance for Respon- "that the University suspended
Dillard House has existed for the last three
sible Social Action. Students for five students, recently arrested
a Democratic Society and the on drug charges in violation of semesters on an interracial, international cooperative basis. The program presently consists of 11
due process and in contradiction
Lexington Peace Council.
residents who share responsibilities of the house.
The meeting was conceived of the concept of presumption
The project was started and supported by the
of innocence and that the UK
by Cuy Mendes, Kernel managUnited Campus Ministry Board, made up of the
ing editor, who says the meeting Young Democrats Club strongly
s
of Christ, the United
is being held "to discuss a prodisapproves of that action and Christian
posal we hope to submit to the urges the University Senate to Church of Christ, Presbyterians, United Presbyterians and the National Lutheran Campus MinFaculty Senate on Thursday take appropriate action to enthe student members of sure to the studentsdueprotess."
istry.
through
The Rev. Edward Miller.amemberofthe board,
the Faculty Senate. We hope to
Newly elected YD President
five university students arrested

tary induction last summer, and
whose case is now pendinginthe
courts, said the group had a
interview with Sen.
Kennedy. "'He. said-hthought we had courage," Hawk
said.
Darrell Rice, the only UK
signer now in attendance at the
Lexington campus, signed last
month but since that time failed
to pass his
physical
examination.
Because of that, he says, "I
know I'm not now making as
much of a moral commitment as
the others are."
CBS reported that the list of
signers "reads like the Who's
Who in Colleges and Universi-

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ties."

The NSA states that "the'
overall purpose of this effort is
NOT to show that 250 particular
individuals will, after having exhausted all remedies within the
Selective Service System, refuse
to be inducted into the army
while the war continues."
It is rather, they say, "to
show how widespread our position is."
e
statement signThe
ed by the students concludes:
"Left without a third alternative, we will act according or
our consciences. Along with thousands of our fellow students, we
campus leaders cannot participate in a war we believe to be
immoral and unjust."
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listed three reasons for the withdrawal of support.
They were.
Lack of an adequate number of applications.
The departure of three board members who
most actively supported the project.
That the board would like to move in "some
new direction" and does not feel it could spend
"enough time" on the Dillard House project.
The Rev. Mr. Miller said, "The board does
not consider the Dillard House experiment a
failure," adding that in the board's eyes the project had been a success.
Mr. Miller said DillardlIousehadbeen"started
as a model for the University" and that the
Board now wanted to concentrate on "some new
direction, although at this time they don't know

what."

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THE LITTLE
KENTUCKY'

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WEEKEND

Student Center, University of Kentucky
Lexington

April 22, 1969

Dear Students,
Again it is time for another fun filled Little Kentucky Derby week, and on
behalf of the steering committee I would like to extend an invitation to each of
you to enioy every fun filled moment. As you know in the past two years the
committee has tried to enlarge and improve the festivities. As a result we feel,
that this years L.K.D. can truely be called "The Souths Most Outstanding

College Weekend. "

With the help of the Student Center Board this year L.K.D. week is going
to be full of activity. The Student Center Board is sponsoring the Kami Gras,
which will be held at the Agriculture Farm Parking Lot on Cooper Drive. The
event had to be moved from the Soccer Field to the parking lot because of
scheduling problems. The L.K.D. Queen voting will be held today and tomorrow,
and the queen will be announced at the Henry Mancinl Concert Friday night.
te
Saturday at 12:30 P.M. , the Races will be held at Sports Center with the
Blue-Whi-

Game at 8:00 P.M. that night.

Before we get involved with the activities, I feel that several items must
be covered. First the drinking policy for the week. There will be no open display
of alcoholic beverages or coolers in any area where an L.K.D. event Is taking
place. This Is the same policy which we followed last year and we feel it
worked very well. Secondly, we will be accepting applications for a Chairman
for next years L.K.D. Steering Committee. If you are interested, pick up an
application in Room 203 of the Student Center before May 2, 1969.
Again welcome to Little Kentucky Derby 1969, "The Souths Outstanding

College Weekend. "

Sincerely,

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L.K.D. Chairman

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Joint Project Takes Prize

2

Physicist Speaks At Osivald Atvards
A brother and sister team took
one of the five first place awards
at the annual Oswald Awards
banquet Tuesday night. The
awards honored students in their
respective fields of study for undergraduate research and creativity.
Physicist Edward U. Condon
gave a brief talk on unidentified
flying objects (UFO's) before Acting President A. D. Kirwan presented the awards.

Ccza
Biological Sciences
Bruckner, first; Steven A. Short,
second; and Philip D. Leming
of the Northern Community College, third.
Bruce
Physical Sciences
VVaddell, first; Stephen A. Clark,
second; and Michael R. Boyd,
third.
Social Sciences John Nelson,
Humanities Virginia Fowler, first; C. Perry Bosmajian, Jr.,
second; and Mark A. Takacs,
third.
Short, placing second in the
Biological Sciences Division was
the first student to be a winner
two consecutive years. Heplaced
first in the same division last
around some social action," she
year.
said.
Dr. Condon, speaking before
Mr. Miller said that the board
the awards presentation, said of
might be interested in a "reorUFO's, "There will always be
ganized phase" of the Dillard
some who believe there are visitHouse.
ors from outer space, but I don't
Miss Tassie said Dillard
believe there are visitors.
House residents are now attempt"I believe that the ones we
ing to judge the student support
can't identify are cases where the
behind the project, and are lookdescriptions are too vague and so
ing for alternative organizational
incomplete that you can't identify
support for the House.
them."

Dillard House Loses
Supporting Agency
Continued from Page One
Debbie Tassie, a resident of
Dillard House, said the house
had had some "problems" in the
past, but had solved many of
them. "With more time the rest
could be worked out."
The project in the past has
been the object of criticism from
groups and individuals in the
community and a few area
churches, but both Miss Tassie
and Mr. Miller discounted the
criticism as a reason for discontinuing the project.
Miss Tassie said three of four
students had expressed a strong
interest in the house for next
semester and that as yet no deadline had been set for applications.
Miss Tassie continued:
"The Dillard House provides
students with an alternative to
the dorms" as well as providing
the University with an alternative type of housing.
According to Miss Tassie, the
house had set up a reorganiza-tionmeeting with the board
a few weeks ago, but the board
cancelled it.
Miss Tassie said the residents
will hold their own reorganization meeting at 7 p.m. Monday
night in Dillard House. "The
meeting will attempt to structure
a project for Dillard House

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will be held Wednesday, April 23,
8 p.m.. at the Lexington Public Library. The discussion, sponsored by
the Lexington Montssorl Society,
will feature Mrs. Robert Sloane,
readiness instructor
for the Intercity schools; and Dr. Carl Tatum,
a UK professor of education In the
area of child development.
Prof. Duane Marble, a Northwestern
University geographer, will discuss
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College of Medicine first graduating
class will be held Friday and SaturThe reunion will
day, April
begin at 10 a.m., Friday with a seminar.
The next meeting of the Student
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the Commerce Building. The swearing
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* Dorm Life
Recent unrest at Haggin Hall
has focused attention on several

problems existing
within the do mis at this University.
Besides the generally poor living
conditions, including such factors
as the lack of study and entertainment facilities, the usual complaints about food and the generally unacademic environment, there
are also legitimate complaints
about certain innocuous regula''
tions.
Students come to the University
as adults and should be treated as
such. But the University seems to
find it necessary to supervise dorm
residents as if they were immature
children. This kind of attitude tends
to create an appropriate reaction on
the part of the students.
Regulations pertaining to alcoholic beverages and visits by
long-standin-

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members of the opposite sex are
particularly irksome. As for the latter, why should the University feel
that the private lives of its students
are matters of official concern?
Other schools have done away with
these sorts of rules and have not
witnessed the rise of promiscuity
or any other "evil." Are University
of Kentucky students any different
from these students?
As for ndes on alcoholic beverages, this question involves state
laws. Because the dorms are considered state property, the University says it is illegal for alcoholic
beverages to be allowed within their
premises. But the University somehow finds legal means to allow
alcoholic beverages inside fraternity houses and the Alumni House.
Surely similar means could be provided for the dorms unless a misguided sense of paternalism is behind this latter-da- y
prohibition.
Perhaps most important is the
general attitude that students living in residents halls for some
reason are supposed to give up normal basic rights such as freedom
from unwarranted searches.
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questions arising as to dorm life
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A group of UK law students,
in a letter appearing on page five
of today's Kernel, has raised the
justifiable question of Vietcong
atrocities inflicted upon the people
of South Vietnam. The students
maintain that the Kernel, by not
speaking out against these atrocities, has condoned the acts of the
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Viet Cong.

It cannot be denied that the
atrocities committed by both sides
in the war are inhuman, that they
are unforgivable and that they are
completely unnecessary in our day.
Mutilated women and children
should be a thing of the past,
a shame-fille- d
chapter in the history
of another era. And we do not
in any way condone such acts.

But the fact remains that the
United States is the aggressor in
the Vietnam War, that we are the
outsiders fighting in a war for which
we have no justification and that
our very presence perpetrates the
kind of atrocities being committed
by both sides in the conflict.
Acts of violence by the Vietcong do not justify our bombing
of innocents. Castration of young
men by the Vietcong does not
validate our acts of perversion.
This country must answer for its
acts of aggression and the resulting loss of life. And it must answer the question as to how much
longer it can continue such behavior. A moral nation would have
withdrawn long ago.

'Now I've Got You,
You Evil, Addictive Thing.'

Tie Kentucky Iernel
University of Kentucky

ESTABLISHED

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

EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions
in this regular column are those
of its author and do not necessarily rep
resent the opinions of the Kernel.
I attended a panel discussion a few
nights ago where the topic, "The Black
Student on the White Campus," was
discussed.
In attendance were about 20 white
students and two black coeds. What the
black girls lacked in number they made
up for in sincerity.
Although I did not always agree with
what these girls had to say, their sincerity was indisputable. They believed
what they were saying, and that gave
them a big edge over some of the white
students in the room.
As one of the girls spoke, you could
see the frustration, the disappointment
and sometimes the hate. At times both
girls were almost in tears.
As I said, I did not agree with everything the girls had to say. For instance,
they spoke about the phoney smiles they
had received at UK. I cannot understand
how they knew the sm.'les were phoney.
Perhaps some, perhaps many, but certainly not all.
They talked also about the white peo

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ple they met who immediately tried to decision, but to the Black it is very real.
tell them about their black friends and
One of the best parts of the program
acquaintances. They look upon this act were the white liberals. For some of them
with disfavor and this I cannot under- it was a regular "masochist ball." They
stand. The Whites who do this are try- lashed themselves and their race for their
ing to say that things are changing. crimes, real and imagined. They washed
They are trying to tell the Blacks that their souls and cleansed their bodies with
they don't care what color their skin their own sanctimonious blood.
is. Cranted that sometimes this may be
One lad related to the group how he
a phoney act, but there was a time in was a Creek and how his own fraternity
this country when Whites would not even brothers refused to accept him because
go to the trouble of saying it. No doubt, of some of the things he had said. (To
if you are black and this happens time the best of my knowledge, he never told
after time, it gets a little hard to take, us exactly what he had said, but it was
but these people mean no harm. They assumed that it was in defense of the
are trying to communicate and they don't Blacks.) Perhaps his outspoken attitude
know how.
did have somethings to do with his
I think that one of the major problems
brothers' attitude, but I suspect that a hairthe black students face when attending cut and a clean pair of jeans would have
a white school is that they must nuke helped his cause con siderably. lie bore t hi s
a choice, to some degree, between the castigatiou like a cross to Colgotha. He
black and white communities. On one was proud of it. This was the pride he
hand they know that they need a colwas paying for his sins against the Blacks.
lege degree to be of real service, to the I suspect that if his fraternity brothers were
black community. At the same time, to accept him socially or otherwise, he
however, by attending a white school, would be disappointed. They would have
UK in particular, they will alienate that taken away his cross.
same black community. In a sense they
As I sat there and listened to some of
will become "Toms." To a white stuthese people, I would hav e loved to have
dent this may not seem like much of a had the power to point my finger, and

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1969

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zap they would be Black. It would be
poetic justice. I believe it would have
shown them up for the hypocrites I believe them to be. I would like to point
out that not all of the Whites at the
meeting fit into this category. Many of
them were very concerned about the plight
of the Blacks, and I believe it will be these
people who will eventually be of the greatest service to the black community.
The racial problems that confront this
country are very complex and very real.
They will not be solved by the simple
solutions offered by the black militants
such as those at San Francisco State. They
will not be solved by the whitemasochists
lashing themselves daily. They will be
solved by people who are willing to admit that a l injustice has been committed
and let it go at that. We must be willing
to lay old prejudices aside and drop the
racial barriers.
At present we are confronted with
racists on both sides of the question.
Until these people, both black and white,
are willing to forget the color of their
skin and the color of the other man's,
there is no hope for solution or prog.
ress.

* .THE KENTUCKY K'EKNEL, Wcdnciilay, April 23,

1900- -5

Kernel Forum: the readers write

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To the Editor of the Kernel:
I read in the Kernel the other day that
various bands of political Juvenile delinquents (including a few who are really
too old to claim consideration for their
youth) have formed a group callingforthe
escalation of the war in Vietnam. I'd like
to remind this group that if they are really
all that personally concerned with the
war, then there is a recruiting office downtown, and I'm sure there is a man there
who will be happy to sign them up.
Undoubtedly, it's lots of fun to watch
old World War II movies and dream of
John Wayne type victory with stars, flags
and background music with that sweet
little old gal next door looking on all
the while, but Vietnam is real terribly
real. Some 33,000 have already died, a lot
more will die, and over 100,000 men
have been wounded some for life. And
for what cause or purpose no one yet has
come up with a convincing explanation.
How many more would die or be mangled
in an attempt to gain a "victory" and what
such a "victory" would mean, no one
knows, least of all the types who shout
for "total victory" as if war were a football game. In cold, military fact, we already have lost more in men, money, and
prestige than any "victory" would be
likely to gain us. In any case, the price
of even such a useless victory must be paid
in lives, and, unfortunately, it's not like
the movies.
If any of the people behind this little
band of destroying angels do happen to
be Vietnam combat veterans (which I
doubt), then they have earned the right
to advocate what they themselves have
been willing to endure, but it makes
my blood boil to see a lot of draft dodgers
who seem to take their idea of international
politics from "Mission Impossible" demand others to do their dying for them.
There is simply no excuse for that kind of
moral cowardice. Let those advocate wars
who are willing to fight them. Certainly, I
may not agree with them on the wisdom
of any particular war, but at least I can
give a grudging respect to a man willing

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to die for his views, no matter how
they may be. I can also
respect a man who avoids the draft because
he sincerely feels the war to be immoral
or stupid. But I can have no respect,
not even the grudging kind, for a group
which yells and screams for young draftees
to die in a pointless war while they themselves keep their own precious bodies back
home where it's comfortable and SAFE.
Kent Patterson
Craduate Student
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Pictures, Words
In regard to the article "Racism: The
Institutional Way," the picture was well
worth a thousand words. It had to be
I certainly couldn't read the print in the
background!
John Farmer
Sophomore
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Kernel apologizes
for the mechanical complications which
made the essay mentioned in the Kernel
of April 11 unreadable.
A& S

Questions
FROM: Students at the University of Kentucky College of Law.
RE: The current and recent Communist
acts of terrorism inflicted upon
South Vietnamese civilians particularly the systematic shelling of cities
and other civilian areas which has
directly caused widespread suffering and death.
Gentlemen:
For the past several months it has been
the editorial policy of the Kernel to severely
criticize United States action in South
Vietnam particularly the bombing which
previously occurred over North Vietnam
and the use of napalm. The purpose of
this letter is not to defend the bombing
or the use of napalm. Rather, it is to
ask some questions which we feel are far
too important to remain unanswered.
Is it barbaric and inhuman to occupy
a village and commit acts of revenge
upon political opponents such as executions of the men