Inside Today's Kernel
The Ford Foundation will support a
series of programs showing the potential of ETV: Page Two.
An editorial discusses the seating problem for basketball games: Page Four.
An

look

at Lexington's

trans-

portation system by Editorial Page
Editor Steve Rocco begins: Page Five.

Gov.

The University's post office will move
to Scott Street on Dec. 20: Page Nine.
UK has signed 19 high school stars
for the football team: Page Ten.

cause
Lagging construction
may
double session schools to increase in
Kentucky: Page Eleven.

Vol. 58, No.

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LEXINGTON, KY., MONDAY, DEC.

12,

1966

Twelve Pages

Breathitt Expected

To Appoint Task Force
For Health Needs Study
ByJOIINZEII

Kernel Associate Editor
FRANKFORT-- It
is expected
that Gov. Edward T. Breathitt
within the next few days will
establish a special task force to

study the state's health

man-

power needs.
The commission probably will
be charged with developing a

plan to eliminate the current
shortage in health fields, with a
careful eye on the future.

A call for such a study group
came out of the health services
conferences held here in April by
the state Department of Education's bureau of vocational and
technical education. Representatives of the University, state

Mental Health Programs
'Doomed,' Dr. Albee Says
By GRETA FIELDS
Kernel Staff Writer
Community mental health programs are "foredoomed to failure"
because the type of manpower being created to staff programs is
inadequate to treat mental illness, George VV. Albee of the department of psychology at Western Reserve University, told a mental
health conference on manpower needed in psychology Friday.
Dr. Albee, who was a Ful- bright Scholar in Finland, and visible model. We can't continue
who has been a member of the to treat the mentally ill as 'sick.' "
National Task Force of the MenBelieving that research no
tal Commission
on Mental longer merits further search for
a biological explanation for menHealth, was one of several speakers at the two-da- y
tal illness, Dr. Albee believes we
conference
must view mental illness as a
held in the Phoenix Hote.
The conference was sponsored "social and cultural pathology."
must develop
Psychologists
jointly by the UK department of
their own institutes in order to
psychology and the Kentucky
Psychological Association.
carry out treatment based on this
Dr. Albee said that the heart concept, Dr. Albee said.
of his argument is that "the
"Psychologists are guests in
of action of calling others' institutions. They work
consequence
a mental disorder a disease leads in hospitals where a medical
to inaction inappropriate to treat language is spoken." But psy-

it."

As long as mental illness is
called a disease, it will be treated
in a setting which dictates the
type of personnel trained to treat
it. And, as long as it is called
a disease, manpower will be
wasted doing research to try to
discover a biological cause for
it, he said.
"We must abandon the illness model of mental health,"
Dr. Albee said, "and adopt a

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agencies, and the University of
Louisville participated.
The bureau's health steering
committee suggested in October
that the commission be composed
of seven or nine lay people "exceptionally knowledgeable and
interested in the health manpower needs of the Commonwealth." A budget of $30,000
would be necessary for the first
year, according to E.P. Hilton,
assistant superintendent for vocational education and committee head.
Nursing tops the committee's
list of groups for which there
is "major concern" that educational programs be further developed. Others include lab technicians, physical therapists,
technicians, dieticians, surgical
technicians, inhalation therapists, medical hygienists, medical
secretaries, and engineer tech-

Jewell Display Is First

nicians.

Shortages in these areas

be-

come more critical as the state's
health care needs grow, officials
agree. Most attention has been
given the nursing situation recently, but the entire medical
field is pinched, Dr. Edmund
o,

past chairman of UK's
Medical Center said as early as
last summer.
More than a fifth of the present
technicians jobs, for example, are vacant in 97 of 142
hospitals responding to a recent
survey. Within six months, 23
more positions will need to be

chologists cannot place their
knowledge until they can work in
their own setting, he said.
filled.
Nor can the psychology profession train people to treat menHasty W. Riddle, executive
tal illness in the psychologist's secretary of the Kentucky Hosconcepts, in the psychologists pital Association, and Dr. Carl
language, until psychologists F. Lamar, director of the Rehave their own setting in which search Staff for Vocational Eduto train people, Dr. Albee be- cation at UK, reportedly worked
lieves.
closely with the governor's office
"Let's develop a new model on a draft of the upcoming executive order.
Continued On Page 9

Jewell Hall coeds pose around the dorm's Christmas tree that was
part of the overall decoration which won first place in the Women's
Residence Hall Christmas decoration contest. Blazer won second
place and Hamilton House was given honorable mention. Jewell
will receive a trophy for the display.

Services Held Today

For Paul G. Blazer

Private services for Paul G. Blazer, founder of Ashland Oil
and Refining Co., were held at 2 p.m. Monday at the First Presbyterian Church, Ashland. Burial was in Ashland Cemetery.
Blazer died r nday of a heart
condition at a Phoenix, Ariz, hos
Ashland was named in his honor.
Blazer Hall, a University
pital near his winter home in
women's dormitory, was named
Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 76.
First coming to Kentucky in after his wife, Georgia, a UK
trustee from 1939 to 1960.
1919, Blazer had maintained as
Blazer was awarded UK's Sulclose a relation with education
livan Medallion in 1948; a UK
as with the business world.
The
Paul G. honorary LL.D. degree, 1932; and
Blazer Senior High School at a Centennial Medallion last year
as one of the persons who contributed most to the University's
four-year-o-

Stress Increases Student Drinking?
By HELEN McCLOY
Kernel Staff Writer
"Students drink less during final exams

than during the football season," the head
resident said. "For my own girls, this is a
k
Pamper Yourself period. They're
not under stress, really. They take more
baths, are more certain to wear perfume,
pay more attention to their clothes, put
with greater care then
on their make-u- p
they go take a test and do better than if
they'd worried about it."
She was speaking from 23 years' experience as a housemother, and her view
that there is no more or even less drinking
now (popular definition: time of great stress)
than at other times of the year is held by
most dormitory and fraternity personnel.
Opinions on the role of stress vary, however, from a plain, "there isn't much of it
here" and "stress and drinking don't necessarily denote each other," to "increased
stress and increased drinking are definitely
related."
There are few national statistics available
on stress and college drinking, according
to Mary Ann Moldestad, who is writing
her Master's thesis on normal drinking
three-wee-

study conducted recently by Robert are many things you can't wring your hands
and Charles R. Sawyer at a over if you're going to lead a meaningful
small, unnamed men's college showed a life . . . and if you're going to get a degree
"slight relationship" between test anxiety in college. I think pressures are
and stress. The questions used in their
Ann Macdonald, Keeneland staff asinterviews were based on those for "DrinkBacon and sistant said "If students say they drink
ing in College" by Seldon D.
Robert Straus. Straus is now chairman of from a stress, it's only an excuse. I don't
think the academic pressure here is that
the department of behavioral sciences.
Whatever surveys might or might not great."
Three men's advisors, on the other hand,
say, the majority finding at UK was expressed by Bowman Hall's head resident, proposed a correlation between exam time
and increased drinking.
who said he has noticed "no trend whatsoever" toward more drinking in
"I can't speak officially for the halls,"
weeks. At least eight other advisors agreed Donovan resident adviser Don Walker said.
with him, including Alpha Chi Omega's "But I see an increase of drinking with
housemother, who added, "the fact surpressure. Nonetheless, it is never so bad
a problem that you can put your finger
prises me."
Some counselors felt age was a factor on it. And of the four years I've been here,
in the issue. Alpha Delta Pi's housemother this is the best one yet, with respect to
said "after all, most of my girls are juniors all problems."
A men's resident adviser who asked to
and seniors who have been through the
remain anonymous said there definitely had
tension before."
been more drinking among the men in his
A similar attitude was expressed by Miss
hall the last two weeks. "When stress inRosemary Pond, director of Women's Residence Halls. "If students are mature, why creases, everyone tends to relax a little
should there be more drinking?" she asked. more; it's almost necessary. But for some,
"Students have to learn to cope with the the relaxation means increased drinking."
Continued On Page II
situation, to say 'ok, exams are here.' There
A

W. Lundin

pre-exa- m

progress.

Other honorary degrees were
from Centre College, 1950; Marshall College, 1958; andPikeville
College, 1959.
He was the Kentucky Press
Association's Man of the Year
in 1954.
Helping to bring to the University campus "distinguished"
lecturers in history and social
science, the Blazers endowed
the Blazer Lecture Series in 194S
and still support it.
Blazer's alma mater, the University of Chicago, gave him its
top alumni award, the Useful
Citizen citation.

President John W. Oswald
said, "The University, the cause
of education and the Conn
hav e lost a strong friend."
"Our world, however, is a
better one for his being among us
and giving of his time, talent
and leadership to the problems
of the day," Oswald continued,
"His contributions to the University are almost endless."
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