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Vol. LXI, No. 6

Singletary Alters
Top UK Positions
As Morris Gains
By BILL MATTHEWS

Assistant Managing Editor
Some lines of UK administra-

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the office tower seems to be but a step away from Miller
Hall, the new structure stands more than 15 stories taller than its
neighbor. The tower seemed to be upholding its authority before
its actual completion when due to construction Tuesday a power line
was damaged and Miller Hall not only lurked in the tower's shadow,
but was completely in the dark.
Although

well-wor- n

Loofc Me Over

President's Assistant

tive authority and responsibility
were redrawn Tuesday when
President Otis Singletary appointed Dr. Alvin Morris as his
special assistant.
An immediate
of
administrative duties was made
necessary

when Executive Vice

President A.D. Albright recently
announced his decision to take a
temporary leave of absence from
iness Affairs Ceorge J. Ruschell
UK's No. 2 position.
Dr. Singletary said it was will assume responsibility for the
too early to speculate whether Office of the Director of Physical
the office of executive vice pres- Facility Planning.
ident would be revived when Dr.
President Assists
Albright returns next spring.
The remainder of Dr. AlDuties Temporarily Assigned
bright's duties will be routed
He announced that the nu- through the president's office.
merous duties that Dr. Albright
Reporting directly to special
had been responsible for would assistant Morris will be the Dibe at least temporarily divided rector of Administrative Systems
among three existing administraPlanning and the Director of Intive offices.
stitutional Studies.
The largest number of those
President Singletary himself
duties will go to Dr. Lewis Coch- - will supervise the Coordinator of
the Budget and the Community
College System.
Because he was denied the
usual period of adjustment to office by the departure of Dr. Al-

Br. Morris Anticipates New Role
UK President Otis Singletary
formally announced the appointment of Dr. Alvin L. Morris to
the newly created position of
special assistant to the president
Tuesday afternoon.
Dr. Morris, assistant vice president for the UK Medical Center
since January 1968, will be a
special adviser and administrative assistant to Dr. Singletary.
"Performing a number of valuable functions," Dr. Morris
"will be working very close to
me, literally, in all the things
a president does," said Dr. Sin-

gletary.

"I am delighted that Dr. Morris has agreed to come in and
assist me. I am well aware of
my own need for assistance, and
am pleased that someone of his
competence and ability iswilling

to help." The president added:
"A new man needs someone
who knows the situation and the
people involved."
President's "Alter Ego"
Special Assistant Morris will
be an "alter ego" to tlje University president, acting in Dr. Singletary' s absences and advising
on all major problems such as
the University budget, building
plans and curriculum.
There also will be specific
duties for the new administrator in addition to those of "adviser in his (Dr. Singletary' s)
cabinet of vice presidents." One
of Dr. Morris' administrative responsibilities will be "administrative systems planning."
Duties Divided
One reason for the creation

of the new administrative post
the immediate need to "parcel
out the special duties of Dr.
Albright," the UK executive vice
president who recently took a
leave of absence.
is

A native of Detroit, Mich.,
Dr. Morris was appointed dean
of the then newly organized UK
College of Dentistry in 1961. At
age 35, he was the youngest dean
of a dental school in the nation.

By TOM BOWDEN
Kernel Staff Writer
Haggin Hall will hold a general organizational
meeting tonight for the primary purpose of orienting the dorm's new government members.
In elections held earlier this week, each of
the 16 floors at Haggin elected a president, vice
president, and social director.
The meeting will be held in Haggin' s upper
lounge at 10:30 p.m.
At the organizational meeting, these officers
will be informed of their duties.
Also, the 16 floor presidents will elect a dorm
president from among their ranks. This man will
Inter-Dorrepresent Haggin Hall at meetings of the
Council.
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Money Distribution
The Haggin government will have the job of
distributing roughly $5,000 in facilities fees, paid
at the first of the semester, to various campus and
dorm activities.
Ellis Bullock, head resident at Haggin,
that about $2,000 will go to the intra-muracommittee of the University to pay for
new equipment and referees' salaries.
Another $1,500 to $2,000 will probably go to
the Haggin government to pay for visiting lec
ls

icine and Dentistry in 1957, Dr.
Morris later became head of the
Department of Oral Diagnosis at

the University of Pennsylvania
School of Dentistry before coming to UK.
Asked his attitude toward his
new job. Dr. Morris commented,
"I am excited and enthusiastic
about it; working with President
Singletary will be a pleasant and
rewarding experience. I'm sure."

Dr. Morris graduated from
the University of Michigan
School of Dentistry where he received his doctor of dental science degree in 1951.
Optimistic Outlook
Awarded a Ph.D. in experimental pathology by the University of Rochester School of Med

Haggin Officers To M eet
le

Already, he said, Wednesday night mixers are
planned for the two dorms, to be held in Haggin's
lounges.
Also mentioned were the possibilities of a
"brother-sister- "
weekend, on the weekend of the
UK-Ifootball game, with two successive open
houses, one at Donovan and one at Haggin;
dinner and dance in Donovan's
and a
U

semi-form-

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cafeteria.
Spending Procedure
Bullock noted that the Haggin government
can vote to spend the remains of its facilities
money in any of the above ways, or they can
spend it in any other way which meets with the
approval of the government and the advisers.
Bullock emphasized that this year is a "perfect
time" for the freshmen of Donovan and Haggin
to prove that "two freshman residei.vw halls can
stand and work constructively together."

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Dr. Singletary said that he

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was "delighted"

that a man as

competent as Dr. Morris will
be aiding him in the capacity
of special assistant.

Frosh, Transfer

W's Ready
Student identification cards
freshmen and transfer students are ready to be picked up,
according to Al Morgan, supervisor of Student Athletic Admisfor

all-ma- le

Haggin.

bright, President Singletary said,
"We decided to farm out the
duties of Dr. Albright's Office
on a temporary basis.
This temporary redistribution
of responsibility is part of what
the president described as,
part of a long range problem of
how I want to reorganize."
Dr. Singletary indicated that
he wished to become better acquainted with individuals, problems and duties before he made
any permanent decision on administrative organization.
The president mentioned that
he was personally taking over
responsibility for the University
budget because he believed that
the "budget is a means of obtaining a better understanding
of the University" and how it
works.

turers, homecoming queen campaigns, an academic-athletic
banquet, and other miscellaneous
activities. Bullock added.
Social Gatherings Planned
Bullock stressed the social advantages of the
Donovan and
juxtaposition of

ran, vice president for research
and dean of the graduate school.
All academic deans will now
report directly to Dr. Cochran.
The vice president for research
will also take administrative responsibility for the Office of the
Dean of Admissions and Registrar, the Director of Libraries, the
Director of the Computer Center,
the University Press, the Center
for Developmental Change and
the Ceneral Extension System.
Acting Vice President for Bus-

DR. MORRIS

Netv Fraternity

The University now has 20
social fraternities, but the num- ber may soon be increased to 21.
Alpha Up si Ion Pi is currently in the process of placing a
chapter at UK.
Fraternity alumni in the faculor in the Graduate School are
ty
urged to send postcards with
their names, addresses and telephone numbers to Dr. Joseph
Herman of 175 Malabu Drive.
This will facilitate their being
included in chapter functions.

sions.

The new I.D. cards may be
picked up during the hours of
8

a.m. to

11:30

a.m. and

1:30

p.m. and 4:30 p.m. any weekday and on Saturday from 8:30
a.m. till 12 noon.

Cards may be picked up in
Room 23-in Memorial Coliseum. The pick-u- p
room is located just beyond the ticket office and is marked with a sign
C

reading "I.D. Cards."
Students who paid their fees
in the Student Center Ballroom
last Tuesday and Wednesday
must present their
(Aug.
paid fee slip to get their I.D.
26-2-

cards.

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Quality Acting Enhances 'Midnight Cowboy9
By DAN COSSETT
Arts Editor
On the surface, the plot of

"Midnight Cowboy," starring
Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight,
is not very profound. It is the sim-

d
conceited
ple saga of a
Texan who goes to the big city
to make his fortune as a male
prostitute, and his relationship
con man.
with an
On closer scrutiny, however,
dull-witte-

ill-fat-

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it becomes evident that director
John Schlesinger has created a
unique statement on the nature
of the human condition and the
circumstances that lead people
into their particular brand of

Jon Voight, as Joe Buck, administers a beating to an uncooperative
customer in the United Artists production, "Midnight Cowboy."
Based on a novel by James Leo Hcrliliy, 'Cowboy' also stars
Dustin Hoffman and Brenda Vaccaro.

Weekend Series Features
Bogart And Chaplin Flicks
By TOM BOWDEN

Kernel Staff Writer
The Weekend Cinema opened its fall semester series last weekend
with a double feature at the Student Center Theatre.
"A Tree Crows in Brooklyn," which starred Dorothy McCuire
and Lloyd Nolan, and a Charlie Chaplin short, "Laughing Cas,"
stand.
played to about 350 viewers over a three-da- y
Show times for the pictures in the weekend series are 6:30 and
9:15 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 6:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Admission is 75 cents.
Also slated for the Weekend Cinema are "Alfie" and "Beep
The weekend of Sept.
Beep, the Hoad Bunner" on Sept.
will bring "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet
and I'm Feeling so Sad," and "Bunny Lake Is Missing" will
5-- 7.

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as an individual ever enter the
mind. This performance should
earn Hoffman at least an Academy Award nomination.
Film newcomer Jon Voight
also comes on very strong as Joe
Buck. A veteran of the Broadway stage, Voight has turned
his first major. role into a dramatic masterpiece.
Besides those two superb leading-role
performances, the work
of the supporting cast also deserves a lot of credit. Particularly
impressive were Brenda Vaccaro

hopelessness.
Joe Buck, the midnight cowboy, is a peculiar product of his
experiences. Baised by a nymphomaniac grandmother, Joe discovers early in his life that the
only things that he has going for
him are his looks and his sexual
prowess.
When he learns of the death
of his grandmother, the shock of
that experience becomes too
much for Joe to bear. So he
sets out for New York to make
a fortune as a hustler. Instead,
he himself becomes the victim
of a long line of hustlers and
con men including a greasy little
cripple from the Bronx known
as Batso Rizzo, played byDustin

Hoffman.
Eventually, Ratsoand Joejoin
forces to bilk collectively an unsuspecting world by selling Joe's
body to rich horny old ladies.
The most remarkable thing
about the film is the blending
play Sept.
of each individual effort into a
"Interlude" will appear Oct.
and "Blow-L'p- "
is scheduled
cohesive whole. Under the expert
for Oct.
"The Pumpkin Later" comes on Oct.
Next direction of Schlesinger, each part
comes a double feature of oldies but goodies: "Phantom of the of the production becomes inOpera" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" play Oct.
tegral to the film, and at the
A Paul Newman flick, "Harper,"
will nin Oct. 31 and Nov. same time distinctive.
1 and 2. Next comes "The Oxbow Incident" on Nov.
and the
If one individual had to be
Mike NicholvDustin Hoffman triumph, "The Craduate," will be singled out for special praise
shown Nov.
it. would be either Adam
and students
director of photography,
"Baby, the Bain Must Fall" comes Nov.
can enjoy "An Evening With W. C. Fields" on Dec.
"TKe or film editor Hugh Bobertson.
Caine Mutiny" will play Dec.
Quick switches from black and
festival will be shown white film to color, and fast
During finals week, a
free of charge. On Dec. 15, Bogart' s "Maltese Falcon" and. Chaplin's paced
s
coupled with
"Champion" will play. Dec. 16 will bring Bogart in "Sabrina" expert timing, make "Midnight
and Chaplin in "Love Pangs." W inding up the free finals festival Cowboy" an extremely exciting
will be "Treasure of the Sierra Mad re" starring Bogart and "In visual experience.
the Park" with Charlie Chaplin.
The only way to describe the
On Sept. 9 and 10, there will be two free showings of "Tarantuacting in the United Artists prola" and "Abbott and Cost el lo Meet Frankenstein." For 25 cents on duction is simply as fantastic.
Sept. 27, students can see Walt Disney's " The Prime and the Hoffman is so believable as Bat-sthat no thoughts of "The Crad- Pauper" and Laurel and Hardy's "Another Fine Mess."
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as Joe's only female cash customer and Barnard Hughes as
homosexTowny, a middle-age-

uate" or even of Dustin Hoffman

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ual.

The least that can be said
"Midnight Cowboy" is
that it is one of the best flicks
of the season. Certainly, it is
film to appear in
the
Lexington since "Borneo and
about

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"Midnight Cowboy," which
based on the novel by James
Leo Herlihy, is currently showing
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Freedom Of Thought
The students and faculty participating in the Free University
deserve much more commendation
than they have thus far received.
The purpose of the sessions is as
old as knowledge itself. The trans-

seldom heard. The Free U will not
alleviate this plight, but it is a very
refreshing omen.
The relationship of the Free U
and the University itself need not
be a tender one. The Free U is not
intended to subplant any of the
regular classes, nor is it interested
in anything other than the exchange
of learning. For these reasons there
is no apparent reason why the
University shouldn't encourage the
voluntary sessions.

mission of knowledge, freed from
the shackles of grades, attendance
charts, etc. is the reason d'etre
of the Free University movement.
The search for knowledge is
a noble endeavor, nearly out of
place on the UK campus. Learning has become so systemized,
teaching so commercialized, that
the counterpoint provided by the
Free U sessions only begins to
fill a dangerous void.
In an education factory such as
UK it is necessary to computerize
students, to stratify them, and to
brainwash them, or so education
leaders tell us. A student is often
discouraged from developing original thought. The student who receives all the external rewards the
University offers is the one who is
best able to outline his textbook
during an hour exam, or to regurgitate all his professor has fed him
in class, preferably with elaboration
and praise. While students are
helped to perfect this process their
initiative for real learning is often

The atmosphere of a community
of scholars has long since vanished
from the UK campus. In the 1950's
this was the "Party School of the
South" and damned proud of it.
In an effort to overcome this image,
the academic requirements were
raised to a 2.0 grade point standing. But as the faculty and administration soon found out, it takes
more than a higher grade point
average to improve an institution.
About Time 99
The Free U could be more an impetus for improvement in this direction than anyone now realizes.
Letters To The Editor
It will not be necessary to have
full participation by the faculty To the Editor of the Kernel:
high proportion of TIME readers among
and the students to make his inonce told me that the school 'KERNEL readers? Let's not have more of
Somebody
thisD. Britz,
one,
novation a success. Obviously the of Journalism at UK is a good should and
be
therefore, the KERNEL
that,
Dept. of Chemistry
atsessions will not be widely
a good campus paper; but I'm beginning
tended by, those students who still to wonder. Is blatant plagiarism good
EDITOR'S NOTE: Assistant Managing
Journalism? The article last week about Editor Bill
come, to UK for the
Matthews, who wrote the
"Hee Haw" was lifted almost verbatim
activities, and these students are (and without credit) from TIME maga- review, acknowledges TIME (Aug. 8, 1969)
of the article.
probably in the majority. However, zine; the "staff writer" often didn't even as a source for segments incidental and
However, similarity was
for those interested in learning as bother to paraphrase.
no deliberate attempt was made to pass
its own reward there can be no
What is the use of an article like that, the work of TIME reporters as original
more worthwhile experience.
especially considering the undoubtedly ideas.

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cancelled.
To air the familiar gripes of the
tail wagging the dog in regard to
grades and learning would be redundant. The plight of the education system has been so obvious
so long that serious discussion is

extra-curricul-

ar

Contrapuntal Conservative
By

By JOHN D. WHITE
Postponing the subject I had originally
planned to discuss in this week's column,
I feel I must comment on the recent
SDS pamphlets concerning our Board of
Trustees. As everyone by this time is
surely aware, it is open season on the
trustees. Alas! The University of Kentucky
is not only struggling under an incompetent administration, we are again confronted with the specter or a group of
doddering old politicians making their
decisions according to the direction their
leash is pulled by the Covernor, "the few
rich industry owners in the state," or
other cogs of corruption in the 'system.
I dislike crusading, but I feel a rebuttal
to the SDS assertions is necessary.
First, I hesitate to seriously consider
any pamphlet researched by high school
students. I do not assert that a thorough,
accurate account could not be spawned
from any high school in Lexington; it is
only that adolescent researchers have an
alarming tendency to view tlteir data in

JOHN D. WHITE

on the quality of their service since joining the board. Cranted, in their research,
these high school students surely became
intimately acquainted with these facets
of the trustees' character; but those of
you who are less informed on such matters,
should not take up their banner until
you have checked for yourselves.

Then there

is

the claim that the board

runs a "corporation" designed for "weeding in safe young graduates. . . and weed- ing out the independent thinker." First,
one of the trustees main Jobs is finances.
Running the University like a corporation in this area is the only way it can
be done and keep the University financially alive. This is only good sense!
As for any weeding that may go on,
spot checking admissions is number 679
on the trustees' list of priorities. Besides,
Independent thought is alive and well
on this campus it is hiding out in the
basement of Pence Hall to avoid the
constant barrage of gobbledegook and
misrepresentations tliat abound in the
black-whit- e
right-wron- g
terms. To them ideas of our New Left. Seriously, indethere is no room for the gray areas; compendent thought is exemplified by the
success of last year's Oswald Awards; in
promising to facilitate an end; permissiveness to expedite a concept; leeway given those that are pursuing independent woik.
dv.e to circumstantial
complications. under the upic of the Honors Program;
These are abstracts, I admit; but I feel and in those students helping in advanced
I am understood. Also, there are hardly
research. These are three areas quite
25 people on the campus, probably fewer
likely to be overlooked by high school
in the high schools, who can even name
students.
more than two of our trustees, let alone
Thirdly, there was the claim that the
give an account of their background, research was done mainly to aid tlte
n
turners. Here I find the most amazing
.qualifications, status,, and a
run-dow-

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lack of information. Consider for example,

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ideas.
fledged programs on
I do not assert that we can do without
criticism and analysis; they are a great
help. What we can do without are the
pat answers arrived at from criticism
and analysis. The answers we need are
derived from experience; experience is
attained only when the question "how?"
half-forme-

the advanced particle acceleration research going on in the basement of the
CP building; the research at the Wenner-Crelaboratory an important entity in
our overpoweringly successful space program; the medicinal research in the
Chandler Medical Center. These are three
prime areas of universal scope. Even that
research that is of benefit to farmers, is
not limited to the small land owners
of Kentucky. Research in the tobacco
field is of concern to every smoker in the
world. (Given time, scientists here could
breed out the poisons in cigarettes, while
probstill keeping the familiar taste-t- he
lem Is that the tobacco industry may
fold first.) Stock and food crop research,
due to the population problem, without
a breath of valid argument from anyone,
has worldwide dimensions.
To the next point, regardless of a
greater concentration on the question
"why?", there will always be those who
prefer to ask "how?". Our breakthroughs
i.e. progress, accumulation of knowledge
our comforts, our ability to go and live
anywhere, our ability to cure, our ability
are
the list is endless
to create
results of the question "how?". There is
also a touch of "why?" in there, too;
but that question has in the past been
asked by those who can not make decisions at a rapid enough pace to stay in
stride with our breakthroughs, our comforts etc.; by thae who must stop and
analyze, criticize, then support full- -

Is

asked and its answer implemented.

My last point concerns the reference
to Blacks' property being claimed by the
trustees. Obviously, the expanding modern
campus, not Just the University of Kentucky, to keep pace witV a growing demand for an education both the "how?"
and "why?" is forced to uproot many
residential areas both black and white.
An interesting sidelight on this: the latest
uprooting at Kentucky occurred in white
residential sections on Rose Street and on
Harrison Avenue. In reading SDS criticism, I felt that reference was nude to
of Blacks for the explicit
purpose of adding a dimension of credi
bility and a veneer of sincerity to the
method
pamphlets. This is a much-useof achieving such results by many confactions. This is
temporary
rot only a misrepresentation of Black
problems, it is exemplary of the unethical
methods to which SDS members fervently
devote their time and energies. Tle sad
thing is that usually
people
are fooled; Itence these methods are quite
effective. That may be a redeeming asset
of the SDS .. . . they are far from stupid.
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liberal-radic-

well-meanin- g

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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, SepL

Tobacco Hornworm Used
In Entomology Study Here
PHILIP D. LEMING
Kernel Seicncc Writer
Current work at the University entomology center concerning insect physiology focuses on
the use of the tobacco hornworm
as a "guinea pig."
Dr. Douglas L. Dahlman is
doing research in the area of
insect pigments (primarily the
tobacco hornworm), and in the
physiological effects of the Hrac-coni- d
wasp on parasitism on the
tobacco hornworm.
Dr. Dahlman is currently concerned with only one pigment in
the insect, namely
which is a blue pigment.
His purposes are "to determine just what is the amino
acid makeup of the protein com

plex of the pigment and to finally
discover the amino acid sequence

By

of the protein."

TODAY AND
TOMORROW

With this knowledge the pest
host might be controlled by more
effective chemical means or by

He also wishes to compare increasing the qualities of the
pure samples of the pigment with parasite. Hut, as in many areas
similar pigments in other insects. of research, there are many ecoBeing a physiologist, Dr. nomic benefits which are totally
Dahlman is naturally interested relevant to the amount of basic
in the physiological effects of the research.
Dr. Dahlman said, "My work
insect parasite on the host worm.
He hopes to determine "how is not directed to some current
close the physiology of the host problems but to find out about
and the parasite compare" and the general physiology of the
help to answer the question of hornworm."
To date there has been some
specific parasitism.
Stemming from this research interesting data compiled. He has
found that the total blood sugar
is the possibility of insect conand specific gravity of the blood
trol. Hy studying the physiology
of both the host and the parasite of parasitized worms is much
completely, possible vulnerable lower than the unparasitized
areas of the host may be found. ones.

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Redman Gets National Post
Dr. John C. liedman, UK professor of Agricultural Economics,
has recently been named secretary-treasurer
of the American
Agricultural Economics Department.
"The main duties of the job
will be collecting the dues and
paying the bills," commented
Hedmau in a recent interview.
"The purpose of the society
is to enhance the knowledge of
the problems of rural agriculture," stated Dr. Redman, w