Petty Politics
Petty factionalism and
dealt a serious, perhaps fatal, blow
to Student Congress best chance for
survival and eventual recovery of
strength.
self-intere- st

Both attacked the new congress
constitution at its most vulnerable,
yet most important, section the representation clause which will make
college representation in the assembly

equal to the colleges' representation in
the University Faculty and grant two
votes each to such groups as the
Interfratcrnity Council and Panhel-lenidormitory governing councils,
and the Family Housing Governing

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Council.
Bob Odear, chairman of the com-

mittee that drew up the new constitution, repeatedly warned the assembly that the Faculty would almost
assuredly reject the proposed constitution if it were submitted with the
representation clause now in the SC
constitution. Despite Odear's warnings, the opponents of the representation clause continued to urge its rejection, apparently oblivious to the
damage they were doing the congress.

It was apparent that opponents of
the proposed constitution based their
arguments on selfish motives that cannot even help their own relatively in

significant groups. Never once was
an objection raised against the clause
based on more than a nebulous feeling that certain groups would "lose"

their power. It is unfortunate that
many college level students have not
yet learned that concessions by their
small groups must sometimes be made
for the good of the entire University
community.
Representatives of Greek organizations did their respective groups no
good when the majority of them paid
lip service to the two independents
who led opposition to the clause. It
was also disheartening to note that
both independents turned to the
Greek section of the assembly and
utilized the Greek system's growing
fear of losing its power to garner
voting support.
on the part of
supposed student leaders lx)th Greek
and independent has no place in the
congress where the interests of the
entire student body are at stake.
It may not, however, be too late
to rectify the mistakes made in last
week's SC meeting. The congress
members will have another chance
to approve the proposed constitution
after the Easter holidays, and they
will betray the trust placed in them
by the student body if they fail to
Narrow-mindednes-

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do so.

'Crazy Tvvmtgv HotrtHltlvrst."

The Readers' Forum
(ispoof Writrs
To The Editor:
I don't know where you got your
information

Bored, Trustees?
Today, for the first time in history, UK's Board of Trustees' meeting
will be open to the public because
of a state law enacted by the 1960
Legislature.
We, along with the state's newspapermen, have been clamoring for
the board to open its meetings to the
public for many years; although the
trustees never gave in, the state law
now makes it mandatory.

Although we, as public servants,
plan to attend today's meeting (and
we expect the professional press to
be present also), one drawback bothers us about the whole thing. It will
be held in the president's office in
the Administration Building.
And what's wrong with this?
Well, since the meeting is open to
every person in Kentucky, it is going
to a pretty crowded office if everybody elects to attend; in fact, the Administration Building itself will be

pretty crowded.
Despite the hindrances of space

that might arise at today's meeting,
the board will probably have to move
the next time. And, since Memorial
Coliseum is known to be a place of
monumental decisions, we suggest the
middle of the basketball floor. The
crowd could gather in the seats, and
there is a nice press table.
This would be great. This would
be splendid. There would be plenty
of room for everyone, and the meeting would take on a much more competitive air. For the press, it would
be just like covering a basketball
game.
And think how the University
could profit from this. With a concession stand and boys running

tlirough the crowd yelling "redhots"
cokes," UK could pull
and
in a tidy sum. The idea of printing
up programs with the day's agenda
in them has possibilities, too. We
could sell them for 50 cents apiece.
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teacher of arithmetic has found
that children learn multiplication tables
more easily and accurately by singing
them, as verse can be recalled more
readily when set to music. Such a disA

324 home runs for the baseball team.
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Douhts Slory

To The Editor:

Not only do we doubt the veracitv
of your story on . I. IKpool, but we
also note that you released the story
on April 1.
Furthermore, Folday, Okla., does
not exist. The world's record for the
100-yardash is O.o seconds in a trac k
uniform. Remove the
from Mr.
Gspoof's last name, and vou have
spoof, which is undobutedly w hat this
story is. Add an
to Folday High
School, and you have "foolday" which
is April 1.
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covery has its serious side.
The possibilities, however, refuse to
confine themselves to the merely practical. They have a spaciousness about
them appropriate to this age. They ask
extension into realms where, for all ye
know, songs and sums may Ik only different ways of saying the same thing;
and where perhaps the gravest mathematical assumptions cannot be expressed
without a smile.
In such a realm the duty of the
philosopher is to let the punishment fit

the rhyme:
Two times two is simply four, nothing less and nothing more. Five times
five is 25; let it jump and let it jive.

Rimski-Korsako-

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When equations you forget, dance
them to a minuet. Tables of the "froms"
and "ands" set themselves to sarabandes.
The French may call 11 onze, but
When a
you can add it to Saiut-Saenfraction gets too vulgar, chasten it with
Edward Elgar.

After putting 141, 48, and 9.1 together, we figure that the story adds
up to one RIG spoof. (Pretty clever
story, though.)
Jim Ihvink

High Ward
Jim Ki:ysi:r
(Vie story did not say that Mr.
Cspoof ran the
daslt in 9.1,
but tliat lie uas timed at 9.1. Tui:

If you're floundering in roots, square
them with a trill or flutes. No one need
be phased by nth: just remember MaM-er- s

tenth.

Spring Cleaning
To The Editor:
Spring is here and I love it! Rut,
how can spring be appreciated if one

The Christian Science Monitor.

Antiiikdhi'cs

Wan Is To Swim
To The Editor:
I feel that the UK swimming pool
should be reopened for recreational
.swimming.

The adverse weather conditions,
which hampered ticket sales earlier
in the semester, have ended.
With a little promotion by the
Kernel and the Physical Education
Department, enough tickets could be
sold to pay pool expenses.
Even if enough tickets aren't sold,
I think that the pool should !e open.
Swimming is the best exercise that
many of the students have a chance
to get.
I Want To Swim

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you find the magic jingle. Relativity's a
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utterly erroneous. I actually signed
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week. Oh yes, and you forgot to
mention that I batted .9S2 and hit
grant-in-ai-

has to live in a dirty dormitory room?
The officials in charge of the cleaning of Donovan Hall are helping
give credence to the malicious rumor
concerning the living conditions in
Donovan Hall. Such conditions were
once described by Chekhov as: 'They
. . . live like savages . . . sleep in dirt
and shiftiness, bedbugs everywhere
. . . stench and damp . . . filth." Excluding the emptying of waste baskets, tli- rooms in Donovan Hall have
been i leaned approximately twice.
'I he mom inspection sheet states that
the moms will be (leaned thoroughly
each
and this blank is alwavs
lelt blank. What a loophole!
I. have a solution. I want my room
or
cleaned thoroughly each
I want my dormitory Ice refunded so
that I can hire someone to clean
the room.
IIojM'fully,

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