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Tuesday Evening, April 22, 19G9

Ce remony

Board Denies Appeals
Of Four UK Students
Suspended After Raid

Postponed
To Monday

By BILL MATTHEWS

By LARRY DALE KEELING

Kernel Staff Writer

Assistant Managing Editor
Student Government President VVally Bryan, after confervice presidering with president-annt-elect
Tim Futrell and Jim
Gwinn, postponed the swearing-iceremonies for the two until
the University Judicial Board
makes a decision on the contested
election.
Futrell and Gwinn had been
scheduled to be sworn in Monday at 4:30 p.m.

Four of five "temporarily suspended" UK students arrested last

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Speaking for Bryan, Futrell
said that "Although we feel, as
does the Elections Board, the
elections for president and vice
president are valid and official,
VVally Bryan, in accordance with
Jim and me, is postponing the
until after theappeal
swearing-iis heard Tuesday night."
The appeal is being made by
unsuccessful assembly candidate
Robert Duncan and Barbra Ries.
Duncan and Miss Ries presented
part of their case to the Elections Board Sunday night.
The board later issued a rec
ommendation to the
the appeal be denied. In the
recommendation, the board said
the only election being contested
was the representatives race. The
board declared the presidential
and vice presidential races to be
valid. This led to scheduling the
ceremonies for
swearing-i-

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Tim Futrell and Jim Gwinn, SG president and
vice president-elec- t,
were not swom in yesterday
aller a kul decided to wait until next Monday
after the Judicial Board has had a chance to review the contested election.

Duncan and Miss Ries contend that the whole election
should be thrown out.
At the Elections Board meeting Sunday, Duncan argued that
there was only one election, not
three separate elections.
"They were all on the same
ballot," Duncan said at that
time.

The Elections Board report
said, however, that it was "of
the opinion that a person not a
candidate for any office cannot
ordinarily Contest the election
to fill it. Similarly,- a candidate
for one office cannot challenge
an election to fill another."
The final decision rests with
however.
theJ-Boar-

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week by the Lexington police in
denied by the University Appeals
Following the arrests, the five
had been temporarily suspended
by the University under provisions of the Student Code. Ten
students in all were arrested. The
five suspended students had appealed the suspensions to the
University Appeals Board.
Meeting in two sessions Friday and Sunday for an estimated
eight hours, the board deliberated
at length before reaching a decision.
Four of the appeals were
denied and the fifth student was
recommended for less serious
punishment. J.T. Freeman, James
II. Doster, Carroll S. Brown and
John Magnuson are to remain
temporarily suspended pending
settlement of their cases in court
or some other change in status.
James Finlay, the fifth student, was given an undated suspension, allowing him to return
to class.
Barbara Anne Davidson, who
was not originally suspended,
was also given an undated suspension Monday. Both she and
Finlay were charged with being
an accessory before the fact.
Dean of Students Jack Hall
pointed out that the four students
whose appeals were denied, had
not been formally suspended and
are still enrolled as students,

drug raids have had their appeals
Board.
although they cannot attend
classes.
Dean Hall also indicated that
the four could have their cases
reviewed pending the outcome
of their trial May 2 or any other
associated change in circumstances before that time.
Asked why four of the appeals
were denied, chairman of the University Appeals Board, Charles
Williamson said the board "saw
no reason to disagree with his
(Dr. Stuart Forth's, vice president for student affairs) dispensation of the case."
All five cases were heard separately last Friday by the board,
which met again Sunday night
to write their recommendation to
Dr. Forth. His decision was announced Monday.
Of the four suspended students, three were arrested on
charges of selling dangerous
drugs. The fourth student was
charged with possession and disorderly conduct.
A similar case last semester
drew only undated suspensions
for two UK students (All en Holmgren and Eric Friendlander)
charged with selling of narcotics.
Holmgren has since been convicted of possession of marijuana
and has been sentenced to two
years in the state penitentiary.

An Editorial
"The University is like a

2,000-poun- d

gorilla. It goes to the bathroom wherever it wants to. "

Fayette County Judge
Joe Johnson
And once again students are
getting the rank end of the deal.
Four of five students who were
arrested in drug raids last week
were denied reinstatements by. the
University Appeals Board Monday
following their suspensions by Vice
President for Student Affairs Dr.
Stuart Forth.
These students should never
have been suspended in the first
place, according to the ideals of
the Student Code under whose
misconstrued provisions they were
disciplined. With all established
channels having failed, the only
remaining means of redress is
direct action on the part of students. The Kernel therefore joins
with other interested students in
calling for a mass meeting Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Room' 309

of the Student Center to plan a
rational and appropriate course of
action.
The issues involved are not concerned with drug use but with
basic student rights. The Student
Code supposedly was designed to
protect students from double jeopardy punishment by the University for offenses charged by civil
authorities. If the rights of these
students are violated, what assurance do you have that your rights
also will not be ignored?
The University seems quite content to sacrifice students in order
to appease certain elements in the
state, particularly those in Frankfort. Aside from the greater issue
of the University's perverted sense
of priorities, the question also involves the practical effects of the
action on the students involved.
The University, by presuming
the guilt of these students and by
twisting the Student Code to discipline them, is costing them almost an entire semester of work

and finances. There is no excuse
for this sort of thing.
It is up to us, then, to show our
revulsion by turning out Wednesday
stunight. If only activist-oriente- d
dents show up, any activities planned will be futile. For any meaningful results, you students living in
fraternities, sororities, the Complex, Donovan, Haggin, Blazer and
other dorms as well as
dwellings must lend your support.
And it is essential that faculty members also join in. This is an issue
which concerns all of us.
Students
at this Univerare pawns. They are
sity really
controlled, spoonmanipulated,
fed and castrated by a greater
force the force that isolates itself
behind the red brick walls of the
Administration Building. When the
powers scream, it is all a matter
of how much we HAVE to jump.
When the powers say guilty, no
more classes; you are out. That is
the final word unless we do someoff-camp-

thing about it.

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Tuesday, April 22,

19

Play Review

Of Time And The Rivals
student and director of last fall's
production of Dylan Thomas'
"Under Milk Wood,' to create a
highly unified production. To
have two directors for one production can be a dangerous undertaking, especially in regard to
direction to actors and unity of
effect. Unless there is rapport
between the directors, and between the individual members
of the cast and the directors,
there is too great a possibility of
dissipation of artistic energy. Apparently this rapport exists in the
Cuignol's production of "The Rivals", for it is nearly impossible
to say where the work of one
director leaves off and theother's
work begins.

By NEIL KELLY
Kernel Drama Critic
The reappearance of Richard
Brinslcy Sheridan's "The Rivals"
on the Cuignol stage after a 31
year absence provides a welcome
breath of fun for this nascent
spring, beset as it is by crises
foreign and disturbances domestic. For the opening the cast
turned in a tight performance
with a fine comic hand and unusual control of
nervousness. That the audience enwas
joyed the
production
evidenced by the repeated interruptions for applause.
One remarkable aspect of this
production is the fact that it has
two directors. Wallace Briggs,
chairman of the University's
Theatre Arts Department and a
familiar figure in Kentucky
theater, has worked with Michael
Walters, a theatre arts graduate
first-nig-

Jo Schneider plays a Mrs. Mala-proof subtlety and strength
appropriate to the character w ithout overplaying the delicious and
most famous role in the show. It
is refreshing to see Mrs. Mala-proplayed as part of a whole
instead of being used as a starring
vehicle which is so frequently the
case in productions of "The
Rivals."
Clay Nixon (Capt. Jack Absolute) is absolutely Capt. Jack.
This central wit character is a
constant practitioner of today's
Mr.
"put-on- "
and
Nixon in appearance and action
realizes the character with a flair.
And Linda Nolan as the soulful
and incorrigibly romantic Lydia
Languish displays an unerring
sense of comic timing and an
eye for those poses of 18th century comedy which seems so affected to us today.
p

p

"put-down-

Balanced Cast
It also is nearly impossible
to single out any member of the
balanced cast for praise. Bekki

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propriateness for this production
should convert the most rigid
of purists.
The only real disappointment
of the production was the scenic
design. The rather pedestrian
scenic concept and clumsy lighting design constantly detracted
from the work of the actors by
towering wavcringly over them
and frequently leaving their faces
in too heavy shadows. Nevertheless, the skill of the actors, the
fine hand of the costumer, and
music
James Bond's just-rigtriumph in the final impact of
the show create a production well
worth the seeing.

Douglas Marshall as the madcap Bob Acres, a wealthy country
bumpkin who is precipitated into
a duel by Sir Lucius O'Trigger
(Bnice Peyton), provides interesting and hilarious insights into
the nature of courage and bravado. Berry Bleach (Fag) and Jo
Ann Smith (Lucy) are delightful
as the two scheming servants
(descended from the Greek New
Comedy and Plautus).
Costumes Exciting
Joseph Flauto's costuming for
the play does exactly what costuming is supposed to do: it is
visually exciting, and more importantly, it reinforces the chara-ter- s
and action of the play. Although Mr. Flauto has advanced
the costumes chronologically
from about 1778 to the
Empire of circa 1812, the beauty
of the costumes and their ap

EDITORS NOTE: The Rivals
will be presented Friday, Saturday and Sunday (April 25, 26,
27). Reservations may be made
by calling extension 2929.

Odyssey In The Deep Blue Spring Revisited
but merely the Liberty Monument
7 buried scandals, 6r 7 searchlights
the burning thumb of the
Power and Light

By BRUCE ROGERS
CRASHING IN K.C.,; BANANA
PAINT & A HARVEST OF THE
GENTLE SPRING
Hallucinations of Coit Tower in
bits of my roadeyes

the empurpled train yard at
our supernatural feet
the bloated aircraft landing
near the Salvation
Army river, sinisterly spiritual in the closeness

i fit
(El

of the night
The Plaza has its weird

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In the Factory there are the

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of the dwarf

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money-change-

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berry incense
sitting in the candle of ultimate night
curiously like the mindfood
in the subterranian airforce
the long un echoed silence
rides thru the dark tunnel
(in Kansas City
my mind dropped
7 coloured stones)

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Blessed the breakwater the fog
the sad sounds of San Francisco
Only an image and we walked
cold Division Street in dawn's
dream
boots we say we are love but
what are we
And from within the prophet
says it is all lovely unless it
is metal

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Challenge Financial Sanctions On Protesters

NSA

Heads Court Action Against HEW

College Press Service
suit has been (lied in federal
court here challenging the constitutionality of legislation which
cuts off financial aid of college
students involved in "disruptive"
campus protests.
Principal plaintiff is the U.S.
National Student Association, a
confederation of 386 student governments on campuses across the
nation. Joining NSA in the action
as representative parties are the
student governments at Notre
Dame, the University of California at Berkeley, and Maryland;
the president of Staten Island
A

Community

students.

and four

College,

The suit seeks to declare

un-

constitutional, and thus nullify,
"anti-riot- "
certain
provisions of federal legislation designed to deny federal aid to disruptive protesters.
Named as chief defendant is
Robert Finch, Secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare,
who administers most of the funds
involved. Defense secretary Mel-vi- n
Laird andLelandJ. Haworth,
director of the National Science
Foundation, are also named because they administer applicable

research programs.
NSA vs. Finch

"When

our

students

nation's

law-

makers plunge beyond the constitution in their zeal to punish
students," said NSA president
Robert Powell, Jr., "it is time to
call a halt. In NSA vs. Finch,
we seek to secure the protection
afforded to students under the
constitution against the emotional and intemperate reaction of
our lawmakers."
Powell, speaking at a press
conference, said the
laws "intimidate and inhibit"
aid-cut-o- ff

By The Associated Press

second student sit-iin as
many weeks began Monday at
Harvard's University Hall while
the president of Cornell, another
Harvard's University Hall while
the president of Cornell, another
Ivy League school, declared a
"situation of emergency" stemming from Sunday's armed takeover of the student union.
At Columbia University, a
third Ivy League member, the
dissident Students for a Democratic Society invited pupils from
four high schools to join a campus
rally demanding open admissions
for pupils from those schools.
At Harvard, about 150 students marched without opposition into the hall, the school's
main administration building,
carrying out an SDS vote Sunday night to stay there until 5
p.m., the closing hour. An estimated 1,000 young people milled about outside in the Harvard
n

Yard.
An its meeting, the SDS said
it would not accept anything less

than full expulsion of Reserve Of-

ficers Training Corps from cam-

pus.
Earlier, school officials accepted a faculty recommendation
that ROTC be made an extracurricular activity, and promised
to provide alternate housing for
residents of Cambridge and Boston displaced by Harvard

The SDS is demanding full
expulsion of ROTC from the campus, while black students were
calling for an active voice in
forming a black studies department.
followed by
The new
three days a mass rally at Harvard Stadium at which 4,000 students voted to end a week-ol- d
class boycott.
At Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell's
President James A. Perkins
pledged a series of measures aimed at bringing back "law and order and stability" in the wake
of a
occupation of the
student union building by
Blacks.
No more guns would be allowed on the Ivy League campus, Perkins said, adding, "The
business of ocupying buildings
as a way of doing business must
cease."
Any organization promoting
occupation of buildings will be
disbanded, any student found
carrying a gun will be suspended, and nonstudents will be arrested, Perkins said.
At Columbia, SDS leaders
said they were giving Acting
President Dr. Andrew Cordierone
week to accede to demands, including abolition of ROTC, the
admission of more Blacks to the
university and a priority student
voice in black studies programs.
If the demands were not met,
an SDS spokesman said, the high
sit-i- n

Committee Cn Learning
Will Issue Report Monday
Student complaints collected by the Committee on Learning
are being studied and will be presented to the faculty meeting
of the College of Arts and Science next Monday, according to Dr.
Halbert Gulley, chairman.
The committee heard student ing on the problem of places for
problems at an open meeting students to study."
held in the Student Center
Dr. Gulley said the committee
Theatre more than a month ago. would probably suggest "more
Dr. Gulley said among the seminars
and
independent
problems being studied are those studies."
involvement in
of student-facult"The climate is ripe for imthe University and complaints
provement and change," Dr. Gulagainst the grading system. Heal-s- o ley said. He also expressed confisaid the committee was "work- dence that the College of Arts
and Sciences would be responsive to the committee's suggestPhi Epsilon's Con- ions as soon as they were preSigma
frontation series continues to- sented in their entirety.
session
night in a
with Fred Karem, a personal
assistant to Gov. Louie B. Nunn.
The session, open to all students
and faculty, will begin at 6:43
p.m. at the Sig Fp house, 410
Hilltop Drive.
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school pupils "will return and
struggle alongside of Columbia

students."

The spokesman saidall Black,
Puerto Rican and white pupils
from the four high schools, whose
parents earn less than $8,000 a
year, automatically should be
admitted to Columbia.
The SDS spokesman acknowledged that the Student
Society was not supporting the Monday rally but
said individual black students
would join the demonstration.
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Aroundmidaftemoon, a group
of the high school pupils, to the
apparent surprise of the SDS leaders, dashed into Hamilton Hall.
At Emmitsburg,

Md., Monstudents at Mount St. Mary's
day,
College announced their strike,
which began la st Wednesday, was
over and they would return to
class as soon as a faculty meeting on amnesty ended.
Student demands included
abolishing the midnight curfew
for all classmen, allowing women in men's dormitory lounges,
a campus club where students
over 21 years of age could drink
d
liquor and a
dress code on campus.
student-designe-

fully exercising

the provisions, he said, but mere
existence of the statutes constitutes an "implicit threat" and a
"powerful agent of intimida-

tion."

More than 1.5 million students
receive aid under programs aff
fected by the
provisions.
Also involved are professors' and
graduate students' research subsidies.
The NSA suit contends the
are illegal because they
violate rights of free speech, assembly and conscience; invade
states' rights; constitute bills of
attainder; violate due process;
are vague and indefinite; and invidiously discriminate against
the poor.
Powell charged that the laws
also "represent dangerous and
unwise educational policy because they substantially diminish
the options" open to educators
in student discipline, because
they are "inherently unfair," and
because "the powers of the federal government do not and should
not extend to matters of student
cut-of-

cut-of-

Ivy Leaguers Continue Protests
A

from

their constitutional rights. No
student has yet lost aid under

fs

misconduct."
If the government "arbitrarily

and unfairly intrudes into the
controversy surrounding student
discipline within the university,"
he added, "it will only invite
further division, bitterness, and
paralysis within the university
at a time when that institution
and
should
be
restoring
strengthening its internal capacity for
Student Involvement
Powell closed his statement
with a plea for more student
involvement in institutional affairs: "Protests should not be
mistaken for the real problems,
which spring from the inherently
undemocratic processes of the
university. Student powerless-nes- s
produces campus disruptions. If lawmakers and educators
wish to serve the best and high

est interest of our universities,
they will go to the causes of the

problem with their treatment,
rather than mistakenly dealing
only with the symptoms."
One of the student plaintiffs
is Kent Young, a political science
major at Colorado State University. He lost a state scholarship
for involvement in a campus protest, and has been threatened
with loss of his federal grant.
Howard Brown, a graduate student at Yale; Robert Hundley,
theology student at Columbia;
and M ark Linder, sociology major
at Macalester College, are also
named as plaintiffs. They receive
federal aid, and feel the "uncertainties engendered by the legislation . . . constitute a prior
restraint" on their rights. They
are afraid of losing aid if they
continue their dissent. "These
people don't know where they
stand," said Powell.
William M. Birenbaum, SICC
president, is the representative
administrator.
The suit asks for an immediate,
temporary
injunction
against enforcement of the cutoffs until the case can be heard
e
by a
panel.
s
The
were tacked onto
legislation by the last Congress
after the House Higher Educa- tion subcommittee had urged
leaving disciplinary matters up
to individual institutions. One
provision calls for mandatory cutoff if a student is convicted of a
crime during a protest. Another
lets the school decide if the disruption or rule violation was "of
a serious nature" before cutting
off aid. The provisions were not
enforced under! the Johnson Administration, but President Nixon
has made it clear he intends to
enforce the law.
three-judg-

cut-off-

The subcommittee,
which
handles much of the challenged
legislation, has been holding
hearings on the aid cut-off

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at the

meeting this year. Among the contenders are
Elizabeth Holloway, University of Kentucky,
and Cathy Clay of Lexington.
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Nonrepresentation
One of the potentially most meaningful documents to evolve here concerning students, the Student Bill of Rights, is developing without
proper student representation. Student Government President Wally
Bryan, who was supposed to have attended the sessions of the University
Senate where the bill was discussed, has attended none of the three
held so far.
It is really too late to spur Bryan into action because most of the
discussion concerning specific provisions of the bill has been completed.
But students should be aware that when the bill is in final form with
many undesirable parts, they were not adequately represented during its
creation.
Perhaps it should also be pointed out that the faculty's attendance
has not been anything to boast 'about, either. But it is the students
who have a direct stake in what emerges from the senate's sessions,
and they should have been more adequately represented.
Credit should be given, however, for the hard work on the part of
Sheryl Snyder and Winston Miller, two law students who have helped
draw up the bill and who have attended at least some of the sessions.

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Student Protection
To the Editor of the Kernel;
As a member of the UK faculty, I
wish to go on record as opposing the recent
action of Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. Stuart Forth in suspending several UK students after their arrest on drug
charges by local police officials. I hope
that many more faculty members will
come forward in opposition to this flagrant
violation of student rights.
My opposition to Dr. Forth's action is
based on a point which I have not heard
discussed in connection with this incident, nor the one which occurred last
semester. I can certainly imagine circumstances when the presence on campus
of a student accused of violating some
criminal law "may present a clear and
present danger of serious physical ormen-ta- l
harm to the student or to any other
member of the University community . . . "
Such a person would just as likely constitute a clear and present danger to the
community at large. In such cases, the
courts of the land refuse to set bond and
keep the individual (s) in question incarcerated until they have been tried in
a court of law. In the case of the students recently suspended by Mr. Forth,
the court obviously did not feel that they
were a clear and present danger to the
community, since they were released on
bond. (I think it rather silly to assume
that suspension from classes will serve to
protect the University community anyway.)
Thus, for the University to take punitive action against these students is to
suggest that the University community
is a more fragile entity than the community at large and that it requires
some sort of special protection. If that
is indeed the case,, then this University
community has failed and we had betand
ter either
our
University community to make it less
fragile or leave the work of higher educa- tion in this country to those made of
stronger stuff.
It is now quite clear to me that the
problem of student rights on this campus has not been satisfactorily solved.
There appears to be no institutionalized
mechanism for insuring the integrity of
student rights. Students with grievances
can turn either to the Vice President
for Student Affairs or to the Student
nt

areas do they serve? Morehead State
Government. In light of recent developments, it is unlikely that he or she will University, located in Morehead, serves
Northeastern Kentucky. Murray State Uniget an enlightened or sympathetic refrom the former, and Student
versity, located in Murray, and Western
ception
Government on this campus is more farce State University, located in Bowling
than reality.
Green, serve the western portion of the
I should like to suggest the establishstate. In the narrow, 40 mile stretch between Frankfort and Richmond, there
ment of a regularized, institutionalized
mechanism for the protection of student are two
universities, East-eand the University of Kentucky, and
rights: a student branch of the Central
Kentucky Civil Liberties Union. Such a one
college, Kentucky
group (and it need only be a small one) State. In addition to these institutions,
would exist in order to investigate com- Central Kentucky has three
plaints of violations of student rights. schools, Georgetown, Centre, and TransylCases appearing to havesomemerit would vania. And what did you generous people
be referred to the Complaints Commitallot to Northern Kentucky, the second
tee and Board of Directors of the CKCLU most populous area in the state? One
for investigation and appropriate action. crummy community college. Well, what
I have been authorized by the Board of more do you want, you might ask? Let
Directors of CKCLU to consult with UK me tell it to you like it is at the Northern
students concerning the establishing of Community College.
such a group at UK and I intend to purFirst of all, it is overcrowded, as
sue the matter vigorously. Sometime witheveryone knows. It is perched high on an
in the next 10 days I shall schedule an
artificial hill that has a bad tendency to
organizational meeting on campus and
landslide everytime it rains. There were
shall post a notice in the Kernel conseveral times, while I attended NCC that
cerning time and place. I hope that one of the two roads
leading to the college
of you will attend. In this way
many
was completely blocked by mud and trees
concerned members of your faculty and
that had slid down the hill. As a matter
community will be able to assist you in of
fact, one corner of the parking lot can
the protection of your basic student rights.
be seen slowly sinking away even now.
Frederic J. Fleronjr.
Assistant Professor Political Science The quality of the instructors at NCC is
questionable to say the least. I attended
NCC for two years and had only three
Ph.D's. The majority of the instructors
Gravy
are high school teachers with masters
Why shouldn't there be a
degrees. While some were good instruccollege in Northern Kentucky.?
tors, many were very poor and taught
Well! Well!