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Wednesday Afternoon, Sept. 20, I967

 

The South’s Outstanding College Daily

Academic Shuffle

Gives Dr. Alhright

UK’S No. 2 Spot

The Board of Trustees Tuesday clearly established Executive
Vice President A. D. Albright as the No. 2 man within the Uni-
versity’s power structure and, at the same time, created a fifth

vice presidency.

The moves were part of a
new'academic organization plan
designed to coordinate all aca-
demic programs and “cease-
lessly review rthe strengths and
limitations of the University’s

. . . endeavor."

Dr. Albright was designated
University-wide academic of-
ficer.

Basically, the plan:

0 Replaces the University
provost with a dean of under-
graduate studies.

0 Creates the position of
dean of the graduate school
and vice president for research.

0 Strengthens the deans of
colleges by placing them direct-
ly under the Oflice of the Execu-
tive Vice President.

Cochran Named Dean

Dr. Lewis W. Cochran, who
has been provost since 1965,
was named dean oftbe uate
school and vice presi t for
research. He also will continue
as provost until a dean of
undergraduate studies is hired.»

The reorganization clearly
establishes Dr. AIbright-as the
No. 2 person within the Uni-
versity’s power structure.

Ithasnotbeenclearinthe
past whether the provost, as
dean of" the faculty, or the
executive vice president, who
is responsible for the budget,
should be in charge of academic
programming.

However, the plan clearly
states that the executive vice
president “shall be responsible
to the president for establish-
ing, implementing and review-
ing the general academic
policies of the institution.”

It also says Dr. Cochran, as
dean of the graduate school and
vice president for research, is
“under the broad direction of

Pi Beta Phi catcher Linda Linnon waits anxiously for
the pitch (left), gets an assist from umpire Patty Lieber
(middle) and finds an empty equipment bag makes a

' will

the president and the executive
vice president."
Elevates Research

‘ The new position elevates re-
search to a full vice presidency.
Dr. Raymond Bard was assistant
vice president for research in
Dr. Albright's oflice until he
resigned last year.

Under the plan, Dr. Cochran
will “provide general planning,
guidance and review for all of
the University's endeavors in
graduate instruction and re-
search."

The undergraduate dean will
serve as chairman of the Under-
graduate Council of the Uni-
versity Senate. He also ’will be
responsible for the honors pro-
gram, improving instructional
programs and for residential
college planning and program-
ming.

The system modifies two ex-
isting positions—vice president
of the medical center and dean
of the community college svs-
tem—and one approved by the
board last June, but yet to be
activated—extension service of-
ficer.

The five. along with Presi-
dent Oswald and Dr. Albright,
comprise an Academic
Council, the “central source of
recommendations on all general
phases . . . in teaching, research
and service.”

Called ‘Logical Step'
In proposing the reorganiza-

tion, Dr. Oswald said it con-

stitutes “what is believed to be
an improvement of the utmost
importance . . The modifica~
tions in general academic or-
ganization are a logical next
step as the University meets

Continued on Page 3. Col. 1

Please,

 

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

It Might As Well Be Spring

Two affectionate UK students enjoy Tuesday's balmy weather

on the grass in front of the administration building.

 

Three Court Rulings
Boost Student Freedom

By WALTER GRANT
The Collegiate Press Service
WASHINGTON—Three recent federal court decisions may have
far-reaching significance in guaranteeing due process and academic
freedom for students on college and university campuses.

The decisions uphold the
rights of students to freedom
of expression and prohibit ad-
ministrations from expelling stu-
dents without specifying charges
and holding a hearing.

In all three cases students

*who had been expelled from

their schools were ordered re-
admitted by the courts.

In Montgomery, Ala., a fed-
eral judge ordered Troy State
College, Troy, Ala, to readmit
a student editor who had been
expelled after a dimute with
college officials over the censor-
ship of an editorial he wrote
for the student newspaper last
Spring-

Howard Students Win

In the second case the US.
Court of Appeals ordered How-
ard University in Washington,
D. C., had to take back four
students who had been expelled
for alleged Black Power activi-
ties on campus.

And in Orangeburg, S. C., a
federal district judge ruled that

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seem to bother the coeds as the Alpha Chi Omegas us 19-1, but we've got a lot ofspiritl"
defeated the Pi Phis in an IM softball game. Asked who

three students were unlawfully
suspended by the faculty dis-
cipline committee after they had
led protest demonstrations on
the campus last February.

The court decisions are not
considered landmark because
other judges have issued similar
rulings in recent years. How-
ever, the decisions are expected

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establish academic freedom and
due process for students. The
number of institutions of higher
learning with liberal student
judicial codes is small, but
steadily increasing.

In the Troy State College
case, federal district Judge
Frank Johnson Jr. ruled that “a
state cannot force a college stu-
dent to forfeit his constitution-
ally protected right of freedom

Continued on Page 8, Col. 1

 

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\‘ Vol. LIX, No. 17

History Has

Shaped War,
Speaker Says

By DARRELL RICE

Arnold C. Brackman Tuesday
night cited ”historical forces" as
the main reason for the United
States' huge involvement in Viet-
nam.

Mr. Brackman, who is the
author of several books on con-
temporary Southeast Asia, also
listed what he considered the
most significant factors in the
situation by January 1%5 (the
time immediately before the
United States started the air war
against North Vietnam and be-
fore the major buildup of U. S.
ground forces).

The factors were:

) The situation in South Viet-
nam itself. “It was obvious to
everyone then," Mr. Brackman
said, "that the government was
at the stage of collapse."

DThe “Thailand-is-next” an-
nouncement by a Chinese ofii-
cial.

)The formation of the Sino-
Indonesian axis, which was to
have provided for the division
of Southeast Asia between China
and Indonesia.

) The fact that Britain immed-
iately put sumo men and 70 war-
ships into action when Sukarno
attacked Malaysia, andthat it did
sosuccessfully.

DThe '"veryweak defense sys—
tems of representative govern—
ments in East Asia and The Pa—
cific.

DChina's first successful nu-
clear test that took place in Oc-
tober 1%4.

‘Chickens Came To Boost'

”In January 1%5 all these
chickens came to roost," Mr.
Brackman“'said, "and they all
roosted on President Johnson's
doorstep."

But he said the conflict went
as far back astheFranklin Roose-
velt administration when Presi—
dent Roosevelt asked General
Charles De Cualle not to reap-
propriate France's Indochina col-
onies after World War II.

When De Cualle took Indo-
china, Mr. Brackman said, the
United States, under Truman,

Continued on Page 2. Col. 4

 

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WENDELL roan
‘Respectable’
Students Due

Assistance?

Wendell Ford, Democratic
candidate for lieutenant gover-
nor, addressing the Young Dem-
ocrats, Tuesday night urged
youth not to oppose the Demo-
cratic Party just to be differ-
ent.

“It seems to be the thing to
be different," he said. "If you
want something different, we
have it in Henry Ward."

Mr. Ford concentrated on
problems of youth in his ad-
dress. He promised that, if he
is elected, “young people will
have a communication line to
Frankfort.”

He also discussed the forma-
tion of a Youth Commission.
The purpose of it would be to
hear the problems of young
adults. Efforts in the past have
concentrated on helping juvenile
delinquents, he said. It is time,
he proposed, to help “respect-
able" college students. '

For young people who have
lived through the ages of the
atom, hydrogen, missile and
space, Mr. Ford said, it is
necessary to provide adequate
teaching and teaching facilities.

Also introduced at the meet-
ing was Claude Reed, Demo-

’ crat candidate for secretary of

state. Speaking briefly, Mr.
Reed said that Henry Ward is
a builder and that one need
only to look at our highways to
know it.

_ said,

History Has Shaped War,
Brackman Tells UK Crowd

Continued From Page 1
sided with the French rather
than with the Vietnamese.

“It's a terrible story—it’s like
a Greek tragedy,” he said. “We
keep getting in deeper and
deeper.”

Mr. Brackman, who is pres-
ently a free-lance writer and con-
sultant, believes American in-
volvement is not the fault of any
single president.

”Johnson did exactly what
Kennedy would have done," he
“and Kennedy did what
Eisenhower would have done
and so on, all the way
back to Roosevelt.

‘No Decision'

”There just was no decision,"
he explained.

As for a way out of the war,
Mr. Brackman said he favors a
position drafted by two congress-
men last August.

He explained the Bradford-
Morse plan as calling for a stop
to U.S. bombing above the 2lst
parallel. for 30 days. If the North
does not attempt to move past
this line, he said, then bombing
should be halted above the 20th
parallel for 30 days, and so forth
until the seventeenth parallel, the
border between North and South
Vietnam, is reached.

Mr. Brackman said the idea
would have the advantage of
keeping bombing away from the
Chinese frontier to prevent
further escalation of the war,
and that it would allow the
United States to put all itspower
at the Demilitarized Zone to pre-
vent infiltration into the South.

- ”We (the United States) would
gain support," he added. ”World
pressure would be put on the
North to negotiate."

Mr. Brackman spoke at the
Commerce auditorium.

Concert, Lecture

Tickets On Sale

Season memberships for the
Central Kentucky Concert and
Lecture Series will remain on
sale through Saturday. Admis-
sion to this' year's 12-program
season is by membership card
only as no tickets are avail-
able for individual programs.

All programs will be at the
University of Kentucky’s Me-
morial Coliseum. Season mem-
bership fee is $10 for adults
and $5 for children under 14.

Memberships can be obtain-
ed by contacting Mrs. Burton
Milward, executive secretary,
440 Andover Dr., Lexington
40502, or at Stifflers, Eastland,
Barney Miller’s or Smith-Wat-
kins in Southland.

Cumberland

Enrolls 427

Student enrollment at South-
east Community College, Cum—
berland, totaled more than 400
students this fall for the first
time since the college opened in
September 1960.

Total enrollment has in-
creased from 395 students last
fall to 427 this year. The number
of full-time students went from
358 to 388 and part- -time en-
rollment increased from 37 to.
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Today
AWS freshman senators will be
elected. Polls will be open in the

Student Center from 9 am. to 6
p.m., Biazer lobby and the complex
cafeteria from 11 a.m. to l p.m. and
4:3) to 6:33 p.m. ID cards are rc-
quircrl to vote.

Phi Alpha Theta. history honorary.
Will meet at 3:45 p.m. in Student
Center 206. Holman ,yHamilton and
A. D. K-rwan will speak on the Ful-
bright scholar program.

Freshmen and transfer students who
missed their tuberculin tests during
orientaton can make thetn up until
5 p.m. in the University Health Ser—
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Student Governmint will meet at
7 p.m. in Commerce Building 322.

Labor leader Sam Ezell will speak
at the YMCA Roundtable at 7:30 p.m.
in the Student Center Faculty Club.
third f'oor

(Ioming Up

Key's. sophomore men's honorary,
is taking applications. Requirements
are a 3.0 overall and 28 credit hours
earned. Contact Bill Moss. 820 Malabu
Drive. Deadline is Wednesday.

ID cards may be picked up in Room
C of the Coliseum daily from 8 to 12
and 1:33 to 4:30.

Any woman interested in entering
the doubles tennis intramurals and
men interested in handball intramur—
ais should call 233-0941 or contact
the CSA office. 107 Student Center.

Work sessions for the Blue Marlins
hnvr- been rescheduled. Rehearsals
scheduled for Sept. 19. 2i. and 26
have been moved to Oct. 10. 12. and
17; those sessions meeting on Sept.
28 and Oct. 3 have been rescheduled
for Oct. 19 and 24.

Oct. 9 is the deadline for applica—
tions to Omicron Delta Kappa men's
leadership honorary. Juniors and
seniors with a 2.8 overall can inquire
at the Studéht Center East informa-
tion desk. _

Dr. Richard A. Prindle. director of
the Bureau of Disease Prevention and
Environmental Control of the U.S.
Public Health Service. will deliver the
second annual L. E. Smith Memorial
Lecture at 8 p.m. Sept. 28 in the
Med Center Auditorium.

 

 

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Howard Students Predict ‘Turmoil’

The Collegiate Prou service

WASHINGTON — Howard
University, the site of numerous
demonstrations and Black Power
rallies last year, apparently will
not see an end to campus pro-
tests until administrators sur-
render“ some of their authority
to students.

With classes just beginning
this week, Student Assembly
President Ewart Brown already
has issued a statement serving
notice on the university that
“the oppressive system which
has spawned the past year’s
activities will no longer be
tolerated.”

(A related story bearing

partly on events at Howard ap-
pears on page 1.)

To start the school year off,
about 120 Howard students and
two faculty members walked out
of the formal opening-day
speech by President James M.
Nabrit Ir. Student leaders said
they were protesting “100 years
of oppression." '

After the walkout, Brown
said, “Neither students nor
faculty have rights at Howard.
All rights and power belong to
.a small corps of administrators
who have used their absolute
authority to expel both faculty
and students who spoke out
against their dictatorship."

Academic Shuffle Puts

Dr. Albright Second

Continued From Page 1
the challenge of its second'
century.”

On another matter, the board
unanimously passed a resolution
reaffirming all its previous posi-
tions supporting the acquisition
of Maine Chance Farm. The
resolution urged the University

Research Foundation “to pro- '

ceed with all steps necessary to
effectuate the purchase agree-
ment and obtain the deed for
Maine Chance Farm in ample
time to assure the fulfillment
of the Foundation's contractural
obligations."

Dr. Clenwood Creech, vice
president for University rela-
tions, said the resolution in-
directly referred to State At-
' tomey General Robert Mathews'
request for a delay in complet-
ing the transaction.

As to Mr. Mathews' request
for more information on the
issue, Mr. Creech said, “He has
received what he asked far in
his initial request. He has asked
for additional information, and
if it hasn't been provided, it
will. be."

Mr. Mathews, speaking at
his Shelbyville home, said he
has had no formal correspond-
ence from the University con-
cerning either request. How-
ever, he added, “I'm assuming
we will (receive all the in-
formation)."

Other Business Listed

In other business, the board:
0 Approved increasing the
expenditure authorization of
University Hospital by $654,-
920, including $461,813 in total

    

DR. LEWIS COCHRAN

general fund and another $193,-
107 for an additional 45 beds.

0 Increased the University’s
1967-88 budget by $150,941.

0 Approved a disability in-
surance plan for faculty and
certain staff members.

0 Requested a report on
liability coverage for students
on University assignments.

o roved “in principle”
the Hop insville Community
College Preliminary Develop-
ment Plan, with the understand-
ing that the plan will be
periodically revised as the pro-
gram requirements of the col-
lege become more fully ex-
pressed.

. Authorized President Os-
wald to sign waiver and consent
with reference to right to ap-
point a successor trustee.

Appointed Dr. P. P. Karan
chairman of the geography de-
partment. Dr. Karan has been
acting chairman since the retire-‘
ment- last spring of Dr. J. R.
Schwendeman. '

 

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Expelled 16 Students

Howard officials expelled 16
students and five faculty mem-
bers during the summer, ap-
parently because of their politi-
cal involvement last year. The
US Court of Appeals has
ordered Howard to readmit four
of the students, at least until
a hearing has been held on
specified charges.

Ironically, the first-day walk-
out occurred while President
Nabrit was making a speech
which was somewhat sympa-
thetic with the students’ cause.

He said, “Students and faculty
insist rightfully upon all legal
rights, freedom of sepech, free-
dom of assembly and due
process . . .” however, he also
criticized Negro militants who
“by their noise, their actions,
and their trumpeting . . . seek
to discredit and destroy all who
do not blindly accept their
gods.” ‘

Several Howard students and
faculty members have predicted
this will be a year filled‘ with
turmoil.

Nabrit May Not Quit

Dr. Nabrit, who announced
earlier that he would retire in
June, has been quoted in the
Hilltop, the student newspaper

at Howard, as saying he may
not step down at the end of the
year. .w

“I will be president for all
of this year, and maybe even
next," Nabrit said. “Of course I
am going to retire, but I have
not given the board (of
trustees) official notiqe.”

John Price, diector of
Howard's public relations office,
told the University of Maryland
Diamondback that Nabrit had
never said he would leave im-
mediately, but that it would be
“highly unlikely for him to be
there for three years." Nabrit
reaches mandatory retirement
age in 1969. .

Student Assembly President
Brown said he was confused
by ‘Nabrit's apparent reversal.
Brown called the president's
statement in the Hilltop “PR
News.” If Nabrit were to resign
now, said Brown, it would look
as if he were forced out by
“the bunch of Black Power ad-
vocates."

The student leader said
he does not specifically care
whether or not Nabrit leaves
because dit's the whole rotten
attitude of the administration,
and Nabrit would only bear the
brunt of the mounting criticism
if he left now."

King Library Alters
Check-Out, Catalogue

Several changes have been
made in the library check-out
system, according to Mrs. M. T.
Copeland, circulation librarian
of the King Library.

The changes, already in effect,
mean less paper work on thepart
of both the student and librarian.

Previously, all books checked
out were filed in two different
ways—a chronological file of
when the books were due and an
alphabetical file of who had the
backs checked out.

The new system, the McBee
Keysort System, combines both
of these files into one. With the
new system, books are easier to
locate and can be more quickly
returned to the shelf for others

"to use.

Several other changes have al-
so been made. Graduate students
may now check out a book for

Maine Chance Is
Not His Concern,

Henry Ward Says

Special To The Kernel

GEORGETOWN —- Henry
Ward, Democratic nominee for
governor, said here Tuesday
thathewouldtakenostandon
the University’s purchase of
Maine Chance Farm.

Mr. Ward said the matter
was one that should be handled
by the present state administra-
tion and UK officials.

He did say, however, “that
I won’t do what Ronald Reagan
did in California and interfere
in the affairs of the University.”

one semester instead of for a
month. The faculty loan period
has been increased to a year.

A personal reserve system has
also been added. Ifabook needed
by a student is not in, the stuo
dent fills in a form and the li-
brary will make every effort to
locate the book and inform the
student when the book will be
1n.

The library will now be open
at 1 pm. on Sunday. Approx-
imately 100 additional study
desks have been installed in the
stacks. In addition, a new read—
ing room has been. Opened. ’

 

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Composition Flunks

Students learn and teachers
teach, and the process equals ed-
ucation. So we are told. But some—
times that old simplistic formula
falls flat. A case in point is fresh-
man composition.

Composition has long been
billed as the only course necessary
for graduation, as the common de-
nominator which introduces all stu-
dents to the University. Its central
purpose is to teach students how
to write lucid, expository prose
based on sound logic and critical
thinking. "

Not only have the composit-
ion courses largely failed that aim,
but all too often they have left
their victim freshmen confused and
bewildered. It doesn’t take much
reading of freshmen themes, even
as the second semester course
closes, to realize that somehow
the students still have not learned
to write good expository prose. A
couple of nights spent in freshman

dorms reading their papers makes

the point painfully obvious. ,

A defensive teacher might charge
the students' background in state
high schools was so miserable that
nothing could be done with them.
On the contrary, the fault lies with
the teaching, 90 percent of which

is done by English graduate stu-‘

dents who don't know how to teach
writing. '

While exploration of contempo-
rary novels and poetry may offer
fascination and even good training
for English majors, their use in
composition courses to date has
been far too extensive. Time and

again 7 freshmen-whose Kentucky
high school background is admit-
tedly poor in writing—"are subjected
to literary discussions of American
authors. A course theme like ”The
Tragic Vision" may be stimulating
for those students of a literary bent
who already write well, but it is
oflittle value to students who need
to be taught the rudiments of good
writing.

In such circumstances, what
does the student who has never
written more than short paragraphs
do when confronted with an assign-
ment to analyzean essay by Bert-
[flfld Russell? Generally, he flunks.
What does the teacher do besides
mark comma splices? He writes
”vague" or ”you seem to have a
vacuum in the upper story." None
of which help the student write a
better paper, and all of which
drive him to fearful confusion.

If this University wantstoteach
its students to write clear exposi-
tion, then it ought to seriously
examine what UK students need
and what courses produce good
writing. It might well take the ex-
ample of a basic newswriting
course, where teacher and student
alike begin at the beginning—with
simple ordering ofinformation, then
of sentences, then of paragraphs
all based on sound logical princi-
ples. Without such rudimentary
training, all the esoteric assign-
ments English graduate students
can dream up amount to~—as the
composition teachers say—no more
than ”sound and fury signifying
nothing.”

 

 

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It’s Rum, By Gum

”Rum Chiffon Pie," the cafe-
teria sign read.

Hmmm, the thirsty student
”thought. Wonder if things have
changed around here?

If rum is in the pie, then rum
must be in the'Student Center.
And if rum is in the Student Cen-
ter, and the Student Center is still
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versity must have changed a few
rules.

And his mind filled full ofliquid
thoughts, like maybe they'll start
serving beer in the grill, or maybe
they'll serve champagne at Foun-
der's Day Ball, or maybe President
Oswald will serve his guestsadrink
when they visit him.

That is, if the ”Rum Chiffon
Pie" is really ”Rum Chiffon Pie."

  

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White Liberals Termed Absurd;

‘Preach N onviolence—F or Negroes’

The white liberal is absurd because
he wants Negroes to obey the law now,
while the white man can obey the law
whenever he feels like it. (Racial segre
gation in public schools is against the
law.)

The liberal believes strongly in non—
violence—for Negroes. He doesn't preach
nonviolence to his white racist brothers.
Unless the white liberal is willing to
apply the same ethical standards to his
own people as he imposes on the black
man, the white liberal is a hypocrite. If
he is unaware of his hypocrisy, then the
whiteliberal is also absurd.

In any event, when a man is fighting
for survival he cannot tolerate hypocrisy.

David Luckens
A&S Senior

Disagrees With Eebanese

I object to the tone and length of the
”Misspelled Name" letter by Nabeel F.
Haider. So you called him Naidar instead
of Haidar: big deal. Why does he have to
go into a full column cry-in. throwing in
everything from his grandmother to the
chemistry department?

While I'm at it, I might suggest that
though the US. Middle Eastern policy
is far from cool, it does seem to work
somewhat better than the Middle Eastern
policy of any Arab nation in sight. Per-
haps Mr. Haidar can, with his ”many
other personal opinions," tell us why.
Perhaps he can also tell us just what the
Arabs did with Palestine in all of those
centuries they were there.

Cecil Cook
AérS Junior

  

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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1967 — 5

Soapbox: Cynicism OK, But Paranoia’ 3 Best

By JOHN JUNOI'

Hearst must be puking in his
grave right now. The Kernel just
can t carry on the tradition.

Not that I'm accusing the
campus paper of yellow jouma-
lism. Journalism implies at least
semi-literacy. And semi-organiza-
tion. The Kernel seems to lack
both.

Take for instance the front
page, Sept. 14, 1967. "Bitch-In
Provokes Little But Apathy,"
reads the funniest headline of
the year. (“Hey, Joe, I feel mean,
let's go provoke some apathy."
“Not me, Jack. I don't care if
we have apathy or not") I found
this sentence in “The Painters
Censor Wall:n "Dr. Clenwood
Creech . . .said he . . . don’t
know who does, but he could
probably find out." Four column
inches are given over to a “Cor—
rection." (The Kernel is again
corrected in the ”Soapbox" ar-
ticle on page seven.) “Sic" 'em,
proofreaders.

Assuming The Kemel is jour-
nalism, then its color would be
the yellow of rancid butter or
maybe banana skins (roasted and
suitable for smoking). This is
due to the opinions expressed
in The Kernel. The editorials
aren't bad, either. But what else
could we expect from two great
editors, William F. Knapp and
Mary Baker Eddy? ~

Like Dope, It's Expensive

Tut, tut, you people on The,
Kernel really should know bet-
ter by now. By the time a guy
reaches college he should give
up the ”angry young man" bit.
Trying to stir up an average
American university is like tak-
ing dopiait hurts, it's expen-
sive, it's‘ addictive, and it doesn't
even feel good when you stop.
White middle class American just
ain't where the action is right
now. But thereare a lot of ”out-
side agitator" openings in back-
ward, recently freed nations (sic)
nations like Guatemala, Harlem,
and Appalachia.

But, let's face it, most of us
would miss hot running water.
America today is damn near
Utopia (excuse me, but I sound
like an outside agitator if I keep
repeating the "white middle
class" qualifier.) And we college

“students have the best of the
best because most of us don't
have to workvvery hard for a
living.

Sitting as we are at the pin-
nacle of Western civilization, we
should learn to “value" our
apathy and exert just enough
effort to overwhelm those who

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