xt72v6986x6k https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt72v6986x6k/data/mets.xml University of Kentucky Fayette County, Kentucky The Kentucky Kernel 19601207  newspapers sn89058402 English  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Kernel The Kentucky Kernel, December  7, 1960 text The Kentucky Kernel, December  7, 1960 1960 2013 true xt72v6986x6k section xt72v6986x6k Pearl Harbor Remembered In News Display

Today, Dec. 7, marks the 19th anniversary of the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which forced the United
States Into World War II.
On display In the first floor corridor of the Journalism Building Is a collection of posters and newspapers
from the war years.
To younger students whose only memory of the war
is the V- -J Day celebration, the display will afford a
graphic short course In recent history.

But for older students and professors, it will bring
back memories of rationing, scrap collecting, and blackouts.
Among the items on view are posters by the Office of
War Information encouraging citizens to save rubber by
swapping rides and carrying one passenger for each tire,
and housewives to economize by serving liver, kidneys,
and brains, and to salvage scraps.
Typical of the war publicity campaign to get the
cooperation of the entire population are posters de

University of Kentucky
LEXINGTON, KY., WEDNESDAY, DEC 7,

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scribing Nazi brutality and the increased war production
of American industry.
The newspapers Include a 1939 issue of the London
Dally Express during the time the German ship Deutsch-lan- d
was wrecking British shipping, a copy of a Honolulu
paper dated 1943, and a 1939 issue of a German newspaper at the time when Nazi troops were marching into

Poland.
The pasters and newspapers were collected during the
war years and saved by Dr. Nlel Plummer, director of
the School of Journalism.

Student Congress
Presently Stands
At Half Strength
Fifty Candidates Now Filed
Are Sure To Be Elected
If more candidates do not file applications, the new

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According to Bob Wainscott, acting president of Student
Congress, 50 applications have been filled and 99 are needed
to make a complete congress.
The colleges that need more Pharmacy, Pharmacy Building;

candidates are Education, Engl- neering. Arts and Sciences, Phar- macy, Law, and Agriculture. Candi- dates must file at the SC ofice

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Agriculture and Home Economics,
Home Economics Building; Law
College. Lafferty Hall; Commerce
College. White Hall; and Educa-befo- re
tlon College, Taylor Education
Huiicung.

Since there is no competition.
all those who have filed applies
tions will automatically be elected. TT
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This is according to the rules of LiirUUUUUS
the new constitution.
Students will also vote on whe- ther to adopt the new constitution.
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but wiU nQt operate tjie ma- .
Wainscott expressed hope that
the students would participate in chines next tall to publish the
Student Directories,
this election so that a new stu- - 1961-6- 2
government could be estab- dent
Dr John w IIamblen director
of the Computing Center, said
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was erroneous in reporting1
operate under the old one until
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next spring. Then we will try
compounding the
work
again to organize a new govern- - n
addresses, and telephone
ment but the defeat would be a numbers
student telepnone
terrible setDscK.
book
If the new student directories Drsaid that his de- - Hamblen
are not ready for Tuesday's elec- tlon, the congress will obtain IBM partment does not do "all" the
work ,or anybody.
rosters from the registrar.
He said that if Student Congress
Norman Harned, chairman of
the election committee, is respons- - requests the use of our machines
ible for conducting the election they may use them. SC members
next Tuesday. He will line up the will have to delegate the respon- polls, the personnel to work at sibilities of running the machines
each one, the counting, and tabu- - themselves.
The student committee will have
lation of votes.
Eight voting booths, open from to do its work after 10 p.m. or

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and work will continue. The outer structure is
expected to be up by next May.

Senior Class Meeting Fails
In Election Of 1961 Officers
Approximately 65 of the 311
enrolled Arts and Sciences seniors met yesterday and, in what
was probably the most exciting
UK class meeting ever held,
failed to elect their class officers.
The meeting tngan at 4 p.m. and

progressed rapidly and efficiently
until a motion was made to clo.se
the nominations for president.
The nominating committee had
presented its slate of candidates
and asked for nominations from
tlte floor. Two men were nominated for president but both declined the nominations.

A motion was then made to close
the nominations for president and
the meeting quickly became disorganized. In rapid succession,
three students questioned the fairness of having the election yesterday..
They pointed out that the meeting notice sent to all Arts and

Sciences seniors from Dean M. M.
White failed to mention that class
officers would be elected at the
meeting. They added that they
had not seen the election notice
in the Kernel and that, moreover,
a Kernel announcement Is not an
official University announcement.
Several other students objected
to electing officers at the meeting,

WBKY Being Considered
For National TV Grant
Dr. Don Williams of the National Office of Education met
with Stuart Ilallock, head of the Department of Radio, Television, and Films, yesterday to tour the WBKY studios.
Dr. wunams is conducting a films here would eliminate the ex-

the status of pense Involved in taking the promotion picture production in uni fessors away from their classes t
versities. This survey is to provide make them.
These films would be especially
the Fund for Adult Education with
beneficial to high school students.
Information to guide them in mak- By
seeing authorities lecture on
ing grants of money to various film, they would be better preuniversities.
pared for college.
He interviewed Dean Martin M.
Dr. Williams will present his
White of the College of Arts and findings to the Fund for Adult
Sciences and Vice President Leo Education in February, and it
M. Chamberlain to find out their will decide who will receive the
attitudes tow ai d the use of motion grants.
pictures in expanding educational
If UK should be awarded a
horizons.
grant, it will provide for staff exUnder this system, the lectures pansion, improvement of motion
of the top professors on campus picture facilities, and increased
would be put on film and shown production of various types of eduall over the nation. Making the cational films.
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all saying that they had not had
time to think about who they
would like to have for officers.
Gert- Denbo, president of the
ominating committee, who presided at the meeting, said that if
elections were not held then, another meeting could not possibly 8:30 ajn. to 4 p.m., will be located
be called before the Christmas hol- in different colleges.
idays.
Students in the College of Arts
moand Sciences and Graduate School
After much haranguing, a
to postpone the election and will rote at the Journalism Build- tion
"to have all Arts and Sciences ing; Engineering, Anderson Hall;
seniors notified of the next meet-

ing by official correspondence" was
passed by a vote of 28 to 21.
Miss Denbo then said that the

nominating

committee's slate

would again be presented at the
next meeting. A motion was then
passed to force the committee to
present more than one nominee
for each office at the next meeting to prevent a "railroad" election.
Before the meeting broke up,
Garryl Sipple, who is the committee's original nominee for president, moved to have the next meeting held at 7 p.m. to insure that
classes would not prevent any students from attending. The motion
was passed and the meeting adjourned at 4:50 p.m.
The nominees presented by the
committee were Sipple, Tex Fitzgerald for vice president, and
Cecily Sparks for secretary-treasure- r.

on weekends.
It is up to the new SC to decide
how to get the information, com- pile it, and get it to the Computing
Center. Here it will be processed
ajid sent to the printers.

Missile Expert Accuses

Nation Of 'Inconsistency'
By ED VAN HOOK

Kernel Staff Writer

The former commander of the Army Ordnance Missilo
Command chided Americans Monday night for the "inconsistent image" we display to our friends.

John B. , Medarls. with no decisions to make on our
speaking at the Coliseum before own."
Talking about the military as- Series audience,
a Concert-Lectur- e
' the image, Gen. Medaris
said that we must face up to the P
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challenge of creating a true image
"But we 'eel tnat tne atom bomb
of America.
is the answer." he added. "We feel
The former missile bss, speak- - lt l3 a cure.all. But we are not
ing on the "Challenge of Freedom," aggressors because we feel that
said that there are three areas In defense ls more important.
whUh Americans are inconsistent:
"This does not leave the picture
moral, economic, and military.
we want. This is not the way we
"All of what we do is part of the are, but it is the aspect which
Serving on the nominating com- image," he pointed out. "We have shows to the world's people."
Gen. Medaris said that the chal-trmittee with Miss Denbo are Bill one image which we believe is our
Fortune, Sue Ball, and Bob Andercharacter, but our friends see lenge of freedom is to the Individual and not to the nation.
son. The committee will decide the an parts as the total image."
of the next meeting.
"It ls an internal challenge, not
date
lie pointed out that many years externai
ago Aristotle said 80 percent of
&
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the population was born to be trpnprnl rirnVft hom. hi, reument
TICKET SALES
M4 vrs.
that we must all react because lt ls
Greek Week concert tickets
added, a race of education and oblivion,
"This seems stupid." he
are on sale today through Fri"Democracy must be a unity of
day from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at "but slavery has an appeal. It is
very easy to become satisfied with philosophy and policy, not a split
the SUB ticket booth.
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Missile Export
Continued from Pare 1
personality," he pointed out. "It
must be an Interested personality
which Rives a true picture to our
friends."'
'In a question and answer period following his speech, the re- will
nonsrAl nmwi ti in b
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have to continue heavy military
expenditures until all wars are
concluded and slavery Is elimlnat- cd.

In response to a question about
admitting Red China to the United
Nations, Mediris said that al- though he hates everything they
stand for," he believes It is Just a
rr alter of time until Red China is
In the UN.
He added that the free world
should bargain now with them
while we are able to bargain.
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Asked whether the United States
Is equal to Russia militarily, the
general said that offensively we
are, but defensively we arc not.

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Union Choir.
Solo performance will include a
harp prelude and postlude; The
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MEETINGS

Student Chapter
The student affiliate chapter of
the American Chemical Society
will meet at 4 psn. tomorrow, in
Room 214 of Kastle Hall.
Mr. J. W. Thompson, assistant
manager In charge of professional
recruiting for the Monsanto
Chemical Company, will speak on
"Presenting Your Qualifications to
the Company of your Choice."
A special invitation Is extended
to all undergraduate majors, in
chemistry, chemical engineers, and
other closely related fields who
may be desirous of taking advantage of an early professional opportunity to Join and become active in the American Chemical
Society.
The public Is also cordially Invited to attend.

TICKET SALES
Greek Week concert tickets are
on sale today through Friday, 11
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the SUB
ticket booth

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MEETING CANCELLED .
The SUD Social Committee
meeting has been cancelled,
N.S.I.D. BUFFET SUITER
Xne National Society of Interior
Designers will hold a buffet supper
at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12, at
630 Maxwell Street.
TOASTM ASTER'S CLUB
For those who desire additional
training and practice in oral communications, a second Toastmast-er'- s
Club is being formed in Lexington.
Club activities will Include list

ening and evaluating other speakers as well as impromptu and brief
prepared talks.
Those interested may call Ext.
Club
2122 for additional information.
The Pitkin Club will meet at If a sufficient number are Internoon today at the Maxwell Street ested, a club could be formed on
campus.
Presbyterian Church.
ADIM PLEDGES MOVE IN
The Rev. Tony Tucker will speak
on "Religious Significance In the
The pledges of Alpha Delta Pi
Contemporary Novel."
took over the chapter house this
Spaces for new members are past weekend, and the actives
still available for this semester. moved Into their rooms at the
Anyone interested may inquire In dorms. The exchange weekend
the YWCA Office in the Student gave the pledges a better oppor-Unio- n
Building.
tunity to become acquainted.

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Londa Forester, Alpha Delta PI,
senior science education major,
ADPi VISITOR
from Rock Springs, Ga., to Don
Beta Psi chapter of Alpha Delta Seay, Phi Sigma Kappa, senior
PI will be host this week to its
province president, Miss Josephine Industrial Management major
from Louisville.
Gatteys.
Terry Read, Alpha Delta Pi
Miss Gatteys will arrive this
afternoon. She will be visiting Pledge, freshman education ma
with the chapter until this Satur jor, from Skancatelcs, N. Y., to
day.
Rick Rcoua, Kappa Sigma, soph- ZTA CHRISTMAS TEA
cmore commerce major from Sho- Zcta Tau Alpha Sorority will dock Landing, N. Y.
entertain the University Faculty,
Penny Greer, Alpha Delta Pi
housemothers, and others at a pledge,
freshman in arts and
Christmas Tea to be held from sciences from Owensboro. to Fen- 3 to 5 p.m., this Saturday afterton Angell, Lambda Chi, Junior
noon at the chapter house.
engineering major from Erlanger.
KAT CHRISTMAS PARTY
Martha Schneider, Zeta Tau
Members of Kappa Alpha Theta Alpha, Junior home economics maand their dates will enjoy a jor from Lexington, to Will Gang-lof- f,
Phi Kappa Psi. sophomore
Christmas dinner party from 4:30
to 7 p.m. this Saturday at the engineering and physics major at
chapter house.
Ohio State, from Cincinnati.

ENGAGEMENTS
Jenro.se Morgan, Kappa Alpha
Theta, senior English major from
Benton, to Bill Martin, Kappa
Alpha, graduate of Transylvania
College, from Frankfort.
Vivian Toner, Kappa Alpha
Theta, senior English major from
Fort Thomas, to John Kappas,
Xavier senior from Covington.
Ruth Hatchett, senior home eco
nomics major from Bpiingfieldr to
George Duncan. Alpha Gamma
Rho, senior engineering major
from Auburn.

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Maybe Next Year
We have encouraged Student
Congress to work diligently to have
the student directories ready for distribution while they may still have
some usefulness. We have chided
and urged them to have the latest
edition out as early as it has been in
previous years.
Our efforts have been in vain.
It is December and we have yet
to see our first directory. William
Crote, manager of the Kernel Printing Plant, said Monday we will probably not get them before the Christmas vacation.
This is not entirely the fault of
the SC committee in charge of compiling the list of names, addresses,
and telephone numbers.
The Office of Machine Statistics
has constantly delayed the completion
of their part of the publishing of the
telephone
books despite pressure
from administrative personnel.
They have had the material they
need for about six and one-haweeks
now and still the copy has not been
moved to the printer.
Mr. Grote said yesterday that his
printers will work on the books as
soon as they receive the materials
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from David Sheets, director of the
Office of Machine Statistics.
Sheets has said that he will get
the lists to the printers, "today or tomorrow" (Tuesday or Wednesday).
He said it took time for his department to alphabetize the 7,000 names,
home and Lexington addresses, and
telephone numbers.
The congress has claimed that it
was the same work that held up their
operation.
But regardless of who did the
work, we still don't have our directories. It seems that, as acting congress President Bob Wainscott said,
"they (the Office of Machine Statistics) let the directory ride in favor
of other work."
The Computing Service has offered to help Student Congress publish the directory. They say that if
students fill out separate forms when
they register, and the service picks
them up, the campus telephone directory can be ready by Oct. 15 next
year. The hitch is that the congress
must provide the IBM machine
workers and all work must be done
after regular working hours.
By all means, Student Congress,
accept this offer whatever the cost
may be.

Electoral Reform
Proposals for the reform of the
electoral college burgeon after every
Presidential election. Senator Mansfield and Senator Mundt have made
suggestions since the recent voting,
and there will be many others. The
electoral system can no doubt be improved but this is a matter in which
we must make haste slowly.
Senator Mansfield's tentative suggestion (he is working on a larger
plan ) was to abolish the electoral college and choose a President by popular majority. Many people think that
election by a majority of the electoral
college is often unfair, because, as occurred this year, a substantial electoral majority can be obtained on a
very slim popular lead. Actually, the
popular vote is also an unfair criterion.
Some states are stricter about the suffrage than others. States in which it
is hard for a resident to qualify have
much smaller polls than states which
make voting easy.
For example, Virginia with 3.9GG,-00- 0
inhabitants polled only 759,000
votes in the recent Presidential contest. Maryland with only 3,100,000 inhabitants polled 1,011,000 votes.
Maryland had 37 percent more votes
than Virginia, yet Virginia has 28 percent more population than Maryland.
If Presidents were chosen by popular
majority a Maryland vote would count
for more than one in Virginia. The
same would be true in cases in which
states which allow voting at IS instead of 21. Such states would have an
undue voice in the choice of a Presi

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Scqdicn Diathun, director of the University Honors Program, and Dr.
Rolxrt Evans who conducts the Honors colloquiums.)
What is an Honors Colloquium?
A good many people, including some
of the students in the program, would
like a direct answer.
Unfortunately there is no exact
definition, for a colloquium is what
we make it, both faculty and students.
Literally the word means conversation, but in education it has always
meant conversation of a different
sort from everyday intercourse.
For instance, in King Alfred's
time it meant a sort of catechism
whereby the students learned, by taking parts in a prescribed dialogue,
the refinements of language as well
as some of the basic ingredients of
the then accepted pedagogical program. Today, in our University it
could mean as little as a specially
directed discussion, devoted to the
problems of gifted students, or as
much as a freshman level seminar in
the history of ideas.
In fact it means neither. What
dictates the content of a colloquium
is both the direction of a teacher
and the intellectual capability and
curiosity of the student members.
Let us examine the last point first. In
a speech delivered before the
Committee on the Superior
Student, Susan B. Riley attempted to
define the qualities that make a superior student by listing them as follows:
(1) high level of abstract thinking,
(2) ability to apply knowledge and
illuminate experience, (3) intellectual
curiosity, (4) intellectual honesty,
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activity,
(5) persistent
(6) facility of expression, (7) variety
of interests, (8) sound values, (9)
and (10) extraphysical
memory.
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Obviously not all of these attributes are shared equally by the
37 students selected for the initial
program at the University, but it is
a fairly safe assumption that a majority of the students have some of
them in quantities exceeding average
students. It has been from such a set
of assumptions that the curriculum
of the colloquium was selected.
As a majority of students in the
first class are science majors, the
colloquium was constructed around
scientific thinking, especially
speculation, and the initial
step has been a close examination of
Plato's "Timaeus." Now the Timaeus"
is literally loaded with scientific information, but it is a safe assumption that none of it has value for
satellite engineers. But, as science
proceeds from a philosophical attitude of mind, and because Plato
was surely one of the great thinkers
of all time, the selection needs no
apology.
Adults who are reading the great
books this year, many of them scientists themselves, are also examining
the "Timaeus." And, in another sense,
the philosophical assumptions from
which Plato operates do have lasting
value. That is, the glass through
which he sees the universe is itself
worth examining the point is liardly
debatable.
The second step in the program
has been to examine the history of
cosmologieal thinking, through the
medium of Prof. Kuhn's book, "The
Copernician Revolution." This . is a
book used by Harvard undergradu
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The Lodge amendment, widely
discussed a few years ago, had a better plan, under which the electoral
college was to be abolished and the
electoral vote apportioned among the
candidates in proportion to the popular vote each one received in the
state. For instance, this year Mr. Kennedy got 53.7 percent of the Maryland vote and Mr. Nixon 46.3 percent.
Under the Lodge amendment the
former would have received 4.83 electoral votes in this State and Mr. Nixon
4.17.

This arrangement would have the
merit of making a candidate's total
electoral vote throughout the nation
more nearly proportional to the popular vote. It would be much better
than Senator Mundt's scheme of
choosing electors by congressional
districts with each state having two
electors at large. The Lodge plan,
which would award electoral votes by
reference to state-wid- e
totals, would
be much more equitable to the parties
than Mr. Mundt's scheme. The latter
would put a premium on gerrymandering districts and thus give one party
an undue advantage not only in congressional elections, as is more often
the case, but in Presidential elections
as well.

Merely to suggest these various
proposals is to indicate the complicated nature of the problem. It is one
which deserves consideration, but progress can safely be made only if we
proceed with deliberation.
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ates and highly recommended by
Prof. Conant. Following that, the
next step is to turn back to antiquity
and view the cosmos atomically
through the hedonistic glass of Lucretius' "De Renim Natura."
Presently we shall examine not
only cosmology but great poetry in
Milton's "Paradise Lostj" in which
the Ptolemaic astronomy provides a
scheme for the ideas, though Milton
was aware of the Copernician system
and, probably, of its philosophical
implications.
Eventually we shall discuss Father
Pierre Teilhard dc Chardin's remarkable and controversial book, "The
Phenomenon of Man," which approaches the basic assumptions about
man's place in the universe from a

biological and evolutionary point of
view. According to the Times Literary Supplement (London), this is
possibly the greatest book of our decade, perhaps even of our generation.
Though its subject matter is broadly humanities, or science from the
perspective of humanities rather than
that of the laloratory technician, the
Honors colloquium is not, obviously,
humanities course. It
a
does not duplicate the work done in
other courses in the regular curriculum.
It is, of course, a sort of class
a very informal one in which there
are lectures, discussions, anil plenty
of questions. It is the hope of the
Honors Program that it will be a
fruitful and exciting intellectual experience for the freshmen who participate.
Not all of the teaching is done
by the faculty memlers assigned to
the program. Outside specialists are
invited to participate; thus far Prof.
W. S. Krogdahl has spoken to the
grou on modern cosmology and Trof.
Jesse de Boer on Plato.
A series of discussions of the religious implications of cosmologieal
thinking are planned for the immediate future, the guests to be theologians
not connected with the University.
The students are given an opportunity to hear experts, then, discussing the subjects they know best;
afterwards they have the chance to
question these people at length.
Part of the value of this program
is the opportunity it affords students
pursuing a professional degree to
acquire some knowledge of the timeless questions on which western
thought has fed.
Most of them, in our curriculum,
might never hear asked the questions
on which our civilization is founded.
Very likely they would never hear
anyone, much less persons of intellectual stature, pose answers. And even
those Honors students who do center
their education on philosophy and
literature would bo unlikely to meet
such subject matter; in the course of
their normal, rather specialized
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