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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LXI, No. 115

'National Vietnam Week'

Student Mobe Schedules Activities
A similar bill is now before

By ELAINE RO HERTS

Kernel Staff Writer
Tlie
Student Mobilization
Committee lias a stark and
sobering credo, "Bring the GIs
home, bring them all home, and
bring them home now".
But it was a happy and very
loose group of about 50 that
met Monday night at the Student Center to plan how to do
this.
r,
SMC President Julian
who is pleased to have
Kernel publicity
but avoids
giving out his name to the
press otherwise, ("I'm a member
of the Reserves and they'll
activate me), chaired the
meeting.
Anti-Wa- r
Bill
The program centered around
National Vietnam Week NVW
activities (April 13-1but the
high point of the evening came
when it was announced from
"Masaudience
the
that
sachusetts has made law a bill
stating that its citizens cannot
fight in any war which has not
been formally declared a war by
the Congress".
This information was met with
stunned silence and then cheers
and cries of "Right on" and a
delighted "ALL RIGHT!"
It was stated that the new
law, which will go into effect in
90 days, cannot affect men already serving in Vietnam nor
will it have immediate effect on
those to be called up soon.
"Massachusetts would have to
secede from the union," someone said.
However, the attorney general
plans to go before the Supreme
Court to test the legality of the
bill. This is its purpose.
Ken-name-

the Ohio legislature.

SAR SupjHjrt
running for a Student
Government office on the Students For Action And Responsibility (SAR) ticket, asked for
SMC endorsement. A proposal
was made, the matter was debated and voted down.
SMC seemed to be almost 100
percent for SAR, but after
cautious appraisal decided their
endorsement of any ticket would
be damaging to themselves and
to the ticket.
It was stated that "we are defeating this proposal for practical and not idealogical reasons".
A request was made that the
above information be repeated
if there was a Kcrnal reporter in
the room because "they often
screw this kind of stuff up and
we'd like to be sure they get it
straight".
One student remarked that
"we're going to go around to
the Greek houses and the independents for support for our
Teach-I- n
and if we support SAR
it might mean the wouldn't support us.
This evoked the following response, "If we aren't endorsing
because we're playing up to the
Greeks, then we're playing up
to the Greeks."
Protest Movie
After the SAR endorsement
issue had been disposed of, the
room was darkened and it was
"Monday Night at the Movies"
as a three reel color film of the
March 7th Frankfort protest was
shown.
The film did prove that there
were several times 500 persons
at the March in Frankfort. And

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which will include Teach-in- s,
SMC member, Carl May, passes the hat for donamarches, picketing,
referendums and guerilla theater during that week.
tions towards National Vietnam Week plans
Julian Kennamer, SMC As Kennamer pointed out, "We've been too small
by SMC April
a group. Now we've got to start kicking ass."
leader (left), discussed future strategy of the group
for contributions and postday April 14 send educational
whenever the camera wasn't pased
teams into fraternity and sorority
ers and buttons were sold for
so fast that it was just
panning
houses and dormitories and run
25c each.
a dizzying blur, it could also be
a full page ad in the Kernel.
NVW Plans
seen that March 7th was the
April 15 a
Wednesday,
nicest day of the entire month
Saying that they hoped to
Teach-I- n
II that afternoon and
"involve the whole damned
in Kentucky. Sun and everyat 9 p.m. a Candlelight March
campus", the activities for the
thing.
from the Student Center to the
It was explained that SMC "National Vietnam Week" were
revealed.
Complex (via Limestone and
was afflicted with pressing financial problems and the hat was
Monday, April 13 and Tues
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jennin. s, Bright Clash
Campai n Continues

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'By JIM FUDGE
Kernel Staff Writer
Student Government presidential candidates Steve Bright
and Ched Jennings participated
in a debate Monday night at
Boyd Hall concerning their platforms and how they plan to
serve students if elected.
The candidates, and their
running mates, first
gave a brief rundown of their
qualifications for office and basically what they planned to do if
elected.
Bright and running
mate Skip Althoff stressed academic affairs and involving more
students in Student Government
in their
speeches.
Jennings and Roger Valentine
echoed many of Bright and Althoff s proposals, stressing their
own campaign slogan, "Unite
the Campus," as a primary objective if elected.
Serve Student Needs
Jennings said he did not want
Student Government to become
bogged down with "petty politics" but rather to work to serve
the needs of the students.
Jennings also said he would
like to see students more involved in government and to
bring to his attention, if he is
pre-deba- te

Government presidential candidate Ched Jennings parin a debate with Steve Bright at Boyd Hall Monday night.
ticipates
Stressing his campaign slogan, "Unite the Campus," Jennings
said this would be his primary objective upon election. Steve
Bright, also a candidate for the SC presidency, stressed academic
affairs and student involvement. Bright rejected the idea of uniting
organizations to strive for one common goal. "It can't be done,"
Kernel Photo by Ken Weaver
Commented Bright.
Student

elected, problems they feel are
in need of attention.
Roger Valentine,
Jennings'
running mate, explained that
they planned to visit each dorm
and each Greek house once a

month to "search" for problems
and suggestions for Student Government to work on.
Unite Campus

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Focus Plans Talks
By UK Professors
By DON

EGERJR.

Kernel Staff Writer
A series of lectures ranging from witchcraft to moon dust will be
given by four UK professors April 6 and 7.
"Focus on the Future" is the theme of the talks to be presented
by the 1970 Focus Committee.
Focus chairman Frank McCartney, Arts and Sciences junior,
termed this year's program as a "test of student opinion on topics
which are controversial in nature. As in the past, the purpose of
Focus 1970 is to bring the students together in a rich intellectual
experience toward the real problems of the world," said McCartney.
The lectures will begin at 7:30 p.m. each night in the SC
Theater. There will be no admission charge and a reception will
follow the night's program in the President's Room of the Student
Center.
Speaker Program
Monday, April 6, Dr. Gene Mason, Political Science, will speak
on "Politics of the Future."
Also representing the Political Science Department Monday night
is Dr. Dean Jaros. His topic is "Focus on the Environment."
Tuesday's lectures will include "The Future of Witchcraft"
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