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Kmtocky Kernel
The South' s Outstanding College Daily

Wednesday Evening, May

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

1, 1968

Vol. LIX, No.

148

Police Storm
Columbia U

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From Combined Dispatches
York City police stormed five Columbia
NEW YORK-N- ew
University buildings in the dead of night Tuesday and broke up
I
a week-lon- g
student sit-i- n at the Ivy League campus.
Alxmt 1,000 faculty members
and students joined immediately
events, we believe we are fully
in a general strike to close classwithin our professional resjxm-sibilit- y
rooms. The number arrested when
in urging our colleagues
to respect the strike.''
police swept students from their sit-i- n strong"We anticipate a full schedholds in five buildings before ule of classes Wednesday,'
a
dawn rose to 720.
university spokesman announced.
Many students wore bloody
Groups roamed the Manhatclothing or bandages when they tan campus, shouting, "Kirk
nlust go! Kirk must go!"
appeared it) court.
,
.
Alxmt 250 faculty members
Dr. Kirk said he had no insaid in a resolution Tuesday night tention of resigning.
most of the faculty would support
In theclub swinging, fist fightrebel students in staying away ing, pushing and kneeing that
from classes when President
marked the violent subjugation
Grayson Kirk again opens them. of the Columbia demonstrators,
"Normally we would regard 100 youths and 15 policemen were
the use of a strike by students reported injured, none seriously.
A sparse crowd of students, black and while,
asking "just what each of as can contribute"
as academically unwise, and by
Support for the students came
participated Tuesday night in the Black Student to the racial situation in this country. Some professors, professionally dubifrom legislators, union leaders,
Union sponsored Phone-I- n
entitled "But What
responded signing cards for the BSU to offer
ous," the faculty petition said. clergymen, physicians and alumCan I Do? Or more precisely, the BSU was
their services in BSU programs next fall.
"(But) in response to last night's ni.
Rep. William Fitts Ryan
whose district includes the
n
Columbia campus, sent a telegram to Mayor John Lindsay
calling for a "full investigation"
son of the Southern Christian their services in several programs
By LIZ WARD
In closing, he said he hoped
Hut what can I do?
and the the BSU has slated for next fall college students now would not of the "excessive force" used by
Leadership Conference,
A program title which seemed
police.
Rev. A.D. Williams King, brother including the tutorial program make the mistake in
getting their
Mr. Ryan also criticized the
best to define the feelings of a of the Rev. Martin Luther King. in the black community.
education that his contemporpolice action for "increasing tenOthers indicated they would aries had made.
The points made by each of
large group of black and white
students who gathered to hear these speakers stayed primarily
participate in one way or another
"We were so busy learning sion and creating distnist"
among residents in the adjacent
in the Poor People's March On how to make a living, we for-leaders of the civil rights and within the areas of need for edblack jxjwer movements tell ucation and understanding beWashington.
to learn how to Jive," he Morningside Heights and Harlem
got
communities.
n
Mr. Cregory, noted comedian
said
them, via telephone and tape tween the races on a
Democratic City Councilman
basis and emphasis on and civil rights worker, comrecording, just what each of us
The Rev King emphasized
Theodore Weiss charged police
can contribute to the racial and the fact that what each person mented that the younger generthe importance of economic
tactics were "more reminiscent of
economic ills facing our country, with an interest in thse problems ation is to be complimented be- - power not just for blacks, but
storm troopers than of New York's
had its point well illustrated in can do is of great importance.
cause "you are aware, and are' for poor whites as well.
finest."
discussion of
And alter the crowd had heard making us older people aware,
an
"Economics is the thing
Leon Davis, president of Local
what these leaders had to say. what was said, it became readily of what's happening "
now," he said. "Once we have 1199 of the Dnig and Hospital
apparent that most of the people
Cracking a joke about the that problem solved, the rest will Workers Union, urged Mr. LindSponsored jointly by the Black there were
willing to give their impossibility of going into a burn- be easy."
the
Student Union,
say and Dr. Kirk to drop charges
solutime to assist in bringing
The Rev. King spoke from against student demonstrators.
and Student Government, the tions to race
ing liotel with intentions of sleepproblems within
ing, Gregory said, "you young Washington where he and a group
The Rev. Kenneth Claus of
program included talks with Sam- their own communities.
people know the hotel's on fire of civil rights leaders are meetUnion Theological
my Davis Jr., Dick Cregory.Rep.
Seminary,
Many signed cards for tlie and you ain't about to go to ing with various governmental
Julian Bond of Ceorgia, Dr. John
said he would lodge an official
Black Student Union to offer sleep "
W. Oswald, the Rev Jesse Jack
Confined on Pfe II, CoL 1
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The 'Illusion' Is Not The Real Thing

Test Student Press Freedom, KIPA Advises

Kentucky Collegiate Press Service
The chief cause of weak, timid and irresponsible
student newspapers is lack of freedom. A controlled
press cannot lx; a responsible press.
Those few consistently active, independent and
college papers are consistently active, independent and resjxmsible because of legal autonomy
This is the second of two articles on the state of
the student press in Kentucky written by the president of the Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association
in conjunction with statewide Scholastic Publications
Week. Pari one appeared last Friday.

or a commitment by their schx)ls to editorial freedom.
They are few in number because too many administrators do not recognize the necessity of a free campus
press, or are afraid to unleash this potentially xwerful
force.
Several times each y ear student etlitors are suspended
or fired and papers are confiscated for articles attacked
as"irresix)nsible," violations of"g(xKl taste," or "abuses
of freedom." On many campuses where such overt
incidents do not occur, student papers suffer from intimidation. On still other campuses, suppression is so
subtle it is not recognized.
No matter what form suppression takes, what results
is lack of resixmsibility. Truth, the ultimate journalistic
aim, cannot coexist with censorship.
On campuses wheie the student press operates free
of administrative restraint, the news is presented as
completely and accurately as pxmible in what are tnte
educational experiences and open fonuns where staffers

and readers may challenge, comment upon and criticize
the academic environment.
"There is no fear at UK of questioning the status
quo or comparing the president's promises with his
performance," Richard G. Wilson, former Kernel adviser
now with The
has observed.
"Once the administra
tion makes it its business
to remove the fetters from
the campus press and to
give financial and professional assistance," writes
Prof. Melvin Mencher of
Courier-Journa-

l,

Columbia University, "the
newspaper will be on the
a tradition of
way to
journalistic excellence."
Kentucky Not Immune
Kentucky student newspapers are not immune from
the oppression the college press suffers nationwide. A
free press at most schools in the state is still "a joke,"
UK's Walter Grant commented when he was Kernel
editor in 19Ti6. This is still on the whole true, but
commitment to campus press freedom appears to !e
increasing.
The Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association (KIPA)
this year began investigating incidents of suppression
for a report to a national commission. The Iouisville
chapter of Sigma Delta Chi Professional Journalistic-Societalso serv e as watc hdogs
and The Courier-Journa- l
of student press freedom.
While there have been no recent headline-grabbin- g
firings or expulsions in Kentucky, suppression cleaily

...

exists. One example is the censorship of the Asbury
Collegian editorial decrying academic mediocrity.
Georgetown College has limited distribution of the
Ceorgctonian when something the public relations department considers objectionable is printed.
Eastern Kentucky University officials embargoed
copies of the Progress for publication of a letter critical
of the wife of Morehead State University's president.
Unpleasant "confrontations" with theadministration
has stifled the Morehead Trail Blazer's editorializing on
controversial issues.
A Bellarmine College literary magazine was temxrar-il- y
banned because of a cover photo deemed unacceptable. At several scliools, faculty advisers must approve
all copy, ostensibly to protect against libel and to improve

quality.
There are a few
aspects of student
freedom that deserve mention.
press
First is the fact that for sometime Kentucky student
editors have evaded the issues of suppression, blindly
insisting they enjoyed unlimited freedom. The fact is,
these editors had neither tasted nor tested freekm
because there had been no occasion to use or abuse it.
Put simply, they never tried to tread on toes if an
loosely-connecte-

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ouch might be heard, or never stepped on any toes
worth stepping on.
Independence Encouraged
Secondly, campus papers are being encouraged by the
U.S. Student Press Association (USSPA) to free themselves financially and editorially from their schools.
Kentucky papers who find control unbearable have
been advised to go underground. It's no coincidence
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Poitier Takes Trip With Plato

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word of each song. If you area were hardly written yesterday.
fan of folk or just want a mellow
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270 Extra Beds By '72

Medical Center Comes Of Age Under Oswald
In

By DANA EWELL

the 39 acres of land along Rose Street
across from the once Center and Town House
motels grew little more than grass.

In 1968 these same 39 acres show a growth
of 878,416 square feet of building including three
and one half miles of corridors the Allert B.
Chandler Medical Center.
The Medical Center Hospital, which takes
up only half of this square fx)tage, has 1900
rooms, 125 corridors and 377 beds In its six
years of operation the hospital has served more

than

6

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tfie scojx? of

1956

95,000

patients.

The other half of the Medical Center, the
Medical Science Building, houses, offices and
laboratories for four colleges Medicine, Dentistry,
Pharmacy and Nursing and one school Allied
Health.
It was under Dr. John W Oswald's administration at UK that the College of Pharmacy
was placed under the auspices of the vice oresi-deof the Medical Center and that the School
of Allied Health was created.
Dr. William H. Williard, Medical Center vice
president, explained that the last five years with
Dr. Oswald have been mostly a period of consolidation and planning.
Plans for the next lew years include the Med
Center's involvement in a 270-be-d
Veterans Administration Hospital to be attached to the rear
of the Medical Center by 1972 and a Bluegrass
School for Retarded Children to be oierated in
cooperation with the Fayette Gninty Board of

Education.

But some of the plans have already been put
into action the School of Allied Health was
established in 1966 and already oilers two master's
degree programs, three baccalaureate programs
and nine associate degree curricula.
The school's
work is in clinical
nutrition and public health and the baccalaureate
program includes dental hygiene, medical technology and physical therapy.
Four of the associate degree programs are offered here at the Med Center radiologic technology, respiratory therapy, dental lab technology
and electroencephalographic technology.
The other five associate degrees are given
by Somerset Community College and include
training as administrative, clinical and community
medical assistants as well as laboratory and
mental health assistants.
Several other services have been added to
post-gradua- te

the Medical Center

years.

in the past few

Of of these is the Clinical Research Center,
d
a
unit activated in 1965 This unit, which
is financed by the U.S. Public Health Service,
is reserved for special controlled clinical research
not conducted elsewhere in the Med Center.
10-be-

occupies another wing of the
hospital. Oix.ned in 10(36. this section provides
training for parents of hospitalized
Care-By-Pare-

children.
In order to eliminate the normal hospital
atmosphere, this section includes 14 motel-typ- e
rooms in which, for example, mothers spend several days learning how to care for their premature babies.
The unit-dos- e
system of distributing medications used at the Medical Center Hospital is the
only one of its kind in the United States, according to William M. Samuels, State and Local
Services in the Med Center.
This method of
all medications
in one central supply area has been tried in
several other hospitals, but this is the first time
the system has been successfully integrated into
hospital functions.
Actual physical expansion within the last five
years has leen confined to acquisition of the
Town House and Center motels. These are being
converted into office space for Medical Center
staff.
Changes are continually taking place in curricula and administrative organization, Vice President Williard explained, with growing emphasis
on closed circuit and statewide educational television.
Dr. Harris Isbell, acting chairman of the Department of Medicine, said the amount of class
time spent in internal medicine has been cut
to give the student more time for electives in a
w ide variety of research.
Fourth-yea- r
medical students do clinical research through their Community Medicine clerkship. As clerks, the med students go out into
communities for a
period to survey epid
about
demiological problems and learn
community health services.
As to the effect President Oswald's resignation may have on the progress being made at the
Medical Center, Dr. Williard said, "We share
whatever may be the fortunes or misfortunes of
the University as a whole.
"I do not foresee any major problems, although there is bound to be an unsettled period"

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Colleagues: He Brought Recognition To UK

By MARTIN E. WEBB
He was a taskmaster, but
they were a team and they worked
together closely.
This might best describe the
professional working relationship
which has existed for five years
between Dr. John W. Oswald
and his administration.
Dr. Oswald's resignation
April 2 shocked some administrators while others "weren't surprised at all."
Speaking in a pervmal capacity. University Vice President
lor Student Affairs Robert L.
Johnson expressed "a deep personal loss, in terms of our personal friendship over the past
three years."
"I think UK has had a major
loss by any estimate.
"Under his administration UK
has experienced a growth in academic stature and potential
in the past.
"I think for the first time
people across the country are
beginning to look at UK," Mr.
Johnson aid, alter acknowledging the "great debt" that students now and in the future
will owe Dr. Oswald.
Since Dr. Oswald's arrival,
the University has experienced
sharp growing pains under the
controversial Oswald three-par-t
plan and his inauguration of the
community college system. Will
this change?
Mr. Johnson thinks not, and
adds that lioth the faculty and
Board of Trustees are pleased
witli the course Dr. Oswald has
chaited so far "So much has
started," he said.
"The thrust that Dr. Oswald
has given this University is the
mainimportant tiling to be
tained," he said.
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Few will

question

Dr.

wald's commitment to the

OsUni-

versity. Some have tagged him
a hard, blunt administrator who
encourages ability and rewards
competence.
Robert Kerley, University vice
president for financial affairs,
w ho has known Dr. Oswald since
both were on Clark Kerr's staff
at the University of California,
feels that what most people don't
know about Dr. Oswald is the
close woiking relationship he has
with his colleagues.
"Many people think he's a
pretty autonomous guy, making
his decisions without listening
to others. This just isn't true,"
Mr. Kerley said.
"When he asks you a question, he wants your view. If he
thinks it's a better view than
his, he won't hesitate to adopt
your idea."

Some, however, contend that
Dr. Oswald's plans for UK's future have nibbed many faculty
and staff the wrong way.
One faculty member said she
didn't think his departure would
hinder UK's future.
"I think it's time things
slowed down a bit here. It's
really been (mite chaotic since
he came here from Berkeley,"
she said.
From a composite
view'ix)int. Dr. Paul
Nagel, dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, had a "twofold reaction" to Dr. Oswald s
resignation.
"One, as a member of the
academic community, I was deeply saddened at seeing him depart.
On the other hand, he was here
longer than most. He did stay
long enough to complete the major tasks that were necessary."
faculty-administrati-

As

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assistant to the

president for faculty affairs, Dr.
Nagel said "I will miss him very
much personally."
Dr. Nagel pointed out that
"the new president will find a
well founded mature academic
philosophy and program worth)'
of a growing university." He expressed confidence that very little
of this will change with a new
president.
"The University has experienced an astonishing progression
into a broadened involvement
in higher education due to the
efforts of Dr. Oswald," he said.
he
When asked whether
thought the community college
system would be affected in any
way, Dr. Nagel responded that
the community college system
has become too integral a part
of the system to be discontinued
or altered.

Dr. Arnold DeWald Albright,
executive vice president, also expressed regret at Dr. Oswald's
resignation because "the University is certainly losing a capable
and well known educator. We
can credit to Dr. Oswald the
attention the University has gotten in the last five years."
Dr. Albright felt much the
same as Vice President Johnson
w hen he said
"everyone will make
every effort to maintain this recognition and at the same time
consolidate the gains that have
been made here at UK."
Asked whether Dr. Oswald's
resignation came as a surprise to
him. Dr. Albright said "it did
not surprise me too greatly. I
can realize the opportunities he
has waiting for him in Califor-

nia."

"In thee times a very capable man has opportunities to
move. The new college presidents
of today, as a nile, are not long
lived."

"I believe the national average for the length of time presidents stay on at u college today
is somewhere around 5.6 years."
But will the future UK administration continue along the
same guidelines set by Dr. Oswald?

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and !oard and current people in
the administration will have this
in mind; to move the University
along the best possible way."
Not only did Dr. Oswald woik
closely with his administration
but. says Dr. Albright, he woiked
with "the deans and student
groups, and had close woiking
relationships and frequent discussion with them. "

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UK's Sixth President: 'Man Of Vision
By LYNN CARLOUCH
President John V. Oswald created a mood of excitement in his
four years at the University which
won for VK recognition as a
national University with a. national family and national repu-

tation.

His four years have operated
in chain reaction fashion. Regenerated academic enthusiasm
attracted better professors. Better professors attracted top grad-

uate students.

More than a few have said
he was a man of vision.
Dr. Stuart Forth, director of
libraries, noted that the "most'
gratifying thing aliout Dr. Oswald's time here is the quality
of excitement he generated he
knew how important library resources and services were to the
University and the state, and he
infected the librarians with his

vision."
Dr. Michael Adelstein, associate professor of English and director of freshman English, said

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that Dr. Oswald saw' what the
University would need 10 years
from now, and always planned
for tomorrow.

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"The library book budget has
grown 51 percent from $419,015
in 1965 to $632,000 in 1968, w hile
the library staff budget has increased 40 percent during the
same period," said Dr. Forth.
According to Dr. Forth the.
following improvements in library facilities have .come about
during President Oswald's ad-

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An 11 percent increase in
staff to serve students and faculty.
New reading rooms have
been opened and more .study
carrels have been placed in the
Faculty Poll
King Library.
GUY MENDES
By
Hours of all the branch liForty-si- x
percent of respondents to a Kernel faculty-staf- f
poll braries have been extended.
said they thought political pressures played a major part in Dr.
The architecture library', the
John W. Oswald's decision to resign as president of the University.
engineering library, and the new
The random sample poll, con
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ducted two weeks after Dr. Os- level of the University and 33 law library were developed.
New lxoks arereceivedAVith-i- n
wald resigned to take a post as percent said the level would conthree weeks alter publication
the vice president of the entire tinue to rise after he leaves.
rather than four to six months
University of California system, Fifty-si- x
percent had no opinion
found 37.9 percent of those re- on that question. One said, "It after publication as in the past.
Plans have begun on a new
sponding to be lieve that political depends on who the next preslife sciences library' to contain
ident is."
were not a major inpressures
fluence on Dr. Oswald's decis"One man doesn't make or the present medical library, agriion. Sixteen percent had no opin- break
the University," said culture, pharmacy and biological
sciences library.
'
another.
ion.
When asked who will be UK's English Staff Also Has Increased
Seventy-si-x
percent said polit"Our staff has inc reased from
ical influences should be kept next president, most had no opin88 in 1964 to 118 at present,"
ion. Several people mentioned
out of a state university.
said Dr. Jacob Adler. chairman
of Alabama president
Over 65 percent thought Dr. University
ofthe English Department.
Frank Hose, three resjx)ndents
Oswald to be correct in his stand said Dr. A. D.
"Dr. Oswald has been able
Albright and one
for freedom of speech at UK,
person said Lyman Ginger former to attract professors from all over
and 62.9 percent thought him dean of
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the UK school of Edu- the country' from top schools,"
to be correct in allowing Herhe said.
cation.
n
Amerbert Aptheker,
Dr. Adler stated that Dr. Os"It will be someone from
ican Communist, to speak on
have given this decision deep considerawald's encouragement of research
said one person.
campus.
be a Kentuckian," said and graduate work has not only
"It'll
tion. For many reasons I believe the posiIn early February, Dr. Os- another.
attracted better staff, but more
wald fought a speaker ban bill
staff, which in turn has reduced
tion to which I now go provides the broadThree percent said they planthat was to have been proposed ned to leave UK because of Dr.
teaching loads.
est opportunity
by the state legislature and he Oswald's
service to higher edu"At least 25 books have been
resignation while 81.7'
then allowed a statewide antisaid they planned to stay. published in the English Departcation at this point in time. I look forward
war conference, a national coun- percent
Several respondents said they ment since 1963," said Dr. Adler.
for
cil meeting of the Students
with enthusiasm to my new assignment as
"President Oswald has prowould have to see who the next
a Democratic Society (SDS) and
will be before they make vided summer faculty research
the
two man in the tuition's largan appearance by Aptheker on president on the matter.
a decision
fellowships of $1,200," he. said.
the campus.
Over 150 faculty and staff Eleven faculty members in our
est university with a
enrollment of
"This is the only way difmembers from the main campus department have obtained them
ferent people can learn to unstudents.9
and the community colleges were and this has helped us very
derstand each other," said one
much."
polled.
W. Oswald
respondent favoring Aptheker' s
freedom of
"It's
appearance.
speech, if we don't hear other
sources how can we decide what
we want?" said another. A third
said, "The purpose of a univerBy DARRELL RICE
determines the existence of a multiversity. "The term refers to the
"1 don't think that UK's having community colleges attached complexity of a
sity is to stimulate thought and
university rather than to its structure," he says.
inquiry and I can think of no makes it a multiversity, but other features, such as the medical
The concept of community colleges was first authorized herebetter way to do this than to center, agricultural research and so forth, do make it a multi- in 1962, with the Board of Tiustees
taking charge of the program.
present points of view that dif- versity," says Dean ofthe Community College system Ellis HartDr. Oswald came to UK as president in September, 1963, and
fer from the norm."
ford.
was ready with a policy on community college system to submit
Of