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THE KENTUCKY

Tuesday Afternoon, Oct. 17, 1967

Breckinridge
Boosts Ward

For Governor

“Henry Ward will see that

higher education is in reach of
all Kentuckians who qualify for

it,” John Breckinridge, Demo- ~

cratic candidate for attorney
geenral, said Monday night.

Speaking here to a small turn-
out of Young Democrats, Mr.
Breckinridge said Kentucky long
has been deficient in its quality
of education, but not, he added,
because Democrats are in
power.

Republicans would have Ken-
tuckians believe Democrats are
to blame for substandard edu-
cation, Mr. Breckinridge said,
but education was “at its low-
est” in the state when Republi-
cans held ofice. ,‘

Mr. Breckinridge {Id asserted
that the state has “come a long
way” in the last 10 years. He
cited the development of the
University's community college
system as evidence of recent
education improvement.

Criticizes Nunn

Although scheduled to speak
on higher education, Mr. Breck-
inridge seemed more concerned
with criticizing Republican can-
didate for governor Louie B.
Nunn.

He said of Nunn, “he is the
only candidate I know of in
my life that has run against
all minority groups. The idea
that a man like that could
achieve the nomination of a
party scares me to death."

It is obvious, Mr. Breckin-
ridge said, in which direction
Republicans desire now to
proceed: “Backwards, in a
Neanderthal way."

He claimed that Mr. Nunn's
candidacy is characteristic of
“problems" the Republican party
is now facing.

Mr. Breckinridge said he did
not agree with everything Dem-
ocratic gubernatorial candidate
Henry Ward supports. "How-
ever," he added, “I have no
problem discussing these issues
with him. I don’t always per-
suade him, but I can talk to
him."

Alluding to the slim attend-
ance at the meeting, Mr. Breck-
inridge said it would not have
mattered whether there was “a
Van Clibum concert or any-
thing else” conflicting with his
appearance. i‘We would not
have filled this room anyway;
people do not take that much
interest in politics.”

He added, "I don’t believe
what is said here tonight will
affect anyone."

The South’s Outstanding College Daily

 

Democratic Candidate for
ing before

omey Generaljolm Breckinridge speak-
Young Democrats.

 

Registration By Mail?
It Begins Next Term

If an experiment in registration-by- mail is successful, University
students may one day completely sign- up for courses, have their
curriculum completed, and pay their fees by mail.

The Registrar's Office, in its
battle to facilitate registration,
will allow graduate students to
completely register by mail for
the spring semester, 1968.

If ‘the experiment goes as
planned, “undergraduate regis-
tration someday will be handled
the same way," said Ray Cum-
berledge, associate registrar.

Mr. Cumberledge said that
the experiment in allowing stu—
dents to pay their fees by mail
was successful in that almost
half of those receiving com-
pleted schedules paid their fees
before coming back in Septem-
ber.

Steps Listed
Steps in the new process

available for graduate students
will be:

e The student pre-registers
as always.

0 The student receives his
schedule b e t w e e n semesters
along with a Digitek personal
information form.

0 The student mails the two
forms back to the registrar and
pays his fees by mail.

Pre- -registration for the spring
semester will begin Oct. 30 and
close Nov. 10. Schedule books
will be mailed to the deans of
the colleges Oct. 24, and will be
available to students soon after.

After graduate students pre-
register during the alloted days,

Columbia U. Confirms

CIA Funding Research

NEW YORK (CPS)—Colum-
bia University has confirmed that
it has been receiving funds from
the Central Intelligence Agency
since 1961 for a research project.

The project, designed to study
the economies of countries in
east central Europe has been
in existence since 1955, but has
been funded by the CIA for only
the last six years. The CIA has
been giving Columbia 3125,“
annually for the project. '

The only secrecy regarding
the project has been a source
of funds. Columbia has listed

the project in its catalog and
a number of students have re-
portedly been involved in the
research.

The CIA funding of the pro—
ject was disclosed by the Col-
umbia chapter of Students For
A Democratic Society at a spe-
cial news conference Monday af-
ternoon. SDS members would
not say how they found out about
it.

The University confitmedthat
the "IA has been financing the
p '. t gave no indication

on Page 3, Col. 1

they will be mailed, at their
home addresses, their schedules
and the forms to complete.

The University calendar has
been revised to allow an extra
week between semesters, from
Dec. 19 until Jan. 15. Mailings

to graduate students will begin
during this time, Mr. Cumber-
ledge said.

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

KERNELH

Vol. LIX, No. 36

6Stop-Draft Week’

Spawns Tumult

United Prue International

Thousands of anti-Vietnam war protesters across the nation
demonstrated Monday against the war and the draft. Scores were
arrested for blockading inductiOn centers, staging sit-ins or clash-

ing with police.

It was a tumultuous start to
“Stop The Draft Week" in
which an organization called
“The Resistance” said protests
were scheduled in at least 30
cities from coast to coast.

Sixty persons, including folk
singers Joan Baez and Ira
Sandperl, head of Miss Baez'
Institute For The Study Of Non-
violence, were arrested at Oak-
land, Calif.

A 300-man police force
hauled off most of the Oakland
arrestees for trying to block
draftees from entering an induc-
tion center. Police seized Oak-
land demonstrators when they
blocked traffic with a middle-of—
the—street sit-in.

Demonstrators clashed in a
tug-of-war with federal marshals
trying to bar them from the
Federal Building in Chicago.
At least four were arrested,
taken into court and sentenced
to 10 days in jail for violating
a federal court order against
creating disturbances there.

In New York, a group of anti-
war demonstrators returned their
draft cards to the federal gov-
ernment as 300 to 350 persons
demonstrated outside the Fed-
eral Courthouse at Foley
Square.

Eleven protesters left their
draft cards at Selective Service
national headquarters in Wash-
ington. In London a group of
American students pasted their
draft cards to the U.S. Embassy
door.

Crowds of demonstrators —
variously estimated by police at
from 1,500 to 3,000 — gathered
at Boston Common. They heard
Boston University Prof. Howard
Zinn say of President Johnson:

“A president who goes to
church every Sunday and sends
bombers over Vietnam every
day is a hypocrite."

A. Polish freedom fighter, Joe
Mlot-Mroz, tried to drown out
the antiwar oratory in Boston
with shouts of “God Bless
America” and “All The Way
With LBJ." He carried a sign
reading: "Away With Anarchy
In The U.S.A. Let's fight com-
munism, red dupes, Vietniks,
peaceniks and red clergy."

Another war supporter—one
of several in the crowd—carried
a sign reading: “Tough Enough
To Criticize. Too Weak To De-
fend.”

The Oakland demonstration
began about dawn and arrests

Continued on Page 8, Col. 3

Four University Students Return
Draft Cards In Vietnam Protest

By DARRELL RICE

Four UK students sent their
draft cards back to their local
draft boards Monday in con-
junction with a national “Stop
the Draft Week" which began

yesterday.
Cecil Cook, junior English
major, and Roger Woock, a

member of SDS and sophomore
philosophy major, are two of
the students who returned‘ their
cards to their draft boards. Both
are from Louisville.

The other two students who
sent in their cards have declined
to release their names, Woock
said.

Cook and Woock said they
expected to be faced with prison
sentences sooner or later. But
they said they have no idea
when they might face trial or
how severe their sentences
might be, because "draft board
actions are inconsistent.”

‘Can't Stomach Board'

"I guess the main reason I'm
doing this is because I can't
stomach the nature of the draft
board,” Woock said.

“That," he added, “and the
imperialist war in Vietnam.
They have to have a draft to
fight an imperialist war.”

And, he said, “I just don't
like the pictures of babies
burned by napalm.”

Cook added, "I'm against the
war effort.

‘I Dissociate Myself"

“I disassociate myself as an
individual from what the coun-
try is doing in Vietnam, ” he
said. “I don't believe in this

WU.-

Cook said one of his objec-
tions is to being killed in a war
in which he does not believe,
and which Congress has not
declared.

He said he did not know for
certain if he would fight in
Vietnam if a declaration of war
were issued. "But I would be
happier,” he said.

Woock and Cook agree that
Selective Service is unfair to
people in lower economic
groups.

“Draft boards are picking on
poor people," Cook said in
stating their position. “I don't
know if it's intentional, but

that’s just the way it works out.”
Disagreements Evident
But beyond that point, the

positions of the two differ con-
siderably.

“I object to any draft sys-
tem,” Woock said.

He explained that if there
ever were a situation that justi-
fied war, then a draft would not
be necessary to secure soldiers.

Cook, on the other hand, said,

"The draft is obnoxious, but I

think it is necessary in a ‘neces-
sary’ war."

He qualified the remark by
adding that only a “universal
draft” should be used. He de-
fined “universal draft” as one
that took men on an equal basis
from all groups — college stu-
dents, industrial workers aud so
on.

Continued on Page 8, Col. 4

 

 

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By C. MITCHELL DOUGLAS

“Spoon River Anthology," the
second Theatre Arts production
which runs Oct. 25-29, is a vari-
ation from the usual and ortho-
dox.

The play, inspired by Edgar
Lee Masters’ poems, will be pre-
sented in the Laboratory Theatre
in the Fine Arts Building on un-
orthodox stage platforms that run
out into the audience.

The platfomns will be arranged
like a jigsaw puzzle in varying
sizes and shapes.

The director of the play
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an attempt to break away from
the traditional type of dramas
performed at the University."

”Spoon River Anthology"
caused a sensation when pub-
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friend, abandoned the classic sub-
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previously. Using “The Creek
Anthology” as his model, he fash-

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self-inscribed epitaphs supposed-
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Middle Western town.

Through this series of frank
revelations, the village of Spoon
River is recreated with all its
intrigues, hypocrisies, feuds, mar—
tyrdoms, and exaltations. All
modes and manners of characters
were vividly and frankly por-
trayed, and this frankness re-
sulted in furor.

This idea for the adaptation
had originated with Charles Aid
man Aidrrnan felt Spoon River
Anthology" showed great prom-
ise as a theatrical presentation.
He went to work adapting Mast-
ers classic for the stagenarrow-
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nettes to ninety-one and adding
folk music. The finished result
opened at the University of Cali-
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York.

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Rue, Deborah Sherley, June
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The production is directed by
Charles Dickens. Dickens, assis-
tant professor in Theatre Arts at
the University, has previously
directed Laboratory Theatre pro-
ductions.

Costumes, settings and light-
ing will be designed by Joseph
Flauto.

Tryouts Tonight

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that the project would be stopped
or that future CIA funds would
be turned down. From all ap-
pearances the project will con-
tinue under the existing finan-
cial setup.

A spokesman in Columbia's
news office issued the official
statement. The Columbia Spec-
tator, the student newspaper,
said Ralph F. Halford, a special

assistant to the president. also
confirmed the link between the

CIA and the research program.

The project is officially called
the “Research Project For The
National Income Of East Cen-
tral Europe." Three books in-
volving the economy of Czecho-
slovakia, Hungary, and Poland
have been published as a result
of the research. The project is
headed by Dr. Thad Palton who
is not connected with Columbia
University except as the project
director.

The University's statement
said the CIA finances only the
one project. Any ties with the
Defense Department have not
been made public.

THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Oct 17, 1%7 — 3

 

 

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Dean Doris Seward repre-

‘sented the University at the Re-

gional Conference on Residence
Colleges held last weekend at
the University of North Carolina.
Dean Seward expressed strong
optimism that UK will be able
to adopt a residence college pro-
gram in the near future.

If this concept mtefiahm,
men and women would live in
the same dorms, hold classes of
the seminar type in their living
units and possibly have some of
the faculty living with them.

Dean Seward said that the
University is considering the pos-
sibility of using Patterson,]ewell
and Boyd halls to carry out the
program.

”This can go as fast as the
faculty and students are moti-
vated to accelerate it,” she said.

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O O O

The Student Activities Board
Theatre Committee discussed the
possibilities of inaugurating a
Stunt Show for Little Kentucky
Derby Weekend in a meeting at

the Student Center Monday
night.
julie Zachem, committee

chairman, had attended the Uni-
versity of Illinois Stunt Show

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said that the show would be
put together by students from
any group which wished to par-
ticipate and on any theme de-
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The committee hopes to bring
the Illinois group to UK for a
performance to build up student

interest in such a project.
O O O

”Full Steam Ahead" is the
theme of the 46th annual fall
meeting of the Kentucky Asso-
ciation of Women Deans and
Counselors Oct. 20-21 at Cabe's
Inn, Owensboro, according to
the group's president, Miss Anne
Law Lyons, assistant dean of
students-residence halls program-
ming.

Mrs. Celia K. Zyzniewski,UK
administrative assistant-student
affairs, will speak on ”Bridges
To Life Styles—What is Your
Professional Target?” at the Sat-
urday luncheon meeting.

Miss Ann Marshall, Berea Col-
lege dean of women, will address
members attending the Friday
night banquet on "By All Means
Travel."

A citation will be given dur-
ing the meeting for Dr. Frances
jennings, Transylvania College

dean of students emeritus.
O O O

The University Medical Cen-
ter has begun a program to ac-
quaint community pharmacists
in Kentucky with the operational
procedures of small hospitals and
nursing homes.

The program is part of a na-
tional orientation of pharmacists
who are concerned with small
community institutions partici—
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Under the terms of Medicare,
hospitals and nursing homes can
be certified for federal health
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pharmacist is active in the in-
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full-time pharmacists and rely
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fulfill these functions.

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no staff pharmacist is available.

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with a pharmacist in each act-
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Football, Basketball, Van Clibum, And Culture

by JOE H. PALMER

EDITOR'S NOTE: Coliseurns have long
housed circuses. Ours is no exception.
Monday morning in his office Charles
A. Bradshaw meditated over the fortune
of the football team. Monday aftemoon
Adolph Rupp initiated basketball prac-
tioe sessions which may culminate in
one of his finest seasons. Monday even-
ing Van Clibum pianoed melodically in
this same Coliseum. These star-crossed
events were futuristically commented
upon by Joe H. Palmer, an instructor of
English at the University during the
early 19305, in his column written for
the New York Herald Tribune syndicate
sometime during the early 19505.

In the days of the [next to] last
Republican President this avid ad-
mirer of basketball instructed fresh-
men in their native language at the

University of Kentucky.

This was preferable to starva-
tion, though the difference was
not easily discernible. A corollary
of this was that some thousands
of freshman themes came up for
inspection. Nearly all of them be-
gan, “Football benefits a player,
mentally, physically and morally."

Reiteration is normally convinc—
ing, but in this case it failed. I
could never quite buy this one.
Since I had quite a few football
players in class, sometimes for sev-
eral years, it was never possible
to be in any doubt about the men-
tal benefit conferred.

To even the most inexperienced
eye it was obvious that ifhurling.
one's body recklessly against either
an animate or inanimate target
improved the health, more physi—

 

cians would prescribe it, and that
no possible good could accrue from
being dashed violently against hard
and sometimes frozen ground.

I was never sure about the
morality of my charges but I had
suspicions, because frequently boys
who were being paid to inspect
the campus for wild elks failed
to do so, and for that matter some
times missed tackles, which

amounted to bad faith.

It was no doubt a narrow point
of view, but it was hard for me to
trust the strategy of a quarterback
whenI had private knowledge that
he could not read without facial
contortions and that the only way
he could be made to recognize a
dangling participle was to have it
set in boldface type.

For these reasons it became
impossible for me to take football
seriously.

Basketball offered three obvious
advantages. For one thing it
chanced that I had no basketball
players in my classes and it was
thus possible to delude myself that
the five young men wearing the blue
and white on the court were wily,
resourceful players who lost the
ball out of bounds for dark reasons
of their own. "

They rather obviously had to
be smart, for the coach in those
days—not the present successful
Mr. Rupp—would draw two cards
to a flush. The other two advan-
tages were that the game was played
indoors, and that it did not take
very long to get over.

The third of these advantages
has been lost since then, by the
introduction of the double-header,
an institution which reminds me

of a lady who, after laughing im- '

moderately at a joke, said, “That's
a wonderful story. Tell it again.”

But also, since then, I have
discovered something which makes
all of these items seem trivial: I
do not have to watch it.

I rather suSpect that basketball
would be a very interesting game

if it could be played. It requires
remarkable skill in ball handling,
lighting reflexes, intricate team-
work, and even, despite the bony
structure of some of the partici-
pants, a considerable amount of
grace.

But I have never understood
why two men are permitted, and
in many cases paid, to interrupt
it every time it gets good. John
Kieran's suggestion that a man
who breathes through a whistle
shall surrender either his whistle
or his breath, and that after three
(flenses he shall have only twenty
seconds to decide, is enthusiasti-
cally seconded here.

But the idea, which seems to
have been lost sight of, was to say

something good of basketball and
it is now possible to do so.

Over the last five or six years,
I suppose no one would deny that
by and large the University of
Kentucky has had the best team

‘in the nation, but if you want to

say merely, ”one of the best," I
am not looking for argument.

It got this way because Ken-
tucky has strained for more than
a hundred years to produce the
finest race horses, and it was pos-
sible to adapt the same technique
to basketball.

When a Kentucky breeder be
comes dissatisfied with the local
stock he does not sit on a rock
and cry. He reaches to England
or France or Italy and imports
the best material he can find, and
in recent years such horses as Mah-
moud, Blenheim II, Heliopolis,
Nasrullah, Alibai, and many others
have been brought in as reinforce-

‘ments.

The University did not have to
go as far, but it imported such
material as was necessary.

We are working up now to the
cultural advantage of basketball.
Because the University had such
a good team a lot of people wanted
to see it. Because of this existing
facilities became inadequate, and

a Memorial Coliseum was con-
structed. It is, of course, also used

for other purposes.

Some years ago Charles Laugh-
ton. came through and did a mon-
ologue. He usually does, of course,
but this tme there were no other
actors. He played to 8,500 peo-

ple.

 

-/§l/’4~m~

Silent Observer

.Last night Van Clibum dropped
past with his piano and played
to 13,5“) people. You can see cul—
ture going up like Whirlaway in
the stretch.

Without basketball, no $4,(X)O,
(1)0 Coliseum. Without the Coli-
seum, no Van Clibum. This is

a very good thing to say about
basketball, so I have finally said
it.

Copyright, 1953, by
A. S. Barnes 8: Company Inc.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Kernel substi-
tuted Van Clibum's visit for one made
years ago by Sir Thomas Beecham and
the London Philharmonic Orchestra. up—
dating the late Mr. Palmer's story without
altering its context. As this story indicates,
Mr. Palmer was a perceptive winter. After
his death on Oct. 31, 1952, his readers
insisted that the best of his columns
be reprinted in book form. These col-
umns were collected and published in
1953 in a volume titled "This Was Rac-
ing." His son, Steve Palmer, is the edi-
torial page editor of The Lexington Leader.

UK Student Body ‘Generally Hawkish’On Vietnam '

By DICK KIMIWINS
Associate Managing Editor
Students on the University campus
are generally ”hawkish" in their feelings
toward the Vietnam War. In a recent poll
conducted by The Kernel, 57.5 percent
agreed with present US. policy in Viet-
nam, 50.4 percent thought that bombing
of North Vietnam is bringing results.

These conclusions were somewhat sub—
stantiated by more students wanting to
”increase" military activities than ”de-
crease" them.

Fifty-three percent of those respon—
dents asked thought'that the approach—
ing national elections in 1968 would have
an effort on future US. policy there. No
attempt was made to ascertain whether

 

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