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Alumni Will Present
4 Research Awards

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Four UK faculty members
will receive $5(X) research
awards at the third annual Research Conference dinner at
6:30 tonight in the Student

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Union IJuilding.
Donated by the UK Alumni Association, the awards are made on
the basis of outstanding research

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or writing or both during 1958 and
1959.

'Best DressetV Contestants
Pictured above are four of the five finalists in the UK Best Dressed
contest. They are, from left. Shirley Jones, Betty Ann Marc um,
Sally Bennett, and Jane Fran sen. Sandy Bearh was absent when
the picture was taken. The 'best dressed eoed will be chosen by a
panel of Lexington judges on Sunday, March 13. The winner of
the campus contest will represent UK in Glamour magazine's third
annual --Ten Best Dressed College Girls in America" contest.

Pittsburgh's Man of the Year,
Dr. J. C. Warner, president of the
Carnegie Institute of Technology,
will speak on "The University's Opportunities and Obligations as a
Center of Learning" at the dinner.
Dr. Ralph J." Angelucci, Lexington, president of the Alumni Association, will make the awards to
the faculty members.
The annual research conference,
sponsored by the Kentucky Research Foundation, is held to recognize faculty research at UK, to
encourage further faculty research,
and to inform the public of the
importance of research at the University.
Dr. William Thorp, chairman of
the English Department at
Princeton University, will speak on
"How Much Research Is Enough"
at a luncheon of the one-da- y

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WARNER

DR. WILLIAM THORP

Teaching

A Case In Relationship" sented the United States at the
a.m.
Geneva Atoms for Peace ConferDr. K. O. Lange. director of the ence. He was consultant to the
Wenner-Gre- n
Aeronautical Re- Pakistan Commission on National
search Laboratory, is the modera- Education.

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tor for "Sponsored Research Its
Impact on the State University,"
which will be given at 2:30 p.m.
Dr. Warner was named president of Carnegie Institute in 1950.
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He was an
scholar
at Indiania, Northeastern University in Boston, and Pittsburgh.
In 1950, he received the Gold
Medal Award from the American
Two panel discussions are also Institute of Chemists. He repre- n
Included on the program. Dr.
award-winnin-

Dr. Thorp, literary historian,
became chairman of the Princeton
Department of English in 1958.-Hnow holds the endowed Holmes
Professorship of Belles Letters.
He Is a frequent contributor to
philological journals and literary
reviews.
The conference sessions at Memorial Hall are open to all members of the faculty and the general
public.
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KyianQueenCrowning
and WUS
Collects $700
Set For Tomorrow
Short Funds In October Campaign
Hol-ma-

Hamilton, professor of history,
will moderate
"Research

Roy Sharpe and his orchestra
The Kentuckian Queen and her
will provide music for the dance.
four attendants will be announced
The event, which is one of the
at the annual Kentuckian Dance

to be held from 8 to 12 o'clock to- oldest established dances on campus, will climax the queen contest,
morrow night in the Student which begins tonight. It is sponUnion Ballroom.
sored by Sigma Delta Chi, men's

journalism

Senate Bill
May Open Up
Board Meeting
Board of Trustees meetings at
UK would be open to the public
under a bill introduced yesterday
in Frankfort by Senate Majority
Leader James Ware
The bill would put two University teachtrs on the board as nonvoting members. They would be
terms by
chosen for three-yesecret ballot of the faculty.
Another feature of the measure
would prohibit trustees from having any interest in selling anything to the University except for
faculty members' teaching services.
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Kentuckian.
The queen and her attendants
will be featured with full-papictures in the 1959-6- 0
yearbook.
The queen will also represent UK
at the Mountain Laurel Festival
at Pineville.
Thirty contestants representing
fraternities, sororities, and other
residence units will compete in the
semifinals at 7 o'clock tonight in
Memorial Hall. A panel of Judges
will choose five finalists.
All contestants are required to
be Juniors or seniors and must not
be on academic probation.
The Kentuckian queen will be
chosen from the finalists by a
different panel of Judges at a
luncheon Saturday at the Campbell House. They will be rated on
grooming, grace, appropriateness
of dress, manners, and ease in
conservation.
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Now Restrict
Film Service

Services of the Film Library will
restricted due to the lack of
funds available for operations, the
UK Film Department has announced.
Limited services of the Film Library will continue until May 14,
but under certain restrictions or
operations, the department bulletin said.
All bookings for showings to
regularly scheduled classes for the
remainder of the semester must be
filed in the Film Department office by Tuesday.
Other restrictions include no delivery service and 16mm. sound
equipment is available only when
operated by an instructor checked
out by the senior projectionist of
the department, the bulletin continued.
Damage to loan equipment and
film must be paid for by the person or department responsible for
borrowing the equipment.
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Budget Awaits Combs' Signature
UK and its new Medical School will get
of the 16 million dollars and the other state
colleges will receive $5,325,000,000.
Construction planned for UK Includes six million
dollars to build a new science building, two million
dollars for expansion of the library, $1,500,000 for
the construction of a new commerce building.
The SUB will also be enlarged and a number of
new dormitories will be added.
UK will also receive one million dollars to build
a new agriculture research center and $350,000 to
repair and construct facilities on the University's
farms.
total.
16 million would be used for pay
The budget, which is 20 percent higher than the
Gov. Combs said
budget was made possible by the 3 percent
raises, new professors, and new construction at
sales tax, which will go into effect July 1.
UK and other btute colleges.

budget which will appropriate
to the University is now awaiting Gov.
Bert T. Combs' signature.
The budget, which will go into effect July 1.
It will
passed the Senate March 7 by a vote of 35-11 million dollars more to UK than the
appropriate
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budget.
The budget bill passed the House Feb. 29 by a
Tote of 96-There was no debate on the bill, but
House Majority Leader Thomas L. Kay of Fairdale
made two typographical corrections.
The total budget is $1,024,025,723. Education will
receive approximately 271 million dollars of this
A billion dollar

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Results of the World University
Service drive held last October
were announced last week by Dr.
John Kuiper. faculty adviser of
UK's WUS committee.
The drive fell a little short of the
$1,000 which had been set. However, $700 was raised by faculty
and students.
Plans for this year's drive were
not begun until last September,
but those for next year's drive are
already in the first stages, according to Norman Harned, chairman
of the committee.
"We hope to add a special event
to increase student interest for
next year's drive," he added.
Members of the steering committee for next year are Norman
Harned, chairman; Irma Strache,
publicity chairman; Kris Ramsey,
correspondent; Garry 1 Sipple, soKaty Kirk, project
licitations;
chairman; Betty Pace, secretary;
and John Craycraft, treasurer.

Members of this year's committee will be student advisers for the
group.
Anyone interested in working
with the committee is asked to
contact Harned or Dr. Kuiper.
WUS is a relief organization set
up in Europe after World War I
to provide books, clothing, equipment, and scholarships to students
of other countries.
Approximately 700 major colleges
and universities of 36 different
countries take part in the annual
drive.
The organization is nonpolitical,
interreligious, international, and

interracial.

On college and university campuses, it is sponsored by B'nal
B'rith Hillel Foundations, the United States Christian Council, National Newman Club Foundation,
and the United States National
Student Association.

SU Board Reschedules

Deadline For Applications
The Student Union Board has
extended the period for accepting
applications for its April 1 campus-wid- e
election until Monday.
Applications are to be taken to
the program director's office in
Room 122 of the SUB.
Marietta Booth, chairman of the
Personnel Committee, announced
that the date was moved to Monday instead of the original Wednesday to enable more interested students to apply for (he Board's
election.
Applications will be reviewed by
the Personnel Committee. Applicants will be interviewed by a SUB
committee, and the approved names
submitted to the board for final

The SUB has 10 positions to fill
this spring four administrative
offices and chairmanships of five
committees.
The Social Committee is responsible for the various SUB jam sessions and the Oold Diggers Ball.
The present chairman is Kathy
Songster.
The SUB Topics Committee
headed by Sara Jean Riley, presents lectures and sponsors the Fine
Arts Festival in the spring.
The Publicity Committee is responsible for drawing and distributing pasters and fly sheets for
each SUB activity. Caroleena
Hernandez is presently chairman.
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