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The South9 s Outstanding College Daily
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

19G8

'Black Culture9 Set
As Credit Course
Bv IANICE BARBER
The
search for identity in the face of contem- porary national problems will be the subject of a new course
to be offered this fall.
open to juniors and seniors. FaTlie course's approval climaxes a long struggle by UK culty members and graduate stuit
a
Negro students for just such an dents may participate on
basis.
addition to the curriculum.
The course will be offered
n
Life and Culunder the new College of Arts
ture" is the title of the experimental course, which will view and Sciences designation "AS
the role of the black American 300." The term will be used to
identify courses not under the
from the perspectives of anthroregular curriculum.
pology, sociology, economics,
Stated purpose of the new
psychology, American literature
and political science. Seven proprogram is to stimulate a freer
fessors will participate in the curriculum responsive to changcourse.
ing times and culture.
three-cred- it
The
elective
Questions about the program
course is scheduled for 3 p.m. should be directed to Robert J.
MVVF in Room 265 Chemistry-Physic- s
Political
Pranger, chairman,
Building. The course is Science Department.

Governor Vetoes
HouseTuition Bill

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Vol. LIX, No. 123

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By ROBERT F. BRANDT
AND LARRY DALE KEELING
House Bill 110, which would have raised tuition for
students at the five state universities and Kentucky State College,
was vetoed Monday by Cov. Louie B. Nunn.
The bill was vetoed, accord
the council's recommendation for
ing to the governor, because the
tuition raise asked for by the bill any second raise in tuition.
already has been made by the
Summer school tuition for
State Council on Public Higher
students at UK will be
Education.
increased from $220 to $260. All
raises must begin by fall 1968.
House Bill 110 was a combill that raised tuition The Associated Press reports that
promise
for
students at UK the Board of Trustees at each
to $980 for the 1968-6- 9
university determines whether or
school
not the hike in summer school
year. This is the original figure
tuition will begin this summer
set by the council.
or next.
But under House Bill 110,
Paul Oberst, a member of the
tuition for the 1969-7- 0 school year
University Board of Trustees, said
would have been raised again
to his knowledge the board has
to $1,140. There is no clause in
done nothing so far to determine when the raise will take
effect. Mr. Oberst said he did
not remember the problem ever
coming up before the board.

te

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Osborn
Ted Osborn, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for senator, calls for a change in current
Vietnam policy before a special
meeting of Young Democrats
Tuesday night. (Story on Page8.)

Confusion Arises Over Closed Meeting

However, Registrar Elbert VV.
Ockerman said the
tuition raise to $260 would take
effect this summer.

SDS Council Meeting To Bar Press

By.DARRELL RICE
Students for a Democratic
Society steering committee members say they have agreed with
the University administration to
have a closed meeting of the
SDS National Council and not
tor open the meeting to the general press. But they say their
agreement came after "implied
threats" by the administration.
UK

Dean of Students Jack Hall
said the Kernel would be among
the barred press under the agreement. Mrs. Ray said, "My impression is that the group would
be allowed to decide for itself'
whether or not to allow the Kernel to cover the meeting.
Members of the local SDS

chapter's steering committee met
with President John Oswald and
other administrators Monday afternoon and with members oft he
administration again Tuesday
morning.

Francis Frampton, a member
of the SDS steering committee,
said the group was asked to have
a closed council meeting and to
bar the press from the meeting
with the exception of the SDS
own internal media The New
Left Notes and the Liberation
News Service.
"I felt there was an implied

threat that either the conditions

would be agreed to or there would
be no conference," she said.
But even after the group
agreed to the requests, they said
there was some confusiop.

Tim McCarthy, SDS assistant
national secretary who also attended the meetings with the
administration, said, "It is a fact
that the National Council itself
can only decide whether or not
to close the meeting to the press."
He said this was brought out
at the meeting with the administration. Mrs. Frampton confirmed
this and said the steering committee could only agree to make
a sincere effort to persuade the
National Council to close the
meeting to the press.
Dean of Students Jack Hall
said this is not the case, rather,
that it was specifically agreed
that the general press would be
barred.
Even among the administration there is some confusion.

te

Nancy Ray, administrative assistant in the Office of Student
Affairs, said she thought the
agreement said the group "would
make every effort" to bar the
press, but not that it had made
a definite commitment to do so.
She also said she thought
the meeting would be open to
University students and faculty
if the council decided to admit
them. But Dean Hall said only
people explicitly invited could

attend.
The National Council is a
meeting of SDS members from
across the country to plan the
group's nationwide activities for
the next quarter year. It is to be
held here Thursday night through
Sunday.
Continued on Pag

7, Col. 5

Out-of-ate tuition at the UK
Medical and Dental Schools will
be raised under the council's
recommendation from $1,280 to
$1,500 for the 68-6-9
school year.
st

Under the council's recommendation, tuition for
students at Eastern,
Murray and Western State
Universities and Kentucky State
out-of-sta- te

More-hea-

College will be raised from $580
to $740.

students
Tuition for
at all Kentucky's state universities and colleges will remain
the same both for summer and
te

regular school semesters.
The tuition raise was one of
70 bills vetoed by Cov. Nunn
March 25.

UK Students Cautious About 'Dropping Acid9
In

By GUY MENDES
1938, Swiss scientist Albert Hoffman was working with ergot

inn

which contains lysergic acid and destroys rye in damp
summers.
In the course of trying dif- ple joined the hippie movement.
ferent chemical combinations, he But now, according to experts,
added molecules that created a LSD use has declined, mainly
totally new compound. Five years due to evidence linking LSD
the to chromosome damage.
later he was
material and accidently inhaled
Dr. James L. Coddard, Comenough of it to produce what missioner of the Food and Dmg
he called "fantastic visions of Administration, said recently that
use of LSD increased in 1966
extraordinary vividness."
It was then, 1913, that Dr. and into 1967 but has leveled
Hoffman discovered the twtency off now. He said "a slight downturn" may be evident.
This is the third of a
At UK, many of the students
series on student drw
who have "dropped" acid say
use.
they won't use it again. "I'm
glad I took it so I know what
of this new compound-lyserg- ic
it's like, but I won't take it
acid diethylamide, LSD.
he know that some again," said one student. "It's
Little did
a bad drug we don't know what
20 years later his compound
be the subject of national it does to your genes . . . and if
would
you're mentally unstable, it can
and worldwide controversy.
as it is called by its affect you more than you like."
Acid,
Another said he sees no point
disciples, was intioduccd to the
in using LSD anymoie. One coed
by Dr. Timothy
young generation
who used LSD but once said she
Leury, then a Harvard psycholomay use it once more. "It's an
peogist who encouraged young
she said,
ple to "tune in, turn on, drop important experience,"
but added it is
and
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Curry, Bryan Announce SG Hopes
O. K. Curry and Wally Bryan
became the first announced candidates for Student Government
president and vice president yesterday.
In announcing their intention
to run for the offices, Curry and

Bryan said they would "work

for a strong Student Government

by initiating programs which are
relevant to student needs and
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ly from GIs stationed all over requests for individual and group
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The letters are the result of the letters received were from
a picture of the UK coeds pubVietnam.
In response to the letters, the
lished recently in "The Army
Times," a world wide military girls sent their photographs.
The same picture was later
publication. The picture is of the
Uirls visiting wounded soldiers published in several other major
from Vietnam at Fort Knox.
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This was the first time that with more requests for pictures.
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LSD: Discovered Through A Scientist's Accident
Said Dr. Roland Fischer, Ohio

Continued From rage 1
LSD nwre than three times because of jxissible chromosome
damage.
One student who took LSD
last year said "I wouldn't go
near the stuff now."
"It's not harmful if you use
it only once," another coed said,
"and once is all you need . . .
to see what you can do with
your mind."
Dr. John Curtis, director of
the psychiatric, section of Student Health Service, compared
the amount of student drug use
at UK to some New England
schools which he said had "big
trends last year but are tapering
off this year." .
He said LSD is used less than
marijuana at UK and that the
"major problem here" is the use
of amphetamines ben zedrines,
dexedrine, pep pills.
"The evidence of chromosomal damage has cut down the use
of LSD across the country," Dr.
Curtis said.
There are two basic ways in
which LSD is said to cause genetic damage. It can cause breakage
and rearrangement of chromosomes and lead to a slow-dow- n
or even a halt in the division
of cells during pregnancy.
If the chromosomes affected
are important ones, the baby's
body may be stunted or deformed.
Retardation, congenital heart defects, club foot, brain damage
and malformations of the bone
structure may result.
Doctors believe LSD can also
cause translocation, in which different types of cells break and rejoin to create an imbalance.
In studies of several hundred
persons known to have used LSD,
some 75 percent were shown to
have suffered chromosome dam-

State professor of psychiatry and
associate professor of pharmacology, "Pure LSD has been
sliown to be harmless toward
chromosomes when the concentrations used are not excessive."
Dr. Fischer, who has had 23
years experience in the field of
hallucinogenic dnigs and is one
of the few investigators in the
nation licensed by the Food and
Drug Administration to experiment with LSD, said the
used in the experiments
that showed chromosome break-- '
age received "unknown materials
of unknown strength" instead
of "pure LSD."
He said the concentrations of
LSD used "were so high that, in
comparison, smaller concentrations of compounds which occur
in coffee, tea and cocoa can also
produce mutations as well as
chromosome aberrations in human tissue culture cells."
"People would like to deter
young people" from taking LSD
but they "do not realize some
of the results of their science
fiction story of LSD causing
sul-jec-

chromosomal

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damage," Dr.

Fischer said.
He said use of LSD has, as
a result, decreased, but use of
marijuana has increased. He
added that "there are quite a
few people with tremendous guilt

feelings

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chromosomes

convinced

their

have been dam-

aged.".

LSD is said to lower the
barrier between the conscious
and subconscious, permittingthe
user to look more deeply into
himself. But meeting "yourself
for the first time under LSD
can be a frightening experience.
Under LSD, one might look
down to find his body had disappeared. Such an effect could strike
the user as funny. But if he is
unprepared, it could be

age.

But some scientists have challenged the validity of the charges
that LSD damages chromosomes.

As a result, he might develop
an "LSD psychosis." Panic and
anxiety may not wear off'after
the normal eight to 12 hours.
A user could also experience "recurrences," the effects of the
dnig recurring at various times.
It is not exactly known how
LSD works on the mind. One
theory says LSD creates a deficiency of serotonin, a chrystal-lin- e
compound in the brain. A
second theory claims LSD to act
like serotonin.
LSD does have medical uses.
It has been used in the treatment of sexual disorders, in treatment of mentally retarded and
schizophrenic children, in the
rehabilitation of criminals, in
treatment of character disorders
and treatment of alcoholism.
At the University Hospital in
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 600 alcoholics were treated with LSD.
Two hundred stopped drinking
altogether and 150 cut down their
intake.
According to local drug users,
LSD is more readily available
at UK than marijuana is. As
with marijuana, LSD is brought
in from large cities or from the
West Coast.
One
said LSD
pushers are "predominantly student types putting themselves
through school" on their profits.
Another said some of his acid
"probably comes from the
Mafia," but expressed no fear
in dealing with the underground
organization. A third student said
he stopped using LSD because
he was getting it from "shady
types" and feared they were putting "something besides acid"
in their merchandise.
The "best" LSD comes from
San Francisco in the form of
small purple wedges, according
to several local users. It is
by a young underground chemist who goes by the
name of Owsley. His full name
UK-stu-

is Augustus Stanley Owsley III
a descendant of the 38th governor of Kentucky, Augustus
Stanley Owsley.
Contrary to opular opinion,
LSD is not easy to make. "It
depends on what you start with,"
explains Dr. W. T. Smith, of the
UK chemistry department. "If
you can get hold of lysergic acid.

it would be a simple matter. If
you don't have that, it becomes
pretty complex."

Lysergic acid is no longer
listed as available in thccatalogs
of the world's chemical companies. And according to Dr.
Smith, it is "quite a problem
to make."

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of the spring presidential race in
Student Government.
The YR's have invited all the
candidates for the top spot to speak;
whether all the candidates will attend is hard to say, but the word
has gotten around that you'd better
be there if you are in the race to
stay.
No date for the election has
been set; that will probably be
announced in Thursday's SG meeting. So as of now, the only candidate for the presidency is SG Speaker O.K. Curry.
Curry's candidacy will be challenged by another member of Student Congress as well as an "independent" candidate as far as
we know. Just so long as he's
challenged.
No one should get the top student administrative spot on campus by default. The more candidates the better. Last year's race
found five candidates, Steve Cook,
Sheryl Snyder, Bill Murrell, Martin
Wheeler, and David Holwerk trying for the position.

Their

combined

presence

brought out the largest turnout
in campus political history, and
the interest generated by their candidacy no doubt put a great strain
on the winner as he had to function
under a lot of public interest.
This interest flagged after the
semester started, and Student Government slumped into a trough of
lethargy, sans raison.
So this year's race includes two
main topics:
(1) The winner will once again
win in a great deal of public interest, and
(2) His position will then become one of keeping the public
interest up, and proving that SG
can be a viable political body
capable of generating bills and
resolutions for the betterment of
the student.
Our call to the student body
is to closely follow the SG race,
vote, and then support the winner
as he will need all the help he can
get.
There's no such thing as the
"Silent Spring" on the UK

(Chorus)
And it's one, two, three, what 're

Why, man, war is just a gold flow;
There's plenty good money to be
made
By supplying the army with the
tools of the trade.
Just be hopin' when they drop
that bomb
They'll drop it on the Viet Cong
(Chorus)

wefightin' for?
Well, don't ask me, I don't give Well, come on, mothers throughout
a damn;
the land,
The next stop is Vietnam.
Pack your sons off to Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven, eight, open Come on, fathers, don't hesitate
Send 'em off before it's too late;
up the pearly gates
there ain't no time to wonder Be the first one in your block
Well,
why,
To have your boy come home in
Whoopee, we're all gonna die.
a box.
Well, come on, generals, let's move
fast,
And, it's one, two, three, what're
Your big chance is come at last;
wefightin' for?
Gotta go out and get those Reds
Well, don't ask me, I don't give
The only good commie is one that's
a damn;
dead.
The next stop is Vietnam;
And you know peace can only be And it's
five, six, seven, eight, open
won
up the pearly gates
When we blow 'em all to kingdom Well there ain't no time to wonder
come. (Chorus)
why,
Come on, Wall Street, don't move Whoopee, we're all gonna die.
Colorado Daily
slow,

The Kentucky

Iernel

The Smith's Outstanding College Daily
University ok Kentucky
KSTAHLiSHKI)

1801

WEDNESDAY,

MARCH 27, 1968

Editorials n present the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.
John Hiihard Rinimius, Editor
Hubert 1'. Brandt, Managing Editor
Martin Webb

Darrell luce
Dana Fwell
Jo Wurrcn
Terry Dunham
Assistant Managing Editors
Hank Milain, Business Manager
Carol) ii Dunnavan, Women it Editor
Joe Hinds, Arts Editor
Hill TlioinpMJii, Cartoonist
Jim Miller, Sports Editor
Hick Bell, Director of I'hotography
Mary Mugee, Advertising Salesman
Robert Collins, Delivery
l'ristilla Dreher, Editorial Assistant
,Mk$ Maliirw.Ci'iV(4w .".V.Y. .'".WW.".'. ".

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"Js there anyplace where ice can look forward
to a short cool summer?

Pass-Fa- il

Vietnam Rag
(For The 206,000)
Come on, all of you Vpig strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again;
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Vietnam;
So put down your books and pick
up a gun
Gonna have a whole lotta fun.

mm

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Stpa cities

.

Another school has announced
the formulation of a new system
with grades of honor, pass, and
fail the Yale Divinity School. The
change was made because the competitive pressure to see who comes
out on top didn't make sense in
divinity school. Faculty members
felt the former grading system was
not consistent with the school's
desire to encourage students to
exercise initiative in devising flexible and imaginative courses of
study.
In order to compensate for the
less precise academic records under the new system, the Divinity
School plans to keep more complete and detailed files of faculty
recommendations. Divinity School

Dean Rev. Robert C. Johnson said
he hoped, the new grading system
would reduce the tendency to regard
grades as an end in themselves,
and at the same time would recognize excellence. It is interesting
to note too that more failures are

expected

under

School's new

Pass-Fa-

the
il

Divinity
system.

More and more institutions of
learning are accepting Pass-Faas a system that is both flexible
and fair. How long will it be
before UK educators begin to experiment with a system that is
less rigid than the old A, B, C,
D, E letter system? Why must a
modem education still be expressed
in old terms, not new definitions?
il

Letters To The Editor
To the Editor of the Kernel:
There is so much pressure on college
students that they have no choice but to
work for a grade.
Although students are encouraged by
college professors to learn as they study,
the pressure caused by the teachers creates
many problems. This pressure causes the
the professor
student to try to
by trying to guess what will be asked
on the exams. Often an inquisitive student with an eagerness to learn must
move over very quickly sometliing that
is interesting and informative in order
to guess what might be expected of him
on an exam.
out-sma-

rt

Students are encouraged to cheat because of this problem. Even though this
practice is discouraged by college leaders,
the work, often beyond reason, accumulates until it becomes apparent that help
must be sought if a passing gradetisto be
made. Students often go to their professors, sometimes offering bribes for better
grades.
I believe that a
pass and fail system
would be more logical and fairer to all.
If you were an average or aljove average
student you could study to learn with
time for personal experiments to gain
knowledge, and still pass without the
worry of grade competition.
A iersonal experienceof mine indicates
that a student must try to outsmait the
professor in order to receive a gxul grade.
I studied with a friend of mine for a
Chemistry exam. We studied twenty hours
for

this' ouexain.V V.V." V.

V.V

'

After the papers were returned to us,
this friend had failed and I had a score of
86, but not because I was more brilliant
than he or had studied longer. Actually,
as we studied, this inquisitive student
was interested and studied to gain knowledge that could be used later.
I studied to outsmart the professor.
Possibly, if we had been given an oral
exam on all of the phases of our classroom and text book knowledge, he would
have scored very high and I may have

failed.
Often under our present grade system,
the actual mark given does not mean
anything. An example is that a B covers
from 80 to 89. An A with a grade of 90
is just one x)int higher than a B. The
difference in such a grading system is
many times just a matter of personal
judgement and can go either way.
In a pass and fail system all students
would be encouraged to learn. Of course,
there would have to be a breaking line.
Possibly 65 or slightly alove could be
the determining cut-of- f
for passing. The
pass and fail system would encourage
students to learn. It would give the
student a chance to explore a subject
to its depths or to his own satisfaction.
Much could be accomplished in all
fields of study if the pressures were not
st) great and more time could actually
be spent by the student seeking informative information and knowledge on the
subjects he was to be graded uiMm.
Ralph Collins
Vet. Medicine
Sophomore

* .THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, March 27, l8--7

UK Students Going North
fflO

To Aid McCarthy Campaign
Citizens

uuu

oi:

UK
for McCarthy has
sinned up 13 students so far
and is expecting more to go to
Wisconsin to work for Sen. Eugene McCarthy's presidential
campaign in the April 2 primary
there.
Joseph Gardner, instructor in
the English Department, said
the students are going at the
request of the Wisconsin McCarthy organization. He said
other groups