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'Stay-Awak- e
By BILL BLAKEMAN"
One illusion held by many UK
students is that "stay-awakpills
are not harmful, and will enable
a person to remain awake and
study.
Dr. William Hamilton, professor
of hygiene and public health, said
while "stay-awakdrugs do keep
a person awake, they block the
capacity to learn. He said people
using these drugs are defeating
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their own purpose.

awake" drugs were
persons are effected the same way
or the federal government would by the drugs. Dr. Hamilton said
have classified them as narcotics. there., was ..no ..harmless .."stay-awakDr. Hamilton said the Ingredidrug on the market.
ents of these drugs, whether cafA person's coordination becomes
feine, caffelne-sulfatworse Dr. Hamilton said as his
amphetamine or methampthetamlne are loss of sleep increases. He told of
harmful to the person using them. seeing a boy who said he had been
Some of the drugs on the market without sleep for three days. The
In recent years have been out- boy was Jittery and said he had
lawed because of their harmful taken "stay-awakpills.
effect on the individual. Not all
Dr. Hamilton said he believed it
habit-fortnin-

An Individual under the Influence of the drugs tires easily be-

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cause they irritate the nervous
system to keep a person awake.
Although most of the various
"stay-awakdrugs can be obtained without a prescription, Dr.
Hamilton said it would be advisable for a person considering
using them to see a physician first.
He said it is unlikely that "stay- -

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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

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Playboy Party
Neal Clay and Leah Rankley surveyed one of the wall decrations

at the Phi Delta Theta's "Playboy Party" held Saturday night at
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their house on Clifton . Avenue. The near
rabbits were
life-siz-

sent to them by the national magazine. "Playboy." A few of the
tipsy celebrants claimed the hares came to life at midnight.

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was possible for a person to build
up a resistance to the drugs if a
sufficient quantity were taken.
He said "stay-awakdrugs elevate the mood, increase the urg
to work, and counteract sleepinesj
and the feeling of fatigue in most
persons. However, the blood pressure and pulse are slightly increased by the use of such drugs,
Dr. Hamilton said.
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LEXINGTON, KY., WEDNESDAY, JAN.

14, 1939

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No. 55

ROTC Gets $1,.5W
From, SC FdrDance

Student Congress voted Monday cause "it had to know If it would companies and bids will be return
night to loan the Air and Army nave the necessary funds' for the ed on the project.
ROTC departments $1,500 for the Dorsey contract.
Jerry Johnson (SP, Pharm.)
military ball scheduled for
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March

The dance is being sponsored by stated that over 20 Insurance comScabbard and Blade, The Arnold panies will be sent the" specificaThe request for the loan was Air Society and other military and tions for the UK plan. Johnson
submitted by Ed Blankenship (SP, air groups.
heads SC's committee on student
Ag) on behalf of the cadets in
SC voted almost unanimously to insurance.
charge of plans for the dance.
appropriate the money for the
SC also began preliminary plana
dance.
Blankenship said members of the
for a survey of student opinion on
ROTC had sold about $700 worth
According to SC treasurer Jack a proposed student discount serof tickets so far, but they needed Rigby (CP, Com.) Student Cong- vice. Fred Strache, SC vice presithe additional money immeriately ress now has a reserve fund of dent and chairman of the discount
so that a big name band could be about $4,000 which could be used service committee, distributed 2.000
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contracted.
purposes. Earlier this questionnaires to committee repre
for such
sentatives.
The Tommy Dorsey band under year SC adopted a budget of
which placed the budget
the direction of Warren Covington
The questionnaires will be used to
is the group the ROTC wants for $1,040.83 over the estimated in- determine student Interest in. the
come for 1958-5the March 7 dance.
program and to obtain a preferred
present setup, SC re- list of stores to be included in the
Under the
Under the stipulations of the
loan agreement, SC will write the ceives 50 cents per semester from, discount plan.
ROTC a check
for $1,500 im- each full time student anp"25
mediately with repayment due by cents from each full time summer
March 14. No interest will be school student.
charged for the loan.
SC also announced the release of
According to Rep. Blankenship, a voluntary insurance plan. The
the ROTC requested the loan be- - master plan will be sent to several
7.

Anthropology Class
May Be Televised
A recommendation that Physical
Anthropology I be given experimentally over TV for one semester
has been approved by the Social
Sciences faculty.
Approval by the Arts and Sciences faculty is also necessary before the plan can go into effect.
If that approval Is given. Physical Anthropology I will be taught
on' Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the second hour instead
of Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at the first hour as listed in
the second semester schedule book.
The class will be taught by Dr.
Charles E. Snow.
The cours-- would be taught by
the closed circuit television system but would actually be on open
so that
circuit TV, via WLEX-TUniversity and townspeople could
view the program. It will remain
a lecture course with assignments.
However, five tests would be given
instead of the usual four exams
during the semester.
Students' questions would be referred to the professor who would
answer them at the next lecture
session. Dr. Snow would also be
available for private consultations.
As the plan is set up. the Department of Radio Arts would assist in the production and re
ception of the TV course. Students
would probably watch the lectures
on receiving sets located in the
department's Studio A, with about
one large screen set for each 25
students.
While most of the students
would come to one, or possibly two
rooms to receive instruction, arrangements may be made for students to watch the program over
sets located In fraternity., or
sorority houses, dormitories and
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fulness of TV as a teaching tool
at UK, O. Leonard Press, acting
head of the Department of Radio
Arts, said.
In a comprehensive educational
television plan, few courses would
be taught wholly on TV. Most
would split the teaching with half

television and half
teacher or graduate fellow, Mr.
Press stated.
The Anthropology course lends
itself to total treatment and is
admirably suited to demonstration
of the type planned, Mr. Press said.

Inspection of UK's technical assistance programs in Indonesia will
be made this spring by President
Dickey and Dr. Merl Baker, coordinator of the aid programs.
The UK officials will spend three
weeks at the University of Indonesia's collges in Bogor and Bandung, where UK assistance teams
are currently working under contracts from the International Cooperation Administration.
In addition to the Indonesian
visit, Dickey and Baker will tour
other educational institutions and
ICA installations in various parts
of the world. They will leave Lex

The course would serve as a preliminary step in testing the use

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UK AFROTC
Cadet Units

Dickey Plans Indonesian Trip

APPOTf! unite at TTK1 nnriprwpnt
"1 federal inspection Monday and
the projects were

two years of
School Dean
made
Herman S.. Spivey in 1957, vice
president Leo M. Chamberlain and
William M. Jenkins Jr. "in 1958.
Chamberlain is president of the
Kentucky Research Foundation,
which administers the ICA contracts, and Jenkins is assistant coordinator of the projects.
Dickey and Baker will return to
Lexington May 4. Also included on
their itinerary are Tokyo, Hongkong, Calcutta, New Delhi, Cairo,
Jerusalem,
Athens, Rome, Paris
their return.
Inspection tours after the first and London.
ington Mar. 5 to begin the
trip. Funds for the inspection tour are provided by ICA.
UK's contract teams in Indonesia have combined financial provisions of $4,421,737. They have
been in the Southeast Asian country since
1956 and will remain
there for at least two more years.
Dickey and Baker will meet with
group leaders of the two contract
teams to form future plans for the,
projects. A progress report outlining their inspection and evaluating
the programs will be issued after

Are Inspected

two-mon- th

ate

Tuesday of this week.
The inspectors were Lt. Col,
Charles D. Morat Jr., UK graduate,
and Lt. Col. Charles N. Callis.
They were from AFROTC Headquarters, Maxwell Air Force Base,
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Alabama.
The purpose of the inspection
was to compare UK's AFROTO
with other AFROTC units throughout the country. '
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Prior to visiting UK, the officers
toured installations at the University of Hawaii and Tennessee
ANI.

YWCA Director Speaks Five Languages

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.Salgat, new executive director of UK's YWCA,
has lived in many places, and
spoken many languages.
Salgate, who has lived on three
continents and speaks five languages, assumed her duties here
in September after teaching Bible
studies at Wellsley College last
year.
The five languages the new director speaks are: German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English.
She lived with her parents and
two sisters in Geneva. Switzerland,
until she was 13. While in Switzerland, the family lived in the
French section and spoke the
French language.
Anne-Marie- 's
father, an en
Miss

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gineer, was then sent to Brazil
and the family went with him.
They settled in Sao Paulor a Spanish-speaking
town, where Miss
Salgat attended ' the English-speakin- g
American high school.
The family later lived In Brazil
and Rio de Janerio, where Portuguese is spoken.
Miss Salgat came to the United

States in

1947 and entered the
University of Illinois, where she
obtained a degree to teach social
studies. She later earned another
degree at McCormick Presbyterian
Seminary in Chicago.
She then attended Union Theological Seminary in New York,
where bhe is now working towards
a doctorate.
After recchlng her bachelor's

degree, the young: linguist ' returned to Sao Paulo, and served
as director of education in an
American Church. She also served
as minister in the French Presbyterian Church.
Discussing Brazil, Miss Salgat
said it "changes so fast politically,
you never know what to expect."
She added that the Protestants of
the country tend to stay closer together because they are a minority
group. But, "they don't influence
politics as much as they should,"
Miss Salgat continued.
Referring to Geneva as a "city
of Peace Conference," Miss Salgat
said the "people are very proud
that Geneva has that reputation."
but she went on to say "very few
people Kre touched by what

on nor are they particularly

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terested."
This doesn't apply to university
professors or students nor to politicians she said. "The students
take the meetings in at first-hanSoon after arriving here the director initiated a project which
leads YWCA members to study how"
the Y can better function within
the University. Making the faculty
and staff more aware of the Y's
presence is another project of the
group.
"We want to get more people
involved in what students do and
what they need," she said.
She described the work by saying "it is very different, but it
keeps you alive and on your toes."
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