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The South's Outstanding College Daily
Vol. LX, No. 32

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

10, 1968

'Dixie' Referendum
To Be Presented
To SG Tonight

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Kernel Photo by Dick Ware

Members of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity presented a rose and a kiss
to pledges of all the sororities on campus Wednesday. The rose and
the kiss are given each year by the Phi Delts. Here a Phi Delt busses
a Zeta Tau Alpha pledge.

A Kiss

By LARRY DALE KEELING
Assistant Managing Editor
A bill calling for a student
referendum on whether or not
"Dixie" should be played at major University athletic events will
be introduced at the Student
Government Assembly tonight
according to Raymond Vail, an
SG representative.
Vail said that he would introduce the bill "hopefully, to
give the students a chance to
express their views, if we can
get it through Student Government, or shall we say the obstructionist element therein."
According to Vail, the referendum would ask the students,
"Do you support the playing of
'Dixie' by the University of Kentucky Band at major athletic
events?"

Presidential Convocation Asked
For Socialist Workers Candidate
The petition is to be presented
before the Faculty Senate MonManaging Editor
The Students for a Democratday by Dr. Joseph Engelberg
ic Society (SDS) is initiating a of the
department.
petition for presentation before
It is to read as follows:
the Faculty Senate in an effort
"Acting upon a request by
to secure a presidential convo- President
Kirwan, the Faculty
cation for Socialist Workers Par- Senate
recently approved the callHal stead.
ty candidate Fred
ing of special presidential conHal stead is to speak hereOct. vocations at which three pres27 as a result of an invitation idential
candidates Richard
issued eadier this year by SDS. Nixon, George Wallace and Hubert Humphrey would be perThe petition has been ento address the students,
dorsed by SDS and the Com- mitted
staff. These convocaAlliance for Responsible faculty or
munity
tions are open also to the genSocial Action (CARSA) and superal public.
port from other campus political
"There are four presidential
groups also is being sought.
By DARRELL RICE

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candidates on the 1968 ballot of views at the University of Kenthe Commonwealth of Kentucky. tucky."
The story appearing in
Three of the candidates are cited
above. The fourth candidate is Wednesday's Kemei on
Fred Hal stead, representing the
coming to UK was in
error in saying the Faculty SenSocialist Workers Party. (Mr.
is also on the ballot of ate must approve the speaking
20 other states.)
appearance.
No approval is required for
"The undersigned respectfully
that the Senate extend Hal stead to address an SDS meetrequest
its permission for a special presing open only to the University
idential convocation to the case community.
SDS also says it is inviting
of Fred Hal stead. By this act
would assure that all Halstead as a presidential candthe Senate
idate and not in any way as a
presidential candidates on the
challenge to the relevant speakers
Kentucky ballot would have an policy pending before the Board
equal opportunity to present their of Trustees.
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The "obstructionist element"
Vail referred to is probably the
Students for Action and Responsibility (SAR). SAR members opposed the "Dixie" bill that was
defeated last week. That bill
would have requested the playing of "Dixie" at future athletic
events.
Vail said that the referendum
does not request or demand the
playing of "Dixie." It simply
asks the students to express their
views.
Thorn Pat Juul, a member of
SAR, said earlier that if a referendum was brought up he would
oppose calling it from committee
in order to give the issue a chance
to cool down.
He said that he could not
speak for SAR but that they
would probably oppose calling
it from committee also.
If the bill is brought up tonight, it will receive its first
reading and be referred to a
committee. A motion can then
be made to suspend the rules
and bring it to the floor immediately. A motion of this sort
requires a two-thirmajority
to pass.
Juul said the students should
know that there is nothing that
Student Government can do to
force the band to play "Dixie."
He added that no matter how
many students were for it, if
interim President A. D. Kirwan
is against it there is nothing
they can do about it.
President Kirwan has already
expressed his distaste of the playing of the song.
Juul said that if this had
something to do with student
affairs it would be different, but
that the band comes under the
Athletic Association.
"I, personally, will vote
against calling it (the bill) from
committee," he added.

Has Already Returned Draft Card

UK Student Will

Return Induction Notice

From them he came to "fully accept" the idea of civil disobedience. He said his is a "deliberate violation in a system that
Associate Editor
"After several months of prayer, meditation and reading, I have is intrinsically evil" and that he is willing to pay the consequences
decided to return my draft card. Conscience compels me to refuse of his violation.
all further cooperation with a system that promotes and condones
In
classification, having
Fallahay received a
n
killing and violence. I cannot have any part of such an
student deferment by turning in his card. With
forfeited his
to
system, and I will do everything in my power
classification he also got adelinquency notice and a standard
las
overcome such a system. I am Arm in my convictions and I am sheet on "Advice of right to personal appearance and appeal."
doing this fully aware of the consequences."
He returned all three items to his local board in New Roc hell e,
Michael J. Fallahay N.Y. with a note
stating that he intended to remain firm iit his
Letter to his draft board convictions.
1968
August 26,
Fallahay will remain in school at UK until his trial comes up.
With those words of explanation Mike Fallahay, a University
He expects the trial to be held in New York where his draft board
local board two months
senior, returned his draft card to his
is located, even though his present residence is officially in LouisBy GUY MENDES

anti-huma-

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ago.

Before this month is over he expects to receive his notice of
induction into the anned forces. As he did with the card, Fallahay
will return the induction notice and then await arrest by the FBI.
In time, he will be convicted of not cooperating with the Selective Service System and will be sentenced to five years in jail
and possibly fined $10,000.
Fallahay, who studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood for
two and a half years before coming to UK last January, said he
"fully expected the penalty'.' when he took the initial action.
Having been opposed to the war in Vietnam for over two
years, he said he wasn't sure of which course of action to follow.
He tlmught of applying for Conscientious Objector status but
decided against the idea because it would have been "acknowledging the right of existence of the Selective Service System, which
I can't in conscience agree with."
He said his decision not to cooperate with the draft system
was influenced by his reading, mainly the works of Ghandi, Martin
Luther King. Henry David Thoreau ami Thomas Merton.

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He is the second UK student to refuse to comply with the draft.
Don Pratt refused induction last spring and was subsequently
convicted and sentenced. His case is now pending appeal in
United States circuit court in Cincinnati. The appeal will probably
be heard in November or December.
Fallahay attended Maryknoll Theological Seminary in Clen
Ellyn, 111. before coming to UK. He is currently a member of the
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and is on the steering
committee of that oiganization.
He did not inform his parents of his decision before he returned
the card but he said they now completely support him.
Fallahay has been very active in the Civil Rights movement
in the past few years. While attending Maryknoll he spent two
summers woiking in Simpson County, Mississippi.
There he did voter registration work and taught "Freedom Scltool"
classes which were set up to help prepare black children wlo were
going to attend white schools for the first time.

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* KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday; Oct.

2-- TIIE

10, 19G8

KUAC To Begin

WORLD REPORT

Hearings In Pikeville
FRANKFORT

(AP)-T-

From the Wire of the Associated

INTERNATIONAL
IrelanNorthern
BELFAST,
d-About
1,500 Catliolic
staged a mammoth sit-i- n
Wednesday within sight of angry
Protestants, but police averted
further violence in Northern Ire- -

vestigation. He would not reveal
the names of witnesses subpoenaed to appear.

he

Activi-

Kentucky
ties Committee will begin its
second investigation Oct. 15
public hearings in Pikeville on
Appalachian problems.
The hearings are expected to
last at least two, possibly three
days according to Tim McCall,
director of the legislative joint
committee.
McCall declined to disclose
the nature of the Pikeville in

stu-dcn- ts

It is speculated that the
vestigation will involve sedition
charges brought against three
workers by Pike
County officials last year.
The case was never heard.
The Sixth U.S. District Court in
Lexington ruled Kentucky's sedition law unconstitutional.
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The program is aimed at students. "If someone is up late
studying, he can listen to it,"
said Susan Sutter, the manager
of the program.
In addition to rock music,
"Nightcap" announces lists of
current movies, replete with reviews, advertises group activities
and broadcasts UPI interviews
called "Reflections."
In the future, Miss Sutter
hopes that it will become the
"voice of the campus." Anyone
who wants to can call in to express his opinion.
"Nightcap" can be heard on
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Cassin,
who heads the European Court
of Human Rights, won the 1968
Nobel Peace Prize Wednesday.
He is 81.
aimed
coup
Nguyen Van
was
Thieu's government
thwarted Tuesday night, a higl-l- y
reliable government source said
Wednesday.
PARIS-Hanoi's
chief envoy
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attacks against North Vietnam
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NATIONAL
WASHINGTON The Senate
voted a sweeping crackdown on
sales
gun and ammunition
Wednesday, pointing the controversial issue toward a fresh and
probably final fight in the House.
WASH I NGTON Tl ie House
stmggled through a historic and
record-se- t
ting session Wednesday
to pass a bill that could pave the
debates
way for television-radi- o
between the three major presidential candidates.

Mass Takes Folk Twist

For Football Players
Take a football team and a
Catholic church. Add guitars, a
drum and an organ. Plus a priest
and a coach at the Newman

and Coach Bradshaw invited to
attend the folk mass, but also
anyone interested in supporting
the Wildcats in a new way before a tense Saturday evening
game.
The traditional altar will be
reconstructed by the football
players to conform to those used
in Protestant services. In addition, the subject of football will
be taken up at the Offertory,
one of the main parts of the mass.

Center.
Put them all together at 9:00
a.m. on this Saturday morning
before the Oregon State game
and what do you have? A pep
rally? No, a folk mass for the
football team.
Everyone talks about being
sick and tired of doing the same
old things. Well the Newman
Center is sponsoring a new twist.
Not only are the football team

Following the folk mass will
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WKU Welcomes Legality Action

TODAY and
TOMORROW
Th

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p.m. twe days prior U the first
psblicatUn f Items in this etlirnn,

7:30

Today
The "Student Handbook" for all new
students who have not yet received
It can be picked up during regular
office hours in Room 206 of the Administration Bldg.
"Study of Oils" by Ben Mahmaud
is on display at the Student Center
Art Gallery. The exhibit will run
through October 25.
Pick up applications now In Room
204 of the Student Center for the
YMCA-YWC- A
United Nations Seminar
to be held Oct. 30 through Nov. 3 In
New York City.
The Catholic Newman Center Is
sponsoring a mission this week. A
folk mass will be said each day at
3 p.m. The Pope's encyclical on Human Life will be discussed today.
The Haggin House Council will present Coach Bradshaw In the Upper
Lounge of Haggin in a program of
questions and answers concerning the
UK football team.
The annual Kentucky Thoroughbred
Debate Tournament will be held In
the Student Center. For details call
the Speech Dept. ext. 2931.
Edwin Grzesnikowski,
violin, UK
Agricultural Science Bldg., 8:15 p.m.,
October 10.
Arthur Graham, tenor, UK Agricultural Science Bldg., 8:13 p.m., October 11.
Mr. Joseph Becker, Director of
EDUCOM-Intcruniversi- ty
for
formation Science
Communications Council, will give his presentation on "Information and Library Networks" at
7:30 p.m. The meeting will be in the
Rare Book Room of the MIK Library.
The Theatre Arts Department presents "Under Milk Wood" by Dylan
Thomas in the Laboratory Theatre of
the Fine Arts Building.
Theoretical Bio'ogy Seminar, "The
Current Status of the Cancer Problem," bv Dr. Van Potter of the Uniof
versity 4 Wisconsin, MN363 Medical
Center.
p.m.
Mr. Jack Weller will speak on the
the
topic "Appalachia" at 7 p.m. In disStudent Center Theatre. A floor
cussion on the topic will follow. The
public is invited.
CARSA will meet at 7 p.m. In the
Student Center.
Dr. Olshewsky of the Philosophy
will
Department house speak6 at the Siema
at p.m. on "The
Phi Epsilon
Implicitness and Explicitness of Religion" and its relevance to the college student. Everyone is invited.

and Graduate Students for summer
employment.
Register Friday for an appointment
on Monday with A.O. Smith Corp.
Elec. E.
B.S., M.S.).
Accounting,
Bus. Adm., Mech.
., Math, Physics
(B.S.). Citizenship.
Register Friday for an appointment
Monday with Union Carbide Corp.
Food Production Division Chem. E.,
Elec. E., Mech. E. (B.S., M.S.); Chemistry (all degrees).for an
appointment
Register Friday
Monday with Union Carbide Corp.
Materials Systems Division Chem. E.,
Mech. E., Met. E. (B.S., M.S.). Citizenship.
Register Friday for an appointment
Monday with Western and Southern
Life Ins. Co. Accounting, Bus. Adm.,
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Register Monday for an appointment
Tuesday with Marathon Oil Co.
Marketing Division Bus. Adm., Economics (B.S.). Citizenship.
Register Monday for an appointment
Life Ins.
Tuesday with Prudential for details. Co.
Check schedule book
Register Monday for an appointment
Tuesday with R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Co. Schedule I: Research: Chemistry
(all degrees); Computer Science (BS);
Microbiology (BS. MS). Schedule II:
Accounting and Engineering: Accounting (BS, MS); Chem. E., Mech. E.
(BS).

The Theatre Arts Department will
present "Under Milk Wood" by Dylan Thomas in the Laboratory Theatre
of the Fine Arts Bldg.
The Student Center Board will present "A Big Hand for a Little Lady"
in the Student Center Theatre at 6:30
and 9:13 p.m. on Friday and Saturday,
and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Admission
is 50 cents.
The Theatre Arts Production of
"Three Men on a Horse" by George
Abbot will be in the Guignol Theatre
of the Fine Arts Bldg at 8:30 p.m.
Admission is $2.00, the public and
$1.00 for students.

BOWLING GREEN (AP)-T- he
president of Western Kentucky University said Wednesday he welcomes any action to
determine the legality of its plan
to underwrite a bond issue for
Kentucky Southern College.

wanted to save Kentucky South-efrom financial disaster."

Thompson said Western
"won't be placed on the defen-

sive by criticism of a plan not
based on fact."
His comments were the first
from a Western official since the
Kelly Thompson, in an ad- state Council on Public Higher
dress to the board of regents, Education announced it would
said Western had only one ob- ask the attorney general for an
jective in agreeing to back the opinion on the proposal.
$4.2 million bond issue: "We
Thompson recalled that the

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Football films of the Kentucky-Orego- n
State game will be shown in
the Student Center Theatre at 7 p.m.
on Monday. There is no admission
charge.
The Central Kentucky Concert and
Lecture Series will present Goldowski
Opera Company's production of "Carmen" in Memorial Coliseum at 8:13
p.m. on Monday. UK students will be
admitted by ID, all others by season ticket.
The Student Center Coffee House
Series will present "Patchett and
Tarses" In the Student Center Grille
the week of October 14, 8 to 9 p.m.
Monday through Thursday and at
8:30, 9:30, and 10:30 p.m. on Friday.
Tryouts for Theatre Arts Production, "Loves Labor Lost" by William
Shakespeare will be Monday. Call
Ext. 2688 for details.

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THURSDAY, OCT.

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10, 1968

Editorials represent the ojrinUms of the Editors, not of the University.
Lee D. Hctkir,

Editor
Editor
Editor
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but of education, using that word
in its broadest meaning.
Students should be stimulated
in class, not taught. Students
should be challenged in the classroom, not pampered. Spoon-fe- d
knowledge is useless, and the educator should not rely upon it.
The state furnishes trade schools
In a world as complex as ours for those who want them, and
and in a University as impersonal these schools do an adequate job
as this one, it is encouraging to of training persons for jobs. The
know that those people over in the trade school is the place where the
Old Ag Building are interested in trade should be learned, not the
the individual, and are willing to university. The University should
be the center of learning, the place
help students long after graduawhere ideas are fostered. In this
tion.
way the University serves its duty
Members of the faculty and ad- to the real world.
ministrators should realize, howThe Placement Service can and
ever, that the University's responsishould serve as a link between
bility to the business world begins the center of knowledge and learnand ends at the Placement Service ing and those on the outside who
doors. Faculty members particular- want and need this rare value.
ly should understand that their At present, it seems to be doing
duty is not one of job training, just that.
The University, through its
Placement Service, is attempting to
offer the students a necessary service. The fact that about 60 per-- ;
cent of the last year's senior class
registered with the Service in order to find jobs after graduation
is a tribute to Col. James Alcorn
and the rest of his staff.

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Editor-in-Chi-

David llolwcrk, Editorial rage
Darrcll Rice, Managing Editor
Tom Dvtt, Business Manager
, Associate
Guy M. Mcndcs,
Howard Mason, Photography Editor
Joe Hinds, Arts and Entertainment
Jim Miller, Sjorts Editor
Chuck Koehler,
Dana Ewcll,
Janice
Larry Dale Keeling,
Terry Dunham,
Assistant Managing Editors

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'Hey, Mister! Your Band Turned
Right At The Last Corner!'

Kernel Forum: the readers write

To the Editor of the Kernel:
Time 1943; Place University of Kentucky. The campus is relatively inactive
because many of the young men are away
fighting for the very existence of freedom.
A sociology professor who had two
pictures upon his office door, one of
Mussolini and one of Hitler, and who
had been quoted as saying, "I. . . would
like to see more of Mussolini spread
around," and of Hitler, ". . . Here is a
leader. . . "has just been arrested.
One student was overheard to say
to her boyfriend, "I hope they go easy
on him because he must be insane."
WE WON WORLD WAR II!
Time 1968; Place University of Kentucky. The campus is very active with
SDS members everywhere collecting supplies for the Viet Cong. A Sociology
professor has upon his office door a
picture of Karl Marx and Ho Chi Minh
and lias been quoted as saying,
"I. . . would like to see more of Marx
spread around," and of Ho Chi Minh,
". . . Here is a leader. . . "
One student was overheard to say to
her boyfriend, "I have the most wonderful professor, so broadminded and intelligent. Any one who says anything
against him or against Karl Marx or Ho
Chi Minh must be insane." WE ARE
LOS1NC THE WAR IN VIETNAM AT
HOME!
John Kirk
Law Student
To the Editor of the Kernel:
One of the paradoxes frequently faced
in a democratic system is that of supporters of democracy employing tactics
much more appropriate to ideological systems which they wish to oppose than
to that which they say they support.
John Kirk, a UK law student, has given
us an ideal example of such tactics in
a recent letter to the editor concerning
Professor Leonard Jordan of the Sociology
Department. We reply to Mr. Kirk out
of concern for simple justice for Prof.
Jordan, and to clarify the role which an
effective department of sociology must
play.
An analysis of Mr. Kirk's letter from
the standpoint of the propaganda tech

niques involved exposes the workings
of his mind and the falseness of his
argument perhaps better than anything
else can. Kirk tears out of context and
juxtaposes badly mangled quotes from
Prof. Jordan and interposes emotion-ridde- n
facts on Vietnam. He mourns the
losses in Vietnam. So do we. Prof. Jordan has been deeply concerned also and
out of that concern he gave his support
to a Democrat, Senator Eugene McCarthy.
As Prof. Jordan makes eminently clear
in the published interview, his chief concern is with "the younger Marx, the humanist, the Marx who was interested
in the question of alienation." Any distortions of Marx which are expressed as
rigid ideological positions by present day
devotees of "Marxism" would stand necessarily in opposition to that Marx. Karl
Marx had a theory of society and social
change which is quite separate from his
ideological position. Further, Marx, like
Hitler, Jesus Christ, Ho Chi Minh, and
John Kennedy, was a leader of his time
and has had a profound effect, in turn,
upon tins society in our time. These are
reasons enough w hy sociologists must and
should take note of and analyze his impact. We don't believe that a naive conception of "communism" nor a distorted
conception of the relationship of the historical Karl Marx to the various modem
forms of "communism," such as that
displayed by Mr. Kirk, is a tolerable
position for a man of intellect. Simplistic
approaches have no place among educated people.
Mr. Kirk lias suggested that Governor
Nunn's office should get a copy of the
Kernel interview. We think we have a
much better suggestion. We think that
instead of sending the article on Prof.
J ordan to Coventor Nunn's office, perha ps,
it would be more apropos if Mr. Kirk's
letter were sent to the office of the Dean
of the Law School in commentary on
Mr. Kirk's ability to understand the bases
of American law especially the First
Amendment. Mr. Kirk gives us reason to
pause and wonder if he, when he attains
his law degree, will be able to defend
clients whose rights to free speech under
First Amendment have been threatened.
We want lawyers who will defend our
rights to freedom of speech. We want no

totalitarian society from either the left

or the right. We want neither the silence

which has been brought by the Russian
guns and tanks in Czechoslovakia nor the
silence which Mr. Kirk would like to
bring to bear from Governor Nunn's office.
We want a free society and a free university where the significant intellectual
figures of every field are presented, discussed and understood and where our
professors know they are safe from harassment on the part of campus, state and national representatives of totalitarian thinking.
And we offer a final thought on Prof.
Jordan. Some professors sleep through
their days in the university, some cagily
play academic politics and some carry
on a dialogue with their times. Leonard Jordan is a master of dialogue. It
is an uncommon talent in this place
where it should be an everyday way of
life. We not only want to hold on to
the masters of dialogue that we have,
like Leonard Jordan, but, in addition, we
want their numbers to grow.
Keith Beggs
Michael Miller
Charles Thomas
Sociology Craduate Students,
Members of the American
Civil Liberties Union
To the Editor of the Kernel:
This letter is from one who enjoys
hearing "Dixie." It is tuneful, it is rousing, and has no racist wording. I have
enjoyed it many times without any thought
whatsoever of the race question.
However, if it is offensive to persons,
I really can see no good reason for its
continued use. There are many other
songs for sports events including the UK
scltool song.

There are three points which I would
like to suggest in tliis discussion of Dixie
pro and con. (1) It is contended that
Dixie is a regional song and not racist-- it
symbolizes the south as a region.
A quick check in the library will reveal
that with every legal action to end racial
discrimination there have come anguished
cries contending that such legislation or
enforcement will "end the Southern way
of life." In such instances racism (i.e. discrimination because of race) is equated
with the southern regional life. Thus

Dixie the regional song inescapably as
the symbol of the region is associated
with the "southern way of life." is also
a sy mbol of what that way of life repre-

sents in racial discrimination.
(2) Never have I met a person who
considers himself a racist. The word has
a multitude of connotations. Yet, discrimination according to race continues so
somewhere among us there must be those
who make distinctions by race.
(3) It is sad that the question of
Dixie has become a game with many
saying they are contending for Dixie
because demands were made for its exclusion. This is a reactionary position
which does not reveal the best side of
an educational institution. Let us attempt
to decide the issue on its own merit
rather than by reaction.
I am sorry that in the past I have
enjoyed the music without thought of the
meaning. Many people want Dixie played
without having racist intentions. How
many do have racist intentions is impossible to determine. At the best, the
continued playing of Dixie is thoughtless
insensitivity to the feelings of many UK
students.
Charles Garrison
Craduate Student

To the Editor of the Kernel:
During the time I have attended this
University I have watched this newspaper, The Kentucky Kernel, swing more
and more to the radical Left. It is the
unwritten duty of every editor to print
truthfully and objectively both sides of
the story. The Kentucky Kernel has certainly not done this.
Although I am a conservative, I recognize and respect the opinions of campus liberals, most of whom are genuine
patriots of another philosophy. My quarrel is not with them, but rather with
your newspaper and its policy of
left wing articles. The Conservative or right wing student elements,
although not so well organized, are a
potent force on the nations campuses as
witnessed at the recent Ceorge Wallace
speech. It is high time th