xt72804xkc3p https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt72804xkc3p/data/mets.xml University of Kentucky Fayette County, Kentucky The Kentucky Kernel 19650225  newspapers sn89058402 English  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Kernel The Kentucky Kernel, February 25, 1965 text The Kentucky Kernel, February 25, 1965 1965 2015 true xt72804xkc3p section xt72804xkc3p Inside Today's Kernel
New Salinger poperback is reviewed by
Kernel Arts Writer Dick Kimmins:
Poge Two.

Vernon Alden, president of Ohio
versity, discusses what makes a
lege President:

The Editor discusses "good manners"
at the Centennial Grand Sail: Poge

i run

n

Uni-

Columnist Ralph McGill says there is
no end in sight for the problems in
Viet Nam: Poge Fire.

DSN
University
Kentucky

Poge fire.

Performers "sparkle" in Guignol production "The Infernal Machine": Page
Seven.

of

Vol. LVI, No. 81

a

or-

if

15

LEXINGTON, KY., THURSDAY, FEU. 25,

Housing Grow Organized Z
rm
rm
jlo assist a own otuaents
A

7

Col-

Kittens trounce Xarier in Dollar for a
Scholar benefit game: Poge Six.

Four.

n

ei

IX-

V

Eight Pages

-

-

:

:

::

-

is a lack of communication beguide as to the type of aparttween on- - and
stuments available, the cost, what
The Town Housing Council, dents. Outside of school work, to look for, and the distance
which hopes to become the of- we're not even close to the Uni- from campus.
Ofr k& US -ficial student organization for versity."
Smith said that any type of
those University students not livThe organization plans "to inspection would be entirely
ing in campus housing, met for work closely with the Office of voluntary on the part of the landthe first time Tuesday night to the Dean of Men, the Office of lords.
discuss its purpose, organization, the Dean of Women, the Town
The proposed judicial board,
membership, and reactions of inHousing Office, and any other he said, would just try to settle
terested students.
organizations affecting students disputes between landlord and
Student Congress voted last in
student.
housing."
week to appropriate funds to
The Council would also "serv e
Membership in the Council
help the council get started, and will be limited to all students as an information agency tomake
students better aware
appointed a subcommittee to not represented by other houswork with them.
of lectures, academic societies
ing governing bodies.
The Council's temporary of"This includes graduate stuand events, and other opportunificers are Doug Smith, president, dents, Greeks,
and new and ties t)f an academic nature."
Dick Marsh, vice president of transfer students living
Some of the suggestions were
Marsh said.
to establish a test file which
relations; Richard Ditmer, vice
"One of main concerns," said would be available to
president of planning; and David
Rans, secretary.
students, and to sponsor
president Doug Smith, "is im"We became interested in this proving town housing condistudy halls.
sort of organization last semest- tions."
The Council also plans "to
form intramural teams, sponsor
In order to do this, the couner," Marsh said, "when a group
of interested students got to- cil plans to compile a
"
social events and serve as a coto aid students to find suitable ordinating center to enable
gether and discussed the problems of the students who live town housing, "to form a housNEWS COMMENTATOR HOWARD K. SMITH
students to become more
ing rating system which would be involved in campus organization
This group investigated the acceptable to landlords, students, such as Student Congress, Quiz
files of the University Town and all others concerned, to have Bowls, and LKD bike relay
teams."
Housing Office and those of other available a standard
rental agreement form
The concil also pointed out
universities, he said. In addition, they liave talked to people so as to assure a complete under- that the Town Housing Office of
in the Town Housing Office, and standing of the responsibilities
the University does have a list
.
Howard K. Smith, author and American Broadcasting Company
the offices of the Deans of Men and privileges involved in the of apartments available to stunews commentator, will speak at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday in conjunction
and Women, and have written rental agreement, and to organdents.
with the Central Ky. Concert and Lecture Association at Memorial
to universities who do have this ize an adjustment board to re"But this is entirely volunColiseum.
solve disputes between students tary," said Jim Hommendorf, dikind of organization.
mentator or reporter on most of
Speaking on "The Changing the major CBS news efforts, after
and landlords."
rector of town housing.
of these groups is send"One
Challenge to American," Mr. spending more than 11
Immediate plans for the CounOne of the students suggestyears in
ing us a copy of their constilecSmith is on a
cil include drawing up a constied that a file be kept with "reEurope.
tution," Marsh said.
ture tour before college and comSome of his major work was
One of the main reasons for port cards" on landlords and that tution and applying for a room
munity organizations.
done on "CBS Reports," "Face
forming the group, he said, was the landlord fill out a form of in the Student Center.
Mr. Smith, the only working
The next meeting will be held newsman ever to win the Paul the Nation," "Eyewitness
what he expects from the student.
that students living in
"The Great Challenge."
"We should know what's ex- at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Room
White Award, has been with ABC
housing are "not represented
Mr. Smith won an Emmy
117 of the Student Center. All
in the University by a housing pected of us in advance and if
news since 1961. He was nomiAward in 1961 for writing "CBS
students who presently live
we can meet these expectations,"
nated for an Emmy for "Howard
government body."
Reports: The Population Exploor plan to live
K. Smith: News and Comment,"
In the meeting, one student one of the students added.
sion," in which he also serv ed as
his ABC-Tnext year are invited to atThe officers pointed out that
remarked that students living
program that ran
narrator. He was cited for "Best
for 17 months.
would just be a tend.
were "unconnected from the
Interpretation of Foreign Affairs,
Mr. Smith was with CBS bethe University except in the classTelevision," in 1963 by the Overfore joining ABC News. At CBS
room, and a Town HousingCoun-ci- l
seas Press Club.
for 20 years, he served most of
would enable these students
Author of
two decades as chief European Train from two books, "Last
to become more involved in the
Berlin," and "The
correspondent and in 1961, he State of Europe," Smith was a
University as a whole."
was appointed chief corresponRhodes Scholar at Oxford in 1939,
"There seems to be no way of
dent and manager for the Wash- but he left school
there to join
finding out what's going on,"
Bureau.
the United Press in London.
one of the students said. "There
The lnterfraternity Council Monday studied reports regarding ington
CBS News in 1911,
Joining
current freshmen men who wish to live in fraternity houses next Smith covered Nazi Germany unfra
second part of a three-payear.
til his expulsion from there for
IFC President Keith Hagan ternity evaluation program.
denunciation of Hitlerism. He
The first part, he said, began reported on occupied Europe from
said that 130 vacancies exist
Switzerland until 1944 when he
in fraternity houses now and
last spring when individual fraternities filled out evaluation goes moved to Paris. He later covered
renting of these places was considered advisable. Hagin said to the IFC and this program is the Allied inarch through Belthat information on housing had part of the IFC evaluation. In gium, Holland, and Germany and
Eight teams remain in the UK
William Crant, Kernel
been received from the housing the third phase, the material will was in Marshall Zhukov's headQuiz Bowl competition.
In the second round of the UK
is one of about five study made during registration.
be turned over to the Dean of quarters in Berlin on the day in
1945 when the Germans surrendMen's Office, Hagan said.
college editors who have been
Quiz Bowl held Tuesday evening
men
ered to the Russians.
Hagan said that all the
in the Student Center, Kennc-laninvited to accompany Mrs. LynIn other business, IFC repreMr. Smith returned to the
don Johnson to address the first who indicated they would like sentatives discussed fraternity exHall I defeated Keeneland
house life will be sent
United States to take over asgraduating class of VISTA in fraternity
Continued On Page 8
tenns.
questionnaires. This involves no pansion in general
signments as moderator, com- St. Petersburg, Florida.
commitment on the
Crant and the other editors membership student or the fraof the
will tour the VISTA installations part
ternity, Hagan pointed out ."This
and training facilities. Accomis just a means of renting empty
panying the college editors and
(.:.-- (
Mrs. Johnson will be come con- places," he said.
IFC also heard plans for a
gressmen from Florida.
Mrs. John Oswald, wife of the University president, fell and
Volunteers In Serv- campus-wid- e
VISTA,
meeting of frabroke her right hip last night while she and her husband were
domesice to America, is a kind of
ternity men with their national
hurrying to attend the opening night production of the Guignol
officers. The meeting is planned
tic Peace Corps in which volunTheatre's "The Infernal Machine."
teers serve for one year. VISTA March 28 and 29.
on tile, wet from rainy weather,
Mrs. Oswald
has been organized in conrians call for the national at the entrance apparently slipped
of the Fine Arts Building as she and her husband
junction with President Johnexecutive secretaries of each frarushed to get to the play on time.
son's War on Poverty.
ternity on campus to attend a
Dr. Oswald drove her to University Hospital where she was
The plane with Mrs. Johnson program at the Imperial House. admitted at about 8:30 p.m.
Vice President Robert Johnson,
is scheduled to leave Washington
Mrs. Oswald underwent surgery this morning at the Hospital
Vice President Robert Kerley, and
tomorrow morning at 7 a.m.
to set what doctors termed a "simple fracture."
Executive Vice President A. 1).
The White House called PresiThe Medical Center this afternoon reported that Mrs. Oswald's
dent Oswald about 5 p.m. yesterAlbright are also scheduled to
hip had been set with a pin, and that she was "doing fine." It is
day to inform the University of attend.
that ihe will be released in about one week.
MRS. JOHN W. OSWALD
Crant's invitation.
Hagan said that this was the expected

By JUDY GRISHAM
Kernel Staff Writer

r

oo oM

?

j

subject-ce-

ntered

3

"tip-book-

student-landlor-

Lecture Series Sets
Howard Smith Talk

d

-

.i

coast-to-coa- st

tollis-toryan- d

V

tip-boo-

k

Fraternities May Rent
Unused House Space

LBJ Invites
WilliamGrant
To See Vista

Eight Teams
Still In Quiz

rt

editor-in-chie- f,

d

Mrs. John Oswald

Hurt

In Fall Outside Guignol

in

i

h

* 2

-- THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, Feb. 25,
11

19G5.

Laurel's Death Eulogizes
Neglect Of Past Heroes

.I

By BOB THOMAS
HOLLWOOD( AD -- The passing of Stan Laurel on Tuesday underscored one of Hollywood's most notable failings:
Neglect of its heroes.

i

;

;

1

4.

.

,.

.. ...

i

m

.

The first drama prod action of the Centennial year, Jean Coctean's
The Infernal Machine" Is playing at GuiTiol Theatre through Friday.
The play depicts the work of rods manipalatinx the destiny of
mankind.

one-jok-

Salinger's New Novel
Debuts In Paperback
By DICK KIMMJNS
Kernel Arts Writer

For 20 years, since the publication of his "Cather In The Rye,"
J. D. Salinger has been one of the favorite writers of the college
canpus. Now his latest book is out at last in paperback to add its

influence to ihe Salinger cult.
"Raise High The Roof Beam,
Carpenters and Seymour, An Introduction" continues Salinger's
chronicle of the prolific, artistic,
and neurotic Class Family.
This newest work is also a
double novel, the story of Seymour Class'
wedding and
thoughts about Seymour following his suicide.
In this second story, Salinger
becomes Buddy Class, musing
over the close bond that existed
between him and his brother.
Seymour's suicide has already
been detailed in the short story
"A Perfect DayForBananafish,"
so that now Salinger is interested
in Buddy's sense of helplessness.
In the first half of "Raise
High," Salinger achieves the immediacy he wants with the help
of entries from Seymour's diary.
STARTS 7:30

The nature of Seymour's own instability becomes clear.
But this is a filling-iexercise
for Salinger. We know that Seymour suffered from the Second
World War; we know that he shot
himself in a Florida hotel room.
In "Raise High," Salinger is retreating, rounding out, completing as well as he can the remaining details of Seymour Class'
n

mmm

life.

ENDS TODAY

"The Americanization

Stan seldom stirred outside
the apartment except for an occasional drive. He didn't lack for
company. Many of the recent
Van Dyke, Jerry
comics-Di- ck
Peter Sellers, etc. made
Lewis,
pilgrimages to discuss comedy
with the master. Laurel remained delightful company, his observations on funny business often punctuated with his unabashed bellylaugh.
Hollywood's neglect in their
final performing years had one
ironical blessing: It gave Laurel
and Hardy the chance to become
real friends. Stan once reflected
after his partner's passing: "It's
a strange thing, but we really
got to know each other only in
the last years of his life. When
we were making pictures together, we never saw each other
oil the set. As soon as a picture
was finished, he'd go his way and
I'd go mine.

were recognized wherever they
went.
But ill health intervened before they could cash in on their
new popularity. Both suffered
strokes; Hardy's was fatal in
1957.

Always a shy man, Laurel became timid after the stroke that
partially paralyzed his left side.
Following Babe's death, he said
he would never act again. He
never did.
"The doctors call it a slight
stroke," he remarked, "but I
don't see how any stroke could
be slight. Even if you get back
to normal physically, you're mentally demoralized."
He lived out his years by the
sea, in a beach apartment at
Malibu and later in a hotel on

Leave our brochure where
your dad can see it.
It could get you a free European tour.

Want to spend 45 fascinating days touring the continent?
Leave our S.T.O.P. tour brochure where it'll do the most
good. It's a chance not just to see Europe, but to get to know
it. A chance to hear great music, and see great ballet. A
chance to talk to people to find out how they live, and think,
and feel about things. It's also a chance to relax and get a
tan (the tour includes sunny places as well as cultural ones).
The price? $1,099.30 from New York. And it's
'Price based on economy air fare and double occupancy in hotels.
I

Wilco Travel Agency

304Va Euclid Ave

Please send me your free brochure describing
S.T.O.P. student tours.

exington, Ky- .all of your i

of Emily"

STARTS TOMORROW

EXCLUSIVE FIRST RUN

J!O

Its Rocks Most
Riotous

STREET.
ZIP CODE--

ITQCEEI

Love-Bou- t!

.STATE- -

CITY

STIYt

.

PHONE.

in
Ef.'ICK

tzzr

ADM. 90

m.

The eulogies detailed the contribution made to the screen by
Laurel and his rotund partner,
Oliver Hardy. Theirs was a classic
partnership, as natural and satisfying as scotch and soda. The
endless diversity of their comic
patterns is a marvel to watch as
their old comedies unreel on television.
They had what is now known
e
act
in the trade as a
the mousey little fellow who was
always ensnaring the big blusterer in trouble. But that one
joke was good for 27 feature movies and more than 100 shorts, containing some of the funniest material ever filmed.
And for the last dozen years
of their partnership, they were
unable to find work in Hollywood.
When the movie jobs stopped
coming, neither was a rich man.
They had earned good money,
but their wealth had been dissipated by lavish living and expensive marriages. To maintain
their incomes, they were forced
to make personal appearances in
Europe, where they were still
remembered fondly.
Then came television. Their

the Palisades at Santa Monica.

old films were sold to lV-i- nc
two comics never realized a cent
Laurel and
from the salcs-a- nd
were more popular than
Hardy
in their movie heyday. The fan
mail was moutainous, and they

(h

to

i

U

TWIN TERROR SHOWI

AN EXECUTIVE

CAREER FOR YOU IN

oJnlLUXPUCIi
ROBERT

IS THERE

VJU.I6U

RETAILING?
ENDS TONIGHT

"The Amorous General"
And

"The Wrong Arm of the

Law'

STARTS TOMORROW

vA

..

I

Peter Sellers
George C. Scott
Stanley Kubrick's

Or THE.

Dr.

6ina
Rock;
HUDSOllLPLLOBRJGtDA

i m e tf n rr

Or

Strangelove

Haw I Learned Ti Step
Worrrlnj

Unite

GigYOUllG

TlttX3CCKI

ncnmcu
'L

N

COLUMBIA PICTURfS

ADDED
EDWARD
A

The Kentucky Kernel
The

Kentucky Kernel. University
Station, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 40506. Second cUm
pokUge paid at Lexington. Kentucky.
Published four timet weekly during
the school year except during holidays
and exam periods, and weekly during
the summer semester.
Published for the students of the
University of Kentucky by the Board
of Student Publications. Prof. Paul
Oberst. chairman and Stephen Palmer,
secretary.
Begun as the Cadet in 18M, became the Record in 1900. and the Idea
in lJKifl. Published continuously as the
Kernel since 1913.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Yearly, by mail $7.00
Per copy, from files f .10
KERNEL TELEPHONES
Editor, Executive Editor, Managing
2321
Editor
News Dekk, Sports. Women's Editor,
2120
Socials
Advertising, Business. Circulation 2319
--

The Playboy Philosophy

JUDO-arth-

NliHII.

"THE MOST"

OOUC1M

ENDS TODAY

"Emil and the Detectives"
and 'Tattooed Police Hone'

f

FUN!

STARTS TOMORROW!

BRING THE UTILE WOMAN

. . . JM

Kt SHU

Dll IAUCHM!

DUSI

'lOl'JTO

If you would rather have a career that is
exciting than work that is regimented
If you have the vision necessary to sec
the opportunity for rapid future advancement in position and income . . .

Then

...

INVESTIGATE A RETAILING
CAREER WITH POGUES
The H. & S. Pogue Company is a division of
Associated Dry Goods Corporation, which is the
nationally acknowledged leader in quality department store merchandising. Pogue's and its
Suburban Stores represent prestige and
to the customers of Southwestern Ohio. quality

If you are completing your degree in Business Administration, Liberal Arts, or Home
nome tconomics and are interested in re- tailing, make arrangements through your
Placement Office to talk to us about our
Executive Training Program.
mm

Ve will be interviewing on
your campus
Wednesday, March

3 1965

P.S. If we miss you on
Campus and you would like
an

interview, please contact:

Younujire
TCHK1C0L0R's..m ...

UNITED ARTISTS

fftlSENTED

AS A PUBLIC SERVICI!!

PERSONNEL OFFICE
THE H. & S. POGUE CO.
CINCINNATI, OHIO 45201

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, Feb. 25,

19f5- -3

Around The Campus
Pin-Mat- es

Tatricia Crain, sophomore
nursinn major from Flemings-burand a member of Chi Omega
sorority, to David Miller, sophomore math major from Indianapolis, Ind., and a member of Phi
Kappa Tan fraternity at Transylvania College.
Mary Sue Kemper, a freshman
sociology major from Louisville
and a pledge of Pi Beta Phi sorority, to Kenneth Wright, junior
premed major from Ashland, and
a member of Alpha Tail Omega
fraternity.
Patricia Johnston, a freshman
education major at Ceorgetown
College from Manchester, to Wallace Hampton, sophomore civil
engineering major from Sibert,
and a member of Triangle fraternity.

n

Mary Crowe, sophomore

com-

merce major from Plainfield, N.J.,
and a member of Alpha Gamma
Delta sorority, to Max Elliot,
premed major from Ft. Knox, and

if

member of Sigma Phi Kpsilon
fraternity.
Mary Lou Iric, a freshman
English major from Ashland and
a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, to Jay Durie, junior theology
major from Miami Springs, Fla.,
and a member of Sigma Chi
a

Jump suit sleeper
in drip dry

Va.

Sharee Bowen, senior special
education major, from Lincoln,
Neb., and a member of Alpha Xi

Gamma sorority, to Jim Webb,
commerce major from Hussell and
a member of Pi Kappa Alpha
fraternity.
Lora Sutphin, freshman nursing major from Pataskala, Ohio,
to Phill Hazig, sophomore history
major from Salt Lake City, Utah,
and a member of Pi Kappa Alpha
fraternity.

Ro-ga-n;

what's happened to

Look

kids'

sleepers!
here in grown-uThey're
sizes. Step-i- n zipper front with
draw string neck. Plus an
elasticized drop seat back.
Pink or blue striped on white.
S - M - L sizes.
one-piec-

e

p

1

I

$5.98
First Floor

Delta sorority, to Mike Smith,
senior journalism major from
Philadelphia, Pa., and a member
of Alpha Tail Omega fraternity.
Lynn Ziehlcr, a senior social
work major from Moorestown,
X.J., and a member of Delta
Gamma sorority, to Steve Lippin-cota senior at Florida Southern
College from Riverton, N.J.
Judy Wills, sophomore elementary education major from
Springfield and a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, to
Elvis Humble, a senior elementary education major fromCamp-bellsvilland a member of Sigma Nu fraternity.

f
4

t,

m

ii

1. nun

i

lite

I

4

llllllll'IIHIIIIIWi
in

e,

1
1

ing secretary, Nancy Robison;
treasurer, Liz Riefkin; activities,
Judy Jones; public relations,
Sharon Horton; historian, Kathy
Bondurant; house manager. Amy
Rasor; rituals, Linda Sue Boone;
rush chairman, Kathy Beard;
scholarship chairman, Claire
Kaemffe; social chairman, Debbie Wallace; song leader, Carol
Kruetzer; and Panhellenic
Claire Kaemffe.

r.

DELTA GAMMA
President, Felicia Trader; first
vice president, Cathy Curry; second vice president, Mary Frances'
Wright; corresponding secretary,
Jo Ellen Bischetsrieder; record- -

Margaret To Give
Ambassador Degree
KEELE, England
University announced Thursday that its chancellor, Princess
Margaret, will confer an honorliteraary degree of doctor of
U. S. ambassador to
ture on the
Britain, David K. E. Bruce on
June 30.
(AP)-Ke-

cotton

Lingerie Department

Elections
ALPHA GAMMA DELTA
President, Molly McCormick;
first vice president, Patricia
second vice president, Sue
Ellen Dort on; recording secretary,
Susan Green; corresponding secretary, Kathy V. Goodman; treasurer, Jacqueline Eberhard; activities chairman, Bobette Schoff;
altruistic chairman, Linda Walsh;
chairman, Beth
membership
Brandenburg; chaplain, Martha
Gordon; editor, Joan R. Fiero;
house chairman, Janet Gold;
librarian, Barbara Berend; rush
chairman, Judy Carwell; scribe,
Frances Pattie; social chairman,
Pam Sawyer; intramurals chairman, Mary V. Dean; and standards chairman, Kathleen Schaef-fe-

e-le

r

UNITARIAN
CHURCH
Higbee Mill Road

at Clays Mill Road

s

10:45 a.m.

Service and
Church School
SUNDAY, FEB. 28
Speaker

...

REV. THOMAS

J.

MULLER

First Friends Meeting

Title . . .
"The Have and Have Nots"

v

MISS JEALEMMA
New Stylist
'We Curl Up and Dye for You"

.

.

And

Lauderdale

or Wherever You Go During Spring Vacation

CLARENCE MOORE
287 South Limestone
Lexington, Kentucky
Announcing

.

So Right for Fort

232-106- 5

Beauty Salon

flI

1

New Castle, Ind.

Designed by Petti
Phone

.

.

so-

ciology major from Seattle, Wash.,
and a member of Delta Gamma
sorority, to Sonny Pollock, engineering major from Madisonville,
and a member of Delta Tan Delta.
Emily McMillcn, a fresTiiuan
physical education major from
Hussell and a member of Delta

Engagements
Peggy O'Conncr, senior nursing major from Lexington, and a
member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority, to John Jordon, from Lexington, a graduate of the University
of Kentucky, and a member of
Phi Kappa Tan fraternity.
Judy Bcvins, senior biological
science major from Lexington,
and a member of Alpha Xi Delta
sorority, to Barth Pemberton, a
graduate of the University of Kentucky, and is now an Ensign in the
U. S. Navy, stationed atXorfolk,

m

with drop scat back

y.

Sandy Hciscrman, junior

.

a

A.

FRENCH MARINE . . .
Solid White with Peek a Boo Sides.
One-piec-

e

and

Two-piec-

e

....

MAD ILLUSION

.

.

.

....

Madras with Attached Voile Top
A Great New Look
$15 00
Two-piec-

$17.95

e

f.
INC,

Open Monday Night 'Til 9

* Another Government Goes Down

Letters To The Editor
program with all the restrictions
which had to be considered for security reasons.

To the Editor of the Kernel:.
A common and basic characteristic of human beings is to reach
conclusions based on fragmented
information. Wc arc all too eager

to join crusades which, at the
moment, seem to reflect our true
convictions. Such endeavors may
lead to immediate results, but
their lasting effects may easily be
misinterpreted.
There have been criticisms of
the Centennial Founders Day.
Some of these criticisms are valid
but many more are based on misinterpretation of information.
With the notification of the visit
of the President of the United
States, the University was required
to relinquish certain privileges in
regard to the planning and execution of the convocation. This
factor includes plans for seating
and for audience arrival time at
the Coliseum. The seats reserved
had to be set aside to accommodate members expected to participate in the processional. That
some members did not participate
could not be anticipated by the
planners.
The students were asked to arrive and to be seated by 1:30 because the planning committee was
interested in providing space for
all students who planned to attend before turning the remainder of the seats over to the general
public, which was still scrambling at the doors. Therefore, students were given first priority. All
persons had to be seated by 1:45
since the secret service personnel
had requested that this be done.
Certainly, no one could do more
than to estimate the time of the
President's arrival and no one could
do more than to plan a flexible

'

If anyone had bothered to consult the delegates, distinguished
alumni award recipients, or the
participants in the convocation, he
might have found that all these
persons were not disgusted with or
thoroughly insulted by, the University, but were actually quite
ecstatic and pleased with the opportunity to share with the University in its celebration.
What happened at Founders
Day is now history. No one could
anticipate the reality which now
stands. We often judge too harshly and, certainly, we may speculate what might have been, but
the supposition seems superfluous
to the fact.
The comments made have given
the weekend the appearance of
being a complete failure, but perhaps we have overlooked the successes in our hurried efforts to
judge the fallacies. Certainly, no
one can destructively criticize the
success of the Centennial Grand
Ball or the air of excitement and
sophistication which prevailed at
the Founders Day Convocation.
The integration of students, faculty, and alumni at the ball made
it a momentous, festive occasion.
The academic procession, with all
its color and dignity, should have
impressed all members of the University community (especially those
who were too preoccupied to attend the president's inauguration
last spring.)
Very little recognition has been
given to the fact that the actual
planning for the Centennial year
began one short year ago when
other universities spend seven to
ten years in planning for their
anniversary. Many persons have spent days and nights in
preparation for the events, with the
result that uninformed sources sit
back and "objectively" view the
entire situation.
Whether we realize it or not, the
Centennial year is just beginning
and I ask, "Where will these persons be during the remainder of
the year? Will their names be at
the top of the lists when they are
given the opportunity to work with
this project and with other campus
projects?" I hesitate to answer the
questions if the apathy I have witnessed continues to be a primary
hindering factor.
one-hundred- th

SANDY BROCK

Student Centennial

Committee
Cochairman

The Kentucky Kernel
The South' Outstanding College Daily
University of Kentucky

ESTABLISHED

THURSDAY, FEB. 25, 1965

1894

William Grant,

Editor-in-Chi-

Sid Webb, Managing Editor

David Hawfe, Executive Editor

Linda Mills, News Editor
Walter Chant, Associate News Editor
Henry Rosenthal, Sports Editor
Gay Gish, Women's ?age Editor
G. Scott Nunley, Arts Editor
Blithe Runsdorf, Feature Editor
Business Staff
Tom Finnie, Advertising Manager

Michael L. Damon, Circulation Manager

Editorial Page Staff

Thomas Bersot, Arthur Henderson, Claudia Jeffrey, Robert Staib, James Svara

t!,

1

Letters To The Editor
To the Editor of the Kernel:

The University has begun its
century. After a year of
strenuous planning the Centennial
Committees have presented a varying program aimed at drawing attention to the past successes of the
University, at celebrating a memorable occasion in the career of any
institution, and at charting the
course of the University for the
future. Founders Day, though disappointing to planners and participants as well as spectators in particulars, was in toto a fitting beginning for the Centennial Year.
One of the primary concerns of
the University is to become a vital
part of the important affairs of the
state and nation, for as President
Oswald has stated, "The University
must be both the servant and leader of the larger community which
sustains it." The failure of the University to assume the proper role
of leadership and service in the
state and region has been a basic
shortcoming in the past, and the
new determination to assume a
more active role is one of the most
encouraging prospects for the future. To symbolize the importance
of this new determination of the
link between the University and
the nation the President of the
United States was invited tospeak.
For this reason, the visit of the
President was important in itself
no matter what he chose to say.
The University has not only received an honor; it has also committed itself to action and responsibility. Johnson's presence represented the former; his words should
have given content to the latter.
The success of the program itself depends on how one judges the
significance of Johnson's words.
The disruption of the program-unavoida- ble
after Johnson arrived
ahead of schedule-w- as
indeed unfortunate, but it makes little sense
second

for students, faculty, or newspapers
to be so concerned about the slight
to those not included when these
people themselves were not upset.

The Convocation was not "farcical"
but rather, abbreviated.
Yet the success of: the entire
Founders Day is clear. The success
rests on the facJ:thattheCentennial
is not a program which could have
been disclosed if only the Convocation planners had cared to do so.
Rather it is a period of time in
which there will be celebrating,
reviewing, assessing and planning.
To have "illuminated the whole"
on Founders Day, all of this would
have to be completed already. Just
as the Grand Ball was not a failure
because it did not illuminate the
whole, so Founders Day was not
a failure because it did not present
that which it was not supposed to
present.
The Centennial is really not so
difficult to understand. On numerous occasions its meaning has
been expressed. Most basically, the
University during the Centennial
Year is determined to consider its
contingency to consider the course
and quality of its existence as an
institution of higher education in
the state of Kentucky in the last
third of the Twentieth Century. It
is gratifying to discover that students are, as one expressed it, "beginning to discover that this Centennial observance is composed of
many people lighting candles very
far apart" over a vast range of inquiry. It is not excessive optimism
to expect that, if the high degree of
planning and performance demonstrated in the Founders Weekend
activities is continued, by the end
of the Centennial Year the ever increasing number of candles will
"illuminate the whole."
JAMES SVAHA

Student Centennial committee
Cochairman

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, Feb. 25,

1965- -5

THE MAKING OF A COLLEGE PRESIDENT

Dy VERNON R. ALDEN
Editor's Note: Mr. Aldcn,
President, Ohio University, who
was formerly Associate Dean of
the Harvard University Graduate
School of Business Administration. Copyright 1965 by Saturday Review.
Every year approximately 200
colleges and universities in the
United States are faced with the
task of selecting a new president.
Almost every week telephone
calls and letters come into my
office asking for names of men and
women "who appear to have the
qualities required by the presidency today."
What are these qualities which
universities require of their presidents?
Lawrence M. Could, former
president