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University of Kentucky

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LEXINGTON, KY., FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1965

Elizabeth from, one of the resident
actors this summer, is also a poet:
Page Three.

Dr. Niel Plummer, retiring as director
of the School of Journalism on July 1,
has mode some noteworthy accom-

plishments: Poge Two.
Hard work is involved behind
scenes at the Summer Theatre's
ductions: Poge Four.

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Trustees appoint Syracuse dean

Board names new j - school head.

The Executive Committee of
the University Board of Trustees
last week appointed a Syracuse
dean to succeed Dr. L. Niel
Plummer as director of the School
of Journalism under the rotation
policy.
Dr. Robert D. Murphy, chairman of the newspaper department at Syracuse University's
School of Journalism, will assume
his new post at UK July 1.
Dr. Plummer, who will return
to a position of teaching
has been director of the School
of Journalism since 1940.
Dr. Murphy, 47, has seven
years' experience in the newspaper field and has held teaching and administrative positions
in journalism for 18 years.
He joined the Syracuse faculty
in 1946 and has headed newspaper studies there since 1953.
He is the author of one textbook, "Reporting Public Problems," and a collaborator on two
others. He spent several months
last year in El Salvador under a
Fulbright scholarship, where he
full-tim- e,

helped establish a journalism
program at the National University.
Dr. Murphy began his newspaper career in 1939 as a staff
writer and photographer for the
Mt. Vernon (Ohio) News. He
was an editor in the Associated
Press Newsphoto Service in New
York and Chicago from 1943 to
1946. He has also held several
editorial positions on the two
Syracuse newspapers, the
and the
He holds three degrees from
Syracuse, including a Ph.D. in
political science. He is a member of the Association for Education in Journalism, Sigma Delta
Chi journalism society, and a
member and former executive secretary of the New York State Society of Newspaper Editors.
In commending Dr. Plummer
during the Trustees' meeting,
University President Dr. JohnW.
Oswald said:
"Under his direction, the department became a school of
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UK Press publishes

Duke professors work
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The University of Kentucky
Press officially released two new

publications Sunday, each of
which was written by a faculty
member at Duke University.
They are "The Climax of Populism: The Election of 1896," by
Robert F. Durden, an associate
professor of history, and "Interstate Relations in Australia," by
Richard H. Leach, an associate
professor of political science.
Dr. Durden's book draws extensively upon the papers of Marion Butler, Populist senator from
North Carolina and national party chairman in 1896. The book
discusses new aspects of Populist
strategy and suggests the nature
of the difficulties faced by a third
party in American politics.
In his book, Dr. Leach finds
that interstate cooperation, already an integral part of Australian federalism, will assume an
increasingly important place in
the future development of the
Australian system.
Other books published recentinclude:
ly
"The Ku Klux Klan in the
Southwest," by Charles C. Alexander, assistant professor of history at the University of Houston
in Texas, in which the author
studies the Klan's rise to power
in Arkansas, Louisiana, Okla- -

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Texas

1920's.

during the

"The College of Engineering,"
by J. Winston Coleman, Jr. , noted
Lexington historian, in which the
author traces the history of the
College of Engineering from its
befinnings as the old A. & M.
College on Oct. 2, 1865, to the
history is the
present; the
fifth in a series of UK college histories published during the Centennial year.

journalism. During his tenure,
the program has produced many
distinguished journalists for Kentucky and the nation."
Dr. Plummer joined the facule
basis in
ty at UK on a
1930. He is an authority on law of
the press. He is a contributing
author of two books and has
written more than 200 published
articles on press and communications law.
Before he began teaching journalism, Dr. Plummer worked on
the staff of the Lexington Herald
as reporter, state editor, and city
editor, and as a staff writer for
and
the Louisville Herald-Pos- t
International News Service.
In other action, the Executive
Committee appointed Dr. Stuart
Forth of the University of Kansas
to succeed Dr. Lawrence S.
Thompson as director of libraries,
a position Dr. Thompson has held
since 1948.
Dr. Forth, 41, went to the University of Kansas in 1959 to head
its undergraduate library program. He became associate director of university libraries in 1961
and acting director last year.
UK's main library, the Margaret I. King Library, is about the
same size as Kansas' library. It
had 437,000 volumes when Dr.
Thompson took over 17 years
ago and now exceeds 1,000,000
volumes.
Dr. Thompson is also stepping
down from his post under the new
rotation policy. He will return to
e
teaching and research
in the Department of Classics.
The Executive Committee also adopted a resolution endorsing
the $176 million State bond issue
which will be on the November
ballot.
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Diachun elected to Board
Dr. Stephen Diachun, professor of plant pathology at the University, has been elected a faculty member of the Board of Trustees.
His three-yea- r
term begins July 1.
Two of the 17 positions on the Board are held by faculty members, who are elected by their colleagues. Dr. Diachun will succeed
Dr. Lewis VV. Cochran, professor of physics and acting University
Provost, whose term expires June 30. The other
Trustee is Prof. Paul Oberst of the College of Law.
In addition to teaching, he has published more than 60 scholarly
papers dealing with research on virus diseases of plants. He also
was director of the University Honors Program from its establishment' in 1960 until last year.
A native of Rhode Island, Dr. Diachun is a graduate of the
University of Rhode Island and holds master's and doctor's degrees
from the University of Illinois. He came to UK in 1937.
Dr. Diachun is a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, a member of the American Phytopatho-logica- l
Society, the Botanical Society of America, and the Kentucky
Adademy of Science.
University President Dr. John VV. Oswald said Dr. Diachun's
election "is an indication of the respect which they have for his
independence of thought and integrity of conviction, and I join them
in this respect and admiration."
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named to plan Centennial Homecoming activities Oct.
A
In a letter to committee memexecutive committee and six subcommittees bers, President Oswald told the
have been asked by President appointees the Centennial Year
Dr. John V. Oswald to make the is an important occasion for both
homecoming observance a major the University and the Commoncontribution to the overall Cenwealth.
tennial program.
"We are eager that each of our
Joining representatives on the Centennial activities, including
committee are also representaour Centennial Homecoming celtives of the Blue Crass Centenebration, make a major contribunial Committee and the Lexingof
tion to our overall
ton Junior Chamber of Commerce. this observance. For objectives
this reason,"
J. W. Patterson, Centennial
he added, "we are scheduling
Director, is coordinating the this event as a
joint effort of stuhomecoming planning. Joining dents, faculty, alumni, and townshim on the executive committee
people in hopes that it will add
are Paul Nickell, alumni cochair-man- ; to the
tone in which
Peter Perlman, Blue Grass we viewdignified
the Centennial Year."
cochairman; Col. James Alcorn,
Other committee members are:
faculty and staff cochairman; and
Students Susan Price, SanMichael Fields, student cochairdra Johnson, Tom Padgett, Sally
man. Miss Jane Batchelder, Student Center Program Director, is List, Winston Miller, Sally Creg-orFred Myers, Sharon
committee secretary.
and David Rouse.
After the executive commitAlumni John Y. Brown Jr.,
tee's initial meeting yesterday,
Dr. Patterson said from possible Mrs. Richard Crutcher, Mrs.
activity ideas already advanced, Courtney Ellis, Bert Bradford 111,
the October weekend activities Bruce Graham, Paul Kissell, Wilshould comprise oneof UK's most liam Lowenthal, Harry Miller,
Mrs. Joe Morris, Ca le True, and
gala homecoming events.
The only activity already set Thornton Wright.
is a Saturday afternoon football
Faculty and Staff Jess L.
between the Wildcats and Gardner, John Kennedy, John
game
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Mountaineers.
Little, and Libert Ockerinun.
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hold a joint meeting next week
to discuss plans for a teach-ion Vietnam.
The meeting is scheduled for
8 p.m. June 29 (Tuesday) in Room
109 of the Student Center. The
public is invited to attend.

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* In the name of beauty

Throughout the winter, we suffered the
stench of fertilizer which had been put
around the shrubbery on campus to help
its growth. And, along with the unpleasant odor, we endured the hazard of the
birds which were attracted in the thousands.
In the spring, we braved little men on
power mowers and the unwelcome spray
from sprinklers used to water the grass
on campus.
All year long, we risk our lives and our
dignity to the whims of drivers from the
Department of Maintenance and Operations, who seem to think that the campus

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sidewalks are a kind of freeway system
exclusively for their use.
All this we tolerate in the name of
campus beauty and upkeep. Is this not
enough, or must we also view our trials
in vain when we see a score or more cars
and trucks parked alongside one of the
busiest walks on campus?
All along the walk, from McVey and
Kastle halls to Pence Hall and the Journalism Building, workers' cars are parked.
We realize this is all in the name of beauty
and, in the end, campus expansion (Kastle
and Pence halls, after nearly two years of

lying idle, are at last being renovated and
readied for use in the Fall).
But we wonder what has happened to
the University's sense for beauty in the
interim. Surely, if UK were going into the
used car business, it could show off its
line in some other, more business-lik- e
surroundings. We should think that it
would also consider hanging strings of
electric light bulbs.
The fact remains, however, that the
University is not in the used car business
and that the scores of cars parked on the
campus grounds have no place there.

Crisis in housing

The University is undergoing a crisis in
iirnishing living quarters for the more than
10,000 students on campus, and the people
of Lexington are taking no steps to help
matters.
New apartment buildings are shooting
up everywhere but few can afford to live
in them. UK is converting Cooperstown to
housing for unmarried students, but Cooperstown alone will hardly house 7,000 students. The majority of the students, therefore, have to find housing elsewhere.
Unfortunately, the apartment owners
charge such high rent that only the more
fortunate students can afford to live in
them. There are several apartment house
efficiencies close to the campus that rent
for $100 a month plus utilities. If two students share an apartment, each pays approximately $60 a month since there are
usually only twin beds in these livingroom-bedroocombinations. Families around
the campus rent out single rooms without
kitchen privileges to boys for about $30 a
month.
Other apartments close to the campus
range from $115 to $180 a month, but most
of these include a lease and the student,
in turn, must sublease during the summer
months or pay the rent. Few students can
afford to attend school and pay such high
rent for housing.
It would seem that the business community of Lexington could make more
money if it would lower the rent and make
it possible, therefore, for more students to
move in. Few students are so impressed
by the plush, expensive carpeting that they
will help pay for it in the rent.
The cost of renting an apartment in
Lexington increases each year, and there
is little that students can do about it except
to live in tiny rooms in private homes.
Compared to other schools in the state
and other cities, the rent scales for housing
is outrageous.
the
The problem is, therefore, two-folUniversity must actively strive to build
more and better housing for its students,
and, at the same time, the City of Lexington must take steps to ensure that rents will
be proportioned in accordance to the quality and size of the housing facilities.
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Perhaps the great sense of beauty will
prevail when the first heavy rain comes
and the campus is turned into an ugly
quagmire by cars getting stuck and churning up the sod. Perhaps then the University
will consider parking sites somewhere else
for these cars.

A sober memory

Under the new department head rotation policy, first initiated by University
President John W. Oswald, Dr. Niel Plum-me- r
will step down as director of the
School of Journalism on July 1.
The School of Journalism and, indeed,
the University, is to be congratulated for
having selected so impressive a successor
as Dr. Robert D. Murphy, but it is also to
be soberly reminded of Dr. Plummer's
accomplishments and of his calibre as a
scholar and administrator.
tenure as
Under Dr. Plummer's
director, the Department of Journalism
became the School of Journalism. And, as
Dr. Oswald noted at last week's Board of
Trustees Executive Committee meeting,
Dr. Plummer's leadership "has produced
many distinguished journalists for Kentucky and the nation."
Dr. Plummer has contributed articles
for two books and has written more than
200 published pieces on press and communications law, an area in which he is
on authority.
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Presidents of the American Medical Association usually
enter their term of office with an almost ritualistic lament about the encroachments of "socialized medicine"
and a rallying call to their fellows never to submit to its
tyranny. A welcome new note was struck by this year's
incoming president, Dr. James Z. Appel.
Calling for an end of "emotionalism" in the discussion
of Social Security financing for the medical needs of elderly people, Dr. Appel warned that talk of boycotts and
other destructive tactics is bad citizenship and unethical.
He called on the doctors, how convening in New York,
to participate in the development of rules for medicare.
This sensible advice is bound to fall on a number of
deaf ears, among them those of Dr. Donovan Ward, Dr.
Appel's predecessor. Under Dr. Ward's leadership the
AMA evolved a bill for "eldercare" in opposition to the
administration-sponsore- d
bill and spent millions on a
to push its complex and expensive
publicity campaign
makeshift. Dr. Ward has virtually promised a floor fight
on Dr. Appel's call to reason, which was presented as a
resolution.
Dr. Appel did not say so, but he may have had in
mind the only organized strike of physicians the continent has seen, and its aftermath. More than two years
ago, the Canadian province of Saskatchewan passed a
medicare bill much more sweeping than the one now
being debated here. The province's doctors had threatened
a strike and they conducted one for three weeks. Shrill
cries from this side of the border encouraged their action
and there was talk of a mass migration of physicians.
Quiet and powerful pressures from the province's College of Physicians and Surgeons ended the movement,
not without help from an outraged Canadian public. The
government, negotiating through the college, made several changes in its bill, which had the effect of putting
policing power in the hands of the college itself. The
new medical plan has proved popular with the people
and acceptable to physicians.
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Actress poetress finds
little time to write
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New
actress who composes poetry in
her spare time anticipates little such writing during her summer as
a member of the University's Summer Centennial Theatre cast.
The reason I just do not
ing leading roles in some of the
plan to haye much spare time," shows. Her first
major role will
blond Elizabeth Franz, one of be
in "The Little Foxes," the
four resident performers for the
Hellman
Lillian
production
summer theatrical repertoire, which
opened yesterday.
said.
Although her stage career did
Admitting she isn't a "pubnot officially begin until four
lished" poetress and that most
years ago when she entered New
of her poetical efforts arc "hidden
York's American Academy of Drain a dark closet," she adds the
Miss Franz says she
number and variety of roles she matic Arts, wanted
decided she
to be an
anticipates will necessitate nothactress when she was five.
ing less than
practice
After graduation from high
and study.
Prior to her arrival here last school in Akron, Ohio, and two
years at the University of Akron,
week, she was a member of the
she decided it was time for the
national touring cast of "In
White America." During her two New York training.
and a half month Lexington stay,
After this, various
she is appearing in each of the
productions, plus summer
nine Guignol productions, hold- stock, consumed her time. It was
while playing at the Dorset (Vt.)
Playhouse last summer, and working with UK Drama Professor
Charles Dickens, that she became
interested in UK's Summer Thehas released information about the ater.
As to the future, Miss Franz
of Education for all graduate
is anticipating autumn tryouts
students expecting a masters in
with two upcoming Broadway
August, will be given July 17. productions.
Application must be completed
by mail with the Educational
ALTERATIONS
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of dresses, skirts and coats
July 2. Forms are available from
the Testing Service in Room 309
for women
in White Hall.
Mildred Cohen
The Miller Analogies Test,
255 E. Maxwall
Phon
of all graduate students
required
receiving their masters in August
from the College of Education,
must be completed by July 16.
This test requires one hour and
may be taken by appointment,
made in person or by calling
extension 2432.
York-traine-

FRANK FORT The Kentucky
Commission on Human Rights

tion. In addition, this system
places the burden of proceeding
against segregation on individual
Negroes."
The "first come-firserve"
plan hinges on use of one central
office to handle all applications
for public housing. Applications
are filed according to priority and
size of unit needed.
The first person on the list is
assigned the first available unit
of that size. If the applicant rejects the assigned unit for an acceptable reason (such as health
and location of employment) the
unit is offered to the next person.
If an applicant refuses the unit
without good reason, he cannot
be assigned other housing unit
for 15 days.

has outsined to interested groups
around the state a "first come-firserve" plan to eliminate
patterns of segregation in public
housing. The proposal was first
released at a Commission conference in Louisville in April.
While some Kentucky housing
commissions have adopted a
"free choice" plan in an attempt
to satisfy regulations of the Public Housing Administration and
the Housing and Home Finance
Agency pursuant to the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, "virtually
every low rent housing project in
Kentucky is operated on a dual
segregated basis," Mark Israel,
assistant director of the Human
Rights Commission, said.
"When sites and staff are segregated," he said, "a 'free choice'
system merely continues segrega- st

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rebids existing

insurance plan

The Student Insurance Committee of the Student Congress
has rebid the existing student
coverage policy and has selected
the current firm's bid for the
coming school year.
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Winston Miller,
SC president, said that the insurance committee met last week
and voted to keep the existing
plan.
The policy, written on the
Continental Casualty Insurance
Co. by the Sulier Insurance Agency of Lexington, was considered
to give the best coverage with
the lowest rates. Rates will remain the same$16 a year for the
full year. Students may buy the
insurance coverage during registration in the Fall.
Congress debated the rebid-dinissue last semester because
of a proposed plan for compul-sar- y
student insurance.
Insurance committee chairman Michele Cleveland had advanced a plan to require all students at the University who did
not have previous insurance coverage to purchase coverage from
a policy sponsored by SC which
would supplement the protection
awarded by the University Health
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Congress decided at the last
regular meeting of the year to
the existing policy and to try
to initiate the compulsary plan
in the Fall of 1966.

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following required examinations:
The Graduate Record Examination, required for all August
graduates in the College of Education and for all new graduate
students in whatever field, will
be given today and tomorrow in
Memorial Coliseum.
The area test is scheduled for
1 p.m. today, the aptitude test
for 8 a.m. tomorrow, and the
advanced test for 1 p.m. tomorrow.

Students must bring their admission tickets and ID cards. A
second GRE will be given July
10 for students seeking admission
to the Graduate School or for
scholarship purposes.
The National Teacher Examination, required by the College

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Hard work goes into
theatrical productions

LOUGHRIDGE
"Going mad" is a very adequate description for the 12 summer apprentices to the University's Centennial Theatre.
These unpaid workers do their
jobs of constructing sets, finding
props, altering costumes, and acting just for the experience and the
love of the theater.
It is hot, tiring work which
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day. With an hour oil for lunch
at noon and dinner at 5 p.m., he
will work until 9:30 or 10 at
night except when there is a
performance. These arc the evenings he will act and sec the
fruits of a hard week's labor
blossom.
How does all of this come
about? It is not an easy thing,
and there are many details that

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David Phillips, senior drama
major from Bowling Green, is the
set designer for the Summer Theatre's nine productions. His work
on the sets started last December.
He has the sets for the first five
productions finished and is working on the remaining four.
"Doing a show a week makes
it difficult not to have some plan
of procedure," says Phillips. He
explains this more fully by detailing the steps a designer must
go through in order to produce
the sets for each play.
The most important thing to
do, David thinks, is to get the
concept for his design by first
quickly reading the play. From
these basic impressions he sees
the actions of the characters and
gets the mood of the play. This
helps to set the place and the
time of the play.
The next step is to reread the
play and to make careful notations on the number of actors in
each scene and what they are doing and where they are going to
and coming from in their various
trips on and off stage. These
conclusions help the designer to
construct a set which will be a
proper arena in which the characters, can come alive.
At this point, after another
reading of the play for details
which might have been missed
on the previous readings, the
designer draws his floor plan
which includes all the properties
that will be needed for the set's
authenticity and mood.
The designer confers with the

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TIIE FIRST STEP IS DESIGNING THE SET
director, who has also been studying the play, and they decide on
any changes that will need to be
made in the sets. These aredone,
and construction begins on the
next week's sets the day after a
production opens. Today the crew
starts on the sets for "Oh, Dad,
Poor Dad," even though "The
Little Foxes" opened just last
night.
From the moment construction starts today, the floor plan
drawn by Phillips will be the
bible of the crew. This is true in
all cases of set construction. The
design is followed basically with
minor changes of trim and decoration as the need arises.
In designing the sets the color
of the set is not as important as
the shading of the color and the
influence of the stage lighting.
These things are taken into consideration by the designer because he also is in charge of the
lighting plans and must tie all of

these elements together to present
a balanced effect on stage.
In designing sets, Phillips is
firmly resolved that "scenery
should not have a life of its own.
It should not conflict with the
actors and their characterizations.
The idea is only to set the mood
and time of the play."
Phillips docs go into depth
in researching the sets for his
period productions. "The Little
Foxes" required the elegant look
of a Southern aristocratic home.
He had to delve into a book
on furniture of the period to get
the proper setting for the play.
The real objective of this research
is to capture the essence of the
period and the style of the characters' way of life.
"The Little Foxes" by Lillian
Hellman will run through Sunday. Tickets are available at the
Fine Arts Box Office from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m. daily.

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