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WEDNESDAY, MARCH

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Eight Page

Jlain Forces Hundreds To Flee Homes
Weatherman

jJownpours
Play Havoc
On Campus
By HENRY ROSENTHAL
Kernel Staff Writer

Recent rains have proved
especially harmful to the electrical system in various parts
of the campus. E. B. Farris,
chief engineer of maintenance
and operation, said this is the
biggest problem during the
recent heavy rains.

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rain and
rapidly rising rivers flooded
many parts of the state blocking highways and forcing hun
ilreds to evacuate their homes.

Last Friday, lights went out In

the Student Center. Since then
there have been other difficulties.
At 9 p.m. Sunday an underground primary circuit near Hag-gi- n
Hall shorted out. Farris said,
"This did not directly affect Donovan Hall."
He explained that it was neces'
sary to cut off the electricity
to Donovan Hall at 3:30 Sunday
to make the necessary repairs.
Repairs were completed at. 8
o'clock Monday night. Electricity
in various campus buildings was
out for 23 hours. Most of these
buildings were in the College of
Agriculture. Those affected were:
Stork Judging Pavilion, the Agriculture Engineering Building, the
Animal Pathology Building, all
barns on the farm, and the dean's
residence on the farm.
In addition, six fraternity
houses were affected.
Farris attributed the breakdown to a "combination of overload, old age, deterioration of insulation and moisture."
Farris said that there was no
real flooding of campus buildings. He said "it is just the ordinary leaks that we expect."
He said there have been leaks
in the basement of the Chemistry-Physics
Building and that
they ore trying to get the colto take care of the situa- lator

maintenance
department
checks
rtued
campus manholes.

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The University had its flooding problems In 1928
too. These photos, taken by the late Louis Edward
Nollau, are from the Margaret I. King Library
Archives and show water conditions on the campus
on June 28, 1928. In the top photo, water is seen
standing In front of the Alumni Gym. The Cats
played there in those days and the post office was

in the basement. In the bottom photo, a wall of
water hits
car attempting to go up South Lime
near the University entrance. Prof. Nollau was
'unofficial' University photographer at the time. He
taught in the College of Engineering from 1901
until his death in 1955.

AWS Topic Is Communication
.

By BLITHE Rt'NSDORF
Assistant Campus Editor

Next week the 1964 Region
Three Intercollegiate Association of Women Students
Convention will begin at the
University. About 300 delegates from 50 Southern and
Midwestern schools are expected to attend the four-da- y
conference.
The theme this year Is "Communication: Its Art and Value."
This broad topic is divided Into
three levels of development, each
arising from the previous one.
Communication Is vital In the
modern world; the understanding
that results from communication
is essential to our lives. It may
be verbal, or kilent as are our
actions and manners but it all
conveys something of us to someone tUe.
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portions of the convention
ore in some way related to the

various levels of communication.
Speakers, discussion group leaders, entertainment and mealtime
table decorations, all carry out
the tone of the conference.
The first day will be a relatively quiet one for the delegates. They will be met by the
committee members
hospitality
and taken to Holmes Hall for
registration.
That evening, following a buffet supper, the Baptist Student
Union Choir will sing a Vesper
Concert. Entertainment In the
Holmes Hull recreation room will
be provided by Linda VVoodull,
Arts and Sciences senior, and
Barbara Thomson, Nursing senior, who will lead the delegates
in a "uke siiia."
Dr. John W. Oswald, University
president will address the delegates with a welcoming speech.
The first actual level of comis the Individuals
munication
of himself, liig
understanding
liai Unround, und
his en.iroii-ni- i
nt. l)r. James W. Gladden of

faculty will be
speaker for this
phase of the conference.
Dr. Oladden, professor of sociology, specializes In the fields
of marriage, family, child development, and sociology of religion. He holds bachelor of art,
bachelor of theology, master of
education, and doctor of sociology degrees.
He is an ordained minister,
who has served in the Methodist
Church near Pittsburgh, Pa. Dr.
Gladden is Included in the Dictionary of American Scholars,
and is a member of several professional societies, serving as regional head of Pi Gamma Mu,
a social science honorary.
Discussion groups, whic h relate
to the second phase of communications group dynamics will be
led by various members of the
University faculty.
Dr. Gilford Blyton, profe-o- r
of speech mul direct or of fo:eu-sicDr. N:el Plummet-- dire.-- r
of II. i-- School of Jourm.lKm; Dr.
Jumu Luiiir, assistant i.ioics.uithe

University

the keynote

of behavioral science; Dr. Cyrus
Johnson, instructor In sociology;
Dr. Art Galluher, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology; Dr. Robert Straus,
chairman of the Department of
Behavioral Science.
Dr. Robert Thorp, assistant
Mrs.
professor of journalism;
Dixie Evans Smith, director of
Dr.
women's residence
halls;
Theodore Dixon, assistant professor of psychology; and Dr. J. W.
Patterson, associate professor of
speech, will serve In the capacity
of discussion group leadors.
Additional activities on Monday's agenda Include a tour of
the surrounding horse farms, a
stylo show presented by the convention steering committee, dancing by Debbie Dcluney, Aits and
Sciences Junior, and skits presented by the different delegations.
John Jurob Nile, a native
Kentui kiim, who has bren termed
tiic "ilea uof American folk musi- Coiitinued on Page

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A spokesman for the Weather
Bureau reported that another
weather system, which "looks Just
like this last one," is moving in
this direction. He said that if It
brings rain, it should hit Ken
tucky by Thursday.
He summed up the feelings of
d
many
Kentuckianj
when he said, "I'm just crossing
my fingers and waiting."
In one of the hardest hit
areas of the state, much of the
Louisville region was flooded,
when the Ohio River reached a
level of 40 feet, a mark 12 feet
above flood stage.
The city was hit by record
breaking rainfall when 6.97 inches
fell in a
period beginning at midnight Sunday. The
old record was S.80 inches, measured on March 18 and 19, 1943.
Several hundred people were
forced to evacuate their homes,
and two civil defense and Red
Cross emergency shelters were
opened.
The Ohio River rose 14 feet
above flood stage in Northern
Kentucky and was rising yesterday at a rate of 6 inches an hour.
The speed with which the water
was rising caused some people in
the area to predict that this flood
could be more disastrous than
the 1937 flood.
were
of residents
Hundreds
forced to flee from the
communities
including Dayton,
Ludlow, and Silver Grove. Protected by flood walls, Covington
and Newport escaped extensive
damage.
Three-fourtof the populaa Kenton
tion of Falmouth,
County city of 2.600, was evacwaters threatuated when flood
ened to break the nearby dam.
Most of the city was inundated
when the Licking River reached
the highest stage in history.
The Weather Bureau reports
a total rainfall of 8.52 inches for
the first 10 days In March, and
predict that this month may surpass the record for March set
in 1890 when 9.91 inches of rain
was recorded.
Fayette County suffered extensive damage from high winds
which accompanied the rain, and
temporary interruptions of elec
trie power were reported In sev
eral parts of the county.
Traffic was halted in several
locations, and dozens of base
ments were flooded.

Phi Kappa Tan

Pr. Ben Black, professor of
English, has been chosen "Professor of the Month" for February by the members of Phi
Kappa Tau. The award is presented to the profesor who, in
the opinion of the chapter, has
service to
given out taniliiig
the students of the University.
lias been given
The award
every month of the school year
since lt'iii.

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UK Ham Operators
Assist CD Officials

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Amateur radio station
located in Anderson Hall assisted civil defense operation
during flood conditions in
Falmouth Monday night. The
station remained on the air all
night.
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James B. Sims, senior in electrical engineering, monitored the
radio.
He said, "The radio station
primarily relayed the delivery of
emergency messages and communication from the flood areas
in the northern parts of the state.
"The station served as a lia- -

Ware's Photo Wins
This photo, by Journalism instructor Richard War, received the
top award in general commercial pictorial division at the Kentucky
Professional rhotographrrs' convention. Mr. Ware won two other
court of honor awards at the convention.

University Instructor
Wins Photo A wards
instructor Richard L. Ware
University
won three first place sulK'ategory awards in the twentieth
annual Kentucky Professional Photographers
Association
competition.
Chi Derby. In 1962 he won the

Ware's 16x20 inch black and
white prints captured first place
in the general commercial candid, illustrative commercial with
model, and illustrative commercial pictorial.
Three other entries submitted
by Mr. Ware were selected for
exhibition at the annual convention at the Phoenix Hotel in
Each memLexington March
ber of the organization is limited
to six entries.
Prizewinners included a scene
shot in Hazard with the School
of Journalism Eastern Kentucky
team, a candid photo taken for
the Kentuckian
at the Sigma
Chi Derby, and a posed photograph using UK Junior Debbie
Dclaney as a model.
The three other photographs
selected for exhibition include a
candid shot of a boy-gitouch
football game, an advertising
Illustration taken in a UK science
laboratory, and a picture of two
children playing on a swing.
Mr. Ware has won awards in
the competition for three consecutive years. Last year he
placed first in the candid division with a scene from the Sigma

Horizons "61
"The Conflict Between Science and Humanism" is the
topic Dr. L. L. Koyarsky, head
of the Department of Physiology, will present at the Horizons 'CI lecture at 4 p.m. today
in Itoum 206 of the Student
Center.

Students

Southeastern
cup for the best
black and white entry in the contest.
More than 120 members of the
organization entered photographs
in the competition's nine portrait
and commercial categories.
Ware Joined the University
Journalism staff this fall after
serving four years in the University photography office. He also
serves as photographer in charge
of student publications.

a traditional Air
"Dining-In,- "
Force practice, is being adopted
by UK's ROTC attachment. The
first dinner will feature Dr.
Smith of the College of
Education as guest speaker.
A spokesman
for the ROTC
unit said that "dining-in- "
probtraces back to the renowned
ably
dinner parties of a late World
War II Air Force chief, Gen. H.
H. Arnold. The practice has since
grown until it is recognized as
"an important part of the life
of an Air Force unit."
Guests at the 6:30 dinner will
include Dr. M. M. White, dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Kenneth Harper, assistant AS dean; and Dr. Elbert W. Ockerman, director of
school relations.

pete today against approximately
other contestants.

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Among Air Force personnel to
be present at the dinner are Dr.
J. Eduardo Hernandez, professor
of modern foreign languages and
colonel in the Air Force Reserve;
Col. Robert S. Larson, former
head of the UK unit; Lt. Col.
Milton Davis, professor of aerospace science, and Cadet Major
John F. Johnston, cadet commander, both of the University
of Louisville.

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Tuesday morning.
Sims is a member of the UK
Amateur Radio Club which operated the station. He said that
two other members of the club,
Tim Skinner and Barry Coleman!
went to Falmouth.
At Falmouth
they provided
mobile communication
between
the disaster areas and local civil
defense officials. Sims stated he
did not think the local Civil
defense officials had a radio of
their own.
Sims said the radio was installed in a car and that it was
completely mobile.
He explained that there is
usually someone In the radio
room during the day. He said
that at the time he had gone
to attend a meeting of the Central Kentucky Radio Network.
The meeting was called off because of the emergency. It was
then that Sims put the station
on the air.
In addition to Sims, another
student, Tom Carney stayed at
the radio station until 7:30 Tuesday morning. "Carney left to go
to bed," Sims said.
.
Sims said that all members of
the club that assisted in the
were liemergency
operation
censed radio operators. He said
that most members of the club
were licensed.
Other stations were also consented with the disaster. Sims
said that he heard communications from Louisville and Cincinnati during the course of the
night.

The Air Force ROTC detachment and cadet officers will
hold a "Dining In" at the Holiday In Thursday night in
Air Force tradition.
keeping with a

A University freshman will compete for the title of Miss
Electrification in Dallas, Texas this week.

WED. - SAT.

8:30

'Dining In' Scheduled
By Air Force ROTC

University Freshman
Competing For Title
SalThe freshman,
ly Anne Duncan, won the Miss
Kentucky Rural Electric title at
the 1963 Kentucky State Fair.
She is enrolled in the College
of Nursing.
Miss Duncan is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Marvine Duncan of Henderson and is a graduate of Henderson High School.
At Henderson High she was a
member of the Student Council,
the pep club, the Future Nurses
Club,
Choir, and the
Revue, high school yeaibook
staff.
She was voted Coronation Ball
Football
Queen, representative,
Homecoming Queen, and elected
All Around Girl.
Who's Who-BeShe flew with her parents to
Dallas March 8 and will com

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son between stations
flooded area and civil defense
in Frankfort.
"We also provided a
for stations that were having
difficulty communicating."
Sims explained that other communications in the central Kentucky area aided during the
emergency. He said that these
stations were largely located in
the Lexingtoi and Georgetown
section of Central Kentucky.
Sims said he heard the disaster communications at about
10:15 p.m. Monday. He then put
the station on the air and it
stayed on the air until about

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NEW YORK (AP) Is junior on his way to becoming a
lush?
There's not a loyal parent of teen-ager- s
across the country who wouldn't bridle at the sucszestion. The indignant protests would range from "But he's never had a drop in his
life," to "My kid is learning to do it right; he drinks right along
with me and holds it like a gentleman."

But a great many nonetheless
would admit it's a problem that
has them worried. Not that they
don't trust Junior lmplicity, but
When he gets out with his crowd. . .
What do authorities in the field
say?
Here are some views of two
experts which may enrage
parents but make sense
to others.
Dr. Giorgio Lolli, formerly
director
of Yale University's
Clinic Plan and now director of
Rome's Psycho-DietetCenter,
uses the Italians as an example.
The Italians,
who consume
more alcohol than almost anybody In Europe, have fewer alcoholics than anybody. This is
frequently attributed to the fact
that children are given a teaspoon of wine in a glass of water
as a matter of course at family
meals.
Says Dr. Lolli: "Among teenagers In the United States, liquor is associated with adulthood and sex. The Italian youngster however, has been drinking
wine for a long time and there's
no special significance to It. As
a matter of fact, he'd much rather stay sober on a date, especially If he's with a pretty girl."
bioDr. Milton Silverman,
research
chemist and medical
director of California's Department of Agriculture Wine Advisory Board, says: "Statistics
show that the best risks for not
becoming alcoholics are kids who
grow up in strong family groups
of moderate drinkers. Alcoholics
or strong teetotallers are equally

tad.

lucky,
"Teenagers, if they're
learn about drinking from their
father and mother. It's better
than learning In a parked car
outside a high school dance. It's
very much like sex education that
way."
The parents' example Is extremely important, says Dr. Silverman.
"The kids see with their own
eyes that liquor is used in moderation and their parents don't
get stoned. When they're accustomed to seeing it this way, nobody makes a big thing of it."

"They don't get the idea that
drinking excessively Is comic or
stylish, but instead that it makes
you not socially acceptable."
The conviction
that heavy
drinking proves you're a man
causes perhaps the most trouble,
says Dr. Silverman.
"In Brittany in northern France
I saw a father actually slug his
son for not drinking. There a
youngster starts working at 14
and he's not accepted by his
buddies until he can drink as
much as they can. Heavy drinking is held almost a proof of
virility.
"But it's equally bad when kids
are told they'll go to hell. It's
the old business of the forbidden
fruit. The first time they get off
the reservation, they start right
in drinking."
A number of long term studies
of drinking habits in Europe and
this country show how cultural
patterns, set early in childhood,
affect the drinking habits of teenagers and adults.
From the findings, says Dr.
Silverman. "It appears that the
major factors in alcoholism include such matters as which particular beverage you drank when
you were 15, 10 or even 5, at
what times of the day you drank
it, what was in your stomach
when the alcohol arrived, where
and with whom you first met
both
alcohol and what
your
father and mother thought about
It."
What can American parents
learn from these studies? Dr.
Lolli says:
"1. Set a good example. Even
a toddler can detect drunkenness
in a parent.
"2. Help give teenagers a sane
moderate attitude toward drinking. It's to be used and enjoyed
as food, not as a stimulant or as
a release from Inhibitions anti
tensions.
"3. Most Important is that they
learn to practice safety devices:
Never drink on an empty stomach; have dilated drinks instead
of concentrated; space the drinks
and know how much they can
take safely."

Eleetions
Nursing
The College of Nursing recently
elected a student executive board.
Those elected were Joyce
president; Sherry Knuckles, vice president; Peggy O'Connor, treasurer; Ginny Sue Graves,
scholarship chairman; Marianne
Greenwald, social chairman; Leah
Caldwell,
program
chairman;
news
Marline Wesley, nursing
editor; Jennifer Thomas, freshman orientation chariman; Sue
Thomas, fund raising chairman;
Barbara Thompson, constitution
committee chairman;
Marilyn
Mowery, song leader; Betty Pet-ti- t,
chapllan; Sharon Angles, recording secretary; Pat Treadway,
and
secretary;
corresponding
Charlottee Keen publicity chairman.
Pin-Mat-

Sarah Dodson, a

sophomore
nursing major from Lexington
a member of Kappa Kappa
and
Gamma, to tilt an Moore, a Junior
pre-mmajor from Lexington
and a member of Kappa Siema.
Dennle
Barker, a freshman
English major from Hlndman and
a member of Kappa Delta, to
maSam Burke, a Junior pre-lajor from Hopkinsville and a
member of Phi Kappa Tau.

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Graduation Fees

Graduation fees will be due
by May 9, which is the last day
of the spring semester. Failure
to pay these fees will make a
student ineligible for graduation.
The fees are as follows (note
the correction of degree aa

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I'ndcrgraduate

Masters'
Ph.D
Specialist
The fees
the Bursar's
ministration

250
27.50

in Education 11.50
are to be paid at
Office In the AdBuilding.

Mar. II Stars in the Night.
March 11 Stars in the Night, 7 p.m., Memorial Hall.
March 11 I.uszezinsky to speak at Art Club, 7:30 p.m., Room 208
Fine Arts Building.
rhi Alpha Theta 3:30 p.m., Rare Book Room, Margaret I.
King Library,
Army ROTC Sponsors, 4 p.m., Buell Armory.
March 12 Eta Sigma Chi pledging 4 p.m., Room 206 Student Center
Dutch Lunch noon, Orange Room Student Center.
March 12 Student Bar Vlvcs, 7:30 p.m., Room 309 Student Center.
College of Agriculture and Home Economics Banquet 6 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom.
March 13 FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH.
March 13 Spindlrtop Hall Dance, 9 to 1.
4
Graduate Record Exams
March
March 14 Spindletop Hall Spring Style Show, 12 to 2.
3
March
Spring Break.
March 18 Cancer Teaching Series Lecture, Otto D. Sahler, M.D
Medical Center, MN463, 8 p.m.
March 23 Concert, Byron Janis, Memorial Coliseum, 8:15 p.m.
Fine Arts Quartet, Chamber Music Society, Memorial Hall,
8:15 p.m.
Senior Forum, Council on Aging, Student Crnter, 10:30 a.m.
March 24 Audubon Film, "Land That I Love," Memorial Hall,
7:30 p.m
March 25 I'K Muslcale, Rex Connor, Tuba, Roy Schaberg, French)
Horn, Memorial Hall, 8 p.m.
March 27 Good Friday.
March 28 Spindletop Hall Dance, 9 to L
March 28 Kappa Formal.
March 29 Easter.
March 29 Spindletop Hall Easter Erg Hunt, 3 p.m.
March 30 Spindletop Hall Annual Meeting, Spindletop Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Lecture, John Kenneth Galbraith, Memorial Hall, 8 p.m.

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Meetings
Teen Drinking Habits
Start In The Home
Dutch Lunch
Dutch
Lunch will meet
at
noon tomorrow in the Oranpe
Room of the Student Center. The
program will feature a panel discussing summer Job opportunities.
All interested girls are invited to
attend.
Art Club
Walter Luszozinsky will sprnk
at the Art Club meeting at 7:30
p.m. today In Room 208 of the
Fine Arts Building. The topic
will be "The Scandal of Consciousness in the Novels of Sartre." All Art Club members and
other interested persons are Invited to attend.
I'lii Alpha Theta
Phi Alpha Theta, history honorary, will meet at 3:30 p.m. today in the Rare Books Room of
the Margaret I. King Library.
The speaker will be Dr. Harry
Dell who will speak on "The
Nature of Ancient Historial Writing."
Ag and Home Ec Banquet
The College of Agriculture and
Home Economics will hold its
annual banquet at 6 p.m. tomorrow in the Student Center Ballroom. All outstanding
agriculture and home economics students will be honored in addition
to the scholarship winners and
Judging teams. The speaker will
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* Kentucky's Progress
In Higher Education
In the field of human rights, Kentucky has proven itself a leader. Few
States can boast of progress such as
the Commonwealth of Kentucky has
achieved.
It is strange that the state can
progress so far in this area and follow
so far behind in another, namely higher education. The University, until a
few years ago, was referred to as the
"Country Club of the South." The
efforts of former President Frank G.
Dickey, and members of the faculty,
have eliminated the infamous repu-tatio- n.
President John W. Oswald has
pledged a continuing program designed to improve the academic atmosphere at UK. With a president
who is dedicated to achieving a mature- academically-oriente- d
University
program, it is ludicrous that UK retains many Country Club vestiges.
1. Compulsory Class Attendance.
For years UK students have been required to attend classes, being allowed
only three cuts. England's Oxford, one
of the oldest and finest of universities, has for centuries granted students the prerogative of attending
classes or not. The theory is that students who can pass a course without
attending class shouldn't be required
to attend.
Many colleges and universities in
this country have instituted the same
system and have found it quite successful. At UK, it would serve a
double purpose. First, it would tend
to weed out poor students and encourage industrious, creative students
to do higher quality work. Second, it
would identify UK with a group of
leading schools as a progressive university.
2. Midterm
Grades.
Students'
grades aren't based on midterm testst
Neither do midterm grades indicate
what the outcome will be at the end
of the semester. It is quite common
for a student to receive high midterm
grades and finish the semester with
much lower grades. Often midterm
grades inspire false confidence, resulting in low grades at the semester's
end. A student with low midterm
grades, on the other hand, frequently
is frustrated and gives up the situation as hopeless.
Eliminatnig midterm grades would
go hand in hand with the goals Dr.
Oswald is seeking. Students who are
liere to study will do so without midterms. Those who are hoping for an
easily-wo- n
degree will be disappointed.
3. Letter Grades. There has been
much criticism of proposals to eliminate letter grades here. At the same
time, much can be said for freeing UK
of its grading system. One of the
primary arguments is that the student would find more opportunity for
individual, creative work if he didn't
have to worry about getting a good
grade on the next test.
Crades could be given out at the
end of the semester as simply "passing" or "failing." Oxford, to name only
one major university, has done this for
quite some time.
4. Requirements. The College of
Arts and Sciences requires a specific
group of courses totaling 4o hours,
of which three hours are hygiene and
physical education. These seem to

exist merely as requirements for no
particular reason. Kentucky elementary and high schools offer from one
to three years of hygiene and physical
education. It is, therefore, useless to
require these courses in college; it
merely serves to waste valuable time.
Foreign language is another needless requirement that wastes time.
Students who need and want to learn
a foreign language will enroll in these
courses. For the rest, this work is lost
time a dreaded requirement, to be
filled with the least amount of work
possible.
Critics of this point of view will
say that students in Arts and Sciences
need a foreign language to complete
a liberal education. Couldn't it be said
as well, along this line, that a student should study medicine, engineering, and a host of other subjects to
complete his education. The truth is
that a foreign language doesn't materially aid most students after college, unless they work overseas.
There are situations, then, that
contrast with the mature system Dr.
Oswald envisions. To correct these ills
and more not mentioned would be
a giant's step in casting off the old
and bringing in the new. The University is almost a century old. It
would be nice to b able to say that
it has made progress in the last 100
years in these areas.
Kentucky is a leader in the field of
human rights. Why can't it be a leader
in the field of higher education too?

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Arms And Economy
Though the statesmen once again
are deadlocked in Geneva's seemingly endless disarmament discussions, an
insistent question continues to be
heard here at home: What would
happen to the economy if the U.S.
and Russia ever really did agree to
any significant disarmament?
The likelihood of that seems so remote that many people regard the
question as academic. Still, the concern exists, and it can ailect policy
even in the absence of disarmament.
For example, some members of Congress urge immediate and elaborate
planning to cope with an adjustment
to sharply lower defense spending in
the wake of an agreement. Elsewhere
the concern appears in various books
and articles attempting to assess the
economic impact.
In contrast to some of the fears of
a serious slump, a recent article in the
Harvard Business Review, takes a
more reassuring line. Written by University of Illinois Economics Professor William D. Grampp, it cites several reasons for thinking the economic
effects of disarmament would not be
unduly disruptive.
In the first place, disarmament if
it comes at all is obviously not going
to be total, unless we are all to take
leave of reality and dwell in a dangerous dream-world- .
For the sake of discussion, Mr. Grampp uses an estimate
that total military and related outlays
might come to about $28 billion a
year, as against close to 60 billion
these clays. Even this reduction would
not be overnight but more likely over
a doen years or so which is a lot of
time for adjusting.
Moreover, the professor observes
that some of the basic questions discussed in connection with disarmamenteconomic growth, the
level of aggregate demand are with
us now. They have long been under
intensive analysis, whatever one may
think of some economists' conclusions
about them; we hardly need secial
new theories to grapple, in the con- -

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Centennial Comments
The Inevitability Of
Commitment
A hundred years of higher education at UK has at least taught us the
inevitability of commitment. We can't
teach without some biases: the handling of truth necessitates a certain selec-thit- y
and deliiniiing-pioces- s
which is
decided upon the basis of certain
piesupposiiions. The Centennial Year
might be a time of smoking out all
our presuppositions by raising the
question: W hich ones aie worth woik-in- g
lor, living lor, perhaps even d)ing
foi? Commitment does not preclude
the search for fuller truth, for to be
committed to the God of Truth is to
be unahaid of where such a search

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