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In a quiet but determined voice, NBC news correspondent Pauline Frederick condemned the United
States, the Soviet Union and Red China Friday night
for what she considers excessive military spending and
an obsession with the arms race.
Miss Frederick, veteran UN correspondent for the
network and winner of numerous awards in journalism,
spoke in Memorial Coliseum as part of the Central Kentucky Concert and Lecture Series.
"Fear that was born in the past is flogging nations into the arms race," she commented. "The arms race today is reminiscent of the cave-ma- n
days, when security
was determined by who had the biggest club."
Miss Frederick explained that the "fear" which she
said resulted in the arms race was provoked by war-b- oth
the wars of the past and the current Cold War.
Largest Exporter
After citing the U.S. as the world's largest exporter
of arms, with the Soviet Union a "close second," Miss
Frederick said: "This devotion to weapons says much
about our society."
In the opening moments of her speech, Miss Frederick had classified present-da- y
society as one in which
"differences, rather than similarities, seem to guide behavior."
The UN correspondent was particularly critical of
what she called "an attempt to justify weapons by calling them 'necessities for defense.' "
Good Markets
"The smaller nations, as well as the large, are encouraged to give expenditures to war. We call this 'defense'
to make it more palatable."
She added that small nations make good markets for
war equipment, and for this readiscarded,
son they are encouraged by the larger powers to spend
much money for "national defense."
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According to Miss Frederick, many small nations have
duel among
"already been sacrificed' in the three-wa- y
the United States, the Soviet Union and "Commie Come
Lately" Red China.
Even so, she said, the smaller nations may rise to
No. 1 in power if the present trend continues.
"Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Czechoslovakia have
all exposed the fact that, the more the United States,
the Soviet Union and China attempt to make themselves
secure in this manner, the less secure they become,"
she said.
Ideological Clash
She referred to Czechoslovakia as a case in particular
where "the Goliaths of the 20th century have met their
Davids" and in which, she explained, beliefs have not
been altered or convictions changed by displays of force.
Throughout her speech, Miss Frederick described the
products of the arms race in such terms as "awesome
kill machines" and "chemicals that can turn men, women, and children into blithering idiots."
In an attempt to justify the use of such weapons, she
said, the current struggle for power has become in part
a
ideological clash" in which nations devise
slogans to prove that they represent the "good" side of
a good-ev- il
controversy.
North Vietnam
Miss Frederick blasted such a view, saying that "the
Crusades proved that a belief cannot be imposed by
killing a
She added that it also became apparent during the
Crusades that "baser" drives ignorance, greed and desire for power sent the Christian on his "duty" at least
as often as did dedication to a "good" cause.
Referring to North Vietnam, Miss Frederick said that
country, which is "about a quarter the size of Texas in
land area," has already been bombed more times than
all of Europe and Asia in both World Wars.
"so-call-

She also stated that the United States now spends
about three million dollars an hour to wage war in
Vietnam, adding: "This is what your society and mine
is doing to thousands of people tonight, but, since these
people are thousands of miles away, their anguish docs
not seem very important."
United Nations
Concerning the United Nations, Miss Frederick said
that, since World War II, the UN has provided a "debating arena for the United States and the Soviet Union
to score propaganda points."
Miss Frederick later read the three basic principles
which the United States pledged to support when it
joined the UN. The principles upheld the peaceable
settlement of disputes by negotiations and condemned
the use of force in resolving international disputes.
According to Miss Frederick, the war in Southeast
Asia has "held up to question the devotion of the United
States to these promises."
Ten Years
"U Thant has remarked that we have just 10 years
disto curb the arms race and prevent a world-wid- e
aster," she said. "The way we are going, there may not
be ten years left to turn off the arms race and turn-o- n
the human race."
In a question and answer period following her speech,
Mrs. Frederick was asked how the UN could be made
more effective.
"Not by a change in charter, but by a change in the
attitude of the United States and the Soviet Union
toward their original commitments to the UN," she
replied.
When asked if the United States should withdraw
from the United Nations, her reply was definitely negative.
"I see no hope at all if that happens," she answered.
"I only hope things change."

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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Greeks Help Reclaim
Strip-Min- e
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RON HAWKINS
Kernel Staff Writer
The "exploitation" of Eastern
Kentucky was viewed first-han- d
by members of the Phi Delta
Theta fraternity as they planted
tree seedlings Saturday on the
slope of a
strip mine
site.
The mine was on the headwaters of the Redbird River,
near Pineville, Ky.
Under state laws effective 10
years ago, the strip mine fulfilled its legal reclamation obligation.
But when the fraternity arrived Saturday morning, the site
was barren, with only an occasional sprinkling of grass interrupting the coarse uneven slope.
The dusty, dirt road surrounding the mine was cluttered with
worn-ou- t
automobiles and young,
dirty children.
The difference between a fraternity member's life and that
of a poor person from Eastern
Kentucky impressed several of
the Greeks.
Old, weatherbeaten wooden
shacks located at the juncture
of two slopes were a common
sight.
Laurence Holbert, activities
director of Phi Delta Theta, arranged the planting of tree seedlings. He said he wanted the
fraternity to do something other
than "paint the walls in a home
for unwed mothers."
During the course of the day,
the Creeks managed to plant
2,000 black locuses and 1,000
white pines. Although the number was not as large as forestry
officials had hoped, they expressed gratitude for what had
been done and the attention it
drew to the problem of old strip
mines.
A writer for United Press International expressed the opinion
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Greek dancers erformed the 'Kalamatianos' and a 'Zorba the Greek'
danre Saturday night at the International Show. Sonsored by the
Cosmoolitan Club, the International Show featured UK students
from around the world erforming songs and dances of their homelands. The show was an attempt to raise money for loans for foreign
students. The jer formers ranged from undergraduate students to
faculty members. Story on page 2 and an additional picture on
Kernel Photo by Dave Herman
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page 3.

Bright, Jennings Comment
On SG Election Outcome
JERRY LEWIS
Kernel Staff Writer
The Student Government election is over. Steve
Bright will be sworn in as the new SG president
while the janitors are doing another type of swearing.
Ched Jennings, Dright's nearest contender for
president, has decided not to contest the election
results. Monday would be the last day to take
any such action.
Both of the former candidates have after
thoughts alx)ut the election.
"Evidently more students knew what was going on than most people thought," Bright said referring to the near record turnout of 4,482 voters.
The new SG president called the campaign
"lackluster" but expressed the belief that most of
the students "knew the diiFerence between the
two main presidential candidates."
Bright explained that he felt that he and Skip
Altholf were elected because "we gave the students an opportunity for change in Student
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"The assembly which was elected has one of
the greatest potentials for success that I've seen,"
added Bright talking about the SG representatives
that he will be working with.
He explained that the "success of the ACT
party" shows what students who aren't really
"politically inspired" can do if they are interested.
How does the new SG president view his future relationship with the administration?
"I think we will deal very well with each other," said Bright. He added that he would try to
be very honest, open and straight forward with
the administration and that with a "modest use of
intelligence" they should have no trouble.
Jennings Comments
Ched Jennings had some comments to make on
the election, but not too many of them dealt
with the future.
The defeated candidate said that he would not
contest the election but that he felt the make-uof the ballots did have some influence on the
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that he was glad to see that the
fraternity people were "different" from others on campus
"who go around carrying placards."
However, Holbert countered
this what the fraternity was doing and what the November
Vietnam march on Washington

attempted were quite similar.
He said, "I wish protesters would
go out and do something like

November in Washington . . .
It's good, it's changed things."
Holbert said the fraternity
members were "pretty depressed
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Former UK VP
Gets Promotion
Robert L. Johnson, former
has been
UK administrator,
named by the University of California Board of Regents to a
senior vice presidency of the
university.
Presently, Johnson is
for the
Berkeley campus. He will
vice president of the university for administration before
July 1.
Chester O. McCorkle was also
named to Vice Presidency. He
replaces John W. Oswald, former UK president, who becomes
president of Pennsylvania State
University July 1.
Johnson, born in New York,
earned his bachelor's degree at
State Teachers College, Cortland, N. Y., and his master's degree in Public Health at Yale.
He was director of state and
local services for UK Medical
UK vice
Center from 1960-190president for student affairs from
1905-68- ,
and has been a vice
chancellor at Berkeley the past
two years.
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Take an American folk singer,
add a Taiwan harmonica player,
and throw in a Thailand classical
dancer. Mix well with 13 other
acts featuring performers from
11 countries, and the fourth annual International Show is the
result.
The International Show was
produced Saturday night in
Memorial Hall by the UK Cosmopolitan Club to raise money
for loans to foreign students.
Its performers
ranged from
undergraduates to faculty members.
Most of the performers were
amateurs, but the end result
showed a
touch. Analy Scorsone, president of the Cosmopolitan Club,
said the group had been practicing about a month, and the
show itself was proof of the
hard work put into its production.
One of the most striking
things about the show was the
variety of acts it contained. A
potpourri of traditional songs
and dances from many lands
was combined with such specialties as a demonstration of Thai

Professor Writes War Study

By ALEX SOTERIOU
Kernel Staff Writer
This book is within the context of "some kind of spiritual
wholeness."
This book is one man's attempt to stretch himself.
This book is the result of
serious personal confrontation
and struggle with the endless
absurdities of war.
The book, "A Discipline For
The Study Of War," written by
Dr. Richard Gift of the UK Economics Department, is a heavy
book. The problem Dr. Gift is
concerned with is a heavy problem.
How does one person even
begin to try to conceptualize, or
sort through the trillions of ele

"levels of analysis or frames of
reference" are basic to the organization of the study. They
are in terms of the psychological, political and ecological.
The "socialness" of war is
dealt with in order to open the
door and enable one to probe
further into the problem, rather
than doing the old giving-up-tric- k
of the "middle world"
which considers war to be inherent in the animal. Dr. Gift's
point: ;"War. is an outgrowth of
social organization.
Getting into the psychological area, Dr. Gift has some extremely fascinating ideas. He
feels that there would be no war
e,
if there were only
relationships in the
sense, as opposed to an

ments which combined, somehow, at some time, allow people
to be at war with one another?
There is so much involved.
Dr. Gift has spent 12 years of
in every sense,
involvement,
wading through inumerable interrelated elements, to come up
with a structure for understanding and studying the "causes" of
war. He has come up with
some tremendously interesting
insights and has set a framework "for a study which has never quite found its proper frame.
To begin, Dr. Gift' defines
war, a not so simple task, as all
the pages written by the conflict
and war scholars, from Kenneth
Boulding to Quincey Wright,
Three different
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that the concrete reality of a
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relationships.
the psychological
realm, Dr. Gift also develops his
theory that war, in part, is the
outgrowth of residual animism.
This concept ties in well with
projection work done by some
researchers in collective behavior and psychology. It is to my
knowledge the first time that
the relationship between this

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type of human response and
conflict has been so intriguingly
articulated.

Keeping in mind Dr. Gift's
perspective, that "war is a relationship between people," it is
interesting to see that in the
ecological spectrum he considers
a change in the stock of capital
a potential disequiliberating element in that it is a basis for a
relationship between people. At
this point he goes into the ritualistic element contained in
such relationships.
Again the

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on all levels of being are eloquent and spiritually exhilarating.
The last two chapters become
rather difficult to read as they
contain an attempt to structure
or relate all elements concerned
in terms of analytical systems,
The
matrices and equations.
author himself goes through the
unending frustration of these
complexities. Again, this is a
heavy book, not to be read lightlyand somehow the experience
is somewhat like getting into
iazz.
Dr. Gift teaches a graduate
seminar in Conflict and Conflict
Resolution.

boxing at which Cassias Clay
would wrinkle his brow in puzzlement.
The "international" flavor of
the show was further maintained by the Uritish accent of
one of the
Tony Fcarcc-Battctwo Masters of Ceremonies.
Pearcc-Hattc- n
and his
Suzy Foley did much to keep
the stream of acts flowing
smoothly.
A few rough spots did develop, though the majority of
them were under the heading
of "technical difficulties." For
example, during the "Tinikling"
dance performed by two Filipinos who did a scries of intricate steps between two clashing bamboo poles, the music
suddenly stopped because of a
power failure.
At this point, Pearce-IJatte- n
amused the audience with an
attempt to imitate the Filipinos,
resulting in lus getting his foot
caught between the poles.
For the most part, however,
the show ran smoothly from
start to finish. The final act,
entitled "Greetings," featured
two couples in a parody of the
customary ways of saying "hi"
in different lands.
Despite the obvious entertainment and educational value
of the show, and despite its
worthy purpose, the true worth
of the performance lay in the
pride which the performers
showed in producing it.
This pride was not confined
to the act in which the indi-

vidual performer participated,
but included a very real interest
and respect for the performances
of those of other lands.
Moreover, several performers
chose to do songs and dances
not native to their own countries. An American freshman
sang three Russian numbers. A
German dance was performed
without the help of a single
German.

McCartney Leads
Betide Break-Up

LONDON (AP)-T- he
Beatles,
four mopheads who became millionaires by making music the
kids have beeri screaming about
for 10 years, split up yesterday.
Paul McCartney, youngest of
the now grown-uquartet that
attained world fame as they
emerged from their teens, announced that he had broken
away to pursue a solo career as
a song writer. But he admitted
the split could be only tempop

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business differences, musical differences, but most of all because I have a better time with
my family."
A spokesman for Apple, the
Beatles' controlling
company,
denied that the four would split
up, although she agreed that
McCartney and Lennon, who
used to write songs together, had
not seen each other for months.
"They both have their family
lives now," she said.
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National Guardsmen
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Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, past
director of the nation's Selective
Service System, Rot a clmnce to
say a few things alxiut the protesters when he spoke in Lexington Saturday night.
Addressing the 39th annual
conference
of the National
Guard Association of Kentucky,
the four-sta- r
general noted that
"what we need in this country
is more fixers and fewer diagnosticians."
Talking about draft evaders
to the audience of about 350
guardsmen, Hcrshey said, "When
I go to Canada, I always have
to explain why we send such
people up there."

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Ilershey partially blamed the

news media for the popularity
of protest. He said the media
have paid too much attention to
the protestors and not enough
to the "good things" that the
youth have done.

Mine Operators Warn Of Coal Shortage
BLUEFIELD, W. Va. (AP)-- A
statement issued by some 50
coal operators warned Saturday
that the nation "faces a coal

law a situation he claimed has

forced three Tennessee Valley
Authority plants, operated by
coal, to cut production of electricity by 50 per cent.
"Hundreds of small and me-

shortage of major proportions"

lecause of the stringent rules
and regulations of the 1969
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in Kentucky looks over prints to be disLibrary Week (April
played at the University library during Library Week. Moot libraries
in the state will have siecial program and displays planned for the
event which is being held nationwide.
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bilization.

"Whether I'm an aid to him
or not," said Hershey, "remains
to be seen."

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ple, failure to have a mine office or to have a building designated as a mine office is a
chargeable violation for which a
fine is levied against an operator
without opportunity for a hearing.
"Fewer mine accidents occurred in 1969 than any previous year in recent history. On
the other hand, one fatality has

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called the meeting an attempt
by coal operators to "thwart the
Mine Safety Act of 1969."
"We can't sit idly by, we have
to put up resistance," Buff said.

"Many of these violations are

not related to safety, for

The first informal concert given by the UK Women's and Men's
Glee Clubs will take place at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 14 in Memorial Hall featuring new and old favorite songs.
The Men's Glee Club will be assisted by the Mason County
High School Glee Club, directed by Coralie Runyon, in performing
Randall Thompson's "Last Words of David."
Soloists participating in the program include Leah Stewart,
Becky Porter, Joseph Williams, Alex Montgomery, and Charles
Lindsey.
A male quartet featuring Gary Thurman, Ron Smith, Al Legg,
and Charles Lindsey will also participate in the program.
A special girls' ensemble will sing "As Long as He Needs Me."
Instrumentalists taking part in the concert include Frances Scott,
Gary Williams and Terry Sobania on the piano; Susan Hill, harp;
Bob Wuest, drums; Rusty White, string bass; Merilee Ryle, flute;
Bill Gabby, glockenspiel; and Mary Thurman, guitar.
Some of the numbers being performed are Autumn Leaves,
September Song, Step to the Rear, Oh Bury Me Not on the Lone
Prairie, By the Time I Get to Phoenix and Cool Water.
The two glee clubs will merge in singing various selections from
"Annie Get Your Gun."
The public is invited to the concert. Admission is free.

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occurred in Pike County, Ky. as
a direct result of operators trying to comply with the new
safety law," the statement said.
Dr. I. E. Buff of Charleston

Hershey expressed the belief
that America has reached a "rut
in the road" but noted that the
percentage of protesters who left
the country during the American
Revolution was far greater than
the percentage leaving today.
Even though most of the general's remarks were not about
himself, he did have one remark
about his new role as aide to
the President on manpower mo-

rather than be subjected by further harassment caused by the
enforcement of the new mine
safety regulations," the statement said.

Men's And Women's Glee Clnbs
Plan Joint Concert On Tuesday

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"laxity" of courts in dealing with
militant protestors.
Speaking of his experience as
a sheriff in Indiana when there
was a shooting, he said "we
didn't let the guilty person go
because he wasn't warned of his
rights before he shot."

dium sized mines have closed,

Safety Act.
Representatives of Coal operators from West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania,
Tennessee and Alabama attended a meeting to "formulate policies that may be pursued by
industry" in regard to the new
federal coal mine law.
One at'torney, who refused to
be identified, said many sections
of the nation could be without
electricity this summer.
from
Tennessee,
Another,
claimed that some 92 of the
state's 100 coal mines have
closed as a result of the safety

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had a few remarks alxmt the

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Sieve Katlerman and Jo Jo Patterson performed American blues
numbers at the UK International Show Saturday. They erformed
"Summertime" from the Iay "Porgy and liess" and "House of the
Rising Sun." Although the International Show was basically made
up of foreign erformers, Ratterman and Patterson were Americans.

International Show

"I felt so sorry for a group of
pickets at the National Headquarters of Selective Service recentlythey were crowded into
the street by the reporters, cameramen and equipment," Hcrshey quipped.

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comfortable and convenient as they were
meant to be. you have to take care of
them. But until now you needed two or
more separate solutions to properly
prepare and maintain your contacts. Not
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solution for complete contact lens care.

Cleaning your contacts with Lensine
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the lenses. And soaking your contacts in
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on the bottom of every bottle of Lensine.
It has been demonstrated that improper
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This is a sure cause of eye irritation and
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Bacteria cannot grow in Lensine which is
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sterile,
Just a drop or two of Lensine, before you
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allowing the lens to float more freely in
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Print Pressure Must Go
That old, old problem of publish
or perish is cropping up around the
University; and the remedy is as
far away as ever. The eternal pressure on a professor at a large university to research and write at the
obvious expense of his classroom
duties has lccn a topic of discussion
around college campuses since student populations have grown to
present gargantuan levels.
It has been fairly well established
that such a practice docs exist at
most colleges, although the extent
and form which the pressure takes
has not been brought into unclouded public scrutiny. The time
has come when this administrative
crime leave the conference tables,
meeting halls, departmental offices
and official statements and be obliterated in its entirety from the
college scene. The undergraduates,
who suffer most from this practice,
are becoming impatient at losing
the few good lecturers and instructors that grace this campus.
Every teacher here should be encouraged to participate in research
ventures and to publish his findings
in national journals. Recognition
by individual faculty members
lends like prestige to the University
and should be rewarded at contract
time. That is not to say, however,
that those teachers who confine
their efforts entirely to the matter
at hand, namely teaching, should

By BRADLEY C. CANON
Assistant Professor of Political Science
This is in response to Miss Susan Richards "Open Letter to Undergraduates" in
the April 7th issue in which she laments
being fired so that the English Depar-mecould have more money to attract
qualified graduate students.
Much of what Miss Richards says
about the relationships between administration and faculty on one hand and undergraduates on the other is true, although her frequent use of trite phrases
such as "quality education," "the big picture" and "the system is corrupt" mark
her comments as being mainly superficial.
I am writing in response not to her particular situation, but to certain assumptions underlying her letter which I think
need to be challenged.
First, she assumes that graduate students somehow are not really students
and consequently the university should
not attempt to attract them to the campus or devote much effort to educating
those who are here. What justifies the
idea that one no longer should be or
needs to be educated upon receipt of the
B.A. degree, she does not say.
I would argue, in fact, that by and
large graduate students are more desirous
of learning than are undergraduates.
I have taught enough
undergraduate
courses here to arrive at the solid impression that around one half of them
have little interest in learning very much
of anything academic. They are after the
ticket to the good life and
degree-t- he
would just as soon do without the intellectual accomplishment which the degree
supposedly represents. I am not arguing
that undergraduates need to have the
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same goals or discipline that graduate
students have, but I do think that persons enrolling as students in a university
should be broadly curious about the intellectual world surrounding them. Reactions of many of my advisees such as
"Do I have to take literature?" or "How
can I get out of taking a science?" convince me that this is far too often not
the case.
Second, by objecting to being replaced
by a graduate student as a teacher, Miss
Richards implies that graduate students
are not qualified to or interested in
teaching undergraduates. She never justifies this assumption and, indeed, I think
it cannot be justified. There is no logical
reason why graduate students should be
less enthusiastic about teaching than are
faculty members. In terms of experience
and knowledge, grad students are, of
course, less qualified. But we all have to
start teaching sometime; it is impossible,
I would suppose, to enter a profession
with years of experience and training.
Students simply cannot expect that none
of their teachers will be beginners.
Third, and perhaps most perturbing of
all, Miss Richards assumes that research
is a useless task which should have no
place in the university. On the contrary,
I would submit that research is the very
essence of the university. I would not
denigrate the university's role as a transmitter of knowledge, but historically the
institutions deserving the name university have been noted for their contributions to expanding the world's knowledge
as well as transmitting it. It is this expansion of knowledge, after all, which
has brought us out of the Middle Ages
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be punished with the loss of their
jobs. In fact, they too should be
recognized and rewarded for excellence in the basic profession for
which they were hired.
In virtually every department at
the University, there exists one instructor who, by forsaking the prestige of his scholastic counterparts,
has versed himself in the
job of student advisement and classroom presentation.
This person, not those who have
gained wide renown in the area of
research, deserves the title of department head. Most of the research-types
have never taken the
time, nor do they care, to lead the
undergraduate through what can
amount to academic hell. It is the
publisher who most often advises
the undergraduate to pass over a
required course or who suggests a
course out of keeping with his area
of concentration. It is this person
who is often hardest to see outside
the classroom and the one who
forever shirks the responsibility of
teaching an extra section or course.
The fate of the true teacher is
too often the community colleges
where the instructor is not hounded
by publicity-hungr- y
department
heads. In other words, he is lost to
the majority of students in the UK
system.
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nology and culture which are the hallmark of Western civilization.
It is the university's contribution to the
expansion of knowledge which differentiates the university from the high school.
I might also ask where Miss Richards expects the body of material which undergraduates are expected to scrutinize and
analyze to come from? Divine revelation
or thin air perhaps? To denounce the
faculty for "publishing" and "scholarly
research" is, 1 submit, nothing less than
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be taught by faculty members who have
no intellectual curiosity or desire to communicate the results of that curiosity to
others similarly curious.
There are indeed many problems and
deficiencies in the modern university.
Hopefully, most of us can approach them
sensibly. Rut, I suppose, universities will
appear irrevocably and hopelessly "corrupt" to those who hold that there is no
call or place for research in them and
that graduate students are somehow incapable of teaching