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Signed Editorial

The Kernel has been under almost constant attack this academic
Almost every move the
year from groups both on- - and
has taken, both editorially and in its news coverage, has been
paper
challenged by someone. And often that person has been in a position
of power. But the Board of Student Publications bore the pressure
well and upheld the papers right to remain free.
Tuesday night, with the selection of a new editor, the board
negated all the positive things it did this year.
It became apparent early in the academic year that the board
was not entirely satisfied with many of the policies of the present
Kernel and that the end of the year would be the real test. The
board has always maintained, with justification, that its most important task is that of selecting the editors for the three campus
publications under it. (These are the Kernel, the Kentuckian and the
off-camp-

Kentucky Review.) And several members of the board
commented that next year would be different. Indeed it now will be..
But that is hardly the point.
In choosing Jim Miller as editor of next year's Kernel, the board
passed up the logical choice, Guy Mendes. Mendes is presently
managing editor of the paper and has served as staff writer, associate editor, sports editor and summer editor (1968). As managing
editor, the top news spot on the paper, he has clearly shown his
ability to produce a fine product. Miller is presently associate editor
of the paper under Mendes and has served as sports editor and
assistant sports editor of the paper. Mendes, who has written freelance stories for both The New York Times and Newsweek, with
whom he will be working this summer as one of 10 interns selected
from across the nation, is clearly the most experienced.
But the board was apparently unwilling to consider such things
as experience and journalistic qualifications. In interviewing the five
candidates for the spot, one of the members, Dr. Lyman Ginger,
clearly stressed that he was interested in how the applicants would
editorially treat such matters as student protest and
conflict. Ideology was clearly foremost in the minds of
many of the board members. And Mendes, who is most clearly
identified with this year's paper, was considered a little too liberal
for the board.
What results, then, is a clear case of censorship. It is not censorship in the sense of pulling stories from the paper before they are
printed or firing an editor because he opposes the administration.
It is a little more subtle. The board has tried to guarantee itself
that next year's paper will print views a little more closely related
to its own. It will keep itself out of hot water. The most qualified
candidate for editor was denied the spot because he did not share
the ideological view of the board.
The board, of course, will deny that this is the case. It will continue to talk about such things as freedom of expression and toleration of views to which it does not subscribe. But it has acted in
now-dorma- nt

a way to suggest that the situation is otherwise. The board has
made it abundantly clear that journalistic excellence is not what it
is seeking in the student paper.
Dr. Gifford Blyton, board chairman, perhaps made the best point
of the night when he addressed the board (after it allowed the editors to return following the closed selection meeting) when he said
the board ought to consider if it should abolish itself with the suggestion that its work possibly could better be handled in another
way. Several members of the board objected, of course, and spouted
forth platitudes about maintaining freedom of the press. But the
board apparently did not consider that only nine of the 14 members
saw fit to attend the editorial selection meeting, that only eight
board members attended the session in which the candidates were
interviewed and that they were not voting for freedom of speech,
but censorship. A board that behaves in this manner would indeed
be better defunct.
Jim Miller certainly is not to blame for all this. He did not pick
himself. The board did the censoring and should sleep a little uneasy for it. The author of this editorial feels it really won't. It has
been playing games like this too long.
The lesson has been learned: if a liberal to radical person wants
to be editor, he must lie through his teeth when being interviewed
by the board and turn his Kernel experience into public relations
work. The board demands it.
And because of this, the Kernel is moving toward becoming the
high school newspaper this campus seems to want. Both are bound
to suffer for it .

Lee D. Decker
Ed it or In Ch ief
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This editorial was presented to the entire editorial staff whose
names regularly are listed in the editorial page masthead. The following staff members subscribe to the above:
Darrell Rice, Editorial Page Editor
Howard Mason, Photography Editor
Guy M. Mendes III, Mangaging Editor
Jack Lyne, Arts Editor
Larry Kelley, Arts Editor
Terry Dunham, Assistant Managing Editor
Larry Dale Keeling, Assistant Managing Editor
Janice Barber, Assistant Managing Editor
Dana Ewell, Assistant Managing Editor
Frank Coots, Assistant Managing Editor

* KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, April 17, 1000

2-- TIIE

Boston Artist Grapples With The Sculpture Of Our Age: The Auto
(frustrated
mrter

Editor's Notes The following

art-

icle, written by Dr. David
appeared in The Boston
University News and was supplied to the Kernel through College Press Service. An explanatory note accompanying this article in the DU News read as follows: "Dr. David Doubilet, a
frequent contributor to the News,
is amillionairc Amcricanjcw who
gained a Porsche and lost his
Dad Thing. His car was towed
several months after the North
Koreans towed the spyship"Puo-bloand, as such, his article
got out of hand."
"She wrecked the car and she
felt bad."
Hobby Goldsboro, 19G8,
from "Honey."
liakersfield, California ,
Don-hilc-

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ican automobile sculpture. The
American car is as ugly as today, garish as the coming attractions. It is Chef
pizza, Brillo boxes and teased
hair.
The Italian car, however, is a
Italian car is a
, Brancuse. Or the
pressed metal cherub (Fiat
The Italian car has a
soul of its own despite the fact
that the electrical systems are
all fabricated from Lingulni. A
Ferrari or Lamborghini are the
Da Vincis of the road.
The German automobile is
functional functional in form
and design. German cars are of
t
the Bauhaus school. The
Without a doubt, an automois a miniature Bninhilde
bile is the sculpture of our age.
from the Wagnerian trilogy. But
Made of metal or plastic, the automobile is a great work of art, it is made of pressed metal infabricated from the iron brown stead of solid blonde flesh.
But the Porsch- e- the Porsche
rich earth of the world, from the
from
is fast. It obeys orders with a
forests of the tropics, and
the soil of the continental shelves. crisp determination. It obeys orders even if owned by an AmerThe automobile is four rubthousands of ican Jew. A Porsche is loved
ber pillars (tires),
and idolized, doted on by its
tiny explosives per minute,
owners; yet this metal work of
gleaming chrome and singart can be turned into metal
ing walls.
soup by a monstrous, careening,
Andy Warhol is the main imCadillac.
petus behind the design of Amer- It takes 3000 miles to discover that most British cars are
made of simulated cardboard.
1969-7THE
Driving an MG or a Sprite at
KERNEL STAFF
KENTUCKY
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a Sopwith Camel.
IS NOW BEING SELECTED!
So with insane kinetic energy, the sculptures of our age
We urge all interested
dash and crash and perform the
students to apply.
dance of life. In Boston a million automobiles search for a
Applications may be
thousand parking spaces. The
obtained

Silence: footfalls on recently
dropped gray snow. Morning
again and, with a waxen hand,
into the pocket to withdraw with
a dead flourish, the car keys.
With another fumbling, dead
flourish the key goes into the
ignition the right foot descends
to the gas pedal. Now the fingers
of the waxen hand, controlled
d
arm, connected
by a
to a
body and brain,
become suddenly alert; just the
fingers. They tum, turn the key.
Deep within the basement
bowels of the car, frozen machinery copulates with other frozen
machinery. The pistons begin to
slip, then slap against the cold
cylinder walls. A tiny spark
marches across the gap in the
spark plug. Machinery copulates.

The engine makes a
orsound then, mechanical
.
gasm
The engine catches. Above,
with hands on the wheel, the
car, THE SCULPTURE OF OUR
AGE, grinds out of the parking
space, tires crunching on the
snow. Then struggle into traffic,
life and the struggle for existence.
Both the driver and the
machine are still cold, cold from
sleep. Nevertheless, the Sculpture
of our Age and THE ARTIST OF
OUR TIME move out into the
mainstream of life.
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m aids
wives of the world) descend on
the concrete streets like pirahna.
Boston is a city of one million
signs. New York
is a metropolis of 25,000 crazed
Puerto Rican kids snapping off
auto antennae. In Toronto Ralph
Malakowski fills 1953 Ed sel transmissions with beef stew and sells
these klunkers at Spivic Motors.
Later, in Neolithic Art class
(Fine Arts 427), you find the most
beautiful woman in the world.
She has long, cascading hair and
eyes like deep pools of wisdom.
You invite her for a drive- -a
drive deep into the country where
there are no other cars or peoplea place where you and the
sculpture of our age and the
beautiful woman can becomeone
with the road.
With the woman, you go out
the door, then down the street,
then around the corner to the
car. Your hands, no longer waxen,
are inthepocketjinglingthekeys.
"Drive, ride with me to Nirvana
in my machine of the gods." Then
around another comer to where
the car is parked and . . . the
car is gone.
A toothgap in the line of
parked cars. The machine of the
gods, the sculpture of the age,
has been towed away by the blue
meanies.
The Boston cops have come
with a doomsday machine, with
hooks and chains they have taken
it. They have taken it because,
because of three years unpaid
parking tickets, $750 worth.
The girl leaves.

Mucky Young Returns
Bucky Young, rock and roll
star and twist and sailing connoisseur has decided to change
his Canadian base of operations
and return to the United States.
Mrs. Wilson, Young's personal manager, extended "greetings" to all the stateside fans,
though cautioning them that the
change in locale will probably
result in dropping the demonic,
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From Harvard To Stanford

Disorder Persists On Major Campuses
By The Associated Tress
Protest and disorder persisted
on major college campuses
Wednesday,
fanning from a
strong move to end secret research at Stanford to an assault
on the president's
office at
Queens College.
At Harvard, the faculty prepared to vote Thursday on a
resolution that would virtually
abolish the Reserve Officers
Training Corps (ROTC) program,
and at Columbia black students
called for a one-dastrike, also
Thursday.
The National Student Association said Wednesday it is challenging in federal court the constitutionality of legislation that
would authorize colleges to cut
off federal aid to students who
engage in disruptive protests.
At Stanford in Palo Alto,
Calif., the Faculty Senate voted
in favor of adopting a university
policy against secret research.
Kenneth S. Pitzer, Stanford
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Election Appeal

Hearing Moved
To Tuesday
The meeting of the University Judicial Board to hear an
appeal on last Wednesday's Student Government elections has
been postponed until Tuesday
night.
The
was originally
scheduled to meet tonight to
hear the appeal by unsuccessful
representative candidates Robert
Duncan and Barbra Ries.
The meeting was postponed
in order to give everyone a little
more time to prepare their cases.

president, endorsed the vote, saying: "It Is entirely reasonable to
press toward the elimination of
secrecy."
This action came as students
continued a sit-ibegun last
Wednesday in the university's
Applied Electronics Laboratory
on campus, where classified military research is conducted.
Queens College students in
New York City, escalating a week-lonsit-itried to break into
the office of the president, Joseph
McMurray, and other offices. Officials barricaded the doors with
desks and filing cabinets, one professor said. McMurray's office
said the students did not get into
his office but did break into several others.
The students were demanding
withdrawal of criminal trespass
charges against 38 students and
a faculty member arrested in an
The administraApril 1
tion announced Wednesday it
was dropping charges against
three students who were allegedly
involved in the ouster from campus of a General Electric Co.
recruiter. The April 1 sit-i- n was
a protest against action taken
against the three students.
One faculty member in the
president's office, Dr. Nathaniel
Siegel, sociology chairman, said
by telephone there were about
100 students in the building.
"They may well starve us
out," he said. "But most of us
are overweight, anyway."
Harvard remained quiet.
A special meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences scheduled a meeting Thursday to vote
on a motion calling for a drastic
restructuring of the Harvard
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In his recent message to the Geneva amis control conference, President Nixon listed control of chemical and biological weapons as one
of six possible objectives for international agreement. The President's
brief mention is one of the rare departures from the official policy of
deep silence which the United States Government has maintained for
many years with regard to these weapons.
Since 19G1 it has not even been possible to determine how much
money the Government is spending on these weapons. Funds for research and development have been scattered through the Defense
Department budget under uninformative descriptions.
On the initiative of Representative Richard D. McCarthy of upstate
New York, the Army recently held a briefing on chemical and biological
warfare for members of Congress, but it was closed to the press and the
public. Pentagon spokesmen regularly refuse to answer more than the
most elementary questions concerning these weapons. When an experiment with lethal nerve gas went awry a year ago and killed over
6,000 sheep in Utah, the Army for several weeks concealed its responsibility for this disaster.
This policy of silence and deliberate mystification is inexcusable
in a free nation. As Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin has observed,
there is no reason why the public cannot know the facts and debate
the issues of biological and chemical warfare just as it has come to
know and debate those of nuclear warfare. In both cases the survival
of mankind and the future of this planet are at stake.
In letters to Secretary of State Rogers and Secretary of Defense
Laird, Representative McCarthy has raised major questions of public
policy which deserve answer. Is it national policy to respond in kind
to a gas attack or a biological weapon attack? Is it sound public policy
to contemplate using weapons with which no country has had any
operational experience? If gas and biological warfare efforts are purely
defensive in nature, why have the American people never been told
what to do in case of a nerve gas attack or a hallucinatory gas attack?
What precautions are used in the testing and the transport of these
weapons and why did these precautions fail in the Utah sheep kill?
These are only a few of the questions which have never been properly
discussed because of the official policy of silence and secrecy. Yet several hundred million dollars are spent each year by the United States
on these weapons. The pressure to use them is rising. Already this
country has employed chemical warfare to defoliate jungles and destroy
crops in Vietnam and has used various kinds of incapacitating gases
against Communist troops there. These actions violate the spirit if not
the letter of the Geneva convention of 1925.
Last August, the British Government moved at the United Nations
for a new international agreement to clarify and update the Geneva
convention with regard to chemical and biological warfare. A UN staff
study on this proposal is due by July 1. But it is not necessary for the
United States to wait before discharging its own responsibilities. The
Nixon Administration can offer a straightforward exposition of its policies in this field. Congress can take down the "Please Do Not Disturb"
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Publications Board
The application form printed in the Kernel last month for positions
on the Board of Student Publications seems to have drawn little interest.
Few completed forms have been forwarded to Dr. Stuart Forth's office
for consideration.
It is somewhat ironic that this situation should arise after a year
'during which the Kernel has come under almost constant attack and
criticism. It would seem that Dr. Forth would be swamped with applications from those persons wanting to work for quality publications.
board of publications,
Students constitute one half of the
and decide matters pertinent to the
and are in a position to discuss
publications. Most importantly, they are in a position to exert influence
when the board performs its most important task that of selecting
editors for the three publications.
The job is a responsible one, and should not be taken lightly. But
students interested in preserving freedom of the press and maintaining
publications of the highest caliber should definitely make their way
to Dr. Forth's office for an application. Deadline is Monday.

Kernel Forum: the readers write
Smart Students
To the Editor of the Kernel:
Mark Twain used to include in Ids
lectures a story about how young people
were so much smarter than they were
when he was a child, and how he hoped
they would in turn also be that much
wiser.
"I hope it," he would say, "but I
doubt it."
Mark Twain should be around today,
He would doubt it more than ever,
Recently this newspaper paid for space

in The Kentucky Kernel to publish the him on the head and he will see what
"Communist Rules for Revolution." The it really says, which is, in essence, that
advertisement was answered several days the only nations which survive are those
later by a Kernel editorial spoofing the in which the individual citizens are strong
advertisement and denying on the part and
the nation is in trouble.
of the Kernel or somebody (it wasn't
It's merely a matter of perspective.
really very clear) any plans for revolution
on their part (which were never implied) If you're raising potatoes, you've got to
and admitting that the advertisement hit pay attention to the weeds. You can't
the nail on the head (maybe it should plant them and cover them with weeds
and expect to harvest them. If you're
have hit the editorial writer).
raising people to be future citizens, you
We regret that the writer of the answercan't let them get covered with weeds
ing editorial missed the point entirely. and expect them to someday recapture
Maybe at some future time life will hit the genius wliich made this nation strong.
self-relian-

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STAFF SOAPBOX
Explaining
By TOM DERR

Business Manager
It seems apparent to me, that some
explanation is in order as to why my
name has not appeared among those who
subscribe to the front page editorial.
There are simply two reasons. First
I do not feel that I am in a position to
pass judgement on the qualifications of
either of the journalists in question. I was
not present at the interviews, nor do I
personally feel that a long list of achievements or credits make any individual
more or less qualified for a specific Job.
I therefore could not endorse the opinion
inferred in the editorial that Guy Mendes
is more qualified, or that Jim Miller is
any less qualified. I must grant to anyone

Non-signatu-

re

that I have a personal opinion. It is,
however, based on personalities as well
as qualifications and thereby must be
eliminated from consideration.
Secondly, and more to the point, I
feel the emphasis of the editorial will be
misunderstood by the reader. I am in
complete agreement with the view that
the use of Ideology as the determining
element in the selection of any individual for any position, provides an area
for criticism in the method of selection.
I too agree, if this is indeed the case,
that the Board of Publications must be
placed open to criticism. However, I
do not feel that a statement to this
effect made by one board member, nor
the apparent apathy displayed by the

members proves, by any stretch of the
imagination, that indeed the deciding
factor was the difference of ideologies
of the candidates.
May I add, I sincerely hope the reader
will not labor under the same bias I used
in interpreting the statement of my associates. The inferred strength of the
editorial, I feel, lies in the fact that when
Judgements are made on the basis of
criteria other than qualification of the
individuals involved, there is something
drastically unfair with the system of selection. When it occurs in the selection of a
student newspaper, those doing the selection leave themselves open to the cry of
censorship.

We had hoped the reader might sense
from the advertisement that to build a
strong nation the people themselves must
be strong, willing to work and pay attention to the basic necessities of any society.
We had hoped he might be able to understand that sex, athletics and other interests
must be kept in perspective. We had hoped
he might understand tliat an inflated
economy is an economy in which all
sense of fair exchange value has been
allowed to get out of focus and that when
it does, the little man gets hurt first,
worst and longest. We had hoped he might
see that civil disorder and strikes in vital
industry, if allowed to run unchecked, do
far more than espouse a worker's cause
they tend to destroy the system from which
the worker is seeking relief.
We had hoped the readers might see
that these very values that are scoffed at
are neetled to make any "revolution"

succeed-ev- en
a Communist one. We had
even dared hope the reader might understand that these values of honesty, sobriety, faith in the pledged word and
ruggedness would tend to bring about
Utopia far more quickly than any other
values if the world, for once in its history,
would only try them.

We had hoped that some
d
youngsters mi glit be mature enough to lisloud-mouthe-

ten or polite enough to do it even if they
think it valueless.
We hoped it.

But we doubt it.

Fred
Lexington

Herald-Leade- r

B. Wachs
Publisher

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, April

17, 1909- -5

Old Westbury, New York

Experimental College Just Like All The Rest
By FRANK MIATA

and PAT SWEENEY
College Press Service
This is the story of the State
University College at Old
N.Y. West bury is an experimental school conceived by
a coalition of Kennedy-styl- e
liberals and State University bureaucrats. Begun with high hopes,
it has turned out to be one of
the most creative attempts by
disthe System to
enchanted
students' energies
West-bur-

y,

"constructively."

Old Westbury students have
been described as "hand-pickerebels" politically all somewhere
left of Hubert Humphrey. They
came to Westbury as the Pilgrims came to the New World
to build the city on the
by promises of "full
d

hill-attra-

partnership" and a "relevant
ucational experience."

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of elected faculty and students
would select candidates from the
applications, and the President
would appoint them. Wofford retained veto power, but he could
not appoint anyone who had not
been selected by the committee.
This seemed to work well until
the committee selected a candidate who did not meet with Wofford' s approval.
At the same time a faculty
member was not rehired by the
administration for next year because he acted in an "unprofessional fashion" also against
the vote of the Faculty Selection
Committee. When a state budget
cut halted further faculty appointments, the committee dissolved itself, somewhat disenchanted with its effectiveness.
Meanwhile, another confrontation was shaping up over the
demand of the
caucus
for 50 percent representation of
students on campus.
A student meeting approved overwhelmingly a policy reserving
half the new student positions
for
a faculty meeting
(the main forum on campus) rejected it by a narrow margin
after Wofford declared he could
neither morally nor politically
support a quota system.
In January the majority of
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Some, mostly white middle-clas- s
students, came as missionaries to reform; others, mostly
lower-clas- s
students,
came as natives to be reformed.
A small minority of both white
and
students came as
skeptics, to enjoy the idyllic atmosphere of a Long Island estate and to challenge the Westbury approach to education.
Because of the small, intimate
situation of the campus 83 stue
dents on a
basis with
15 teachers and administrators
the administration was able effectively to reduce all political
and academic problems to prob- I
lems of psychology. Both faculty
and students became aware of
contradictions in the experiment,
but at the same time became immobilized from acting out the
consequences.
With all the power centralized
in the hands of President Harris
Wofford (a
educator
and former adviser to Presidents
Kennedy and Johnson) and his
advisers, faculty members and
e
students became pawns in a
chess game its object, legitimizing the college.
Political Confrontations
Political confrontations began
when the administration began
moving into areas in which the
various campus factions had primary interest; the first was selection of new faculty. The Westbury faculty (underthe"fullpart-nershiarrangement") expected
to select their own colleagues;
the students (under the same
illusion) demanded a voice in
the selection; the President said
the power of appointment was
his alone.
A compromise
was finally
reached under which a committee
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field
their
and Wofford moved to
projects,
and
the colwas divided into
lege. Westbury
three constituent colleges: a disciplines school, a
school, and the original
urban studies school. Provosts
for the first two were appointed,
the Selection
again
Committee.
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Radicals Organize
When radical students began
organizing against Wofford, he offered them a fourth constituent
college of their own. Negotiations broke down when it became apparent that the radical
coalition was unwilling to be

of the students and administration. There is no ultimate contra-

diction between faculty power
and administrative control since
the faculty defines itself in the
most conventional terms.
The students find themselves,
as students do on any other campus, with the power to disrupt
the structure, but not to change
it in any fundamental way. Westbury students have an even more
unusual dilemma since the entire
student body is but 83; they can

not even easily disrupt when
ten percent of the student body
is