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University of Kentucky
FEB.
LEXINGTON, KY., FRIDAY,

Americans are puzzled oyer the current international gold crisis, news
analyst Ralph McGill says: Poge Five.

5, 1965

Cor. Breathitt has not yet decided
how much to ask the Legislature to
appropriate for funds to education:

Eight Pages

Page Seven.

Cold weother calls for a calculating
coach (at least in baseball): Poge Six.
Presidential assistant McGeorge Bundy
has opened talks with the South Viet'
namese government: Poge Seven.
The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
gave a "masterful performance": Poge
Eight

Thai Olc Slory Again

Freshmen Cry 'Too Much
By

KENNETH HOSKINS
Kernel Staff Writer

Problems of educational polat the University were discussed last night by Dr. Kenneth Benne, Centennial professor of social science, and members of the Freshman Colloquicy

ium.
Professors

especially those of
the English department and the
grading system were brought
under attack by the freshmen.
Students complained that professors often seem to forget that
theirs is not the only subject
being taught. Also, many are
unwilling to assist the student,
particularly the freshman.
"The professor identifies with
one field of knowledge," Dr.
Benne agreed. "This may lead
very often to a kind of inability
to put himself in your place."
Dr. Benne further explained
that the professor believes his
field to be most important to
you, no matter how many different subjects you are taking.
Answering students about
professors who seem to dislike
freshmen and exhibit this by
threatening failure, Dr. Benne
said that prejudice often hides
fear.
"Professors that scream the
loudest," he said, "may be
scared inside. Maybe you're not
dealing with strength, but a
weakness in meeting these people."
He added that psychologically
fear was no way to stimulate
students into study, that people
who are frightened are not

open to new responses.
Another problem involved the
contradicting views of professors
concerning the importance of
education and a degree.
The students reported that
many professors believe a degree secondary
attaining
of knowledge, while others
claim that the degree is most
important.
Dr. Benne and the students
agreed that at this point there
was a contradiction built into
the system.
The system puts a set of demands on the student, Dr.
Benne complained. He thought
it was surprising the number
of students who develop the desire to learn "despite our grading system."
"There is no reason why our
educational system needs to be
based on a grading system," Dr.
Benne said. "Our present system causes values to be based
on intrinsic motivations. Instead
of students being some assistance to each other, the grading
system demands competitive
learning."
Dr. Benne suggested the possibility of using comprehensive
examinations to replace the
present grading system. The
only grades would be those of
unsatisfactory or satisfactory.
A majority of the freshmen,
including many Honors Program
students, thought the idea had
a great deal of merit.
"It would be helpful," commented Charles Goodman, freshman in the College of Arts and
to-th-

Selma Officials Told
To Speed Registration
The Associated Press
SELMA, Ala. A federal judge Thursday night ordered the Dallas
County Voter Registration Board to speed up registration of Negroes
and prohibited the board from using a disputed literacy test.

The injunction issued by District Court Judge Daniel H.
Thomas in Mobile opened the
way for a possible end of racial
demonstrations, which have sent
hundreds of Negroes marching
through the streets in Selma day
after day the past three weeks.
While copies of the injunction were being served on board
members, U. S. Asst. Atty. Gen.
John Doar was in Selma. He
reportedly planned to ask Negroes at a mass meeting, in view
of the court order, to halt their
demonstrations.
The injunction prohibited the
board from:
Failing or refusing to receive and "process expeditiously" applications from prospe-tithree-memb- er

ve

voters.

Processing fewer than 100
applications each registration
day, provided that many applicants show up.

Appalachian
Volunteers Cancel
Feb. 6 Trip

The Appalachian Volunteers
project for tomorrow, Feb. 6,
has been cancelled due to bad
road conditions.
The group had planned to
travel to Rockcastle County accompanied by the visiting Peruvian students.

Failing to provide enough
personnel and facilities so that
at least eight applicants can
apply for registration at a time.
Administering the lengthy
literacy test, which is based on
knowledge of government and
the U. S. Constitution. Negroes
have complained that college
graduates cannot answer some
of the questions used by the
board and drawn up by the
Alabama Supreme Court.
The court order did not specifically tell the board how often
it must meet, but it said that if
all prospective voters who have
applied prior to next July 1
have not been processed by the
end of the month a veter referee will be assigned to handle
the registration.
The court found that the
board has deprived Negroes of
the right to vote and that the
board members have followed
"an extremely slow registration
process."
Negro leaders obviously had
anticipated the court order because they had suspended their
street demonstration earlier in
the day.
In New York, the NAACP
Legal Defense Fund, which asked for the injunction, issued
a statement from chief counsel
Jack Greenberg calling the order "a great victory."

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Sciences. "It would separate the
wheat from the chaff. However,
it would be an enormous transition unless the practice was
begun at the high school level."
Evaluation of the student
would be based on improvement
in Dr. Benne's system. The student would not be asked to
measure up to some type of
norm.
"It is the twisting of evaluation into the corset of the grading system," he said, "that produces the undesired motivation."
Dr. Benne emphasized that
there would have to be some
form of evaluation because people need a reaction to their
work. Psychologically, it has
been found that no response is
more punishing than a negative

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DR. BENNE ADDRESSES FRESHMAN COLLOQUIUM

University To Preview Centennial
For 300 News Representatives

The University's Centennial
observance will be previewed
for the state's news media tonight, with more than 300 representatives of the press and
broadcasting on hand.
The press dinner featuring
addresses by publisher Barry
Bingham and Look magazine
managing editor William Arthur
will climax a full day of activities focusing on communication and the mass media.
Activities began earlier today

Centennial Edition
Today's Kernel includes a
supplespecial Centennial
ment, "Spanning The Centuries," prepared by the Kernel staff.
The supplement is included as an insert in today's
regular edition.

Women Get
Late Hours
For Dance

University women in the residence units will be allowed to
stay out until 2:30 a.m. for the
anAWS
Centennial
Ball,
nounced last night.
A previous plan involving
early morning breakfasts in some
of the residence halls after the
2:30 closing was defeated after
long discussion. The members
showed a desire for uniformity
and fairness in the policy for all
the units.
Another plan allowing for 3
a.m. hours was also defeated.
In further business last night,
AWS voted to include the information on senior hours on
the usual blanket permission
slip sent to the parents of all
girls living in the residence
units.

Churchill
A collection of items pertaining to Sir Winston Churchill is
now on display in the Alben W.
Barkley Boom of the library.

with the opening of a
y
communications symposium
sponsored by the School of
Journalism.
The symposium was initiated
with a luncheon celebrating the
50th anniversary of 'the School
of Journalism and the Kernel
at which alumni of those institutions, the Radio, TV, and
Films Department, and WBKY
were honored.
The luncheon was followed
by the symposium's first working session a panel discussion
of the future of mass communicationsheld at 1:30 this afternoon in Guignol Theatre.
Panelists were Dr. Kenneth
Bartlett, vice president and dean
of public affairs at Syracuse
University, as moderator. Other
participants on the panel were
Bill Williams, research director
of the Oklahoma Publishing
Company; Dr. Jay Jensen, head
two-da-

the University of Illinois
journalism department; and Julian Goodman, vice president,
news, NBC, New York.
At tonight's dinner honored
guests will be past presidents of
the Kentucky Press Association
and the Kentucky Broadcasters
Association. The dinner is to be
held in the . Student Center
Grand Ballroom.
President John W. Oswald
will keynote the dinner, with
Courier-Journand Louisville
Times publisher Bingham responding for the state media
and Arthur speaking for national media.
The symposium reopens at
9:30 tomorrow morning in Guignol and closes with a noon
luncheon at the Student Center.
The final dinner will be given
for panel participants by Dr.
Niel Plummer, head of the
School of Journalism.
of

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SC Elects Bright
To

Fill Vacant Seat
By

KENNETH GREEN

Associate News Editor
Student Congress last night elected Willis Bright to fill the
vacancy left by Representative Heidi Hanger, who had resigned.
Bright, a junior social work major, defeated live other applicants
for the seat. The six original applicants were cut to three Bright,
Marsha Fields, and S. G. Snyder.
Bright, who becomes the only independent in Congress now,
won with 11 votes.
In other action last night,
Congress passed a mot ion made
by Sally List to request President John W. Oswald and t
of Trustees to construct
"an overpass or an underpass"
on Euclid Avenue by Holmes
Hall and by Blazer Hall and on
Rose Street by the Fine Arts
Building and across from Clif-

ton Avenue.

Miss List made her proposal
because, she said, a University
coed, Linda Rankin, was struck
by a car Tuesday while .she
was crossing Rose Street by the
Fine Arts Building.

WILLIS BRIGHT
She suggested that the University pay for the (osts of the construction, as the City of Lexington has turned down neural similar
requests previously.
Larry kcllcy told Congress representatives last night that head
football coach Charlie Inadshaw would appear before the SC on
March 1.

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-- THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Friday, Feb. 5, 1965,

The
Merry

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by Gay Gish

If anyone has not fully realized that he is back in school, the
next week and a half will allay any fear that UK's social life is

not "up to snuff this semester.
With the combination of centennial activities, Greek Week
festivities, and the usual planned social functions, there will be
enough happening at the University this weekend and throughout next week to make early classes a little harder to get up for
. . .and a morning to "sleep in" a
precious luxury.
Tonight the Cosmopolitan Club entertains in the Student Center
for 15 Peruvian students who are visiting the University. The students will be here for a week, visiting various members of the
faculty and laming about our system of education and "how to run
a big university." Welcome!
The Phi Sig's arc going to have a Hootcnanny. What a way to
kick off Creek Week. . .everyone can join in the fun.
The men of Triangle, too, are bound toenjoy themselves tonight.
They play to make mood and music at the chapter house.
Saturday afternoon the sophomore class will have the opportunity
to meet and talk with Dr. and Mrs. Oswald at the sophomore class
reception in the Alumni House. The sophomores share a distinction
with the Oswalds they both came to the University the same year.
Perhaps this also affords the classmates the chance of getting to
know one another better.
Last year's redecoration of Patterson Hall has made it the perfect
place for a jam session and that is just what the weekend and this
"lovely weather" have prescribed as a sure cure for the
chills.
The dorm will throw its door open from 2 until 5 Saturday and
guarantee that the music, made by the Torques, will "drive you to
dancing." Then you'll be all nice and toasty warm.
Basketball, the big word at UK, is with us again Saturday night.
The way the Wildcats have been burning up the court, the Coliseum
should be packed for the game with Mississippi.
e
open houses are the order of the evening. Farmhouse and the Fiji's both plan to do some informal entertaining
in the late hours of the night. The TKE's open house begins
even earlier, for any of the brothers who feel inclined to spend
a Saturday night quietly.
Saturday is the night for the Delta Zeta's White Ball. The
formal will be held in the Student Center Ballroom. Such an
appropriate name for a dance. . .nothing like a little snow to
create the right atmosphere!
Monday, Greek Week actually begins . . .and sorority rush
ends. Busy day!
The ten finalists for Outstanding Greek Man and Woman will
be announced during halftime at the Mississippi State ball game
Monday night. The sororities and fraternities plan to attend the
Stag Day moved indoors?
game as groups a toned-dowcontest.
In any event, it should be a
The Greek Week Banquet is the next night, and with it the
naming of this year's Outstanding Greek Man and Woman.
mid-wint-

After-gam-

Nancy Sislcr, junior nursing
student from Ashland and a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority,
to Dill Picratt, recent University
graduate from Mt. Sterling.
Dian Blossom, senior French
major from San Francisco, Calif.,
to George Insko, senior commerce
major from Lexington and a member of Phi Delta Thcta fraternity.
Peggy Parsons, senior psychology major from Ft. Thomas and a
member of Delta Delta Delta
sorority, to Oliver Bryant, a senior at Eastern State College from
Mt. Sterling.
Jane Harris, freshman business
education major from New Smyrna Beach, Fla., toGary Sherman,
a senior at Trenton State College
from Mendham, N.J.
Lynda Spears, senior psychology major from Lexington, and
member of Pi Beta Phi, to Bill
Boflcmcycr, junior physical education major at Eastern Kentucky
State College, from Lexington.
Judy Carwell, sophomore education major from Lexington, and
a member of Alpha Gamma Delta
to John Cox, senior animal science major from Casey, 111., and
member of Delta Tau Delta.
Sharon West, sophomore English major from Lexington and a
member of Alpha Gamma Delta,
to Freddy Neikirk from Somerset.

Sharon Patrick, senior at

East-

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and a member of Sigma Alpha

Epsilon.
Karalcc Biedling, senior education major from Louisville, and
a member of Kappa Delta, to Dill
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By SCOTT NUNLEY
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.,
pel According To Peanuts," a new paperback from the
John Knox Press, presents Robert L. Short's
position that the
1 eanuts
comic strip is in fact subliminal
Christianity.
Mr. snort has compiled an "Concludinz Unscientific Post
intriguing thesis from the humorous antics of Charlie Biown and script." of Mr.
One
Short's major
his friends. But it still remains
points is that the Church has
for someone to assemble an Esbeen too ctyrect in its attempt to
sential Charlie Brown, letting the bring the Christian doctrine to
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repentence that faces all Christians.
Actually, what Mr. Short's
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Christian dogma and attempt to
reinforce it with illustrations.
The young characters of the strip
become sermons for Original Sin
and man's total lack of security
without God.
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eyes, constantly striving for success but constantly failing.
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He even borrows Kierkegaard's
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preter
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Church would be better able to
fulfill its mission to modem man.
After making this point, Mr.
Short illustrates it with a "Peanuts" strip featuring Lucy yelling at her brother Linus, because
otherwise: "You'd never listen!"
Instead of yelling directly, often
its audience, the
alienating
Church should use more subtle
means.
One of these means, obviously, is to advertise a book of Christian preaching under the appealing smile of Charlie Brown. Yet
the analogies are not so strained
that they can be dismissed altogether. Whether like Charlie
Brown you weep for our generation or not, you will never be
able to read "Peanuts" in quite
the same light again.

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Ray, who wrote the tune, said
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A catchy little ditty, the tune
recites the joy of campus livingall the way from dissecting mice to segregating, integrating and picketing properly musing at the end that "it only
cost my parents $30,000, but what
an education it got me!"
s
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guitar and singing, and Ray stopped to listen. Ray borrowed a
guitar from a friend and he and
Avo tried a duet. The next thing,
the pair were appearing at private
parties.
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musicales, concerts, and lectures.
Perhaps a lack of coordinated
advertising is at fault.
Culture should be slowly makinroads in college populations
Room, filling in through Feb. ing
throughout our nation. We have
10 for the Quiet Man.
had a popular, dynamic young
In the same vein as "Cam- president whose entire family was
pus Life" are "Dean of Men's concerned with the pursuit of
Daughter" and "Campus Rules." intellectual goals. Museums, art
and concert
Inspired by a list of" rules galleries, libraries,
in the Lambda Chi Al- auditoriums benefited from the
posted
national publicity this man gave
pha house here, and another folk to culture. I believe the entire
Rules" pokes
group, "Campus
fun at the various campus do's country benefited.
But our white house images
and don'ts, calling them a "chalhave changed since then, the
lenge to our young and active free
advertising is
minds." "Dean of Men's this mean that theregone. Does
is nothing
Daughter," also rewritten by the a
single university can do by
boys to fit UK tradition, will
itself to present the intellectual
probably have to be rewritten
opportunities it offers in the most
again for release on a record. attractive
light possible to the
Along a more serious line, largest segment of its population?
"Chilly Winds" and "I Wish
Certainly the job would take
That You Were Here," written some coordination. No honorary,
no art or English club, no stuby Avo, are two of their better
ballads. And their version of dent literary magazine or arts
column is going to be able to
Billy Edd Wheeler's "Ann," planned for release as a single, should reach ten thousand people alone.
be the best on the market.
The goal itself is immense. Tell
every single student just what
Ray, now nursing a slight
cold and cough, is "usually lead the University Musicales are?
That as an isolated attempt is not
singer, but Avo does several solos.
enough.
His fluid voice lends a haunting
There are better images that
air to "Pulling Away," known to
can be held up to entering FreshJoan Baez fans as "Wagoner's
Lad," and an Estonian prayer. man as an example of how they
can develop from their four years
The pair now have an album at this
University. It will take
in the making to be called "Camthought, organization, and a little
pus Life."
work. Is anyone willing to do it?

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To Peanuts." The childish attempt to fool Santa Claus is
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A Life At Stake
Once again a University student
has fallen victim to king traffic
and one again the Kernel must decry a situation which promises to
get worse before it gets better.

middle of the block, in front of the
Fine Arts Building. True, it would
be more inconvenient to walk the
extra block, but at the same time it
would be much safer.

The University's master plan
calls for the closing of Rose Street
to community traffic, and it is our
hope that this can be accomplished
in the near future. Until then, if
city officials take no other action,
students will continue to face the
possibility of injury daily.

At the same time it seems that
the city traffic officials could provide a temoorary remedy one that
would suffice until the street is
closed. Of, if it is actually never to
be closed, then the University

The fact that one coed Linda
Rankin was injured while crossing
the street Tuesday afternoon is in
itself significant. However, it is still
more significant that the situation
which produced the accident could
easily happen again.
Nor is the entire blame to be
placed on hurried and harried drivers. Students themselves must assume a share of the responsibility

To Get A Little Impatient"

The installation of a stop light
near the front of the Fine Arts
Building would accomplish the purposeperhaps at the corner of Rose
Lane and Euclid, or perhaps closer
to the sorority houses.

for such mishaps.
A traffic light at Rose and Columbia and one at Rose and Euclid
provide students with safe crossing.
But they persist in crossing in the

should contract for the construction
of an overpass crossing.

If this is unfeasible for seme
reason, a flashing yellow light and
cross walks should be installed,
with a police guard on duty there
at rush hours.
We cannot continue to languish
in apathy about this subject. The
stakes are too high.
At issue may be more than injuries. At issue may be a life.

a

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Readers Offer Moral Support To Kernel

To the Editor of the Kernel:
Since we are of different minds
politically one of us is a
dyed-in-the-wo-

ol

Democrat and the other is
a staunch Republican we feel this
letter is objective in its composite
view. Because these are the times
that try men's souls, especially if
they are on the Kernel staff, we
would offer any moral support we
can.
We look particularly to the scathing letter of a Mr. Eric Karnes, apparently the local Gbldwater spokesman, published in the Dec. 8, 1964
issue of the Kernel and another
from the same person on Feb. 2,
1965. Mr. Karnes asked, "Where
does the Kernel obtain the right,
legal or moral, to indulge in partisan politics?" And again, "Since
the students of the University are
hardly of one mind on anything, let
alone politics, how can the Kernel
attempt to speak for the students of

UK?"
Now, if Mr. Karnes had considered the problem journalistically,

(and under what other principles
do you run a paper?) he might have
found that not everyone thinks that
a paper must speak for its readers.
Kernel Editor Bill Grant echoed the
experts when he mentioned that a

paper's first duty is to stimulate
the thinking of its subscribers, not
to mirror it. Any political scientist,

like Mr. Karnes, knows that some
pretty important social and political
changes have been brought about
under the influence of newspapers
which stimulated readers into think's
ing for themselves. To lay
defeat at the feet of Mr.
Grant and the staff is clearly a
Gold-water-

mistake.
In his classic "cheaters-never-win- "
finish, Mr. Karnes asserted
that if liberalism and conservatism
were compared, the Democratic
philosophy would "fall on its face."
Of course, only time will give us the
final answer but meanwhile, we
wonder why Mr. Karnes doesn't try
to help the cause instead of indicting the Kernel (which seems to
publish every letter that he wraps
around a rock and throws through
their window.) Mr. Goldwater has
admitted the defeat of conservatism
and is building for the future, but
Mr. Karnes continues, apparently
ignorant of the change in the GOP
strategy, to support backwardism.
So far is he from the "mainstream's" new channel that Bill
Arthur, head of the campus Young
Republicans, asked Courier-Journal

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1965

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readers to ignore Eric's published "Since 1894 the Campus Joke") and
charges against anyone and every- turn to the editorial page, someone
one as they didn't represent GOP is
venting their spleen about the
opinion. Apparently, Mr. Karnes is paper's political editorials, its opinmore widely read than William F. ion on college athletics, or the fact
Buckleyjr.
that a couple of their dollars are
And last, when we look at Mr. being used to finance the paper in
Karnes' whole attitude, we begin to which their attacks on said paper
wonder if this plea for equal editor- are being displayed.
ial representation isn't just sour
Did Robert Firebaugh and Clayhe may be genu- ton Klingenfus, to name only two
grapes. Granted,
of the most recent angry young men,
inely concerned about
their money's worth scurry to the Kernel office Thursday
getting
of representation in the Kernel, but night to see if
they could help resif so, why did he mention only the cue the Kernel from its "over-zealou- s
Goldwaterites? Notice that the
editors?" (In case you didn't
American Socialists never were notice the announcements in the
spoken for or had their rights delast three Kernels, the plea read
fended by Mr. Karnes, and while thusly: "The Kernel. . .is eager to
they did not number highly, there comprehensively cover all aspects
were several Wallace supporters on of student life at UK, be drawing
campus who subsidize the Kernel from students in all colleges at UK,
but didn't have any editorials writthis coverage can be possible.") If
ten about their candidate. One these two gentlemen did attempt to
wonders, would Mr. Karnes have become Kernel staff members, I
bothered to dip his pen into rancid apologize and take my hat off to
grape juice to defend the rights of them. However, if they did not. . .
local Democrats if the Kernel had
As for Mr. Firebaugh, who likes
supported Barry?
to exhume Italian philosophers, I
So go ahead, Mr. Karnes. Use would like that he
ponder this
the Kernel, and support conservawhich is cited in Andre
thought
tism. But please don't speak so Malraux' La Voie Royale: Celui
harshly of a paper that practices qui re garde longtcmps les songes
good journalism just because Barry devient sembiable a son o?nbre.
bit the dust. Is that asking so much Proverhe malabar.
of the "greatest college conservative
In other words, Sirs, if you are
in the South?"
unwilling to act, who will?
STEVE DUNCAN
J. E. NEFF
Education Freshman
Grad