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"Absence of a Cello" is a

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show: Page Two.

Kentucky is "ahead" in the number
schools in the South:
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Student Government should move
ahead on seeking a Trustee seat, editorial says: Page Four.
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profile of James Meredith:

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It was a long walk to the field Saturday: Page Six.
weak defense hurt the freshman
team: Page Seven.

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University of Kentucky
LEXINGTON, KY., MONDAY, OCT.

Vol. 58, No. 28

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Washburn Will Deliver
Socialism Speech Thursday
Brad Washburn, a freshman
and a member of the campus
Students for a Democratic Society chapter, will make a speech
on socialism on the Student Center patio Thursday at noon.
The speech had been planned
two weeks ago but was post poned
after Student Center Director
Frank Harris, and Vice President
for Student Affairs Robert Johnson agreed that a "definite
policy" on such speeches "should
evolve" before Washburn spoke.

They asked Washburn to postpone the speech and he agreed.
Both suggested that a primary
concern was for Washburn's
safety in light of the trouble SDS
members had when they mancd
a booth next to Navy recruiters
in the Student Center.
Johnson also suggested that
the speech be put in "an educational context" with a panel and
a moderator.
The Administration said that
free speech was not an issue since
"anyone could speak anytime."

Washburn will initiate
"Sound Off," a program set up
the Student Center Board forum
committee. A board spokesman
said the time and day were agreed
upon by Washburn and a faculty
member who will "moderate"
the day's program.
Similar arrangements will be
made for anyone else requesting
participation in the "Sound Off"

series, she said.

He will be furnished with a

microphone and the moderator
whose role is, as yet, undefined.
SDS members say that the
main point to be made is that
Washburn will be speaking freely.

"Now that we have free
speech, what do we do with it?"
SDS leader Robert Franipton
asked at a meeting Sunday attended by old and new members
and a few professors offering
guidance.

Frampton, one of the few
charter SDS members still active
here, outlined the group's past
accomplishments, and said future activity is an "open ques-

Affairs Robert) Johnson told me
he doesn't want campus police
to have to enforce free speech
but rather to prevent violence,
Bill Murrell, and SDS members

He also revealed that SDS
plans to sponsor a Vietnam
Forum, modeled after one held
last Spring, on Dec. 7, the day
after Gen. Maxwell Taylor speaks
to a Central Kentucky Concert
and Lecture Series audience.

"It docs seem the Student
Center Board has had pangs of
conscious and will provide protection. I hope the climate here
doesn't require protection, but
that is a couple days off," said
Frank Marini, a political science

tion."

"This free speech 'crisis' just
happened on us by accident,"
he said. It all started when Washburn was denied permission to
post a socialist sign in the student center. Participating in "dialogues" on Vietnam as an SDS
member, he was challenged on
his socialistic views, and offered
to discuss them later. His subsequent request for a speaking
time and place was delayed and
University officials wanted to
structure it, he said.
The purpose of Thursday's
talk, Washburn says, is not to
convert UK students to socialism
(he sees no hope), but to "irritate" them.

"Oh, you want to be a gadfly,
an abrasive," a faculty member
at Sunday's meeting asked. "But
we don't want to make you exhibit number one in our case
against the University."
"You're being used as the
battering ram for a great social
movement," a sacrificial lamb,"
said another.
But others agreed that Thursday's forum, and future ones,
will be "ideal vehicles" for irritating people.
Some said they fear for Washburn's safety, but one SDS member said UK officials have
promised protection if necessary.
(Last Founders Day, SDS members picketing U.X. Ambassador
Arthur J. Goldberg here were
pummelled with eggs while police watched.)
Vice President (for Student

said.

professor.

In this free speech issue,
Marini said, "you've got a good
thing going, you've got to grab
it, but subtly. It is very precarious."
"This university is going to
become what you, other students, and faculty, make it,"
he said.

,

Joseph J. Leary, a Frankfort
attorney said today he wants
to see his state and its people
stay close to the government.
before the Law
Speaking
Forum in the College of Law
courtroom, one of the leading
opponents of the adoption of the
constitution. Leary
proposed
said when the people lose contact with the government deterioration begins.

"All the talk for the constitution has delt in glittering generalities," he said. "Who knows
about the needs of the town, the
local people or the legislature."
Leary said under the proposed
document the legislature would
control the "local pursestrings."
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Barbara Smith, a member of Kappa Alpha Thela, has a big smile
for photographers Saturday after she was crowned queen of the
Pushcart Derby. More pictures and a story are on page eight.

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ernor would alter succeeding himself would he in office longer
than an member of the General Assembly.
"This would set up a power
block which would be undefeat-able,- "
he said.

need would be to get hold ol
the pursestrings," hesaid. "That
is what the legislature would
have the power to do under the
new constitution if it is passed
in November.

"The document in almost
every article is a drift away
from the people, he said.

He cited cases in New York.
California, and Ohio where governors are now attempting to

Leary said the proposed document would give the governor
a chance to succeed himsclt.

succeed themselv es.

"I think I wrote the first
memo to Governor Breathitt on
Feb. 3, lUol in which I outlined
what I thought was the proper
method of writing the constitution." he said. "I suggest that
constitution revision requires a
group of delegates to present to
the people the document.

"This is wrong I think because you would always have a
gov ernor for eight years," he said.
"A governor would be stupid if
he did not set up a political
machine (hat would carry him
into office for a second term. No
opponent would have the
strength to over come the machine."
He also asserted that thegov- -

Leary is a former adviser to
Gov. A. B. Happy Chandler.

Human Rights Group
To Back Free Speech
The Campus Committee on Human (lights, at a meeting last
Thursday, decided that it was part of its role to suppoit free
speech on the campus.
The members of the committee agreed that it was one of their
responsibilities to see that the channels of free speech are kept
open and that people are encouraged to speak.
The committee, however, suggested that there should he a
distinction between free speech, and propaganda; between facts,
and libelous or inaccurate material.
The discussion at the meeting centered on plans for the upcoming state human rights conference the group will host and did
not included specifics on what the CCHH might do to protect
free speech on campus.
The fifth annual Conference on Iutergioup Belations, which will
has decided to discuss the
be helil at the I'niversity Oct.
"Student's Besponsihility in Social Change'' as the key topic.
The conference is cosponsored by the Kentucky Commission on
Human Bights, the Kentucky Bcgion of the National Conference
of Christians and Jews, and the Lincoln Foundation.
The committee is seeking looms for delegates to the conference
and asks that anyone who has an evtia room or can make room
for someone to contact Peggy Coolcy in the Office of Beligious
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have come through with a fine
performance.
John Langrebc plays the male
lead. His comical lines are emphasized too strongly for a really
satirical effect, yet Langrebc conveys a convincing portrayal of an
intellectual physicist whose practical qualities arc all but absent.
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"Cello'' will have three more
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magazine's list, have 250 and
201 such schools res)cctively.
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was apparently based on a reThe American Marketing AsStudent Cov eminent Judic iary
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* "It's More Than We've Kvcr Pul Oul Before"

Needs Support
Renewed plans for pursuing a
student scat on the Board of Trustees have been initiated by Student Government through the establishment of an executive committee to investigate the possibilities for student involvement in
the University's ultimate decisionmaking process.

The new move apparently was
encouraged by Gov. Edward T.
Breathitt's statement last week that
he would support such legislation,
but only if recommended by the
University. He said the decision
to place a student on the Board
should be made within the University, which he defined as the
students, faculty, administration,
and alumni.
the content of
Although
Breathitt's statement is not surprising, it is nevertheless encouraging, and it has rekindled SG's
original plan, which was dropped
because it was learned a student
seat on the Board would require
a change in the Kentucky Revised

Statutes.

invitation" to the SG president
to attend the meetings and present
student opinion, a privilege which
is available to anyone and unique
only because a special invitation
was issued by President John W.
Oswald. While this invitation is
an improvement over nothing, it
is not much more. It lessens even

further in importance when one
realizes it was provoked by the
threat of SG legislation.
In view of the governor's statement, it is obvious that any move
to obtain a student seat on the
Board must be endorsed by the
Administration. If Dr. Oswald
maintains his position of hesitancy
and reluctance, the goal will never
be realized.

For Student Government's legislation to have a greater impact,
we suggest that it be presented to
the Faculty Senate for their consideration and possible endorsement.
We urge the president and the
faculty to review the student's role
in this educational system, which
for no obvious reason

We think the approval, or denial,
of actual student involvement in
University management must be
based on certain principles, which
if endorsed can only permit student
representation on the Board, as
well as on other faculty and administrative bodies.
One of these is the qyestion of
what degree of responsibility students should be assigned for directing

their own education.

subscribes

to restriction of students on policymaking bodies. We hope they will
lend their endorsement as an encouragement to members of the
State Legislature to do the same.

As

Breathitt said, it is a "healthy
situation" for students to have
a voice in the decision-makin- g
process. Students should be given
"more and more" responsibility,
the governor added.
Such responsibility is essential
to a truly educational environment.
If students are to mature through
the educational process, they must
be given responsibilities which will
challenge their intelligence. Anything else is only a pittance, a
token offering to give the allusion
of actual involvement in policymaking.
In a community where students
comprise the largest population,
it is only logical that they have
at least some, if not equal, voice
on major decisions. It is the students for whom decisions are being
made. We question why students
do not have the opportunity to
at least share in the ultimate
ion-making
process.
Only recently has some offering been made for students to
take part in any Board action. This
came in the form of an "official
decis-

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hellers To The Editor

Seeger 's UK Appearance Uncertain
To the Editor of the Kernel:
On October 5 the Kernel published a misleading article which
asserted that Nexus, the
it
coffee house, plans to
bring folksinger Pete Seeger to
UK.
Two members of the Nexus
Steering Committee are exploring,
on their own behalf, the possibility of having Mr. Seeger present a program in Lexington sometime next March. To date, no
commitments have been made by
either side. This is not a Nexus
project as it would be inappropriate
to the purpose and function of
Nexus. That is not to say that
Nexus would be adverse to Mr.
Seeger's appearance. To the contrary, a performance by this great
talent, if sponsored by an appropriate group such as the Student
Center Board, would be a welcome
event and probably a very profitable one for the sponsor.
off-camp- us

non-prof-

Your report also contains some
incorrect statements respecting the
history of Nexus and its campus
affiliation. Nexus was founded as
a wholly
operation completely independent of any campus
off-camp- us

The Kentucky Kernel
The South's Outstanding College Daily

ESTABLISHED

University of Kentuc ky
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MONDAY, OCT.

Walteh

M.

Chant,

10. 1966

Editor-in-Chi-

Tehence Hunt, Executive Editor

Gene Clabes, Managing Editor
Judy Chisiiam, Associate Editor
Ioiin Zeh, Associate Editor
Fhank Uhowninc, Associate Editor
Phil Sthaw, Starts Editor
Lahhv Fox, Daily News Editor
Bakhy Cobb, Cartoonist

William Knapp,

Business Manager

I'd Campbell, Circulation Manager

organizations of any sort. It is
dedicated to serving those connected with the campuses in Lexington and the surrounding area.
Nexus has received support from
the Beligious Advisory Staff as
well as from other campus groups.
Its Steering Committee has been
n
of the
drawn from a
students, faculty and staff at UK.
However, all participants in Nexus
act in an individual capacity and
not on behalf of any other group
with which they may be affiliated.
cross-sectio-

Alvin L. Goldman
Assistant Professor of Law
Nexus Steering Committee Member

Shocked At Attack
The fact that four students at
your University were roughed up
or beaten because they proposed to
make a speech on "socialism" at
the UK Student Center causes me
to recoil with shock and revulsion.
There is no condemnation too
strong for this sort of Nazi-styl- e
d
bully tactics. It goes
with whatever form of totalitarianism you care to name but most
specifically it goes in hand with
the rise of Ku Klux Klan violence
and murder, and the Nazi "White
Power" provocations in Chicago.
Violence of this sort is always the
last resort of incoinpetants, of persons whose beliefs are so vile that
they could never stand the test of
a democratic discussion.
That this sort of fascist attack
is taking place throughout the nation is a matter of grave concern-th- at
it actually took place at the
University of Kentucky indicates
the severity of this crisis.
President Oswald and city offic
hand-in-han-

ials should leave no stone unturned
in finding and relentlessly dealing
with the savages who perpetrated
this deed. With such opponents, I
am sure that the Students for a
Democratic Society deserve the
widest hearing from democratic,
freedom-lovin- g
people.
Jim Williams

Labor Press Unit,
WasJiington Newspaper Guild

Parking Madness

There is madness loose in the
world. Sometimes, even when I'm
on the great campus of the University, things don't seem quite
real.
People like myself, for example,
pay a monthly amount for the
privilege of receiving parking citations when we park illegally. The
University, in turn, pays us between $5 and $10 an hour for
driving around town in search of
parking space. (Has anyone calculated the number of man-houlost annually on this account?)
I mean, everybody can't get on
campus before everybody else gets
here somebody's got to be SOL.
rs

Imagine my surprise when I
arrived at this great university,
filled with burning ambitions
here, I thought, is my chance to
influence the course of human destinto find that my first
y-only
concern must be to find a way
to get out of my car.
I hope my

occasional

students enjoy their
vacations from class.
John Stephenson
Assistant Professor

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Monday, Oct.

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10,

James Meredith: Wounded By Racial Bigotry
IiyJOHNZEII

Kernel Associate Editor
It was halftitnc at Jackson's
Memorial
Stadium, Saturday,
Sept. 2J, 12. Ole Miss held a
0
lead over Kentucky. Above
tlit deafening roar of the 16,000
7--

throats singing

"Co

Missi-

-

Jamcs Meredith will speak in
the UK Student Center ballroom at 7 p.m. Tuesday. His
talk on "Racial Tcace" is open
to faculty and students with ID
cards.

ssippi," rose a chant: "We want
Hoss. We want Ross."
Mississippi's Gov. Harnett
climbed out of the stands to a
microphone. Dramatically rais

ing a clinc hed f ist, he spoke three
short sentences, which by themselves mean little: "1 love Mississippi. I love her people. I love
our customs."
In the greater context of the
bigoted defiance of the previous
week, month, and year, however,
those words meant much.
Olc Miss thai Saturday night
went on to win, beating the UK
But Monday the
Wildcats 14-lost a greater struggluniversity
e-the
attempt to keep James
Howard Meredith from becoming
the first Negro knowingly admitted to Old Miss.
"Please send me an application for admission to your
school," began the brief note
Meredith wrote to the University
of Mississippi on Jan. 20, 1961.
He mentioned nothing about

LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS

race. A cheerful reply from the
registrar said, "We are pleased
to know of your interest." Next
Meredith mailed his forms, complete with a required photograph. A posed shot, it showed
him young, neatly dressed, and,
unquestionably, a Negro.
One glance at that photo, and
the Ole Miss registrar knew the
day's mail contained more than
its normal share of admissions
problems. He read the attached
o
letter. "I am an
citizen," Meredith
explained,
trusting everything
would be handled "in a manner
American-Mississippi-Negr-

complimentary to the

uni-

colleges is a "plain fact known
to everyone."
What everyone
knows, the court knows.
Ultimately, on Sept. 13,
the Supreme Court ordered the
University to admit the Negro
immediately. The next day, Meredith wired the school he was
coining.
Hut it wasn't that simple.
"Wc will not surrender to
the evil and illegal forces of
tyranny," Gov. Barnett solemnly
promised Mississippians on television. Sept. 20, he personally
prevented Meredith's admission
as students marched around
campus singing "Glory, Glory

shouting and, later, throwing
bottles and bricks. The mob.
numbering 2,300, had to be repelled by tear gas.

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The next morning, Meredith
was duly registered, unhurt

physically. Hut he had not seen
the end of bloody violence.
After graduation in August
19G.J
and further study abroad
and at Columbia
University,
Meredith returned to Mississippi last June. Marchingto show
Negroes they had nothing to
fear, he was cut down by a
shotgun blast, wounded in the
back and head, adding to the
scars he already carried inside
his body and brain.

Segregation."
A new states rights crisis was

versity."
It was a large order.
Before James H. Meredith took
a seat in his first class at Ole
Miss one year and eight months
later, the state had all but seceded
from the union, students rioted,
President Kennedy had sent in
troops, two men had been killed,
and the University of Mississippi
had hardly been complimented.
At first, the school conjured
up all sorts of academic excuses
to refuse Mereditli admission.
His forms were received too late,
he didn't