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Wednesday Evening, Jan. 15, 19C9

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LX, No. 74

Is In Effect

Pass-Fa- il

For Spring Semester
which are outside the general the drop-admethod of indicatBy DANA EWELL
Assistant Managing Editor
studies area and outside a stuis only temporary
pass-faing
The pass-fai- l
and that beginning with adsystem for elec- dent's major field of study, toptive courses is in effect now, a ical major and studies related vanced registration for the fall
whole semester earlier than the gencrically to his major.
semester of 1969, students will
The memo also explained that indicate their pass-faRegistrar's Office had predicted
preferwhen the University Senate a student who earns a passing ences on the initial IBM cards.
passed the new grading policy grade in a course authorized as
Grades on the permanent recin October.
a free elective by his major deord will be marked P for passing
Students who wish to take partment will not be required
basis one or more to repeat the course under any and F for falling. Courses taken
on a pass-faunder the pass-fasystem will
of the elective courses they regcircum stances.
count for credit toward graduaistered for this semester must
Method To Change
tion but will not be used in
obtain a drop-adslip, especialDr. Ockerman explained that calculating grade-poistanding.
from their
ly stamped pass-fai- l,
On the slip the studepartment.
dent should list the courses he
At Med
wishes to take under pass-faiThe pass-fa- il
option will remain open to students until Jan.
21, which also is the last day
to add a course.
Dr. Elbert W.Ockerman, University registrar, suggests that
students wait a few days until
By JIM MILLER
acthe initial surge of drop-ad- d
Associate Editor
is over before they begin
tivity
An investigation is underway concerning the death Monday of an
the pass-faprocess.
elderly woman at the University Medical Center.
Some Ineligible
The investigation was ordered
According to terms approved
the office of the Medical as harshly as her son had alleged.
by the University Senate, only by
William M. Samuels Jr., direcstudents above Center vice president after Mrs.
undergraduate
tor of State and Local Services at
Martha McDaniel, 75, of Jackthe freshman level and not on
Mrs.
academic probation are eligible son, died following a reported the Medical Center, said
four-hoMcDaniel arrived about 11 a.m.
wait for treatment.
to take courses on a pasvfail
The morning Lexington and was taken to the examining
basis. Even eligible students may
Herald quoted Mrs. McDaniel' s room about 15 minutes later, too
four pass-fa- il
courses
take only
11 a.m. treatment.
all elect! ves during their stay son, Floyd Caudill, of 1S3 Toma- late for an
Samuels said Mrs. McDaniel
hawk Trail, as saying his mother
at the University.
waited four hours in a wheelchair was allowed to sleep on a cot
A memorandum from the Exfor
ecutive Vice President's Office while administrative red tape pre- in the room while waiting
defined elective courses as those vented her admittance for treat- a 2 p.m. treatment. She slept
for about an hour and then was
ment.
Caudill said his mother had taken, to the radiation therapy
been discharged from the hospital department.
According to Samuels, the deSaturday and told to return Monwas occupied by
day for treatment as an out- partment
another patient, made it necespatient.
Caudill said there was consary for Mrs. McDaniel to wait
fusion about his mother's ap- in the wheelchair. She became
was taken
N still had not received their pointment and that when he ill while waiting and
asked for help, he was refused. to the restroom where she had
grades. Dean Ockerman believes Caudill
alleges that he went to her first seizure.
they were lost in the post office
Samuels said there were two
the hospital administrator's office
after being returned the second
and that while he was gone Mrs. attendants present when Mrs.
time.
McDaniel had her second and
McDaniel died.
"But at any late, they are
CaudiU's charges, an fatal seizure.
Despite
lost," he says, " and we certain- official in the vice president's
He said the hospital is conIn the meantime, office
ly apologize."
Mrs. McDaniel was at ducting a complete investigation
students who visit the Registrar's the says
hospital only about three with written and oral statements
Office have been receiving their hours and that she was not treated taken from everyone involved.
grades personally.
The original problem which
marred grade distribution 1969,
and probably angered thousands
of students, was a simple human
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Calling out to passefsby from the upstairs
of Fence Hall, this mysterious window message of love recalls a popular song to all
who can transcribe its cry. If you're not
adept at mirror reading, try page six for a
reverse view.

Kernel Photo by Dick Ware

'Simple' Errors Led To Havoc
In Distribution Of Fall Grades
By TERRY DUNHAM
Assistant Managing Editor
A simple human error combined with an unexplained disappearance of grades in the post
of
office made a
die distribution of last semester's grades.
Registrar Elbert W. Ocker-mawhose office was not directly responsible for either of the
problems, says the Registrar's
Office was forced to do a "great
deal of extra work" and had its
flooded with intelephones
quiries.
He has urged students to wait
until next week and the end of
registration to visit his office to
have any errors or omissions corrected.
Among the most evident mistakes in the grade distribution:
Some students with last
names beginning with K, L, M
and N received no grades by
mail.
Some received by mail only
erroneous grade reports in which
the first digit of the cumulative grade point average was
omitted.
Others received erroneous
grade reports and then received
corrected reports.
Error Discovered
The original difficulty was
discovered after all grades had
been posted and sent to the post
office for distribution. The Registrar's Office "learned that students with a large number of
hours and quality points" had
the first digit in those totals,
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or in their cumulative grade point
average omitted.
The problem, in fact, extended .
to all students who had class
rank above that of freshman, Dr.
Ockerman says.
The post office was contacted
quickly and delivery was stopped
before all but the Lexington
grades had been mailed.
grade reports
were returned to the Registrar's
Office during the already busy
Christmas week.
Corrections were made, and
all the grades were then
entirely and a new set of grades
printed and prepared for mailing.
A relieved Dr. Ockerman believed the problem was resolved,
but his peace was
More Problems
On Thursday and Friday of
last week, additional inquiries
revealed that students with
names beginning K, L, M, and
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In Nixon9 s Parade
The UK Wildcat Marching Band has been chosen to represent
the state Jan. 20 in the Inaugural Parade for President-elec- t
Richard

M. Nixon.

Approximately 150 band members and chaperones will leave
for Washington by bus Jan. 17 and will return Jan. 21, according
to band director Harry Clark.
Traditionally, a university band and a high school band from
each state march in the Inaugural Parade. This year, however.
Nixon las requested that the parade be shortened and that only
one unit from each state be invited.

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Faculty
Art

Dominating space with a simplicity of geometric patterns and shapes, the sculpture
in the foreground by Michael Hall is part
of the Faculty Art Show now eahibited in
the Fine Arts Gallery.

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KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wnlntntlay, Jan. 15,

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'Particular Breed9 Of Students Contemplate Suicide
prevention of student suicides tics on these and can only
held in Silver Spring, Md., reguess."
"If a person dies in an autoported: "College students are
more likely to kill themselves mobile accident and there is no
than are nonstudents in the note left behind or warning, we
same age group."
can't warrant suicide although
The report continued: "Suithat may well be the case. We
cide rates are highest at
have no way of knowing how
institutions and students many arc actual suicides and
who kill themselves have
how many are not," Dr. Buie
said.
By JOE HINDS
grades."
Kernel Staff Writer
Is there something about colHamlet, the young Prince of lege that inspires students to
Denmark, pierced the unknown think along with Hamlet and
with thoughts aimed beyond the question existence? Or is it the
limits of human experience; pressure of making passing
specifically, he entertained the grades caused by local draft
thought of suicide: "For who boards? Or is it the discovery of
would bear the whips and a cruel world after leaving parscorns of time . . . when he ental protection?
"Working Solutions to the Dihimself might his quietus make
These questions are not easy mensions of
Poverty," a series
with a bare bodkin?"
to answer; accurate information of lectures on
poverty to begin
Most college students have on campus suicides simply is not
next week, was announced Tuesread Hamlet's soliloquy, prob- available.
day by University political sciably passing over the words as
Two Known
ence professor Gene Mason.
they did in younger years when
Fannie Lou Hamer, founder
Dr. Thomas Buie, Director
read "Alice's Adventures
they
of the psychiatric section of the of the Mississippi Freedom Demin Wonderland." But some stuwill begin
dents well may pause in the Student Health Service, says ocratic Party (MFDP), Wednesthe series at 3 p.m. next
and
middle of the speech and linger that "During the two
years I have been here, we day in the Student Center Theon Shakespeare's "sleep of
death" and ask with Hamlet: have been aware of only two ater.
"If death be the opposite of a successful overt suicides on willMiss Hamer, a black woman,
speak on "The Mississippi
life I find filled with misery and campus."
Freedom Democratic Party and
He continued, "These statiswould it then indeed
torment,
tics are misleading, though, as Poor People." In 1964, she was
be a bad state?"
unsuccessful in an attempt to
covert suicides are not
A recent conference for the uncommon. We have noterribly- have the party seated by the
statisDemocratic National Convention
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lirtnwtll Ptyti Car.
Mmt at Ixtanutiwxl P1m Cm.. Dm, M.
Credentials
Committee. Miss
Hamer and the entire MFDP
delegation were seated last year
at the convention in place of the

"To be, or not to be, that (.
the question: whether 'tis nobler
in the mind to suffer the slings
ami arrows of outrageous
or to take arms against a
sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?"
William Shakespeare
Act III, Scene I, "Hamlet"
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He noted that females often
adopt less violent means of suicidean overdose of sedatives
or tranquilizers. He described
the emergency equipment at the
University Hospital as "ready"
for such situations.
He concluded that "You arc
dealing with a particular breed:
these students are at a certain
intellectual level. The basic fac

tor is their mental makeup and
utilization of it."
A study of student suicides
at Berkeley conducted over a
period showed that the
suicides had a grade-poin- t
average of 3.2 as compared with the
average of 2.5. The
report also showed that 58 per
cent of the students had received academic awards.
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Despite the participation of a record number of students, registration this semester proceeded more efficiently than ever before,
according to. Dr. Elbert Ockerraan: Registrar and dean of admissions!
'We. were about as ready 'as and were resolved
by simple re-we could be," he says. He spent
directing."
about half his time Monday and
The successful registration
Tuesday at the Coliseum, ob- was
accomplished despite ID
serving registration and answer- validation
being added to the
ing students' questions. He says Coliseum
activities, for the first
all problems were routine, with
for students who paid their
no major difficulties occuring. time,
fees by mail.
"We generally gauge our suc"This is the idea of registracess or failure by the number of
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to what we call 'the trouble
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Cordon Sahn, professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts; Frank Reisman, director of Mobilization for Youth;
Alan Merman, a Connecticut doctor who led hearings conducted
by the Citizens Crusade Against
Poverty; Earl Johnson, former
director of the U.S. Office of
Economic Opportunity's legal
services program; and Bernard
Shiffman, New York City's assistant commissioner of welfare
come.
services.
The series is
William McKnight, a black
by
who works with poor peo- Dr. Mason and Connie Wilson,
priest
ples' cooperatives in the South; acting director of the DepartFrank Thomas, a black graduate ment of Social Work.
Dr. Mason said the series
of Columbia Law School, at one
time a teenage gang leader in would be an attempt to examine
Brooklyn and now director of means of fighting poverty.

regular Mississippi delegation.
Ten other speakers already
have agreed to participate in the
series, and several more are expected, Dr. Mason said.
Those already committed are:
Cesar Chavez, leader of the
grape boycott; Albert Reiss, chairman of the sociology department
at the University of Michigan,
who directed studies of police
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Kentucky

ESTABLISHED 1891

WEDNESDAY, JAN.

15, 1969

Editorial represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.
Loc B. Becker, Editor-in-ChiDarrcll Bice, Editorial rage
Guy M. Mrndcs HI, Managing Editor
Jim Miller, Associate
Business Manager
Tom Dorr,
Howard Mason, riwtography Editor
Chip Hutchcson, Sports
Jack Lync and Larry Kcllcy, Arts Editors
Janice
Dana Ewcll,
Frank Coots,
Larry Dale Keeling,
Terry Dunham,
Assistant Managing Editors
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Editor
Editor
Editor
Barber

Nunn's Trustees
In making three new appoint-

ments to the University Board of
Trustees Gov. Louie Nunn has
straddled the political fence and
chosen three men who apparently
come to the board without political vested interests.
His naming of two Democrats
and one Republican leaves the
board perfectly balanced with one
Independent and seven Democrats
and seven Republicans.
How well balanced Nunn left
the board in matters of commercial
and economic interests, however,
is not clear at present. What is
clear, however, is that all three
of his most recent appointments
represent the business world they
have made their way there and hold
strong interests at present.
James Pence of Louisville, who
replaced Dr. Ralph Angelucci as
an alumni represenative on the
board, is a mortgage banker and
president of Pence Investment Company. Albert Clay, another new.

board member, is president of Clay
Tobacco Co. And Floyd Wright,
the third trustee, is a tobacco warehouseman and farmer.
And Nunn's decision to replace
Dr. Angelucci and Sam Ezell,
whose terms expired at the end of
the year, also is open to question.
Dr. Angelucci was the first
choice of the Alumni Association
which held an election last fall to
nominate three men from whom;
Nunn was to pick the board mem-- j
ber. Pence came in second in that'
race.

And both Ezell, who represents
the latjr forces in the state, and'
Angelucci have served the board
well in the many years they have
spent with its work.
But the decision is made and
the UK board is now heavily
weighed with Nunn appointments
(he made three others shortly after
taking office). We can only hope
the University doesn't fare the worst
for it.

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been handicapped because they
have been denied many of the
customary union benefits and protection.
Because the grape marketing
industry has taken an unsympathetic position toward the workers
pleas, the workers have been forced
to take their case to the public
itself by calling for a widespread
boycott of table grapes to put teeth
into the demands. The boycott
has been widely accepted and supported in most sections of the
country and in Canada, with the'
South being one of the last sections
to do so.

That is why it is especially important that students here make the
small sacrifice of not eating grapes
while the boycott is in effect. Such
a request is little enough to help
deprived families better their condition and help their children to
avoid the poverty cycle.

Wrong Number
Student Government should be patted on the back for
having the
gumption to admit a mistake and then to take the necessary steps to
correct it.
The mistake, of course, was all the inaccuracies and misinformation
in the initial Student Directory. By making
supplements available,
SG is putting first things first-i- e.,
its service to students before its
pride.
Hopefully, most of the mistakes have been taken care of now. The
lesson, as should have been learned years ago, is that from now on
Student Government should not print its directories before it has
reasonably accurate information.. . .

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EDITOR'S NOTE: All letters to the edidouble-spaceand not
more than 200 words in length. The
writer must sign the letter and give classification, address and phone number. Send
or deliver all letters to Room 11
of
the Journalism Building. The Kernel reserves the right to edit letters without
changing meaning.

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It's Up To You
The issue of the grape boycott
movement at the University is all
up to the students says Larry
Jeffrey, director of food services.
Jeffrey indicated during the final
week of classes last semester that
the University is following a policy
of making table grapes available
as long as students continue to
consume them. This seems to be a
completely fair policy, but it places
responsibility on students alone as
to whether the University will
hinder or help the boycott.
The issue is basically one of
compassion. Migrant California
grape workers, many of them
mericans,
are making their
first extended and concerted effort
to end their exploitive occupational
situation.
Most of them are unskilled and
therefore trapped in .he only kind
of work they know. Their efforts
to improve working conditions have

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To the Editor of the Kernel:
After one semester on this campus,
I feel like K in Kafka's "The Castle."
One can see the UK castle, there in the
n
distance; I live in its shadow in
and it even employs me. But,
like K, I haven't been able to find out
where it's people are hiding, or worse
still, even to make sure they know I'm
out here.
I can remember that security I felt
each morning when I first collected last
might's Kernel before it was, as I then
believed, snatched up by eager students,
and the reassurance of its title . . . "The
Kernel." And there was the warm homeliness of Hodge Podge broadcasting campus news around mealtime. Then something went wrong. Themorningthreatened
ime, if I started it by skimming through
the "Today and Tomorrow" column. I
dropped hot Pyrex dishes as it was read
to me over the air and I had to avoid
my mailbox in case a "Bulletin" or the
latest "Communi-K- "
should make me
fumbl e suspiciously with the combination.
The disintegration began with the announcements of coming musical events-m- ost
of which I attended as a result.
Or did I imagine attending them? Or
were they so bad and my enthusiasm
so rash that they were not to be spoken
of again? "Campus faculty, too," I
thought, "proper subjects for Kernel coverage neither reactionary nor revolutionary in fact, not even political." Neither,
surely, was the delightful creative handiwork by Kentucky women announced,
yes, but then ignored. Significantly?
Sometimes my benefactors seemed to
omit the events in the "Tomorrow" column and I would read from my "morning" Kernel of a concert scheduled for the
previous evening; for example, the Heritage Quartet Monday, Dec. 2. performance, mentioned forever after as a coming
event in the December Calendar (which
appeared a jvetk late in December), just
Shaw-neetow-

to remind me that I'd been unjust in
thinking myself forgotten. No and it
was a mute astonishment when the performance I had pompously considered
the "best probably ever heard on any
American campus," the"Camerata Bern,"
went quite unacclaimed and unthanked.
These were "small hints to me that I
was really eavesdropping, catching fragments of things not meant for me. Or
had I missed the IMPORTANT KERNEL
DAY say, the Friday Kernel, when it
had all been reviewed the kernel of the
Kernel?

After that, it was just another weird
experience to hear that the Jules Bergman lecture I had begged out of hadn't
really been on anyway but it was weirder
still, later to hear at eleven o'clock one
night, over the VVBKY news that he would
not be speaking"this evening at 8:15 p.m."
It is all part of the essential Kafka
experience because, like K, I'm not certain
whether the patrons are really plotting
(wish that they were!) or whether it is
paranoia. Or have I blundered, after all,
and tried to take the Castle by stonn?
As Shelley Berman says ("Franz Kafka
on the Telephone"): "A lot of frustration
and a lot of confusion."
Sandra Britz
Graduate Student
To the Editor of the Kernel:
I have just read 120 freshman themes,
almost half of which were on the subject of whether the University should
require freshmen to live in the dorms.
In the Christmas spirit I have decided
to give housing officials the benefit of
my newfound knowledge: common to both
essays supporting and those opposing
current regulations was the complaint
that "quiet hours" are not regularly enforced. If this is not possible, why not
give the kids a break and soundproof
the study halls which should be located
on each floor and see that silence is
strictly enforced in at least these rooms?
Freshmen have enough problems with
acne,
sex, English 101
themes etc.,; etc.; let's not further complicate their lives by requiring them to
live in dormitories where serious study is
impossible.
Steve Does en
Graduate StutUnt
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California Campuses Reopen To Controversy, Violence
FRANCISCO
solved, and implementation assured."
campuses
The student demands include
last week amid violence and controversy as Governor Ronald Rea- creation of a black studies degan called for legislative action partment cont rolled autonomouv
to curb student disorders and the ly by black faculty members, ade
mission of
students
legislature moved to comply.
The major centers of contro- this spring and all who apply
versy were SanFranciscoandSan next fall, and reinstatement of
teacher
Fernando Valley State Colleges, suspended
English
both sites of confrontations last Ceorge Murray.
fall.
Hayakawa immediately
blasted the AFT strike. He said
San Francisco State
after a prolonged Christmas va- the union has "hitchhiked onto
student
cation with a new hardline by militant, violence-riddestrike for a vicious power grab."
Acting President S. I. Hayakawa,
a teachers' strike, and the issues By Thursday the college had
in the
student won a temporary injunction restrike no closer to resolution. straining the teachers from conThe 50 members of the Amerducting all strike activities, inican Federation of Teachers went cluding picketing.
About 200 union members
on strike Jan. 6 after vacation
with the California voted unanimously Thursday to
meetings
State College trustees brought continue picketing despite the
their grievances no closer to so- court order. Those who continue
lution. The strike was sanctioned to picket may face contempt of
court charges.
Labor Counby the AFL-CIcil, which specifically limited the
AFT Impact
sanction to teacher not stuIn any case, the AFT strike
dent grievances.
was having an impact. Although
Backs Student
most college maintenance workn
and thus
Besides asking for a collective ers are
contract under which crossed the picket line, almost
bargaining
all deliveries of food, laundry,
faculty complaints
and other supplies were curtailed.
about low pay and heavy teachloads can be resolved, the The college cafeteria closed as
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teachers included in their list of workers walked off the job.
More important, class attenstrike grievances that issues in
the student strike must be "re dance dropped drastically. Re
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porters surveying attendance The students refused and 50
found It somewhere between 30
police pushed theirway
and 40 percent. The AFT said into the crowd, forming the corit was only 20 percent. Hayridor and setting off a running
akawa at first claimed attendance
street battle.
was 68 percent, then backed off
During the week there were
to "around 50 to 55 percent."
signs of disagreement between
He blamed the low attendance the AFT and the students. The
on fear of violence.
AFT wanted to comply with poBut violence was low com- lice requests to stop chanting in
pared to the first two weeks front of the administration buildof December, and most of it ing and open a corridor in the
seemed to be the result of po- main picket line, but in both
lice and administration policies cases the students refused. The
and decisions.
AFT also did not make clear
whether it plans to stay on strike
Violence Crows
Last Monday there was no vio- until the student demands are
lence or confrontations as about met, despite the labor council's
exclusion of those demands from
2,000 faculty and students peaceits strike sanction.
fully picketed the main campus
San Jose Strike
entrance and entrances to classThe teachers' strike was also
room buildings.
But on Jan. 7 a small picket spreading to other campuses. On
line in front of the administraJan. 8 the San Jose State AFT,
tion building swelled to about which includes about 300 of the
300 students chanting "on strike, college's 1,200 faculty members,
shut it down." Although the went out on strike. The AFT
pickets made no attempt to enter chapter at Sacramento State had
the building, they were warned also won strike sanction and Bud
by the administration to stop Hutchinson, executive secretary
e
AFT, said about
chanting or disperse. When they of the
refused, about 200 police sur- half the union's 16 state college
rounded them and moved them chapters were planning to strike.
Glenn S. Dumke, chancellor
off campus, without violence,
of the state college system, anhowever.
The violence came the next nounced that under a California
law AFT strikers on any of the
day when police insisted on opening up a corridor through the campuses would be considered to
picket line at the main entrance. have resigned if they missed five
days of classes.
At San Fernando Valley State
College near Los Angeles there
were two days of mass protests
aimed at winning a series of black
student demands. The demands
include immediate establishment
of a department of black and
student en- brown studies, recruitment of 500
crease in
students each semesrollment, the percentage of nonresident students enrolled in the ter, disarming the campus police,
thirty institutions in the state recruitment of black professors
dropped from 23.6 percent in and administrators, investigation
of racism charges against the
1967 to 22.4 percent in 1968.
At the main campuses of the athletic department, and amnesty
University's Community College for 28 black students facing felony
r
System, the over-apercentage charges as a result of a
of
students took a of the administration building
significant drop from 23.6 percent last November.
That Wednesday there was a
in 1967 to 19.2 percent in 1968.
Gilbert noted that the decline violent battle between police and
in nonresident enrollment could approximately 800 demonstrators
be attributed largely to more who had tried to get into the
selective policies in the admission administration building to see
of nonresident students coupled Acting President Delmar T.
with a substantial increase of Oviatt.
Oviatt then declared a state
nonresident tuition fees.
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Enrollment Rises Four Percent
In State9s Educational System
munity College System of the
University, enrolled a total of
59,981 or 67 percent of all students enrolled in the Commonwealth.
The federal Office of Education predicted earlier this year
that college and university enrollment for the nation during
the 1968 fall term would increase
6.3 percent (6.3 million to 6.7
million students) over last year.
The increase in Kentucky was
experienced mainly in the Community College System and at
schools.
the six
Although Eastern Kentucky
University experienced an in

By MARY K. ROBINSON
Enrollment at Kentucky colleges and universities showed an
increase of 4.4 percent in the
fall term of 1968 over the previous
year, according to Ted C. Gilbert,
executive director of t