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The Greeks plan a retreat to Natural
Bridge this weekend: Poge Two.
The 1967 Kentuckian will hare a central theme, the first time tor a UK
yearbook: Page Three.
Students are but whores who ore
done to but nerer do, editorial says:
Poge

Fou.

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Frost suggested education in the
presence of scholars: Poge Five.
The Cats are scropping their current
offense for a new one: Poge Six.
Brown says

that Cooper

political tricks":

is using "old
Seven.
Poge

Vol. 58, No. 20

University

Eight Pages

Gronip Reborn

Special To The Kernel

7

196T.

Himai Rights

In Court
Thursday

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Kentucky

LEXINGTON, KY., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28,

IU Cases

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.-- A
Bloomington Superior Court
Judge who is also a member of
the Indiana University Board of
Trustees will hear the cases
Thursday of two men arrested
for distributing DuBois Club
literature on the IU campus.
The men, Allan Gurevitz, 22,
and Bruce Klein, 24, were arrested at the entrance to Alumni Hall
Sept. 15 on charges of trespassing.
They had been told by the
IU dean of students to leave
the area after they had set up
a DuBois Club booth to distribute literature to students
attending an activities fair.
The IU Board of Trustees
this summer ruled that the DuBois Club could not operate on
the campus as a registered organization while it is under investigation by the Justice Department as an alleged "communist front."
Dean of Students Robert Shaffer said he operated under this
authority in asking the students
to stop distributing literature.
Klein was a graduate student
in philosophy but was suspended
by Shaffer because of the incident. The other man was identified as a model for the art department. Klein said he intends
to attend his classes even though
he is no longer a student.
Both were released from Mon- -

of

By PRISCILLA DREHER
Kernel Staff Writer
The Campus Committee on Human Rights was reborn Tuesday
night when a group of interested students met to discuss plans
for the State Conference on Human Rights, which they will be
hosting Oct. 28th-30tLee Rathbone, who chaired An
housing list is
the meeting, said the paramount provided to
any interested stutopic of concern was to orgadent by the Housing Office.
nize a group of UK students
In order for a landlord to
to enable the state conference
get his name on the list he
to function. "It is important
must, state the price, and agree
to get some new people interthat he will rent to any student.
ested, people who have never In theory this system is not
given a thought to their role discriminatory." In practice,"
in human rights on and off camMiss Rathbone said, there have
pus," Miss Rathbone said." Peobeen many cases where a Negro
ple have to have an awareness,"
or a foreign student has been
she said.
turned away when he has gone
The most important problem to
inspect the property." The
facing UK is discrimination in University does not check to see
housing, she said.
if discrimination is taking place
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John Fleming, on table, a field representative with the State
Commission on Human Rights, addressed a meeting Tuesday night
at which the Campus Committee on Human Rights was revived.
Lee Rathbone, right, is chairman of the group.

Student Lack Of Interest
Troubles Honors Program

DE DEE SCALF
Kernel Staff Writer
The student's lack of interest
combined with several mechanical problems is the main reason for inefficiency in the University honors program, according to Dr. Willis F. Axton,
associate professor of English and
chairman of the University Honors Committee.
By

Chicago Man Asks Zoning

For Private Dormitory

A Chicago attorney has asked that a Limestone Street tract be
zoned for residence purposes so that a privately-owne- d
dormitory
maybe built adjacent to the University campus.
The petition, filed Tuesday with the City, asks that 729 South
Limestone, a plot now owned by Porter Memorial Church, be
rezoned.
John Dane, UK counsel, said he assumed that the University
would take the same position as it did in August of 1965, when the
Board of Trustees passed a resolution agreeing with the construction
of a dormitory at the same site.
The University needs housing facilities, Darie said, and "if
private firms want to build them that is all right."
The proposed dorm will be 12 stories and will include 180
one and
apartments. Also included will be a swimming
pool and a parking lot.
He said that this is essentially the same type project proposed
last year by the Kentucky Belle Dromitories, Inc., and later dropped.
two-bedroo- m

SAT, or the College Boards?"
Now when a student is graduated from the University, he
explained, "it simply means he
had good grades, but not necessarily that he completed a special program. " Dr. Axton believes
a more philosophical and in
depth study would be better.
"We probably need to offer
more lor juniors and seniors in
this area, especially more seminars," he said. "Now all we
have for them is independant
study," he continued, "and I
would personally like to see more
topical courses on subjects ranging from Vietnam to the role
of the University.'
"These problems exist," he
said, "and the very fact a committee also exists to look into
them shows hope and adminis-tration-

The students need a different
outlook, Dr. Axton said.
Of the more than 60 who
were in last year's freshman
colloquium, only 12 signed for
the sophomore honors colloquium
which was first offered this year.
"Freshmen and sophomores
do not take advantage of the
honors sections offered them,"
he said. He agreed that in the
honors program, as in other programs and departments, better
counseling is needed.
However, the honors program
is not a department, merely an
office. This means, Dr. Axton
said, "that it cannot run its
own classes. We (honors associates) must depend on other
departments to schedule honor
classes and give us top notch

professors."
At present the main problem
with making the honors program
a department is not financial, he
said, "If we get a program,
we'll find the money."
The program also has a recruitment problem not only how
to interest students, but how to
choose from those interested. Dr.
Axton said, "We're never sure
of which tests to use. How can
we know which is best the ACT,

al

interest."
The University
mittee was reorganized this year
to "determine the what and how
of a fuller future program." "Our
first task is to evaluate what
the University has now and to
see what, if any, changes need
to be made," Dr. Axton said.
"We even intend to question the
value of the program to these
outstanding students."
Honors Com-

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when the individual inspects the
property, said Miss Rathbone.
The theme of the state conference will be "Leadership and
Responsibility." John Flemming,
field representative with the
State Commission and a UK
grad student, said Tuesday night
that there will be two keynote
speakers at the state Confer-

ence.

One will be William
a New York attorney and
author of the book, "My People
is the Enemy." The other
speaker is not yet known,
Flemming said the conference
will consist mainly of speakers
and discussion groups. After each
speech the student representatives will divide into discussion
groups where they will voice
opinions on ways to solve the
existing problems.
A steering committee made
up of volunteers from people attending last night's meeting will
set up the format for the state
conference. "They will decide
what sort of organization we
want to serve," said Miss RathString-fello-

bone.

The CCHR was started last
year by an ad hoc group of interested students. It was later
recognized by the Administration.
The organization will concern
itself this year with discrimination in the areas of
housing, admissions procedures,
and Negro participation in

Health Service Stops Some Free Services
ByJOHNZEII

Kernel Associate Editor
Students not covered by insurance who
are unaware of recent changes in University health services may go into mild
shock when they get sick or injured.
At best, they will be surprised when
slapped with bills for services and treatments no longer paid for by the Health
Service.

"We've had to cut back a few benefits that apply to only a few students
so we can give better service to all,"
explains Barry Averill, Health Service
assistant director for administration.
But most these excluded benetits are
insurable, and, he noted, are covered by
the insurance plan offered students

through Student Government. Deadline
for buying that plan is Friday, at the
Student Center.
The changes are:
1. Seriously ill students who require
hospitalization must pay for their room,
food, and auxiliary services.
2. Cost of treatment in the University Hospital emergency room, including
the $7.50 token fee, is now the student's
responsibility.
3. Diagnostic
other than chest
films, are no longer free.
But, Averill says, "what the Health
Service does, it does well." These positive changes have been made:
1. The facility,
located in a north
wing of the Medical Center, is now

open from 8 a.m. till 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday, 8 till noon Saturday,
and for urgent cases from 1 p.m. till
3 p.m. Sunday, an increase of 12V4 hours
a week.
2.

Free, unlimited care is available
ill at the Health

for students
Service's new
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staff doctors have been hired,
psychiatrists and a social

4. Campus police now operate an ambulance on campus for free transportation of injured or ill students.
Previously, the University paid for
a maximum 14 days per semester when
a student was hospitalized for minor
illness, unless he carried insurance.

That actually penalized the "prudent"
students who bought health insurance,
since money for the hospitalization could
not be used elsewhere, AveriM said.
According to the local agency who
handles the Student Government insurance, about 35 percent of UK students
participate in the plan. (The national
average for voluntary group plans is
percent.)
This year, the premium went up from
$16 to $20, because, the agency said,
hospital room rates increased. In the
"real world," such a plan, if available,
would cost alout $100 a year, but volume
accounts for the low cost here, a spokes-said- .
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'67 Kentuckian To Have
Theme For First Time

Kentuckian will be
around a central
theme for the first time in the
yearbook's history.
"The Pursuit of Excellence
at the University of Kentucky"
will be the topic of the entire
The

1967

developed

first book, one of two which
will be included in a limited
slipcover edition, Sam Abell,
Kentuckian editor said today.
Abell explained the theme will
be developed around the people,
issues, and events that approach
the level of excellence. "This
type of approach," the editor

said, "will enable the Kentuckian to comment on every aspect
of the University in relation to
the goal or concept of exce-

llence."
The 175-pareport will be
a photographic essay, complimented by a commentary, based
on the editor's observations and
suggestions from the staff. The
first 112 pages of this year's
book, which includes the sections on undergraduate research,

student pacesetters, and distinguished educators, and the report
on the academic plan, are a
preview to what the report will
be, Abell said.

Currently, 22. individuals,

of surgery to
sports, are being considered for
the section. "We will isolate and
determine what excellence is,
what it is to these people," Abell
from the fields

of all campus events. The amount
of space for each event will be
determined by its importance
and its effect, Abell said.
Another section planned is
a

s
story on sorority rush. Over 3,300 pictures
were taken to provide the 18
which will be used for the eight-pag- e
story. Also planned is a
on the pica-sur- e
and problems of being a
fraternity president for a year,
Abell said.
Abell said the Kentuckian will
behind-the-scene-

photo-commenta-

be developed according to a philosophy that substance rather

than

and

appearance

perfor-

mance over position, will determine coverage.
Abell said there will not be
any general sales of the '67 edition next fall, due to the complexity of printing a
edition. Orders for the '67 edition
are now being taken at Kentwo-volu-

nedy's, Wallace's, and

Univer-

sity Bookstores; Donovan and
Blazer Cafeterias; Patterson Hall;
and the Journalism Building.

Sam Abell, left, and Jean Ward examine Kentuckian W prior to
distributing copies of the yearbook this week. Abell is editor of the
1967 edition of the book and Miss Ward was
for the 1966 book.
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Included in the first book
will be a special commentary on
four aspects of the University
that the Kentuckian editors feel
need to be improved and cultivated if the University as a whole
is to begin to attain excellence.
The second book, which will
contain all the group and portrait shots, will be delivered to
the publisher by March 1.
Final selection of material
for the first book will not be
completed until after graduation
so that the editors will be able
to weigh the importance of all
stanevents against a
dard.
The report will also contain
a section called "The Year,"
a creative photographic review
one-ye-

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Alexeieff Will Show
Animating Techniques
Alexander Alexeieff, book

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lustrator and animated film producer, will present a lecture and
demonstration of his techniques
entitled "Art and the Animated
Cartoon" at 7 p.m. Thursday in
the Student Center Theater.
Alexeieff has been illustrating
books by Russian and French
authors since 1925.
He did the illustrations for
the French edition of the book,
"Dr. Zhivago".
When a copy of the French
edition of "Dr. Zhivago" reached
its author Boris Pasternak,
wrote: "It is the spirit of
the book that Alexeieff has rendered."
Alexeieff, whose illustrations
include woodcuts, etchings, lithographs and pin drawings, invented the "pinboard" technique, an
upright board pierced with a
million headless pins to create
and produce animated films.
Pas-erna-

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refugee from the Russian Revo-

lution.

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for Jouvet and Pitoeff and then
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The Same Bricks
"Some students make notes ami
write papers and that s about all.
They give you their bodies, not
their souls. They arc whores. Wlien
you treat them as children, they
remain children. They arc led, they

arc done to. They become the same
pieces of brick."
Anonymous professor quoted in
Look, Sept. 20
This quotation, lifted intact
from Look magazine's issue on
Youth, says more about American
higher education today than much
that has been written.
It is a sentiment that we have
shared from time to time.
We have asked questions on
the significance of grades; the significance of intercollegiate athletics; about scholars as teachers;
and, above all, about the system
behind it all.
Our voice, and others like it,
has been raised for some time
in one lingering question: "Can
we be treated like children and
still perform as adults?"
The question remains unanswered.
Although the last three years
have brought marked changes in
the academic life of the Univeror so it seems,
sity, the age-olsystem of education prevails.
It is a moot point as to whether our student leaders are generally those inept in all forms
of life but socializing because they
are given power over nothing but
parties, or whether they are given
no power because they are inept.
We would submit that for all
of the fanfare, the current student
"involvement" in the decisionmaking process of the University
is meaningless.
street.
It is, of course, a two-wa- y
d,

Not only must students show an
awareness of the problems facing
the University, but the University
must allow the students an active
part in governing the community.
Thus far there has been but
little awareness shown on the part
of the students and only limited
enthusiasm shown on the part of

disgrace.
It is not likely to be, however,
since the majority of Americans will
pass it by as "what that young

rabble deserves."
The "young rabble", you will

recall, committed a sin against
society by sitting in at the Ann
Arbor, Mich., draft board last
October during the National Day
of Protest against the war in Vietnam.
The pompous colonel who runs
the Selective Service System in
Michigan took it upon himself to
notify the local draft boards of
those males involved, charging that
the students "had disrupted the
Selective Service System" and that,
therefore, they should lose their
student deferments.
Neither the colonel, Arthur
Holmes, nor National Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey could
be deterred from punishing these
students even though the outcry in
Congress was loud and a U.S.
attorney general's opinion said the
action was improper.

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the administration.
If a crucial problem of higher
education is that students are to
do instead of allowed to do, and
we think it is, then some concrete
beginnings are needed.
1. Revive, for example, the
ent-run

stud-

teacher evaluation that

was proposed by the Student Cenand later
tennial Committee
watered down, admittedly mostly
by the timid students, until it
floated off into some administrative drawer.
2. Be bold in experimenting
with the present grading system.
Examine pass-fa- il
plans and no
curriculums being tried elsecourse
where. We need not wait for a
Yale or a Harvard to set our educational thinking. We can, and
should, be thinking for ourselves.
3. Consider offering credit for
service in the Peace Corps, Vista,
or civil rights organizations. A good
deal more is learned there than in
some labs where professors read
from yellowed notes. Other universities are studying such a course;
is UK?
These are but a few jumping
off ideas. We don't know from
where the impetus for dramatic
student activism might come: the
student government, the administration, or the student body at
large.
But something must change lest
we too become the same bricks
who are done to but seldom.

Travesty Of Justice
The decision last week by the
Presidential Appeals Board of the
Selective Service System not to return several University of Michigan
students to the ranks of the student deferred should be a national

It Says Here That We May Stop Using
Tear (as In Vietnam"

Even the argument that these
students were placed in double
jeopardy since they also were cited

in civil court for trespass fell on
deaf ears.

The local boards which had
reclassified 14 students
as a
result of the incident had some
second thoughts and several students got their S ratings reinstated. Several others won back
their student deferments on appeal
and still a few others had their
cases reach the national appeals
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board.

number of officials, even Vice
President Humphry, issued cautious
statements on this "infringement
on free speech" but apparently the
windows of the Selective Service's
H Street offices in Washington were
closed. Even the vice president,
whose office is less than a block
away, was not heard.
A

Soviet University Reform
few years ago the head of all ered business-schosubjects here
a group as well as wider coverage of science.
Soviet universities met with
of American college presidents. The Soviet institutions of higher learnresult was bewilderment on both ing are also to get more autonomy,
sides and a revelation of how wide more internal democracy, and even
the gap was between the two a license to carry out research for
systems of higher education. The Government institutions and enterAmericans were puzzled by their prises. And Soviet professors' teachguest's emphasis on finding out how ing loads are to be cut, so they can
the United States was training met- .do more research.
Peking's propagandists will no
allurgists and similar specialists;
the Soviet official was equally be- doubt raise a clamor that in higher
mused by his hosts' questions about education, too, Moscow is backthe state of the liberal arts in the sliding into bad American capitalist
institutions he manages.
practices. More sober observers will
The gap is still great, but it conclude that Moscow must have
will be significantly reduced when been faced with many of the same
the recently announced major re- problems that have plagued Amform of Soviet universities is carried erican
universities
in recent
Moscow has ordered its higher decades, and that it has come up
out.
educational institutions to drop with simple answers. One may even
their traditional emphasis on nar- speculate that when the time comes'
that China itself has advanced
row technical specialists. Engineering students in the future will enough to be faced with these same
still be given little of the liberal problems, it too will adopt some of
the same solutions.
arts, but will be offered a subNew York Times
stantial dose of what are consid
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Robert Frost: Educate By Presence
By JANET MABIE
hcii Hobert Frost read at
the Institute of Modern
Literature at Howdoin College
earlier in the year he suggested,
in passing, a new method of instruction, employed by him at
Amherst, which he would like
to see in more general use in
the colleges and which he has
taken with him to his new post
at the University of Michigan.
"Education by presence," he
called it, pausing then only to
emphasize the obvious effects upon university students of the mere

During his lifetime Robert
Frost ascended parnassus as
one of the best of America's
poets. But his ideas on education still never gained acceptance. Here, in the second of
three articles he talks with a
Christian Science Monitor writer
about what he terms "education by presence."
presence among them (upon the
campus) of leading scholars in
major lines, even if those leaders never took textbook in hand
to conduct ordinary courses of
classroom instruction.
Robert Frost is a poet. (He
is several other things besides,
but first of all he is a poet although it is true that for some
time more people knew him as
a school teacher, rather than

poet.)

It is not common for poets
to have radical ideas upon a
subject which has become, on
the whole, as standardized as
college instruction. Perhaps it
is because Mr. Frost is primarily
what he is there is a poetic
twist to the method he would
like to see used for teaching
college students.
Twenty years ago Mr. Frost
was a poet. Over a considerable
portion of the intervening years
he was one of the few people
who knew this, he says. Now,
although he does not say it, a
great many people know it.
In the long years before recognition warranted his choosing
the field of poetry above school
teaching, Mr. Frost was doubtless busy with considering this
plan for education which he has
now been willing to discuss with
a representative of The Christian
Science Monitor.
"The most impressive thing
in a college career," said Mr.
Frost, "is often having over one
someone who means something,
isn't it? It is hard to tell how
teachers act upon a student, but
part of their impress must be the
effect of their reputations outside
the college. Students get most
from professors w ho have marked

wide horizons.
"If a teacher is evidently a
power outside, as well as inside,
the college, one of whom you
can hear along other highways,
then that teacher is of deep
potential value to the students.
If the student suddenly finds
that the teacher he has perchance
listened to with indifferent attention, or not at all, is known
all over thecountry for something
not too bad, suddenly his communications take on luster.
"The business of the teacher
WATCHES
DIAMONDS

I
presume, to challenge the
student's purpose. 'This is life,
your career is ahead of you,' he
must say. 'Now what are you
going to do about i t Something
large or small? Will you dabble
or will you make it a real one?'
"1 do not mean the challenge
should be made in words. That,
I should
think, is nearly fruitless. It must soon begin to sound
to the students like rote. Besides,
a man can't, you know, be forever standing about on a campus
crying out at the students, 'What
are you going to do about it?'
No, what I mean is that his
life must say that; his own work
must say that.
"Everybody knows that there
is such a thing as education by
presence and has benefited more

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Your

appearance

is our business!

extent been found wanting. I
favor the student who will convert my claim on him into h