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A UK vice president testified
Tuesday that he was told by the
Bank of New York it would inform him if the University was
outbid in 1967 in its offer for
Maine Chance Farm.
Robert F. Kerley also told a
U.S. District Court jury it was
his understanding that the bank
planned to do the same for other
bidders on the property.
The bank, at the time, was
handling sale of the farm as
of the estate of the late
Elizabeth Arden Craham.
Kerley was called as a witness for the plaintiffs in a $30
suit filed in
million anit-truconnection with the University's
purchase of the farm for $2 million.
Lexington veterinarian Arnold
G. Pessin and California horseman Rex Ellsworth charge there
was a conspiracy between the
University's research foundation,
the Keeneland Association and
the Bank of New York to keep
them from buying the property.
Knew of Bid
Kerley said Joseph Clinch, a
vice president of the Bank of
New York, told him July 28,
1967, he expected to receive a
bid of $1.95 million for the farm
from another bidder.
That same day, the University's research foundation offered its $2 million for the property. That bid was accepted
July 31 the next regular business day.
Earlier in the trial, both Pessin and the man from whom he
and Ellsworth were to borrow
money to buy the farm, Garvice
Kincaid, said they, too, were
promised a chance to rebid if
their offer were topped.
Both said, however, they never
got that chance.
Kerley said that in his con
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versation with Clinch July 28 he
was told that in Clinch's judgment, "An offer of $2 million
would be very seriously considered by the Bank of New
York."
He and other University officials testified, however, that at
no time were they told who was
to make the competing bid.
Dr. Carl Cone, a University
faculty representative on the research foundation's board, was
brought to introduce notes he
had made during a meeting at
which the $2 million bid was
authorized.
Notes Read
His notes, he testified, included amounts of appraisals on
the property and one that read:
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He said on
however, that he recalled no
mention of the men during the
meeting, but that he had read
news stories of the
offer and connected the
two.
Earlier testimony indicated
the foundation itself paid $500,-00Another $500,000 was borrowed from a bank here and
$1.5 million was borrowed from
an insurance company through
the bank.
Earlier in the day, Louis Lee
Haggin II, president of Keeneland, explained the background
to a letter he wrote endorsing
the University's purchase of the
farm.
He said University President
John W. Oswald asked him to
verity or refute a claim by Pes
sin that horsemen here opposed
the purchase.
Haggin said he called three
directors-Char- ies
Keeneland
Leslie Combs II and
Nuckols,
A. B.
Hancock Jr. and favored the University purchase.

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Erwin Kelley, a striking San Francisco State College professor, (left),
talks with UK students after an address in the SC Theatre. Sam EzcUe,
a former UK trustee, (right) expressed sympathy with the SFSC fight
for academic freedom. (See story below on page 1)

Harvard Faculty Votes To End
All Academic Credit For ROTC
continue allowing the ROTC program free use of university buildings.
Col. Robert H. Pell, director
of the Army ROTC program, said
he will not request that the Defense Department continue the
basis.
program on a
"I'm bitterly disappointed but
not as surprised as I might have
been a few weeks ago," Pell
said. "Times are changing, and
the precedents at Yale and elsewhere have made this predictable.
"There may well be a backlash in the academic community.
I have a strong feeling that feelings exist contrary to this elsewhere in the nation."
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP)-T- he
Harvard faculty of Arts and
Sciences voted Tuesday to request the Harvard Corporation
to withdraw academic credit from
any course offered by the ROTC
program and to terminate faculty appointments of present
ROTC instructors as soon as possible.
The vote was 207 in favor
and 150 opposed.
Dean Franklin L. Ford said
the decision will be communicated to the Defense Department. The Department will be
asked to decide whether it wants
to continue the courses on
basis.
The faculty vote also requested that the university dis
anon-academ-

tives were permitted to attend
the closed session.
A similar session several weeks
ago was cancelled when members
of Students for a Democratic Society invaded the meeting hall
and refused to leave.

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Burke Speaks
Kenneth Burke, literary critic
and philosopher, will speak on
Form and Psy"King Lear-I- ts
chosis," in the Commerce Auditorium at 8 p.m. Burke is presented as a guest lecturer by the
English department. The lecture
is open to the public

Students Seek Responsive Universities Now
Changes Come Too Late
To Avert SFSC Violence

Columbia Students Score
Against Academic Authority
By THOMAS L. HALL

Kernel Staff Writer
besieged hall at Columbia University last May. A
"revolutionary student commune" has met to consider the pressing
problem of "Men" and "Women" signs on "liberated" restroom
doors.
distinctions separate people from
Decision: "These
people and must be dispensed with henceforth."
According to Dr. Walter P. Metzger, a Columbia History professor, dispensing with sexual distinctions in restrooms was not
the least of the accomplishments of Columbia demonstrators last
year. In an address before the UK chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) last night, Dr. Metzger gave
his candid views on "The Challenge to Academic Authority."
He covered topics ranging from unrest at San Francisco State
College to that at his own scliool, Columbia. He quipped that
SAT verbal scores now measure "volatility and volubility" and
compared the fire and fury of the student revolt to the fervor of
the Protestant Reformation.
Anabaptists Recalled
Dr. Metzger said asceticism and hatred of rules is not peculiar
modern-da- y
"heretics." Student radical meetings remind him
to
of a "convocation of Anabaptists," members of a
sect known for its disorderly ways. The only difference, he said,
is that where the Anabaptists condemned "links between monarchy
and hierarchy," today's student rebels condemn links between
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"When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make
violent revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy
This quote, according to Erwin Kelley, a striking economics
exprofessor at San Francisco State College (SFSC), sums up the
for the strike and strife at the California school.
planation
The local chapter of the American Association of University
Professors (AAUP) sponsored his talk entitled "Heport from the
Battlefield The Crisis at San Francisco State." Kelley himself
suffered a broken finger in one of the melees involving students
and police.
Kelley told a capacity crowd in the Student Center Theatre
Tuesday afternoon that the current situation at SFSC is the result
of the institution's not being able to make nettled changes fast
enough.
He did not go into a chronicalization of events preceding and
followed
following the student strike beginning Nov.
by an American Federation of Teachers (ATF) strike, but focused
instead on the underlying issues.
The events occurring at San Francisco State, Kelley said,
represent the culmination of three "revolutions":
the first tune in history, he said,
The student revolution-F- or
students are committed to making the nation live up to its ideals,
and that by their very presence they cause abrasion.
The black revolution -- "The lesson we must bring." Kelley
said of this area, "is that Just because you raise one group you
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Kelley said that because people
are "tired" of paying more and
more taxes, politicians find much
to be gained by saving money.
He added that because higher
education is intimately involved
with the two other revolutions,
which draw negative responses in
general from the public at large,
politicians find education an easy
mark for their
activities.
These considerations, he said,
explain why SFSC is unable to
implement programs that almost
everyone on campus agrees
should be obtained. The result,
he said, was student rebellion.
"The overwhelming majority
of faculty and students agree
with the demands being made
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had badly distorted and exaggerated student violence at the
school. "With a few exceptions,
the students have been very restrained," he said.
The economics professor said
he felt that Dr. S.I. Hayakawa,
SFSCs third president this academic year, was made president
because of his opposition to the
black studies program and other
reforms being sought.
Conditions Cited
Kelley believes at least three
conditions must be met before
the strike can be ended amnesty for all strikers, no more
bench warrants and the resolution of student problems.
After Kelley had completed
his presentation, Sam Ezelle, a
former UK trustee who was replaced recently by Cov. Nunn,
expressed sympathy with SFSCs
problems.
"Having served on the Board
of Trustees here," Ezelle said,
"I have found that believing in
academic freedom can be a very
lonely position.
"Like a lot of Southern universities, we have to watch ourselves or we will become a glorified cow palace," he added.
Ezelle received a loud round
of applause when he said: "Like
a person whose political position
was different from my own-G- en.
MacArthur I will return."
The new president of UK's
Black Student Union, Marshall
Jones, issued a statement after
the speech saying, "We want
to register our support for the
Black Student Union at San Francisco State College, and we think
their demands are just and should
be met."
He also said the group here
supports the AFT strike and the

the minority students," he
said. The demands include the establishment of a black studies
program and the admission of all
black applicants regardless of
their academic qualifications.
Discussing the background
leading to the demands, however,
Kelley pointed out that some
25 committees fonned over the
last three years to study the need
for creating a black studies department have all decided it was
needed but could not find the
money for it.
Minority Reduced
California's master plan for
education, too, he said, has
served to reduce the numbers of
minority students in state institutions. Kelley said the number of
Blacks at SFSC had dwindled
from 12 percent at one point in
the school's history to only 3
percent last fall.
"A very explicit policy on the
part of Cov. Ronald Reagan is
turning away even more" because
of financing shortages, he said.
Kelley said SFSC started this
academic year with a deficit of
nearly $375,000 because the state
the
legislature overestimated
school's income and underestimated its expenses.
With all these forces inadequate financing, "unfriendly"
state officials and " reactionary"
trustees impinging on the campus, he said, it was impossible
to institute needed reforms, thus
enabling militant students to gain
support for a rebellion.
Reports Distorted
Kelley said that although he
does not agree with violent approaches to solutions, he nevertheless could understand why
violence was used by some SFSC
students.
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Ft. Lauderdale Official Provides Vacation 'Suggestions7

In case you're planning a
trip to Florida next
month, the city,manager of Fort
Lauderdale has some " suggestions and policies" you might
study.
In his annual letter to "all

students planning to visit Fort
So follow the guidelines and
Lauderdale, Fla., during the "your vacation will indeed be a
spring holidays," the city mana- pleasant one" (according to the
ger both welcomes students and city manager):
warns them of restrictions to asDo not come to Fort Laudersure "a pleasant and memorable dale unless you definitely have a
confirmed housing reservation.
experience."

spring-brea- k

Gommittee Settles Purdue
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It also recommended

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a
corporation be set up, apart from the
university, to operate the loosely
organized publication.
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The Exponent staff now is edge the charge, contended the
elected annually by the outgoing real objection was to a poem and
staff. The newspaper supports a column containing
itself with advertising and with- words the administration conout university funds. Purdue sidered obscene.
Purdue President Frederick L.
buys 1,200 subscriptions and proHovde reinstated Smoot Nov. 11
vides office space.
Dean Donald R. Mallett, vice and appointed the investigating
president for student services, committee. Its recommendations
tried last Nov. 8 to fire the Ex- will be submitted to him and to
William the university trustees.
ponent
R. Smoot II of Maysville, Ky.,
The committee held that the
charging "innumerable errors." university is legal publisher of
The staff, refusing to acknowl

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP)-- A
special Purdue University
committee reported
Tuesday that neither the school
administration nor the trustees
had power, to fire the
of the campus newspaper,
the Exponent.
editor-in-chi-

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Policies and ordinances prohibit
sleeping in automobiles ancVor
sleeping in the open.
"Campers and trailers are
not permitted to park on the
beach. If such a vehicle is to be
used for living quarters, it must

the newspaper, a point disputed
by the staff.

The report recommended a
corporate board of three students
chosen by the Student Senate,
three faculty members chosen by
the University Senate and two
specialist members,
expert in journalism and finance.
The Board would pick the
specialists and appoint the
managing editor and
business manager.

be parked in a trailerpark specifically licensed for that purpose.

"All the laws that govern
the conduct of the individual will
be enforced. A person must be
to purchase or consume alcohol.
"Persons guilty of intoxication, (it should be noted that
drinking "in the open" is not

permitted), use of narcotics, false
identification, creating unnecessary noise, or any other unlawful
act, will be arrested and prosecuted. Violations of the traffic code
will result in apprehension and
prosecution of the offender.

non-voti-

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"Parents and school officials
of any and all students arrested
during this period will be officially notified," the city manager
concludes.

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KENT, CLIF, & PHIL
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The deadline for annoancement la
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The Central Kentucky Concert and
Lecture Series presents Peter Schaf-fe- r,
violin, at the Agricultural Science Auditorium at 8:15 p.m.

Today

UK Placement Service

Students interested in the Army
ROTC Two-YeProgram can contact Major Coston, BueU Armory,
or interviews. Graduate and undergraduate students having two academic years remaining are eligible.
Entry blanks are now available for
the UK Quiz Bowl 1969 in Room 203.
Student Center. The Entry deadline
is Feb. 5.
Tau chapter of Phi Alpha Theta,
ac-

February 7

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Zip Code really moves
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Register Thursday for an appointment Tuesday with Monsanto Co.
Locations: Nationwide. WiU interview
seniors and graduate students for
summer employment. Schedule I: Accounting (BS, MS). Feb. 10 only.
Schedule II: Technical. Chem. E.,

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International history honorary, Is
cepting membership applications. Requirements include: undergraduates
3.0 overall standing and 3.1 standing
In a minimum of 12 hours of history;
graduate students 3.5 overall standing in UK graduate work. Eligible
students should give their names to
Mrs. Schick, departmental secretary,
Frazle Hall, before February 5.
The Air Force Officer's Qualification Test will be offered on Monday
at 7:00 p.m. in the Euclid Avenue
session will be
rldg. 3The testing those
about hours, and
people who
are Two-YeProgram applicants will
return for another testing session
Tuesday.
Jefferson Community College will
not accept transfer during the summer
session. Enrollment will be restricted to students now enrolled at the
college because of the limited number
of courses which will be offered.
There are a limited number of free
tickets available for the Thursday
and Friday performances of the Lexington Philharmonic. The concert will
be held in Haggin Auditorium, Mitchell Fine Arts Center, Transylvania
College at 8:15 p.m. and will feature
guest artist Leonard Rose, cello. Leo
Scheer wiU conduct. Tickets may be
picked up at the Music Office in the
Fine Arts Building.
The Department of English will
present Kenneth Burke, literary critic
and philosopher, as a guest lecturer
on "King Lear Its Form and Psychosis," in the Commerce Auditorium
Wednesday, Feb. 5, at 8 p.m. The lecture is open to the public.
Tryouta for parts in student director's laboratory productions wiU be
held at Guignol Theatre at 5 p.m.,
Wednesday, Feb. 5.
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will meet
Student Government
Thursday evening at 7 p.m. in Room
222 of the Commerce Building.
All girls eligible lor Links, Junior
women's honorary, are Invited to a
cake party Thursday, Feb. 6, from 5
in the Student Center Room.
A.W.S. will sponsor Glamour's Best
Dressed Contest on Feb. 0, at 7 p.m.
in the Commerce Auditorium.
Tryouta for parts in student director's laboratory productions will be
held at Guignol Theatre at 5 p.m.,
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Coming Up
Ihe

noted British musicologist. Jack
Westrup, will speak at the University of Kentucky Laboratory Theatre
on Friday, Feb. 7. at 8:15 p.m. His
lecture will be "Bach's Adaptations."
On Saturday, Feb. 8, Professor Westup
will give a seminar for graduate students and interested faculty entitled
"Wagner's Symphonic Structure," at
10 a.m. The visit is sponsored by the
UK Department of Music.

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Register Thursday for an appointment Tuesday with General Motors
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Citizenship. Schedule I: Technical.
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Acting University President Dr. 1, a very late date for students policy by saying that it is needed
A.D. Kirwan s remarks minimizing seeking
housing and an to assure maximum occupancy of
student dissatisfaction with the especially inconvenient hindrance the dorms in order for the UniBoard of Trustees forced housing for
students. What this versity of meet its financial com.Policy cannot be allowed to pass policy amounts to, then, is that mitments. But what has not been
without comment. Dr. Kirwan said students once again are being distaken into account is that these
effect at the last board meeting regarded by the University for the commitments should never have
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that the University's requiring of sake of its bureaucratic efficiency. been made in the first place if
next year's sophomores to apply
Dr. Kirwan justifies the housing administrators were not certain
for dormitory housing is no cause
for alarm because they probably
will not actually have to live there.
But as Student Government
University of Kentucky
Speaker of the Assembly Steve ESTABLISHED 1894
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 1969
Bright, in one of his rare moments
Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.
of insight, brought up the same
Lee B. Becker,
day, the fact that these students
are being required to apply for Guy M. Mendes III, Managing Editor
Darrell Rice, Editorial Page Editor
Jim Miller, Associate Editor
them in a bind. The Tom Derr, Business Manager
housing puts
Howard Mason, Photography Editor
Chip Hutcheson, Sports Editor
reason is that the University will
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Last week saw the begining of President Nixon's pacification program when
he directed the Defense Department to
develop a plan for ending the draft. The

Pentagon will be bombarded with propaganda from both the extreme d
g
elements of our society and
will be subjected to the same pressures
that confronted the Johnson administration. The left will scream that it is
pacifistic and doesn't believe in violence
and will emphasize how nonviolent it
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is.

It then will occupy an administration
building or two and close down a few
universities, breaking the heads of a few
cops in the process. I can't help thinking
there is something fishy about a pacifist
who will fight like a madman over a
disagreement in ideology. They will picture our military leaders as sadistic war
mongers, frothing at the mouth at the
sight of blood when in fact they are just
men trying to do a thankless job. From
the left the Pentagon will hear claims
that the world is ready to live in peace
and harmony and here they do have a
point. The Russian occupation of Czechoslovakia was accomplished with considerably less bloodshed than their invasion of Hungary some 10 years ago.
From the other side the Pentagon will
g
faction and it
face the extreme
too has some good ideas. The
would have a police officer on every
street corner and annihilate the "Reds"
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The views expressed'
in this column are those of the author
and not of the Kernel. L.E. Fields is a
sophomore majoring in political science.
He has just completed a five and
f
year tour of duty with the Navy.
Previously he attended Morehead State
University.

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and, for that matter, anybody else that lity to one year. This suggestion does
didn't agree with them. For the most part have merit but there are also disadtheir views, although exactly opposite,
vantages. First of all, most men graduate
are just as ' ludicrous as those espoused from high school around the age of 17,
so if they decide to go on to college
by the left. I have often thought it would
be interesting to put these two extreme they would have to wait until they are
groups together in Yankee Stadium and 19 or take a chance on being drafted out
watch what happened. The left would of school. Although they would only have
begin with "fascist pig" and the right one year of . eligibility they would still
would counter with "commies." After have almost a two-yedelay before they
their insults with no re- could continue their education. Secondly,
they expended
would give us
sults the "pacifists" and the "war mondrafting only
a very young army, and I don't think that
gers" would begin a systematic annihilation of each other. Eventually only one is desirable.
Another plan, which I think would
bloody, battles carred figure would remain on the "field of honor." With a prove workable, would be to permit the
little promotion I could fill the stadium individual to select a year that he wants
with spectators at 20 bucks a head. This to be eligible for the draft. This way if
thing could become the national pastime. he decided to continue his education there
Somewhere between these two extreme would be no delay. When he became 18
factions are the people that are really he would register for the draft in the
concerned about the Pentagon's decision usual manner but at the same time he
on the draft. In this element you find the would give the year that he had decided
college student who doesn't want his he would be out of school and ready to
education interrupted and the nonstudent
go. This could not, however, be a fixed
date. There would have to be some prowho doesn't want his career jeopardized.
visions made for unforeseen circumstances
Although it would impose a hardship,
these people would serve if called upon, where a request for extension could be
submitted and considered. There are disbut they would prefer to see the draft
altered so that it does not place them advantages to this plan, and one very
in Limbo for eight years or so as it does obvious one is that it would require a
now. Contrary to popular opinion, most certain amount of bookkeeping, but I
college students fall into this category. don't think this is an insurmountable
These people are not going to scream problem.
The possibility of a volunteer army
and yell or resort to emotional, irrational demonstrations in an attempt to is not very appealing for two reasons.
First of all there would not be a sufinfluence the final decision. Any influence
ficient number of volunteers even with
they exert will be through legitimate
channels and not by academic blackpay raises and increased benefits, and
this would be particularly true during
mail.
There have been several proposals on a war such as the one we we are inwhat to do about the draft besides the volved In now. Secondly we would be
one that presently is being considered.
paving someone to do our fighting for us
be and tills tends to be a mercenary affair.
One of these is that only
We enjoy many individual liberties in
drafted, thus shortening a nun's eligibi
ar

they could attract enough student
occupants on a voluntary basis.
The status symbol of a new housing
complex looming over the campus,
however, seems to be of more importance to the trustees here than
are the rights of students.
Nearly 4,000 students expressed
themselves last semester in no uncertain terms through the Student
Government housing referendum
which showed that some 97 percent
opposed the housing policy. It cannot be said often enough that this
and undemocratic
must be rescinded.
policy
The University must as a matter of principle officially recognize
the right of students to govern
their own lives outside of academic
affairs. But that is not to say that
their voice should be excluded from
the latter.

this country and they should not be
free. You may have been told that military service is a privilege, but it is not.
It is an obligation. It is the price we
must pay for the rights we enjoy and
just paying taxes does not fulfill that
obligation. It is ironic that the very
people who exploit their civil liberties
so much are the same ones who refuse
to pay the price for