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MINUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY SENATE, MAY 7, 1970

The University Senate met in called session (at the request of at
least 10 University Senators) at 4:00 p.m., Thursday, May 7, 1970 in
the Court Room of the Law Building. Chairman Plucknett presided. Mem—
bers absent: Lawrence A. Allen, Clifford Amyx, Albert S. Bacdayan, Lyle
N. Back, Wendell E. Berry, Norman P. Billups*,Richard C. Birkebak,
Wallace Briggs*, W. Merle Carter, Robert E. Cazden, Carl B. Cone,
William B. Cotter, Raymond H. Cox, Glenwood L. Creech, Marcia A. Dake*,
Jesse DeBoer*, Ronald W. Dunbar, W.W. Ecton, Joseph B. Fugate, Stephen
M. Gittleson*, Harold D. Gordon, Kenneth J. Guido*, Jack B. Hall, Wilburt
D. Ham*, Holman Hamilton, Rebekah Harleston, James W. Herron*, Dorothy
Hollingsworth, John W. Hutchinson, William S. Jordan Jr., Louis J.
Karmel, James A. Knoblett, Walter G. Langlois, Stephen L. Langston, Harold
R. Laswell, Robert Lauderdale Jr., Paul Mandelstam, Joseph L. Massie,
Leonard McDowell, L. Randolph McGee, Alvin L. Morris, Dean H. Morrow,
Thomas M. Olshewsky*, Nicholas J. Pisacano, Muriel A. Poulin*, Daniel
R. Reedy*, Thurlow R. Robe, Harold D. Rosenbaum, George J. Ruschell,
Doris M. Seward, Gerard E. Silberstein, Otis A. Singletary*, Eugene J.
Small, Emily V. Smith, Herbert W. sorenson, Leonard P. Stoltz, Robert
H. Stroup, John N. Walker, Raymond P. White*, Cornelia B. Wilbur*,
A. Wayne Wonderley, Kenneth R. Wright.

The Senate approved a recommendation to allow the students then
in the Court Room to remain and directed that the doors be closed and
no more students be admitted.

The Senate granted permission to John McGarvey, Carl Loveday,
Randy Meyers, Jan Fisher, Larry Patrick of WKYT—TV; Ferrell Wellman
of WVLK Radio; David McGinty of the Louisville Times; Sy Ramsey of the
Associated Press, Frankfort; Charles Bowen, Associated Press, Lexington;
and Ken Weaver of the Kentucky Press Association,to attend report and
photograph.

Steve Bright, President of Student Government, addressed the Senate
as follows:

It is very much against my better judgment that I do this;
however, I have been asked by several members of this body and several
members of the faculty to appear before this body and, before there
is any debate, to explain several things which people have said
that were either misrepresentations or at least were things which
were not completely clarified concerning my actions of the last
few days —— things which I should explain only as an explanation —-
not as an apology to this body since I am a member of this body.

As I say, this is against my better judgment, although I have been
told that it would_he a grave mistake if I did not do it and, taking
the counsel of those who advise such things, I would hate to make
any more grave mistakes.

Let me say first that most of the things I say I feel I have
thought out enough that I don't necessarily have to explain my
rationale behind saying each one. However, there have been a couple

*Absence explained