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Editor discusses the Little Kentucky
Derby: Page Four.

New judiciary section of the revised
constitution explored: Page Five.

Air Force ROTC
sors: Page Three.

New Spanish
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children: Page Eight.

Marines fight first major battle with
Vietcong: Page Two.

UKats rest
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Vol. LVI, No. 112

Students Await
Haggin Decision

University of Kentucky
APRIL

LEXINGTON, KY., THURSDAY,

22, 1965

Sigma Nu 's
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Eviction from the dormitory remains a concern of 20
Haggin
Hall residents today, as they await the decision of a second
Judiciary Board meeting.
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After a
Reports from the floor's occumeeting
Wednesday, the board was unpants indicate that there
able to reach a decision on the
been a few of the students
action to be taken against the involved in the continuous disstudents, according to a Haggin turbances and vandalism allegedHall resident.
ly occurring in the section.
Another meeting of the board
One of the students feels that
this morning will reportedly re- he and several others are being
sult in a final decision this afterunjustly singled out for persenoon or tonight.
cution. Referring to testimonies
Jack Hall, assistant dean of given before the Judiciary Board
men, was not available for com- Wednesday, he made the followment on either of the Judiciary ing statement:
Board meetings.
"Apparently some of the boys
are out to hang us in order to
Following Wednesday's meeting, students reported that Mr. save themselves."
Hall and members of the board
The same student complained
inspected the troubled section that it was impossible to contact
A on the first floor of Haggin either Vice President Johnson or
Hall.
Dean Harper (both are out of
At that time the residents were town.)
"We can't get in to see Prestold that possible eviction would
not take place until 24 hours ident Oswald," he continued,
after the board had reached a de- "so apparently we're at the mercy
cision, thus ending the original of Mr. Hall and the Judiciary
5 p.m. Thursday notice.
Board."

Eight Pages

The temporary suspension of

Sigma Nu house operations and

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As the deadline for filing in the Student Congress race neared
Tuesday, a third slate entered its candidacy to bring to six the
total number of candidates.
Mayne is a sophomore in the
Leroy Mayne and Ralph WesCollege of Engineering majoring
ley announced their candidacy on
an independent ticket. Both are in mechanical engineering. He is
from Ashland.
independents.
Emphasizing that they are
Wesley is a sophomore ecorunning as independents, the nomics major from Carlisle. He is
newcomers to the race suggested vice
depresident of the
two "inherent weaknesses" in bating team and is a varsity of
member
the present Congress: (1) Conthe honors program.
gress is improperly organized and
Mayne is a member of the
(2) it represents a minority faction
Young Democrats, Wesley is a
the Greeks.
Young Republican.
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Mayne, the candidate for presAll candidates will debate at
ident, said his ticket proposed a
reorganization of Congress into 8 p.m. tonight in the auditorium
three branches "much like the of the Dickey Education Building.
United States government."
In their last meeting of the year, IFC Tuesday night voted to
Wesley suggested that the juaccept the rush committee's 1965 rush schedule.
dicial board was probably the
Debate Planned
Only one amendment was have an hour in the morning "thorniest problem in student
made to the plan. Following with nothing to do.
government."
Tonight
Candidates for Student ConTheir
spring finals, a fraternity may
platform on
He suggested that a table be
pledge an upperclassman who set up outside the Coliseum the Independent Student's Ticket gress president and vice presihas made his grades up until manned by an IFC member. The proposed to eliminate the general dent will debate at 8 p.m. toAug. 29. The pledge, however, representative could answer the apathy of the students toward night in the auditorium of the
will not be recognized by the
Dickey Education Building.
questions of the freshman about their student government by givEach candidate will present a
University until bid night of next the fraternity system. Rush paming the independent element a
fall. Under this plan, a student phlets will also be issued
talk outlining his platby the "chance to control congress."
will not have to wait one semesTheir second point proposed form. Candidates will then acrepresentative.
ter to pledge another fraternity
the reorganization into three cept questions from the audience.
Bob Edwards, alumni relaif he decides to depledge before tions' chairman, announced that branches. The judicial board, unCandidates for president are
bid night, Sept. 19.
der their plan, would not "be Mike Jones, Winston Miller and
for a Greek Alumni Recogplans
IFC also voted to set up a nition Day had begun. As it now responsible to the offices of the Leroy Mayne. Candidates for
vice president are Carson Porter,
Dean of Men or the Dean of Womrush display during summer oristands, a banquet for the outJohn O'Brien and Ralph Wesley.
entation. Winston Miller, rush standing alumni from each Greek en but to the student
committee chairman, said that organization will be held on
during orientation the freshmen Nov. 20.

IFC Adopts Change
In Rushing System

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future reorganization of the
chapter on campus was announced officially Wednesday by
University vice president Robert
L. Johnson.
Plans concerning the immediate use of the year-olSigma Nu
chapter house were given by Mr.
Johnson today.
"The University will work
with the Sigma Nu housing corporation," Johnson said, "to sublet the house to another fraternity or any legitimate, interested
party."
Mr. Johnson stressed that the
action taken in suspending the
local chapter was not a University action.
"It was the idea of the national fraternity," he said, "to
revitalize
and reorganize the
fraternity without the burden of
house operations."
For these reasons the fraternity board of trustees and the
board of alumni receivers notified Johnson that the local chapter would be temporarily suspending house operations at the
end of this semester.
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be presented at the University's
18th annual Foreign Language

Conference Friday and Saturday.
The conference will open with
its first general session Friday
at 9 a.m. in the Guignol Theatre
where seven
talks on
modern foreign languages will be
presented.
After the general session a
symposium on the concepts of
"baroque" and "mannerism"
will be held in three sessions.
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Reports made at the second to play golf in Lexington, Mrs. accepted by industry, although
Could said, and an organization a number of Negroes lacing a
annual Human Relations Institute yesterday showed that over- of boys' baseball teams operating high school education cannot get
all progress, especially in the under a national charter does not the better jobs," he said.
fields of public accommodations permit Negro children to play.
"However, after one year of
vocational-schoo- l
and employment, had been made She advocates a local pubic actraining many
in implementing the Civil Rights commodations ordinance.
persons find better employment,"
Mack Morgan, Jr., executive Foster said. "The response to the
Act in Lexington.
U.S. Job Corps in this area is genCosponsored by the Lexington secretary of the United Communchapter of the National Confer- ity Fund, reported that of 27 inerally poor." He called for a more
ence of Christians and Jews and stitutions and agencies surveyed, vigorous recruiting of youths by
the Collegeof Education, the con- all operated under nondiscrimicommunity leaders.
ference took place on the UniThe superintendent of Lexingnatory policies except one, which
is attempting to solve legal matton schools, John Ridgway, deversity campus.
Mrs. Pauline Could, social ters involving integration.
scribed steps now being taken by
worker at the Public Health Serv"The situations of church the schools to integrate the eleice, said that while 46 public membership shows no significant mentary school zones and alloweating and amusement places change," he said, "and most of ing a freedom of choice at the
were reported integrated last year, the churches reported that all junior and senior high levels.
43 more were integrated this year, persons are welcome to worslup
Harold Fleming, executive dibut that no attempts are being rector of the Potomac Institute,
making a total of 89.
"Local hotels, motels and made to encourage Negroes to Washington, called for implemenmovies are integrated," she said, join."
tation for the Civil Rights Act.
R. J. Foster, a member of the This act becomes effective July
"although a talent show sponsored by one of the local park economic security div ision of the 19G5, and he feels that it must be
boards does not permit Negroes Commonwealth, reported an in- implemented at the local level,
to take part."
creasingly bright employment rather than waiting for the fedNegroes still are not permitted picture. "Many Negroes now are eral government to do it.

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-- THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, April 22, 1965

U.S. Marines Fight First

naumm

Long Clash With Vietcong

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but that flares were dropped and
U.S. Air Force and Marine
SAIGON, South Vietnam-- U.
strafing went ahead.
jets flew 43 sorties against VietS. Marines fought their first exVietnamese spokesmen said cong installations and guerrillas
tended clash with the Vietcong Communist forces in North Vietin South Vietnam. In An Xuycn
Province, 19 B37 jet bomber sortoday as American planes bomb- nam have halted daytime moveed and strafed Communist targets ments. The officials said the cities resulted in a claim of 53 Vietin both North and South Vietnam. vilian population has been forcong structures destroyed.
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On the ground, the Marine papatrol bidden to grind rice during the
During an
into a valley, outside the Da day to avoid making noises that trol from Da Nang exchanged
machinegun fire and hurled greNang airbase, the Marines tan- could be confused with approachnades across a rice field.
twice with the Communist ing aircraft.
gled
guerrillas. One American was
wounded slightly, and two others
collapsed with heat prostration.
The operation included the
first helicopter assault landing
of U.S. Marines in South Viet.
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nam.
Three squadrons of Vietnamese
The Associated Press
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propeller-driveBOSTON Negotiations have broken down in attempts to arrange
the largest Vietnamese air unit talks between Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. and the school committee
flown so far attacked a base in as
the city prepares for a civil rights march of an anticipated 25,000
North Vietnam and reported they
persons
destroyed it.
An end to slum
and Friday and the Boston Common
The target was identified as a racial imbalance inhousing are rally, which civil rights leaders
schools
base near the My Due bridge, 30 the
expect will attract about 50,000
goals of the march.
miles north of the 17th Parallel:
Dr. King arrives today and will persons.
The bridge itself had been at- be
greeted at the State House by
tacked and destroyed in earlier Gov.
John A. Volpe, who has
raids.
promised to take action in the
One of the Vietnamese planes racial imbalance issue if the
was downed but was believed school committee does not.
NOW! At 7:20 & 9:30
lost as the result of bad weather
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rather than enemy fire, a Vietarations for the massive parade.
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ington and a member of Sigma
Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Nancy Loughridgc, senior edSusan rillans, junior history
ucation major from Lexington
and a member of Alpha Delta Pi major from Louisville and a member of Chi Omega sorority, to
sorority, to Kenneth Crccn, junior Gene Krutzlcr,
junior commerce
journalism major from Russell-vill- e
from Easton, Penn., and a
and a member of Alpha Tan major
member of Sigma Nu fraternity.
Omega fraternity.
Mary Rachford, freshman
Mary Jo Stratton, junior elemajor from Bellevue and a
mentary education major from member of
Kappa Alpha Theta
Paducah and a member of Alpha
sorority, to David Price, sophoDelta Pi sorority, to Clyde Richmore
science major from
ardson, senior prelaw major from Dark political a member of Pi
Hills and
Frankfort and a member of SigKappa Alpha fraternity.
ma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Sarah Prather, sophomore lanAnne Allen, sophomore physguage major from New Castle and
ical education major from Dallas, a member of
Gamma Phi Beta
Texas, and a member of Kappa
sorority, to Thomas Haydon, a
Alpha Theta, to John Ringo, sophsenior electrical engineering maomore journalism major from Lex- jor from Lexington and a member of Triangle fraternity.
Gee Gee Wick, sophomore
English major from Millville, N.
J., and a member of Kappa Alpha
Theta sorority, to Frank Brock-ard- t,
Seven women students have from junior engineering major
Wheeling, W. Va., and a
been elected as 290th Air Force member of
Sigma Chi fraternity.
ROTC sponsors.
Lois Williams, sophomore
home economics major at MidNew sponsors are Patricia
North Miami Beach, Fla.; way Jr. College from Hazard, to
Betsy Ha'rdy, Lexington; Mickey John Faulkner, senior civil engiLevy, Lexington; Suzanne Prich-ar- neering major from Barbourville
Corpus Cristi, Texas; Ann and a member of Triangle fraternity.
Ryder Randolph, Princeton; SherBeth Howard, freshman edu- ry Smith , Lexington; and Suzanne
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Patsy Mathcny, freshman
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Sutherland, sophomore premed
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Clcnda Clark, from Barbourville, to Don Bcddow, junior
chemical engineering major from
Barbourville and a member of
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Nancy Cooper, junior psychology major from Arlington, Va.,
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recreation major, vice president;
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progress made by the Little Kentucky Derby steering committee
whose efforts come to fruition this
weekend.
America's
Greatest College
Weekend this year will feature a
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trio of local
bands,
in concert. (Actually, they are calling it a "dance" this time like,
America's Greatest College Jam
rock-and-ro-

Waltz has been scrapped. This year
it's the Queen's Jerk.
The tricycle and bicycle races
the annual regression rites remain
unchanged. Pi Kappa Alpha will
seek to remain the undisputed
champion among
(We suggest that a fruitful addition to the weekend would be
drag racing. This would
go over big with the fraternities.)
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For those not interested in
is
bands, another group
scheduled to perform Saturday on
Stoll Field-Cha- rlie
and the Christian Gentlemen.
They will probably repeat a
favorite of theirs "Fumble" and
such crowd-pleaseas "Bow Your
Necks" and "Hurt Some People."
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In the great tradition of Peter,
Paul, and Mary, Nancy Wilson and
The Four Preps, LKD this year
offers Patty and the Emblems, Roy
Wilson and the Vibrators, and the
Five Dutones.
Oh, yes, dress is informal.
The "dance" will be held in the
Student Center Ballroom where
Lester Lanin played for the Centennial Grand Ball.
usual, a bevy of campus
beauties will compete to reign as
queen of America's Greatest Sock
Hop. Rumor has it that the Queen's
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An old

stand-b- y

"Exodus"

is no

longer on the program.
once said, "A University is a place. . .it is a spirit."
As someone else said, "The
challenge is bridging the gap between the University's first and
second centuries."
As someone

Students Are Heard
"Students Protest" has been a
frequent headline this year as University students learn that the man
in Maxwell Place is heeding their
cries.

Thus far this year students have
protested registration, food service,
calendar changes, housing conversion, and most recently, the situation in Vietnam (the only proposal on which President Oswald
took no action).
Dr. Oswald has thrown open
his office doors to students bringpetiing complaints and yard-lon- g
and the visits have brought
tions,
results. Dr. Oswald has appointed
study groups, student committees,
and even a vice president for dealing with special student problems.
Also, Dr. Oswald has maintained regular student conferences,
during which students may pre
sent, less formally, their protests
and questions.
Student protests to Dr. Oswald
have resulted in the following
changes:
1. Registration and fee payment
were separated, easing the long
lines which piled up at the beginning of every semester.
2. Registration will be handled
largely by computers next fall, following a recommendation made by
the student committee appointed
by the president.
3. Changes have been initiated
in the food service to allow students
to eat in either of two campus cafeterias interchangably. Second servings on some items are now permitted. Dress requirements for the
cafeterias have been modified.

Administrators and faculty
were aware of student
petitions and polls concerning academic calendar preference before
approving the calendar for the next
two years. The approved calendar
was in line with student desire
4.

members

expressed.

The vacating date for the
Cooperstown units, converted from
married to single student housing,
was extended from May 31 to July
15 at the request of residents.
Dr. Oswald established the position of vice president for student
affairs to coordinate student activities throughout campus. Robert
L. Johnson, who was appointed to
the position, now attends student
conferences, speeches, meetings,
banquets, open houses, and picnics,
mingling with students and serving as a liaison between the students and the administration.
We believe that the success of
some initial student-inspire- d
pleas
for reform has aroused students to
take more active interest in the
affairs of the total university. Dr.
Oswald generally accepts each new
petition with the words, "I accept
this petition in the constructive
spirit in which it was presented,"
and students are beginning to realize he means it.
5.

Dr. Oswald has taken definite
steps to guard against the impersonality of a "multiversity." He
has attempted to make students
a vital part of the growing complex by involvingthem in the changing structure of UK.

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The South' Outstanding College Daily
University of Kentucky

THURSDAY, APRIL 22,

1894

William Chant,

David Hawpe, Executive Editor

1965

Editor-in-Chi-

Sid Webb, Managing Editor

Linda Mills, Newt Editor
Walteh Chant, Associate News Editor
Henhy Rosenthal, Sports Editor
Cay Cish, Women t Page Editor
C. Scott Nunley, Aft Editor
Dutiie Runsdohf, Feature Editor

The Vote And The Constitution
The voting rights bill now before
Congress has come under heavy attack from its opponents on constitutional grounds.
Many of these criticisms seem
to reflect the tacit assumption long
held by most white Southerners
that the Fifteenth Amendment is
an inferior section of the Constitution that can safely be ignored.
Ratified in 1870, it was expressly
intended to protect the Negro's
right to vote in the South. For
eighty years, from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957,
the amendment was indeed ignored.
But now, for the fourth time in
eight years, Congress is working on
legislation that would implement
it.
In this bill, as in the three previous acts, Congress is, in effect,
making a finding of fact that substantial discrimination does exist
against Negroes attempting to vote
in certain Southern states. As Professor Paul A. Freund of the Harvard Law School has observed,
"Where - a pattern of discrimination is found, Congress may act
under the Fifteenth Amendment,
which draws no distinction between state and Federal elections."
It is therefore beside the point
to argue that the bill conflicts
with the constitutional guarantee to
the states in Article I, to the effect that they have the right to
establish their own voting standards. But, as far as Negroes are
concerned, the Fifteenth Amendment was clearly intended to qualify that exclusive jurisdiction. This
was precisely its purpose and its
meaning.
Nor is it persuasive to aniue
that the bill is in itself constitutionally forbidden as ex post facto
legislation, because it makes the
voter-turnoon a specific past
date November 1964 the basis for
Federal intervention. The people
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of the states affected by the bill
knew perfectly well that they were
violating the Fifteenth Amendment
last November as they have been
violating it for decades. It is staining an argument beyond reason
to find an unconstitutional retroactive provision here.
It has also been argued that it
is "immoral" to permit states such
as New York and California to retain a literacy test for voting while
preventing Alabama and Mississippi from applying such a test.
Where is the double standard, when
the decisive point is not the existence of a literacy test but the fairness of its application?
A literacy test would only become an issue if the dire prophecies of opponents of civil rights
and or the voting bill were fulfilled and the Attorney General were
to use his discretionary powers to
permit illiterates to register. There
is no reason to suppose that the
Attorney General would construe
his authority in such an unwise
manner. But, as we have stated
previously, it would be a sensible
precaution to spell out in the bill
a provision requiring literacy and
establishing a sixth grade education
as de facto proof of literacy. This
would improve a bill that is undoubtedly constitutional and is a
measure to translate the Fifteenth Amendment into
reality.
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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, April 22, l5--

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NEW JUDICIAL STRUCTURE OUTLINED
Four-LevDy STEVE ROCCO
Kernel Staff Writer
The proposal by two committees of the Constitution Revision
Assembly to change Kentucky's
three level judicial system to four
levels was explained today by
Jack E. Reeves, associate professor of political science at the
University.
Mr. Reeves has been working
for 20 years with various committees that have attempted to update Kentucky's 1891 Constitution.
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A system of circuit courts
similar to what now exists.
A system of district courts
at the bottom, with jurisdiction
over petty litigation now before
county courts, quarterly courts,
police courts and magistrate
courts.
Terms of judges in the top
three levels would be eight years,
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Present levels of justice in
Kentucky are the Court of Appeals, circuit courts, and the inferior courts proposed to be consolidated into the new District
Court.
"At present," said Mr. Reeves,
"the Court of Last Resort, called
the Court of Appeals, is the highest court in Kentucky. The
Supreme Court would be a
court whose function would largely be confined to making interpretation of statutes or the Constitution, whereas the proposed
intermediate Court of Appeals
would have the final say on cases
in which there was error in the
lower court, except in cases of
primary importance, such as capital offenses.
"Primarily, the high court (Supreme Court) would take interpretative cases and cases of tremendous importance, such as
those involving large sums of
money or a possible violation of
the Constitutional rights. This
court would set the precedents."
The Court of Appeals, as it
now stands, has seven judges
and four commissioners. The latter sit in on discussions and write
the opinions of the judges.
These commissioners do not
have the power to rule on a case.
"Let's take the hypothetical case
where four judges rule one way
and three judges rule the other,"
said Mr. Reeves. "Even if the four
commissioners were to throw
their support behind the three
judges, they could not overrule
the four judges."
If the nine judge intermediate
Court of Appeals that is proposed
is adopted, Mr. Reeves said "Presumably, there would be no need
for commissioners at the present
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under this proposal would be
joined into a system of district
courts, Mr. Reeves said Jurisdiction would be "decided by law.
Their powers presumably would
be the same as the lower courts
now.

"Some of the things the county
judge does as a judge would remain the same. Other functions,
purely judicial, such as Probate
Court, Juvenile Court and Quarterly Court would be transferred
to the new District Court," said

of the count) if it wanted to do
so," said Mr. Reeves.
One of the proposals to the
assembly is that in districts of
more than 50,000 population, judges would be selected by a process
in which a screening committee
would recommend appointees to
the appointing power.
Thereafter, at stated interv als,
these judges would be required
to run for reelection, not against
an opponent but on the question:

Mr. Reeves.
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matters, such

as issuing licenses or granting

franchises might be transferred or
left in the jurisdiction of the
county judge," Mr. Reeves added. "This would be