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Thursday, Feb. 5, 1970

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LXI, No. 83

Senate Bill Tabled
Vote Deadlocked
A bill to give student and faculty Board of Trustee members
the right to vote was held in
deadlock Tuesday when the Senate Education Committee failed
to reach a majority decision.

Although no formal vote took

place, only three of the six senators present at the meeting are in
public support of the bill. They
are Francis M. Burke
Romano Mazzoli(D-Louis-ville- )
and Clyde Middleton
Members in opposition are
who
Fred Bishop(R-Manchesteris on Eastern Kentucky Univer-- .
sity's Board of Regents, Thomas
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and WilHarris
liam Logan
Futrell described Logan as
being the "leader of the opposition."
Clifford Latta
and Richard
were the only members of
committee not
the eight-mapresent for the Tuesday meeting.
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Severe Setback

Futrell explained that "this is
a severe, but not a fatal setback,
and it was one that really came
unexpectedly to me."
"Through the next week, our
lobbying efforts and those of other
student body presidents will be
directed toward the two (senators) who were absent this
week," Futrell said.
The committee will meet
again next Tuesday. Futrell said
the bill "will continue to lay on
the table for consideration."
"It is possible that there will
be another vote Tuesday," he
said.
"As to our chances of success in getting this measure
passed, our success depends very

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very much on the votes of Chin

and Latta."
Today, Cov. Louie B. Nunn
plans to meet with the Governor's
Student Advisory Commission
(CSA). The meeting has been
planned for three weeks, and Futrell said that he did not expect
it to have any bearing on the
senate bill.
The main purpose of the meeting is to acquaint the legislators
with the students and their views.
Lobbying Continues
Futrell has called a meeting
of the seven student government
presidents of the Kentucky institutions affected by the bill.
The meeting will follow the session held by Nunn.
The second meeting will be
held to discuss the strategy that
the student government presidents will use next week in their
lobbying efforts. Futrell said he
hoped some of the legislators
will attend the meeting.
He later said they may plan
to "let the Senate rest for a
while and shift battle grounds to
the House."

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Proceeds from the concert are to be used to pay was highlighted by Duke Madison's performance
fines levied upon Michael Bernard, Bennie Bond, on saxophone.
Kernel Photo by Miml Fuller
and James Embry. The three former UK students

'End The War Now'

Group Seeks Immediate Withdrawal
By GRETA GIBSON
Kernel Staff Writer
"To end the war now" was
the general theme of the first
meeting of the Student Mobilization Committee (SMC) held
last night at the Student Center.

Julian Kennemere, acting
president of the UK chapter, told
a group of about 50 students and
faculty members that "our program is clear and straightforward.
We are for the immediate and
unconditional withdrawal of all
U.S. forces from Vietnam; for an
end to the draft
and for free
speech for the CTs." '
Kennemere outlined six steps
on the SMC agenda for the following semester. The first is to
bring speakers and antiwar movies on a regular basis to the
University campus to educate
the community as well as the
students on the "whole war."
The SMC also plans to distribute antiwar propaganda on a
weekly basis at the Student Center in order to focus attention on
"war prison camps."
The UK chapter also discussed
proposals to attend the National

coffeehouse at Fort Knox. To
give this support, the SMC is
planning a program in the Agricultural Science Center Feb. 13
featuring folk singers. Another
main goal is to arouse interest
for a statewide antiwar march
on Frankfort during the spring.
The objective of the spring
march is not to be "symbolic,"

but rather to demonstrate at
Frankfort while the legislature
Is meeting, according to

BSU Elects

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Kernel is finding it more difficult to print each lengthy Soapbox we receive, and consequently
a tremendous backlog has developed.
The editors respectfully re- Antiwar Conference in Cleveland
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One of the stated objectives
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to the antiwar newspaper and

"SMC has provided this for
the public
the organizational meeting and to the stark reality that Nixon has
been more successful in ending
commented on faculty participation.
antiwar sentiment than ending
"One would hope there would the war," Dr. Barnard said.
Action committees were set
be increasing participation as the
SMC becomes more widely up to organize the spring march
known across campus. There is at the end of the meeting, and
antiwar sentiment among the fac- a second meeting was set for
ulty, but up to this point we have 7 p.m. Feb. 11 at the Student
had no organization to which we Center to develop the objectives
of the UK chapter.
can air our views.
Dr. Harry Barnard, a member
of the UK faculty, was present at

Julian Kennemere

us so we can awaken

President

Ron Hale was elected Black Student Union (BSU) president
Tuesday nighty defeating acting president Gary Williams in his
unsuccessful bid for the presidency.
The other officers elected were Steve Cosby, vice president;
Saundra Boatright, secretary; Karleen Warren, corresponding secretary, Deborah Mapp, assistant secretary; Edward Hickland, treasurer, Joyce Davis, assistant treasurer, Nathaniel Robinson,
and J. T. Hill, parliamentarian.
Hale, who has been working on a new BSU constitution, said
he would like to see the organization "function better," relating
with blacks and the University more effectively.
A junior majoring in sociology, Hale commented that he would
like black people to be "more sensitive to things that affect others
as well . . . things that affect the humanity of all mankind."
He pointed to the "environmental crisis" as one problem that affected all people.
Outgoing president Cary Williams said he felt the organization was "beginning to function." Before the election, Williams
called upon blacks to become involved in other organizations to
make their influence felt outside the BSU.

Arms On Campus Outlawed In Senate Bill
By TOM BO WD EN

Kernel Staff Writer
In the wake of student violence and threats of violence on campuses throughout the country, legislators
are wondering if the present laws governing the possession of various weapons are sufficient.
The stateSenate recently passed and sent to the House
a bill which woukl outlaw possession of fire bombs,
firearms, ammunition or explosives on a university
campus, except by written permission.
Possession of any of the items would be punishable
as a felony, and the violator subject to a sentence of
one to three y ears in prison.

In addition, a student violator would be barred from
enrolling in any state college for two years.

The House of Representatives, meanwhile, is considering a bill which would ban whiskey and beer advertisements in student magazines, newspapers or books.
Another proposal, not yet introduced in the House,
a pack tax on cigarettes to nuke
woukl levy a half-cen- t
$2 million available for research on tobacco and health.
The research would be conducted at UK, which is
already spending $2.2 million in state and federal funds
on tobacco research.

The proposal, outlined by Sen. Thomas O. Harris
is the second measure intended to raise
the tax on cigarettes. In House Bill 302, Reps. Norbert
L. Blume and Peter Conn, Democrats from Jefferson
County, asked for a raise in rate from two and a
half cents a pack to seven and a half cents.
Harris said he expects some solid support from the
tobacco industry and from state farm associations.
"I suppose there never has been a time in history
that the tobacco industry hasn't had problems, but I
firmly believe that they have never before been as serious
as they are today," he said at a press conference.

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Blacks Expected To Press For NSA Funds
WASIIINGTON-:CPS)-T- he

National Association of Black
Students (NABS) plans to press
the National Student Association (NSA) to obtain a $49,000
debt which was due Oct. 1 last
year.
NSA's membership voted to
give NABS $50,000 at the annual NSA Congress last August.
So far only $1,000 has been paid.
Gwen Patton, director of
NABS, said the organization's
15 student regional directors "are
very uptight" about NSA's lack
of payment and "there will be
some kind of action, hopefully
not physical."
Legal action against NSA is
one possibility, she said at a press

conferencejan. 15.
Had Black students as a group
remained in NSA, the organization would have had to set up
a Black program, and the money
for that program would not have

State Employees
Fear Dismissal
LEXINGTON

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Kentucky River Foothills Development Council employes said
Wednesday they believe their jobs
are in jeopardy since a recent
takeover of the program by state
officials.
The state took over operation
of the Berea-base- d
poverty agency Monday in a move described
as an effort to keep federal officials from shutting down the
program.
Monday's action came four
days after the agency's director, John R. Artesani, resigned
in the face of fiscal irregularity
charges. The charges are being
investigated by the Atlanta office of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity.
The group, which claimed to
represent about 30 employes in
Clark, Estill and Powell counties, charged that the state takeover was accomplished without
the approval of the council's
board.
It added that many of the
council's approximately 50 employes feared they would be replaced now that the state was in
control.

been optional, Miss Patton said.
Neither is the commitment to
NABS, despite NSA's own financial difficulties, she said.
She also accused NSA of telling Black student unions it could
not lend them financial support
because of the money it was
giving to NABS. "It creates friction between Blacks," she said.
"As is the old liberal tradition,
NSA has got two Black groups
groping for the same piece of
bread." Neither have received
the bread, she added.
NSA President Charles Palmer has proposed a national day
of reparation on member campuses to collect or earn money
to pay NABS.
Miss Patton said the idea is
fine if NSA initiates it and does
most of the implementation work,
but she expressed doubt that
NSA would follow through on
the idea.
The action against NSA will
come after the NABS directors
meet in February, Miss Patton
said. She would not specify what
actions might be taken.
Meanwhile, NABS is holding
regional conferences across the
country. A state conference of
Black students in Wisconsin in
December drew 600, and 150 attended a midwestern regional in

Wichita, Kansas early this month.
Black student business conference is scheduled with major
U.S. corporations participating;
it will be inTerrytown, New York
next month.

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The Bamboo Hut, located at
the intersection of Seventh and
Upper Streets, is sponsored by
the Lexington Congress On Racial Equality (CORE).
Free U 'class members and
other interested persons will meet
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anti-milita-

Another NABS project at the
moment is the compilation of
"subjective" reports on campus
unrest involving Black students
written by Black students on such
campuses as Cornell and

ENGINEERS -S- CIENTISTS

Classes

The Free University "Urban
Crisis" class is planning a trip
to the Bamboo Hut, a black
teenagers' night club, Tuesday
night, Feb. 10.
The main topic of discussion
will be action concerning the

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cil of Churches has expressed
some interest, but no cash for
NABS' draft counseling program.
"White people can go tofoun-dation- s
with a piece of paper
and get whatever they want, but
everybody's scared to let Blacks
administer money. That's what I
call institutional racism," Miss

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vice programs, including lecture
tours, entertainment offers, and
a book club, but Miss Patton says
the association cannot get funding for most of its activities.
Attempts to get money from
small foundations have not yet
been successful, and NABS directors have decided they do not
want to deal with larger foundations because of "strings attached
to grants" and because NABS
would have to "relate to the
foundation rather than to its own
constituency," she said.
The American Council on Education has given NABS some
"seed money, but not even
enough to pay for postage," Miss

Financially, NABS "just gets
along month by month, $10 from
here, $10 there," she said.
NABS is cooperating with a
local Washington anti-draf- t,
program, "Project Stay-in,- "
which encourages young
Black men to stay in their communities rather than to get involved in the military.
"All this country's wars in
the last decade have been against
Third World countries. We can't
see a white government posing
Black man against Black," she
said, adding that she can imagine the U.S. waging war in
Africa in the coming years.
A major goal of the NABS
anti-draprogram is to establish a special classification of
"Black conscientious objector."
NABS is considering political
lobbying for this classification
and against the draft in general;
the matter will be discussed at
the next directors' meeting.
She added, however, that one
cannot discuss ending the draft
without also considering racism.
She says it will be wrong if a
volunteer army with higher pay
means the military' is the only
place most Black men can get
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salary. It would
turn them into mercenaries, she
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* Finally, A Chance At Real Student Progress
It is extremely gratifying to hear
Government President
is planning to support
of bills which would
recognition procedure
for campus organizations and the
system for disciplining students at
the University.
The bills, which are scheduled
for vote at tonight's Student Government Assembly meeting, would
give the students far more voice in
two areas which affect them most
critically.
The first bill makes the appeals
board the final decision-make- r
in
the recognition of campus organizations not made up entirely of

students, faculty and staff. The
second gives the board the final
word on the disciplining of students.
The appeals board, made up
of three students and six faculty

that Student
Tim Futrell
the passage
revamp the

members, is now subject to veto
votes in both areas.
It is 'obvious that Futrell, by
coming out in favor of the proposal, thinks its passage important enough to usurp the usual
political bickering which slows SG
action on such important matters.
The fact that the bills are sponsored by Steve Bright, with whom
the student executive has had many
differences in the past, would nor

mally be reason enough for Futrell versity. The second deals directly
with the problem of double jeoparto give it a negative nod.
the dy, which led to student demonIt is commendable then that
student chief is willing to call strations last spring.
In other words, the bills may
a temporary, if hesitant, political
be interpreted as an indication
truce with Bright in favor of stuthat students are more than willing
dent progress.
to hear the administration's viewdisPassage of the bills would
close an affirmative aura in other point and work out a solution agreeways as well. It would mean that able to both sides.
If the bills are passed without
the student body is willing to go
the prescribed, systematic internal dissension within the Asthrough
channels to alter existing inade- sembly, it would present a united
student front that the administraquacies.
The first bill is an obvious at- tion would be forced to heed.
It would be a welcome change.
tempt at compromising
differences over So please, Assembly members,
such organizations as the Free Uni don't blow it now.
student-administrati-

'Don't worry, kid
ten years from now,
who'll know the
difference . .

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Kernel Soapbox

By JOHN E. COOPER
Mr. Fred Luigart, President of the
Kentucky Coal Association, came to the
Environmental Awareness Society seminar
on January 26 to tell us about life and
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views on the other side of the
scars.
First of all, I would like to commend
Mr. Luigart for his courage in accepting
an invitation to address what he surely
knew would be a mostly unsympathetic

(a lot longer,

of course). Despite Mr.
Luigart's implication, both are still there,
hand in hand.
Mr. Luigart's presentation contained
some other innuendo. For example, he
carefully alluded from time to time to
the fact that no one in the
room was actually from Eastern Kentucky; and as far as he knew, no one
had actually ever been there (not really
been). Therefore, by implication, we were
all foreigners and had little right assuming any knowledge of, or concern for,
the internal plights and blights of the
area.
To say that this kind of provincialism is uncalled for in an educated man
speaking before a University audience
is to indulge the obvious. It doesn't
take a native of the area to know that
much of Eastern Kentucky is the very
definition of the word which has come
to be synonymous with poverty and company-town
squalor, Appalachia. And,

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and probing audience. Considering what
he had to sell, it took a lot of courage
indeed. Of course, as a professional lobbyist (his word) championing
he's probably used to this sort of thing.
All the way through his presentation,
though, I had the uneasy impression that
Mr. Luigart's demeanor was that of a
trial lawyer attempting to defend a
client whom he knows to be guilty of
premeditated murder He used all of the
tricks that one might expect in such an
instance the fiercest scowl this side of
Karloff, many incomprehensible
rings, irrelevant, quips, and that 'most
telling weapon of all, Sincerity with a
capital "S". I haven't seen such sincerity
since the last June Allyson festival.
The high point of Mr. Luigart's performance came when he made his dramatic pronouncement that miners could
"strip the hell out of it" rather than
return Eastern Kentucky to poverty and
hunger. Thus we were told, without really
has made
being told, that
poverty and hunger a thing of the past in
Eastern Kentucky.
Civing Mr. Luigart the pluperfect
benefit of the doubt and supposing him to
indeed be interested in the
(oops, almost said welfare) of the people
of Eastern Kentucky, from whence he
came, and not just in seeing
go on at their ultimate expense,
it would apiK'ar that he has been fed
a lot of pap and swallowed it.
liut, this is quite a concession on our
part, and it might just be that he was
has been
trying to gull us.
around for a long time; so has poverty
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is greatly
worse,
in the creation of a kind of poverty
aiding
which transcends regionalism, which affects us all, a kind of poverty that most
people don't understand ecological poverty. I'll define this and have more to
say about it later.
Meanwhile, Mr. Luigart's allusions
became particularly disconcerting when
he later admitted under questioning that
most of the big operations in Eastern
AlKentucky are owned by
he didn't have at his command
though
y
any figures on the amount of
which goes out of Eastern Kentucky and
the amount which stays behind to help
the people, he did lay out figures designed to show that an acre of
land is only "worth" X dollars
if farmed, or Y dollars if logged, but a
thousand times this if mined.
When questioned, Mr. Luigart also
had little to say about the
of Eastern Kentucky when the coal seams
have been "emptied" and the exploiters
and go elsewhere. There is no
pack-uway that the life expectancy of extractive
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g
later
(said by Mr. Luigart
to be the "only alternative to welfare")
will come to an end. One company official
has been reported as estimating the life
expectancy of the industry in Eastern Kentucky at 15 more years! What happens
to the
economy of Eastern
Kentucky after that? More importantly,
what happens to the ecology of the area,
and surrounding areas, between now and
then?
The exploiters aren't going to ponder
these questions. The people of Kentucky
and their legislators had better. Well, be
that as it may, let's look at some of the
other things which Mr. Luigart told us,
and some things which he didn't tell us. We were told, in the immortal prose of
the Tennessee Valley Authority, that the
isn't really "valland which is strip-mine- d
uable" land anyway, that there is no
money to be made on it by dairy interd
ests and that its forests are just old,
things that nobody in his right mind
wants standing around to confuse the
profiteering. This is a myopic, exploitative
view of land and forests, anybody's land
and forests, and is a more disastrous
attitude than most people realize.
Strip-minin- g
is but one manifestation
of a contemporary "ethic" which has, as
its gospel, the strange doctrine of exploitation for immediate gain, and to
hell with the future. When a natural
ecosystem is devastated as a result of
this doctrine, a lot of things happen to
it other than the immediately obvious.
Complex ecosystems, when ripped apart,
regress to earlier "juvenile" stages in their
succession or cycle of evolutionary development.
The structure of the communities nuking up the biotic component of such
ecosystems changes radically. The number of -- specie ' and. the number of. in.
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dividuals undergoes drastic reduction, as
does the number of what we might call
"occupational types" (like grass grazers,
algae feeders, nest builders, hole diggers, etc.). Ecologists would summarize

this by saying that the diversity of the
communities decreases. This in turn affects the stability of the ecosystem because such stability is a function of the
fantastically complex cybernetic interactions which take place amongst organisms
and between organisms and their abiotic
environment within the ecosystem.
Although most of us have long been
used to thinking otherwise, the human
species is an integral part of its ecosystems, subject (despite our technology
and our ego) to all the varied "rules
and regulations" which govern their functioning.
Although homeostatic mechanisms are
always active, the main problem is that
we don't know how much piecemeal
transgression on this "web of life" will
be required to overload the system and
bring us face to face with environmental
collapse. We have, so far, lucked out in
our avidity to do things without knowing,
or caring, about their ecological side effects. It is certain, however, that if we per-

sist from a position of ignorance we will
eventually bring it off. There will be no
escape for any of us, rich or poor.
From a scientist's viewpoint, perhaps
the most telling comment on this kind of
irrational mentality was made by Dr.
C. M. Woodwell, of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Writing in Bioscience
for October, 19G9, Dr. Woodwell said, "It
is one of the spectacular contradictions of
our time that in the age of science we
should be entering blindly on a thousand
unplanned, uncontrolled, unmonitored,
unguided, largely unrestrained, and totally unscientific experiments with the whole
world as the subject and survival at

hazard."
Not stopping to dwell on the double
entendre of the last three words for Eastern Kentuckians, these are words which
.very. thinking person must ponder.

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, Teh. 5,

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New Religion

An Attempt At Uniting Jews, Arabs

NEW YORK (AT)-- He
is
there; he is here. He is burnt
ashes, lie is a living man. He
must be nearing 50, but he's
young, in a new era. "My age h
20," he said, rejecting ordinary
time reckonings. "Everything before then is burned, a cinder."
Yet it still exists, too, for him,
when he returns to it, in a kind
of lonely, disciplined withdrawal
into another reality. Sometimes
just talking about it leaves him
unable to eat for several days.
"It's another world," he said.
Because he experienced it, yet
also embraces the present, conversation with him is almost like
talking with two men, with
r,
a warmhearted
Yehiel
Jewish writer from Israel, and
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with
135G33, the concentration camp number that
ik

identified him at Auschwitz.
"That cycle of fire is silent
now," he said. "But it still exists. Every deed good or evil
is a fingerprint in the world's
air. The smoke of millions of
lives, of a million children put
alive in the ovens, still is in the
air. It cries out in our own sky.
It is not lost."
Its cry
in the present Arab pressure on Israel, he
said, and he and his wife have
sparked a dramatic, spreading
movement in their homeland to
bring Jews and Arabs together
in private homes for evenings of
talk and friendship to try to
overcome the harsh barriers of

witz," he said, seeming to revert
to that other experience of an
entire people. "There is no country where I have not been burned
and bled and thrown out. If now,
I am to be thrown out of Palestine, then there is nowhere to go,
except back to Auschwitz."
People want to forget that
holocaust, he said, to blot it
from awareness, but man must
face the fact of his own actions,
including his horrors, in order
to be healed, and that is why
135633 writes under
that grim name his "chronicles
from the planet auschweitz."
He does so through novels, six
of them so far, including "House
of Dolls," which has sold more
than five million copies in 15
languages, and his latest, issued
by Harper and Row, called
"Phoenix Over the Galilee."
It is a haunting, symbolic story of the exile's return to Israel
after centuries of wandering and
persecution. A broken, human
remnant of Auschwitz, like himself, is restored by the power of
love of his ancestral homeland
as conveyed through a Sabra
girl.
ik

Auschwitz A Human Act

runs away, so he will not see

it."

Eyes Must Open
"But in the last moment, the
world will not make the step.
This hatred, madness, will end.
It is artificial. It is not basic.
Humanity must open its eyes.
On this earth, there must be a
place for Jews, as for all men.

The present hatred, whipped
up by the ambitions of Nasser
and his Russian backers, "is artificial," he said. "It has no reason for existence. We the Arabs
and Jews are puppets on the
strings of strange powers.
"The outside hands plague us.
But the new generation ofjews
and Arabs must break the cycle of
hatred. The Arabs within Israel
can become a living bridge to our
brothers across the border."
"The outside hands plague us.
But the new generation of Jews
and Arabs must break the cycle
of hatred. The Arabs within Israel can become a living bridge
to our brothers across the

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James W. Miller, editor-in-chiof the Kernel, has announced the resignation of political science senior Bob Brown
from his position as Kernel editorial page editor.
Brown, who has held the post
since the beginning of the fall
semester, is leaving in order to
work as a legislative intern in
Frankfort.
Ascending to the position of
editorial page editor is journal- smsenior Mike Herndon, who.
was formally an 'assistant managing editor.
St.
Jeamiie
Sophomore
Charles replaces Herndon as assistant managing editor.

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to those in the house who do not
have dates.
Wednesday afternoon Dean
Hall added two more reasons to
the list:
Extended hours would "create a considerable problem with
the house directors and the hours
they would have to keep."
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