Federal Pie In The Face
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governmental
and a good deal of heated
debate in educational circles about the
National Defense Education Act's
loyalty clause, the intrastate allocation
of Kentucky's $77,000 share in the national pic has been announced.
The University, however, received
its slice of pie in the face. With the
largest student body of any state
school, the University's $5,817 share
in Kentucky's funds was second lowest. Only Eastern, with 2,715 students
and a $4,8S6 allotment received less.
On the other hand, the University
of Louisville with an enrollment of
some 800 less than our own received
the University's
more than twice
share. The U of L, with $12,328, was
followed closely by Morehead's $11,-23Morehead has an enrollment aph
proximately
that of the
University, and yet it received more
federal funds. So did Western and
Murray State, each with less than
students.
President Dickey said yesterday
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justifiable dissatisfaction.

There are several reasons why the
University, with the state's largest
enrollment, was given short shrift in
this situation.
The most probable
cause is that federal officials merely
allocated so much money per state, according to the state's number of college students, and did not follow
through to see that funds were distributed, within each state, according
to the same standards.
Perhaps, if the University's protest
is accorded a fair hearing in Washington, next fall's fund allocations
will not be so inequitable. For the
moment at least, the federal program
is falling far short of its supposed intentions by permitting such an undistribution of
balanced
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NDEA funds.

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ment will have to adjust to the new
standing requirement.
The figures show that students are
making better grades this year because of the 2.0 standing. A poll taken
by the dean of admissions during the
fall semester last year showed that
over last year.
54 per cent of the freshmen would
Apparently the results were not surprising to anyone. In fact, rumors' have been on probation if the 2.0
had spread that from 60 to 80 per requirement had applied.
Nevertheless, the new requirement
i ent of the freshman class was on
hcademic probation before the official is already helping dispell UK's former
figures were released. The 50 per cent nickname as the "Country Club of the
total might have been much higher or South." Too long had freshmen been
lower if over 1,400 grades had been allowed to relax with a mere 1.6 rereported to the dean of admissions' quired standing, and upperclassmen
office in time to be figured in the coast along with under a "C" standreport. Several incomplete grades ing.
Along with the new Medical School,
were not included in the report;
the new 2.0 requirement will enhance
either.
the University's reputation nationally,
The new requirement, if it had applied to the whole University this and perhaps help it rate along with
semester, would have placed 35 per the better schools in the South.
wuw.,), limit )ria
cent of the undergraduate student
body on probation, a 5 per cent increase since 1957. This' isn't surprism
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w
ing, since a student who has reached
the junior and senior level usually
does "C" work or better.
President Dickey said that the new
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requirement should add considerable
prestige to UK, making the Uni'4
versity an academic instead of a "playboy" school. Those students who put
social life before academic achieve
'in
The new 2.0 requirement has taken
its toll early, resulting in academic
probation for 50 per cent of the
freshman class. Thirty per cent of the
undergraduate students are now on
probation, an increase of 8 per cent

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Kernel Photographer Gordon Baer occasionally pauses between news
photography assignments and catches everday scenes with the eye of an
profile of linemen working on a utilities
artist. This
pole has been entered in the Kentucky Press Photographers Association's
1959 competition.
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A 'Country Club' Ups Its Dues

The 119th birthday anniversary of
Marse Henry Watterson came around
Xlonday. And, as has been the custom of Kernel editors for generations,
we pause for a moment to listen again
to the voice of the favorite godfather
of collegiate journalism at the University.
Only two years after uninterrupted
student journalism began at Kentucky
51 years ago, Marse Henry set forth
this guidance for journalists:
"It lias been my rule, aim and effort
jn my newspaper career to print nothing of a man which I wouldn't say
to his face; to print nothing of a man
in malice; to look well and think twice
before consigning a suspect to the
ruin of printer's ink; to respect the

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that this disposition of funds was
final, and that the University could
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his disappointment at the allocations,
and we share what we think is his

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You May Be Immortalized
Prophecies From The Directory
By HAP CAWOOD

rcalie it now, UK

You may not

dent, but you have the future standard
of
right before you. Its
art-literatu-

cents.
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UK Student
allude to the 1958-5Directory, which will, in the new era of
writing it will establish, without a doubt
make all 9,000 of you immortal.
"You have lost your mind," you say.
To the contrary. I have only begun to
find myself.
By chance one day I sat ba(k with
the latest, edition of the directory and
opened it to the first few pages of the
women's section.
As I scanned the names, the classifications, the addresses, the intentionally
wrong numbers, I poured over with
thoughts.
Pick one up yourself. Look at the
names and think of the abstract art you
could paint with them in mind: Hoard,
Booth, Bush, Cable, Comb, Feather,
Glass, Shaver, Vest, Ware, four Clays,
five Cooks and two Hauhctts!
Not only that, but stories! Look at the
names that connect you instantly with
nature's superb living things: Bee, (loons,
Drake, Fly, Salmon, Wolf, two Fish and
lost:

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two Leaches.

name might
One thought-provokinmake you say "Thau's wheie I'd like to
Homes,
live!" Cave,
Fort,
Kitchen.
Ranch, four Chambers, live Halls, three
Wells or six Wards all from girls' last
names.
Your thoughts can wander Fngland,
Meadow, Mount, Sands, two Dells, two
Fields, seven Hills and Woods.
The directory will be the new era's
keynote to the past, to our medium of
lile, to our meals: Hash, (lore, Hay,
Lemons, Lilly, two 'Mosses, lour Reeds,
three Roses.
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then be too I.itc

to be rewarded by the inner qualities
they will realize Good. Jolly, Lively,
Rich, Poor i, Stem. Sharper, Swift and

Ready.
cherished college
life: Holliday. three Mays, two Summers.
Girls of our time: Small. Lowe, Shortt
and seven Longs.Of dating habits: Holt, SjMiks, two
Watts, Shames, two Burns.
Of true love's solution: a Wolf and
two Loves.
Industry is recorded: Hedgcr. Layman,
Sheriff, Shoemaker, Songster. Stamper,
Weaver, .Hood, six Taylors, two Carpenters and Potters, three Shepherds. 1'J Millers. U9 Smiths and the sovereign powersfour Deans.
Faculty meetings can be tccnaetcd in
thought: Knight. Royalty, two Masters
and Priests, three Porters, eight Kings
and, most of all, a Rule-- .
Deciphering, they will uncover our
country. A Tabb, lour Prices, one Vict.
Then, lor the even moie dramatic
interpretations, they will tuin to the
men's section, which contains:
Fast. South, liu Wests, one' Stieet, a
Lane, lour Jetts, two Nashcs.
A Manslield and two Monroes.
Boston, two Canadas and lloll.mds,
three Fn glands.
It also has st y Its: Boots. Coats, two
Belts, lour Beards and Slacks.
For cutting class: five Brooks and
Fields, two Bushes and Marshes, three'
Parks, a Pine and a Wild.
For the drinkers, the directory has a
Nipp, Beeres and four Bergets. It even
includes a Rock and a Roll.
It also has some significant hidden
prophesies:
One Major, two Minors; 9,000 students
and onlv one Pass.

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old and defend the weak and
to
be good to the girls and square with
the boys."
The Kernel likes to believe it has
held closely over the years to this
guide to journalism. Sometimes we
have been critical of men and of
affairs even within our own University
household, but to critics of independent student thought we again
turn to Marse Henry's ideas: "Things
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University
Kentucky
have come to a hell of a pass when a Entered at the Tost Of fit? at LeinKton, Kentucky asof
trtond clas mutter tindt r the Ait of March 3, 1879.
during the regular kihiml veur fttt.pt holidays tuid eaains.
Published tour limes a
man can't cudgel his own jackass."
SIX DOLLARS A SCHOOL YfcAH
And sometimes, in a moment of
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frustration, when campus journalism Ear. Numbs, Chief Sens Editor
Lahby Van Hoosf., Chief Spoils Editor
Billie Rose Paxtox, Society Editor
takes on the appearance of a treadFebby Ashley, Buiiness Manager
Nohman McMuit.rN, Advertising Manager
mill to nowhere, there can again be
Cobdon Baeh, Staff Photographer
Hank Chapman, Cartoonist
heard his voice:
WEDNESDAY'S NEWS STAFF
"Poets and painters are said to be
Joanie Weisslnceh, Editor
born. Editors and orators are made." Box Blamvman, Auociate Editor
Larry Van Hoose, Sports Editor

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