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Town Housing Council discusses
stitution: Poge Two.

Greek student
Three.

views

Editor discusses cheating ot the
versity: Poge Four.
Sources think California's
the way out: Poge Fire.

Kerr

Spring football practice finally begins:
Poge Six.

Poge

UK life:

Con-

Sports editor
Page Six.

Uni-

Somuels appointed director of local
services ot Medical Center: Poge Seven.

new

Cooperstown Council elects

discusses

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University of Kentucky
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officers:

Poge Seven.

Vol. LVI, No. 99

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LEXINGTON, KY., WEDNESDAY,

Dean Issues Challenge
At Centennial Dinner
By KENNETH R. HOSKINS

to continue to lead in the state,
we must blaze the trail quickly."
The dean made several proposals for the future of the College of Arts and Sciences:
1. Creation of a Department
of Semetic Languages.
2. Establishment of a Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
3. Division of certain departments, including
of the Department of
German.
4. Creation of a Department
of Linguistics.
Dean White leveled criticism

Kernel Staff Writer
Dipping into the well of 18
years' experience as dean of the
College of Arls and Sciences, Dr.
Martin M. White served up a
challenge for the future Tuesday
night.
The occasion was the college's
Centennial Year Dinner, at which
the retiring dean was honored
with praise, poetry, and a silver
tray.
.In outlining his "dreams" for
the future of the University, and
for the college in particular, Dean
White said, "If the University is

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Motation Announced
For Three Chairmen
Dean White said, "It was his
achievement in the work on the
Manhattan project that made it
possible for him to bring to the department over the years in excess
of $350,000 in his own name for
research equipment."
The Dean acknowledged that
the Enoch Grehan Journalism
Building is "the monument to
Dr. Plummer." He said, "It was
under his (Dr. Plummer's) direction that sufficient funds were
saved out of the operation of the
Kernel from the Division of Printing that made possible the erection of the building."
In speaking of the third chairman, Dr. Yost, Dean White noted
that "during the time he has
been chairman he has assumed
most of the duties generally performed by all the teachers of a1
department, except their teaching and research." He added,
Continued On Page 8

Rotation of three more academic department heads was announced by Dean Martin M.
White at the Centennial Year
Dinner of the College of Arts and
Sciences Tuesday night.
Replaced as part of the
rotation program will
be Distinguished Professor Lyle
R. Dawson, chairman of the Department of Chemistry; Dr. Niel
Plummer, director of the School
of Journalism; and, Dr. Francis
L. Yost, chairman of the Department of Physics.
Committees are. presently
seeking successors to the three,
and the new chairmen will take
recently-initi-

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July

Dean White commended each
of the three men, listing the accomplishments of each.
Of Dr. Dawson he said: "He
built our Department of Chem-

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He said that "with rare exceptions" the University's distinguished scholars should teach at
least one freshman class.
Citing Chicago and Johns
Hopkins as examples of schools
which once thought they could
create strong graduate schools,
"without the undergirding of a
strong undergraduate program,"
the dean noted that "both discovered their error."
Later in the program, Prof.
John Kuiper, chairman of the
Department of Philosophy, began the presentation of honors.
He presented Dean White a citation, on behalf of the college
faculty and staff, "in token of
high esteem and best wishes."
A special poetic tribute was
paid by Hollis Summers, Distinguished Professor, 1958, and now
professor of English at Ohio University. The poem, "Notes For
A Man Invited," was dedicated
by the faculty to Dean White.
President John W. Oswald,
the first University president to
attend the annual Arts and
Sciences dinner, praised Dr. and
Mrs. White for their "loyal and
untiring devotion to the college
and its faculty." He presented a
silver tray on behalf of the entire
University community, the state,
and the nation.
Also honored during the ceremonies was the Distinguished
Professor for 1964, Dr. Kenneth
Wright, whose Centennial Opera,
"Wing Of Expectation," will be
premiered April 6.
Selections from the original
composition were performed during a musical interlude in the
program last night. One selection,
"Love Is Eternal," was dedicated to Dean and Mrs. White.
Dr. Thomas D. Clark, Distinguished Professor, 1964, made
the first public presentation of
"The Collegeof Arts and Sciences
University of Kentucky," a history of the college by Dr.
1953.

"Dr. Riley has given a good

picture of the University of the
Continued On Page

Internationally acclaimed
author, journalist and teacher
Max Lerner will be joined by
three other leading social scientists for the University's Centennial Social Science Conference
8--

Lerner, presently professor of
American civilization and world
politics at Brandeis University,
will deliver the conference's keynote paper at 10 a.m. next Thursday. His paper is entitled "Six
Involutions in American Life."
The conference is the third of
six major academic conferences
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sciences and highcert by the
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concert produce only the note for which they are designed. Pictured er education.
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Kidney Transfer Begins
For Brenda Hodges, 9
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A Medical Center official reported that the kidney transplant was completed early this afternoon.' The operation was

termed "satisfactory."

Brenda Hodges went into surgery at 8 a.m. today in the University Hospital in a dramatic attempt to save
her life. The Covington girl was to have a kidney .transplanted
from her mother, Mrs. Kathleeen Hodges, 38.
The operation was expected to last about four hours.
Brenda was struck Feb. 9 in a hit and run auto accident near
her Kenton County home. She has been slowly dying since. After
being treated at Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, it was decided
the only hope of saving her life was a kidney transplant.
Everett Hodges, the girl's father, and Linda Hodges, Brenda s
sister, left for Lexington early yesterday to be with
Brenda.
Brenda's parents were both tested to determine which would
donate a kidney. Medical authorities at the UK Hospital determined
it would be the mother.
This will be the second kidney transplant to take place at the
Medical Center. Seven and a half months ago, an
boy
received a kidney from his mother. Both are reported doing well.
A Medical Center authority, however, said this case was unlike
the Hodges case in that the boy had not been injured in an accident.
The authority said the same team of doctors would operate on
Brenda as operated on the boy, although their names were not
immediately disclosed.
Since arriving at the Medical Center last week, Brenda has
been on a diet that allows her only a quart of water a day. She
has also received blood transfusions.
The little girl is not aware that her life depends on the success of today's operation. Doctors say she cannot live indefinitely
on an artificial kidney that has kept her alive until now.
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at lower division instruction, saying, "We arc not improving the
quality of their instruction by
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1. Dr. Seymour M. Lipset,
director of the Institute of International Studies, University
of California, Berkeley.
2. Dr. C. Herman Pritchett,
one of the nation's leading Supreme Court scholars and former
head of the University of
Chicago's political science department.
3. Peter Drucker, an educator,
free lance writer and management consultant.
Lipset's address, at 2 p.m.,
April 8, is entitled "North American Values in Comparative Perspective: A Detailed Look at
Canada and the U.S."
Drucker and Dr. Pritchett will
deliver their addresses at 10 a.m.
and 2 p.m. respectively at the
conference's April 9 session. "On
SoLiving in an
ciety" is Drucker's topic. Prit
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* 2 -- THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, March 31,

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Social Science Conference Set Here

Town Housing Unit
Views Constitution

Continued From Page

ByJUDYCRISHAM
Kernel Staff Writer
The Town Housing Council last night discussed the constitution proposed by the constitution committee and is now awaiting the recommendation of the committee before calling a mass
meeting of all town students to approve the constitution.
Richard Dctmer, chairman of that the Stmlent Center Hoar(1
the constitution committee, prethe Council's request
had
sented the constitution to the for a granted the Student Center.
room in
Council, explaining that before Their office will be located in
a mass meeting was called, he Boom 208.
planned to have several faculty
Mike Hoffman, chairman of
members and students offer sug- the
planning committee, said
gestions about the constitution.
various religious organizations on
President Doug Smith excampus were being questioned
plained that the constitution was about the possibility of provid"flexible enough to meet whating baggage storage for new and
ever organizational requirements
transfer students for a few weeks
the administration sets up."
at the beginning of the semester.
"We don't want to govern any"Temporary baggage storage
one," he said. "We want to pro will help alleviate hasty decision
The proposed constitution has regarding housing," Hoffman
said.
provided for two main governIn other business last night,
ing bodies, a legislative and
Neil Sulier, local insurance agent
The executive council would who will work with the Council
consist of the president, who will in connection with the Lexington
Chamber of Commerce, said that
be elected at large by the
student body, a vice with Town Council setup, "most
will offer their services to
president, the secretary, and the people
the University."
treasurer, which will be appoint"After you start recommended by the president, and standing places to people and have
ing committee chairmen.'
people will come to you
Standing committees .will be and ask your advice," he said.
established fori housing - prob
"This, is what will control prices
lems, academic, social, informaand sanitation."
tion, and advisery duties.
Sulier added that "there
The legislative branch will is housing, and that apartment
consist of 20 elected members. housing is springing up everyIn the first election, they will be where."
elected at large from a slate, but
"You must first cater to the
after the Council is firmly estabpeople you have," he said. "And
lished, they will be elected from once you have a start, people who
districts.
want to rent will save money adThese districts will be set up vertising and students will save
time in looking for a place to
so that "representation is prolive. Then they'll be more than
stuportional to its
'
willing to cooperate."
dent population"
In answer to a question about
The constitution will become the evaluation
process, Hoffman
effective when approved by the
explained that "For the present,
majority of the town students at evaluation will be made strictly
mass meeting, the administration, on the basis ot rent
prices.
and the Faculty Committee on
"The person who's rented the
Student Organization.
place before can then tell us
The Trojan Quiz Bowl, a town what it's like," he said.
group which won the Quiz Bowl
TYPEWRITERS
championship, presented their
trophy to the Council to put in
FOR RENT
their room on the Student Center.
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cial Revolution in American
Democracy."
All addresses will be presented in the UK Cuignol Theatre.
Following each participant's
paper, a panel discussion on the
topic by other guest speakers,
plus question and answer sessions, will be held.
Lerner is the author of 10
books, including his
"America As a Civilization,"
(1957). Along with numerous
other articles in scholary journals, he also writes a syndicated
column for The New York Post.
Along with authoring six
books and numerous articles, Lip-salso has served as a consultant to a number of governmental
and private institutions. His book,
"Political Man," (1960), received the American Sociological
Association's Maclver Award.
Pritchett, a member of Chicago's political science department since 1940, served as department chairman from 1949 until 1964. A political science adviser to the Encyclopedia Britan-nic- a
and a member of the editorial board of the American Political Science Review and past president of the American Political
Science Association, he has
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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, March 31,

Greek Woman At UK Finds
Life 'Not Like Home, Exciting'
"It's good swimming weather
in Greece right now," says Mari-ann- a
Dimotakis, who can't

another year. Then her plans are
to try and get into the Pasadena
Playhouse in Pasadena, Calif.
Her brother is attending the California Institute of Technology on
a Fulbright Scholarship.
Marianna enjoys playing the
guitar, singing, and ballet. While
at Lee's, she taught ballet and
gave a concert. She was assistant
manager of the "Infernal Machine" and played Greek folk
songs on an autoharp. She will
appear in the chorus of the opera
"Wing Of Expectation," which
will be given in April as part of
the Centennial celebration.
Marianna has found that the
United States and Greece are different in many ways. One of these
differences is our practice of dat-

be-

lieve it gets so cold here.
Marianna is a freshman drama
major from Athens, Greece. Late
last August she decided she wanted to attend college in the United
States. Since she was writing to
colleges so late, she accepted her
first reply -- Lee's Junior College
in Jackson, Ky.

One of the main reasons Marianna decided to come to the U.S.
was to study drama. "The theater
in Greece is not good and girls
go into it just because they are
beautiful and want to show off,"
she said. "Few theaters give real

drama."

Since drama is her main interest and Lee's doesn't have a ing.
drama department, she transfer"In Greece you don't date
red to UK this semester. She plans alone. You're always going places
to go back to Athens this summer in groups. When you are allowed
and return to UK next fall for to date alone, you know you're
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Seniors in high school are allowed to go to parties and nightclubs. "They have outdoor nightclubs in Greece and you dance
under the stars with the Mediterranean Sea in the background."
Teenagers are allowed to drink
in Greece so consequently they
don't particularly want to drink.
"At a party they serve vermouth
and whisky, but the kids would
usually rather have an orangeade!"
- The number of cars in Greece
is very small in comparison to
those in the U.S. "Kids in high,
school don't have their own cars
and can't even get a drivers' license until they are 19."
"Life in America is quick.
American children don't really
have a childhood," she said.
They do the same things at 11 that
they will do at 17.
Marianna finds that Americans are always so busy and rushed. In Greece people take life easy
and can relax. She sees so much
tension here.
Greek people are more expressive than Americans. She has
found that people here restrain
their emotions. "I have been
able to restrain myself and keep
the 'Greek inside me. People often tell me how easily and quickly I adjust and become one of
them. I'm often trying harder inwardly than they realize."
In Greece people often strive
to show off, act by themselves
and be one. But in America she
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groups and that many people can
do many things. "I was someone
special in Greece because I could
play the guitar and sing American songs, but here I'm not so
special."
People who have met Marianna might borrow what some
students at Lee's said to her as
she left, "Don't leave, you have
given us so .much."

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cation major from Louisville, to from Anchorage and a member
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* A Rule In Time
The recent cheating episode isolated several campus problems relating to cheating each of which
deserves consideration.
In investigating the story, we
found that faculty members generally recognize the extent and
seriousness of the cheating problem; they feel the administration
appears to soft pedal the issue.
Two primary criticisms of current University attitudes were leveled by professors with whom we
talked:
A lack of
d
policies
what constitues cheatconcerning
well-define-

ing;
A

lack of

policies concerning punishment for cheaters;
clear-cu-

Insufficient explanation of the
problem to incoming students;
A seemingly lax attitude in the
Dean of Men's office concerning
cheating.
These deficiencies promote a
system, in which
the student views his role as that
of the Spartan child ("you can
steal, as long as you do not get
caught").
This system puts student against
u
can
teacher in a
situation.
The extent of the problem should
se

catch-me-if-yo-

not be minimized, as a survey by
the Columbia University Bureau
of Applied Social Research clearly indicates.

The Columbia study including
some 99 campuses and about 5,000
students concluded that more
than 50 percent of all students
cheat at some time or other in
their college career.
Since this has become a major
problem on college campuses, we
would suggest that the offices of
the Dean of Men and Dean of
Women indicate clearly what they
consider to be "cheating." Perhaps
this policy should be part of the
University regulations.
This could include a recommendation concerning what punishments students could expect leaving Student Congress Judicial
Board some latitude to deal with
individual cases.
These policies should be explained in detail to incoming students,
and faculty members should remind their students of these rules.
And finally, the Dean of Men's
office could promote the solving

of this difficult problem by asserting its full support for the written
policies on cheating.

The Death Penalty Must Go
The movement, running at full
tide across the nation, to abolish
capital punishment has received the
influential and authoritative support of NewYork's Commission on
Revision of the Penal Code. This
bipartisan body,' composed of legislators and lawyers, has been at
work for four years rewriting and
recodifying criminal law, the first
complete modernization in nearly
85 years.

Unanimity on this controversial
issue was not to be expected, nor
was it achieved. But the vote was
8 to 4 for ending the death penalty.
The majority report, drafted by
Prof. Herbert Wechsler of Clum-bios convincing. It finds that
making the state a hangman is
"barbarism. ".It argues that existence of the death penalty has "a
seriously banefule effect on the
administration of justice," arousing mistaken sympathy for the defendant, even when guilty.
This is a factor that the president of the National. District Attorneys Association, George M.
Scott, evidently had in mind recently in urging the association
to support abolition of the death
penalty. He declared that "capital punishment cases make bad
law." In many jurisdictions increasing difficulty has been found in getting juries to find defendants guilty
because of the cruel finality of the
death penalty.
A major element in the Albany
commission's indictment of capital
punishment is the
horror of erroneous conviction. With
emphatic understatement the report
says "such errors cannot be corrected after execution." It notes
an inescapable fact that "some
erroneous convictions are inevit
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1965
and adds the demonstrated ESTABLISHED 1894
able,"
William Grant,
one that error sometimes cannot be
Sid Webb, Managing Editor
David Hawpe, Executive Editor
established until time has passed.
Linda Mills, News Editor
Henry Rosenthal, Sports Editor
The minority report offers no Walter Grant, Associate News Editor
Gay Gish, Women's Page Editor
proof that the death penalty has G. Scott Nunley, Arts Editor
Blithe Runsdorf, Feature Editor
special deterrent power against
Business Staff
Michael L. Damon, Circulation Manager
crime, but relies on an effort to Tom Finnie, Advertising Manager
alarm the public of dire consequences that might follow abolition. "There is more crime in the
State of New York than anywhere
The recent confusion over whethin trouble. The Pi Beta Phi sorority
else in the world," says the minorer or not Acacia fraternity and chapter at DePauw University is
ity.
Yet, it should be observed that Kappa Delta sorority will sign Cer- in trouble and the discrimination
the very level of heinous crimes tificate I, formulated by the Faculty of the national is threatening to get
that the minority and the public Human Rights Committee last the university local in hot water.
no less deplores exists in a state spring, is significant for only one
Fraternities offer a lot. They
that does have, and has long had, reason. The statements, or lack of offer friends, a good
place to live,
capital punishment. If capital statements, by Acacia and Kappa and security for many students.
punishment were, in proved fact, Delta are indicative of the attitude But they'll die unless the powers
an effective deterrent, then New forced upon fraternities by the na- that
be, recognize changing times.
York surely would by now have a tional organizations which may
The Daily Cardinal
reduced amount of violent crime. eventually destroy the system.
University of Wisconsin
All Certificate I wants is freeThe national concern over capital punishment was dramatically dom for fraternal organizations to
demonstrated in Tennessee when, select members despite race, color,
after a bill for abolition failed by creed or national origin. This doesn't
a single vote in the Legislature, seem unreasonable, but for some
Gov. Clement went to the state reason the nationals feel it's inon their "unity" or power
penitentiary's Death Row and com- fringing
or something else that they hold
muted to life imprisonment the
sentences of five convicts three dear.
The only result is that the local
of whom were scheduled to die at
sororities, the farm teams in the
dawn the next day.
New York has twenty-on- e
men big league of sorority and fraternity
with their
awaiting death in the electric chair. alurnmgeintrouble
universities. They are
Maybe they are all guilty, and in respective
their cases there would be no ir- threatened with termination.
Acacia has conceded that if the
reversible error. But who could be
choice is Certificate I or terminasure, ever? Their execution will
bring no victim back to life. It tion they'll take Certificate I. Kapwill simply make the state take pa Delta, like most sororities, is
more dominated by alumnae, howa score of lives in an act of retribution that unbearably troubles ever. They can't choose; the girls
the publis conscience. The Legis- can't completely run the local
lature should abolish the death chapter.
All over the nation, and especialsentence.
-- The New York Times ly at the university, fraternities are
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CRISES: THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
By HAROLD V.

Nonstudents Arc Problem On Berkeley Campus
STREETER

The Associated Press
BERKELEY, Calif. -- The arrest of a nonstudent led to the
Free Speech Movement on the
University of California's troubled Berkeley campus.
A nonstudent triggered an obscenity incident which almost
toppled the university's administration.
Nonstudents use loudspeakers
provided by the university to harangue campus crowds with their
views on the university.
How much of the
crisis at Berkeley is attributable
to the nonstudents on a campus
of 27,000 students?
It is a most controversial question.
The trouble began last fall
when nonstudent Jack Weinberg,
24, was arrested while collecting
funds on the campus for the Cone
gress of Racial Equality. A
activist with handlebar
moustache, he sat cheerfully in a
university police car for 32 hours
while students surrounded it.
Mario Savio, then a student
but since withdrawn, stood atop
the car and harangued the crowd.
Savio, 22, a "New Yorker with a
wild mass of hair, shouted that
the university had no right to
arrest Weinberg.
The result was a series of sit-idemonstrations, mass arrests
and continuing uncertainty over
uni