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By DAVID SHANK
Kernel Feature Writer
Anne McCutchen, an
UK freshman.
Is featured In a four-pag- e
picture article in the
current issue of Look magazine.
The article, titled "End of Summer," is a collection of photographs of Anne made in Russel-vill- e,
her hometown.
"It's supposed to be a mood story," Anne explains. "It tries to show the sadness at the end
of a happy summer; the sadness of going away to
colleae."
Material for the article wai compiled by a
writer and photographer from Look a few days
tefore she ramp to I'K In September.
"It was a wonderful experience," says Anne.
"I'm very grateful to the Look people. And my

family is tickled to death. My mother has already
bought 10 copies to send to relatives. The magazine went on sale early In Russelville and everybody knows about it."
What does she think about college now that
she's here?
"It's wonderful. I Just love UK. Aside from the
hard classes you can have more fun here than
anyplace. Fraternity parties, sorority functions
'she's a Chi Omega pledse), and Danceland are a
lot of fun. And the people are absolutely marvelous."
The Jewell Hall resident has not chosen her
major at I'K but "might major In a foreign language."
Her longer-rance- d
plans are likewise indefinite
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"If I went to New York I would try modeling," says Anne
subject of a four-pag- e
picture story in Look magazine
thin week. But the Russelville girl thinks her main ambition is
"to be a guide at the United Nations Building. Or to grt married
eventually anyway."

Curris Captures
Debate Trophy

Deno Curris, Arts and Sciences senior, placed first in the
Throwers" section of the fourth annual Thoroughbred
Debate Tournament held here Saturday.
award is college debaters. He said that
The

"Hull

to the outstanding
presented
in the Thoroughbred
speaker
Tournament. The award Is made
on the basis of speaker points.
The University of Miami swept
the rest of the tcurnament by
winning first place in the team
competition and second and third
places in the individual
section.
Prof. Leonard Scmmer. Notre
Dame debate coach said, "Not only
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Curris is one of the best debaters
in the United States."
Curris was awarded the "Bull- Throwers" trophy, a ttatuetle of a
man throwing a bull over his
shoulder. Dr. Frark G. Dickey.
I niversity prefect, made the
presentation at a luncheon In the
Siudent Union Building.
Dr. Dickey called the contestants
the "cream cf the crop" among

these students, by perfecting the
arts ot communication and orderly
thought, are America's hope for
the future.
from the
Other representative
I niversity debate . team were . Kathy
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senior, and Bettye Choate, Education junior.
"Resolved that labor organiza- -

diction of antitrust legislation
,.. as
the debate topic.
Dr. Gi fiord Blyton, UK debate
roach said "The importance tf this
tournament Is illustrated by the
quality and geographic dlstrfbu- tlon of lu entrants."
Representatives attended from the
University of Miami. West Point,
Dartmouth
College. Georgetown
University, Wisconsin State Uni- versity, Notre Dame University.
Northwestern University, and Wake
Forest College.

entucky

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Eight Pages

Trustees Vote To Build
Delta Gamma House
The Executive Committee of
the Board of Trustees agreed
Friday to build a $150,000
house for Delta Gamma sorority, letting the sorority pay rent
to retire the ImhkIs.
The sorority repaid the University $32,000 for two lots at the
building site at the corner of
Columbia and Pennsylvania Avenues.
Ten other sororities and eight
fraternities have had similar arrangements with the University.
A salary schedule for Medical
Center employees was also approved.
Medical technicians will start at
$280 to $305 a month, and supervising technicians will start at
$385 to $445.
These salaries will apply for all
University dietitians.
Beginning dietitians will start at
$332 a month, senior dietitians at
$423, and supervisors at $465. The

latter will reach a top of
after seven years.

$595 and expressed appreciation

The committee also reduced the
vacation period for starting office
and clerical workers from a month
to two weeks.
Workers will get three weeks
after their fourth year, and a
month after their 10th.
The same policy will apply to
food service and maintenance
workers.
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Starting medical technicians and
nurses will get three-wee- k
vacations and four weeks after their
10th year.
Administrative
employees and
teachers will still get a month's
vacation after their first year.
In other action, the committee:
1. Rescinded
a previous ruling
students to pay
requiring part-tim- e
tuition for Medical Center courses.
2. Granted
leaves of absence
without pay to 37 University emwere called to active
ployees who
duty with the 100th Division of the
Army Reserve.
3. Accepted gifts totaling $46,397,

INFORMATION TEAMS
BEGIN TOUR OF STATE
Two University information teams beg; m visits yesterday
to 16 points in the state to carry information alxnit UK to
pective students and their parents, alumni,
personnel,
and parents of students currently attending the University.

Persons from 87 counties sur
rounding the 16 visitation sites
have been invited to attend the
sessions, said Dr. Elbert W. Ocker-ma- n,
director of school relations
who is heading the project.
The teams were at Paintsville
and Fulton yesterday. They will
be in Ashland and Paducah today,
Maysville and Hopkinsville tomorand Covington and Russeland statewide service programs will row,
ville Thursday.
be leaching full activation.
and dates
Other visitation
This is $9,495,923 more than the include: Pikeville points Elizabeth-tow- n
and
needed for the operaUniversity
Nov. 6, Harlan and Owens-b- o
tion of the center during 1900-6ro Nov. 7, Hazard and Louisville
"The Medical Center is already Nov. 8, and Somerset and Bards-tow- n
making Important contributions to
Nov. 9.
state health programs," University
The purpose of the visits is to
President Frank (J. Dickey said,
information on financial
"and the impact will be felt with provide school
aid and
costs, academic exadded force in the years ahead,
pectations, housing and admission
long before the increased supply applications, student services, and
of health personnel for its pro- facilities. Each team will be comgrams becomes an important fac- posed of persons familiar with the
tor."
various areas.
Medical Center faculty members
are aheady at work improving
health services in the state, Dr.
Notary Public
Dickey pointed out, by working in
There will be a notary public
with other health to notarize students' ballots in the
cooperation
agencies, giving consultative servStudent I'nion Building from
ices, holding workshops and clinics,
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday,
developing plans and programs for Thursday, and Friday of this
better health care in Kentucky, week and on Monday, Tuesday,
and by conducting research on and Friday of next week during
state health programs.
the same hours.
Continued on Page

Nearly $15,000,000
Asked For Med Center
(l ili tor's Note: The University has
asked the General Assembly to
appropriate the UiRe't budget request in l'K' history. Friday, the
tated in the
Kernel incorrectly
liradline for the second of this
rt
series that research is the
bulk of the Division of Colleges'
budget. The headline should have
indicated that the major part of
the division's request is for both
instructional costs and research
costs. This is the third of the
scries of stories explaining why the
University needs the money and
how it intends to use it.)
The growth of the Albert B.
Chandler Medical Center since
19r9 has roughly paralleled that
of Its budget request.
The 1962 General Assembly will
be asked by the Uimersity to appropriate $14,978,223, or 30 percent
of the total budget request, for the
Medical Center's operation for the
n;'xt two years. This is an indica-tiu- ti
that its teaching, research,

LEXINGTON,

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pros-scho-

to the
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation for the 35th annual grant
of $4,000.
The largest gift was $25,000 from
the Grayson Foundation to the
Department of Animal Pathology
for research on respiratory, para
sitic, and miscellaneous diseases of
horses.
Other gifts included $1,500 for
the Betty Crocker Search Scholarship to Rita Jane Brown of
$l,00d from the Foundry
Educational Foundation for four
scholarships in the
Department of Mining and Metallurgy; $1,337.50 from Fannie and
John Hertz Engineering Scholarship Foundation to the College of
Engineering for four
scholarships.

Exhibitionist

Reported

On Campus

A Keeneland Hall coed reported
to city police that she was approached by an exhibitionist in the
vicinity of the Student Union
Building last Thursday night.
Miss Virginia Nestor told officers
that a man about 35 stepped from
a blue Ford as she was walking
on campus and exposed himself
to her. She said that the lower
part of his body was unclothed.

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students were
initiated Friday into Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism society.
row: the professional initiates, Fred J.
They are from left, top
Burkhard, editor of the Casey County News at Liberty, and W.
Foster Adams, editor of the Berea Citizen and president of the
initiates are
Kentucky Press Association; the undergraduate
Kerry Powell, Stephen Palmer,, bottom row, Fldon Phillips, John
all journalism majors.
Burkhard, and David Shank,
Two professional Journalists and five undergraduate

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BLAZER LECTURER SAYS LINCOLN
KNEW WHERE WE WERE GOING
The axiom upon which Abraham
Lincoln based his course of action
Aas, "If we could first know where
' ve
are, and whether we are tending,
Re can better Judge what to do,
.ind how to do It," a Blazer Lecture audience was told Thursday
".light.

Quoting from Lincoln's "House
divided" speech. Dr. Roy P. Basler,
director of the Reference Department In the Library of Congress,
; aid
Lincoln knew the half -- slave,
half-fre- e
condition of the states
would have to be resolved.
The former professor said it was
Lincoln's idea that we could not
maintain the status quo. From his
;
tudy of history, Lincoln knew that
:'orms of government must change
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match the changes in society.
"It was Lincoln's thesis that as
'he mind of man discovers and invents, society changes and legislation and judication must also
hange," Dr. Basler said.
The speaker said it was on this
T:asic concept that Lincoln formulated his central philosophy of
i; ivernment.
Speaking on "The Essentials of
'Lincoln's Statesmanship," Dr. Easier said the statesman works with
the current events of his time

which he does not control, but
which he may use to gain limited
objectives on the way to a destiny
which he perceives only In general outline.
"This was Lincoln's success as a
to be more right than
statesman
wrong In his Judgements," he explained.
Dr. Basler, who received his
doctorate in English from Duke
University, told the approximately
50 persons who attended this year's
third Blazer Lecture that one essential of Lincoln's statesmanship
was his ability to take the long
view on military and political Issues.
"In his 'House Divided' speech,
Lincoln did not advocate abolition
of the states," the speaker emphasized. "He foresaw a weakening of
their power with the increase in
power of our federal system of
government."
Dr. Basler said Lincoln also took
the long view on the slavery question.
"Lincoln knew his Emancipation
Proclamation would have a long
range effect," Dr. Basler added.

"His action concerning slavery
showed he knew where we were,
and his suggestion for Negro education and equal rights showed he
knew where we were tending."
He contended that a study of
Lincoln's practical ways of approaching human problems would
decrease our devotion to dogma
and make more sense in the world
of deeds than does the existentialism about which we hear so much.
11. N. Seminar
There Is still room for eight
more persons to attend the I'nited
Nations Seminar Nov. 5 in New
York City.
Reservations ran be made by
contacting either the YMCA or
YVVCA
office in the Student
I'nion Building before noon

Starts 7:00

Med Center
Expansion
Boost Budget
Continued from rage

Afion Cnv

Conducts
Survey

JUMBO SAYS:

Radio Station WBKY is conaudience surducting a week-lon- g
vey in an effort to improve service
to Its listeners.
Dick Lowe, manager of the University FM station, said hourly appeals for cards from all listeners
are being broadcast. The station
staff hopes by the response to get
some definite idea of the number
of listeners In the WBKY audience.
The survey, which will end Oct.
28, is being made by the staff because of a lack of funds to employ
a professional audience measuring
company, Lowe said.

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"The Medical Center section of
the budget request Is designed to
provide for the implementation of
long range plans and the acceleration of programs already
way," Dr. Dickey said.
The Colleges of Medicine and
Nursing have taken two classes
each. The College of Dentistry, the
last of the three Medical Center
colleges to be activated, will take
its first class next falL
During the next two years, the
University Hospital, Health ServCare will be-liice, and
operation.
Service and research activities
will be doubled during the next
two years, and educational programs at the graduate level will
be stepped up.
"These programs," Dr. Dickey
pointed out, "will make necessary
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Center staff and faculty and the
costs of operating the supporting
facilities."

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travel, a limited budget, and
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readiness to keep
down expenses by living on
fruit and 'peanuts, arc now in
Formosa on a projected
trip.

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Rosemary Donaldson. 22, and
Nola Rocco, 21, both of Northport,
N. Y., hitchhike whenever possible.
Rosemary, a blonde of Scotch
extraction, was graduated from
Marymount College, N. Y., in June
this year, majoring in mathematics.
Nola, a brunette of Italian extraction, attended Newton College
of the Sacred Heart in Boston
and then studied law at Miami
University, from which she was
graduated in June last year.
The girls say they are willing to
baby-si- t,
teach, become waitresses
or accept any other respectable job
their visits to various counduring
tries.
The girls began their Journey
at Los Angeles July 1. They packed
their belongings in U. S. Army
surplus rucksacks, $1,000 each in
itintheir purses, and a
erary in mind.
A friend gave them a free ride

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Rosemary Donaldson (left) and Nola Rorro ride a cart usually
used for carrying; cargo. The girls are now on a sightseeing tour
in Formosa. Their future plans rail for a trip
So far, thrir Jaunt has been very Inexpensive, costing them about
50 cents a day.

to San Francisco where four days
later they boarded a
airline plane for Honolulu
at fares of $75 apiece.
They spent two weeks in Hawaii,
limiting their expenses to 50 cents
a day each as they plan to do in
each country they visit.
By sleeping on beaches and living on pineapples and coconuts,
thrir expenses In Hawaii averaged
only 40 rents a day each.
The fi'i day trip from Honolulu
to Yokohama, Japan, cost them
$277 each a big dent in their modest budget.
On their arrival in Yokohama
July 25, they were interviewed by
newsmen and, as a result of the
ensuing publicity, were given a
free round trip to Hokkaido, North
Japan. This helped to keep down
expenses which nonetheless aver-ape- d
63 cents a day apiece, higher
than they expected.
They sold an article to a teenage magazine for 5,000 yen ($13.88)
their first earnings on the trip

YMCA

Film
The women's residence halls will
two films on Communism
Fponsor
at 8 p.m. today in Holmes Hall.
The titles of the films are "Communism", and "China Under Communism."
Phi I'psilon Omlcron
Phi Upsllon Omicron, home economics professional fraternity, will
meet at 7:45 p.m. today in the
lounge of Erikson Hall.
Christian Science
All Interested Christian Science
ttudents are invited to attend a
meeting at 7 pjn. today in the

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Building.

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Initiations
The Society for Advancement of
Delta Zeta sorority initiated 10
Management will meet at 7:30 p.m.
women last week.
today.
The new actives are Maxine Con-ove- r,
Ray Turley, manager of Boman-zi'- s
Panama Canal Zone; Janice
Men's Store will speak. Refreshments will be served.
Deeb, Louisville; Barbara Holstein,
Whitesburg; Marcia Kells, Niagara
Founders Day
Falls, N. Y.; Kathy Noe, Union.
Alpha Theta chapter of Delta
Carol Pitman, Frankfort; ConZeta will celebrate its annual
nie Rieger, Aurora, 111.; Sue Ellen
Founder's Day with a banquet at
6 p.m. tomorrow at the Campbell Riggert, Richmond; Patricia SkinHouse.
ner, Lexington ; and DeAnna
The outstanding senior award Thompson, Lexington.

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The girls lived in the most
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One night free in a Roman C'ath.
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Iluddhist temple helped to keep down thrir expenses.
The cheapest passage to Formosa
would cost them $45 apiece, bu';
the freighter agents cut the fan)
to $35.
En route, they stopped off a
Okinawa, the big American military bastion between Formosa and
Japan. During their four dny I
there they were entertained by an
American admiral and his wife a,
lunch; went to officers' clubs fo
dances; and, sailed in a yacht in
Okinawa waters.
After perhaps six weeks in India,
they will visit countries in th
Near and Middle Fast, and then
make an extensive tour of Europe,
in which they made a three-mont3,000-mil- e
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Van IIook, Editor

Wayne Cp.K(.ory, Campus Editor
Jean Schwartz, Society Editor
Ben FiTZi'ATnifK. Sports Editor
Ric x Me Reynolds, Cartoonist
Dick Wallac e, Advertising Manager
Hii i. lloi.Tov, Circulation Manager
TUESDAY NEWS STAFF
Ei.don Phillips, Associate
June Cray, Scus Editor
Scottie IIelt, Sports

Kerry Toweix, Managing Editor

Shroud Of Darkness

For several years, the Kernel has
deplored the inadequacy of campus
lighting facilities. Little has been done
thus far toward improving the lighting conditions on the main part of
the campus. The Medical Center,
granted, is well lighted with mercury-vapo- r
lights, especially in the parking area. Hut what about the rest of
the campus?
Students, especially women, are
constantly complaining to the Kernel
about the poor lighting conditions.
Through the years, there have been
instances on the campus which have
caused student alarm. Reports of men
accosting coeds have leen heard.
More recently, an exhibitionist was
seen in the vicinity of the women's
dormitories. Of course, this is not a
matter unique to the UK campus.
Across the country, exhibitionists, sex
criminals, and even murderers lurk in
dark places ready to pounce on an
unsuspecting victim.
The Associated Press reported recently the arrest of a former California mental patient for the murder
of two Spokane, Wash., women. Each
crime was committed while the man
was on a window-peepinprowl. In
most cases, such crimes are not committed in broad daylight, but in poorly
lighted areas.
There are some lights along the
walks between the Margaret I. King
Library and the women's dormitories,
but the rest of the campus is dark
and dim.
Some of the state colleges have far
g

better lighting than does UK. For
example, Eastern and Morehead State
Colleges have
campuses.
The main walkways are illuminated
m ercur
by
lights such as those which surround
the UK Medical Center. Here at UK
the lights on the main campus are of
the old bulb type, in dull reflectors.
Dr. Frank D. Peterson, vice president for business administration, has
said the University has planned for
lighting improvements in 19u2, if the
proposed budget is approved by the
General Assembly.
Several years ago, w hen the Kernel
mentioned the poorly lighted campus,
a former editor was asked to suggest
where lights should le placed. Some
of the lights which are on the campus
now are the result of that editor's
efforts. However, few newspaper editors can qualify as lighting experts.
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We realize the poor lighting conditions cannot be rectified over night.
It will take time; it has taken time.
Unfortunately, it cannot be done w ith
the speed implied in a literal translation of Genesis 1:3 which says,
. . Let there be light: and there
was light."
We implore those who sit in places
of authority to seriously consider the
only way to break down the shroud
of darkness surrounding the campus.
Our hope is that there will not have
to be some tragedy occur to point
out the gravity of the problem.

THE READERS' FORUM
Hypocritical Approach

To The Editor:
Almost everyone, I am sure, would
agree with Carl Modecki, Kernel
sports writer, that it is shameful when
"misunderstandings," such as the embarrassment which followed upon a
Lexington hotel's refusal of service
to Negro pro basketball players, crop
up to besmirch the shining image of
the fair Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Mr. Modecki's Oct. 19 column,
though, and the Kernel's news coverage of the incident, hit me with the
impression that everyone concerned
is eager to shift blame to other shoulders and to write the mishap off as an
unfortunate and unavoidable accident.
In my opinion, such an approach
is smugly hypocritical. At lx)ttom, the
lintactful hostess and the management of the hotel are not so much at
fault as the citizens of Lexington and
the memlers of the Univeristy community. Why should anyone be taken
aback at an instance of discrimination
when discrimination is common
throughout Fayette County and when
the University tacitly condones subtle
forms of discrimination on campus?
Why should anyone on this campus
be righteously indignant about discrimination against Negro athletes
when everyone on this campus approves discrimination against Negro
athletes?
UK athletic teams will meet op

ponents who suit up Negroes, but
there are no Negroes on Wildcat
squads. The University has not, as
far as I know, ever offered athletic
scholarships to Negro athletes, and
the University is a cheerful member
of the rabidly segregationist Southeastern Conference. And no one, to
my knowledge, has ever protested
against the University's practice and
approval of discrimination not the
Alumni Association, the Athletic Department, the student body, the faculty, or the administration.
Why does the University practice
discrimination? Why does UK stay
within the Southeastern Conference?
Why should we on campus be incensed l)ecause a hostess in a downtown coffee shop clumsily refused to
serve lunch to Hill Russell? We
wouldn't permit Russell or Elgin
Raylor, or Gene Lipscomb, or Jim
brown, or Willy Mays, or Elston
Howard to play on UK athletic
teams.

Roinnr White
Instructor

of English

(Mr. While is incorrect in saving
ihe kernel's news coverage of the
"misunderstanding" was intended to
shift the Maine to other shoulders.
This is not the objective of our reporting, and it never shall lie. THE
EDITOR.)

University Soapbox

How To Achieve Greatness
DR. J. EDUARDO HERNANDEZ
Professor of Romance Languages
To The Editor:
After reading the news story, the
editorials, and the letters to the editor, it is easy to see why professors
are reticent to accept participation
in the Leadership Conference. It was
a priv ilege to be with such an earnest
group of young people searching for
ways to improve our nation. I profited
from the conference.
It seems most of the criticism
stems from the fact that, although
there were diverse opinions from the
participants on the panel, in the reporting, the panel members were
treated as holding a single opinion.
Human beings are selfish by nature or the instinct of
would not be so strong. Rut, the
most unselfish period in life seems
to be college days, which is why I
favor "education" over "training." Students reflect the homes from which
they come, and the American people
are the most unselfish in the world.
Many a professor upon being interviewed for a position has stated he
woidd not teach a class before 10
a.m. Teachers in some disciplines
to find. Is it selfish to wish
classes at convenient times?
In 1S92, Unamuno stated that
teachers taught their students the
same way they themselves had been
taught. He said this was a crime
against youth. In the same article, he
stated that young teachers were
among the worst offenders. This was
in Spain, but I found teachers, who
had written the textbook, who read
word for word out of the liook, with
precious few outside readings. The
teacher felt he had a gospel and
taught his course accordingly. It
would have been a crime against an
but in a graduate
undergraduate,
course, it was worse.
Our high schools in the Commonwealth, with very few exceptions,
equipped and staffed. The students who come to the University
show it, but under the proper guidance these students catch up by the
time of the Graduate Record Examinations. It is a greater challenge to
the professors, but one taken gladly
most of the time. Naturally, these
students cannot study the advanced
courses which they should take in
college, and they are at a disadvantage when entering graduate school
or applying for positions.
The University cannot dictate to
the high schools, but the parents can
demand their children not be defrauded by selfish boards of Educa-'toi- n
offering the bare minimum curriculum to get state aid. It is hoped
that this condition will be remedied
in the very near future by the help
of the Minimum Foundation Program.
Frankfort can offer leadership. Rut
in our democracy it is up to the local
citizens to see that their schools
so the students coining to
the University will be really prepared
to take college work without having
courses.
to take remedial
Most students are basically honest. They want to learn. Rut when
they are treated as circus dogs in
training they react accordingly and
keep files of old term papers and
It works in those
examinations.
courses where the instructors have-no- t
read a book or periodical since
they finished the course themselves.
Rut, files, for professors who keep up
on their discipline, serve only as

P.y

guide s the way the West Point Catalog lists samples of previous exam-

inations.
The honor system would be a
wonderful thing. It worked in the
college I attended, and it worked at
West Point, where I taught five years.
The honor system would develop
an assurance on the part of employers
that University graduates are even a
Utter "buy" than they are now. It
would be the extra something that in
times (;f recession would allow our
graduates to be hired in preference
to others. It is worth wotking lor
with diligence.
Rut, until admission to the University is more selective, it must remain in the planning stage, ready to
be placed in operation when a more
homogeneous group is enrolled in the
freshman class. It takes years to make
plans, so our campus leaders should
be working on this important project.
It could start in a permissive way.
Let us say that Student Congress petitions the University Faculty, through
its student representative, that professors, whose students sign a pledge

arc-har-

(non-credi-

requesting the honor svstem be used
in a class, be allowed to do so. At
present, proctors are required during
examinations.
Professors are already using the
honor system in some c lasses. For example, at the beginning of each term
I tell my students when they write
their name on an assignment they
tur " in, it me ans they have received
no it iauthoriz.ee! help from any source.
So, when a student turns in a perfect
paper and in class recitation he makes
a zero, he is invited to my office. Any
professor who accepts one of the term
papers on file without recognizing the;
student's sty le is hardly deserving of
the privilege of teaching in a college.
A student gives his professor what
he feels the professor wants. This is
neither selfishness nor dishonesty. The
dishonest thing is for the leader not
to have his v ision on higher things so
the student may reach excellency, or
at least try to reach it.
As long as there are students on
our campus as earnest and sincere as
those in attendance at Camp Daniel
Roone, there is the possibility that our
University will achie ve greatness.

Kernels
People say, 'I got over this, I got
over that.' They are a lot of fools, the
people who say you get over your
loves and your heroes. I never do. I
don't change very imci. Robert
Frost.

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Oil.

PAGING THE PAST

GIRLS CHASE
MALES OF '49
Sadie Hawkins Week was in the
wind this week in 1949.
Male students were being warnrd
ixt to give their phone numbers to
anyone, and girls were advised to
start planning for the kill. Students were Informed not to be
surprised if they witnessed girls
running barefoot to classes, since
they were Just the extra eager
coeds who were preparing ahead of
time for the event.
Microfilm viewers in the Margaret I. King Library were made
available to students this week in
'49. It was believed that these machines would be invaluable