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By MIKE WINES
Assistant Managing Editor
The University Senate broke
open a routine first meeting yesterday afternoon with a liost of
unexpected and sometimes hastily worded motions all directed
at bringing President Otis A.
Singletary in closer contact with
the faculty.
The onslaught began near the
end of the session, when director
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Ockerman (left) about "X" listings In the grading end of the session that the senate "extend a very
system, while William Plucknett looks on. The gracious, cordial, and friendly invitation to speak
senate moved to eliminate "X" grades from grade to the faculty senate" to Dr. Singletary. Several
listings. The "X" listing, which meant that a other proposals concerning the president followed,
student was officially enrolled in a class but never but the meeting was adjourned before the senate
showed up, was never sanctioned by the Univer Could act On the motions. Kernel Photo by Dave Herman

A faculty senate member questions Dean Elbert W.

In 1980's
By MARY JANE BUSROE

"the greatest achievement of
Kernel Staff Writer
man." White, a native of KenSmoking his cigar its odor tucky, described the program its
filling the room Kenneth C. people and objectives, making
White, project engineer for the use of slides and anecdotes.
Apollo program, spoke here MonThe meeting was held in the
day at the first general meeting Engineering Building.
of the American Institute of AeroDiscrediting any comparison
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nautics and Astronautics
of the Apollo 14 flight with the
journey of Christopher ColumDescribing the moon land- bus, White said that "Columing, the UK graduate called it bus didn't know where he was
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UK Prof Presumably Held

As Hostage by Guerrillas
By JEAN RENAKER

Managing Editor
electrical engineering professor is presumed to be one of
an estimated 55 persons being held as hostages by Palestinian
guerillas in Jordan.
Dr. P. K. Kadaba was aboard the Trans World Airlines Boeing
707 hijacked last week. Approximately 250 persons aboard the hijacked planes left Jordan Sunday for their various nations.
Dr. Robert Cosgriff, chairman of the Electrical Engineering
Department, said Monday that the State Department in Washington will contact the department if any new information about
Dr. Kadaba is obtained.
In the meantime, one instructor in the Electrical Engineering
Department has taken over a course taught by Dr. Kadaba, wliile
another course has been changed to allow students to work on
individual projects under the supervision of a staff member. Dr.
Cosgriff stated that the decision to have students work on individual projects is "irreversible."
Returning Separately
Dr. Kadaba, a native Indian, was returning from Bombay, where
he and his wife had been visiting with family and friends since
early August. His wife, also a native Indian, was returning home
on a separate plane.
Mrs. Kadaba and her
daughter are now staying
with friends in Atlanta.
Carroll D. Woods, the captain of the hijacked 707 that Dr.
Kadaba was aboard, is also presumed to be a hostage. Woods
is a native of Harrodsburg.
Palestinian guerillas in Jordan Monday put American hostages
in the same category as Israelis and said all would be held until
Israel agrees to a prisoner exchange.
In Washington, White House press secretary Ronald L. Zieg-le- r
said "we deplore and denounce the holding of hostages by
any nation or group."
But he limited this to the detention of about 55 persons, including Americans, by the guerillas and specifically exempted
from the denunciation the holding of 375 Arabs by the Israeli
government.
Hostages Divided
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said the
week's air hijackings had been
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He then made a second motion

that Singletary "attend the sen-

ate and converse and associate
with us."
"If we're intending to teach
school, let's try to make contact
with the people who can help
us," he said. "I think the president is the first man."
"I don't know that it's going
to make that much difference
to ask him, if lie doesn't want
to do it," said Dr. Stephen
Adelstein interrupted senate
senate council secretary.
chairman Dr. William Plucknett
"Let's make another motion,
to propose that they "extend a then, to send him a delegation,"
said Berry.
very gracious, cordial, and friendly invitation to speak to the
Ruling Explained
faculty senate" to Dr. Singletary.
With three motions on the
Adelstein said the senate floor, the discussion was momenshould hold, a closed session in tarily sidetracked by law prowhich Singletary could address fessor Robert Sedler, who asked
them "on the ways the senate if a senate rule allowing expulsion
can help strengthen and improve of members who miss more than
the University," and that the three meetings applied to
members. Singletary is an
speech should be followed by a
question-and-answsession.
ex officio member of the senate
Plucknett replied that Single- by state law.
tary already has agreed to address
"That's the rule of the senthe body this fall, and proceeded ate," Plucknett said. "We can't
to other business. A few seconds purge them without getting the
later, he was interrupted again
governing regulations changed."
this time by English professor
Adelstein then rose again, and
Wendell Berry, who claimed that asked Berry's permission to "reAdel stein's motion had been word" his motion that Singletary
glossed over.
"associate" with the faculty.
IBM Machines
"I rather like that wording,"
said Berry to the senate's laugli-te- r,
Berry accused the adminibut he agreed to abide by
stration of acting like "a bunch
of Olympians" and dealing with Adel stein's original proposal.
the faculty "by way of IBM
Diachun then noted that it
seemed "a little presumptuous
machines and mimeographs."
"We; .go through rituals of to be inviting a member of the
amplify ing and increasing the senate to attend the meetings."
rules," he said. "I haven't found He said the assembly might be
weren't
out what our business is. Do we freer "if the lugher-up- s
have any authority?"
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going when he started, and he
didn't know where he was when
he got there, and didn't know
where he'd been when he got
back, and he made the whole
trip on borrowed money."
Astronauts Described
He offered light character
Buzz
sketches of astronants
Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, calling Aldrin a "real physical fitness nut" who would run six
miles a day. But White said the
hardest thing Armstrongbelieved
in doing was "lighting a cigar
and fishing."
Previewing the future, White
predicted a laboratory in space
by the lOSO's and noted that
now under contract is a "space
shuttle," a craft mounted "piggy
back" on a booster.
After launching the craft, the
booster would be able to fly
back to earth and land, ready
to be refueled, making possible,
White said, two flights a week.
The next scheduled lunar
flight, that. of Apollo 14, is to
land where the
Apollo
13 was scheduled for touch-dowThere is to be a three-to-fohour space walk. White said.

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Cov. Louie Nunn's action
bringing the National Cuard on
campus will be reviewed again. !
An appeal filed in the name of
Student Covemment President
Steve Bright will be heard in U.S.
District Court in Cincinnati this
fall. The exact date has not been
set, since the transcripts of the
initial trial, held this summer,
have not been reviewed.
Although the appeal is in
Bright's name, the American Kenneth C White, project engineer for the Apollo program, told
Civil Liberties Union has ap- the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Monday
pointed New York lawyer Sanfbrd that the Apollo 14 flight should not be compared with the journey
Rosen as the principal attorney. of Christopher Columbus. White said that "Columbus didn't know
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'Fair' Housing

Standards Proposed
WASHINGTON (AP)-Niadministration housing officials
are considering imposing quotalike compliance standards on developers in an attempt to assure
minorities a fair share of Itous-in- g
built with federal funds or
guarantees.
If adopted, the proposals
would bring strong pressures for
integration of much of the nation's private housing market,
now dramatically divided along
racial lines. In effect, developers would be prohibited from using federal funds to build either
or
projects.
The standards of goals would
be applied through the entire
range of programs operated by
the Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD). This
year, HUD subsidized or insured
approximately 45 percent of all
housing produced in the United
States.
Crucial Element
The compliance standards are
a crucial element in a sweeping
enforcement package being advocated within HUD by Samuel J. Simmons, assistant secretary for equal opportunity. Simmons, one of the
Negroes in the Nixon administration, oversees implementation
of the 1968 open housing law.
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however, are believed to have
already touched off vigorous debate within HUD.
The political implications of
moving hard to . enforce open
housing are compared by most
observers to those involved in
the school desegregation issue.
Affect Suburbs
The proposals could have a
profound impact on suburbs
where only five percent of, the

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Revision of HUD
policies to avoid the concentrations of minorities that
have left 43 percent of the nation's public housing projects
mostly black. Priority would be
given to developers with sites
in suburbia or in
central city areas.
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Revision of
procedures in rental properties in an attempt to keep dey
velopments from becoming
with minorities.
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The UK troupers are having their fall semester
from 9 p.m. on the following dates:
Sept. 22 in the Agricultural Science Auditorium
and Sept 23 in Room 309 Student Center. Singers,
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Braille System Improvements Studied at UK
to
braille characters, including several other signals such as those
for punctuation, abbreviations,
prefixes, suffixes and special symbols.

translate typed characters

all of these common symbols,
but the typist must be trained
to use them. When the new sysputers is being studied by the
tem using computers has been
Office of Research and Engineerperfected, any typist will be able
ing Services at UK.
to place on a magnetic tape the
Presently, reading matter
contents of reading matter withmust be translated from the printout having to pause to insert
ed word to the braille system, a
Program Computer
For example, the computer special instructions.
process by which blind persons
The computer's memory bank
read by passing their fingertips would have to be programmed
over embossed symbols.
to distinguish the "ment" in will take care of these details
According to Russell E. pavement from the "ment" in automaticaly at the rate of sevPuckett, director of the research mental because the abbreviations eral hundred instructions per
office, the problem to be solved for the two letter combinations minute, the director explained.
is how to program a computer would be different.
Project Financed
so. that it will ."remember" to
IBM braille typewriters have
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through a $22,900 grant from the
Social and Rehabilitation Service
of the U.S. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare. Equipment has been loaded by the
office products division of IBM
in Lexington and its engineering
staff is helping in the research.
Puckett's
on the
project at UK are Prof. Jolm
Jackson, Department of Electrical Engineering; Benny Dukes,
an electrical engineering senior;
and Joseph A. Pruitt, electronics
specialist in the Office of Research and Engineering Services.

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From Tiilane

Historian Appointed to UK's Alumni Chair

A nationally prominent histor
ian of the Old South, Dr. Charles
P. Roland, has been appointed
to the Alumni Chair of History
at UK.
Dr. Roland arrived at UK
last week from Tulane University, New Orleans, La., where
he was chairman of the Department of History.

Chicago-'Electrifyi- ng'
R COLO SIM O
Kernel Staff Writer
The University of Kentucky
will experience a transportation
special when the Clucago Transit Authority, better known as
"Chicago," arrive Homecoming
night, October 3, at Memorial
Coliseum.
This electrifying recording
group is currently on the record
charts with their latest hit "25
or 6 to 4" which was only released nine weeks ago and currently ranks number six nationwide, according to Billboard
Magazine.
Recording for Columbia Records, Clucago has an upcoming
album, the group's third LP release, their first two each selling a million copies.
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Shiloh.
Dr. Roland produced an article in connection with his Cen-erJohnston research based on
the handwritten journal of Eliza
Johnston, written during a trip
she made with the Second Cavalry Regiment in the 1850's from
Jefferson Barracks, Mo., to the
Texas frontier. Many officers of
the regiment later would be prominent on both sides in the Civil
War, including Lee, Hardee,'
Thomas, Hood, Stoneman and
Van Dom.
Dr. Roland also is the author
of "The Confederacy," a volume
in the Chicago History of American Civilization series, designed
primarily for college students who
seek a comprehensive account of
their academic interests without
being required to read numerous
detailed and tedious
highly
books.
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with music, music with a message. After all, what does "25
or 6 To 4" really mean anyway?
Listen to it. Think about it.

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Prof. Marshall returned to the U.S. Army commission and evenUniversity of Texas in 19G8.
tually went to Texas at the time
The chair was created to en- it was a republic. He became
able UK to obtain additional first-rat- e senior Army commander and secprofessors and scholars. The retary of war of the Republic of
Texas.
professorship continues on a
basis is long as the recipDuring the 1850's, Johnston
ient remains at UK. Contribuwas commander of an American
tions by the Alumni Association
Expedition to Utah to quell the
partially support the chair.
expected rebellion of the Mormons, which did not materialize.
Major Book
The major book of Dr. Ro- Johnston left Utah as a brigadier
land's research career is "Albert general, and with a high reputaSidney Johnston: Soldier of Three tion.
When the Civil War broke
Republics," published in 1964
Cliicago recently played to by the University of Texas Press. out, Johnston was considered to
a sell-oaudience of 10,000 in Johnston's first wife was a sister be among the top officers of the
Cleveland where their drummer of William Preston of Louisville, U.S. Army. When Texas seceded
a U.S. congressman and Minister from the Union, Johnston reDjn Serapine put up an incredible pace for an hour and 45 to Spain. His second wife, Eliza, signed his commission and came
minute drummer solo which was a cousin of his first wife. East again where he was named
a full general of the Confederacy
brought the audience to their Both the Preston and the Johnfeet.
ston families are prominent in by Jefferson Davis, his old schoolmate at Lexington's Transylvania
"Chicago" tickets go on sale the Blue Crass area.
A career military man, JohnUniversity and at West Point.
Wednesday September 16 at
8 a.m. in the Student Center
Killed In Battle
ston's name first came before
at the Central Information Desk. the public when he resigned his
Johnston was killed when
Ticket prices are $3.50, $3.00 and
The Alumni Chair at UK was
established in 19G6 when the UK
Alumni Association presented a
large monetary gift representing
alumni contributions to
John VV. Oswald. The
first holder of the Alumni Chair
was Prof. Ray Marshall of the
College of Business and Economics, who was appointed in 1967.

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* Education by Stratification
"You Americans are not students," a foreign student recently observed. He uttered his flat statement in a tone of superiority. He felt
no need to back it up.
This student was educated in his own country and was here for
work on his Master's. He studied at least nine hours a day and a look
at his grades verified his assertion that he applies himself. This is
the obvious difference between most American and foreign students,

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Frank S. Coots III,

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Jean Nenaker, Managing Editor
Dahlia Hays, Copy Editor
Jeff Impalloineni, Sports Editor
Don Rosa, Cartoonist
David King, Business Manager
Tom Bowden, Ron Hawkins, Bradley eflns. Terry Lewis, Mike Wines,
Assistant Managing Editors
Hob Brown, Editorial Tage Editor

this man maintains. American students simply aren't applying themselves to their education.
Of course this student's statement has no foundation. Of course we
Americans are real students. Look at the number of hours we spend
each week cramming for tests, working for the almighty grade. We are
students.
Why
Or are we? One hears superfluous questions so often in class that
By JEFF CUMER
be on the test?" "Is that statistic
he is forced to wonder. "Will this
EDITOR'S NOTE: Jeff Cumer is a memon page 24 really important?" This kind of question is posed often. ber of the Student Coalition's Publications
Rarely does a venturing soul begin the question session with, "As I Committee.
read the text I had some hesitations about the author's treatment

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the Student Coalition?

of...."

Those who come nearest to being classified as "students" in the
"How
classical UK tradition are those who are most
much will this test count? What was the mean for that test? Is our
exam going to be multiple choice . . . ?" They fall far short of the ideal
student.
One wise professor begins his course with a definition of education.
He explains that "education" is derived from Latin: educare to lead
out from, to draw out. He elaborates on the idea that being educated
is not a passive process of absorbing what the professor is saying.
Rather, it is a drawing out of the student by the professor. It is not
a teaching process, it is an effort to help one learn. The professor
guides students to question, evaluate and build on ideas he offers.
For the rest of the semester the student tries to understand the dichotomy between the professor's "education" and his examsof 100 true-falquestions which require rote memory of lecture notes.
One professor began his class by discussing "extra points" for a
grade. He began facetiously, by saying he had about 300 papers that
needed stapling. At the end of the class there were some "stapling"
volunteers. Some students didn't see anything facetious about the idea.
It seems the one thing most important to many professors is their
grading system. Students are eventually taught to evaluate grades
with wisdom and knowledge.
One professor stated the matter succinctly, "After the first test the
relationship between the student and the professor disintegrates."
Are any of us involved in any real education? What can we say
to someone, who declares, "You Americans are not students." We
pupils and those professors who molded our attitudes seem to prove
that statement daily.
"Hey, when did you say our next test was?"
grade-oriente- d.

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John Junot
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Scenario of Campus Holocaust

EDITOR'S NOTE: John Junot is an Arts
and Sciences senior. This column is the
first of a three-pa- rt
series.
To students, especially freshmen and
transfers: Welcome to the revolution. Man
or woman, black or white, conservative
or liberal, dove or hawk, you are now, in
a very real sense, a guerrilla, a traitor,
a Viet Cong. If you don't know it now,
if you think different, you will learn.
I know; I've known for five years:
I was one of the first to learn, and I have
helped teach many others. I trust I and
my fellow teachers have taught the truth,
for we started as outcasts among the
students a few years back, and now
thousands believe as we do. If I am
wrong, and so many have been persuaded
to lies of their own free will, then this
University is damned ground, for it is
based on the principle that free men, in
free discussion, inevitably arrive at the
truth.
The first statement sounds horrible.
It is. It sounds like a denial of basic
human rights. It is. It sounds arrogant.
It is not. It is reality: reality is arrogant.
You are a traitor, a guerrilla, a revolutionary because you are here, now. You
are such because there are thousands
who actively hate you for no other reason,
though they have never met you and
probably never will. Alio for what you
think and because you do think. Because
you're young. Because our hair is too
long, even if you're bald. Because you
are, in some trivially significant way, different. And because oi choice or chance
or carelessness, you are now gathered
together with thousands of others with
similar differences in one fairly small
area, and thus are easy to spot.
More tangibly, you are a revolutionary
because
bullets and tear
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gas canisters make no distinctions. And a
charging cop with a riot club doesn't
bother to make distinctions.
But even if you never learn of or feel
that hate, even if you never hear angry
shots or smell tear gas or see bleeding
skulls, I pray you won't, and even if you
righteously disagree with me and my
friends, you are still, in a lesser sense,
a revolutionary. You see, we are in a
revolution, and it will change you profoundly. Because of what you will experience while you are here, on the front
lines, you will emerge a different kind of
person than was normal or common in the
previous century.

"Soon there will be nothing left
of the university
Except the roving bands of the
radical rich
Who will teach each other about
idealism and brotherhood,
While they begin to slaughter each
other
With the finest machine guns
About how to spell the word RELEVANT." '
Karl Shapiro

Kentucky has its share of students
whose intentions are not to change, but
to destroy. It is they who acted as the
catalyst for last May's disruption. But
student government president Steve Bright
and many apathetic students must share
the blame.
Mr. Bright was elected on the campaign pretense of "serving the students.'.'
While lambasting Presidents Nixon and
Singletary- and Governor Nunn, he has
not once made any statement regretting
the burning of the Air Force ROTC building. One wonders if his statements during
the first week of May didn't actually add
fuel to the fire. In short, it seems Mr.
Bright will join any movement and leap
on any bandwagon to increase his own
power.
The apathetic students make conditions ripe for disturbance. I recall that
many were just spectators at demonstrations and later at the fire, seemingly well
pleased with "bread and circuses."
The Student Coalition was organized
to provide a forum for the majority of
students and to defend their rights against
those who would irresponsibly abuse them
in the name of "justice" and "freedom."
We will oppose those who desire to disrupt
our university.
The Student Coalition is the voice of
responsible moderation at UK, and only on
the path of moderation and restraint are
true justice and freedom to be found. Without such moderation, the University cannot survive.
The "rally" here on the evening of
May 5 was no Innocent gathering. Anyone within distance could see stones shattering the windows of the ROTC building
and hear the threats to occupy it.
Any attempt to place the blame for
the disturbances on Cove mo r Nunn or
the UK administration is ridiculous and
completely fraudulent. U.S. District Judge
Mac S win ford has ruled that Cov. Nunn
and President Singletary "acted properly
and well within the law."
The provocations came from students
who were determined to make the 11 pm
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news, or see their name in print. Cries of
repression and violation of student rights
were merely claptrap, designed to create
more attention.
The predictable rantings of the radical
spokesmen at the University are quite similar to the chants
and incantations employed by Indian
medicine men and African witch doctors.
Indeed, many actions of the campus left
can be favorably compared to the practice
of voodoo magic.
First, the cult leader utters the magic
words: "repression," "academic freedom," "police harassment," and "the
puppet board of trustees." The
congregation, following the script, responds with the proper slogans: "Off the
pigs," and "power to the people" (certain
people).
Many college administrations have
failed to protect the integrity of rational
debate. If they fail to come to the defense of the responsible majority, chaos
and anarchy will inevitably result. The
Student Coalition is determined to represent this majority and to prevent this
from happening at UK.
I find it disturbing that the student
government president uses tactics that are
so reminiscent of those of Joseph McCarthy. Anyone who disagrees with him
is labelled "repressive." Those who simply
want an education free of disruption are
tagged as "reactionaries."
We have news for Mr. Bright and his
cohorts. He does not represent us, nor
does he represent thousands of other students. And since academic freedom also
applies to us, we can't help wondering
for whom Mr. Bright speaks when he
says, "Centlemen, we will resist."
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Kernel Forum: H
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SKCI Commends Kernel
To the Editor.
I would like to take this opportunity
to extend my thanks and congratulations
to the Assistant Managing Editor, Mr.
Tom Bowdcn, for the fair, unbiased coverage of the SKEI petition.
In these days of jaundiced journalism, it is refreshing to witness honest
attempts to "get the facts." During our
conversation, Mr. Bowden was thorough
while exhibiting the qualities of a gentleman.
If this indicates a trend in Kernel
policies toward less editoralizing, all's
not lost.
Thank you.
Mrs. June Criffin
Save Kentucky's
Educational Institutions

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Sept.

Black Panthers Organize Coiivenlion

15, 1970- -5

Revolutionaries Call for Socialist Government
PHILADELPHIA fCPSi
The Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention, called by
the Black Panther party, recessed
until Nov. 4 after the Labor
Day weekend convention decided
to meet again in Washington to
reach a final agreement on what
is intended to be a new constitution for the United States.
At the first round over 10,000

delegates, more than halfofthem
black, agreed on general principles for a socialistic America,
but disagreed on some particular
points.
The convention avoided the
drastic open splits which characterized last summer's United
Front Against Fascism (UFAF)
conference in Oakland, the last
attempt by the