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29, 1968

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UNIVERSITY

OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LX, No. 45

YD's Objected Earlier

YDs ObjecU To Second

Mock Election Results
and all members of the organization have been "advised not
to participate in this election."
The statement said that the
YDs did not accuse the AWS
of fraud in the election, "but
merely not providing information
which left us no recourse but
to invalidate the election by boy-

By CHARLES BO WEN

Kerad Staff Writer

If mock elections are any representative measure of public
opinion at UK, then students
have changed their minds about
their presidential preferences in
the past 10 days. However, the
Young Democrats (YDs) and the
Young Republicans (YRs) both cott."
seem to think that mock elecWere Informed
tions are far from representative.
According to Taft McKinstry,
A mock election on Oct. 17
president of AWS, the presidents
was won by the Humphrey-Mus-ld- e
of all political parties on campus
ticket but was contested by
the YRs who said they had not were informed of the mock elecbeen properly informed of the tions and agreed to participate.
She said members of the YD,
election.
As a result, a second mock along with YRs, Student for Wal
election was held yesterday, supposedly conducted jointly by the
YDs and the YRs, and mediated
by Associated Women Students
(AWS).

This time the Nixon-Agneticket won and the YDs contested
the new election, saying they
had not been informed of the
time and place of the mock election.
The Nixon-Agneticket won
almost 1 over the Humphrey
forces yesterday. In the first election, on Oct. 17, Humphrey, won
41 percent to Nixon's 36 percent
of the vote.
No Information
Young Democrat president
McKlnnley Morgan, in a statement after the election yesterday, said the YDs had received
no information as to where or
when the election was to be
held.
"We were not able to provide
challengers and workers at the
polls," the statement said "Also
ballot boxes were not opened
in the Student Government office
for inspection
For these reasons, Morgan
said, YD has withdrawn its support of future mock elections
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lace, and the Socialist Workers
Party were at the polling places.
The final results of the election were:
For president:
Nixon-Agne-

570

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289

Humphrey-Muski- e

84

Wallace-LeMa-y
Halstead-Boutell-

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34

For U.S. Senator
Cook (Republican) 619
Peden (Democrat) 270
Olson (Independent) 49
For 6th District Congressman:
Mobley (Republican) 526
Watts (Democrat) 256
Graham (Independent) 40
Following the Oct. Selection,
Continued on Pare 7, CoL 1

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Peden Expects ToWin
Election By 100,000
By CATHY FOX
Democratic senatorial candidate Catherine Peden last night
said that her campaign had
"gained 10 points in the polls
and would carry Kentucky by
an excess of 100,000 on November

5th."
Miss Peden spoke before about
at a public reception at the
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity
house. Mrs. Hubert Humphrey,
who was to have accompanied
the candidate at the reception,
was unable to attend due to
"scheduling and weather pro150

blems."

Miss Peden rebutted a remark
made by her Republican opponent Marlow Cook in reference to President Johnson's
dedication speech at the new
Fish trap Dam Reservoir in East-eKentucky.
Cook accused the President
of not even mentioning the dam
in his talk, but Miss Peden said

m

that a replay of the speech's
tape showed this accusation un-

founded.
"If Marlow Cook will tell
an untruth about something the
President will say then he will
tell an untruth about anything,"
she said.
"I'm glad we have those'
people in journalism who will
tell the truth," she added and
Continued on Page 8, CoL 5

Kernel Photo By Dick War

Miss

Peden

Democratic Senatorial candidate Katherine Peden
is greeted outside the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house last night before addressing a group
of students.

Addict's Problem: The Public
By DOTTIE BEAN
Outlining the hazards of drug
abuse and the problems it presents to society, Jack M. Sherley,
chaplain at the National Institute
of Mental Health Clinical Re-

mitory's Contemporary Issues
Forum.
Sherley, also an instructor at
the Lexington Theological Seminary, stated that one of the chief;
problems with the treatment of
search Center, spoke to 35 studrug addicts in general is public
dents Monday night. Sherley was attitudes in this area. "The
sponsored by the Haggin Hall public," he said, "acts as if it
Council as a part of the dor-- needs to have the problems of
'
society on its back."
He then quoted the actual
cost of treating and rehabilitating
the addict. He said that under
the Narcotics Addiction Rehabilitation Act, the addict is under
commitment for 3 years and the
average cost of this treatment is
$10,000. "This sounds like a lot
of cost for one individual until
you consider that many have
spent already more than one-- ,
third of their lives under lock
at a cost substantially more than
this. With understanding, theyi
could be turned into
tax-payi-

citizens."
'Something Better'

therefore you don't get addicted
to it. However, the danger is in
the risks of long-terand damages."
Sherley than discussed the
legal problems of drug abuse.
He stated that he did not believe that making the usage of
such drugs such as marijuana
legal would result in any gain
for solution of the problem.
m

ts

He said that what is needed is
"some real understanding of the
problem."
"My life has been given to
helping the individual who has a
problem find a way to have abetter life," Sherley said.

In the questioning which followed his discussion, Sherley told
his audience that a large per- cent age of patients return to drugs
after treatment.
The basic problem still exists
and may recur," he said. "There
is a great need for a better follow-jipq- n

patients."

"Our job," he said, "is to

find away to reach
families and turn them into something better."
Sherley then listed the different types of drugs and some
effects of each.
of the long-terlie said that most people who
use drugs and become addicted
"must have problems before-

after-effec-

multi-proble-

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Drugs
Discussed

Jack M. Sherley, an instructor at the Lexington Theological Seminary,
discussed drug abuse and society Monday night at the Haggin
Hall Council's Contemporary Issues Forum. He told the 35 attending
students that the major problem in the treatment of drug addiction is
the public's attitudes in this area. He also said he didn't think making
drugs such as marjuana legal would result in any gain for solution of
the drug problems in Society.
Kerntl Photo By Rick Burn

Hale-Fredericks-

on

Debate
A

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debate between Police Chief
Hale and the Rev. Craig

Frederickson is to be held tonight
at 7 p.m. in the Student Center
Theatre.
hand."
Hale and the Rev. Frederick-so- n
Of LSD, Sherley said that
will be speaking on "The
its use is declining in "college Police and the Community a
and underworld groups because Forum" in a program sponsored
of real hazards to the unborn by Circle K.
child"
The Rev. Frederickson, who Is
retiring from his position in the
LSD
Church Services to
He stated that the problem of Community
work in South America, has been
LSD is much more complex than a critic of
the Lexington police
nvost addiction problems. "No
force.
one could use LSD every d.'y Pnd

* -- THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Oct. 29,

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Whites Grope For Blackness

Blues-Base- d
By JACK LYNE

Editor
BARE WIRES by John MayaU't
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To critique John May all is to
try to understand the blues. Attempting to understand the blues
is attempting to understand the
Blacks; the two are as inextricably
bound as Fabian and tone deafness.
The reluctant emigrants wh"
were ripped from the African
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To the contrary, they were exploited for their superior physical
'and mental stature.
As black prisoners they were
thrown on to a continent alien
in language and culture. The:
culture shock they felt was probably tantamount to that experienced by the traditional white
liberal trying to negotiate with
H. Rap Brown.
Chained and psychologically
castrated in The Land Of The
Free, the Blacks were left with
little else save their music. (No,
they don't all have natural
rhythm.) One group of
chose to confront this tyrannical ambience with the hopeful
spirit of gospel music, rooted in
European scales and song forms.
Another psychic genre refused
the gospel form as a copout,
instead creating blues, screaming, dissonant, naked music antithetical to the optimism inherent in the spiritual.
'Blues Boy'
One is unable to ignore the
pathos of blues, best symbolized
by the great B. B. "Blues Boy"
King. When King leans back and
caresses the upper frets of that
big red guitar, Lucille, the notes
peel off in tight, gutsy, nasty
phalanxes, as B. B. chants, "Suffer! Suffer! Suffer!"
While eschewing the role of
the pollyanna, blues did ease
the pain somewhat, transforming the singer from participant
in suffering to observer. Witness
Bobby "Blues" Bland removing
himself one step from the action
in "I Pity the Fool": "Look at
the people . . . watchin' you
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gritty Chicago blues since the
50's. His Bluesbreakers units have
been launching pads for various
musicians. (Clapton is a '67 Blues-breakdropout.)
Mayall has adapted to this
turnover remarkably well; His
latest supporting cast is filled
with very good musicians, particularly guitarist Mick Taylor
and saxman Chris Mercer. Mercer
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five, six and nine string guitars,
acoustic and amplified. He also
composed eleven of the twelve
selections, handled the dust-jacklayout and coproduced the
album.
Mayall overextended himself
in his previous effort "Blues
Alone," which featured only
Mayall, dubbed over, playing all
eight instruments. The result had
the spontaneity of a precision
drill and the tension of a wet
In "Bare Wires" he has
decided to stop changing clothes
in phone booths and instead
groove with a supporting cast.
He suffers from some white
hangups, trying to move blues
into suite form, which is accomplished by splicing tapes and
running the side into a sound
continuum a la "Sergeant Pep
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Better material comes
"I Know Now,"
and "Killing Time," are two
particularly strong blues statements. Taylor's guitar solo on
"I Started Walking" approaches
vintage Clapton.
Bare Lyrics
The lyrics are appropriately
unfettered and unadorned, save
occasional lapses into
("Fate is a wheel always
turning.") MayaU's voice still
projects that strange hollowness
so congruous withthe blues idiom
and his harmonica work is outstanding. Overall it is not a great
album, though it is a very good
one.
John Mayall is still not B. B.
King, though he tries very, very
hard. ("Gotta taste of brown
sugar, gonna' leave white sugar
alone.") Perhaps it is not the
role of the white bluesman to
totally incorporate black blues
style. Indeed, this is the beauty
of contemporary rock: its ability
to co-oany style music, inculcate it, and then restate it
with fuzz box and wah wah
pedal. Perhaps it is worthy of
the praise of New American Review critic Arthur Goldman who
called it "America's only indigenous art form."
We might say, then, that white
blues is in its own thing. After
producing too many bland cream
puffs dating from FrankieAvalon
to Herman's Hermits, it is refreshing to see white musicians getting
down, playing it naked and open.
Mayall senses it: "All my bare
wires are alive."

per's."

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super-platitude-

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By LEE BECKER
Editor-in-Chi-

About 8,000 persons crowded into the Coliseum Sunday afternoon
to hear Andy Williams and Roger Miller clown, sing and, in
general, put on a superb performance.
Offering two very different and others. The audience seemed
types ot shows, interacting near to love him.
the end, and making attempts
After about an hour Williams
to compliment each other, the was back, dressed as the audience
two men competed for the re- often saw him on
television, white
sponse from the audience.
shoes, blue sweater and all.
After singing three songs at Although complaining of a cold
the beginning of the concert, and drinking Cokes to ease the
Williams, clad in a dark suit dry throat, he was at his best.
He sang such greats as "Somesporting bell bottom trousers, left
the stage for the dressing room. where," "Days of Wine and
"Moon River," and
Miller and his three member Roses,"
"Honey." The audience was with
band then took the stage and him.
followed thim around
almost the whole audience. Roger the They
stage. He was their idol.
walked about
clowned, danced,
And that is where the difthe stage and sang such favorites
ference in the two performances
as "Dang Me," "Engine, Engine
came to light. Miller pulled and
Number Nine," "Chug-a-lug,- "
played with his audience. When
they coughed, he used it. When
they laughed, it made him take
flight.
With Williams it was different.
NOW SHOWING!
He was up on the stage, away
from the fans. They idolized him,
2 Classic Hits!
but he was not one of them.
"A BRILLIANT MOVIE!"
Roger Miller, Southern twang,
black suit and guitar, was more
the real man. Perhaps the whole
.slow was at its best when these
two men, different in their way,
came together on "Summertime." The crowd lived it.
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However, Black America has
moved past the blues motif. The
bluesman accepted his repressive
world of pain. Charging ahead
has come soul music, two parts
gospel, one part blues, assertively projecting blackness (i.e. The
Impressions' "We're a Winner")
Blues can serve black consciousness only as part of a proud
heritage.
Enter White Blues
Into this musical vacuum,
ironically, have stepped white
bluesmen. It is hard to say why
whites have turned to blues to
supplement their diet of acid
rock. Partially it is due to the
hollow plasticity affecting too
much of the Motown products,
partially to plain envy.
The best white blues guitarists, Eric Clapton of
Cream and Mike Bloomfield, late
of the Electric Flag and Butter-Hel- d
Blues Band, aped black
bluesmen religiously. (In concert
Clapton's rifts are King at 78
rpm.)
Clapton, Bloomfield and some
other white bluesmen (Paul
May all, Stevie Win wood,
Canned Heat, Janis Joplin) approximated the tough dignity of
black blues. Still, they couldn't
project it as well as the originals
such as Muddy Waters, Lightnin
Hopkins, John Lee Hooker and
Albert King.
They managed to sound awfully black for 2:38 or whatever
the studio technicians required.
When the session was over,
though, they still drove away in
Corvette convertibles. The sound
often failed to project authenticity or forcefulness. Few, if any,
whites have ever experienced the
pain white America has chosen
to inflict on black America. King
succintly summed it up in his
d
axiom: "You
verbally
can't really play the blues 'til
you paid some dues."
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Czech Students Defy Soviets, Celebrate Anniversary
SoPRAGUE
ing
viet occupation forces, tens of
thousands of young Czechoslovaks marched through Prague's
downtown streets for 12 hours
Monday and, waving the flag of
their nation, demanded a Russian troop withdrawal. Some
chorused; "Rusthunderously
sians go home! Russians go
home!"
The outpouring, on Czechoslovakia's 50th anniversary as a
nation, placed in jeopardy the
(AP)-Defy-

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agreements for
a partial troop pullout and the
very future of the liberal regime
of Alexander Dubcek.
It was the first mass demonstration since last August, the
month of the Soviet-le- d
invasion
to halt the nation's liberalization drive.
The marchers roamed from
the seat of government at Hrad-can- y
Castle, to the Soviet Embassy, a Soviet district command
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But there was no reaction
from Soviet troops or the Ruv
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Crowds converged on the National Theater to cheer Dubcek,
President Ludvik Svoboda and

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they entered the theater, but as
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Dubcek climbed a flight of stairs
he turned and waved in salute
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recent years is now in progress
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on campus. The Biafran Relief
Fund, sponsored by the Lexington
Peace Council and advised by University Director of Religious Affairs, Jon Dalton, is a meaningful
effort to avert some of the genocide that is taking place in the
rebellious Nigerian province of Bia-fr-

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with the University whereby any
dormitory student wishing to contribute to the fund might skip one
cafeteria meal, with the University
donating to the resultant savings
to the relief effort.
While this plan might cause
some bookkeeping headaches with
the University Food Service, it
would be a clear and commendable stand by the academic communAll the collections in the world, ity against the atrocities which are
of course, can do little to stop the daily being committed against the
mass murders which the Nigerian Biafrans. It would, furthermore, be
army is committing in Biafra. But a means by which students could
the collections can do something show more than just a passing
to relieve the starving Biafran s concern for the welfare of their
whose crops and food supplies have fellow man. Surely keeping the
been destroyed in the civil war. Biafrans from starving is worth
By way of a further effort, the the added bookkeeping, and the
organizers of the local relief effort temporary discomfort of missing
might consider making some deal a delectable dormitory repast.

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Debate This Candidate

Kernel Forum: the readers write
To the Editor of the Kernel
Let me commend the Kernel reporter
for attempting a difficult assignment and
coming off with some very important
ideas correctly reported. It is difficult
for a
to pick up difficult
shades of meaning and to restrain from
jumping to conclusions that seem obvious
on the surface in the
thinking which is so common to Americans who are not trained to realize
that most things are in the gray area. As
soon as the matter loses its polarized
positions, Americans tend to write it
off as semantics. But ideas are too broad
to be uncomplex. Words and phrases
need to be so couched that they include
the complexities of the idea.
For instance, you may be sure that
I will never die for "the issue of whether
there are really three holy beings and one
God." Worked out over the centuries with
many schools of thought on the matter
is the proposition that "there is One
Cod in Three Divine Persons." For this
indeed many have died and so would
I.
In the second paragraph there is an
unfortunate simplification: "interpret . . .
as he sees fit." No one would hold this
as a principle. Such a concept of response to authority is the basis for complete anarchy. Suppose we dealt with the
income tax laws this way. Try driving
your car by principle. Immediately you
can see that this is not a viable principle in an ordered society, and indeed
Roman Catholicism is an ordered society.
Reported by an unmarried man and
listened to by a largely unmarried audience for whom the birth control concept should as yet be mere theory and not
anything that refers to current practice
in their lives, the point was missed in
"Birth control up to individual." The
Holy Father carefully points out in the
section on "responsible parenthood in
relation to physical, economic, psychological and social conditions, either by the
deliberate and generous decisions to raise
a numerous family or by the decision,
made with grave motives and with due
respect for the moral law, to avoid for
the time being, or even for an indeterminate period, a new birth." In marriage
there are no valid "individual decisions"
binding both parties if the marriage is
to make any sense. Please note that this
is not done "as they see fit" but rather
"with proper motives and with due respect for the moral law." This phrase
call to mind the lengthy part of
the discussion on "selfishness" and re
listing the temptation to "get the monkey
black-and-whi- te

off our backs without due consideration
of factors other than the one that it
works."
"Birth control devices" is indeed a
misleading term. It is a very different
phrase from the one accurately reported
as "He said he had advised couples to
seek birth control aids." The latter term
includes a careful evaluation of relative
solutions with due respect for the moral
law.
The attempt to report a good evening's
discussion (and we need many more of
these on other topics as well in a University community) , has indeed occasioned
thinking. At least the point was made
that: "Roman Catholics believe in infallibility. They believe in authority. But
they don't believe that authority is infallible." "Dissent with authority is perfectly fair, legal, and holy within the
Catholic church." Though it is hierarchical by Divine Establishment, it is not
monolithic. The history of Roman Catho-locisshows the growth of understanding through frequent confrontation. Truth
eventually ekes itself out through dialogue and conflict under the guidance of
the Holy Spirit.
A note for those present at the discussion: you could have had me soon
"teaching algebra in Tanganyika."
Rev. Elmer R. Moore
Chaplain, Newman Center
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To the Editor of the Kernel
d
As a former member of a
co-e- d
house here at UK, I have
heard a bit of controversy about the recent letter of Mr. Mihalek (Kentucky
Kernel, 25 October).
Considering both that Mr. Mihalek is
a law student and that his letter consists basically of cliches and broadsides,
I am convinced that he is lampooning
the pontifications of the morally arrogant.
But some of my fellow students insist
that Mr. Mihalek's protest is serious, that
he actually means, literally, what he says!
And, so, I put the question directly
to you, Mr. Mihalek: You're not seri-ous- l
. . . Are you?
Don Burkholder
Craduate Student
much-maligne-

To the Editor of the Kernel
In the October 22 issue of The Kentucky Kernel there was an editorial entitled "Black Truth" that I feel was a
blantant disregard to law, order and
patriotism and even bordered on treason.
It accused America of being a racist
country and even in this accusation the
author is indeed a racist himself. I feel
the other jkle of the picture should be

presented and if indeed you are not a
racist you will print the enclosed re-

buttal.

The Truth
The United States Olympic

Commit-

tee, by its dismissal of athletes Tommy
Smith and John Carlos showed a step in
the right direction. It had the strength of
its convictions in standing up for what
was right and doing something to dispel
what was wrong.
Carlos and Smith are guilty (by their
d
to
gestures of walking black
get their awards and shaking gloved fists
at the flag of the country that was responsible for them being there at all) of flagrant
disrespect to their flag and country. They
used the Olympics as a means of furthering
their own pet peeves and in so doing
made laughing stocks of themselves and
made a farce of the achievements they
had worked so hard to attain. Through
their ignorant and childish behavior they
lost all perspective of the situation so
in looking down at their black feet, the
feat they had just accomplished was
by their own stupidity.
As every athlete knows,
is one of the first "rules of the game."
Can any true athlete be considered great
without it? And what of their sportsmanship? The Olympics, in summation,
is the epitome of sportsmanship, the
embodiment of all that an athlete has
striven for and at