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The Kentucky Kernel VoL LX, No. 89 Wednesday Evening, Feb. 5, 1969 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON Kerley Says Bank Was To Tell UK Of Raised Farm Bids The Associated Press versation with Clinch July 28 he A UK vice president testified was told that in Clinch’s judg- Tuesday that he was told by the ment, “An offer of $2 million Bank of New York it would in- would be very seriously con- form him if the University was sidered by the Bank of New outbid in 1967 in its offer for York." Maine Chance Farm. He and other University of- Robert F. Kerley also told a ficials testified, however, that at U.S. District Court jury it was no time were they told who was his understanding that the bank to make the competing bid. planned to do the same for other Dr. Carl Cone, a University bidders on the property. faculty representative on the re- The bank, at the time, was search foundation’s board, was handling sale of the farm as co- brought to introduce notes he executor of the estate of the late had made during a meeting at Elizabeth Arden Graham. which the $2 million bid was Kerley was called as a wit- authorized. ness for the plaintiffs in a $30 Notes Read million anit-trust suit filed in His notes, he testified, in- connection with the University’s Kernel Photo by Howard Mason of appraisals on purchase of the farm for $2 mil- cluded amounts the property and one that read: Erwin Kelley, a striking San Francisco State College professor, (left), lion. “$1.85 million— Pessin and Kin- Coffee after address in the Theatre. Sam Ezell e, Lexington veterinarian Arnold talks with UK students an SC caid.” a former trustee, (right) expressed sympathy with the SFSC fight G. Pessin and California horse- UK cross-examination, ( story below on page man Rex Ellsworth charge there He said on Talk for academic freedom. See 1) he recalled no was a conspiracy between the however, that of the men during the University’s research foundation, mention meeting, but that he had read the Keeneland Association and Votes To End of the Pessin-Ellis- Harvard Faculty the Bank of New York to keep news stories connected the them from buying the property. worth offer and two. Knew of Bid Eadier testimony indicated All Academic Credit For ROTC Kedey said Joseph Clinch, a the foundation itself paid $500,- continue allowing the ROTC pro- tives were permitted to attend vice president of the Bank of 000. Another $500,000 was bor- CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP)- gram free use of university build- the closed session. New York, told him July 28, rowed from a bank here and The Harvard faculty of Arts and session several weeks to re- ings. A similar 1967, he expected to receive a $1.5 million was borrowed from Sciences voted Tuesday Col. Robert H. Pell, director ago was cancelled when members bid of $1.95 million for the farm an insurance company through quest the Harvard Corporation of the Army ROTC program, said of Students for a Democratic So- from another bidder. the bank. to withdraw academic credit from he will not request that the De- ciety invaded the meeting hall That same day, the Univer- Eadier in the day, Louis Lee any course offered by the ROTC leave. fac- fense Department continue the and refused to sity’s research foundation of- Haggin II, president of Keene- program and to terminate present program on a non-academic basis. fered its $2 million for the pro- land, explained the background ulty appointments of pos- “I’m bitterly disappointed but perty. That bid was accepted to a letter he wrote endorsing ROTC instructors as soon as not as surprised as I might have July 31— the next regular busi- the University’s purchase of the sible. Burke Speaks been a few weeks ago,” Pell ness day. farm. The vote was 207 in favor said. “Times are changing, and Eadier in the trial, both Pesr- He said University President and 150 opposed. Kenneth Burke, literary critic said the precedents at Yale and else- sin and the man from whom he John W. Oswald asked him to Dean Franklin L. Ford and philosopher, will speak on where have made this predicta- and Ellsworth were to borrow verify or refute a claim by Pes- the decision will be communi- “King Lear— Its Form and Psy- Depart- ble. money to buy the farm, Garvice sin that horsemen here opposed cated to the Defense chosis,” in the Commerce Au- be “There may well be a back- Kincaid, said they, too, were the purchase. ment. The Department will ditorium at 8 p.m. Burke is pre- it wants lash in the academic community. promised a chance to rebid if Haggin said he called three asked to decide whether sented as a guest lecturer by the non- I have a strong feeling that feel- their offer were topped. Keeneland directors— Chades to continue the courses on a English department. The lecture basis. ings exist contrary to this else- Both said, however, they never Nuckols, Leslie Combs II and academic ” is open to the public. also re- where in the nation. got that chance. A. B. Hancock Jr. — and fa- The faculty vote student representa- Kedey said that in his con- vored the University purchase. quested that the university dis- Invited Students Seek Responsive Universities Now m T Columbia Students Score Changes Come Too Late Against Academic Authority To Avert SFSC Violence By DARRELL RICE By THOMAS L HALL Editorial Page Editor Kernel Staff Writer "When you make fxaceful revolution impossible you make , Scene: A besieged hall at Columbia University last May. A violent revolution inevitalile .” —John F. Kennedy has met to consider the pressing “revolutionary student commune” This quote, according to Erwin Kelley, a striking economics “Women” signs on "liberated restroom problem of “Men” and professor at San Francisco State College (SFSC), sums up the ex- doors. planation for the strike and strife at the California school. social distinctions separate people from Decision: "These bio- The local chapter of the American Association of University with henceforth. people and must be dispensed Professors (AAUP) sponsored his talk entitled “Report from the Metzger, a Columbia History pro- According to Dr. Walter P. Battlefield The Crisis at San Francisco State.” Kelley himself sexual distinctions in restrooms was not fessor, dispensing with suffered a broken finger in one of the melees involving students least of the accomplishments of Columbia demonstrators last the and police. chapter of the American Associa- year. In an address before the UK Kelley told a capacity crowd in the Student Center Theatre (AAUP) last night, Dr. Metzger gave tion of University Professors Tuesday afternoon that the current situation at SFSC is the result Challenge to Academic Authority.” his candid views on “The of the institution's not being able to make needed changes fast unrest at San krancisco State He covered topics ranging from enough. Columbia. He quipped that College to that at his own school, He did not go into a chronicalization of events preceding and “volatility and volubility and SAT verbal scores now measure following the student strike beginning Nov. 6- eventually followed the student revolt to the fervor ot compared the fire and fury of by an American Federation of Teachers (ATF) strike, but focused the Protestant Reformation. instead on the underlying issues. Anabaptists Recalled The events occurring at San krancisco State, Kelley said, Dr. Metzger said asceticism and hatred of rules is not peculiar represent the culmination of three revolutions”: history, he said, to modern-day “heretics.” Student radical meetings remind him The student revolution— For the first time in 16th-century the nation live its of a convocation of Anabaptists, members ot a students are committed to making up to ideals, only difference, he said, that their very presence they cause abrasion. sect known for its disorderly ways. The and by links between monarchy revolution— “The lesson we must bring, Kelley is that where the Anabaptists condemned The black links between just because raise one group you and hierarchy," today’s student rebels condemn said of this area, “is that you CouUnued on Page *, CeL S Continued on Fa|« t, CoL 1 DR. METZGER do not lower another.” . 0. \ t — THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wrdnnday, Feb. 5, l%9 SFSC Prof Says ‘Revolutions’ Led To Student, Faculty Strikes by the minority students," he had badly distorted and ex- said. The demands include the e»- aggera ted student violence at the tablishment of a black studies school. With a few exceptions, program and the admission of all the students have been very re- black applicants regardless of strained, he said, their academic qualifications. The economics professor said Discussing the background he felt that Dr. S.I. Hayakawa, leading to the demands, however, SFSC’ s third president this aca- K el ley pointed out that some demic year, was made president 25 committees foimed over the because of his opposition to the last three years to study the need black studies program and other for creating a black studies de- reforms being sought. it was partment have all decided Conditions Cited needed but could not find the Kelley believes at least three money (or conditions must be met before Minority Reduced the strike can be ended: am- s master plan for Kernel Photo by Howard Mason California nesty for all strikers, no more education, too, he said, has bench warrants and the reso- Spring was in the air Tuesday, as students served to reduce the numbers of fotionof student problems, in an art education class for elementary minority students in state institu- • After Kelley had completed school teachers eryoyed a seasonal sport tions.

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