ECMTOCKY EQeRNEL

Monday, Nov. 9, 1970

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LXII, No. 47

Administration Silent on Claim

Prof Charges FBI Int rasion in
e

on charges stemming from a rock festival
By BOB BROWN
Editorial Page Editor
held on his farm.
Dr. Mason told the Kernel Sunday
Charges of inappropriate action by the
UK administration and of intimidation of that Calbraith's comment was not a threat
students' freedom of expression by FBI but an "anticipation" of what could result
agents and the UK Student Affairs Office from the type of repression Calbraith felt
were filed Friday in a complaint by po- was involved in the trial. Mason said he
litical science professor Gene Mason to did not consider the comment inapproprithe University Senate Committee on ate because the subject matter of the course
Tenure and Promotion.
concerns political trials.
The charges stem from an FBI invesClass Members Questioned
Soon after Calbraith's comment, FBI
tigation centering on a comment made by
Gatewood Calbraith, a participant in agents questioned at least two enrolled
one of Mason's classes, Political Science members of Political Science 390 as to the
300, in which Calbraith predicted the exact content of Calbraith's remarks.
burning or bombing of buildings in the
Students reported the agents possessed
Lexington area.
a class roll and photographs of Calbraith.
Calbraith made the statement in the
In neither questioning session of two
aftermath of the trial of Dr. Phillip Crossen students was either threatened by the FBI

agent, and the information they offered
.was completely voluntary, they said.
The two reported the agent was aware
of the exact comment made by Calbraith
even before they were questioned.
Professor Mason indicated he resented
the investigation because, he said, it
could intimidate the constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression in his class.
UK Law School Professor Alvin L.
Goldman, whose speciality is civil liberties law, agreed with Mason's expression
of concern.
Goldman cited a 1959 Supreme Court
ruling which stated, "Broadly viewed,
inquiries cannot be made into the teaching that is pursued in any of our educational institutions. When academic teaching-freedom
and its corollary learning- -

freedom, so essential to the
of the nation, are claimed, this court
will always be on the alert against intrusion by Congress intothis constitutionally protected domain."
One of the students interviewed by the
FBI agent stated that he felt the interrogation constituted a restriction on his freedom of expression. He added that thema-jorit- y
of the class seemed to agree with his
opinion that the FBI was trying to intimidate them.
The second area of Mason's complaint
deals with the University administration's
"inappropriate action" in cooperating
with the FBI to violate what Mason
considers a right of privacy between a
professor and his students.
Continued on Page 5, Col. 1
well-bein-

Vouchers Show Coalition Charges
On SG Expenditures Unfounded
By RON HAWKINS
Assistant Managing Editor
A check of Student Government spending vouchers in the
University's general accounting
department Friday afternoon by
SG

Representative

Graeme

Browning, student John Browning and a Kernel reporter discovered several errors in Student
Coalition's charges of SG misspending.
The three found that Student
Government
had not spent
$292.78 for telegrams in the month
of May as Student Coalition had
charged. SG, the records show,
spent $5.10 on telegrams. The
claim that SG spent $76.40 on
one telegram was also found unsubstantiated by the three. The
records indicate instead that the
bill of $76.40 belonged to the
College of Engineering.
Student
Coalition's
report
also claimed that Student Gov

ernment, under President Steve
Bright, had paid $185 to the
Plate and Optical Scanning Corporation. Vouchers in the general
accounting office show, however,
that this payment was made
SG administduring the 1969-7- 0
ration of Tim Futrell. The
voucher vas ' - sighed by I Jim
Gwinn, SG vice president under
Futrell.
An additional
two claims
made by Student Coalition,
which the three also found to
be false, concerned metered postage.
Student Coalition claimed
that Student Government had one
metered postage bill for $42.88.
When the Brownings and the
Kernel reporter checked the records, they found that this was a
bill for the College of Education,
rather than Student Government.
The voucher did, however, show
an SG bill for $11.68.
A claim that another $103.37

bill was paid by Student Government also was found to be incorrect. This bill was addressed
to the College of Education's
instruction materials laboratory,
and Student Government was not
assessed on this voucher.
The inquiry was prompted by
contradictory statements by SG
president Steve Bright and the
Student Coalition Legal Committee.
In last Thursday's Kentucky
Wildcat, an editorial claimed that
SG had misspent Student Government funds. Among the items
that the coalition newspaper
article claimed SG misspent
money on were telegrams,
office supplies and telephone
bills.
The coalition's legal committee report, upon which the
Wildcat based its editorial,
claimed that SG payments to the
Plate and Optical Scanning Corp.
and the Carnahan Conference
were not in the best student interest and that too much money
was spent on them.

At the Student Government
meeting Thursday, after the Wildcat editorial appeared, Bright
criticized the report's accuracy,
saying that the people who compiled it did not know how to
read the vouchers. Bright added
that telegram bills the Coalition
claimed were assessed to SG were
actually assessed to the College
of Engineering.
C. Allen Muncy, Wildcat Editorial page editor and member
of the coalition's legal committee,
reacted to Bright's comments
Thursday night by saying the
coalition's charges were correct
and that the records backed him
up.
After running into the conflict of opposite statements, the
Kernel reporter and Graeme and
John Browning decided to check
the records.
Terrence Fox, president of
Student
told the
Coalition,
Keniel Sunday the mistakes in
the coalition's report were not
Continued on Pace 3, Col. 1

7
DR. ROBERT ZUMWINKLE
found no inequities in SC
spending.

Law Society Hears Karem
Is
x.

By GAIL GREEN
Kernel Staff Writer
Fred Karem, administrative
assistant to Cov. Louie Nunn,
spoke yesterday at the initiation
of new members into Societas
Pro Legibus, the undergraduate
pre-lahonorary society.
"When you pledge yourself
to this society, you are adopting
a commitment to certain ways of
settling differences and methods
for bringing about change," said
Karem.
He advised the future lawyers
to link themselves to the middle
road, in order to avoid the "authoritarians" on one side and the
"anarchists" on the other.
Most Tragic Failure
"The most tragic failure of
today's student is to gain a perspective of human society and
its limitations," he said.
Karem then commented, tow-eve- r,
that young people are not
much different from their elders.
"They are only fresh blood being
pumped into the society," he
w

Kernel Photo By Bob Brewer

Karem
Crusades

Fred Karem, administrative assistant to
Cov. Louie B. Nunn, addressed new memhonbers of the undergraduate pre-laorary society yesterday. He advised the
group to follow the "middle road" and to
avoid "authoritarians." and V anarchists"."
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stated. "No generation ever has
the opportunity to choose the
shape of the world into which
it is born."
"Violence and disorder have
no place on campus, regardless
of the cause or the perpetrators.
The Black Panthers and the
Weathermen are only turning the
society against most, if not all,

of their causes," said Karem.
Change 'Only Through Laws'
"Change within the society
should only be made through
the laws of that society. The
best way to deal with problems
is to master the techniques of the
system and to make use of its
opportunities," he said.
"It is the majority which governs in this society, and it is
the only right ofa minority to
be able to exist as a minority
and not to be suppressed by the
majority," he said.
In conclusion Karem said,
Forecast: Windy and mild
with showers and the chance of "The means and not the end is
thunderstorms this afternoon and the most important thing that
the law is."
tonight. Southerly winds of 5
Initiated into the honorary
m.p.h. this afternoon. Considerably cloudy and cooler Tuesday, society before Karem spoke were
increasing cloudiness and warmer John Bilby, Clenn Embree, KevWednesday. High today, near 70; in Fleming, Stev en Hoi brook,
low tonight, 40; high tomorrow, Benjamin Jones, Morrison Jenknear 60. Precipitation probabiliins, Mary Moore, Roland Rosen-bruDaniel Parker, Stephen
ties: 70 percent today, 50 perRuschell, Gary Settles, Jerry
cent tonight, and 20 percent
William Wilson and J.B.
Schilling. .

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