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Vol. LVI1, No. 61

Journalist Eddy Gil more speaks here
Thursday: toge Two.
Campus growth shown in pictures:

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University of Kentucky
LEXINGTON, KY., MONDAY, JAN. 17, I960

Page Two.

Appalachian Volunteer story appears
in magazine: Page Three.

Eight Pages

Commission Urges
Sweeping Changes
In State Education
By

JOHNZEH

Kernel News Editor
FRANKFORT
Sweeping
changes in Kentucky's college
and university system were recommended Friday by the Governor's
Commission on Higher Education.
Designed to help the state meet
the "educational challenge of
the coming decade," the major
recommendations to Gov. Edward T. Breathitt are:
1. Eastern, Western, Murray,
and Morchead the four largest
state colleges should expand
graduate studies at the master's

UK President John VV. Oswald,
member of the governor's commission, opposed the first recommendation, saying certain educational criteria should be estab- -

State Teachers
Threaten Strike
Angry teachers voted Saturday
to hold a class room walkout in
protest to Gov. Breathitt's proposed salary increase for state
teachers'over the next two years.
The teachers, represented by
the Kentucky Education Association, are pushing for a $900 increase. A $400 increase has been
appropriated in Gov. Breathitt's
budget.
The governor said Sunday
night that if a walkout "can
dramatize a need (for a salary
increase), I would not care to
offer any opposition."
Before sanctions could be imposed, however, the NEA would
launch an investigation into Kentucky pay practices.
A date for a statewide "professional protest day," supposed to
include some 29,000 public school
teachers, principals, supervisors,
superintendents and other "certified teaching personnel," has
not been set.
"We have to get together to
discuss ramifications of the protest," KEA President Richard
Van Hoose said Sunday. However, no meeting date has been

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4. Further expand as is needed
in professional doctoral instruction, including medicine, law,
dentistry, engineering, and education.
5. Expand its undergraduate
program, including the community college system.
Also, the commission recommended
abolishing
members on the institutions' governing boards.
(Gov. Breathitt is now head
of the UK trustees because of
his elected position, and the state
superintendant of education
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Effervescent Exuberance
UK Wildcats Thad Jaracz, Louis Dampier, and Pat Riley congratulate each other after their 96-8victory over Vanderbilt Saturday.
The win knocked the Commodores from the SEC lead, which they
shared with UK, and raised hope that Kentucky would lead Tuesday's national rankings. See story, page six.
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Course Changes
Reported Heavy

By FRANK BROWNING
Assistant Managing Editor
Checks of eight academic colleges this morning showed the number
of students using the drop-adsystem for course changes to be
somewhat increased over last semester's figures.
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their heaviest clays for
were last week although
the college deans did not receive
student IBM cards until Friday.
Students will be able to add
courses through Wednesday; students may drop a course without
a grade until Jan. 25.
The "big crush" for
in the University's biggest
college, Arts and Sciences, came
Wednesday, Dr. Herbert Dren-non- ,
Assistant Dean, said. "It was
extremely crowded all day long,"
he said.
is never an or"Drop-addinderly period," the dean continued, "but it's just one of the
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If the walkout fails to pro
duce substantially increased salaries, the teachers have promised
to take steps toward nationwide
sanctioning of Kentucky schools.
The "blacklisting" has been
carried out by the National Education Association in Utah and
Oklahoma.
KEA Executive Secretary J.M.
Dodson explained some details
of sanctions:
Placement agencies would be
asked to refer qualified teachers
to Kentucky school boards, and
college graduates would be encouraged to seek jobs, elsewhere.
Kentucky teachers would be
asked not to renew their teaching contracts.
Even though the KEA and the
governor have been at odds over
salaries, Breathitt's budget pass- -

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preparation of college teachers in
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Poster policy announced by Student
Center Board: Page Eight.

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programs."

ed the General Assembly and was
signed into law on Friday allowing for a $400 increase.
The governor defended the
bill Sunday night, calling it a
"fair budget." He said the budget has done all it could with
the funds available.
"The budget is law now,"
what we can do in other ways,"
Breathitt said. "The point is
what we can do in other ways."
He said that his administration
would continue to work with
teachers at the local level.

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If Kentucky teachers carry out their proposed
state walkout they have threatened in the next three weeks, they will do it
without opposition from Gov. Edward T. Breathitt.
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lished before an institution is
named a university.
Concurring with Dr. Oswald
were two other members, Transylvania College President Dr. Irvin
E. Lunger, and Msgr. John F.
Murphy, head of Villa Madonna
College, Covington.
The five state college presidents opposed handing control
of the Council on Public Higher
The
to laymen.
Education
council, a vital regulatory unit,
now is largely controlled by the
state college heads.
The commission said UK
should:
1. Expand and strengthen its
graduate programs at the doclevel.
toral and
2. Serve as the "principal state
institution for the conduct of
statewide research and service

level and should be renamed
regional "state universities."
2. The University of Louisville,
now mainly financed by Jefferson
County and the City of Louisville, should be "invited" to become a state university.
3. Control of the Kentucky
Council on Public Higher Education should be in the hands of
laymen, not educators.

Editor discusses
Page Four.

Desegregation ot Southern colleges
discussed: Page Fire.
Passage of state's Ciril Rights bill
expected tonight: Page Seven.
UK Coed
convicted ot shoplifting:

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As with all colleges but Education, Arts and Sciences allowed
students to complete their carbon
dropadd slips Wednesday and
Thursday
although
computer
cards could not be filled out
until they were distributed to
colleges Friday.
A&.-staff members filled out
the cards for students whereas
some colleges asked students to
return to fill them out.
Dean Lyman Ginger, of the
College of Education, said business was "highly successful" with
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"Long lines were there Friday
You used to be able to buy told drinks in bottles from the ma- and they're still there this morning. Students in Education did
chines, and everyone thought that was the ultimate. Then, they not
until Fribegin
came along with drinks in paper cups. Then plastic cups. Now, at
day morning.
last, we have the drinks that need no human assistance. They disDrop-addinseems
much
appear by themselves. A cupless cold drink machine is a case in oint. higher than it has been in pre- drop-addin-

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semcstcr, Dean Ginr es- timatcd. "It's a process that just
takes a little time."
A spokesman at the College
of Commerce felt that course
changes were lighter this semester than last semester.
was heaviest there Wednesday and Thursday.
Miss Lucy Hogan, administra- Continued on Page 8
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Colleges List

Enrollments
With the colleges of Medicine
and Dentistry yet to report, 9,992
students have registered for the
spring semester.
Arts and Sciences has 4,033,
compared with 4,037 lor the fall
semester. There are 1,987 males.
1,913 females, and 5 "neuters",
who failed to list their sex in
registration.
Eleven fell under that classification in all.
The breakdown on the other
colleges is:
Agriculture: (20; 351 males,
2(i8 females; Commerce: 991; 83G
males, 15( females; Education:
1,581; 310 males, 1,231 females;
Engineering: 1,131; 1,125 males,
eight females; Graduate Scluxd:
1,107; 807 males and 293 females;
Law: 3f5; 35V males, 13 females;
Pharmacy: Ki5; 114 males, 12 females; Nursing: 163, all females;
Architecture: 163; 156 males and
7 females; College not listed: 10;
7 males and 3 females.

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UK's Circle K

Last year's UK Appalachian Volunteer
project, initiated and
directed by Circle K, is in the headlines again.
Hailed as "a home-growPeace Corps," the project is reviewed in the current issue of
Kiwanis, monthly magazine of Kiwanis International service clubs.
The AV effort won the organ- that work, the article says, that
ization's "single service" award won UK the top award.
Initial labor on the project
for 1964-65- .
Circle K is the
began when Larry Kelley, then
arm of Kiwanis Intera senior and club president disnational.
cussed the idea with Tom
The story told in the magazine is a story ofwork.anditwas
Padgett, current president. The
two realized a lack of coordination between national AV administrators and campus club
leaders was hampering the effectiveness of the overall program.
Kappa Delta Pi, education
To remedy the situation,
honorary, is having a "Get AcCircle K members agreed to act
quainted Party" for all members as coordinators. From headand students and faculty interested in becoming members from quarters in the Student Center,
3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday in the projects assigned by the national
office were channeled to specific
Faculty Lounge of Dickey Hall.
groups.
Kelly was elected president of
Graduating seniors who plan
the state Volunteers, and proto work for graduate degrees and
who are members of Phi Eta ceeded to enlist more colleges in
the effort. At latest count, the
Sigma, freshman men's honorary,
article says, 18 Kentucky colare eligible to apply for the fraterwith more than a thousand
nity's scholarships. Contact Jack leges
students have joined the VolHall in Room 201 of the Adminnetwork.
istration Building. Deadline is unteer
"Meanwhile, Padgett now
Feb. 4, 1966.
was surprising his club on an
award-winnin- g
campaign. By the
honPhi Alpha Theta, history
end of the first year, club memorary, will hold its monthly
bers alone had devoted 1,680
meeting in Room 245 of the Stuhours to AV projects. On weekdent Center at 3:45 p.m. Jan. 19.
ends, they had worked at 36
eastern Kentucky schools,
Applications for the UK Quiz
of which they completely
Bowl have been mailed to all many
renovated," the story continues.
housing units. Those students
Money for the projects came
and residences
living
that need additional forms may
get them in Room 201 of the
Student Center. Deadline is
5 p.m. Friday in Room 201 of
the Student Center.

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The University's annual Space
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following
program opens
Student Association committees:
January 24, with presentations
social, academic, information, by Dr. Frank A. Brown Jr., Morand housing. Leave your name rison
professor of biology at
at the OCSA desk in Room 107 Northwestern University, and Dr.
of the Student Center.
Paul W. Gast of the Lamont
Geological Observatory at CoCopies of the 1965-6- 6 student lumbia University.
directories may be obtained in
Dr. Brown will speak on "The
of the Biological Clock Problem" at 4
the second floor check-rooStudent Center Jan. 17 to 21. p.m. Tuesday. Dr. Gast will
discuss the composition of the
Graduating seniors interested earth and inner planets at 4 p.m.
in applying for the Corning Glass Thursday.
Both lectures will be given in
Fellowship should contact Dr.
R. O. Evans. Call 2133 or 2684. Room 137 of the Chemistry-Physic- s
Building and are open
Applications should be made
within two weeks.
to the public.

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A series o f four programs on
America's role in Vietnam will
be aired over WBKY, the University of Kentucky's FM radio
station, starting at 8 05 p.m.
tonight.
These programs were recorded
at a Vietnam debate sponsored
by the Students for Democratic
Society (SDS) in Memorial Hall
during November, faculty adviser
Don Wheeler said.
The speakers and air date of
their programs include:
Tonight, 8:05 p.m. The Hev.
Francis Corley, associate professor in history at St. Louis University, representing the government's point of view.
Wednesday, 8:05 p.m. Sydney
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Lens,
journalist,
author, and member of the board
of editors of "Liberation" magazine, opposing the present U.S.
commitment.
Friday, 8:05 p.m., Reverand
John L. Clark, member of the
steering committee of the Democratic party, supporting
the
American role.
Monday, Jan. 24 , 8:05 p.m.,
Sanford Cotlieb, political action
director of the Committee for a
Sane Nuclear Policy, denouncing
the
U.S.'s military role in
Vietnam.
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CIRCLE K PRESIDENT TOM PADGETT
from Student Congress, the fedand the
eral
Government,
Kiwanis Club of Lexington,
which sponsors the campus
group. Students raised $420 themselves with a book sale, the article says.
The author quotes Padgett in
summing up Circle K participation in AV:
"These isolated mountain
people have little knowledge of
the outside world. The Volunteers try to communicate some
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repaired, but rather in the community meetings and joint-effoprojects which they inspire. For
it's only by coordinated effort
that these people will be able
to take their rightful place in
our American society."
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Widening Our Scope
Today's Kernel edition marks
an unprecedented
step which
should be significant to the entire
UnderUniversity community.
standably, we are proud of this extra edition, but of more consequence, this expansion will peradditional news
mit
of the campus, its various
coverage
groups and their respective activities.
Obviously, the reason for this is
alleviation of a heretofore lack of
adequate news space. Although the
University has expanded immensely
and its events increased equally
the
during the past
Kernel has not expanded in its publication schedule. Since 195S, it has
been published four times weekly
and previously was only a weekly
publication. The shortcoming has
been obvious and a point of contention frequently called to our attention by various campus groups
believing their activities have either
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inform our readers of such events.
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part of our society affects our
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However, our only resource for
such provision is through the major
news wire services, and the LexCo. holds the
ington Herald-Leade- r
local franchise. For commercial and
competitive reasons, the newspapers have refused to extend
to such service for the
Kernel, consequently, our coverage
of world, national and state happenings will remain limited.
As for coverage of local, but
events, the Kernel also feels
an additional obligation. As most
readers of the local press are aware,
events effecting or conducted by
or
various
minority
groups receive only
limited covers ce. and even this is
cften siited $3 tit the editorial
opinion ci tbe papers. As many of
res-i- d
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off-camp-

The addition of the Monday issue also will tighten a weekend
news gap which formeriy existed
exf sich
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from Friday afternoon through
zr;rp xr :er..bers of
Tuesday . Heretofore, many events
the UuivtsrfLty prjulii-ethis too
occurring during this period have
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to us
had little news value by Tuesday.
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Another shortcoming which w e deal.
had hoped our extra addition would
A Zji'ypijnz. unlike the ideal
alleviate, but have found other- politician. czr&it be all things to
wise, is the lack of proper pre- all people. Ncr should it try to be.
sentation of significant state, naWe hope the entire University
tional, and international news. community will be rewarded by the
While some contend we already pre- addition of a fifth issue of the
sent a disproportionate amount of Kernel weekly. The extra edition
such news, it should be noted the
certainly will enable our staff to
better cany out the standards of
the Kernel philosophy.
As the philosophy indicates,
"The university paper should depict, as accurately and as comprehensively as possible, the life
and work of its community students, faculty, and members of the
administration.
It should resist
to narrow its scope,
every urge
becoming thereby only a 'student
paper, as opposed to a paper which
will serve the total university community.'" This will be our goal.

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Education Aid
Federal aid to education is increasing, and that is encouraging.

$5 billion. Payments
$600 million.

in 1962 totaled

The cost of building and operand seconGovernments announced that "a ating public elementary
schools will be $31 billion
new epoch in school finances is dary
in 1970. In 1964 it was $21 billion.
beginning." By 1970 federal payments to local schools will exceed
Government funds said the
council, will help state and local
governments raise salaries, pay for
more teachers and specialists, such
"The ideal of Independence re- as remedial
reading experts, proquires resistance to the herd spirit vides better facilities and longer
now so widespread, to our worship school
days.
of quantity and indifference to qualApparently there is no longer
ity, to our unthinking devotion to
a fear that federal aid will mean
organization, standardization,
federal control in the classroom.
propaganda, and advertising."
Daniel Gregory Mason Instead, states are seeing federal
aid for what it is: a boost toward
better education systems which will
"Women, like princes, find few make a better America.
real friends."
-- George, Lord Lyttlelton
Ohio State Lantern
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To Seat Or Not To Seat
With the selection of eight Negro
members in recent elections, the
Georgia Legislature is one in the
Deep South beginning to lose its
provinimage of
cialism.
But the body's refusal to seat
Julian Bond in
Representative-elec- t
the House thwarted urban liberals'
hopes that time and reapportionment had broadened the minds of
its lawmakers.
Though Mr. Bond is a Negro,
he was not denied a seat on the
basis of his race; seven other Negroes, the first elected since 1907,
were seated without question.
The objection arose because of
Mr. Bond's publicly-expresse- d
sympathy for draft card burners. In
their refusal to grant Mr. Bond a
seat, the legislators usurped the
power of judge and jury and decided, without fair trial according
to law, that Mr . Bond was guilty
of violating a law.
In overcoming racial bias in
seating the other delegates, the
legislators clung to a substitute
vestige of antiquity, a misguided
patriotism with a syrupy base and
a Southern accent which will not
accept a heretic. Gov. Carl Sanders,
beginning to make a reputation as
a progressive executive, chimed in
in agreement with the Legislature.
The Legislature has denied that
rural-dominat-

free speech is an issue in refusing
Mr. Bond his seat. They have, however, given no other reason for their
184-1vote against seating Mr.
Bond.
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We must agree with Mr. Bond
and his attorneys that free speech
is indeed an issue, Mr. Bond, a duly
elected representative, seems to
have been denied his seat solely
as a result of expressed views.
The implications of such action,
if it is allowed to stand, are disturbing: that legislatures assume
power of judge and jury over elected
representatives, deciding whether
they are "pure" enough to be admitted.

In the case of the Georgia Legislature, the body seems to have
assumed power to review the convictions of elected representatives,
barring them from their rightful
power if these convictions disagree
with the opinions of the majority.
It does, in effect, give the Legislature the power to choose its
own members, entirely apart from
the wishes of the state's citizens.
Such a procedure hardly could be
reconciled within the framework of
democracy.
The legality of Mr. Bond's
utterances should be judged by the
courts, and the representativeness
of his opinions by his constituents.

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NegroColleges: Leaders Lean To Conservatism
Dy RITA DERSIIOWITZ
The Collegiate Press Service
Desegregation of higher education
began in the South long before the 1951
Supreme Court decision, although it received its major impetus at that time. As
of the 1961-6- 5 school year, however, only
about 17 per cent of Negro college students in the 11 Southern states were going
to school in previously
colleges
and universities. Negro colleges continue
to provide the only opportunity for higher
education for the great majority of Negro
students.
Negroes are not entering desegregated
white colleges for several reasons, but
one of the; major reasons lies in the Negro
college itself. Maintaining a tenuous
balance between the predominately white
world of
higher education and the Negro community they serve,
Negro college administrators have been
primarily a conservative force within the
civil rights movement.
Last April Alabama State College, an
school in Montgomery, had 11
students arrested for sitting in at the
office of the president. The students were
attempting to present President Levi
Watkins with a list of grievances, which
included the charge that students were
being disciplined for their participation
in civil rights activities. It was reported
that nine students had been suspended
by a
disciplinary
board for "willful disobedience" and "insubordination" in connection with civil
rights activities.
Just recently, about 250 students at
Southern University in Baton Rouge, La.,
which with 6,700 students is the second
largest Negro University in the country,
rallies and
kept up a week of
demonstrations on the campus. The president of Southern, Felton Clark, dismissed
the demonstrators as malcontents.
"We couldn't understand what they
wanted," Dr. Clark said. "They had a
vague set of unrealistic demands, ranging
from keeping the library open all night to
lowering the student fees."
state-support-

faculty-administrati-

sit-in- s,

Dr. Clark attempted to discredit the
motives of the demonstrators. "One of the
leaders was from Berkeley's crowd you
know, they spend summers in Berkeley
and get indoctrinated." The student Dr.
Clark apparently referred to was Herman
Carter, who had acted as the campus host
during a visit by a representative of
Berkeley's Free Speech Movement last
year. Perhaps philosophically close to the
aims of the FSM, Carter had never been
actually connected to "the Berkeley

crowd."

In fact, the demonstrators at Southern
had a very long and specific set of grievances and demands, the first of which was
that "President Clark take a stand on
segregation." The other demands ranged
from academic reforms "the personal
views of professors should have no bearing
on the maintenance of his position at the
to disciplinary procedures
University"
"decisions in this area should not be left
to the sole discretion of the deans."
At Arkansas A.M.&N, with 2,200 stu-

dents, President Lawrence Davis maintains a strong hand over his students.
Called

familiarly,

and

to his face, as

"Prexy," Davis seems to be universally
respected as well as submitted to. "There
might be some hot heads on campus, but

once Prexy talks to them, they do what he
wants," one student said affectionately of
the president.
At various times in the past Arkansas
A,M,&N has been urged to protest by
civil rights leaders from outside the college. Two years ago, Dick Gregory and
some Student
Coordinating
Committee workers came to Pine Bluff
and called students to march on a local
restaurant where Negroes had been beaten
for trying to enter. President Davis called
a meeting of the entire student body,
warning them of the possible "consequences" if any of them did march on
the town.

on us,'" said Kenneth Johnson, a
d
student whose parents
senior
both teach at the college.

lature

pre-mc-

Dr. Davis also reportedly told the

stu-

dents that if all of them were to march

it

might mean something, but since it would
be only a small group it would accomplish
nothing. In the end, only a small handful of students marched.

The threat from state legislature seems
to be a real one. At one point in Arkansas
A, M, or N's history the legislaturedidcut
the school's appropriations, allegedly for
the activist speakers on campus, though
no one agrees on just how much was cut.
In at least one state, Louisiana, the legislature is taking an active role in extending
segregated higher education by actually
appropriating more funds for expansion of
the state's Negro colleges. As a result of
state appropriations, both Louisiana State
University and Southern University are
planning to open branch campuses in the
same cities.
Asked if this would not perpetuate the

dual and unequal education of the past,
Southern's President Clark answered that
the state legislature is simply responding
to the communities it represents. "I want
to see the Negro get as good an education as he can, and if he can get it only
in a segregated school, then yes, I support
expansion of this school in the same cities
as LSU," he said.
Dr. Clark insists that failure to demand
integration of higher education rather than
a parallel Negro system docs not mean that

Non-viole-

"He told us, 'We don't need that
sort of thing, we don't need the legis

LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS

in the future higher education will remain
segregated. He forsees a time when the
Negro institution will be so good that it
will compete with white universities for
white students, thereby integrating from
that direction. Citing Howard University
as an example of a school that "becomes
so good it puts itself out of business as a
Negro college, Dr. Clark predicted the
same role for Southern University.
Southern now has 3 white students.

"Inside Report"

Roth Dr. ("lark and Dr. Davis seem to
see the function of the Negro college as a

the
kind of riscue operation-performi- ng
remedial work that will correct the deficiencies of the Negro high school and
perhaps prepare the student for a real,
that is, an essentially white, higher education.
"The Negro student conies from a
disadvantaged background,"' President
Davis said, "and the college has to introduce him to the cultural milieu of Western
society to allow him to communicate with
people from that society. Certainly we
want to develop a critical mind, and the
ability to evaluate established society, but
he needs to be able to spell, to be able to
read a book first."
Not only do the Negr