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Vol. LVI, No. f0

University of Kentucky
LEXINGTON, KY., FRIDAY, JAN.

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Cutbacks in the aircraft anil
icrospace industries recently
affected college placement.
Page Two.
College and university doors
closing. See Page Kive.

Three highway researchers have
reported on the progress of Kentucky's highway projects. See Page
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Centennial Ball Committee
Members of the Centennial Ball Committee are
(from the left) Gil Kingsbury, alumni member of
teh' committee; Peggy Parsons, student member;
Larry Kelley, cochairman; Mrs. John V. Oswald,
exofflcio member; Dr. Douglas W. Schwartz, fac

ulty member; and Mrs. Richard Crutcher, alumni
member. The Centennial Ball is expected to be
the highlight of the one hundredth anniversary
of the University.

Student Congress Considers
Dropping Students Insurance
Move Affects
34 Percent
Of Students
By DAVID V. IIAWPE
Kernel Executive Editor
A proposal to drop student
insurance as an activity of Student Congress is under sonsider-atio'

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Representative Michele Cleveland, a senior in Arts and
Sciences, told last night's session
of Congress the first of the new
year that she has been advised
by her father, an insurance
broker, that the plan should be
discontinued.
Miss Cleveland said her father
listed two primary reasons for
his conviction:
Many parents drop insurance
on their children while taking
the student policy, and when they

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want to. resume their previous
coverage after graduation they
find that they have many times
developed health problems. The
new conditions are then eliminated from the policy which they
take.
The same parents who will
pay for a student insurance policy
on their children usually already
have insurance in force for them.
Miss Cleveland said her father
suggested writing a letter to each
student's parents, informing
them that their child will be
covered only under the University's program (Health Service).
About 34 percent of the st udent
body presently takes the Student
Congress insurance policy.
Miss Cleveland and Representative Rick VVakeland have
investigated insurance policies
with various companies, seeking
the most workable plan for the
University student body.
Also at last night's meeting,

Leader Near Death

CHURCHILL HIT
BY STROKE

The Associated Press
LONDON Sir Winston Churchill today suffered a cerebral
thrombosis a blood clot in the brain and there was widespread
statesman might be at the end of the
concern the the
road.
A thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot in an artery.
Sir Winston has survived two previous strokes.
A medical bulletin from his doctors said Sir Winston also has
developed a circulatory weakness, which would appear to indicate
that his heart is flagging or that there was a fairly general blockage
of the arteries.
Lord Moran, Sir Winston's private physician, said he would call
at the home of Britain's great wartime leader late today.
Lord Moran, 82, has been Sir Winston's physician for years, and
accompanied him on his far ranging travels as Britain's prime
minister during World War II.
The medical bulletin said "A further bulletin will be issued at
10 o'clock tonight."
That is 5 p.m. EST.
His son, Randolph, earlier had said Sir Winston had a cold, but
added that at Churchill's age any illness must be regarded as serious.
In the past, he has suffered a number of illnesses and had at
least two strokes.
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has been at any other time during
The College of Arts and
Sciences hopes to hire a Negro
assistant professor in the next
few months.
A story appearing in the
identiLouisville Courier-Journfied the professor as a graduate
of a college in Michigan and the
recipient of a doctorate from Indiana University. The name of
the professor was not released
pending further consideration.
Presently the Medical Center
has both clerical and technical
Negro workers in employment.
President John W. Oswald
noted that there had been no
"zeroed in" search for a Negro
professor, but that the lack of
qualified Negroes who might fill
University faculty vacancies had
presented a problem.
The professor the University
is seeking to employ would fill
an existing vacancy in the teaching staff.
President Oswald noted that
the entire recruitment had been
handled in a most routine manner

its
history.
andtli.it
ing his office from the college deans contained no reference
to race.
DeanM. M. White of the College of Arts and Sciences toldthe
Kernel that the professor had not
yet accepted the position offered
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him.

"He has been approved
by everybody," the dean said,
"but our recommendation can't
go to the trustees until we have
an acceptance from him."
Trustee approval

is

considered

merely a formality in the hiring
of professors on the recommendation of a dean.
Dean White indicated that it
might be several months before
the trustees would receive this

recommendation.

If hired, the new professor
would begin teaching during the
summer term. Currently he is a
captain in the United States Army
and is doing research work in
human relations.

Representative Heidi Hanger's
resignation was accepted, and
election of a representative to fill
her place was scheduled.
Miss Hanger was reported to
feel that student teaching and
other activities would occupy too
The University Board of Trustees met today at 2:30
much of her time, and that she
e
would thus not be able to conp.m. to hear a report on the
physical detinue as a valuable member of the
of the central campus given by Lawrence
velopment
group.
Coleman, campus planner. The Kernel will carry a comPresident Steve Beshear cauprehensive report on the plan in the Tuesday edition.
tioned that it would be wise to
move slowly in this matter, and
a suggestion from the floor noted
that it would be wise to speak to
the new vice president for student
affairs, Robert Johnson, before
taking action.
Beshear said applications for
Miss Hanger's position would be
The Student Center Music
holiday vacation the board was
accepted in the Student Congress
Room was turned over to the
unable to act until Tuesday's
5 p.m. next Friday.
office until
Centennial Office by an unaniThe election will be by secret
meeting. "We also decided to go
mous vote of the Student Center ahead and let the Centennial
ballot of the members of ConBoard in its first meeting this Committee have the Music Room
gress, one week from the close of
year Tuesday night.
because it is the best room availthe application period.
Rusty Carpenter, board treaable, and the Student Center is
It was announced at the meetto move
surer, said the
ing that football coach Charles the Centennial request was first the hub of University life," Caroffice
Bradshaw will appear before Conpenter added.
introduced in a letter from Vice
Miss Cramer said that she had
gress in the next few weeks
President of Business Affairs Robearlier suggested that the Cenfootball program.
Bradshaw's appearance fol- ert Kerley asking the board to tennial offices use the Student
lows a controversy begun when donate its Music Room because ArtCallery and that the Art
be moved to the Music Room
the Kentucky Kernel severely of the inadequate facilities of the
criticized Bradshaw's program. present offices and because that so as not to eliminate eigher
The Kernel itself has been seemed the most readily availfacility. However, whe said that
it was determined that the Music
asked to appear before Congress. able room.
Room lighting was inadequate
Beshear agreed to a request from
The Music Room, located at
for the gallery.
the floor, at last night's meetthe north end of the Creat Hall,
"The browsing room (next door
ing, that a Kernel representative was loaned to Dr. J. W. Patterthe Music Room) is used treexplain the newspaper's afterson, Centennial coordinator, for to
noon delivery system.
the remainder of the year as mendously," Miss Cramer said.
She expressed hope that since it
Representative Candy Johnheadquarters for the Centennial.
will remain open, the Music
son reported on the Community The Music Room willcontinueas
Room equipment could be used
College Leadership Conference. a listening room until the CenShe noted that student leaders tennial offices are able to make there by special arrangements.
Board officials stated that the
from the community college the transfer.
Centennial Committee would
system will be on campus March
for the meetings.
have an exhibit outside the Music
Carolyn Cramer, vice presiRoom throughout thecomingyear
She said the primary purpose dent of the Student Center Board,
of the conference will be to bring said "We're concerned this would and that it would be the primary
the outlying campuses closer to be taking away a student service center of Centennial events. Miss
the Lexington campus.
that has always been there that Cramer said that since the room
would probably be used for interSpeakers, discussions periods, of listening to music. However,
and evaluations sessions are planwe donated the room mainly beviewing, meetings, and greeting
ned for the March meeting.
cause of two surveys that tended special guests, it was necessary
Also discussed at the meeting to prove the Music Room isn't
that it have pleasant decorations
and surroundings. The Music
were the Centennial Ball, Conused as much as it should be."
The original request came in Room seemed best able to meet
gress" officers' trip to a leadership conference, and registration. early DecemU'r, but due to the these criteria.

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Cutbacks In Defense Industries Affect Placement
A recent survey conduct oil by
the College Placement Council
on beginning salary offers to col
lege seniors has shown that the
backlash of cutbacks in the aircraft and aerospace industry has
had a sizeable effect on college
campuses this year.
The University is one of the
institutions participating in the
survey which is based on data
on data from placement officers
at 108 selected colleges and
in the United States.
It is being conducted for the
sixth year by the Council, national headquarters of the eight
regional placement associates of
the U. S. and Canada.
Mrs. Kathcrine Kemper, director of placement at UK, said
the first report of the season shows
that offers by aircraft firms to
college seniors throughout the
nation arc continuing to decline
sharply, maintaining a trend
noted last year.
The Council's first report of
1962-6- 3
indicated that this employer group accounted for 920
offers, 45 percent of the total.
The figure was 824 last year, or
36 percent of the total, and this
season it has dropped to 447, or
20 percent.
Statistics have also been compiled on master's degree candidates and, for the first time, on
doctoral level candidates by the
Council's Salary Survey Committee, under the chairmanship
of Arthur F. Hartford of E. 1.
du Pont de Nemours and Company.
Master's candidates in chemical Engineering experienced an
increase of 2.5 percent, with a
low of $710 and a high of $772,
while doctoral candidates gained
2.9 percent, with
figures
of $992 and $1,073.

Current ranges for other leading bachelor's level groups are
electrical engineering, $586 to
$GS8, and aeronautical engineering, $581 to $685.
Although the situation may
change later in the season, construction and building materials
employers are notably higher
than any other employer group
in rate of increase in average
monthly offers.
Figures have gone up 7.2 percent since the close of last year's
recruiting season. Offers this year
have ranged from $521 to $693.
The current report includes
offers from the beginning of the
fall season to Sec. 15. Subsequent reports will appear March
1 and at the end of the recruiting season.
While the number of aircraft
offers on the bachelor's level continued to drop, the electronics
group, which declined sharply
in the fall months last year from

177 offers to 79, has climbed back
up to 131 this season.
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public accounting categories.
The number of offers to electrical engineers has dwindled
from 777 in the first period two
years ago, to 578 last year, to
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Centennial celebration, the University's calendar for this semester is more than usually "hopping" with things to do and
places to go.
The first major event on the
"social front" is the Gold Diggers Ball, on Jan. 29. This is
the turnabout dance where the
ladies issue the invitations, act
as escorts, and foot the bill "to
boot." The chuckles really begin
when the contest for the most
original "bouquet" is judged.
Many a clever lass has "had
her day" over this unpredictable
"showdown of the wits."
The second week in February
is Greek Week, and the Greeks
will again treat themselves to
both ; the serious and light aspects of fraternity and "sorority

Later that month, on the 20th,
the Centennial Ball, commemorating the University's founding,
will be held in the Student
Center. Lester Lanin, famed
society bandleader, will entertain
from 10 p.m. until 2 a.m. at the

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finest.
Spring semester is the basketball semester. And for much of
the term we'll be loyally and
enthusiastically
cheering the
Wildcats for everything we're
worth.

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biggest social event of the year.
In the best tradition of formal
dances, the Centennial Ball Invitations, $2 per couple will read
"Dress: Black Tie." This will
be a chance for all students, alumni, and faculty to dress in their

little brisk, but fair-t- he
promise
of an early spring and we're in
class again!
Yes, indeed. Registration is
over, and although less hazardous than last semester, it was
a "memorable affair."
The bookstores have been assaulted with the usual enthusiabooks for a two-hou- r
Fee paying schedules are scattered all over the
campus, drop-ad- d
slips are almost as prevalent as pierced cars.
And the fun has just begun. . .
Because of preparations for the

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The Phi Sig's hold one of
their "traditionals" as dice click
the roulette wheel turns, and
Monte Carlo comes to Kentucky.
The Formations will provide
background music.
Jack Frost will be honored at
the Pike house with a Winter
Wonderland party. . .as the
Nightcrawlers warm the air. The
Phi Tau's entertain their rushees
with a little bit of Coney Island
and the men of Zeta Beta Tau
go "beat" to the music of Ronnie
and the Sensations.
While the Cats are away "tanning" Tennessee's hide, the Student Center movie fare features
"Two Rode Together." Sunday's
offering is Part II of "Ivan the
Terrible."
To the cheerful ring of "hi,
welcome back," we add our greetings to a Centennial new year
and new semester which has already begun on a swinging note.
So this is what is in store.
And the beginning is now!
Of course "Kris Kringle" has
long since departed considerably lighter after depositing his
load of "goodies." New Years

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Fraternity rush that is, and
this weekend gaiety will be the
noise heard round the campus as
all the houses kick off the first
weekend of legal rush activities.
To this mclcc of hand shakes
and smiles a new group has
entered the running. . .Thcta Xi
fraternity. Good luck!
Kappa Alpha will entertain,
with the big sound of theTempta-shun- s
on Friday night as bands
seem to be appearing all along the

"row."

The men of ATO, and Phi Sig
host the Embers andtheCorvairs
respectively, while Lambda Chi
and most of the other houses plan
their "big blasts" for Saturday
night.
Saturday takes an early start
as Boyd Hall sponsors an all
campus jam session from 1 p.m.
until the dinner hour. Our energy
restored, the real work of the day
begins. . .parties, entertainment,
fun! After all, "all work and no
play, etc. . ."
The Teke's, Phi Delt's, Lambda Chi's, and Fiji's all plan to
entertain in the best traditional
"big brother" manner with
friendly house parties for rushees,

brothers and dates, while the
And speaking of races, the
SAE's use the first weekend of weekend before our final examirush to show off their new house. nations, the granddaddy of all
The Epics will provide the races, the Kentucky Derby, will
music at the ATO house and be run. Give thanks for that
theme parties promise added de--. roommate from Louisville!
light at several of the other houses.
Then, wonder of wonders
Pin-Mate- s
spring vacation! From March 14
to March 21 UK students will
Ann Shcward, a sophomore
roam from California to Bermuda
English and special education
and back. Oh, blessed sex, suds, major from Dorth Hill College,
and sportscars!
Cincinnati Ohio,toRoy Reynolds,
When we finally shake all
a third year architecture student
the sand from our shoes or snow from Morehead and a member of
from the car, depending upon
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
the site of "vacationland"
Betty Carroll Roll, freshman
classes will again be in session, home economics major from Louand spring will indeed be upon isville to Doug McMichael, a
us. . .
sophomore mechanical engineerSpring is also the time when ing major from Louisville and a
the sororities and fraternities let member of Lambda Chi Alpha
down their hair at their indifraternity.
vidual formals. The themes are
Anne Sutherland, junior commerce major from Harrodsburg,
many and varied, but the results will all be the same. . . to Tom Boggs, junior chemical
a wonderful time!
engineering major from HarrodsApril will bring the Lambda burg and a member of Phi GamChi Alpha Pushcart Derby, the ma Delta fraternity.
Little Kentucky Derby, and the
Jane Manter, freshman education major from Lexington and a
opening of Keeneland.
All of these come bearing years member of Kappa Delta, to Nolan
of tradition, and each has its Harrison, junior mechanical ensupporters. But what would gineering major from Eastview
spring be without a trip or two and a member of Phi Gamma
Delta fraternity.
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by the knowledge that our world
may momentarily explode.
There are exceptions. There is
the Peace Corps; there is the Mississippi Volunteer group; and, nearer home, there are the Appalachian
Volunteers. Students have made
commitments at Berkeley.
But what of the University of
Kentucky, and the multitude of
schools like her, peopled by status-maconventional, apathetic student bodies.
To paraphrase Newton Minow,
the University is presently a vast
academic wasteland; the student
body is a ponderous mass of
and
who haven't learned to care.
people
Concerts draw large audiences
thanks to the support of Lexington
citizens.
Chamber music performances
draw little or no support, even from
the faculty and local residents.
Lectures are a total loss, an embarrassment to those who promote
them and then are rewarded with
very sparse turnouts.
d,

non-intellectu-

anti-intellectua- ls,

Political groups are dormant for
the most part, and political commitment of students practically is
non-existe-

Our library is filled only at
exam time.
Art Exhibits are attended by

hardly any students.
Guignol thrives thanks to support from Lexington residents.
Sporting events draw huge
crowds.

These are vestiges of a deeper,
more devastating (to a University
community) fault: lack of intellectual commitment.
We feel

that vast majority of

students at the University are motivated primarily by the boost a college degree gives to their earning
power. Knowledge for knowledge's
sake is almost unheard of. What
a mockery we make of "the search

for

truth."

We haven't the guts to challenge the basic assumptions handed
to us by a teaching staff that is
more than competent in most cases.
We are devoid, for the most part, of

intellectual curiosity.
Perhaps we have seen too much
of strife in our time. Perhaps we
have learned that war is fought for
political expediency and economic
stability.
Perhaps we have learned that we
hang on the brink of nuclear destruction because, in part, nations
economies rest heavily on "defense"
spending.
Perhaps we have learned that
money talks, and talks loudly, even
more loudly than "truth" and
"knowledge" and that basketfull of
other words we have come to
consider platitudes.
We were born in the midst of
World War II, and we have been
reminded of it continually since.
Our childhoods were maked by
the Korean War, President Truman's "police action" which cost
more than 50,000 American lives
and injured more than 100,000
We have held our breaths as we
walked the tightrope over Cuba, a
fall meaning total destruction.
We are enduring the shame of
losing in the South Vietnam, while
to the north the Chinese become
another nuclear power.
We have learned that pragmatic
values are the most advantageous
in a world one step from destruction.
What have "knowledge" and
"truth" to offer? Will they boost
our income? Will they protect us
from the Viet Cong when we meet
them face to face?
It is all too plain. We are creatures of the immediate. We dare
not look too far into the future,
a future which may not come.
The result: we make few commitments. We are afraid to be
definite. We know everything else
is uncertain, so we reason tWt we
should be. Instead, we satisfy ourselves as best as we can with hamburgers, soft drinks, the "jerk,"
and all the other trappings of the
"Pepsi generation."
They say we are going to the

dogs.
We wonder.
Are we going anywhere at all?

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William Crant,

David IIawpe, Executive Editor

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The Kentucky Kernel
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Editor-In-ClU-

Sid Webb, Managing Editor

Linda Mills, News Editor
Kenneth Ckeen, Associate News Editor
Henry Rosenthal, Sports Editor
Cay Cish, Women's Page Editor
C. Scott Nunley, Arts Editor
Blithe Runsdokf, Feature Editor

9QCH

Letters To The Editor
To the Editor of the Kernel:

It was particularly gratifying to
learn at least one of the reasons behind the recently voted raise in the
rent at Cooperstown and Shawnee,
Mr. Pemberton's "shower record."
After all, 13,000 gallons of water (or
was it 16,000?) is a rather expensive
public shower, even for an aspiring
young freshman.
I feel constrained, however, to
point out that while 16 hours may
be a university record, such a record
will definitely have to be footnoted.
The interested reader is referred to
"Behavior therapy in complex neurotic states," British Journal of
in which
Psychiatry, 1964, 110,
relates methods
Dr. Joseph Wolpe
used to treat a young man who
regularly took several hours to shower, or for that matter, to wash his
hands.
Let it be understood that I am
sympathetic with the fact that Mr.
Pemberton is now "soaked to the
bone." Thus I should like to suggest an experiment to alleviate that
condition and at the same time
afford him a record at which to
shoot, a record which would very
likely prove that he can curl up as
well as "stand up for individuality."
A well known phenomenon of
college freshmen in their record setting attempts has been riding in the
revolving type clothes dryer, for
various rather fantastic lengths of
time. None of these attempts, to my
knowledge, has been made with
the door of the. dryer closed and the
heat upwards of 500 degrees Faren-hei- t.
Perhaps as few as six hours in
this experimental setting would
establish an all time record. Further, I should like to assist Mr.
28-3-

4,

Pemberton by suggesting an excellent book,to hejphim while away
the drying time, Masochism In
Modem Man, by Theodore Reik.

J.E.DUBLIN
Graduate Student in Psychology
To the Editor of the Kernel:
Here's an
cheer for
editorial stand on competitive
your
.sports at the University of Kentucky.
out-of-sta-

te

I'm afraid, however, that any
downgrading of sports at UK will
have to begin at the elementary and
high school levels, because it is
there that immature parents (and
some teachers) permit football and
basketball to take precedence over
their children's educational welfare.
Cure the disease there and the
higher institutions of learning will
develop immunity.
When these basic problems are
solved, UK and other universities
will be able to devote their full
energies to the tasks for which they
originally were intended.
And after the universities and
colleges get back into their proper
orbits, America can stop buying its
top brains from Oxford, Cambridge,
the Sorbonne and Cottingen.
JIM WOOD
Kentucky '47

Kernels
Perhaps it is too soon, perhaps it
always he too soon, to try to
formulate an adequate definition of
man. Perhaps the fact that he is indefinable by his own mind is an essential fact about him. - Joseph Wood
Krutch.
will

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