xt7b5m62604d https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7b5m62604d/data/mets.xml University of Kentucky Fayette County, Kentucky The Kentucky Kernel 19551014  newspapers sn89058402 English  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Kernel The Kentucky Kernel, October 14, 1955 text The Kentucky Kernel, October 14, 1955 1955 2013 true xt7b5m62604d section xt7b5m62604d Groups Act To Curb Parity Raid
Runu: of a panty raid supposedly to bo staged on
campus v??? disclosed this week, bringing forth several
major ac:rr.s fcy UK organizations to curb such an event.
Dean cf Men L. L. Mr.rtin revealed the rumor to delegates rtt'.ndinK the recent Leadership Conference at
Camp Dr.nitl Eoone. Dean Martin said that a qualified
source h;.ri :nk.mcd him of "plans" for a student panty
raid.
The Tf.::i rf Men said he had rccrivcri a telephone
call reporting the panty raid was to be held sometime this
week. Hr did not disclose the caller's name.
Dean Martin, together with Dean of Women Sarah
B. Hoimfs. asked the student leaders to help solve the
problem. The two deans asked for possible preventive
measures as well as for ideas as how to channel mass
student activity into constructive rather than destructive
purposes.
Leadeiship Conference delegates discussed the problem, offering several suggestions and possible solutions.
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Th'e delegates' work on the panty raid problem was turned
over to Dean Martin and Dean Holmes.
The Student Government Association was told of the
situation at its rcguh.r meeting Mondav night bv ivin
Martin. SGA assembly members passed a res iluti.it opposing any tvie of mass student activity detrimental to

the University.
The SGA resolution reads, 'Ncsolvcd. tlie Studeni
Government Association of the University of Kentucky
cot s on record as being opposed to any typ of mas student activity that would be detrimental to the reputation
of the school and supports the University's policies In
regard to this matter."
Fraternity, sorority, and other UK organizations had
called meetings at which members weie informed of the
panty raid rumors and urged to help stop such an action.
Residents of the men's and women's dormitories also
were told about the panty raid rumors. It was pointed
out that a panty raid would be detrimental not only to

the s'udent tK:y. but alo to the University Itself
The panty raid rumors came shortly after the O. t .1
demonstration at Eastern St.ito College in IJli hniotnl N
i.etual raid ocruned at Eastern although hrtwcMi 'J'M
and 3ix m.iV students t the college nulled in front of
Hiunnn Hall, a girls' dormitory. 'or alxnit an hour veil-

ing. "We want bloomers "
A jx)l,ce officer doscrilx'd the E.is?r;n in id n' as
"more none than ativthmg else."
UK was the victim of a panty raid in the sprmc of
1952.
Nineteen students weie susjx nded by the SO A
Judiciary Committee for participation in the 1952 raid
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UK panty raid of 19 52
The
Magcd Wednesday nmht. May 21 Men students
gathering in front of the SUM about 8 45 pm. and a few
minutes after 9 pm. a large ciowd had gathered ne.ir
the intersection of Limestone Street and the Avenue of
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Vol. XLVII University of Kentucky, Lexington. Kv.. Friday, Oct.

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University Trustees Seek
New $6,390,000 Budget
Leadership Conference

Total Is Increase
Of Over $1,642,200

LaBoheme
Scheduled
To rl For Tonight

While much time was spent on problems of leadership, UK students
attending the first annual Leadership Conference last weekend did
find time for a little bridge and throwing the cow's husband. The
three-da- y
affair at Camp Daniel Boone on the Kentucky" River proved
a great success.

Conference Delegates

tlu
'I'lie University ol Kentiukv w ill ask tlie H)"j( session
S,()..')(X).(MK) lor
(General Assembly lor appropriations totaling
Charles L. Wagner's production .'ach ol the next two fiscal years, a per i arjn(j ease ol SI o 12.2(H)
of the opera "LaBoheme" will be
presented at 8:15 tonight in Me- :ve the current budget.
morial Coliseum. This marks the
Proposed increases are outlined brary everv thinn for the educa-- i
opera
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sented on the Central Kentucky for KentuckiansDonovan:
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President
The priorities of leadership were outlined last Friday nijjlit Community Concert Series,
New service and staff expansion.
to some SO University student leaders and potential leaders by
S317.000. "During; the current bien-niuthe University Is enrolling
Dr. Wank A. Hose, president or 1 ransylvaina College.
lated by Ruth and Thomas Martin approximately 3,000 more students
Eng- arranged for the
Dr. Rose's keynote address was could be discovered in our coun- Mr. Wagner n
yet there
th nnrn list vnr than it had In 1952-5isli i'.pcIati
delivered at the opening of the try's founders.
has been no increase in staff to
iM inH n.
first UK Leadership Conference at
Last week's Leadership Conferdienees responded so well to the
Boone.
Camp Daniel
ence was the first one at UK. The
)o-yea- r
The Transylvania president em- idea came from the University of English translation of "Madame
an increase of some 6,000
uuueniy .
phasized intelligent leadership, Cincinnati where a similar
students over the current bien- An orchestra, colorful and au- - , num ThtTf aIready ,s a .horUge
moral leadership, and leadership
has been an established
with vision in his speech. Dr. Rose yearly event.
thentic costumes, and a select of teachers and research specialists
said leaders must have a firm inUK1.-- , weekend meeting was sponup the ensemble. and this shortage will continue to
tellectual foundation based on in- sored by ODK, senior men's honor- chorus make
f 4 worse."
di- tensive scholarly study. A leader ary. Mortar Board, senior ; women's Thomas Martin is the musical
aw
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uuier currcm cAu.M a "Sci- u
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must inspire confidence in his fol- honorary, ana. Lances, junior men s recwu ou nA. ma Trf earn
ent increa.ses .$236,150.
lowers and approach the future honorary. Miss Ruth Lewis was artistic director.
eauipment for modern lab
entific
with a realistic attitude, Dr. Rose conference chairman.
This is the 16th season that oratories, classroom materials and
concluded.
li- Wagner has presented grand opera. supplies, and books for a great
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Dr. Rose noted that these traits
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Sorority serenading may be
abolished at UK, says Mrs. Sarah
B. Holmes. Dean of Women.
Social committees of the IFC
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Miss Brucie Cruise, social di- with
recior, iu iitxiue mc iuic ui
serenades by sororities and women's
residence halls.
The Interfraternity Council, informed about the serenade situation, voted unanimously Tuesday
night to p.o on record approving
"formal" sorority serenades.
"Formal" serenades are those
that are registered by the social
director and placed on the social
calendar.
The only negative action taken
by the IFC dealing with serenades
was the abolishment of "formal"
fraternity serenade;;. If the social
committee approves the action,
fraternities may still serenade,
but they will not be required to
Fign uup for them.

Atliletic Director Bernie Shively
told the Kernel today that no students will be admitted to tomorrow night's ball game with only
a yellow registration receipt.
If you have not received your
identification card, you must pick
up a special admittance card in
the Coliseum.

sponsibility Is Kentucky's."
Agricultural Experiment Station
and Agricultural Extension Divl- sion. S(i'X.or0. "A prosperous agrl- culture for Kentucky means a
prosperous Kentucky. Farming;
based on scientific research adds
immeasurably to the total Income
for the agricultural program of
the state."

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No Admittance
On Receipts

tion of your sons and daughters
is more costly."
Salary increaKca. $571,000. -- fly
comparison with other learned
professions, government worker
and many of the skilled crafts, our
profrsMors are at an economic disadvantage in these times f general prosperity. A small raise,
given now, is an investment in the
educational future of your sons
and daughters."
To replace funds budgeted for
the current year which will not lx
$250,000. "A
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A lady In distress called the
Kernel yesterday afternoon seeking a solution to a knotty little
problem. It seems too many men
are calling her.
They phone her at all hours
of the dav and night, and after a
ear it's getting kind of tiresome.
She can't concentrate on hrr

work.
To be perfectly frank most of
the calls are mistakes. The boys

think thev're phoning the Alpha
(lamina Delta sorority house,
but actually they are talking to
Miss, Jimmie Lyons, secretary to
the Howard K. llrll Consulting
Engineer Company.
The people who print the Student Directory goofed last year.
They listed the llrll number,
l!l. as the Alpha (lam number. The AtiD's number is
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Keeneland Hall will be officially opened and
dedicated Monday with a forma! reception from
p.m. at the new girl's dorm.
5
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More than 300 invitation.-- have been issued to,
Kentucky residents.
Central
These invitations include state and public offi- s
commis-sicnercials among which are the mayor and represenstate senators and
of I eington.
tatives, and the Keeneland Association which
contributed SJOO.KWI toward the construction of
the Sl.250.0U0 structure.
by
new
After a guided tour through the guests dorm aswill
the
the girls living in Keeneland.
semble in the recreation room for an infoimaj
dedication of the dorm.
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The dedication will be made by President Merman L. Donovan. At this time he will also thank
Keeneland Association and all the others who
made the construction of the dorm possible.
During the afternoon a cornerstone which will
contain copies of the local papers, a Kentucky
Kernel, bulletins and catalogues of the University,
a copv of Dr. Donovan's speech "At the Threshold
this
of Greatness", and the bookie? that requestsalong
will be placed m the budding
year's budwet
with other publications.
The reception Is by invitation only. An open
house for the general public will be held Sunday,
Oct. 23.

Kernel Spotlights
Edit'.rs take lxksee at panty
raid situation page 4.
Kllis Easterly tells of
carnival and gives a history of
the front) pawe 5
The Workshop proprietor tells of
Leadership Colileemce sidelights
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Tommy Lyter Preston elves u
tnoviiik' account of his trip tu
Itirmiiu'h.nn last weekend pae
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(Continued from Taicc 1)
The raiders struct Jcwrll.
nnd Boyd Halls. uiRcd on
bv rails of 'chirkrn" from the
vomrn residents. Five or six students went up a fire rsrajje, and
t vo went In. returning' with women's clothes.
The 19.r)2 raiders surged around
tl Chi Omega and Delta Delta
Delta houses. but did not enter.
From these houses the vandals
vent to the I.ydia Drown house,
v here about 40 entered and sacked
ti e building.
The mob then moved to the
Kappa Alpha Theta house and the
Kappa Delta house. Attempts were
made to enter both houses, but
bith failed.
Following another try to enter
Pitt Hall, raiders were dispersed
by police. Several students were
arrested and placed In patrol
v.igons.
Dean Martin said that men or
involved in a
VMmen students
pmty raid would be subject to immediate expulsion from the University. A large number of campus
organizations this week voted to
pit severe fines on members involved in any type of a detrimen-tn- l
mass demonstration.
(See Kernel editorial concerning
Pi.nty raid on page 4.)
Pnt-tnso- n.

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Every weekday night
5:00-6:1- 5
p.m. Supper Club, nn
15 minutes of uninterhour nnd
A last minute rush on season rupted dining music.
tickets caused many people to be
p.m. Musical Master-work- s,
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turned away at the first producan hour and a half of sertion of Campus Cinema last week. ious concert music. This week
Mrs. Ruby Hart, director of the French composers featured.
Audio-VisuDepartment, stated
p.m. Disk Jockey
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that It was a regrettable incident shows, with an emphasis on Jazz.
and arrangements are being made
Wednesday
to accommodate more of those
9:00 "Dial 899 The Story of
who wish to attend in the future. Scotland Yard",
Plans had been made to sell 450
Friday
season tickets and, in the event
9:00-C.3p.m. Special Events.
all 450 were sold, no individual
This week is an interview with Guy
tickets were to be issued.. After
only 300 tickets were sold the first Okakok. an esklmo.
Saturday
night, 75 individual tickets were
7:45play-by-pla- y
broadcast of
put on sale. Shortly after 7 p.m.
UK vs. Miss. State game.
so mahy requests were made for
season tickets that some season
3kC
ticket holders could not be
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Tied up all day
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The Baptist Student. Union will

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and prayer mates are now being
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No blue jeans allowed during regular skating sessions.
no liquor permitted.

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ences. On Oct. 16. the BSU group
will go to the Veteran's Hospital
to take part in their workshop

B'nai Brith Hillel
B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation-i- s
having a Housemother's Tea bep.m.
tween the hours of 3:00-5:0- 0
on Sunday. After the football game
.this Saturday night, there will be
an open house and a get together
w;th dancing.
Westminster
Westminster Fellowship is hav- iug an open house after the game
Siturday night. A program, Labor
versus Management, will take place
Sunday evening at 5:30 p.nvA A
combined panel of students and
University professors will, take
p,.rt. '
Thursday morning: worship will
be held in the "Y" at 7:15 a.m. and
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regular dinner will begin at 6:15

p.m., and the Rev. Clarence M.
Yates will speak after the dinner
at 7 p.m.
Newman Club
Newman Club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in the SUB. A film and lecture explaining mass will be shown.
Sunday a chapel for UK students
will be opened at College View and
Lexington Avenue. Mass will be
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After the game, there will be an
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the College of the Bible. Games
and recreation of all kinds will be
available. Noon day devotions are
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Canterbury Fellowship will meet
at 9 ajn. Sunday morning for a
prayer and coffee hour.

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meeting At 7:00 p.m. on Friday
evening, Oct. 21. in the Magnolia
Room of the Campbell House in
Lexington.
The feature event of the pro-- 1
pram will be an address bv Dr.
Ralph L. Miller. Chief of the Fuels
Branch. United States Geological
Survey, Washington, D. C. whose
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national ODK president, are srrn tnastrnjr to the surreys of
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Attention mistrated males!
You may now park around the
Patterson Hall circle at nights
when getting your dates without
receiving a parking ticket.

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courting days (the racconn
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eviryho(ly was sinpin (Jntxf Mnrniritj, Mr. '.ip, '.i, V. am!
younjr Ihmaparto had just left Corsica hack. I say, in my courting days, the standard way to im-l- a Kill's heart was to writu
poetry to her.
Young men today have abandoned this gambit, nnd I mu-t- .
say I don't understand why. Nothing is quite as efTccthe as
poetry for moving a difficult girl. What's more, poems aru
ridiculously easy to write. The range of subject matter is endless. You can write a poem about a girl's hair, her eyes, her nse,
her lips, her teeth, her walk, her talk, her clothes, her
at all. Indeed, one of my most lambent love lyrics wa
called To Maud's Pencil Iiox. It went like this:
Flack in 'my

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In your (tear tittle Irathrrrttr, pencil box
Are pencils of yellow and red,
And if you don't tell vie you love, me soon,
77 hit you on top of the head.

Honesty compels me to admit that this poem fell short of
success. Nothing daunted, I wrote another one. This time I
pulled a switch; I threatened myself instead of Maud.

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Oh, Mawl, pray stop this drivel

Open Every Monday
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And tell me you'll be wine,
For vi y sweetbreads they do shrivd
And wind around my spine.
My heart doth cease, its beating.
My spleen uncoils and warps.
My licer stops secreting.
Soon 1 needs be a corpse.

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When this
ballad failed to move Maud, I couM
only conclude that she was cruel and heartless and that I was
better off without her. Accordingly, I took back my Hi-pin,
adieu, anil have not clapped eyes upon her since. Last 1
bid her
heard of her, she was in North Scituate, Rhode Island, working
as a dam sorter. .
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I did not mourn Maud long, for after Maud came Doris
Doris of the laughing eyes, Doris of the shimmering hair, Dom
of thefcolden tibiae! Within moments of meeting her, I whipped
up a torrent of trochaic tetrameter :

Oh, my sweet and didcet Doris!
You're gentle as a Philip Morris,
With its mild and rich tobacco
And its white and scarlet pack-o- .
Doth in regular and king-sizDoris, tell mc plcttse your ring size.
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Well, of course, the poor girl couldn't resist a poem like that
what girl could and
she instantly became my slave. For th5
rest of the semester she carried my books, washed my car, and
cored my apples. There's no telling where it all would hao
ended if she hadn't been drafted.
So, men, you can sec the efficacy of poetry as an aid to wooing.
Try it soon. All you need is a rhyming dictionary, a quill pen.
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Olio of the most serious Mack marks that
tin' University of Kentucky lias liad to erase
ears was tlie infamous "panty'
in recent
raid in tlie spring of lf)")2.
Tin action, wliicli started in the form of
a minor raid, resulted in the suspension of
1() students and damages running into thousands of dollars. This, coupled with the tremendous loss of prestige the University suffered, made May 21, 19.32 a hard pill for
everyone connected with the institution to
swallow.
Currently circulating on the campus are
rumors of anonymous phone calls, and other

communications that are stirring the populace with the idea that another panty raid is
prevalent in the near future. Perhaps if
those who are involved, or supposed to he
involved, can pause for a moment and look
past their noses into the consequences of
such an act. If they can, the whole matter
will quietly he dropped.
Let us pause and view the implications,
based on reports of the scandal of 1952:
1. Tlie raid would not be limited to the
group. Here the principles
one
of mob violence take over, and attract all
types of people from all over town.
2. People from outside the University
would certainly not have any respect for
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anything connected with it. Therefore damages would be much greater than usual.
It is not the planners who take the rap.
After the last raid, even though there was
disciplinary action taken against 19 students,
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were never caught.
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4. Physical injuries were numerous in the
chaos which occurred in 192. One housemother had to take a leave of absence.
5. The University's prestige has been built
to a peak this year by such things as its
Leadership Conference and the fact that its
fraternities made the highest average of any
campus in the nation last semester. This
could all be destroyed in a single night by
such an obnoxious, immature occurrence as
a panty raid.
6. Finally, taking all of these things into
account, the administration has announced
that anyone caught participating will Ik expelled.
Summing up these different reasons, an
appeal is made to the student. Should he
incite a mob to fanatical violence, cause a
good deal of monetary waste, take the rap
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jury to someone, ruin his university's prestige, and get himself thrown out of school
all for a pair of frilly panties?
Let's hope not.

Almost Perfect

Although several phases of the inaugural
UK Leadership Conference held last week
event
left much to be desired, the three-dasuccessful.
certainly deserves to be termed
It is almost impossible to start off some
major undertaking such as a Leadership
Conference without hitting a few snags. The
SO delegates to the initial meeting of UK
campus leaders, however, proved that the
idea is both feasible and workable.
Several campus problems were ironed out,
there were some excellent ideas and suggestions produced, and good leaders were
given points on how to be better leaders.
hinPerhaps one of the most talked-o- f
drances to a completely successful conference was the cold weather. Delegates agreed
that it was. difficult at best to concentrate on
" leadership sessions in the chill October
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weather.
This obstruction could be avoided next
year if the conference were moved up two

or three weeks. Less than a month ago

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warmth
dents were enjoying the
of Indian Summer.
Another difficulty encountered was that
there was too much general problem solving
and not enough handling of individual
troubles. There should be a balance of the
twe.
Potential leaders, in many cases, were
asked to tackle knotty problems that would
throw even the most experienced of persons
who have already attained leadership positions. The potential leaders should be. given
pointers, not problems.
A few flaws in the initial Leadership Conference only point the way to better ones in
the future. With a few changes, the UK
Leadership Conference crmld be one of the
greatest single factors in campus life each
year. Certainly the success of the first conference points in that direction.
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One of the saddest occurrences on campus
has been the steady decline in the prestige
n
of the Miss Kentuckian title. The Miss
contest was originally set up as the
top beauty pageant on campus. It has degenerated to just another minor affair. No
one particularly cares who wins.
What has happened in recent years is hard
to determine. Who's fault it has been cannot easily be answered. Lamp and Cross,
the sponsoring organization, is partly to
v
blame. Their interest in the contest anil the
dance has seemingly slackened. When they
list interest, the the rest of the campus folKen-tuckia-

lowed suit.
A new and better system of queen se lec
tion and a revamped dance is sadly needed.
The dance is not until next semester, so
there is plenty of time for changes to be
made.
For one thing there is a need for more contestants. Last year less than 20 girls were
entered. This is not a large enough group
to select the most beautiful girl on campus.
One answer would be to make all other

beauty queens automatic candidates lor Miss
Kentuckian. This would insure that the
"queen of queens," would be true. In
theory all other queens are subordinate to
Miss Kentuckian. Make it a fact. These
queens would include all those elected during tlie last spring semester as well as the
present fall semester.
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Add to this group all the fraternity sweethearts. The fraternities who do not have
sweethearts would elecrthe girl they think
is most outstanding. Tin's would make a representative group of good looking girls.
Have the eliminations start about three
w eeks beforethe dance. An election would
decide the top ten. These girls would be
presented to the student body at the home
basketball game closest to the dance. A
board of judges picked from townspeople
would then choose Mis Kentuckian.
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should definitely represent the University at the Mountain Laurel
Festival as well as any other beaut)' contest
UK might enter.
Miss Kentuckian

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Kindergarten ?
il'.d liOr, s nntcTUis rtlitorinl teas Milniiftrrf by an exchange
difference between
high and elementary levels of education is to be found in the
studies A. li. C; 2 cV
matt rial taught. Whereas the
1. etc., the university
2
student studies philosophy, economics, law, etc. For other than this they both follow the same
pattern: they are supposed to be at school at a certain hour;
s
and so forth.
they have daily assignments, tests,
Very few realize that this is not the case in European and
some outstanding American universities. These institutions take
it for granted thata university student is a mature person who
can be responsible for himself. lie may ge t his material in class
(if the lecture is expected to be a gooel one), or in the library.
He may study clay by day, or put it off for the last week before
the final exams, which are the only tests during the semester.
It is up to him.
It is true that in this country higher education is more popular. Under the pre vailing system almost everybody may go to
college, and many actually do so. Very well. If Mr. and
Mrs. and Miss Fverbody or their parents prefer to extend
their childhood by being "college kids." let them have it! Let
schools, where1 "kids"' may get academithem have super-higcal degrees.
But why make Mr. and Mrs. and Mis Somebody to bo
school-boy- s
and school-girl- s
again?
Why make mature persons do homework like little children?
Why make grownups attend every class, when they can get
the same material elsewhere?
Why make fun of fully grown men and women by calling
the roll and asking excuses for absences?
Why make students who sometimes are parents, sometimes
even grandparents, feel themselves back in kindergarten?
Why kill one of the most conspicuous values of democracy
the spirit of individualism?
Whv use army uniformity methods in academic institutions?
If a fully matured people is to be raised up; if the spirit of
ineliielual independence is to be preserved; if the sense of
is to be developed let institutions of "free .study,'
with tlie
individual study, be established at least
present day colleges and universities.
Otherwise" we won't have anything but extended grade
and school-girls- .
schools and learned school-boy- s
Most Americans believe that the onl
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Good Idea
Possibly one of the best suggestions that came out of the
recent Leadership Conference was the one to convert the unused Little Commons building to a student recreation spot.
The' Little Commons at one time served as a dining hall for
UK male students. Closed and empty now, the building has
served no purpose for several years.
Many stuclentshave noticed the yellow frame building
which is situated neaXthe exit of the main entrance to the
University. Possibly only a few have wondered why the structure is not put to