A Breach Of Freedom
By HILL NLTKIRK

Problem: How does a professor

Cartoca By Bab Heradaa

Yeah, yeah, toss it aside. We9 re looking for Indian
artifacts. Get it . . Indian!"

A Chance For SC
Tonight's Student Congress meetSC will be asked merely to sponing will in many ways be its most sor the study at tonight's meeting,
important in years as the assembly I not to finance or even supply memwill be asked to sponsor a study of bers for the committee. Since the
Kentucky high schools, a study that idea for the plan was initiated by a
could turn out to be rewarding for UK student, it was proper that the
every secondary school in the state.
study come under the aegis of SC.
SC has been limping along this
With the recent legislative report
year without much challenging legisemphasizing the need for better seclation and without much support ondary education in the state the stufrom its own members. The prestige dent government at UK should not
of the congress has therefore been regard this proposal lightly, but
waning dangerously with each month. should give it the stamp of approval
But, with a new president, a fresh that the originators of the study need.
and radical constitution giving it a
And, if an SC member is absent
promising future, and an opportunity
from tonight's meeting, we think he
to aid education in the state staring
it directly in the face, the congress not only will be forsaking the student
could regain its prestige and interest body, but the high schools of the
without much difficulty.
state as well.

Anyone For A Discount?
arguments advocating that
presidents be businessmen
rather than educators have failed to
impress us until we noted a recent
development at the University of
Pittsburgh.
The chancellor of the University,
Dr. Edward II. Litchfield, is an officer of several corporations. Among
Chancellor Litchfield's offices are
those of a chairman of the board of
a
Inc. and a director of
Studebaker-Packard- .
This in itself is
not spectacular, nor even interesting,
but what is worth noting are the
personal benefits members of the
University of Pittsburgh community
derive from Dr. Litchfield's corporate
activities.
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Since last Sept. 16,
typewriters have been available to
Pitt students at a 40 percent discount
and faculty members may purchase
I960 Larks at the fleet price, a saving
of approximately $120.
All
college

Smith-Coron-

Smith-Coron-

According to the Pitt News, University of Pittsburgh student newspaper, the chancellor "used his influence in bringing about this unusual
offer to the university's educators."
Such advantages to students and
faculty are certainly a marked contrast to the attitudes prevalent in
many college communities where the
apparent intent of merchants is to
beat university people out of every
possible cent.
The idea of having such a businessman as a university president is
quite appealing from a financial viewpoint. It leads one to wonder if any
directors of General Motors are tiring
of the hectic world of big business
and would be interested in leading
a quiet academic life of determining
university policy, heading faculty
meetings, signing documents, and
giving discounts on GM products
here in the Blue Grass.

The Kentucky Kernel
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get fired from his position?
Answer: Write alout sex.
And that's what Leo F. Koch, assistant professor of biology at the
University of Illinois, did. He exercised what he thought was his freedom of expression and wrote a letter
to the editor of the campus newspaper advocating premarital sexual
relations for mature students.
The university administration fired
him in short order after the good and
chaste parents of the state of Illinois
applied pressure. His case is being
appealed now, but observers there
seem to think that Prof. Koch will

never be reinstated.
Had he not written his letter to
the editor, therefore not allowing his
ideas to receive widespread distribution, Prof. Koch probably would have
not been fired. But, discounting the
possibilities of criminal libel, he wrote
it, and the newspaper, the Daily Illini,
ran it in its columns. The impact was
loud and vehement.
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The case was a clear-cu- t
of breach of academic freedom. One
doesn't have to endorse Prof. Koch's
ideas to believe this. He expressed his
views jil)out sex in campus newspaper
and the University promptly got rid
of him because it was "bad publicity."
The liberals appealing his case to
the University of Illinois are idealistic enough, but they will never win
their battle. There has never lxrn

absolute academic freedom of expression in our universities (and nation)
and never will In. Our society won't
allow that.
True, we have academic freedom
alout such innocuous topics as the
sex life of a tsetse fly or the inevitable clash between ncoclassicism and
romanticism. We can still (but reluctantly, talk about communism in
our classrooms unless someone logins
to believe in it. Then trouble logins.
It has leen said that a university
is the last institution in our society
in which people may discuss issues
freely without repercussions and hindrances from society. Those familiar
with university life know that this
simply isn't so. There are limitations,
and the limitations often are threatening enough to discourage academic freedom. In fact, they sometimes
stop it.

They laughed at Galileo for his
scientific observations, kicked Shelley
out of Cambridge for writing alout
atheism, and fined a man named
Scopes in Dayton, Tenn., in I9i for
teaching evolution in a high schX)l.
Prof. Koch's ideas may never be
aeeeptetl by society. Hut that did not
excuse the University of Illinois from
firing him for his expression of them.
As for academic freedom, perhaps
professors should remember that in
order to maintain their jobs, they
must never shock
and
intolerant people, but be like them in
every narrow way.
wishy-wash-

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Very True

Our Creative Pedants
Professors, eccentric and nonconforming though they may seem, are
actually alout as normal as any other
type of animal. They are generally
understanding yet prejudiced, naive, and sometimes stupid.
good-hearte-

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And if today's businessman has
learned to speak in tongues with his
own special jargon for the business
world, the typical professor far surpasses hiin. To illustrate how the
professor's special lingo is as bad
as the businessman's (or politician's),
here is a simulated interview with a
UK professor.
"Sir, if you had to tell your
dents they are not working hard
enough, how would you tell them?"
stu-

"I would tell them in no uncertain
terms."

"If you had an exceptional student,
how would you praise him?"
"That's simple. He would be
worthy of approbation."
"There are ways you can emphasize the validity of a statement,
sir. How do you do that?"
"I only tell them its very true.
Very true, I say."
"If a member of the class asked
you when you were going to give
a test, when would you tell them."
"Oh, subsequently, subsequently."
"There are many days to dodge
questions you can't answer, sir. What
is your procedure?"
"Well,, it's best to set the student
up. First, you put your hand to your
chin and mutter, 'hummin.' Then you
prance back and forth in front of the
room muttering 'hummin' all the time.
Then you say, 'That's a good question, boy, but unfortunately 1 forgot
to look that reference up before I
came to class. I ll have it next time.' "

e. W hat if a student asks
vou to outline a topic jx)int by point?
"I

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How do you do that?"
"Fasy a'jain. Merely say, 'There
are three major points to remembt r.'
Then dwell upon one so long that
the class forgets the other two". Don't
worry about them."
"And what about factors and
phases, sii?"
"Oh yes, there are many factors
and phases involved in. the study of
a language. One must take them all
into consideration."

"That's very true. How would you
define psvehology?"
"Very obviously, it is a science.
Specifically and more precisely speaking, it is to be regarded as the science
dealing with the mind and mental
processes with spec'ud emphasis on
the science of human and animal behavior anil on the stun total of a person's actions, traits, attitudes, thoughts
.

"In what way would you say that
psychology is related to anthropol-ogy- ?
"In many ways. Many ways. It's
obvious that man and mind are related. Very many ways."
"What do you think about Wordsworth?"
"Poet of nature. Beautiful phrase-ology-

."

"IWi thoven?"

"Flementary. He has a romantic
tinge."
"How is a student supposed to
study for his test?"
"Com)rchcnsivcly, of course."
"And, sir, just what is your pit
peeve?"

"Don't get ine on that subject. I
can't stand the tiiteness of students."

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