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Tie Story of Registration: People in Line

Fall Registration
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Goes Well, 'Considering',
Dean C.F. Elton' Reports
By JAN1E GEISER
Kernel News Editor

Registration went smoothly considering the number of
people involved, according to University Dean of Admissions
and Registrar Charles F. Elton.
"There wasn't anything wrong
with registration this fall, but
we just can't handle that many
students at one time," Dean Elton said, referring to the 4200
students who registered Tuesday.
This was the largest number to
register in one day in the history
of the University. Twenty-eighundred of the 420 students registered Tuesday morning. The total registration for this semester
U expected to be around 10,500.
Elton found that some of the
"problems" of this semester's
registration resulted because seniors did not register during the
summer as they had in the past
two years.
"We had planned to have all
seniors registering in the summer while the freshmen were
preregistering, but the Deans of
the various colleges decided
against it," Elton said.
Two thousand freshmen attended the summer orientation,
but 700 freshmen and 700 transfer students had to register
Tuesday morning with the regularly scheduled students so they
could attend orientation activities that afternoon. They were
admitted into the Coliseum every
five minutes during the morning.
"These new students were at
a disadvantage In the Coliseum
because they were not familiar
with the registration procedure,"
Elton said, "but the freshmen
guides did a wonderful job helping them register as soon as possible."
If all freshmen, seniors, and
transfer students were required
to register In the summer, Dean
Elton believes this would alleviate much of the registration's
"confusion."
Another problem cited by the
dean was that students did not
know they were to go to their
respective deans' offices or to the
Student Center to pick up their
schedule cards and long program
cards before registering.
"Many of our students waited
outside the Coliseum only to be
sent to their dean's offices for
the cards and then back to the
Coliseum to wait to get In
again," Elton 6ald. "I don't think
anyone waited outside more than
an hour, however."
He believed lines were long Inside the Coliseum not only because the freshmen and transfer
students had to register, but also
because many students did not
have their ID pictures taken last
spring. Periodically, part of sta
ht

tion 6 had to be closed so students would have places to wait
until their ID pictures could be
taken.
Elton complimented those who
had to wait in line at department tables, station 6, and the
ID card line for being "cooperative and extremely
throughout the registration procedure."
Dean Elton said he has a
Continued on Page 4

patient

12 Students

In Elevator
30 Minutes
By LINDA MILLS
Kernel News Editor

Twelve Blazer Hall women
got a taste of sardine living
last night as they spent 30
minutes in an elevator caught
between floors.
"It really wasn't too bad. I
could move one arm up and

down," one cramped coed said.
The breakdown was caused by
overloading 12 women on an 8
person capacity elevator. The
group was trapped a few feet
below the second floor level.
'Spirit was good and everyone
was cracking jokes. No one seemed especially scared," dorm secretary Laura Mueller, who encouraged the group from the
second boor level, said.
The elevator stuck after twelve
girls leaving a dormitory meeting
boarded it at about 11:30 pjn.
"It moved to the ground floor,
back up to the first, and then became caught just before second,
"one" victim" explained.
Blazer building engineer Jim
Davis and an elevator company
representative freed the trapped
coeds by opening the elevator
equipment room and lifting the
women to the second floor leveL
One of the men explained the
trouble as "a simple case of
over-weig-

The women were not
and received adequate
supply from an overhead
the elevator.
"At least there were no
Continued on IVge 4

Injured
oxygen
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University of Kentucky
SEPT.

LEXINGTON,

KY., THURSDAY,

3, 1964

Sixteen Pages

Unknown Illness Sweeps
YMCA Freshman Camp
By KENNETH GREEN

An illness of as yet undetermined origin swept through
the YMCAV Freshman Qamp
last weekend.
The Rev. Mr. Donald Leak, director of the University YMCA,
estimated that the number of
students affected may have
reached as high as 95.
Jim Svara, a counselor at the
camp, put the estimate at "between 20 and 30 percent" of the
115 students atending the camp.
The cause of the epidemic is
still undetermined, but Dr. J. L.
Mulligan of the University Health
Service has ruled out food poisoning, the first suspect.
According to Mr. Monroe Monday of the YMCA of Greater
Lexington, the Illness was characterized by extreme nausea and
diarrhea. Svara described the
illness's effects as "vomiting,
dizziness, and in some cases
fever."
The cooks at the camp are beto determine
ing reexamined
whether or not the illnesses were
due to Infection from the food or
the food service.
According to Mr. Monday,
"every possible source" of the illness is being tracked down and
checked.
Dr. Mulligan and the University Health Service are looking
into the possibility of food poisoning. The State Board of
Health is testing water samples
from the Kentucky River to
determine if the Illnesses were
due to polluted water.
A possibility Is that the Illnesses were due "to a virus
brought to the camp by one or
two people" which spread rapidly
throughout the camp.
If this were the case, Mr. Monday said, "It will never be determined exactly" what the cause
was or who Introduced It to the
camp.
A State sanitary inspector who
toured the camp yesterday with
Mr. Monday reported that he
could find nothing wrong with
the camp.
He Inspected the camp
taking samples of
thoroughly,
water and food and testing the
facilities and personnel at the
camp.
The results of his tett and
samples will not be known until
at leat Saturday, but he gave
to oper
Mr. Monday

ate the camp this weekend for
another group.
Last week's camp was held at

Camp Daniel Boone, 18 miles
south of Lexington on the Kentucky River. The camp is owned
by the YMCA of Greater Lexington.
Svara said that several cases
appeared Sunday morning, but
that most of the cases showed up
"late Sunday night and early
Monday morning."
Don Weaver, who was also a
counselor at the camp, became
111
Monday night. Svara said that
"as far as I know, he was the
last case."
The camp opened at noon on
Aug. 29 with a welcome address
by Dean of Men Kenneth Harper.
Saturday afternoon Dr. J. W.

Patterson spoke on the

"Occupa-

tion of Students."
That same evening the Rev. J.
Donald Elam presented a platform address on "Decision Making."
Sunday morning a panel of
students discussed dating. The
panel included Carolyn Cramer,
Sandra Brock, Jeanne Powell,
Jim Svara, Hal Beals, and Fred
Meyers.
The Rev. Mr. Leak, addressed
the freshman following the panel
discussion on the subject "Dating
Craze and Mating Haze."
was left
Sunday afternoon
open to recreation. Sunday evening Dean Lyman Ginger of the
College of Education addressed
the group.

Kernel Begins Printing
Evening Edition Today
With this edition, the Kentucky Kernel begins publishing
an evening edition and has discontinued its former morning
edition.
New mechanical facilities installed in the University's
Division of Printing during the summer allow the Kernel to
be produced in less time than in previous years.
In changing the paper's time of publication, the time it
takes a paper to reach the student after it has been completed
is narrowed by 14 hours. Previously, a long press run and the
wait for an early morning delivery necessitated the long deoffset press which will be used for
lay. The
the Kernel is able to produce the paper's circulation in an
hour.
The production of the paper, including a major portion
of the reporting, will be dune on the day of publication. The
paper will continue to be published on Tuesday through Friday afternoons.
Distribution of the Kernel will begin at 4:30 each afternoon and continue until about 6 o'clock.
Unless adjustments are made, Kernels will be available
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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, Sept.

S, 1964

Freshmen Enter UK
During Growth Period
The new freshman class
has entered the University
during the period of its greatest growth, UK President
John W. Oswald told new students.
"You are entering the college
at an exciting time," Dr. Oswald
said, adding that the Centennial
Year only emphasized the tre-

mendous growth.
Dr. Oswald listed as evidences
of growth the large freshman
0
class
larger than last
year), the expanding community
college system (5 now with Somerset and Hopklnsville Centers
planned), the new Medical Center, and the new Architecture
(35-4-

College.

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hope to make this stronf
commonwealth university Into a
stronghold university," Dr. Oswald said.
A major problem facing the
University today Is how to grow
in quality as we grow In quantity, the President said.
He said another problem was

be intellectually
curious, ask
questions and dig for answers,
and learn to differentiate fact
from opinion.
to himself as a
Referring
sophomore, he warned students
not to be discouraged by mistakes, recalling the 1963 Homewhen
he
festivities
coming
crowned the wrong queen.

creating a balance between
eral arts and technical studies
and mentioned the possibility of
a university college with a strong
liberal arts program the first two
years.
"Through the community colleges we are moving toward such
a program," Dr. Oswald said.
He spoke of the Centennial as
the beginning of the second century, a facing of the futurt.
"We don't know the answers
yet, but we are looking, we are
seeking," the President promised
the students.
He said students are important
in the plan and should be given
some of the responsibility for
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'It

was terrible," she said.

There were those who had no
problems. Like those who sneaked la on someone eLc's card. Or
IJ;e Jan Gardner, a junior music
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Continued from Pc 1
recommendation in already for
the University to return to the
grade point system of registration used last spring. This system met with criticism and complaints from students and so the
alphabetical system was used
used this semester in its place.
"The students who were satis-fle- d
with the grade point system
didn't say anything about It, the
others did," he added.
Elton pointed out that all the
students with a C or better average were registered in ltt days
with this system and that the
majority of the students got the
courses they wanted.
was "leisurely"
Registration
Wednesday with 300 to 400 students being admitted into the
Coliseum every hour. "We had
planned for the entire registration to be like this," Elton said.
Late registration will continue
until Wednesday.

"I

thought I'd never get out"

sle of UK
should be able to find a more
effective registration system.
Hon Grunrison, Junior zoology
major, voiced the opinion of most
students when he said: "A university the size of UK should be
able to develop a more elective
system of registration."
You CAN beat registration...
if you're a graduate student, a
cheat or a freshman who

that a university the

Otherwise you're in the same
state of mind as most UK students Interviewed who spent a
sunny September day sweltering
in the Coliseum. You're beat,
your feet hurt, and you're pretty
upset with the entire system.
If you're Mary Kay Bunnell,
senior math major, you spent
half an hour standing in line,
and twice that wandering about
the Coliseum, all on a broken
foot.
Lainy Grosscup, senior animal
science major, found Station Six
the worst.
Don't envy the guides who got
In early Tuesday with their orientation groups. Listen to Bill
Stannll a senior from Lexington:
"1 spent all day Tuesday In the
Coliseum.
No,
I registered
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was too busy helping my guide
group."
Registration is best summed
up in this statement from an
anonymous student in the Grille:
year.
"This is our centennial
Maybe we can spend the next
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Sir Willmot Lewis, distinguished
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This is not to say that a campus
newspaper should feed on controversy. But neither should it avoid it.
Perhaps it should be, as Walter Lipp-man- n
has observed, "like the beam of
a searchlight that moves relentlessly
about, bringing one episode and then
another out of darkness into vision."
In response to the peculiar challenges of our campus environment,
including our obligations to the academic community which gave us
birth as a newspaper, we pledge to
our readers:
to publish tlie best paper cost
permits and to insure that quality is
not sacrificed for the sake of frugality;
to publish the freest paper journalistic responsibility allows, and to
insure that "responsibility' does not
serve as an euphemism for censorship;
to explore all topics of concern
to an aware readership, promoting
thereby a free exchange of ideas.
The intellectual horizons of an
academic environment present the
major challenge to fulfillment of our
pledge. An adequate response requires the campus newspaper to
broaden its outlook to assume a more
mature posture.
The Rockefeller Report on Education said, "It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves
as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a
sense of purpose in relation to it."
The campus newspaper must foster

that broader view. The search for
Truth should encounter no impassable
barriers, and those that exist are fair
targets for the pen.
Another thing about Truth is ob-

vious: it is most profitably sought in a
free and open exchange of ideas. It
has been said, "Whosoever is afraid
of submitting any question, civil or
religious, to the test of free discussion, is more in love with his own
opinion than with truth." The campus
newspaper must be the instrument of
such discourse, serving as a forum for
this exchange, which includes not only
new ideas but criticism of these and
existing ideas.
James B. Conant added another remark appropriate to discussion of a
college newspaper. He said, "Behold
the turtle: He makes progress only
when he sticks his neck out." Controversy is many times the weapon of
those who would destroy, but it can
also serve as a tool to build with.
Finally, the Kernel will seek to
publish on the basis of prudent investigation. We pledge that we will
try to heed an admonition credited by
Anya Seton to her father "Stand still
and look until you really see."

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Therapeutic Precedent
By RALPH McGILL

Kernels
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don't get any days off. -- Mort Sahl.

The relation is very close between
our capacity to act at all and our conviction that the action we are taking is
right... Without that belief, most men
will not have the energy and will to
persevere in the action. -- Walter Lippman.

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President's Welcome
Traditionally at the beginning of each academic year welcomes are extended
and friendships renewed. Accordingly, Mrs. Oswald and I extend to all University
of Kentucky students, new and continuing, our warmest and most personal regards.
To those of you returning in what is my "sophomore" year at the University,
this wehome has a special connotation.
For together we have experienced an
surge of what we must term as a great popular commitment to our University and to its pursuit of academic excellence. In this pursuit we are striving
to improve our academic programs, to intensify efforts to attract the most capable
students, and to (hart the course this great institution is to follow in its second
years. To you, my welcome bespeaks of our common purpose and dedi-

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cation.
To you new students I say more than Just "Welcome!" I extend to you an
invitation to become a part of our University, and of the rapid growth and significant change that will mark its future. In but a few months the University will obThe seminars, conferences, public lectures and stuserve its Centennial Year
dent events that will highlight our Centennial observance will hopefully challenge
you to join in commemorating the past and keynoting the future.
Again to all students, a most hearty welcome and a warm invitation to attend
my weekly conferences with students. I know your freshman year will be as satisfying as was my "freshman" year.
John U'. Oswald
President

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Robert Kennedy is halfway towards
establishing a precedent in American politics. A tuirtultuous New York state convention happily nominated him, a man
from Massachusetts, to be the Democratic
candidate for the United States Senate.
Mr. Kennedy will not have an easy campaign. But, he is favored to win.
His candidacy has stirred national
attention. In New York it not unexpectedly has created heated controversy
and debate. The phrase "carpetbagger"
is being overworked. Its users would do
well to keep in mind that, while this
Southern-createphrase had its origin in
and condemnation, it is not
contempt
altogether lacking in merit.
beThe "carpetbagger" was
cause, it was alleged he arrived in the
South during the military occupost-wa- r
pation years with his total possessions
in a carpet bag -- that being the ultimate
in smart baggage of the time. He remained, legend had it, to exploit the
economic situation by use of "connections." The truth is, however, that many
Southern cities made use of, and came to
honor, some of the
carpetbaggers who came with managerial and
business skills. They built railroads, hotels, and helped initiate modern business
methods that enabled many Southern
cities (Atlanta, for example) to move

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forward progressively and profitably
once the reconstruction period was concluded.
New York's Democratic party was
not bankrupt, but in poor Inventory for
U S. Senate candidates. There was a
political vacuum. Party leaders outside
New York city, urged on by some within,
heard opportunity knock when President
Johnson excluded Cabinet members from
vice presidential consideration. The Constitution requires only that a candidate
for the U S. Senate be 30 years old and
a resident of the state for which he contends at the time of election.
Despite the deploring and mutterings
of "carpetbagger," there is something to
be said lor the decision of the constitutional franiers to make so loose a rule.
We may be sure that with the New York
precedent, especially if victory follows
the nomination, the results will be therapeutic. Mr. Kennedy may be a carpetbagger, but he is not a hack. Nor is he

mediocrity such as all
too often comes to the fore in political
parties careless of their organizational
Better an intelligent, cadevelopments.
pable carpetbagger than a routine product of ward politics.
New York's political doubts grew
out of the fact that in ly6() John F. Kennedy worked more closely with borough
and state leaders than with Mayor Wagner. Mr. Robert Kennedy has gone to
considerable lengths to allay Mayor
Wagner's fears that he, Kennedy, wishes
in any manner to be a competitive with
the mayor. The Democrats, if they do
not fumble the ball, have a magnificient
opportunity to win with Mr. Kennedy
and to bring in with him enough members of the state legislature to enable
New York City, and other municipalities
long neglected by the legislature, better
to cope with their increasing problems.
The Kennedy name has what politicians call "magic." The really very
remarkable demonstration given Mr.
Kennedy at the Atlantic City convention
was an example of the magic. The
attorney general is the sort of person who
inspires, as did his brother the President,
deep loyalties and bitter enmities. The
latter usually are unreasonable in that the
haters rarely tan explain their dislike.
Birmingham's
commissioner,
was exiled at Atlantic City as a nonparty loyalist. He has long been at outs,
having led the walkout in 1948 that
created the third-partDlxiecrats. Asked
if he blames President Johnson for his
exclusion, he said, "No, Bobby Kennedy
did it." Mr. Kennedy, of course, had
nothing remotely to do with it.
The attorney general would not have
been of help to President Johnson as a
vice president candidate in two areas -- the
South and in business. The attorney general has been diligent in enforcing all
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laws, including those in the antl trust
iield, and this has caned wounds, as did
the enforcement of civil rights In the
South.
None, however, doubts the Kennedy
Intelligence, political skill or the magic
of the name. A viitory in November will
make political history -- and serve also
as a therapeutic precedent.

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Inside The (University

Centennial Programs Pack

The calendar for the school
year, already bulging with
perennial activities, is even
fuller this year with the addition of several Centennial activities.

Regularly .scheduled events include concerts and lectures, social
weekends, and special interest
programs, catering to every taste
and whim.
The concert and lecture series
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including a house decorating
contest.
The Alumni Association sponsors a skit night the week prior
to Homecoming.
Sorority pledges get a chance
to complete in slapsticks type
games, including pie throwing
contests, in the Sigma Chi Derby
Oct. 10. The upperclass Sigma
Chi piedges are the targets. A
queen Is named from 24 candidates, two from each sorority.
Fraternities and sororities draw
l.r.:s of competition again in the
spring as members compete in
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programs within Greek organizations.
Founders' Day, the focal point
of the Centennial will be celebrated Feb. 22. A campuswide
formal dance Feb. 20 will begin
the observance.
Special interest groups providing programs include the Blue
Marlins, sychronized swimming
rroup, Tau Sigma, modern dance
rroup, Troupers, variety ptrlorm- rrv. and G jural Piavcrr.. :tor
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program:;.
University orchestra performances, and Senior recitals provide
most entertainment.
Perhaps the most elaborate of
the many social weekends is the
Little Kentucky Derby, scheduled
for April 16 and 17. The weekend is campuswide and includes
the selection of a queen, tricycle and bicycle races, turtle
races, and a concert. The queen
becomes the University representative in the Miss Kentucky
contest. Women's and men's residence groups are paired and
compete for fame and fortune in
the various activities.
The first of the big social weekends will be homecoming on Nov.
7 as the Wildcats face Vandre-bi- lt
at 2 p.m.