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Kernel Staff Writer
Green-stripe- d
horses, smoking cannons, and a sinister
group known as Midnight Artillery.
Such were the Ingredients of an exciting student life
at UK Uhen called Kentucky State College) during
the brilliant but tyrannical reign of President Jamea K.
Patterson, the lame Scot who very nearly possessed State
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frcm lf59 to 1910.
The students of the Patterson era were rebellious,
and they had much to rebel against. For the men. there
wa3 daily military drill, dally room Inspection, and
"lights out" at 10 p.m.
For the women, a sharp-eyePuritanical monltrem
named "Aunt Lucy" Blackburn.
For everyone, daily chapel services. To add to the
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climate of misery, there were only four bathtubs on the
State College campus.
The rebellion of the students took shape around a
potent organization named Midnight Artillery, so called
because of the members' tendency to fire the campus
cannon In the dead of night. The midnight crew became so proficient hi its varied devilry that any Insoluble
misfortune which befell State College was ultimately
labelled the work of Midnight Artillery.
In 1893 President Patterson was absorbed In the task
of building a fence around the campus. From sunrise
to sunset, sweating workmen laboriously dug the post-holfor the proposed structure.
During the night, members of Midnight Artillery
neatly shovelled the dirt back Into the freshly dug holes.
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This ritual continued for several days and nights, until
President Patterson hired a night watchman and promised to plant for posts any pranksters who might ba
caught filling up the postholes.
During the tame era, the mischievous fellows eamfl
Into possession of gallons of green paint. Purposefully,
they painted the cannon, decorated the classroom floors,
and, as a proof of their evil genius, painted crude green
stripes on President Patterson's own horse.
But the unfortunate animal had not seen the last of
Midnight Artillery. It was not long before he was led,
under cover of darkness, to the front entrance of tha
eld chapel building. The gang members constructed an
inclined plane, and the horse was led into the meet
ing hall.
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University of Kentucky
Vol. LII. No.

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LEXINGTON, KV., THURSDAY, DEC.

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Eight Pages

Preclassification Smoother;
Still Only 3,600 Registered
Three of the approximately
students who have gone through
preclassification step in front of one of the Registrar's tables in
the Coliseum. The Registrar reported yesterday that with preclas&i-- f
cation due to end Saturday, nearly half the student body Is still
not clavJfied. Students' failure to preclassify last year caused an
enormous "foul-up- "
which nearly wrecked the new system.
3,600

tnan ne nad expected.

From all indications pre- registration for the spring
semester is going smoothly
much more SO than last spring
uhen students were preparing
for the fall semester 19G0-61.

Charles F. Elton said
yesterday that approximately 3.600
had preclassified as of
Wednesday. Traffic was light In
Memorial Coliseum Tuesday and
Wednesday when 300 were classi- fied each day.
Since Tuesday and Thursday
All
colleges whose count is complete favored the rati- - are ordinarily the busiest days
f.cat.on of the proposed Congress constitution m the election Ior preclassification because stu.
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inesoay uy overwhelming majorities.
on Monday. Wednesday, and Fri- The proposed constitution will be ratified regardless of day, Dr. Elton felt that preclassi- -

Constitution Wins
By Big Majority
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how the College of Arts and Sciences votes. The constitution
has already received 4SH votes for, as opposed to 60 against.
Votes frcm the College of Arts tn
wou,d
t additional
and Sciences had not been count- - sentatives or not
ed when the Kernel went to press
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the second representative Bill
Norman Harried, elections chair- in tail, jyi caiuci i L ui LUC Stu- man. said, "We will not count the dent Bar Association, could not be
votes until late tonight (Wednes- - contacted to have the reDort veri- day) or Thursday afternoon." He fied
Indicated that tests were demand
There were two ties which will
iub me wiuc vi me vuic tuumers, require vote recounts. They were
and that they would resume count- - in Home Economics and Engineering as seen as possible.
ing. In Home Economics Kay
Onlv 3C4 vfiles were east in the Kuster and , Irma Strache were
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College cf Arts and Sciences
apart. ms ft.iu.ier
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The College of Agriculture and had 32 votes and Miss Strache 31
In Engineering there is a four
Home Economics voted for the
92 to 14. The College way tie for the college's 10th seat,
constitution
of Education voted 73 to 3 for Each of the four has 58 votes. A
ratfiication; College of Pharmacy, six way tie in Agriculture for its
24-College of Commerce. 116 to 25th seat will be decided when
9; College of Engineering, 183 to 25. the committee determines what to
The election committee had not do ln case of ties
new constitution has no
received results from the Law Col- provision ior eiecuon ues
lege which decided its representa- The Congress elections commit- tlve ln a General Assembly.
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A representative said that Burke
Terrell was chosen to represent
the Law School if they were to
get only cne teat in the Congress.
It Is up tc SC to decide whether

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finance jesieraay
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vi iif xiiiKiun iiaa me secona low- est bid of $if698500 and the third
lowest. $1,720,000. was submitted
by Whittenberg Engineering and
Construction Company of Louisby

ville.
No contract for the construction
has been awarded.
At the Board of Trustees meet
ing Tuesday, the issuance of $1,
225.000 in revenue bonds for the
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construction of the residence
unit for women, was
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The

tion concerning polling hours dur- ing the election Tuesday was
erroneous, and consequently they
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The Kernel reported that the

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In a speech in the Fine Arts
Building, sponsored by the Patter- son School of Diplomacy. Dr.
uoorosieisiu saia mai ail nations
must strive for peace and try to
open from 9 ajn. do everything in their power to
polls would be
until 5 p.m. Actually the polls avidJv,a,r;
do
believe that anything
opened at 8:30 Tuesday morning
fter a third
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and clostd at 4:30 p.m.
The hours reported by the
Kernel were those given by Bob
Wulnscott, acting president of Stu
dent Confess. Realizing that the
times dillered from those reported
earlier, a Kernel reporter double
checked with Wainscott to Insure
accuracy. Wain.scott verified the
times as fiom 9 a.m. to 5 pin.

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If two ciasses are marked on a
schedule ,card . for the same hour,
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check these. The student will get
IBM cards for their schedules
regardless of class conflicts.
When they leave the Coliseum,
the students know exactly what
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hired especially for this preclassi-Kashvill- e,
fication ,period. The experienced
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personnel are siauonea ai iL problems table to help students
with schedule conflicts and

changes.
"We could use more people on
the problems table," was the Reg-the- ir
istrar's feeling.

Dr. Harper Denies
KA Alcohol Violation

Dr. Kenneth Harper, assistant dean of men, has disputed a report
is aware of an alleged violation of the University rule prohibiting liquor on University property.
"I wish to correct an erroneous statement in Wednesday's Kernel,"
said Dr. Harper yesterday, "which stated that the Kappa Alpha fraternity 'violated the University rule against ha7ing liquor on University property.'
"To my knowledge, the KA's had no liquor and the Issue was not
discussed by the Interfraternity Council Judicial Board
The newsstory ln question dealt with violations of IFC's rushing
rules by Sigma Chi and Kappa Alpha fraternities. The chapters held
organized parties for the purpose of rushing freshmen. Under the
recently adopted deferred rushing system, such parties are not allowed.
At a special meeting of the Judicial Board Tuesday afternoon, it
decided to punish the fraternities by eliminating them from one day
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nt infrm.,1 r..ch t th- - Mnnin. f h
Wednesday's story on this action said a fraternity man close to
the Judicial Board, who refused to be identified, said the KA's also
violated the liquor rule. He said the chapter served liquor at its
illegal party.
The source added that Dr. Hamer and certain members of th
Judicial Board were aware of the second violation, but that it wasn't
discus-seat the Tuesday meeting of the board .and fraternity presl- -

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could be used as a bridge between
the Eakt and the West because of
n, geographical position
He said that the U.2 incident
wa3 a supreme disappointment to
the Polish people. He claimed that
it ended the possibilities of a Sum- .
mit conference.
The polish government had
hoped." he said "for a cessation
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n nuic ui a tumeric aim iuiai nominal step in the direction of dents.
disarmament." he explaineddisarmament."
Dean Harper said yesterday that he had not been aware of any
'The biggest danger to world He claimed that an enlightened drlnkiiui at the party, and that he felt the accusation was unfair to
peace." he said, "lies ln the arms group of Polish socialists instltut- - the KA's.
race and ln rearming of West ed the present socialistic govern- - " He added that he wished' to give the KA's a "fair shake" and that
Germany."
ment of Poland shortly after World he felt that if the Wednesday story was not clarified, the chapter's
He saw a possibility that Inland War II because it was a necessity, rushing opportunities would be diminished.

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basic principle of Polish foreign diplomacy is to tlo
whatever is possible to strengthen and preserve peace, Dr.
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A numter of students have com- member of the U.N., said yesterday,
plalued that the Kernel informa- - three-tim- e
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Foreign Diplomat Speaks
On Poland's Diplomacy
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had tapered off sooner will be, Elton said. "Nine out of 10
problems arising In the preclassi- "x d?nnIthi?lc
"iU Prlassify Ration lines are errors on sched- even
the 7.200 students
enrolled." he said.
Answering charges that students
Those who do not preclassify don't get the classes they sign
wlH "not be treated as nicely and 'or. Dr. Elton said, "Machines don't
quickly as those ' who have done make mistakes. The mistakes are
already on the cds when we gtt
this now .
"if we set up a two week period them. They are punched and
or Preclassification and students cessed by the IBM machines."
don t cooperate, they ought to
But Just to quash these
Just not come back t0 school."
plaints Dean Elton said this
A Kernel story (Sept. 28) quoted semester the cards are pulled at
Dr. Elton as saying a heavy fine the time the student preclassifies,
will be levied against those who so he immediately
knows his
do not register with the rest of schedule.
tne student body.
LaSt year" schedule cards were
In the same story Elton was returned to the Registrar's office
reported to say that registration and the IBM cards picked up in
would be changed. He said. "We the basement of the Administra- won't do what we Just did."
tion Building.
Those who wait until the last
reregistering
Sext year the
few days wiU have to wait in lines time will be shortened from the
at the Registrar's office in the two weeks now alloted for pre- Administration Building. But, EI- - classification, because Dr. Elton
ton said. If everyone pays his fees has found he can process more
as soon as possible, this bottle- - students a day than he originally
neck will be avoided.
estimated.
The Coliseum is set up to handle
Dr. Elton said he loresees no
trouble in preregistration. 500 students a day, but last
real
registrants will create con- - Tuesday, the second day of pre
classification, the Registrar pro
fusion and cause probierns.
Tne biggest bugaboo in the Coll- - cessed about 900 people
Twenty-eigpeople are on duty
seum Is student errors in filling
fication

By WARREN WHEAT
Tuesday News Editor

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