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This Kemtocecy
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1970

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LXI, No. 71

Walkout Halts Action
On Voter Turnout Bill

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By JIM FUDGE
Kernel Staff Writer
A power play between two
campus government factions
Monday night brought to a temporary halt action on a bill designed to increase voter turnout
at Student Government elections.
The move came at the end
of what had otherwise been a
normal Student Government
meeting during action on some
bills that had been brought from
the committee during the meeting.
The bill that caused the turmoil was one submitted last semester by Student Government
representative Steve Bright in
an effort to increase participation in Student Government elections and thereby, according to
the bill, increase the legitimacy
of the elected officials.
Elections' Move
The bill. Student Government
Bill No. 1969-5would move
the elections to during advance
registration for the fall 1970 semester. It also provides that polling places be placed as near
registration tables as possible to
give students ample opportunity
to vote.
The controversial bill was
brought up as part of old business that had yet to be acted
on from last semester.
As soon as the bill came up,
five people Mark P. Bryan, Linda Hillepole, Jennifer Young,
Debbie Fergus and Jan Teuton
(all Creeks) got up and left.
Bright reported that before
they left, Tim Futrell, SG president, called Ched Jennings,
another representative, over and
said, "Get them (the five) out of
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Kernel Photo by Dave Herman

After a semester of debate, individual Free Uni- versity classes are now initiating efforts to gain
status of student organizations. Last semester,

Free U was refused recognition by the University
as a single unit, due to the "mechanics" of ad-th-e

ministration.

Free U Controversy Settled
By JEAN RENAKER
Assistant Managing Editor
After months of discussion,
the Free University controversy
has been settled.
According to Jack Hall, dean
of students. Free University as it
was first conceived last semester no longer exists.
But classes which were a part
of the original Free U now may
seek recognition by the administration, and they may also affiliate with the
version
of Free U.
During last week's sessions
of the new Free U classes, approximately 300 students participated, according to Spud Thomof several of the
as,
classes.
Three Classes Accepted
Three classes which were formerly a part of last semester's

Free U have been recognized as
campus organizations: the Women's Liberation Movement, the
Draft, and the Environmental
Awareness Seminars.

er to the Free U which belonged
to the University administrators.

Several of the classes are now
closed to additional students due
to a goal of close interaction
among members of the class.
Those classes are: the human
potential seminars, encounter
groups No. one and two, and
exploring psychic principles.

versity decides whether to recognize each particular class applying for acceptance as a student
organization.

Last semester, Free U was
denied recognition by the University due to administrative
"mechanics", according to Hall.
He said that the University could
not recognize the Free U as an
organization and allow Free U
then to add classes later. In doing this, said Hall, the administration would be delegating pow

Now University Decides
As it now

stands, the

Uni-

Concerning these groups, the
Free University catalog says:
"Once a group is formed, the participants are free to choose the
direction they will use to accomplish their agreed upon objectives, as well as the organizational arrangement which will best
accommodate the shape and objectives of the group. The only
administrative function of the
Free University is to act as a collecting mechanism for such interest groups."

here."
This, plus the fact that 11
Student Government representatives were absent from the meeting, dropped the attendance to
below a quorum.
Immediately following the departure of the seven representatives, Student Government representative Bill Dawson attempted
to have the bill sent back to committee. But before this move
could be completed, Steve Bright
called for a quorum which could
not be filled due to the number
present.
After Bright called the quo

Buck
rum, SC representative
Pennington also left the meeting, later explaining that he did
so because of his disgust at the
early departure of other members.
The meeting gradually broke
apart following the call for a
quorum; there was lack of a formal adjournment.
Following the meeting. Bright
said the departure of the representatives was of "no consequence," and that "several members of the assembly are for the
same reason afraid to have an
election involving 11 or 12 thousand students. They want another
3,000-vot-

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election."

Bright also said that the bill
is "still on the agenda, and will
be the final order of old business
next time." Leaving the meeting
tonight only postponed the issue
-- it didn't settle it."
Though the bill did cause the
end of the meeting, it did not do
so before two other bills could be
passed, and before registrar Elbert Ockerman could present proposed changes in registration.
Registration Changes
Ockerman presented a total of
six proposed changes to be made
in the registration process. Four
have already passed the Council
of Deans, and two failed to pass.
The four proposals that passed
include:
All students planning to return to the University must
in order to attend the
next semester.
All new undergraduate degree students must
in order to attend.
All students
must confirm registration by paying fees in advance by August
1 for fall semester and January 1
for spring semester.
Students who needed to
change their schedule could do so
by going to the Coliseum on Monday or Tuesday.
Ockerman
that
explained
these four measures will probably be the ones implemented.
He also explained that students
with loans could confirm their
registration with the confirmation of their loans.
Bills Approved
Of the two bills approved at
the meeting, one concerned a
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'Kentucky Blue9 Weaker Than Asian Grass

EDITOR'S NOTE: This second in a
series of nine articles focuses on one of
ana
the most controversial drugs used
and reports the latest medical
facts about the drug.
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Kernel Staff Writer
In a recent issue, Life estimated at
least 12 million Americans have tried marijuana. Probably only a miniscule percentage of the estimated millions are
chronic users. But enough people lave

used the drug to worry a lot of doctors,
educators, and law enforcement officials.
What is tliis thing called marijuana
that has recently become the center of so
much publicity and controversy?
Cannabis Sativa
Its botanical name is "Cannabis sativa." Apparently Cannabis originated in
Asia and the Mediterranean basin and
spread via Africa and South America to
Mexico. About U) years ago it was first
transported to tliis country as a drug.
For several years it was used mostly by
jazz musicians and members of minority
groups, doctors report.
Marijuana is prepared by crushing or
chopping the dried leaves and flowers
of the female Cannabis plant into small
pieces. The intoxicating elements are inside black microscopic globules of resin
that form on the leaves and flowers. Recent research indicates that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in the tiny balls of
resin is the major intoxicating substance
in marijuana, scientific investigators

Hashish, a concentrated form of marijuana, is prepared by removing the minute
pieces of resin from the plant to form
a pure lump of resin. More potent than
marijuana, hashish reportedly can cause
hallucinations similar to those induced
with LSD.
In America, marijuana and hashish are
usually smoked. Although in Asia, the
Cannibas plant is sometimes prepared"
for eating. Marijuana or hashish eaten
is not as powerful as when smoked, doctors say. When eaten, the user may not
begin to feel its effects for an hour. When
smoked, the effects usually become apparent in a few minutes.

The effects usually
hours. Unlike alcohol,
leave the user with
ijuana's potency can
powerful.

last from two to four
marijuana does not
a hangover. Marrange from weak to

American Cannabis Weaker
American Cannabis is normally much
weaker than its Asian counterpart. This
of course, means that American marijuana

contains less THC than Asian marijuana.
Why this is so, researchers are not yet
sure.
"The reason for our ignorance," says
n
Dr. Harris I shell,
researcher
in the field of drugs and professor of
medicine and pharmacology at the UK
Medical Center, "is because of the inordinately difficult chemistry of Canwell-know-

nabis."

Kentucky marijuana, commonly called
Kentucky blue grass, is like other American-grown
marijuana, very weak when
compared to Asian Cannabis, Dr. I shell
says. Marijuana grown from seed from
Mexico or Thailand contains from 1.5
to 2.5 percent THC, as much as 10 times
more than marijuana grown from Kentucky
seed, he says.
Chemical anal) sis of two marijuana
joints from Lexington, reported by users
to be the normal "run of Kentucky grass"
sltowed that one cigarette was weak,
having .27 milligrams of THC The other
joint contained .6 milligrams of THC
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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1970

Airplane's 'Volunteers' Should Be A Classic
By MILLER FRANCIS,

JR

College Tress Service
There are times when criticism passes beyond evaluation
and becomes advertising, the review becomes a "hype," any one
statement a "plug." This is one
of those times. The Jefferson Airplane has created an album that
is so rich in conception and so
perfect in its implementation that
little can be said in the way of
"critical analysis," only: Dig It!
A few artists or groups perform
on such a high level that dealing
with their recorded work is more
a matter of assimilation of something far beyond your capacities
as a listener (much less as a
writer): the judge becomes the
Judged. "Beggars' Banquet" was
such an album, Dylan's stuff,
the Beatles' "The Notorious Bird
Brothers, anything by the Band,
"Tommy," the Mothers of Invention, "Surrealistic Pillow,"
and now another one by the Jefferson Airplane, "Volunteers of
Amerika" (shortened by RCA Victor, who did a generally lousy
job of recording and pressing this
album, to Volunteers).

The overall finished product
is perfect Airplane music, with
the added presence of Jerry Garcia, Steve Stills, and David Crosby contributing a broader spectrum of colors, and the nonpareil
piano work of Nicky Hopkins
inviting a deserved comparison

with "Beggars' Banquet" (Just

his presence guarantees a similar
sound).
"We Can Be Together" is a
love song to the revolutionary
youth movement. (Listen closely
and you'll hear the same rhythm

underlying the alternative

mel-

ody and lyrics of "Volunteers.")

Just about the hippest thing I've
ever heard in the way of "political" rock, this song combines
mi lit an ce in its verbal stance.
("We are outlaws in the eyes of
Amerika In order to survive, we
steal, cheat, lie, forge, hide and
dealWe are obscene, lawless, hideous, dangerous, dirty, violent
and young" with a lyrical kind of
sentimentality in the way it is
performed. The "message" of the
vocals and instrumental is expressed in another stanza: "Come
on all you people standing
aroundOur life's too fine to let
it die and We can be together).
Paul Kantner has everybody in
the same boat in this song, everybody young, and the advice is as
sound as can be: "All your private property isTarget for your
enemyAnd your enemy isWe."
By now you've probably heard
that the Airplane sings those famous lines, "Up against the wall,
mother" and they do; but the way
the statement is handled in the
context of this song is very clever
and imaginative indeed. It follows a brief pause in the song

and appears after the lines,
"Everything they say we are we
arcAnd we are veryProud of
ourselves," so that these specific
lines are emphasized, and sing
like a piece of dialogue complete
with quotation marks.
The Airplane is obviously
more into tearing down walls
than putting people up against
them, and the song ends with a
positive statement of cosmic revolution: "We must begin here
and nowA new continent of earth
and fireTear down the walls
Come on now getting higher and
higherTear down the walls!"

ing that speetlWill slide down
on y ouLike brakes in bad weather?" -- with one of the most
perfect singing instalments in
all of rock music on top of a
solo by Jonna (with wah-wa- h
pedal) that must be heard, as
they say, to be believed. Toward
the end, the tempo is halved
and doubled and everyone works
their ears off, Jorma's shouting,
screaming
guitar over bass,
drums, and tambourine.

"Eskimo Blue Day" is
another one of Crace's specialitiescold, savage lyrics sung

with eerie, sustained vocal lines
controlled vibrato.
"The Farm" is the biggest and tightly All Seasons" is the
"A Song for
surprise of the album, one of second
country style song, and
two country songs undoubtedly
its lyrics fall into the category
inspired by the presence of Cros- of
rock: after castiby and Stills, and containing
another rock group for
gating
some really fine pedal steel guisuccess at the price of
tar by Jerry Carcia, The Jeffer- obtaining
internal stability "Well, the
son Airplane is just about the
is
last rock group I'd expect to word, my friend, you know, of
on the streetIt's on the lips
find living on a farm, but this
I meetWhile you're
song is a hymn to just that kind everyone
climbing up the chartYour band
of life.
just fell apartI guess your life
"Hey Fredrick" Is Crace
Slick's tour de force, the best just ain't really that complete,"
thing she's done since "White the singer makes a fast exit from
Rabbit." In that same vein of the scene. "Well, my friend, it's
Bolero-typ- e
time for me to goI just can't be
building up of rhythmic intensity, late for my evening showYou
"Frederick" matches some of see, I've written this tuneAnd
Grace's freakiest lyrics. Is this I liope that very soonI'll be
d
heard on Top 40 radio." Put
maybe an
song?
"How many machine men will this one in the same very high
class as the Stones' rock song
you see before youStop believ

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d,

anti-spee-

alout rock songsters, "Jigsaw
Puzzle."
"Volunteers" is the mover of
the set, a street fighting song if
ever there was one. Most folks
missed the boat on the Beatles
Stones controversy over "Revolu-

tion" and "Street Fighting
Man"; so freaked out were they
over the former that they stupidly
embraced the latter for almost
all the things it was not, missing
both the muffled militance of
the Beatles song and the cold
cynicism of the Stones tune.
"Volunteers" is what we tried
to force "Street Fighting Man"

to be.
Evidently the Airplane knew
exactly what they were doing
because this song is Just over
two minutes long, guaranteeing
convenient airplay. I heard it on
an Atlanta station followed by
John Mayall's "Don't throw
rocks at policemen" thing!), and
it is so simple in its lyric emphases and so infectious in its
rhythms that it insists on being
a
"Volunteers" is the
1909 version of "Cet Together"
(a lovepeaceflowers song by the
Youngbloods now resurrected by
RCA Victor years later), which
the Airplane recorded back in the
hey-daof the Haight. The distance between the two songs
is the distance we have travelled
between the
and the
clenched fist.
The Jefferson Airplane loves
you.
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Friedman Folk Album,
Alas, Nothing New
By TOM BO WD EN

of anyone whom one would want
Kernel Staff Writer
as a "Constant Companion,"
Ruthann Friedman makes nice (which is the title of Miss Fried;
man's collection.)
images.
With her voice, which is strong
Speaking of others: "Mornand insistent, with her guitar ing becomes youMorning bewhich furtively follows her voice, comes your smileRunning to
with her lyrics which glide and greet youSunlight would stay a
pop like soap bubbles, she makes while." What this is, is a very
nice images.
nice thought; it is simple, comBut, alas, there is more to plete, and pleasing.
music and lyric than soap bubbles
She has a zeal for the beauty
which float nowhere, as Miss
of nature, which is well revealed
Ruthann is wont to do.
First of all, she sings folk in lines like the above. In her
pleasing lyric about a Utopia
music. The compositions are origin and with nature, "Peaceable
inal, but nevertheless they are in
the folk vein, which form is not Kingdon," she writes: "Morning
renowned for its intricacy and breaks the darkness and the stars
will fall and shatterYou may look
depth.
Her themes are typical she at willow trees and ask them
what's the matterThe bud does
sings of love, nature and disbut she is seldom not bloom the cloud cannot cry
illusionment,
And we cannot see to answer
incisive.
of herself: "I'm all them whyBlindly we see that
Speaking
alone inside a big wet tear." two things we beWho would
"No time in my world of lights be one within the sunOf the
and brightsNo last times to make peaceable kingdom."
In her "confessions" song(one
me so up tightNo tomorrows
of which must be included in
they're made for the blindThe
soul of now to clear my mind." every folk album, a la Bob Dylan, Arlo Cuthrie, Patrick Sky,
Such unbridled
hedonism
Eric Andersen) she dips very low
coupled with mawkish self-pit- y
makes up the personality in her pot of cliches for her
hardly
lines: "Well I travel with the
gypsies because I like their easy
Bar-Ula- n
waysThey do not criticize me
for mistakes I made yesterday."
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The painting above, by UK
James Suzuki, is inscribed, "Sun out of my own
heartmy burning thoughtsSuzuki, 1969." Much

the 15th century Dutch painter. The similarity
lies in distended figures juxtaposed with seemingly unrelated inanimate objects, all of which bears
of Suzuki's recent work, including this selection, no apparent relation to any real-- odd referents.
presently being shown in the Gallery of the Below, artist Suzuki (left) explains some of his
Fine Arts Building, shows a remarkable similar- work to interested viewers. Suzuki's work is being
ity to some of the work of Hieronymus Bosch, shown as part of a UK Art Faculty Show.
artist-in-residen-

To Give Recital

She even finds time for an
highly
polemic which lashes
praised young Israeli pianist, will out at . . . well, at whoever it
present a piano recital at 8.15 is she's referring to: "Too much
p.m. Thursday Jan. 22 at Me- greed in this wicked, wicked
morial Coliseum as a feature of
world, too much greed, Oh Lord."
the Central Kentucky Concert
Sing it, sister.
and Lecture Series.
All programs in the series
And, like many in today's
are open to UK students upon disenchanted generation, Miss
presentation of both Activities Friedman seems to be waging
war constantly against moraand ID cards, and to purchasers
of season memberships. No ticklityor at least against the "esmorality and
ets are available for any single tablishment's"
she says so in about the same
attractions.
terms as everyone else: "Damn
The mercurial David
the chaos and down with the
is an artist with a many faceted
personality. Performing is the foolsAnd don't bug me with all
"core of his life, Just for the your rules."
sheer thrill of making music,
To sum it up, if you like folk
and the opportunity of sharing music, and in particular, female
this wonderful musical experi- singers on the order of Joan Baez,
ence with others, and giving then this album is a fair
them, if possible, some Joy."
Bar-Illa- n,

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Pianist
David

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1970- -3

At Various Universities

ROTC Becomes Target For Demonstrations
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programs at Rutgers, the
University of Oregon, the University of Wisconsin and Northwestern University have lcen hit
by incidents of student disruption.
At Rutgers, the
of an Army ROTC building set
off a series of protests against
ROTC that culminated in the
arrest of 21 SDS members for
disrupting a meeting of the
school's Board of Governors.
The FBI is currently investigating the bombing, which did
minor damage to window frames,
curtains and an office machine.
The next day, the dean of students cancelled an orientation
session for freshmen scheduled by
the Army ROTC when 40 demonstrators showed up. SDS had
earlier announced their intention
to stop ROTC from recruiting.
When a demonstrator tried to
enter the meeting, a scuffle broke
out during which many of the
demonstrators were able to gain
entry. They debated with 20 or so
freshmen who had appeared for

the orientation, but the meeting

was officially called off. 461 are

TODAY AND
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Tomorrow

enrolled in ROTC at

currently
Rutgers.

scliool would not serve as a sanc-

tuary from the law for student

End To ROTC Demanded
Two days later, 21 students
were arrested on trespassing and
disorderly conduct charged for
carrying before the Board of Governors their demands for an end
to ROTC and an end to the institution's allegedly discriminatory treatment of Dlack and
erican
workers. 40 participated in all.
The disturbance, which took
place in the President's Dining
Room, involved the first use of
outside police on Rutger's New
Brunswick campus in its history.
The students began chanting after entering the meeting, preventing any official from speaking.
When the University president
announced the intruders would
have to leave in ten minutes or
face suspension, few left.
After ten minutes were up,
the president, Mason Cross, said,
"Those of you who are here are
suspended from the University
pending judicial review . . . Since
you are suspended, you are now
trespassers." Two hours later, 30
police in riot gear arrested the
students and released them shortly on $25 bail.
Spanish-Am-

lawbreakers. He pledged university cooperation with local police
in handling situations that previously had been dealt with under
internal university regulations.
At the University of Oregon,
three ROTC recruiters were splattered with animal blood duing
winter term registration by members of a group calling itself
the "Women's Militia." Leaflets
circulated read, "Avenge My
Lai . . . Smash ROTC." The
blood was hurled in plastic sacks.
Both the University president
and the student paper, the Daily
Emerald condemned the act, the
former saying it was tantamount
to goldfish swallowing, the latter
saying it was a "less than feminine" undertaking that smacked
of barbarism and savagery. The
FBI has joined local police in

sin's Milwaukee campus, a faculty member and eight youths, five
of them students, were arrested
after they marched into ROTC
offices on campus. Seven, including the faculty member, were
charged with "misconduct on
public grounds" under a state
law which went in effect last
August to deal with campus

Russian Journalists
Begin Tour Of States
NEW YORK (AP- )- Eleven Soviet journalists arrived Monday
to begin a three-wee- k
tour of the
United States under the U.S.- -.
Soviet Exchange Program.
They will visit Chicago, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Oklahoma
City, New Orleans and Washington.
They are being accompanied
by Norman E. Isaacs, president
of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and executive ed-

investigating the matter.
On Jan. 3, some 35 Oregon
students entered a meeting of
a faculty ad hoc committee on
ROTC,
the room
spraying
with imaginary machine gun fire.
The committee was charged with
avoiding the real issue by discusitor of the Courier-Journand
sing the accreditation and curLouisville Times. American ediriculum of ROTC rather than
tors had toured the Soviet Union
President Cross subsequently its abolishment from campus.
last August and September unAt the University of Wiscon
announced that henceforth the
der the program.
al

Free University classes (or Wednesday are:
Sur-rePhotography at 6:30 p.m.
in Room 111 of the Student Center.
Camus: His Philosophy and
Albert
writings at 6:30 p.m. in Room 113
of the Student Center.
Encounter Group at 7:15 p.m. In
Koinonla House, 412 Rose St.
at 7:30 p.m., call Sue
Turning-O- n
or UK extenJohnson at
sion 3660.
Zero Population Growth at 8 p.m.
in Room 309 of the Student Center.
al

254-76-

Coming Up
Free University classes for Thursday, Jan. 22 are:
QUEST,
"Questioning University
Education by Students and Teachers"
at 6:30 p.m. in Room 109 of the Student Center.
Foods Good, Bad and Indifferent
at 7:30 p.m. at 341 Lexington Ave.
Social Values at 8 p.m. at 350 S.
Upper St.
Impact of Science on Society at 8
p.m. in Room 137 of the Chemistry-Physic- s.
The Air Force Officer's Qualification Test will be given Thursday,
Jan. 22 at 6:30 p.m. in Room 206
of Barker Hall.
There will be a Volunteer Programs
Workshop on Sat., Jan. 24 in the small
Ballroom of the Student Center from
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. All interest students are invited to attend. Registration forms may be obtained from
Anna N. Boiling. Director of Volunteer Programs, Human Relations Center, Room 120 of the Student Center.

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Madison campus were sabotaged
or
by a group identifying itself as the Vanguard of
the Revolution. The actions came
sliortly after an Army munitions
plant 35 miles north of Madison
was subject to the first known
air attack on an American munitions plant on its native soil.

"We do not wish to make any
statement," said G. A.
group's interpreter,
after clearing customs at KenVladi-mirsky,.t-

nedy Airport. He also is a correspondent for "Moscow News."
But not everyone was so reticent. Igor A. Geyevsky of the
Soviet Academy of Sciences
apologized for his command of
English and quickly began
viewing the interviewers.

"Where can I buy some new
American books?" he asked, explaining that he was working on
a scholarly magazine and American politics and economics.

* The Direct Primary
Occasionally a breath of fresh
air slips into the stagnant political
framework of our commonwealth
which deserves the enthusiastic
support of all factions. Such is the
case with the Joint Young Democrats' and Kentucky Federation of
Young Republicans
proposal to
institute a presidential primary in
the state.
The leaders of the two organizations announced they expected
a bill to be introduced in the
Kentucky legislature soon which
would make it possible for
to vote directly for their
party's presidential candidate. Under the present system party leaders from the state, representing
the views of the party regulars
who selected them, convene to
choose the candidate for whom the
state's votes should be cast.
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Not only does the present system impose an unnecessary link
between the people and the candidate their party chooses, but it

serves to hamper innovation in the
political scene. Since the party
leaders control the selection process of the convention delegates,
the only method by which a new
ideology can gain prominence is
for its proponents to reorganize
their party from the precinct level.
This process is often impossible
because of the solid entrenchment
of the party line. When it is possible the amount of time, effort and
finances involved are prohibitive.

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The presidential primary might
also serve a longer range function.
It is conceivable that the added
feeling of participation which the
voting populace would gain from
the primary would increase its political awareness, eventually making a more intelligent voting public.
The advantages to be gained
from a direct presidential primary
would more than compensate for
whatever additional cost might be
involved.

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and violent crimes), the new Americans
raced to gorge themselves on the riches
of North America, procreating like crazy
all the way. In 1800 there were 104.2
acres of land for every person in the country, but by 1900 there were only twenty-fivToday there are only 10.6 acres per
person, and of this only 2.6 acres per person are considered fit for production of
food and fiber. By 1975 this will have
shrunk to 2.25 production acres per person, the minimum amount deemed necessary to produce the foods for the diet
of today's average American. Since, as
Dr. Davis has shown, the population
would continue to increase for a short
time even if the birth rate dropped immediately to an average of 1.5 children
per new family (because of our population-age
structure), it seems certain that
the level of Ameican affluence that most
of us have known in recent years is
certain to decline.
Indeed, it has already begun. The
angry cries cf the overburdened taxpayers, the disappearance of recreation space,
But as Dr. Wayne H. Davis has pointed a badly polluted environment, and the
plunge of the stock market are ample
out in his numerous Soapboxes, the United
States is in no position to ignore the evidence that life is not going to be as
population bomb. The United States is rosy in the years ahead. Dan Issel won't
seriously overpopulated already, and our suffer for his bonus contract next year,
but the potential supermen that Coach
204 million people are reproducing at a
rate which would double within seventy Ray is recruiting may find it very difshort years. Despite the highly important ficult to achieve the status of a Broadway Joe Namath when they graduate
and psychological
social, economic,
four years from now.
causes, the main reason for big city slums,
crime rates, crowded highways
increasing
The sad point about the probability
and recreation areas, polluted air and of a decline in American affluence is
water, the decline of real income to the that it is
being caused by those wh