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Wednesday Evening, April

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The South's Outstanding College Daily

10, 1968

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

LIX, No.

Vol.

133

Blacks And Whites
Meet Separately
On Urban Crisis
By DANA EVVELL

The Urban Crisis Committee came to one decision Tuesday
night next time black and white leaders will meet together.
There will not be one meeting, a white one, being held at Second
Presbyterian Church while another meeting, a black one, is going
on at Pralltown Community Center.

Almost 750 people crowded
into Second Presbyterian at 7:30
p.m. to hear the Lexington crisis
aired by clergymen and community leaders.
"Let me tell you, brothers,
the crisis does exist and you will
feel it," said Rev. Craig
the Church Community Service.
Rev. Frederick son, a white
minister who lives in predominantly Negro Pralltown, continued, "I think if Negroes see
us set up one more study commission we've had it."
"The people of good will of
our community are going to have
to come out to reassure our black
brother that we have faith in

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Urban Crisis Meeting

William Bingham (left), a representative from the Mack Coalition which had met earlier, receives a
standing ovation as he steps forward to speak to the white gathering of the Urban Crisis Committee
held Tuesday night in the Second Presbyterian Church. UK professor Lawrence Tariey (right), joins
hands with John Conipton. from () juration Reconciliation of the Urban Emergency Program, as the
group sings several verses of "We Shall Overcome."

Calif giate Frew Service

Two-Pa- rt
Program
The program was divided into two parts, the first consisting
of introductory remarks made by
members of the Urban Crisis
Committee (of minister) and
other community leaders.
The second half of the program was a statement of priorities of the Negro community presented by the leaders of the Black
Coalition after their meeting in

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Plans for the two meetings
evolved shortly after Friday me- -

The funeral of Dr. Martin
Luther King was marked on college and university campuses

around the country Tuesday with
memorial services, vigils and
sympathy marches. A large number of schools cancelled classes
entirely, while others called off
classes for part of the day.
Students from as far away
as California traveled to Atlanta
to attend the funeral. Interracial

SG Polls

Polling places and times
for v oting in the Student Government elections today are
as follows: Student Center,
S a.m. to S p.m.; Commerce
Building, S a.m. to 4 p.m.;
Complex, Blazer and Donovan cafeterias, 11 a.m. to 1
p.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Students must present
their ID to vote.
Candidates for SC president are Jolui Cooper, Herbert Creech and O.K. Curry.
Vice presidential candidates
are Wally Bryan and Linda
Rogers.

contingents from some southern
scliools, including Vanderbilt
in Tennessee and
University
Clemson University in South Carolina, made the trip to Atlanta
for the funeral.
Although most of the activities connected with the funeral
were peaceful, there were some
relatively militant demonstrations.
At the University of Michigan, for example, about 150 black
students blockaded the doors to
the administration building early
this morning, allowingonly black
students to enter.
The demonstrators presented
a list of demands to university
President Robben W. Fleming,
including a demand that a Martin Luther King Jr. scholarship
fund be set up, and the demand
that there be an endowed chair
for a black professor. They also
said black representatives should
be employed on the university's
admissions staff and on its athletic staff.
While a group of white students picketed in support of the
black students' demands, President Fleming and alocalNAACP
official discussed them with lead- -

Nearly 3,000 copies of Tues-

7

p.m. Tuesday night.
A light blue and white 1963
Chevrolet .was seen driving out
of the Student Center parking
lot with a Ijox inside containing numerous copies of the paper.
The license number of the car
was taken, and the owner was
found to be a resident of
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Pralltown.

Delayed by lengthy debate
over their demands and means
for achieving them, the representatives of the Black Coalition
did not arrive until after 9 p.m.
Greeted by a standing ovation, William Bingham, chairman
of the Pralltown Community Interest Group and one of the leaders of the coalition, apologized
for not having a structured state-

a few blocks down
street.
University Police were informed of the incident, and they
are working on the case.
When the Kernel learned of
the missing papers, pressmen
were called back to work at 8:30
p.m. to print 5,000 more issues
which were distributed to the
Student Center and the Complex
dormitories.
Vice President for Student
fairs Robert Johnson said he was
"concerned aljout the incident"
and offered full cooperation with
the Kernel in investigating the

matter.

freed. Mr. Newton,

and discussions on the race

At two schools Amherst College in Massachusetts and Carle-to-n
College in Minnesota students and faculty members began
a fast in memory of Dr. King.
According to a spokesman at

body has agreed to give up some
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In New Bninswick, N. J.,
following yesterday's march by
more than 1,000 students from
Rutgers University and its sister
Douglass

ment of demands.
The young Negro with tie
and collar loosened, said the
other meeting at Pralltown had
started out on a bad tone because of the use of the term
"Black Coalition."
Mr. Bingham said that many

Carleton, about half the student

of the militant Black Panther
party, has been charged in the
October 1967 slaying of an Oakland policeman.
The march, which was sponsored by the Peace and Freedom
party, took place without violence, although the marchers did
not succeed in getting to negotiate with Alameda County of-

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the city to protest discrimination there, students held a strategy session to plan further action.

racism was set up at Rutgers
over the weekend.
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In the New York and Chicago
areas, most major colleges and
universities cancelled classes entirely. In at least one instance,
though, the cancellation was the
result of student pressure rather
than action by the administration. Students at the Washington Square campus of New York
University held a demonstration
to demand that classes le called

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The owner of the car report ed
to the Kernel that a friend of
his had asked for a ride because
"someone is after me. "Theowner
then left the unidentified rider

ers of the demonstration. After
President Fleming announced
that he thought the demands
were "reasonable," the students
ended their blockade.
An estimated 3,000 marchers,
most of them students at the
University of California at Berkeley, took part in a march from
the Berkeley campus to the Alameda County Courthouse in nearby Oakland, where they demanded that Huey Newton be

An emergency committee against

Kernels Stolen Tuesday
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day's Kernel were taken from
their stands between 4:30 and

For King

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Christian Church explained
that at that time both black and
white leaders had decided the
separate meetings would behest.

Some 'Militant9 Demonstrations

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Racial Discussions
When NYU President James
Hesger agreed to their demand,
he also announced that he was
setting aside all class time prior
to 4 p. in. Wednesday for seminars

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I Won!
This is how Mary Jo Anderson looked when she was proclaimed
Miss Lexington Tuesday night. She also won a talent award for
her modem dance routine. Miss Anderson is a senior history
major at UK. Other University coeds among the finalists were
Patricia Beasley, Neysa Routt and Carolyn lloneck.

* .THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, April. 10,

19f8- -3

Student Power Seen Throughout World

By College Press Scrviee
Although students throughout
many parts of the world have been
a powerful ixditical force for generations, the worldwide student
movement has been rapidly gain-in- n
momentum since the beginning of the year.
Within recent weeks, students
have played significant roles in
the political developments of
many countries, including Czechoslovakia, Poland, Spain, Egy pt,
Italy, and Japan. In many other
countries, students are beginning
to realize their potential power
and are demanding radical political and educational reforms.
Students throughout the world
are not unified with a common
goal and strategy. Generally
shaking, however, students are
demanding and frequently receivingmore freedom from their
government, more responsibility
in decision-makinand a reformed educational curriculum
that is relevant to the new social
issues in the world. Students
in many countries also are demonstrating against the war in Vietnam, stressing their desire for
lasting peace in the future.
sentiment has reached
new dimensions in many student
circles.
Although the worldwide student movement seems to be gaining momentum, protest politics
in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere
is not a new phenomenon. Students, for example, were largely
responsible for the overthrow of
Sukarno in Indonesia, and students played a major role in the overthrow of the
Syngnun Rhee government in
South Korea.
In the United States, however,
students are just beginning to
demand educational reform, and
Presidential candidates, for the
first time, are making a major
appeal for student support. But
American students still have not
come of age when compared to
students in some other countries.
Anti-Americ-

UK Troupers
To Review
The Decades

as developments within the past
few months make clear.
In Czechoslovakia
student
protests against educational and
political repression have been
largely resxnsible for changes
in the leadership of the Communist Party there. The
are trying to combine
socialism and freedom with the
"widest possible democratizanew-leader-

tion."

Brutality Discredits Party
Brutal police suppression, of

a student demonstration last Ocd
tober helped 'discredit the
Communists, and the Party
leadership was taken over by
liberals in January. Now, students are in the forefront of the
movement to end all abuses of
power, such as phony trials, and
to w ork for a more humane and
democratic regime. Independent
student organizations have been
formed at the University of
Prague and elsewhere within the
last few weeks to press for the
students' demands for freedom.
d
When the
leaders were
in jxtvver, student groups were
carefully controlled.
Even though
students in
Czechoslovakia have a new climate of freedom, they still are
keeping a close eye on the new
government in case there are
attempts to reinstate some of
the restrictions on them.
In Poland, students throughout the country have been involved in massive demonstrations
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President Nasser may revamp his
Cabinet, bringing in 14 civilians,
as a concession to student demands.
New Teaching Methods
University students throu git-oItaly have been demonstrating for new teaching methods
and more student control of the
universities. Rival political
groups recently engaged in a
violent clash at the University
of' Rome, and several hundred
students were arrested by police.

Sociology Club
Elects Officers
The
University
Sociology
Club met Monday night to organize it's fall program.
Officers elected were: Dee
Benner, president; Ruth Bruce,
vice president; Linda Marshall,
secretary-treasureand Paul
Moore, publicity director.
The club plans to help freshmen and sophomore sociology
majors with "classes andplans,"
and offer vocational and graduate school .information Jto. upper
division students. It also will
sponsor speakers and discussions
throughout the coming academic
year.
The club plans to meet on the
third Monday in September next
fall, but will be partially active
during the summer. A book exchange program is being studied
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The UK Troupers will present

their annual show April 11 and
12 at 8 p.m. in the Alumni Cym.
The name of the show is
"It's About Time!" Dancing,
singing, comedy and tumbling
will be presented throughout the

censorship,

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form and more freedom. Students
became fed up with the official
of free speech. Polish officials government student association
have threatened the students with and formed the Democratic
Students
severe punishment and have Union of Spanish
nude every effort to put down (DUSS).
The Spanish government canthe student protests.
not afford to let students sucPolish students have clashed
ceed in their effort to break loose
with police on several occasions,
and hav e held unauthorized meetfrom gov ernment control because
Last week, some then it would be extremely difings and
2,000 Warsaw University students ficult for the state to deny the
held an unauthorized meeting to same right to workers. Students
demand the reinstatement; of six and police '.Ijave. been, clashing
humanities projevsors who .were' in Spain for 'several .years, . bnt
tensions-rio. dismissed because of their liln-ra- l
.seem to be getting
worse.
views.
The Univ ersity of Madrid was
Students began demonstratclosed last week to stop a student
ing after the expulsion from Warsaw University of two students protest against American bases in
who took part in a protest against Spain and the war in Vietnam.
weeks Egypt's
In recent
the closing by government censors of "Dziady," a 19th century 150,000 students have been posclassic of the Polish theater which
ing a serious threat to President
Carnal Abdel Nasser" s control of
is critical of czarist rule in Poland. Many analysts think the the government. The most widewave of student demonstrations
spread rioting in a decade reis being hsed to intensify a major
cently forced the closing of Egyptian universities, although they
power struggle within the Comare now back in session.
munist party leadership. The outStudent demonstrators have
come is still far from clear.
been calling for democracy, freeSupport From Americans
dom of the press and abolition of
A group of American student
the Egy ptian National Assembly
and youth leaders has issued a and the Arab Socialist Union.
statement of support for the stuStudents also have protested the
dent protesters in Poland.
"lenient verdicts" and sentences
In Spain the government last
passed on four air force generals
week ordered the University of charged with crucial responsibilMadrid closed indefinitely after
ity for Egypt's defeat last June
a clash between students and in the war with Israel.
police. Spanish students have
Now that the universities are
been demanding educational re
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performance.

Starting with the "Roaring
and
Twenties,"
proceeding
through "The Depressing Thirties," "The Perilous Forties,"
"The Swinging Fifties," "The
Sixties" and projecting
into "The Psychedelic Seventies," the sltow is designed to
entertain all children, students
and adults.
Tickets will be sold at the
door and may also be purchased
at the Physical Education Di-

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Prices are: children 50 ' cents,'
students 75 cents and adults

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18.

10,

Festival of Arts Introduces LSD On Stage

Tlio UK School of Fine Arts
crlcbratinn its second annual
Festival of the Arts during April.

pea-gree-

Peter Voulkos, ixtter sculptor,
and Ulysses Kay, American
made short visits to UK
to have their works performed
and exhibited in the first part of
the Festival.
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play "The Familyet-cctera- "
by Arnold Powell will
climax the Festival, April
Powell will be the speaker for
the Festival Banquet which will
be held during the week, of per17-2- 1.

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Dart Concert
The UK Symphonic Band, unof Fred M.
Dart, will present a concert at
8:15 p.m. April 11 in Memorial
Hall.
'The program will include

der the direction

Ciannini's "Dedication Overture"; Hindemith's "Symphony
in Bb"; Mayer's "Essay for Brass
and Winds"; Hartley's "Sinfonia
No. 4"; Smetana's "Vysehrad";
Cuiraud's "Danse Persane",and
McDowell's "Hexentanz" with
Joseph Rasmussen as xylophone
soloist.

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LARRY AULD leads a dog's life in the psyche- - Auld backs up against the crowd of friends and
delic play "Thcfamil) etcetera" by Arnold Powell neighbors as Susan Cardwell and Bruce Peyton
which opens April 17 in the Cuignol Theatre, crawl closer to him.

and a past president. He received
a public school music certificate
from Albion College, Albion,
Michigan, in 1924, and an honorary Doctor of Music in 19G0.
in 1931 he earned the Bachelor
of Music Degree with high distinction from the University of
Michigan and a Master of Music
in 1936 from that same institution.
He has been a guest conduc- -

A highlight
University
Symphonic Band Concert April
11 in Memorial
Hall will be
the premiere performance of visiting Professor Earl Slocum's recent transcription of Smetana's
Symphonic Poem "Vysehrad."
Nationally recognized for his
outstanding published transcriptions for the concert band, Dr.
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end to make final changes in his
play.
He has had his works produced at the Lively Arts Theatre
on Main Street, Syracuse, New
York; at Athens College; the University of Minnesota; and Birmingham-Southern
College.
He has written and produced
two summer series of television
plays. He wrote and produced
the hour-lon- g
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The music, inspired by the
poem, depicted the poet's memory carried back to the remote
past by the sound of the harp
of the bard, Lumir. Then in the
castle, the knights are assembled
at the joyous summons of trum-pet- s
and cymbals which "engage
in splendid tourney. Vysehrad
resounded with songs of praise
and victory.
Dr. Slocum thinks that the
transcription is of great importance for the concert band medium
in that it is serious music. His
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the Cuignol Theatre.
The play has one section during which an old man takes
marijuana and LSD. A strobe-typ- e
lighting system coupled with
a colorful filmstrip and stereo
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in the background
provide the added effects.
Powell, Chairman of the Department of Drama and Speech
at Birmingham-SoutherCollege, will be at UK this week-

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Picture yourself on a
cloud with tangerine birds
and marshmallow tics. You're
floating along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, but this dream is
yours.
The smoke carries you past a
Gestapo without any eyes to a
cream . . .
fringe of lettuce-lik- e
without any steam . . . some
Jim Beam . . . this is my dream.
Coleridge understood the psychedelic experience and wrote
some of his poetry because of it.
"The Familyetcetera" by Arnold Powell is a play commissioned by the 1968 Festival of
the Arts at UK which deals wtyh
the psychedelic experience.
Arnold Powell, authorof'The
Strangler" and "The Death of
Everymom," wrote the trilogy
which will premier April 17 in

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Kernel Forum: the readers write
iriir Mnrrr
It is coming, oh, it is coming. It is
too late because we permitted our racist
punks and racist demogogues to have
their day. It is too late to wake up, or
to wake our fellows up.
Black man, I did not see your bhxnl
on my hands because I am drenched in
other blood; Vietnamese blood. Black
man, I did not know that I am guilty
because I'm white; I was worried about
my guilt as an American. Black man,
Help me. Help me to make a world.
Black man, show me the way. And if
it is too late for that, if all dreams are
dead, then know that I will die by your
hand willingly, but that I will die trying
to cleanse my hands of your blood. .

To the Editor of the Kernel:
Friday morning.
I woke
up last night and my liands
were bloody. They arc drippingtliis morn-in- n
with the blood of black nun. My
dream tK) is dead, and I am guilty for
only dreaming.
My dreams and my innocence were
based uixm the things I told myself: I
have never hated a man because of his
color; I have never denied a man because
of his color; my mind is not divided between black and white. When black men
were breaking their bodies to build this
land, my ancestors were not sitting on a
veranda sipping mint julips: they were
:
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breaking rocks in Russia. I have no tradiA&S Senior
tion of racial hatred or racial fear, and I
neither hate nor fear. Men are men and
that is that. But this morning I am
Freedom Vision
guilty.
To the Editor of the Kernel:
Many men stood Ixhind that gunman
Because I began my life in the prein Memphis, many fingers pulled that
judice that he has now given his life
trigger with him. I was not anongtl)ose to
remove, I came only slowly to an
men, my finger did not squeeze. No.
understanding of the imX)rtance of MarMy dream is dead this morning because
I stood aside and let it happen. My tin Luther King. But I did at last, come
dream is dead because I only hoped. to see that his life was a moral landBecause I have not done enough and mark in the history of his country, and
that he exemplified exactly the intellihave not said enough, I have done nothgence and the dignity and the bravery
said nothing.
ing,
It is tnie: the hatred is not in me. required of men who would serve the
But it is in the white man whom I refuse ideals and the hopes that he served.
tocall my brother. Becauseitisnotin me, I came to believe that his ideals of
gentleness and brotherhood and peace
I have stood by and watched the shootings and lynchings occur in the eyes of were the ones most worthy to be served.
white men, and I have only dreamed I saw that he was, in Thoreau's phrase,
that such an ignorant hatred woidd die "a standard man," by whose life other
men must measure their lives.
out or lose out. I have only dreamed,
and this morning I am wet with the
What his vision offered, for white
blood of a million black men.
men as well as black, was freedom,
How can I tolerate my own skin for he knew that to hate is as
belittling
today? How can I even bear to hear and degrading as to be hated. If he
that senator from Louisiana today? How
to black men a struggle to tree
can I face a black man today? Can I tell themselves of their history of slavery and
him that no more, no more will I reoppression and insult, he proposed to
main silent? I recognize that ugly seed:
white men a struggle to go free of their
can I tell him that I will stamp it out, history of
g
and despising
that I will not let it grow? Can 1 promand l(xking down. In a time of vioise that, at last, I will use "whatever lence and moral bewilderment, when many
means necessary" to stop white violence
men were nded by the logic of anger
and white xwer and white murder?
or power, here was a man who followed
pro-ix)s-

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Dr. King Prescribes
His Funeral Eulogy

the
ATLANTA (UPI)-F- or
last time the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated
civil rights leader, echoed with
emotional fervor from the walls
of his austere red brick Ebene-ze- r
Baptist Church Tuesday.
They w ere the recorded words
of his last sermon at the church
during the first week in February. Tluy told his congregation what he wanted for a eulogy on his death. The words
rang out again Tuesday at the
request of his widow.
"Every now and then I guess
we will think realistically alxmt
that day when we will be victimized with what is life's final

common

denominator that

something we call death," Dr.
King said in an emotional sermon.
"We all think alxmt it and
every now and then I think alxmt
my own death and I think alxmt
my own funeral. And I don't
think alxmt it in a morbid sense.
And every now and then I ask
myself what it is that I would
want said and I leave the word
to you this morning.
"If any of you are around
when I have to meet my day,
I don't
want a long funeral.
"And if you get somelxxly
to deliver the eulogy tell him not
to talk too long.
"And ever)' now and then I
wonder what I w ant him to say.
"Tell him not to mention that
I
have a Nolxl Peace Prize-th- at

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isn't important.
"Tell him not to mentionthat
have 300 or M) other uwards-tha- t's

not important. Tell him
not to mention where I went
to school.
"I'd like somelxxly to men

tion that day that Martin Luther
King Jr. tried to give his life
serving others.
"I'd like for somebody to say
that day that Martin Luther King
Jr. tried to love somebody.
"I want you to say that day
that I tried to be right and to
walk with them. I want you to
be able to say that day that I
did try to feed the hungry. I
want you to be able to say that
day that I did try in my life to
clothe the naked. I want you to
say on that day that I did try
in my life to visit those who
were in prison. And I want you
to say that I tried to love and
serve humanity.
"Yes, if you want to, say
that I was a drum major. Say
that I was a drum major for
justice. Say that I was a drum
major for peace. I was a drum
major for righteousness.
"And all of the other shallow
things will not matter.
"I won't have any money to
leave behind. I won't have the
fine and luxurious things of life
to leave behind. But I just want
to leave a committed life behind.
"And that is all I want to
say. If I can help somelxxly as
I pass
along, if I can cheer
somebody with a well song. If
I can show somelxxly he's traveling wrong, then my living will
not be in vain.
"Yes, Jesus, I want to be on
your right or your left side not
for any selfish reason.
"1 want to be on your right
or left side not in terms of some
political kingdom or ambition.
"I just want to be there in
love and in justice and in truth
and in commitment to others,
so that we can make of this
oldwodd a new woild."

always the highest manliness, obedient to
principle and compassion, regardless oft he
cost. If the Promised Land seems visible
or believable in America today, it is
largely because he saw it and believed in
it in the face of our deepest shame.
That he is dead by the hatred and
violence of another man, a white man.
is a horrible thing to have to know. It
is a tragedy beyond comprehension. This
country is diminished by his absence as it
would be by the absence of perhaps no
other man. But we must see also, and
begin the la!)or of understanding, that a
great life has come to a triumphant completion, clear and whole and. uncompro-misecalm and peciliarly radiant in the
truth of its Vision. We will have this
memory before us as long as we live.
We can only accept it in grief and in
wonder and with the deepest gratitude.
Wendell Berry

accept it as vou own and defend it. It s
not much, but it is something.
Nothing to do about much? No. there
arc many things we can doil weaie brave
enough to do them. Wear that arm hand
for the next month and show ever) one
when1 vou stand.
"A jouine) of a thousand miles begins
with but a single step."'
Babv. are you strong enough to take
your step?
Wayne F. Bier
Graduate Student
Zoology

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Dr. King's Death
To the Editor of the Kernel:
Nothing to do alxmt much?
Sure you're stunned over the insane
murder of Dr. King. Only an animal
could be unaffected by it. But what of
your feelings about the lesser indignities
Black men suffer everyday? What are you
going to do alxxit that? Nothing?
What can you do? Not much, but
not nothing either. There are many small
things that each of us can do. Try these
for size:
1. Wear a black arm band for the next
month. When asked, explain it is in
remembrance of Dr. King. See what it
feels like to be snubbed and sneered at
by bigots. It's not much but it is something.
2. Write the Black Student Union in
care of the Dean of Students Office and
offer your service any time they care
to call you. March with them and stand
up with them. It's not much, but it is
something.
3. Don't allow people in your company
to slander Negroes, challenge them. It's
not much, but it is something.
4. Identify with the civil rights cause.

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