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Vol. LI II, No. 17

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Eight Pagci

Federal Aid
Wins Out
In Debate
Stale Teams
May Challenge
Debute Winners
IYiIcral aid to education was
approved in principle here Friday night in a demonstration
dchate staged by four high
school seniors.
The debate, fpcnsored by the
University Student. Forum, opened
tha Kentucxy
jeech Educators
held here over the
weekend.
The four drbatrr were chosen
from ity-fou- r
students who participated in IKs High School
Institute in July.
Speech
The winning team. Thomas Donovan and Warren Stambauh. are
hWh schccl seniors from Maysville.
The oppcsition, debating the nega-tlm- e,
weie John Dansby and Johnnie Patton, seniors from Ashland.
The affirmation based the need
for federal aid cn the lark of
qualified personnel In the teach-l- n
profession, and the shortage of
classrooms.
"There are 16 million more
teachers needed. The colleges are
now supplying 95.K0 teachers a
year," said Warren Stambaugh of
the affirmative.
' One hundred thousand teachers
le.tve the profession yearly. During
the 19G0's it is estimated that
pupils will te gained.
"In the United States today
there Is a shortage rf 140.000 classrooms. This figure in turn affects
56 percent c.f the children enrolled.
In Kentucky the
shortage is 8.406 or 40 percent of the
students aie hi ovei crowded classrooms."
Tom Donovan, debating the affirmative, proposed the Kennedy
p'an as the answer to educational
pi oblems.
"The proposed bill for 850 million dollars will luie teachers from
college into teaching." he stated.
"In Kentucky this would raise the
salary of every teacher by J200."
The winning tea.-- is now subjected to challenges by any team
In the Mate.

Orchestra
To Perform
In Coliseum

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I'hyllis Ann Howard was selected 1061 Sigma Chi
Derby Queen. A member of Alpha Gamma Delta,
she proudly displays her trophies. Robin Boys,

Delta Delta Delta, gets a sample of an egg shampoo as she catches an egg in the strainer tied on
her head in the mystery event of the derby.

Kappa Delta Pledges
Win Sigma Chi Derby
By JEAN BROWN
Kernel Staff Writer
Kappa De lta sorority successfully emerged Saturday as the
winne r of the 1961 Sigma Chi

Derby.
Phyllis Ann Howard, Alpha
Gamma Delta, was chosen queen.
Each sorority entered two pledges
who were Judged by Mrs. Allene
Kennedy, Sigma Chi house mother,
Mrs. Katherine Roberts, Keene-lan- d
Hall, and Dr. Richard Gilliam, professor of law.
Other sororities and their placing. were Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Delta Zeta, Delta Gamma. Alpha
Gamma Delta, and Zeta Tau Alpha
tied for fifth place, Delta Delta
Delta. Alpha Xi Delta. Alpha Delta
Pi, and Pi Beta Phi tied for tenth
place, and Chi Omega took twelfth
place.
Cold fall winds failed to discour

age the throng of students who
lined the rope barriers anxiously
awaiting the beginning of the
derby.
The activities began at 5 a.m.
Saturday. Sorority pledges then
formed lines at the men's dormitories and the Sigma Chi house to
await the emergence of any man
wearing a SX derby.
A pledge suffered
a ruptured
abdominal wall on the porch of the
Sigma Chi house while she was
fighting with another pledge for a
derby. The injured pledge stated
that she was pounced upon by approximately ten girls from other
sororities and someone stepped on
her stomach.
Pity these men, for they were
stampeded from every direction
imaginable. One SX man was
chased for one and one-ha- lf
miles
through the center of town. Another was caught while delivering

newspapers at 5:15 a.m. But by
noon all derbies had been seized
and the campus prepared for the
afternoon events.
The tumultous roar from the
d
sorority-packesidelines slowly
subsided as Jim Todd, Sigma Chi
announced the
Derby chairman
winners of the derby chase. Alpha
Delta Pi came In first with 16
deibies, Kappa Delta was second
with nine, and Chi Omega third
with eight.
The first event of the afternoon
was the balloon toss. Alpha Gamma Delta and Kappa Delta tied
for first place by breaking the most
waterfilled balloons. Delta Delta
Delta, Delta Gamma, and Delta
eta tied for third place.
Next came the pie eating contest.
After gorging herself with chocolate meringue pie, hands behind
her back, Judy Waldon, Delta
Continued on Page 2

Symphony
To Open

Concert Series
The Hoston Symphony Orchestra will open the Central
Kentucky Concert and Lecture
Series at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday
in Memorial Coliseum.
Charles Munch will direct the
opening of the orchestra's 80th.
season.
The orchestra began when Henry
Lee Higginson. a music student in
Vienna, returned from Europe to
build a permanent orchestra that
would be devoted solely toward
ideal performances of symphonic
music.
He spent his fortune in this pro-Jeand after 37 years left a
heritage far richer than a fortune
in dollars alone.
Higginson assembled the best
musicians available in the United
States and Europe and engaged a
young German conductor, George
Henschel. The first concert was
held in the Boston Music Hall
Oct. 22. 1881.
Henri Rabaud conducted the orchestra for the 1918-19season,
followed by Pierre Monteux. who
was in charge from
In 1924, Serge Koussevitzky began what was to be the longest
term for a single conductor, 25
years.
Charles Munch, who replaced
Koussevitzky in 1948, will retire
after this season.
For the Lexington concert the
will
orchestra
"Quiet
perform
City," for strings, trumpet, and
English horn by Aaron Copland,
with Roger Voison and Louis
Speyer as solists on these respective
instruments.
Iberia ("Images", No. 2) for Orchestra by Claude Debussy.
Major,
Symphony No. 3 in
Opus 55, "Eroira", by Ludwig van
Beethoven.
The Coliseum is open at 7:15.
Student are admitted by ID cards.

Rats Dislike Idleness,
Unmailed Postcard
Hurts Peace Corps Schedule Experiments Reveal
U.N. Trip
Y-Clu-

IBADAN, Nigeria, Oct. 16 (AP A postcard that went astray has
given the American Peace Corps its first black eye in the field.
Nigerian university students demanded yesterday that the corps
unit sent to teach Nigerians be expelled because of criticism of primitive
African republic written by an
living conditions in this year-ol- d
enthusiastic, but thuifehtless girl In the group.
Her postcard heme, dropped accidentally on the campus, was copied
and circulated amcnt the students. It stirred 1,000 students at Ibadan
College to an angiy demonstration denouncing the American volunteers as "agents vt Imperialism."
Margery Mithelmore, 23, Smith College honor graduate from
Foxboro, Mass., quickly apologized to the university authorities for
wilting the "thoughtless card" and offered to resign from the corps
In an attempt to quiet the uproar.
Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver said in Washington he
talked to the Nigerian ambassador and "he did not seem disturbed.
He said it was the type of thing you could expect in this kind of
deration and I afcieed with him."
demonstration was organized after someone
The
reportedly found on the campus grounds the postcard that Miss
Mithelmore had written to a friend in Boston telling him:
"With all the training we had we were really not prepared for the
squalor and absolutely primitive living conditions rampant both in
the cities and the bush.
"We had no idea about what underdeveloped means. It really is
a revelation, and once we got over the initial, horrified shock, it is
a very rewarding experience. Everyone except us lives in the streets,
cooks in the streets, and even goes to bathrooms In the streets."
Her father, a business executive, said his daughter didn't know what
real poverty was li;e, explaining that bhe was brought up in a
atmosphere.

The campus YMCA and
YWCA annually provide an op-

portunity for persons who want
to learn moie alxnit the United
Nations and how it operates to
visit its headquarters in New
York City.
This year's seminar will be Nov.
"Thirty-fiv- e
students and faculty members have already made reChairman
servations,"
reported
Jim Congleton, "and anyone else
Interested should contact one of
the YMCA or YWCA offices before Friday."
Class absences due to this trip
will not be counted as cuts, said
Mrs. Sondra Hicks, YMCA director.
A list of those people excused will
be distributed, but students are advised to check with their instructors about assignments before they
leave, reminded Mrs. Hicks.

Rats dislike being idle just as people do.
This was the finding of a study made on "activity deprivation"
in rats by James W. Clark, former graduate student. Clark's work for
his master's thesis was done under the supervision of Dr. Edward Lee
Newbury, associate piofessor in the Department of Psychology.
Clark found there was a tendency for the activity of rats to
increase significantly during idleness.
The rats first learned to run a rotating cage without any reward
except the activity itself. After this running speed was developed the
rats were placed in an enclosed confinement during the normal period
of activity.
The rats were divided into three groups. The groups were confined for differing lengths of time prior to their activity periods. The
period of confinement caused an increase in activity.
"Experiments of this type sometimes produce increased or decreased activity, depending on the activity being measured. This is the
clearest evidence so far on activity deprivation in the wheel," Dr.
Newbury stated.
"These findings are related to the tendencies for animals to use
their surroundings for experiencing new stimulations. This is a fnuda-ment- al
trait of higher organisms.
"In humans this would be called curiosity. It Is best demonstrated
by people looking for something new on vacations or scientists searching for discoveries.
This experiment has added further Information to research 111
this field."
Clark, who received his M A. this past June after completing thl3
experiment, is now with the Army Human Research Office at George
Washington University, Washington, DC.