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Student confined to wheelchair says,
'Education must go on': Poge Two.

Wildcat

Editor discusses Student Congress
ing irregularities: Poge Four.

wins
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Vol. LVII, No. 115

University of Kentucky
LEXINGTON, KY., FRIDAY, APRIL 8,

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Eight Pages

Porter? Fields Take Congress Race

Vote Margin Swelled
By Record Turnout
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margin swelled by a record turnout of 3,583 students
swept Carson Porter and Marsha Fields into the top Student Congress spots in Thursday's election.
Porter, Arts and Sciences
O'Brien, current Congress vice
junior, was elected president president, predicted his defeat
with 1,816 votes. His opponent, soon after the last polls closed
John O'Brien, also an A&S junior, at 7 p.m., blaming poor organireceived 1,275.
zation, not enough money, and
Miss Fields, A&S sophomore, a bad publicity. He said he
probably is the first woman to be spent $38 campaigning.
elected Congress vice president.
After he congratulated the
She defeated Oscar VVesterfield,
victor when the results were anA&S junior, 1,867-1,32receiving nounced at 10:35 p.m., he said the
excellent organization of Porter's
51 more votes than her running
mate.
campaign was really the deciding
Tabulation of votes for the 23 factor.
Porter, however, said the elecrepresentatives to be elected out
tion was decided by his "basicof the 105 candidates will be comally different approach" to the
pleted Saturday afternoon. Recampaign issues, which were
sults will be released then, elecmostly similar. He also praised
tion officials said.
subtraction shows his supporters, and would not
Simple
deficit between total disclose his campaign expenses.
a
comAbout 30 volunteers
students signing the poll books
pleted the count in less than
and presidential ballots counted.
Invalidated ballots account for 86 three hours. Ballots from each of
the six polls were counted by five
of that figure. About 100 write-i- n
people, and the totals were
votes were cast. The rest prenot deposited in checked three times, once by
sumably were
the ballot box, showing what adding machine, election comsome said was dissatisfaction mittee chairman Bob Bostick
said.
with the candidates.
Bostick, an education senior,
Don Pratt, commerce junior
said there were a few complaints
who campaigned as a write-i- n
candidate because low grades about campaign rule violations,
but checks proved "nothing
did not allow him to file offireceived about 42 votes, wrong." A charge that students
cially,
were being allowed to vote withdespite warnings voters acadestudents out ID's was unfounded, he said.
mically-ineligible
could not serve even if elected. Some campaigning too close to
the polls went unchecked.
Batman and a fevt UK basketball players also received write-i- n
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Illegal Drug Use Increasing,
Commissioner Advises Colleges
The use of illegal drugs is
on the increase on campuses
according to a letter sent to
more than 2,000 colleges and
universities by Dr. James F.
Goddard, commissioner of the
federal Food and Drug Administration.

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The letter is the first indication that the federal government has stepped into the growing controversy over the use of
hallucinatory drugs on campuses.
Mr. Robert L. Johnson, vice
president for student affairs said
the University had not received
a letter from the federal govern- -

ment concerning the use of hallucinatory drugs.
The letter is reported to urge
campus officials to report immediately to FDA district offices instances of illegal use or
possession of hallucinatory drugs,
and that colleges might wish to
take other appropriate actions
such as inspection programs,
On Page 6

Qualifying Rounds Begin
For Track Relays Here

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To Register
Dr. Elbert Ockerman, Dean
of Admissions and Registrar
today said "approximately 2,000
students" have precegistered for
the fall semester.
For the first time this semester, students who do not
will be subject to a late
registration fee of $20. This will
affect both graduate and undergraduate students, according to
Dr. Ockerman.
Priority for class assignment
will be based on spring semester
grades. Scheduling will be done
by IBM as in previous semesters.
Preregistration began April 4
and will end on April 15.
Following registration procedures all registrants can have ID
pictures taken in Room 214 of
the Journalism Building. Hours
are from 8 a.m. until 12 p.m.
and 1 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.

Lexington Boy Scout Troop
watches eagerly as several harbingers of Easter make their first
appearance in a special display
at the Agriculture Center. Excited "peeps" come from the
boys (and leaders) as well as
the newlyfhatched, as the birds
finally break through their shells.
The display, a special
project, in the
lobby of the center, was set up
by Dr. D. W. MacLaury and
Thomas H. Johnson. It is open
to the public and so far this
week, many groups of school
children have seen the tiny peepers come forth. The
display originated last year as
a
exhibit for the State Fair,
and Dr. MacLaury explained that
"it practically ran itself."
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MARSHA FIELDS AND CARSON PORTER

Finals in the University Relays, Eastern America's first major
outdoor track meet of the season, will be held beginning at 1 p.m.
Saturday. Qualifying heats are being held today at the Sport s Center
event.
track, scene ol the two-da- y
Entered in the competition
magazines and newspapers will
are 3S schools, including most compete.
of the top track teams in the
Flowers
returned
recently
States. Over 640 athfrom a highly successful tour ol
letes arc entered in the 23 events, Australia where he was undeaccording to UK track and field feated. The son of the Alabama
coach Bob Johnson. Johnson is
attorney general of the same
director of the Belays.
name. Flowers is also a
Eastern Kentucky', Murray, football
play er.
Western Kentucky,
Kentucky
finals in his event will be
State anil Louisville, will be
aniongtlie visiting schools at the held at 2:15 p.m.
Al ('alius, who recently iuii
Belays.
One of the big names in track, the fastest 3,0()0 meter steepleBob Schul of Miami of Ohio, was chase in history, will compete
forced to withdraw because of against Hylke Van Dei Wal at
1:43 in what may be the "race
but Richmond
examinations,
Flowers, who has been the of the day.' Van Dei Wal held
subject of articles in many major
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11 ileal ion Musi Go On

Confinement To Wheelchaii
Doesn't Stop Dave Miller
"I think I'm a pretty good
cook,"' he says. I in fascinated
with cooking. I just wish I had
more time."
But Dave Miller is different
men. He's
than most 23 car-olpractically totally confined to a
wheelchair. Dac Miller contracted infantile paralysis when
he was 21 months old.
"Incurring it at such a young
age," he admits, "has meant
I've grown up with it.
"It's just something you learn
to accept. You realize that one
morning you're not going to w ake
up and start to walk. It won't
happen. Consequently, you go
into everything you do with the
idea that you're going to have
to operate on your own and best

Hy CAROLYN WILLIAMS

Kernel Fraturc Editor
Dave Miller considers himself an average American jjuy
of 23. He likes to date, enjoys
boating and becomes completely uninhibited when he starts
cooking.

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in his junior year at the University (if Kentucky, lie's proving
he's not a "wan!" on anyone.
He sees himself as practically
entirely
"It's hard for me to say that
I'm not a burden on those around
me. I try not to be. I try to be
as independent as possible."
Trovinn this is the fact that
he has obtained special permission from the University to have
a key for the library on campus.
He has also been driving since
he w as 18 years old.
"You've got to respect someone like Dave," says Ed Campbell, his friend since the fourth
grade at a Northern Kentucky
school. "He's a special type of
person. He never lets it get him
down. He's more of a positive
thinker than people who don't
have a handicap."
Miller, a junior in pre-lawith an area of concentration in
political science, hopes someday
to get involved in state politics.
"Of course four years is a
long way off," he laughs when
talking about getting through
law school. "A lot of things can
happen between now and then.
It all depends on the circumstances.
Has the wheelchair caused
any problems with making his
grades? "I don't think so. Maybe
last semester my standing wasn't
as high as it could have been if
I'd have had the library key, but
my class work is coming along
fine now.
"However, I don't pay much
attention to grades," says Miller
who has a 3.1 academic overall.
"Although I believe grades are
important, I also think they're
emphasized too much. I don't
think they're the criteria for an
evaluation of the student's capat.

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In fact, the going can get
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last semester when one class
was practically across campus
from the next one.
"It was a mad dash during
those 10 minutes," he laughs.
"Luckily, I knew a fellow who
had the same class as mine.
He'd stop by for me and we'd
tear across campus. We were
never late."
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last time he was late and during
the snow in February he made
every class.
"I don't consider myself different. I would hope that no
one would feel sorry for me.
It's a biological fact that I can't
walk . . . and that has to be
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music festival in the following
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tlit Science Fair are scheduled
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morrow vocal and small enseum from 1 to 5 p.m. Sciensembles w ill perforin.
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participants from each
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school, who are selected by their
The first place winner of the
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the Philipines; John Woods, a
senior from Liberia; and Silvis
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Questions anyone wants to
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Room 119 of the Student Center,
and other questions will be accepted from the floor Friday night
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These empty gas tanks behind the School of ever, if Dean Charles P. Craves of the School of
Architecture building have been decorated by Architecture has his way, these vessels will soon
University students to resemble submarines. How- - be shipped out.

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Friday in Room 206 of the Student Center.
The panel consists of students
Norway, Liberia,
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Student Congress demonstrated
Thursday it cannot even conduct an
election properly. The record turnout of voters was characterized by
almost every form of voting irregularity imagincable.
The elections committee apparently exercised no control over
candidates, campaigners, voters or
election workers. Although there is
no evidence that ballot boxes were
actually stacked in the tmesenseof
the word, many factors indicate the
election was somewhat farcical.
Many students have criticized
the Kernel this year for its seemstand. Yet
ingly
Thursday's election of executive
officers and representatives is only
one more example of the current
administration's inability to properly coordinate a function within
its purview.
anti-Congre-

At least five examples of election

irregularity were observed. Although all of these may not be
strictly contradictory to Congress
election rules, they are at least
unethical.
Perhaps the most prevalent was
group voting. Many students, especially in the cafeteria polling places,

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Group oting not only demonstrates a shortcoming in election
procedures, but it also indicates
University students are not very
serious about student government
here.

Election workers in some of the
polling places u ere roponsible for a
second problem. eeral ot these
workers regarded it as their civic
dut to adise oters. Furthermore,
some election workers paid little
to what was going on
around their table.
Another irregularity involved
campaigning at the polling places.
Although rules prohibit campaigning within 50 feet of a voting table,
election workers did not strictly
enforce this regulation.

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Therefore, the election represents a typical Student Congress
i performance. Lack of planning was
evident, and there apparently was
no conscientious effort to follow
standard and ethical procedures.

Letters To The Editor

Miss HolroycVs Dismissal
Regarded As Frightening
To the

Editor of the Kernel:

A frightening thing has happened. A teacher in the Music
Department, respected by her colleagues, her students and her profession, has been told that her
contract will not be renewed.
This is Sara Holroyd, Assistant
Professor of Music, who has taught
successfully for 17 years, who has
been a faculty member here for
five years, and who has been encouraged in her w ork by substantial
salary raises.
The only reason given is that
one must have a doctorate in her
field, music education. She, however, is within 12 hours of completing her doctoral work, and attended Indiana University last

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Other reports contend some students were voting more than once,
using borrowed identification cards
to obtain their second and third
ballots. This is one problem election
workers should have been able to
avoid with little difficulty.

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GROUP VOTING

voted in groups, giving their friends
instructions as they cast
their votes. We realize group voting
would have been difficult to completely avoid due to handmarked
ballots, but the elections committee
should have established some
means to at least minimize the

The last example of inefficient
administration involving the election, likewise, is unexcusable. Just
before votes were to be counted,
election officials still were calling
students seeking their help as
counters. This aspect should have
been arranged far in advance. We
doubt seriously if
counters were found at the last
minute.

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summer to continue it. She was
unable to complete that session
because of the illness of her mother.
She was given an unqualified
recommendation by the tenured
members of this department and by
its chairman.
Her dismissal is frightening because of its devastating effect on
the human being involved. It is
frightening because of the atmosphere it creates in the "University family," where merit seems
to count for little, where secrecy
in such matters seems to be accepted, where simple justice seems
to be ignored.
PHYLLIS JENNESS
Associate Professor of Voice

Political Pressure
The race to promote automobile
safety has become wide open. The
Senate has gone beyond the Administration's recommendations in
approving legislation to require
tire manufacturers to use identical
grading standards. The Department of Health, Education and
Welfare has announced that car
makers must install antismog devices in all new cars, starting
with the 1968 models. And New
York State has just adopted a law
requiring that all new cars undergo
a safety inspection before the) can
be licensed.
The indications are that Congress will now move to stiffen the
Administration's proposals for a
comprehensive car safety program.
There is strong Senate sentiment
to raise the minimum standards
asked by the White House and to
make them mandatory instead of
discretionary. These moves are in
line with the Senate's tough line
on tire standards, which was opposed by both the Administration
and the industry.
Detroit raises the specter that

the Senate's zeal for safety will
backfire. The car makers, who increased their own safety efforts
under political prodding, fear that
standards
imposing mandatory
without more research might end
by making cars more expensive
rather than safer. The industry's
persuasiveness would be greater
if the major manufacturers had
devoted more of their profits to
research and had not lagged so
far behind in the race. The death
toll taken by automobiles hardly
warrants a slowdown in safety
regulations.
There is little danger that the
restrictions the Senate seems bent
on imposing will impede the industry's own plans. The Senate's
tire bill calls for a period of research and testing before final standards are set in February 1969.
If a similar period is permitted
the car makers, they will have
ample time to show what they
can do. The need for intensified
research must not delay action
that can save lives now.
The New York Times

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1894

University of Kentucky
FRIDAY, APRIL 8.

Walter Grant,

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Marcaret Bailey, Arts Editor
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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Friday, April 8,

"Inside Report"

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Stanford Poll On Vietnam Rapped

poll which
portrays the American public
seeking a softer line in Vietnam
is regarded by
professional glisters as a scandalous job of rigging.
The poll, sponsored by seven
young social scientists at Stanford University, runs directly
information
to the
counter
gathered by the professionals.
As such, it further beclouds what
Americans really feel about the
most confused war in the nation's
history.
The Stanford poll, as it is
known in Washington, has become a prime document for the
peace bloc on Capitol Hill since
its release on March 15.
Sen. Frank Church of Idaho,
one of the bloc's most alert members, quickly inserted it in the
Congressional Record with a glib
conclusion: "This national survey discloses that widespread
public support exists for a more
flexible American bargaining position in Vietnam." Other peace
Senators use the poll as ammunition for antiwar arguments.
What makes this important is
the heightening sensitivity of
politicians as election day nears.
Consequently, it is worth examining why professional pollsters object to the Stanford poll.
It should be emphasized that
they do not find fault with the
sampling methods (1,479 interviews) of the National Opinion
Research Center at the University
of Chicago, contracted by the
Stanford professors for the survey.
Rather, it is the way the Stanford
group framed the questions that
bothers professional pollsters.
The Stanford
poll asks:
"Would you approve or disapprove of the following action to
end the fighting: forming a new
Viet-con- g
government in which the
took some part?"
The replies are 52 percent yes,
36 percent no, 12 percent don't
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know. From this the Stanford
professors conclude in their
analysis that a majority favors a
coalition government.
However, professional pollsters believe that the question is
so framed as to assume an incredibly high level of sophistication. When the same question
is couched in more understandable terms by commercial pollsters, the answer is a resounding

ing is sure to get a no answer.
Yet the Stanford professors
sweep to this broad conclusion:
"the majority of American citizens have reservations about continuing the war when they are
faced with its possible -- osts."
While conceding 61 percent
approval of President Johnson's
policies, the Stanford group
stretches its data toadd: ' Unlike
other studies, our more complete
no.
investigation also shows wideTwo highly reputable private spread
support for moderate
pollsters who constantly probe
of the conflict (includopinion on Vietnam for political ing negotiation with the Vietcong
clients have come tip with results and inclusion of the
Vietcong in a
far different from the Stanford coalition government) and a repoll. If the war is to be ended at luctance to pay the increased ecothe price of Communists in a nomic and manpower costs whic h
coalition government, Americans a substantial escalation would
are overwhelmingly against a coinvolve."
alition. However, they do not
The Stanford group gives
oppose a coalition if this is the away its intent, however, by reresult of free elections. This vital fusing to accept the conclusion of
distinction is ignored by the Stan- every professional pollster that
ford poll.
the public is understandably conThe same slanting of the fused about Vietnam.
In a March 15 letter to the
questions is found throughout the
Stanford poll. It asks whether the New York Times, the Stanford
person polled would be willing to professors reject the confusion
cut aid to education, cut meditheory, claiming instead that the
care, and raise taxes "in order to public view is "rather close to
continue fighting." According to that of some of the most responprofessional pollsters, such word sible critics of the Administra

tion." Specifically,

it lists
George Kennan, star
opposition witness in the
committee hearings.
To equate snap opinions of a
puzzled public with Kennan's
sophisticated doctrine tends to
confirm what professional pollsters suspect. The Stanford group
knew what answers it wanted
before it asked any questions.
To go through the formality of
1,474 personal interviews was a
waste of time and money.
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a request that Communist Herbert
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Records Fall As Tankers
Have Best Season Ever
cruiting help from an unexpected

By HENRY ROSENTHAL

Kernel Sports Editor
Long a doormat in the Southeastern Conference in swimming, the University posted its
best record to date this past
season. The swimming WildAction as pictured in this photograph taken at last year's UK
4
cats finished
and in the
Relays gets under way with qualifying rounds today. The Relay
process beat Vandcrbilt for the
finals will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday.
first time in five years.
"I lost count of the times
we broke school records," Coach
Wynn Paul said. "It was at
least 15."
The swimmers also finished
fifth in the conference meet. This
was an advancement from a sixth
place finish the season before.
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