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Joan Rue is a freshman but she
aspires
to be a Gulgnol great: Page Two.

Mississippi was on the end of
streak: Page Six.

Editorial comments on the death of
three astronauts: Page Four.

Kerr says Reagan had a man
him to resign: Page Seven.

Arthur Hoppe has a perfect candidate
for Cal's president: Page Five.

Founder's Week planning
underway: Page Eight.

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'Punishment'
By Draft
By EDWARD RANZAL
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NEW YORK -- The United
States Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit held Monday that
local draft boards cannot punish
registrants by reclassifying them
because they publicly protested the Vietnam war.
Reversing a lower court, the
appeals court reinstituted an
action by two University of
Michigan students seeking to
block their induction into the
armed forces.
The students were reclassified
from S
student deferment to
following their arrest and
conviction growing out of an
rally in Ann Arbor,
Mich., during w hich the students
sat-iat the draft board.
The appeals court unanimously ruled that the draft boards had
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courts opinion was
written by Judge Harold R. Medina. Judges HenryJ. Friendly and
J. Joseph Smith concurred. One
important facet was the right of
a registrant to bring an action
into federal court on constitutional grounds prior to an order
for induction.
"The record shows," Judge
Medina said, "that attempts to
secure relief within the Selective
Service System would be futile,
and the threat to First Amendment rights is of such immediate
and irreparable consequence not
simply to these students but to
others as to require prompt action
by the courts to avoid an erosion
of these precious constitutional
rights."
"What we hold in this case is
that it is not the function of local
boards in the Selective Service
System to punish these registrants by reclassifying them
because they protested as they
did over the government's involvement in Vietnam."
The two students involved
are Peter Wolff,
graduate student at Michigan,
and Richard Shortt, 22, a senior. Roth are residents of New
Vork City.
The two were arrested with
36 other students last Oct. 15

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New Equipment For Lab
Workmen this week began installing a new centrifuge for the
Wcnncr Gren Aeronautical Research Laboratory. The little known
lab is located on Rose Street near Donovan Hall.

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150 Attend Second
Non- - Violence Program
By FRANK BROWNING
Kernel Associate Editor

Well over 150 people turned up Monday night at the second of
a series of lectures on
to hear Dr. Albert Lott discuss
"Authoritarian Trends in Personality."
Lott, a professor of psycliolo- gy, outlined personality qualities
Low prejudices, more intelfound in persons with high and lectual interest, a more open
low authoritarian trends and
and lessdefensiveoutlook tended
then related these trends to childto go with low authoritarian subNon-Violen-

hood development and basic
adult attitudes.
Some basic characteristics of
the more authoritarian personality described in a 1950 study
made at the Berkeley campus
of the University of California
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begin,
public universities across the country are facing the prospect of
fiscal year.
budget cuts and tuition increases for the 1967-6California Gov.
Although
Ronald Reagan's suggested tui- in "incidental" fees to $620 for
tion for state colleges and uniCalifornia residents one of the
versities has sparked the most highest tuitions at public uniheated debate, public schools in versities in the country. State
Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Ore- college students, who pay $135
in "incidental" fees, would have
gon, and Texas are also confronting the issue of taxation versus an added $200 tuition. The
tuition in their search foroperat-inmedian
tuition for all
revenues.
state universities is $311.
Reagan's projxisals were made
Following his inauguration
this month, Republican Reagan at the same time as the univerproposed that the state reduce sity was seeking an increase in
state appropriations to $278 milits appropriations for higher education and that California lion, in anticipation of an enrollment increase of 9,700. The
schools levy a tuition for the
first time in the state's history.
university announced soon afterward that it was halting all new
For the
of California, admissions on both the graduate
University
and undergraduate levels.
Reagan urged a cut in state funds
from the present $210 million to
Reagan said he was making
$192 million. To make up for
the proposals because an exthe budget cut, the governor sugpected $473 million state deficit
had created an "emergency" sitgested a $400 tuition and a onetime appropriation of $22 miluation. "This is in no way a
lion from regents' contingency change in permanent policy," he
fu nd.
said.
The Reagan administration
If all state expenses, includhas also proposed redution in ing those for higher education,
state hinds for the 18 state colwere not cut by 10 percent, Realeges from the present $176 milgan said tax increases would be
lion to $168.4 million. The state necessary to reduce the state
deficit.
college system, organized separM ea n w h i e, U ni v er s i t y o f O r
ately from the university, has a
student enrollment of 127,000.
undergraduates wereorganiz-inReagan's proposals, if adopprotests against an increase
of
tuition from $330 to
ted, would raise the cost of education at the university from $220
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jects while highly authoritarian
persons tended to guard their
feelings more closely.

High authoritarian people
showed a low ability to verbalize concerns about hostility and
sexuality.

They ov er idealized the home
and family while equalitarian
subjects held a more realistic
v iew of the family.
These qualities, Lott explained, are measured on an"F"
orfascistic scale.
Other traits likely to be found
are a rigid conventionalism to
middle class values, a strong
desire to punish those who violate their values, an impatience
with "imaginative, subjective,
gentle side of life," an intolerance to ambiguity and tendency
to think in rigid categories.
Also associated wcreattempts
to div ide people into power categories of strong and weak, etc.,
a feeling that "human nature
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Margaret Mead Speaks
Here Wednesday INijjht
Dr. Margaret Mead, the noted anthropologist,
p.m. Wednesday at Memorial Coliseum.
Dr. Mead s appearance is part
lessor of

of the program of the 1966-6Concert and Lecture Series. She
will be introduced by Dr. Henry
Dobyns, chairman of the Department of Anthropology.
A graduate of Barnard College, Dr. Mead obtained her
Ph.D. from Columbia University.
She has taught as adjutant pro- 7

Graduate Student Remembers The Russians
ROBERT BRANDT
Han, 27, a graduate student
from Korea, remembers when Russian troops
stole his family's piano.
This did not prevent his brother from
becoming a concert pianist and it did not
prevent Han (as he likes to be called) from
becoming an accomplished pianist himself.
It was, however, one of many things
that forced Han's family to flee from North
Korea to Seoul when he was young.
Han recalls Japanese occupation of his
country before the end of Woild War II.
He recalls the time his grandmother, a
leader in the Korean liberation movement,
was jailed for three years by the Japanese
and tortured.
"They made us speak Japanese in school
and even take Japanese names," he says.
"The Russians pioved into North Korea
By

as soon as Japan surrendered at the end of
the war. They forced their influence upon
us t(x)," Han recalls.
"We went to South Korea to be free.
We weren't free under the Japanese nor

the Russians."
"There was much looting," Han says.
"The Russians liked watches and liquor
and they took what they wanted. U.S.
troops were much better," he recalls.
Han came to the U.S. in August 1965,
to study plant pathology at UK. He
from Seoul National University in
1961, but was drafted and served in his
countiy's army three vcars before coming
here to study.
Han's brother, now 23, came to the
U.S. when he was 12. General Anderson,
then Commander of the U.S. 5th Air l one
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in Korea, collected funds for him to come
New York to study music.
"General Anderson handled all the arrangements personally," Han recalls.
Han's brother lives in New Vork, but is
presently in Europe appearing in concerts.
Han likes the U.S.
"It's big and clean. Most of the people
are kind."
Han says Americ a is not likethe American
movies make him think it would be.
Han plans to leturn to Korea alter his
education is completed. He looks to the day
under its own
when his countiv is
gov ei nment
something it has nev er experienced during 1. in's life.
"The people in South Koiea don't hate
those in Noith Koiea. The North Koieans
don't hate the South Koieans. It is the
goveiniueiitsth.it hate,'' Han suv s.

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anthropology at Columbia since 1954 and as visiting
professor for the department of
psychiatry at the University of
Cincinnati since 1957. Since 1964,
she has served as curator of ethnology of the American Museum of
Natural History.
A member of such outstanding organizations in her field as
the American Orthopsychiatries
Association, the Society for Applied Anthropology, and the
American Anthropological Society, Dr. Mead served as president of the American Anthropological Association in I960.
In the area of research, Dr.
Mead has participated in expeditions to New Guinea anil Rali.
She was direc tor of theColumbia
University Research in Contemporary Culture from 1918 to 1950.
Dr. Mead has contributed significantly to the literature of
Her U)oks include
"Coming of Age in Samoa,"
"Continuities in Cultural Evolution," "(.row ing Up in New Guinea," and "The School in American Cultuie." Her articles have
appeared tiequently in many journals. One of thelatest, "Margaret
Mead Reviews," was published
in the November issue of

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Freshman Joan Rue Aspires
To Be Another Guianol Great
either." Before trying out she
read the play and decided which
role she was physically able to
do but was interested in all female roles. "When you read for a
part, you're just interested in
being in the show in any part
which the director feels you can
do."
Only one other freshman tried
out and out of 29 people only
13 were chosen
so Joan had
"quite a bit of competition."
Joan also has quite a bit of
experience. She became interested in the theater through her
sister who is an actress now
studying in New York. Her sister, Linda, came to Lexington
this summer to portray Martha
in "Who's Afraid of Virginia
Wolf."
Joan began studying drama
in the eighth grade in Harrods-burThe summer of her freshman year in high school she
appeared in the outdoor theatre
production "Home is the

Guignol Theatre may have
another star on it's hands Joan
Hue, 18, of Lexington.
Hesides having a leading role
in Guignol's latest production,
she also is National Champion
in Dramatic Interpretation.
Joan was chosen for the part
of Nina an aspiring young actressin Chekhov's "The Sea

Cull."

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Joan Rue, rehearsing for llic "Sea Cull" with Howard Enoch, is
only a freshman but she liopcs to be a Guignol star.

Joan had a small part in the
first play given last semester
which encouraged her to try
again. She tried out for two parts
and "didn't expect to achieve

Peter Nero Here Thursday
is one of the most popular concert attractions in the world

Peter Nero will give a co-

ncertunder the sponsorship of
the Student Center Board

in
Memorial Coliseum at 8:15 p.m.

today.
The Nero style is strictly his
own and encompasses every type
of music from pure jazz to an
ingenious use of the classics.
His gift for elaborating musical
ideas enables him to extract from
the piano a range of emotion
and expression rarely heard in
pop music. He describes the distinctive "Nero sound" as "me
and my piano having a great

Thursday.
Tickets are $2 in advance,
$3 at the door. Tickets are available at the Student Center, Barand
ney Millers, Graves-CoDawahare's.
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Nero is a combination of a
great artist and a vibrant personality. Recognized as the foremost pianist in his field, Nero

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Nero, born in New York 31
years ago, began his musical
career at seven. When he was
14 he was awarded a scholarship to the Julliard School of
Music. This beginning led to

appearances with Paul White-ma- n
and then to individual appearances at night clubs and on
television.
He recently recorded an album with Arthur Fiedler and
the Boston Pops. In another album he plays songs he predicts
will become perennials such as
"Hello Dolly" and "I want To
Hold Your Hand." His rendition of "Thunderball" is heard
over almost all radio stations
daily.
Broadway and Hollywood are
also calling for Nero. His successful score for the film "Sunday
In New York" has brought him
national acclaim.

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Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina,
the aging but still fascinating
actress, will be played by Miss
Barrett of Lexington.
Enoch, a theater arts major

from Gracey, is cast as her son,
Konstanti Gavrilovich Trcplev.
Miss Rue, Lexington, described as a very talented freshman, will play her first major
role on a Guignol stage as Nina
Nihailovna Zarechny, a young
girl, daughter of a wealthy landowner.

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Stacey, an English major, will
play the famous writer, Boris
Alexeyevich Trigorin, lover of
Irina and Nina. His credits include "Glass Menagerie,"
and the Fire Bugs," and
"The Time of Your Life."
Two seasoned performers of
the Lexington stage are Gene
Arkle, as Pyotr Nikolayevich Sor-ibrother of Irina, and Peter
Stoner, the doctor, Yevgeny
Dom.
Mike Walters, as Ilya
Shamraev, Serin's stewand Lynda Langdon as
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Polina Andreyevna, his wife, are
both Theater Arts graduate students, appearing last in "The
Timeof Your Life." Theirdaugh-ter- ,
Masha, will be played by
Shirley Doane. Her past duties
include acting in "The Room"
and stage manager for "Glass
Menagerie."
Glenn Taylor, a senior Art
major, is cast as Semyon
Medvedenko, a school
teacher. Three newcomers to the
Guignol stage complete the cast
Leroy Mayne asYakov, PatKelly,
cook, and Jill Geiger, housemaid.
The story of "The Sea Gull"
takes place on Sorin's Russian
estate. The main plot evolves
around the love affairs between
Trigorin and Irina, Treplev's
hopeless love for Nina, and Nina's
tragic love for Trigorin.
Checkov weaves both irony
and patlios into this study of frustrated lov e, and givesus a glimpse
of life in Russia of the 19th
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three plays.
Her senior year she moved
to Lexington and Henry Clay
High School where she held two
major roles in their productions
of "Tea House of the August
Moon" and
Night Dream."
That same year she was cast
in UK's student production of
"Masks of Angels." Here again
she held the lead role. All others
in the play were college studentsJoan was a
high school Senior.
Along with her studies at
UK, she is assistant drama coach
at Henry Clay, dealing in dramatic interpretation and duet
acting.
Joan is majoring in theatre
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Leave Home' Alone!
disappointing to note
that William E. Peters, the chairman of the Seott County Improvement Association, has written both
Gov. Breathitt and the Kentucky
Human Rights Commission to investigate the state song, My Old
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Kentucky Home.
The offensive line, he says, is
" Tis summer, the darkies are gay."
Peters has asked that the distribution of a state brochure containing the song be halted until this
line is revised.
Already the line in the song
has been changed when sung on
national television programs to
" 'Tis summer, the young folks are
Kay."
We believe that to change the
words of Stephen Foster's classic
is a violation of artistic license.
If the song cannot be accepted
as it was written by the composer, then it should not be played
or sung at all. If the legislature
feels that the official state song is
offensive to some of its citizens, then
the decision of the legislature must
be to adopt another song.
It is our opinion that My Old
Kentucky Home is not an offense
to Negroes, or at least it shouldn't
be. One of the bad effects of the
Civil Rights movement is that a

great many Negroes have decided
to ignore their past Many Negroes
would just as soon forget that their
ancestors once sang spirituals while
sitting on bales of cotton.
There can be no justification
for the subservient state of the
Negro during the plantation days
of the Old South, but the heritage and traditions of the American Negro should be looked upon
with great pride.
Negroes rightfully wish to be
equal to the white race, but sometimes confuse this with being like
the white race. By so doing Negroes are commiting a grave injustice against themselves.
If My Old Kentucky Home
places the Negro in a subservient
role, it is because the composer
lived in an environment and an
era when it was the norm to think
of the Negro as unequal, at least
in a social sense. To change the
lyrics is as absurd as to rewrite
part of an Oscar Wilde comedy because it might offend someone
today.
This grand old song has not become the rallying song of segregationists as has Dixie. It was not
written out of contempt for the
Negro but out of love for a state.
We cannot consider rewriting it.

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Since the Space Age was issued
in nearly 10 years ago by Russia's
Sputnik I, men have been taking
tremendous risks to conquer man's
final frontier, the incomprehensible
vastness of outer space.
Manned space flights increased
this danger, but there were, nevertheless, men who willingly and un-

complainingly accepted these dangers, because man must pursue his
quest for knowledge of the unknown.
Everyone had hoped desperately
that a tragedy such as the one
Friday which claimed the lives of
Apollo astronauts Virgil I. (Gus)
Grissom, Roger B. Chaffee and

Edward White II would never happen. But the law of averages is a
hard thing to beat. These gallant
Americans knew that and continued
even more determined in their work.
There will likely be other tragedies which happen in the course
of space exploration, and all will
be difficult to endure. Yet, human
and mechanical error is inevitable.
It will be through men with
the guts to face danger and the
love of their nation, men such as
Grissom, Chaffee and White, that
we will endure and meet this final
frontier face to face. To our three
courageous astronauts, we will be
forever indebted.

Worthwhile Lecture
students will have
the opportunity to learn about their
ability to make University policy
receptive to student needs at 7:30
p.m. Thursday evening when Dick
Harmon lectures in the Student
University

("enter Ballroom.
Hannon is among the nation's
better student and community organizers. He has been invited by
numerous student groups to discuss
means by which students can be
the controlling party in determining campus poliey.
Hannon disregards political and
social ideology when talking to

students about their potential

pow-

ers at a university. He feels just
as much at home talking to an

IFC meeting as he does debating
issues with an SDS chapter.
At a recent seminar in Chicago a UK student shyly brought
up the touchy subject of alcoho-

lic beverages being banned at Student Center social events. Harmon
innocently but bluntly said, "Why
the hell shouldn't the Greeks be
allowed to drink in the Student
Center?" Of course he wasn't aware
of the hypocritical enforcement of
state law where students are regarded.
Perhaps the time may be approaching when the students will
seek more plausible means of making themselves heard than through
Student Government.

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Conscientious Objector Complains
To the Editor of the Kernel:

The Jan. 17 editorial, "Problems
in Objecting," creates more confusion that it clears up. However,
I do concede that this editorial
deals with significant current issues.

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The writer almost admits that
the United States has committed
self-invite-

The writer correctly states that
a "conscientious objector
is

...

a person who believes it is immoral

to kill another human being, even
in war." Also, the writer correctly
spells out that to force a conscientious objector to fight in a
war is in violation of Amendment
I of the Constitution.

Then the writer says that many
men have capitalized on this concept by proclaming that killing in
war "is in violation of their conscience when it, in fact, is not."
If this statement is factual, how
did its author verify its factuality?
Perhaps this statement is merecon-jecturhence irresponsibile editor-

e,

ializing.

The writer states that some men
pay for assistance in formulating
their philosophy as conscientious
objectors which the Selective Service boards will accept as valid.
I fail to understand why the writer
feels that just because a draftable
man seeks and uses this help that
he is not honest in his statements
of belief.

The

Then how is this assistance any
different in kind from paying an
accountant to file one's Federal
Income Tax returns?

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mism!

The writer does admit that many
Americans feel that the Vietnam
"war" is unjust. Well, these people
(and I am one of them) have good
cause to feel that the "war" is immoral and unjust all wars are.
For example, why has Congress
failed to declare war? When is a
war a war? If Congress ignores
Article I Section 8 of the Constitution now, then perhaps it will
eventually ignore other parts of the

document.

Also, one should consider the
Nuremburg doctrine. Does a state
have a right to compel one to commit war crimes for which one not
the state may be held accountable?

If surrender of the First and
Thirteenth Amendments freedoms,
disregard of the Nuremburg doctrine and a general disregard of
human life are necessary for the
survival of the state, then perhaps we should ask: survival for
whom?
Boyd Plumley
Graduate Student

America neither fosters nor rewards profound reflective thinking
in matters of religion and philosophy. Many young men pass

through the "educationist establishment" without gainingthe ability to articulate well their convictions about such matters. I doubt
that the writer would equate this
deficiency with a lack of

aggression in Vietnam,

but he hedges by calling it "active
participation." A pretty euphe-

Kernel
There is a weird power in a
spoken word . . . And a word carries far deals destruction through
time as the bullets go flying through
space.
JosepJi Conrad

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Many Sludenls Misunderstand Their
H

HAU'lIAY I.SLLY

students annally
pend upon lederal and state ta
emsummer
refunds from
ployment tax w itholdings to help
them over the second semester
financial hump. Widespread misunderstanding exists among most
students as to their tax liability.
David Brangaccio local Tax
Technician for the Internal
de-

Many

Hev-enu-

e

Service, says, "Studentsare

treated the same as any other
individual as far as tax law is
concerned. Only their parents
receive a special deduction."
However lie adds that a UK
student as well as any taxpayer
receives a $G00 personal exemption from taxes. In addition lie
qualifies for the minimum standard deduction of $300, or 10 percent if his income is greater than
cent if his income is greater than
$3,000. Thus no federal income

taxes are paid by workers earning less than $fK)0 a year.
Those with largcrincomcsc an
itemi.e in stead of tak inn the minimum standard deduction. Hut
few students have more than $300
in deductible items such as sales
tax, toll road taxes, depreciation
on equipment expenses, etc., to
justify itemized returns.
Graduate students find the
rules more complicated. Scholarships are tax exempt for undergraduates, but there is a three
year time limit on exemption

his total support. A student is
(Mined as one who is engaged
in
study at a recognized educational institution for
at least five months of the year.
Employed persons may deduc t
education as a business expense
if it involves maintaining or improving skills required by an
employer or trade regulation.
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Income Tax Law is

based on the Federal Ineome
Tax Law of VXi. The main difference is that Kentucky taxes no
income less than $1,100. The state

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think I'm shelling out three thousand bveks a year so you
can do a thesis on Henry Wallace, you've got another think coming!"

"If you

THE SATURDAY

EVENING

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UOI'PIX AUG UNI)

Ideal U.C. President

By ARTHUR HOPPE
The search for a new president for the University of California
appeared a mere formality today with the post almost certain to
go to Dr. Homer T. Pettibone.
While other distinguished Americans, such as J. Edgar Hoov er,
Gen. Curtis LeMay and Sen. James Eastland, hav e been mentioned,
Dr. Pettibone, except for one small handicap, is ideally suited for
the position.
Dr. Pettibone looks every
Tall,
inch a university president. His extensive wardrobe includes baggy
tweed jackets for strolls about the campus, conservative
suits for meetings of the Board of Regents, and friends say his
elegencc in dinner jackets will prove a tremendous asset at
banquets.
But it is his
program that has won him overwhelming support. "A great university," he says, "deserves an unbroken record of excellence. And our first requirements, to achieve
that record are a quarterback who can throw long and a heavier
defensive line."
But Dr. Pettibone feels strongly that a
university
life sliould also include academic pursuits. To this end, he has
building program primarily to
proposed a new
wall around each campus topped with
construct a
barbed wire, searchlights and guard towers.
"Order and discipline are essential to a quiet scholastic atmosphere," he says. "And I believe a
campus security
force, armed with cattle prods, wil