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Vol. LVI, No. 64

LEXINGTON,

Joan lhicz has released a tuiv
album of folk music: Page Tun.

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KY., FRIDAY, JAN. 22, I9f5

"There isn't much pride left" in
Martin County: Page Three.

Eight Pages

Editor discusses "Campus
tiful": Page Four.

Beau-

recent study shows that the best
teachers are needed in the slums:
Page Vive.
Lexington police will arrive from
Oregon tomorrotc with a suspect
in the H)fil Bi tty Gail Brou n murder: Pa Ut Seven.

SC Hears Defense

Of Insurance Plan
By

KENNETH GREEN

Kernel Associate News Editor
Members of Student Congress last night heard further discussion
of the student insurance program.
Mr. Neil Sulier and Mr. Jack Strother of the Sulier Insurance
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surance plan, explained the policy's provisions.
"The student insurance plan," Mr. Strother siad, "is voluntary
and was never intended to replace any existing coverage, but to
supplement present coverage."
The plan, he said, "takes the financial burden off the parents
by protecting the funds set aside for the student's education.
"There have been many instances where we are adv ised that had

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AWS Endorses Student Plan
The Associated Women Students last night voted to endorse the
present Student Congress insurance plan.
In announcing the action, Ann Miller, AWS representative to
Student Congress, said that the organization also favored a campus-wid- e
poll to determine student opinion in the issue.

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President Oswald Spoke To The Centennial Freshman Colloquium Last Night.

President Oswald Speaks
To First Freshman Colloquium
By SALLY ATHEARN
Assistant News Editor
The hazards of impersonality
in a large college was the topic
of a talk given last night by

President John VV. Oswald to
the Centennial Freshman Colloquium.
"We are now," Dr. Oswald
said, "at the transition where,
as a big campus, we are still
doing things in a small campus
way." He cited the individuality
of the diploma presentation at
last year's graduation as an example.
Oswald challenged the 28
freshmen present to help the University retain its "small school

the
atmosphere" duringahead.

expansion in the years
Tlie next four years -t- hose
in which the freshmen addressed
be, Dr.
will be in college-w- ill
Oswald feels, "the most exciting period in the history of the
University."
UK is growing in many ways,
Oswald said. An increase of
4,000 to 5,000 undergraduates is
expected in the next four years,
and the percentage of graduate
students is expected to rise from
to 16 percent or
10 percent
more.

The community colleges will
increase in number from seven
at the present time to 12 or more
in the near future, Dr. Oswald
said.
He mentioned that the whole
scope of the University has changed since its founding as an agricultural and mechanical college
100 years ago. And with this
change has come perhaps the
most importance increase of all,
that of responsibility.
Dr. Oswald cited the
funds recently
to the College of Agriculgiven
ture for tobacco research as an
illustration of the part UK plays -and will continue to play-- in the
social problems of our time.
The president, in discussing
the future growth of the Univer
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sity, expressed concern about the
fate of the individual student.
"Soon the new dormitory complex will be built," Oswald said,
"and will house over 3,000 students. How can we keep this
mammoth residence unit from
becoming a Hilton Hotel, where
students eat, sleep, and check
in and out? The answers," he
emphasized, "must come in a
large part from the students."
Dr. Oswald cited the riots
on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley
where he formerly served as an
example of what
can do to a student body.
The issue, as Dr. Oswald saw
it, was not the overt one of free
speech, but a cry from the 30,000
students for recognition.
"Everything on that campus,"
Dr. Oswald said, "is run by
automation. Every student is an
IBM number; his card is a pass
for everything from the bookstore
to the football games."
Oswald remarked that lie had
overheard a student comment on
the Berkeley campus that "The
only time anyone knows a student is here is when his IBM
card gets bent."
This is precisely the problem
Dr. Oswald wishes to avoid here
at UK. He made several suggestions as to how this might
be done.
Fraternities, sororities, and
other campus social groups were
delegated their responsibility by
UK's president.
"The most important goal of
any campus group," Oswald said,
"is that it become an oasis which
reflects the University atmosphere. That way, it will not only
keep its place in the sun, but
will make the University community a better place to live
as well."
Dr. Oswald called repeatedly
for student participation toward
the goal of individuality in the
University setting. He spoke
about the registration hassle that
took place last fall, and pointed

to the results of student petitions.

The longer the lines get anywhere," Dr. Oswald said, "the
more impersonal the University
becomes."

Sprout Or Perish

Tree Sports
First Sprout
In 10 Years
By STEVEN LAZAR
Kernel Staff Writer

"Everything's coming up

it not been for the student insurance taking care of hospital and
doctor bills, students would have had to withdraw from the University.
"The plan enables students to receive proper medical care which
inthey might not seek or could not afford without the student
surance," he said.
"The plan fulfills a major need when dependent family insurance protection is automatically lost because a student reached
the age of 18 or 19."
Michclc Cleveland, a Student Congress representative in Arts
and Sciences, brought up the question of the insurance in last
week's meeting.
She said that she had been advised by her father, an insurance
broker in Louisville, that the insurance plan should be dropped
primarily because students often develop health problems while in
school and find it hard to qualify for an insurance policy after
graduation.
Mr. Strother answered Miss Clevland's question:
"The percentage of health conditions on students barring them
from coverage after graduation," he said, "is practically nil.:
"If a student covered under a family plan develops a health
condition of a serious enough nature, the company carrying the
refuse to
family policy has the right to waive that condition or
on the dependent student!'
renew the coverage
He noted that both the Student Congress and the insurance
company offering the policy had tried to make it explicitly clear
that the student insurance was not meant to replace
insurance coverage, but, rather, to supplement it.
"It is better to have the student insurance plan as a supplement
already-existin-

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nanas" seems to be the tune

that the members of the Bot.
any Department are currently
singing.
The reason for their joy is
the recent blooming of a banana
tree which was brought to the
University about 10 years ago by
Miss Edna Crawford, secretary
of the department of anatomy
and physiology, who obtained it
while in Memphis, Tcnn.
Dr. Herbert P. Hiley, chairman of the Botany Department
and Mrs. Beatrice Littrell, secretary of the Botany Department
stated that the sapling was
llorishing for the first time since
its arrival here, and is in fact
only the second known banana
tree ever to prosper in Kentucky.
The reason for the late flowering is not known.
An ironic twist to the story
is that the growth was scheduled for a trimming because it
has reached the ceiling of the
greenhouse where it is kept. Now
the Botany Department is not
sure just what to do with it.
"Eventually, the flowers will
be cut, preserved, and used for
observation and study," said S.
K. Majunular, graduate research
assistant from Calcutta, India.
Alter this, the plant will die
and "suckers" (new shoots) will
reproduce a new parent bloom.

Ihmmut Tree's First Sprout

Already reaching the ceilinf of the HoUny Department Greenhouse
Is this banana tree, which Is bloominr for the first time In 10 years.
The flowers will be used for observation and study, llotany professors hope that the plant will continue Its annual production.

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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Friday, Jan.

22, 19f.'

'Joan Baez59 Explores New Forms

The Lively Arts

Joan Baez is not a performer
whose albums arc restricted to
the listener thecasual audience.
They also suit the collector, the
student of Joan Bacs. Each successive album now there are
five is another chapter in the
development of Joan Baez as an
individual as well as a stylist
and an entertainer.
If there is a Rood category
for "Joan Baez5" it is "experimentation." Miss Baez's
early w ork for the Vanguard Recording Society confines itself largely to the traditional.
Folk tales, distorted by such popular groups as The Kingston Trio,
appeared in their own right,
styled by Miss Baez faithfully to
their original sources.
Child's great collection of folk
ballads was her guide. Many
wonderful songs in her early albums bore the Child numerals:
"Silkie,"
"Mary Hamilton,"
"Barbara Allen," and "House
Carpenter" among them.
In contrast, her new album
presents only two Child ballads,
although they are of the album's
best. The emphasis instead is
upon the new folk, the music
adapted or created by the present
generation of folk artists. Phil
Ochs, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash,
and Richard Farina constitute a
formidable display of talent.
Farina's "Birmingham Sunday" has already been assured a
place in the heritage of American
protest songs. Bob Dylan's "It
Ain't Me Babe" would bea highlight of any album. Miss Baez
handles the song very well, a
spot of life in comparison with
many of the other selections.
It is curious to listen to Dylan's song and find certain of
its spirited rhythm patterns reminiscent of a contemporary British quartet. Perhaps modern folk
will begin to turn to modern popular where in the past it has
sought sources in Bluegrass,
Blues, and Country and Western.
"Bachianas Brasileiras" appears as the height of Miss Baez's
experimentation in this latest als
bum. Composed by Heitor
and presented by a cello
ensemble, such a selection hardly seems to fit with any of Miss
Baez's former styles. One of her
great talents is that she is able
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"Graphics 65" concludes
Building gallery, January offers
arts.
Friday Jan. 29, the Central
Kentucky Philharmonic will
bring noted young American violinist Robert Mann to the auditorium of I Icnry Clay I Iigli School
for a concert, at 8:15 p.m.
The University's FM radio
station, WBKY, offers three more
full operas in the month of January. Wednesday evening, the
27th, at 8:10 "The World of
Opera" features Wagner's "Lohengrin." Then, Saturday afternoons at 2:00, The New York
Metropolitan Opera will present
two live performances: on Jan.
23, "Falstaff," and on Jan. 30,
"Simon Boccancgra." WBKY is
at 91.3 megacycles.
The University Musicale will
feature Jack Hyatt in a trumpet
performance, Sunday Jan. 24, in
Baez Presents Her Latest Folk Album Memorial Hall at 3:30 p.m. This
Joan
The beauty of folk singer Joan Baez Is matched only by the power series of musicales continues to
provide an outstanding showcase
and clarity of her voice In her fifth album of folk music for Vanan album experimenting in new techniques of entertainment open to the
guard, "Joan Baex5",
for the songstress.
public. Donald Ivey, a baritone,
as tape recorded effects a la was to have appeared earlier this
folk style of a partito adopt the
are
cular piece, as easily and Mary Ford allows Miss Baez month, and three musicales
scheduled for February.
to join Miss Baez in the chorus.
thoroughly as though she were
The University's ExperiSignificantly, the tour deforce
changing keys.
of the album was written not in mental Film Society will present
In "Wagonner's Lad," for exits first evening next Monday
ample, in one of her earliest the back streets of New York or in the Student Center Theater
volumes, she performed without San Francisco today, but in Italy
8:30. Kenneth Anger will be
any accompaniment. When she over a century ago by Lord Byron. at
Richard
used accompaniment in "Pal of
setting the cinema artist highlighted.
Three of Mr. Anger's films will
of the lyric poem "So We'll Co
Mine" and "Banks of theOhio"
to music is be shown, including the famous
No More
it added to the Bluegrass styling
"Scorpio Rising." The Film
of the songs themselves. All that itself an experiment. But the
does not suffer, and
Society operates upon a season
flavor
can be said of Bach and a cello
rate of $5 for their expected six
orchestra on a folk album is that the result is a memorable success
of beauty, simplicity, and compresentations, but these season
it is different.
tickets will be on sale at the
does not seem pactness. There are no tape reIf the difference
corders or cellos, merely Joan door.
or listen-ablparticularly interesting
Besides "Graphics 65," a secnevertheless it should be Baez's wonderful voice and
ond art exhibit is currently on
to the student of Joan guitar.
noteworthy
But for all the fascination of campus, at the Reynolds BuildBaez.
this new facet of the Baez per- ing on South Broadway.
Also in Portugese, "O Canga-ceiro- "
This group of abstract oils and
recalls the earlier Baez sonality, the new steps may be
Baez sketches has been collected by
a disappointment to many
triumphs in Latin American dialisteners. Certainly it will send
lects, such as "Ate Amanha."
But here too the search intrudes,
many back to earlier albums, wishing for those first examples of what
Joan Baez can do so well, when
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There Isn't Much Pride Left'

be held

at the Baptist Student Center
from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Monday
through Thursday. All students
are Invited.
DEADLINE for candidates for
Gold Diggers King Is 5 p.m.,
Tuesday, Jan. 26, in Room 203
of the Student Center.
TICKETS for the Gold Diggers
Dance will be on sale from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through
Thursday in the Student Center,
and Blazer Hall and Donovan
Hall cafeterias during meal hours.
Tickets will also be available

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HOME ECONOMICS CLUB will
meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan.
26, in Erikson Hall. The executive council will meet at 6, and
prospective members at 6:15.
A style show presented by the
University Shop will be included
in the program.
ENGINEERING Student Council
will sponsor a discussion of the
modern trends in engineering in

the Student Center Theater at
7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 26.
An Informal discussion will follow, and refreshments will be
served.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB will
hold a recreation night at 7:30
o'clock tonight in the Alumni
Gymnasium. Activities will Include volleybal, badminton, ping
pong, cards, chess, and dancing.
Refreshments will be available.
Admission is free.

Tlic Associated Tress

INEZ, "There just

isn't
much pride left. You'll find about
80 percent of our people
just looking for another handout."
"They don't know anything
else. In some cases, there has
been unemployment for three or
four generations."
County Judge Willie Kirk,
chief administrative officer of
Martin County, reflected dispair
as he spoke. His county may be
the poorest in Appalachia.
Martin County was visited
by President and Mrs. Johnson
last April during a tour of depressed areas of Appalachia. The
Johnsons met men such as Tom
Fletcher, whose income was under $400 a year.
But Martin wasn't among nine
Eastern Kentucky counties named recently as sites where $10.5
million will be spent in the federal government's War on Poverty program.
"I don't know why, but wc
don't get a cent of that money,"
Kirk said. "I thought sure we'd
be included in that program."
"But they told me down at
Frankfort that if the antipover-tbill is expanded, we might
get on the list," he added.
Most of money now available
will be used to find employment
for jobless persons. In Martin
County, at least for the time
being, such a program might
be pointless.
There is no industry in the
county. There is little hope for
the present of getting any. And
there is little profitable agriculture.
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There is coal under the
ground, but lack of transportation makes mining unprofitable.
The only mine now operating in
the county employs 30 men.
of the
About
county's population is unemployed. Nearly half of the residents live on government surplus commodities. The per capita
annual income is about $100, perhaps less.
There is one doctor in the
county, but he is about to retire. There is one lawyer, also
near retirement age. There are
no dentists, no hospitals, not
even an
clinic.
There are no plans for the
interstate highway system- to
touch Martin County. There arc
no U. S. highways within its
borders. The 47 miles of paved
state roads in the 231 square
miles of the county arc classed
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as poor.

There isn't even an incorporated city or town in the
county.
One community, Warfield,
population 295, has a water system. The rest of the county's
10,201 residents must use individual wells that produce sulphur-ladewater.
There are no sewer systerms.
Everyone used septic tanks.
Most areas in economically
distressed Appalachia have memories of better days, when minig
or other industries boomed and
money jingled in mountain men's
pockets. But not Martin County.
"Times were never good here,"
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McCoy, an attorney here
more than 30 years, said.
"1 guess the best times were

between about 1908 and 1914,
when the timber business was
going. But even then, wouldn't
say times were good."
In those few years, the hills
were stripped of their virgin timber. When it was gone, there was
not hing.
There were a few attempts at
mining. Some oil wells were
drilled and there was some exploration for natural gas. But all
were too expensive to show a
profit.
So the county went from bad
to worse and people left.
In the 10 years between 1950
and 1960, the county's population declined by 34 percent. What
is more important, its population
in the
age group declined
32 percent.
"The older people, like me,
who are left aren't optimistic,"
McCoy said. "What we need is
new blood young people with
new ideas."
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Gene Ball, county extension
agent, believes an industry would
bring with it new people and new
ideas, "and the people here would
have a reason to want to improve
the area."
Kirk also thinks an industry
is the answer. "If we just had even
a small one, where there would
be income for a few men, it would

let them hold their heads up and

we could build on

that."

But Gov. Edward T. Breathitt
pointed out that the county must
make it self at tractive before it can
attract industry. It needs roads,
a good school system, doctors,
dentists.

The prime road need, members of the County Development
Association say, is one to
about 20 miles away as
the crow flies and nearly 40 winding miles as a man must now

Prcs-tonsbur- g,

drive.

It would allow Martin Coun-tian- s
to attend a community college, raising the educational potential. It also would connect the
county with the mountain parkway, a toll road.
Breathitt has promised to do
what he can, but he warned that
"You shouldn't expect results tomorrow. We have to do what we
can with the money we have."
There also arc moves afoot to
build a clinic and to attract a
physician and a dentist. And
there has been a proposal to consolidate the schools to improve
curriculum.
But any hope
distant future.

is only for

the

"People come in here and tell
you they are sick and don't have
money to pay for treatment,"
Kirk said. "We do what we can,
but we just can't do much.
"We don't have the money,

either."

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RAY GILLESPIE, executive vice
president of the Chamber of
Commerce, will speak at the
Newman Center at 7 pjn. Sunday. His topic will be "Everybody's Business." A film will be
shown and a discussion session
conducted.
ALL PERSONS interested in the
program to aid the mountain
areas of Kentucky are invited to
attend an open meeting of the
Appalachian Volunteers at 7 pjn.
on Monday in Room 309 of the

Student Center.

THE UNIVERSITY'S Woman's
Club will hold its January meeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26,
in the Helen King Alumni House.
Participants in a panel discussion will be from the Schools
of Medicine and Dentistry.

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THE MUSIC GROUP of the Fine
Arts Department of the UK
Woman's Club will meet at the
home of Mrs. Milton Coughenour,
725 Providence
Road, at 7:45
p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27.

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Snow has been a Godsend to the

University campus, eliminating at
least one half ofa most vexing problem: the combined presence of bids
and fertilizer both in large quantities.

The Maintenance and Operations department has taken this
opportunity the opening of the
Centennial year to fertilize trees
and shrubs around campus. This

ture of University history to grace
the campus with their presence
and their mass production of droppings. This has caused sidewalks
and lawns in some areas notably
those near Botanical Gardens to
become somewhat unsightly.
In addition to the unpleasant
odor and the unsightly appearance
that have suddenly thrust themselves on the grounds, there is the
additional problem of danger to
students.
To be entirely safe a student
should have two heads one to
watch carefully overhead so that
he does not inadvertently place
himself under a perched starling,
and one with which he can watch
to be certain he doesn't stray into
a mound of fertilizer.

Finally, there is the human animal's tendency to open his mouth
when looking up. This is perhaps
potentially the most dangerous aspect of the situation.
Of course this is the Centennial
has, of course, produced a most year, and thus we suggest an obunpleasant odor in most areas.
vious approach to this, compound
Birds hundreds and hundreds problem: someone should appoint
of starlings have chosen this junc- - a committee.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Reader Discusses Pember ton 9s ' World Shower Record9
To the Editor of the Kernel:
I was most interested in the
front page story of Dec. 11, 1964,
concerning Mr. Pemberton's recent,
though I understand short lived,
establishment of the "world's record for hours spent in the shower."
It is quite encouraging, to those of
us who maintain that intellectual

activity should be primary among
all members of the University community, to realize that at least one
of UK's freshmen is academically
competent to the extent that he
could undertake such an athletic
event in the week directly preceding
the semester final examinations.
Indeed, I was interested enough in
the report to waste 15 minutes of
my own time performing the following calculations.
If one assumes that the effluent
rate of a shower is 50 liters per
minute, then some 48,000 liters or
.12,650 gallons of water was used by
Mr. Pemberton. Converting volume
to mass, 4.8 x 107 grams of water
was used. Now, if one assumes that
tap water has an average temperature of 14 C and that Mr. Pemberton's bath water was 37 C, and
if one recalls that one calorie is required to raise the temperature of
one gram of water by one Centigrade degree, then one may easily
show that 1.1 x 10' calories were required for this magnificent event.
The Handbook of Chemistry and
Physics gives the heat of combustion of bituminous coal mined in
Kentucky as 11,680 HTU per pound,
and conversion to the metric system
gives 2.4 x 101 calories per grains.
If one now assumes that 50 percent
of the heat of combustion is effective
in warming the water, then one
may calculate that 1.1 x 105 grams
or approximately 250 lbs. of coal

was required.
On the basis of these calculations I would offer the suggestion

that Mr. Pemberton's tuition for

the same housing accommodations. faculty position is not only the
the spring semester be increased First of all, only seven states bor- denial of free speech but more
concomitant with the cost of the der this one. Anyone that knows no importantly that administration
University of 48,000 liters of water better than this does not have the policies governing free speech
and 250 pounds of coal. Secondly,
capacity to determine a rate in- policy were changed almost from
in keeping with the intellectual
crease. Tennessee, which does bor- day to day, arbitrarily, and equivi-call- y
and athletic prowess which he has der Kentucky, has a lower rate for
as a matter of pure exdemonstrated, I would suggest that their marriage housing than we pediency. The end of this was a
perhaps Mr. Pemberton's next feat have here. Kentucky is a Southern general curtailment of traditional
be to sit on the john for 16 hours.
state, as much as the Courier Jour- and long standing student freedom
nal and Joe Creason, the unive- of expression.
Although this would have the or
vious disadvantage of decreasing
The Louisville Courier-Journalrsity administration, and Ned
the circulation to the lower limbs, Breathitt would like to make it editorial opinion that the stuat least the time could be spent otherwise. When the Cooperstown dent acted irresponsibly might
reading.
C.COLBY rate is compared with our sister need further examination considerGraduate Student states, we are either average or ing that the Association of American University Professors backed
Department of Biochemistry higher.
A rate increase is a
typical way up the students while indicting
Rates Are Too High
for people who do not work for a the Administration.
As a resident in Uooperstown,
g
Major California artists have
organization to handI feel I must protest the rate
le things. Efficiency, especially in inaugurated an exhibition of fine
Dr. Oswald, according to excess
jobs, never seems to enter art for sale to benefit the Academic
the Lexington Leader, feels that
into the scheme of things. How- Publicity Fund and the Student-Facult- y
rising costs in labor and living ever, I
Legal Defense Fund. Anysuggest the University make
justify the increase. I think this is an
one wishing to contribute, or purthis time.
exception
ridiculous when applied to the
HUNT SMOCK chase work may write: Artists for
Cooperstown Apartments. The only
Cooperstown Resident Free Speech, The Berkeley Galreason that the labor cost is going
English Graduate Student lery, 1824!2 San Pablo Ave., Berkeup is that the M&O department
ley, California. You may request
The Berkeley Riots
have hired a surplus of employees.
(most of which fall well
As a graduate of the University prices
It appears that the University is
below $100) for the works of such
of California and a past instructor
creating jobs when none are needthere, I know the issues behind the artists as: Peter Voulkos, Richard
ed.
Freedom of Speech Movement and Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, Joan
When, anything needs to be rerecent demonstrations have a very Brown, Ario Acton, Sid Gordin,
paired in Cooperstown, it always
Richard O'Hanlon, Emmanuel Neri,
takes two men. This is true whether long and compex history; and I also Jim
Melchert, Chuck Ross, and
it's a leaky faucet, a torn window know that the facts concerning the
many others including myself.
shade cord, or a bad lock on the recent demonstrations have not
FRED SAULS
door. For each of these jobs there been given fair exposition by the
Visiting Artist
American
The primary
press.
always appear two different men. reasons for the current student and
Department of Art
It seems that the man who fixed
the faucet is not qualified to remove the blinds. Also, only one
man ever does any work. The secJ
The South's Outstanding College Daily
ond man just stands around and
University o