Books For Scholars

On a university campus where
queen contest winners are a dime a

dozen ami students too often are
honored for social activities, presentation of a worthy award is indeed welcome.
And Omicron Delta Kappa, senior
men's leadership honorary, has kept
alive its program initiated last year of
presenting a book to the outstanding
student in every University depart-

ment.
Its objectives are to honor deserving students in each UK department
and encourage the development of
professional libraries for the student's
use. Both are noble and should be
maintained by the organization.
The book award helps in another
area. It creates a healthy and spirited
competition among students to become the best in their respective departments, thus removing much of the

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uates being discriminated against
under current conscription laws?
These important questions are receiving little serious thought on U. S.
campuses. Students have largely confined their military interest to questions of compulsory-voluntarROTC
or national defense philosophy. Nevertheless, the draft poses an immediate
and perplexing problem for college
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Newsweek magazine outlines the
problem in considerable detail in an
article entitled "The Draft Campus
To Chaos." As the magazine points
out, the present draft procedure
throws a major element of confusion
plans. What should
into
college graduate do?
the
Should he enlist and get it over with?
If he wants will he be taken soon
after graduation or will it be a year
or two? Should he try for a job upon
which a career can be built or should
job to kill
he take a
time until he is drafted?
Added to this confusion is the
frustration of the eligibles at seeing
the ineligibles (fathers, physical rejects, hardship cases, etc.) walking
into jobs of their choice and getting
a long head start while they are left
to wrestle with doubt and indecision.
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The upsetting of a normal path of
starting on a career is one of the more
aggravating aspects of the draft. Says
Newsweek: "The college graduate
w ho wants a job as a steppingstone to
better things is just out of luck in a
great many cases, as long as the draft
hangs over him." Of course, under
the law, employers must rehire an
employe who has leen drafted out
of a job. But the hard fact facing

most other academic
awards, the ODK Book Award is
neither given hapahazardly. The honorary decided that, rather than selecting winners by a nominating committee, it would allow the head of each
University department to choose
them. This is sensible, for a student's
abilities can be best calculated by his
achievements within his major field.
ODK's award attests to its intelligent leadership and high educational
ideals at UK. Other campus honor-arie- s
might do well to follow with
other ideas improving UK life.

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Large companies with elaborate
personnel systems are inclined, says
Newsweek, to insist that draft imminence is no factor in their hiring
policies. However, many fresh college
graduates deny this. They say there
is little chance of getting a decent
job one that will lead anywhere
during the months of limbo between
the bright day of graduation and
the dark one when Uncle Sam's
greetings arrive.
The question that arises is: What
justification is there for, in a time of
nominal peace, maintaining a law
passed in time of stress (1910)? By
1903, when the "bumper baby crop"
comes of age, vast numbers will crowd
the registration lists. This means the
draft will be providing little more
than a drop in the bucket toward national service manpower needs. Even
now the draft provides only 100,000
men annually to a total defense manpower of 2.5 million. This being the
case, is the draft needed even now?
Defense officials argue that it is,
chiefly for the reason that if it weren't
for the threat of the draft, volunteer
enlistments would drop far below
needed levels.
This reasoning, of course, fails to
alleviate the confusion and uncere
graduates. Few
tainty of
students, we would guess, would feel
oppressed by the draft if it was a
simple matter of aiding in the nation's
defense. What does or should
trouble them is the waste of precious
time under current draft practices.
As Newsweek concludes, the college graduate doesn't want his time
wasted "and his time, in the long
run, is the nation's time." Tfic Daily
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So you mint to be an engineer.

Course Neologism
At the request of the higher echelon in the Pentagon, the University
Air Force Reserve Training Corps is
now offering a dillerent type of instructionin name only, that it. The
department is now teaching aerospace sc ience instead of air sc ience.
Despite the long number of hours
that must have been spent in Washington debating this perplexing question, we have no doubt that it was
well spent. With the Space Age coining to the fore, our educational systems must keep up with the Joneses.
Tor it is that all colleges and universities have been playing this labeling game for a long time now. A fanatic fad, so to speak.
Tor instance, vou can take
biosyste-maticmicrobiology,
stereochemistry, electrochemistry, biochemistry, pyschotherapy,
and medical protozoology, to mention
a few of many.
Now we don't deny that the technological and educational develop
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this chaise. But we can't help but
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classiiisin. applied ni'isitechnique, polilieo - American
'o eminent, couiinuiiico journalistic
arts, and countless others.
All these would add to our present liberal arts program and make
the student much more adapted to
this age of specialization. With a few
more lengthy additions in course
names, the arts and sciences curriculum would soon read like a psychologist's thesis, thema, schema, and all.
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apathy over educational excellence
existing in many UK areas.
Students want to compote for
achievement just as much as football
and basketball players. ODK's award
satisfies this natural drive by providing a number of awards, rather
than give one limited to certain quali-

The Draft Dilemma
Does the present draft system work
uncesessary hardship on college graduates? Are draft-eligibl- e
college grad-

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NEWS STAFF
Mike YVenmncih, Assoiiute

The Readers' Forui
The TUIJ?
To The Editor:
Maybe I'm just anticrowds. Or
antisocial. But I've never leen able
to tolerate crowds around when I eat.
People staring 'at you every time
you pick up the knife to cut the meat
(or pick the strings out of it). Getting your nerves all on edge so you
spill your milk or coffee down your
legs.

It would Ik simple if the ones getting in your hair were only students
like you. But, they aren't.
No, sir, there are all sorts of townspeople around. In fact, on Sunday
they just about outnumber the poor
students.
They can't even June the decency
to get in a separate line (or completely out of it). They might be
kind enough to let the students haw
first chance so they won't have to

break their necks running to beat
the mob.
But, they won't.
I mean, after all, it is suppou'd
to be a Student Union Building. Or,
as one Kernel writer has suggested,
have they sneaked and changed the
name to Townspeople's' Union Building (TUB lor short)?
Sam Sciiwahtz

Proposes Hopscotch
To The Editor:
Last year, the Kernel editor proposed that the lawyers play hopscotch instead of whistling and yelling at gills when they pass by.
Next day, the lawyers were outside playing hopscotch. So that the
baniste is again will refrain from making such complete asses of themselves,
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piopose they again take up hopscotch.

Namu Wmiiiui)

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