xt7zs756hk9b https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7zs756hk9b/data/mets.xml University of Kentucky Fayette County, Kentucky The Kentucky Kernel 19691125  newspapers sn89058402 English  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Kernel The Kentucky Kernel, November 25, 1969 text The Kentucky Kernel, November 25, 1969 1969 2015 true xt7zs756hk9b section xt7zs756hk9b Divergent Campus Views Collide
YAF, SDS Debate Morality Of War And Recent Moratoriums
JIM FUDGE and
PAT MATIIES
Kernel Staff Writer
Representatives of opposing campus groups
debated the Vietnam war and the Moratorium
Monday evening in a Young Republican-sponsoreprogram in the Student Center Theater.
Bob Bailey represented the Young Americans
For Freedom (YAF) as Frank Shannon spoke
for the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
"We are perpetuating a war that supports a
government that is not supported by the South
Vietnamese people.' Shannon explained later
that the number of American dead was also a
reason for opposition to the war and support of
the war Moratorium.
'Congress Not Affected'
In rebuttal, Bailey stated that the moratorium
"really didn't serve a useful purpose."
"I don't think President Nixon has been affected by the Moratorium; Congress hasn't been
affected by this."
A
summary from Bailey and Shannon preceded questioning from the audience.
By

d

Si
V

u1

Dob Bailey

five-minu- te

YAF

Tie

Only a few of the 50 persons present particiof the spcakm.
pated in
Shannon began the debate with an SDS viewpoint concerning the Moratorium and the war.
lie gave a brief history of United States involvement in Vietnam as a background for the organization's belief that U.S. participation in the
was is immoral and should be discontinued.

Not Sneaking For All
After expressing his views concerning the
Moratorium, Bailey explained he wasn't speaking
for every- member of the YAF.
"If you pull the men out completely, the
country can't find jobs for 400,000 men," said
Baily. This would produce an economic strain."
Baily went on to say that the U.S. could not
bring all the men home at one time because the
nation "could not mobilize enough equipment
to bring them back on."
Shannon answered by saying, "To the best of
my knowledge, we do have the equipment to
bring all the men home at one time, and we
can do it now.
Continued on Pare 8, CoL 1
-

ECmty

Tuesday Evening, November 25 1969

Frank Shannon

,

SDS

ECeemil

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

VoL LXI, No. 65

Senate SuBDOrts
Summer Chan ge
JL

By JEANNIE LEEDOM
Assistant Managing Editor
The University Senate prok
summer school
posed a
term prior to the regular eight-- ,
week 1970 summer session in a
meeting Monday.
The senate also called for the
gradual adoption of a summer
session comprising three
k
terms.
The revision of the summer
school was proposed in a report
by Dr. Stanley Wall, director
of the summer session. It must
be approved by the Board of
Trustees in order to take effect.
The report proposed that,
eventually, "scheduling of terms
for the summer session, as a
program beginning on
Monday following commencement exercises, will be according to the following schedule:"
terms with
Three
beginning and ending dates as
follows: the first term from May
18 through June 12; second term
from June 15 through July 10;
the third from July 13 to Aug. 7.
term would
One
begin June 15 and end Aug. 7;
term would start June
a
29 and end Aug. 7.
The maximum credit-hou- r
load for the summer would be
(including residence, extension
and correspondence): four weeks,
four credits; six weeks, seven
credits; eight weeks, 11 credits;
12 weeks, 14 credits.
Two short courses of four
weeks or less in length, or one
short course of four weeks or
less in length, and two
courses (6-- weeks except when
courses do not
the two
exceed a total of three credit

hours), could not be carried
Revisions Reviewed

The senate voted to recommend 'the whole report in principle to the Board of Trustees.
It stipulated that the change
should be made gradually, by
session to
adding a
the 1970 summer term.
In other action, the senate
approved a committee report on
academic policy implications of
instruction by television.
The charges given to this committee by the senate were:
To examine the basic assumptions on which teaching by
television is based.
To review the criteria used
four-wee- k

four-wee-

No Kernel

5.

16-pa-

.v&yi--

v

,

,

-

UK Football Coach John Ray relives highlights of his first season during
the Wildcats' annual grid banquet at the Student Center Ballroom
night S'Med at the head Uble with Ray are, from left, UK President

FeaSt dy Singletary, Dr. A. D. Kirwan and Athletic Director Harry Lancaster.
Otis
See Story On Sports Page.

he must maintain a 2.0 grade point average.
The students who live in the barns usualLiving in or living out?
ly work in the same barn.
Their duties and chores vary from unit
Well, whichever, some UK students call
to unit. For instance, at the dairy barn, the
a farm barn their campus habitat.
The Department of Animal Sciences projobs would be feeding, milking and cleanvides student employment at Coldstream, ing up the barn area.
Main Chance, Spindletop and
Barn Types
farms, for some 40 students who work on
Each of the farms has a number of difthe farms and live there as well.
ferent experimental barns. The Campus
Farm has a nutrition barn,
Barn Rooms
swine and dairy barns.
The students have rooms in the barns
The Coldstream Farm has a dairy headthat are separated from the activities and
conditions of the rest of the barn. The size quarters, swine headquarters, swine evaluof the living quarters varies from one room ation barn, beef barn, sheep barn and
evaluation barn.
to a three-rooapartment (which includes sheep Main Chance
On
Farm, there is a horse
a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom).
The rooms and apartments are compar- nutrition barn, and at Spindletop, a horse
able to dormitory accommodations and barn.
All of the bams on the four farms have
apartments elsewhere.
living quarters for the working students.
The working students are paid the regLike Dorms
ular wage standard ($1.40 per hour). For
those who work and live in, rooming exDr. Patch Woolfolk, vice chairman of the
penses are taken out of their wages.
Department of Animal Sciences, said that
the student's work schedule was planned
20 Hours Weekly
around his class schedule.
Dr. Woolfolk added that the farm work
The students work approximately 20
hours weekly, depending upon the amount usually must be done before and after
of work required at each barn.
classes, which alleviates most of the schedFor instance, one student at the Colduling problem.
The students must follow rules and regstream Dairy Headquarters said he worked
ulations similar to those of the dormitories.
from 40 to 50 hours a week, whereas another student in Beef Unit said he worked They are not permitted to have women in
their rooms.
from 20 to 30 hours. For a student to work,
By WANDA WOOD
Kernel Staff Writer

six-wee-

Because of increasingly high
production costs and the fact that
even Kernel staffers must study
for final exams, the Kernel will
not publish next week, Dec.
The Tuesday, Nov. 25 Kernel
will be the last one until the
week before final exams, when
issues will appear
two
Dec. 9 and 11.

t

Kernel Photo by Paul Smith

Barn Living Is A LbftyWbsitiori

eight-wee-

8

"V x

Continued on Page 2, CoL 3

four-wee- ks

full-ter-

con-

currently."

four-wee-

full-ter-

JL

main-camp-

us

genetic-physiolog-y,

.

m

Ron Hazel, an animal science senior who
lives at the Coldstream dairy headquarters,
says "it's just like home, you can come and
go as you like." But he says this kind of
living puts you in wa different social brac-

ket."

Isn't Typical
Dave Buck, a junior in animal sciences,
says "this type of living just isn't typical
It has a different atmosphere." Buck believes he gets "more benefit out of this
work than I generally get out of class because it is actual experience."
Buck works on the farm for financial
reasons as well as for the experience.
The Animal Science major does not believe that he "misses out" on campus activities, because he and two friends who
live in the barn also belong to a fraternity. Being in the fraternity and attending
classes daily keeps him informed about the
campus and its activities, he says.

'In Training'
Another animal sciences major says "it
which goes along well with
gives
the department's program and pays you,
too," and "living out here provides good
studying conditions."
One student summed up the idea of
barn living this way: "You can do what
you want, when you want, without irritat-igsomeone else or stepping on toes, or in
turn being irritated by others."
n

* KERNEL, Tuesday, Not. 23, I9C0

Senate Backs Term Change
for instructional television.
"Courses should not be
taught by television unless they
have the broad support of persons who have direct concern
for such courses. Special priority
should be given to courses offered

Continued from Tage One
in deciding what is to be taught
by television, and to review the

problem of evaulating the effectiveness of instruction via television.

To examine the role of the
faculty in setting policy for instruction by television in other
institutions, as well as to determine the various roles possible for a faculty member in
a course taught by television.
To examine whether students
should have the right to choose
whether they will or will not
take a course by television.
To determine how teaching
by television can relate academic
programs in the University to
needs that might exist in the community colleges and to needs that
might exist in the University
constituency, served by exten-

K

sion.

1

i.L

Kernel Photo by Dick Ware

Dean Herbert Drennon makes a point
during Monday night's Faculty Senate
meeting. The Senate voted to support
a plan which would divide the summer
school session into a series of short terms.

Drennon
Speaks

Guignol Productions
Premier In December

recommended:

StudcntJ Should Choose
"Basically, students should
have the opportunity to choose
whether they take courses by
television where such a choice
is possible."

both on the Lexington campus
and in community colleges where
such televised courses would have
common value."

Green Hanging Changed
Not only has Memorial Hall
been renovated, but so has this

year's Hanging of the Greens,
which traditionally is the opening of the Christmas season at
UK.

This year's activities will begin Thursday night, Dec. 4, with
women from Blanding Tower
g
for every residence hall, sorority and fraternity house on campus. Anyone
interested may join the carolers
as they reach their respective

.

Christmas-carolin-

In determining which classes
should be taught by television,
the committee recommended that
"courses which are appropriate
y
for primarily
communication are suited to television.
"No class shall be taught by
television where there is valid
evidence to show' that this reduces the quality of teaching.
Classes which have large enrollments andor multiple sections
should generally be selected first

units.

one-wa-

IERNEL

The actual Hanging of the
Creens will be at 7:45 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, in Memorial Hall.
The highlight of the pageant
will be a "living" Christmas
tree.
The music will be supplied
by the University Women's Glee
Club and the Chamber Singers.
Following the pageant there
will be a dance in the Complex
Commons from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.,
featuring the Hey wood Brassed
Rock Company from Boston,
Mass. Admission will be $1 per
person.

ADVERTISING

WORKS FOR YOU!

Save On Famous
Labeled Merchandise At Low Discount Prices Everyday!

Fight Inflation The Sportswear Way
;

By DON COS SETT
Kernel Arts Editor

Tarpey will star in "Fantas-ticks,- "
which holds the record
The next nine days or so for most continuous performances
promises to be an exciting period of a single production in the
United States.
for theater buffs in the LexingAlso opening on Dec. 3 will
ton area. Three professional theaters and UK's Guignol will open be the Cuignol Theatre producnew productions on or before tion of "Billy Budd." Based on
one of Melville's short novels,
Dec. 4.
First will be the Nick DeNoia-Ke- n "Billy Budd" is the story of the
Berman production of conflict between an ambitious
"Broadway Hurrah," opening at and naive young sailor and the
the New Red Mile Dinner Theater ship's master at arms. This pro7 p.m.. tonight. Written and production will feature Jim Barduced by DeNoia, a version of bour, Bruce Peyton and Charles
the satirical revue appeared ear- Dickens.
lier this year at Beef 'n Boards
Peter Shaffer 'a double play
in Simpson ville. DeNoia also will "Black Comedy" and "White
star in tonight's performance.
Liars" will be the next attracWinchester's Barn Dinner tion at the Bell Court Carriage
Theater will present "The
House, opening Dec. 4. Studio
produced by Theater Players Inc. will produce this
Productions Inc., starting performance, which will star
Brian Lavell, Nonie Arnold and
Wednesday, Dec. 3. Rhonda Butler. David Brenton and Anne Jim Varney.

Concerning the rights of students in choosing to take a course
by television, the committee

...

i

.

Drastic Discounts on

!

Fan-tasticks-

1

Glamorous Holiday
Fashions
PARTY

(

PANT-DRESSE- S

,"

New glamorous pant dresses are setting
the holiday mood
wear with ease
and elegance as you celebrate the coming holiday season. You'll find a dazzland outfits
ing array of
all in the seasons festive colors, and
best of all, at our low, low discount
prices.

...

pant-dress-

...

es

3,

v

V

Seen in other stores $45. to $100.
Our Discount Price

...

A

$2720
SO

J

Pout"

iS SO

$6390

I few firm.

N--y

VPgv IMS

i

no
1171

,......

lUvrr

'""4
TO

TFi

inn

Vie
(juckqo

SHOP BOTH STORES
DAILY 9 TO 9!

hzaMinneli
VvferdelBurton

&.

starts WEDNESDAY
CXCLUSIYE1 FIRST RUN!

CHARGE IT!
BANKAM ERICA ItD
M ASTERS CHARGE

SHOPPERS CHARGE

Sp

J

1153 New Circle Rd., N.E.

ff
&

T

m ill

p
1

Imperial Shopping Center

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Nov. Z, 19-- 3

'No Technological Answer'

Davis Says U.S. 'Seriously Overpopulated'

By

JOSEPH GAGLIARDI

Kernel Staff Writer
"The United States is the most
seriously
nation
in the world," Dr. Wayne H.
Davis, associate professor of zoology, told an Environmental
Awareness
Seminar meeting
over-populat-

Monday night.
Comparing U.S. population
with that of other countries, Dr.
Davis stated that the people of
the U.S., by virtue of their num- -

TODAY AND

TOMORROW
Today
Swedish film director Marianne
Ahrne will speak in the Signs. Images and Symbols class at 1 p.m. on
Nov. 25 In Room 139 of the Chemistry-Physics
Building. She will speak
on the modern Swedish film directors
and especially on Ingar Bergman and
his film, "Persona." The class will be
open to anyone who wishes to attend.
The Russian Club will have a meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 25 In Room
245 of the Student Center. A program of Russian folk songs will be
presented. All are welcome to attend.
Anyone interested in initiating a
Free University Discussion Group during the second semester, please call
so that it will be
or
included in the catalog.
The Donovan Club, (Donovan Scholars and University Emeriti), will have
a dinner party In the President's
Room at the Student Center, with Dr.
and Mrs. Otis A. Singletary and Miss
Anne Wilson as special guests at 6:30
p.m. on Nov. 25. The reservations are
and handled
limited
exclusively
through the office of the Council on
Aging, Earl Kauffman, Director.
254-42-

252-62-

bers and activities, are rapidly
decreasing the ability of the land
to support them.
"We usually think of India
when we think of
said Dr. Davis, "but
in terms of pollution, one American has the impact on his environment equivalent to 25

Offering evidence for his state-

ment, Dr. Davis noted that the
average American pollutes 66 million gallons of water during his
lifetime and burns up 21,000 gallons of fuel which pollutes the
atmosphere.
The only possible solution to
the problem, according to Dr.
Davis, is to prevent people from

being born.

"If our population continues

to grow," he says, "we can write
off conservation as a lost cause."
He noted that any organism

which continues its growth uncontrolled will have adetrimental
effect on its environment.
The solution lies with the people themselves, according to Dr.

BYU Says 'We're Not Racist'
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-(C- PS)
Students at Mormon affiliated Brigham Young University (BYU) are tired of having
people call their institution

racist.
And although, asJerryGarret,
news editor of the campus newspaper The Daily Universe puts
it, "we don't want to get involved
in demonstrations," the students
did something about the way they
feel they have been maligned.
The Mormons don't allow
blacks to hold certain positions
in their church. They aren't racist, however, that's just a matter of church doctrine, Garret
says. Some blacks haven't seen
eye to eye with the Mormons
and over the past few years mem

bers of several teams that have
played BYU have worn armbands

and similar paraphinalia to protest what they term racist policies.

The whole matter was emphasized this fall when Coach Lloyd
Eaton suspended 14 blacks from
the University of Wyoming football team for taking part in such
a protest. Now wherever the BYU
team goes they meet even more
protest than in the past.
Jerry Garret decided to do

something

about

correcting
everyone's impressions. He pointed out in a column he wrote
for the Daily Universe that the
next team BYU was scheduled
to play had no Indians, and
suggested that students wear red

Davis. "There will be no technological answer to the population problem."
The people must get Congress
interested in control of population and ask it to revise the tax
structure to discourage rather
than encourage large families, he

stated.

He also urged the abolishment
of the Kentucky Compulsory
Pregnancy Law. "Abortion is
strictly a matter for the physician
and his patient," he said.

armbands to protest that fact.
the game Carret said,
"we've made our point."
He told CPS that about one
third of a 15,000 student cheering session at the school's Nov.
8 game wore armbands. He reported that some people thought
there might be riots as a result
of the action, but that everyone
thought the issue was important
enough to stand up and be
counted. Carret said, "We can
stand almost anything except
people lying about us."
After

NOW PLAYING!
"Once Upon A Mattress"
A different and wild musical
comedy
Show Times:

Tuesday through Saturday
Dinner,
p.m.; Show 8:15 p.m.
7.-0-

. Sunday
Dinner 5:00 p.m.; Show 6:15 p.m.
Dinner and Show One price
Closed on

brings results give it a try.

451-490-

0

or Simpsonville,

The Classified Column of
The Kentucky Kernel

Ky.
Ky.

722-883-

6

Sccf
On

V guards

VMI tW. k.tw l
rtt SIMfSONVIUI,

YOUR

Coming Up
ive-Student-Press

258-90-

ia

t6The third in the 1969-7- 0 Distinguished Lectures in Special Education, Dr.
the
John W. Melcher. President of will
Council for Educational Children, Dec.
at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday,
speak
4 in the Taylor Education Building
Auditorium. His topic will be "Some
Unmet Needs in Special Education.
The Student Council for Exceptional
Children will hold its monthly meet4 in the
ing at 7 p.m.. Dec. Auditorium. Taylor
NomEducation Building
officers will be held and
ination of
plans for the Chicago convention will
be discussed.
RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES
The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine representing the parishes in Lexington are sponsoring an lnterfaith
on
scripture andEve prayer service the
at 7:30 p.m. at
Thanskgiving
Alumni House, corner of
Helen King
Euclid and Rose Streets, to gather
hontogether with neighbors to offer
or and thanks to God.
Advent Service with
An Ecumenical
the Advent
Evensong and blessing of7:30 p.m. on
wreaths will be held at St.
Augustine
Nov. 30 at the
Sunday,
Chapel, 472 Rose Street. The Service
is cosponsored by the students of
Canterbury House and the Newman
Center.

The Kentucky Kernel

The Kentucky Kernel. University
Station, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506. Second class
postage paid at Lexington, Kentucky.
Mailed five tunes weekly during the
school year except holidays and exam
periods, and once during the summer
session.
Published by the Board of Student
Publications, UK Post Office Box 4SW.
Begun as the Cadet In 1094 and
published continuously as the Kernel
since 1915.
Advertising published herein la Intended to help the reader buy. Any
false or misleading advertising should
be reported to The Editors.
SUBSCRIPTION RATI3
45
Yearly, by mall
$.10
Per copy, from iiles
KERNEL TELEPHONES
tSJl
Editor, Managing Editor
Editorial Page Editor,
2320
Associate Editors, Sports
News
Circulation $319
Advertising, Business,

Dk

v

jy

o

TELL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ABOUT LIFE AT UK!
APPLICATION

FOR STUDENT

INFORMATION

TEAM

NAME

;.

Campus Address (in full)
Campus Phone
Home Address (In full)

Zip....
Home Phone
Zip....

Major
Home County
High School Graduated from

Classification
Home Town

FIRST TRAINING SESSION DECEMBER

G.P.S.

Year
4

Return to RICK RODGERS, Room 204 Student Center, by Tuesday, December 2.

PIIIIH

l!l!l!i!l!l!l!l!l!l!!!ISi:i!ll!!!l!IIIMI!llil!l'il!llh!l
iiiiii

ililiiiiiNI'lllilililllllilililiim

ONLY

Call: Louisville,

The next Student Government
meeting will be
held at 4 p.m. on Dec. 3 in Room
245 of the Student Center. All interested students are invited to attend
and ask questions of the Student Government Executive.
UNICEF Christmas Cards will be
on sale at the Human Relations Office from now until December 8.
The Block and Bridle Club of the
University of Kentucky . Is holding
its annual Little International on Friday, Dec. 5, 1969. This year's event
will celebrate the 50th anniversary,
and will include an honors program
to the 1919 show, with the assistance
of the Animal Sciences Department.
The play, "Billy Budd" will run
Dec. 7 in the Guignol Theatre. Reservations for it can be made by calling UK's Guignol Box Office,
Ext. 2929 from noon until 4:30 daily.
Curtain time Wednesday through Sat7:30
urday evenings is 8:30; Sunday, stu$1 for
p.m. Tickets are $2 regular; more.
dents and groups of 10 or
The Marshall McLuhan
Lab which was advertised for ThursRoom 325 of
day at 7:30 p.m. in Dec. 4 instead
Dickty Hall will meet
at the same time and place.
Are you Interested in happiness?
Find out whj Christian Scientists
are happy by stopping by our weekly
meetings on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.
in Room 308 of the Commons Building.
The Blue Marlins will not meet
but
Tuesday night Dec. instead will meet
2 at the Coliseum
at 7:30 p.m. on
Pool. All members are urged to at- Multi-Med-

Mondaye"

BY REJfJyATT&N

and U.S. 10

KY.

1

* Clean!
Is This rhing Yours
'OiiC, Come

Or Isn't It?'

The Education Lobby
Some politicians appear to be
upset because a variety of education groups have joined forces in
Washington to create an education
lobby. There is nothing new about
the existence of lobbies for everything from oil depletion benefits
to the defense establishment. Only
education was supposed to be above
such grubby practices which seek
only money.
The realities have long been
quite different. The unhappy fact
is that there has been a variety

of education interests, each lobbying for itself, with the result that
they often canceled each other out.
The emergence of a strong education lobby is clearly in the national interest, particularly at
a time when the Administration is
trying to tailor its domestic spending, not to crucial educational and
social needs but to the demands
of the war and the military.
The danger is not that a united
front will give education too much
money but rather that the priorities
may be distorted by politically fa

sagging

d

e.

For example, he completely ignored
the
era of the Kennedy administration when our government gave the '
fullest support (military, economic and
political) to one of the world's most
corrupt and brutal dictatorships that of
Ngo Dinh Diem in Saigon and Robert
Kennedy, then a superhawk, was making
public pronouncements that his brother
the President knew how to conclude the
war victoriously, and would do so.
President Kennedy had the first 25,000
combat troops in Vietnam when Johnson
succeeded to the oifice, a fact which is
consistently obscured by men who made
common cause with Robert Kennedy when
he later realized the consequences of his
previous blunders. Even today, when occasional prisoner releases are arranged,
the news media never seem to take account of the fact that these prisoner
groups almost always contain Americans
fighting in Viet-- .
captured in the
mid-196- 3

.

fj

f . VA. v

.

sv W

.... v-

WW

v

W

W

Kernel Forum: the readers write
Pro ROTC
To the Editor of the Kernel:
As an Alumnus of the University of
Kentucky I was disturbed to learn of

the article appearing in The Kentucky
Kernel last April, calling for the abol-- ,
ishing of Reserve Officer Training Corps,
courses.

From my own experience I am convinced that the ROTC is a very important part of our defense system. On the
morning of December 7, 1941 there was a
telephone call to my home in Honolulu,
ordering me to report immediately for
active duty. Pearl Harbor was being attacked by the Japanese. As I drove
to Fort Shatter I thanked God for having

encouragement

and reward of academic excellence
at all levels. Those who lobby for
such goals need be ashamed only
of not having begun sooner.
The New York Times

r

nam during the Kennedy administiation.
Kennedy changed our military role from
an advisory one (7000 advisors at the start
of his administration) vo an active combat
and counterinsurgency force. Yet to hear
Sedler explain it, the war was all Johnson's. I wonder what he or others who
cry for total and immediate withdrawal
now would have done in 1963, given the
set oi circumstances in which Johnson
found himself, viz:
1. The nation highly emotional over
the assassination of Pres. Kennedy, with all the evidence pointing to a militant Marxist who had
left his country to live in Soviet
Russia as the assassin.
2. The evidence that only tough
military action by Pres. Kennedy
against the Communists in forcing withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuban bases had saved
the nation from the immediate
threat of short and medium range
Russian rocketiy.
3. The repeated public assurances
of then Defense Secretary
Gen. Maxwell Taylor,
and other military confidents of
the Kennedys that we could win
in Vietnam if we persevered as
Truman had done in Korea.
4. The presence of a 100 percent
Kennedy administration cabinet,
including Robert Kennedy himself, in the first months of the
Johnson administration. These
men were the architects of our
Vietnam policy in 1961, '62 and
'63, and were hardly disposed to
reverse or criticize their own actions.
ra,

All our Vietnam critics pick from history only those details that they can use
in advocacy of their current position,
and sometimes they, can
pretty absurd.

gt

1969

James W. Miller, Editor-in-ChiBob Brown, Editorial Page Editor
.
George H. Jepson, Managing Editor
Robert Duncan, Advertising Manager
Dottie Bean, Associate Editor
Dan Gossett, Arts Editor
Chip Hutcheson, Sports Editor
Don Rosa, Cartoonist
Carolyn Dunnavan, Features Editor
Mike Herndon,
Frank Coots,
Bill Matthews,
Jean Renaker
Jeannie Leedom,
Assistant Managing Editors

had the advantage of the ROTC training
at UK. If we were being invaded I knew
I could help in my country's defense,
rather than worrying about the horrors
of a Japanese invasion and not being
abb to do anything about it. At the end
of World War II, my commanding general told me that it was a true statement
that the reserves won the war. The vast
majority of officers were reserves. Our
country could not afford to keep that
large a peace time force. I hate war,
but we must be prepared to defend ourselves until the entire world is civilized.
The ROTC is a very vital part of our
defense system and should be encouraged
and kept in our colleges.
iPERCY H. "DUKE" JOHNSTON
Class of 32

Kernel Soapbox

Associate Professor
Department of Forestry
Professor Sedler's moratorium speech
contained the standard list of accusations
and condemnations of U.S. Vietnam policy
that are usually cited by critics of that
policy. His recitation of the historical
foreign policy blunders, principally in the
Eisenhower administration, that led this
nation into the Vietnam involvement can
be
They constitute a
particularly inglorious and
chapter in our diplomacy. From the point
of entry into the years of the Kennedy
administration however, Sedler's account
was generally
From that
point on, the speech was all advocacy
(the lawyer's tactic of saying only what
will advance your cause, while ignoring,
ridiculing or playing down any fact or
opinion that would tend to support the
other view.)
2

finances,

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25,

1894

Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.

.

By RICHARD E. MACK

1961-6-

University of Kentucky

ESTABLISHED

into the Federally impacted areas.
In reality, these localities, far from
being impoverished, have enjoyed
the boom that accompanies Federal
installations.
The nation's educational leadership, and particularly the United
States Office of Education, has a
dual responsibility to support the
education lobby's campaign for
funds, despite excessively defense-oriente- d
White House directions,
and to establish and enforce the
kind of priorities that will assure
the greatest education gains. The
critical areas remain the support
of schools in poverty areas, the
shoring up of higher education's

f

short-sighte-

The Kentucky Kernel

vored objectives. The most glaring
example of the wrong kind of lobbying success political rather than
educational is the continued
readiness of Congress to pour money

u

To hear Sedler tell it, Lyndon Johnson is promise to leave, the NVA will be generous
practically a recluse now, hiding from the enough not to shoot at us while we are
American public. If you call teaching for leaving. On terms like this we would
awhile at a University and then working indeed be asking for more challenges and
daily on your memoirs in an Austin of- more war everywhere.
fice the actions of a scared recluse, so be
Having said these things (and finding
much more to be critical of in Prof. Sedit. Personally I expect Johnson's memoirs
will contain some rather vigorous com- ler's extreme position), I would, if forced
mentary on the politics and history of the to choose, elect this extreme unhesitatingly over the other extreme so recently
60's.
I do disagree specifically with the idea 'enunciated by Sen. Goldwater when he
that an immediate peremptory exit will suggested that since war is hell anyway,
solve our war problem. We want to get we might Just as well bomb the likes to
out of Vietnam, but our mo re fundamental flood the rice fields of North Vietnam.

objectives are to avoid military engagements and challenges anywhere, and ultimately to disarmament.
To our Vietnam critics, the U.S. is a
pariah, but as Edwin Reischauer (former
U.S. ambassador to Japan) has pointed
out, our policy does have widespread
understanding in Asia (and probably more
support than we deserve) because each
country fears that irreversible embrace into the red bloc with the
same apprehension that countries on the
periphery of Nazi Germany feared in the

1930's.
Nor is coalition any answer. Czechoslovakia started out after World War II
with a "democratic" coalition including
Communists. Since the
parties were forced out and outlawed,
that tragic country has been held in the
colonial grip of the U.S.S.R. and will
not escape. The pattern has been repeated so many times that it is incredible
we do not learn this lesson.

No, we are not ready to cut and run
only to face a stiffer challenge and more
bloodshed some other place. We shall
continue to withdraw because we should
not have gone in the first place, but it
will be phased. Not many Americans
(percentagewise) are going to buy the
whimpering suggestion that if we just

Flooding those fields and starving the
people would indeed justify all the worst
that America's critics could say that
here is an arrogant superpower that stops
at nothing to crush a weaker nation.
Sedler hit the nail squarely on the
head when he pointed out the hypocrisy
that we (and virtually all other powers)
engage in when we arrogate to ourselves
the right to control the destinies of other
nations. We have seen fit to intervene
against or oppose only those totalitarian
states that are Communist. The totalitarianism of regimes equally or more repress