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University of Kentucky
KY.,

Vol. LVII, No. 60

LEXINGTON,

FRIDAY, JAN.

14,

I960

WBKY begins new broadcast schedule
this semester: Poge Two.

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Shastri honored in memorial
here: Poge Two.
Henderson

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live up to their names: Poge Three.

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SC legislative body weak says editorial: Poge Four.
Auburn's only Negro student is alone,
but occepted: Poge Five.

SC book exchange closes: Poge

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Senate Passes
State Budget
FRANKFORT The Kentucky Senate late this morning passed
Gov. Edward T. Breathitt's record $2 billion state budget. The
vote was 31-and came after two hours of debate. The Democratic majority choked off amendment attempts.
Passage of the bill now assures the University of nearly $81
million, a figure some had feared might be cut to allow increases
elsewhere in the budget
The figure is about $10 mil islators in education throughout
is indeed
lion less than UK had requested, the Commonwealth
but President John W. Oswald heartening," Dr. Oswald said in
said the University can still meet Lexington immediately after the
its educational responsibilities.
passage.
"The passage has significant
The senate action today folmeaning for the University as it
will enable (UK) to maintain its lowed unanimous House approvcurrent momentum over the next al Wednesday afternoon.
The five nays were all cast by
two years in providing better
Republicans
undergraduate instruction for allotment forconcerned about the
teachers' salaries.
Kentucky youth, sound development of graduate education, and Leader of the dissention was Sen.
t.
Donald Johnson
Thomas) ,
better preparation for the prowho late Thursday tried to delay
fession.
passage by sending the bill back
"The keen interest of our leg- - to
committee fora public hearing.
His move, as were amendment efforts, was crushed.
Now, the only action for the
budget to become effective is Gov.
Breathitt's signature.
The record budget includes
the lawmakers passed a statute in
the largest education allotment in
1962 activating the Constitution
the state's history. Funds earRevision Assembly.
marked for it total $474 million,
from each senOne person
$94 million more than the 1964-6- 6
atorial district, five from the
figure.
and all living
No new or increased taxes are
were appointed to the
CRA.
required to supply revenue for the
govennor's budget.
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ODK Initiates Members
New initiates of Omicron Delta Kappa, senior
men's honorary, are (1. to r.) seated, Raymond
R. Davis, Daniel B. Purccll, Barry Arnett; standing,

Arthur D. Henderson, William S. Hamilton, Jack
C. Lyne, Jr., and John K Roach.

'There's HopeJ Says Speaker

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Assembly May Have Added Power
By

JOHN ZEH

Kernel News Editor
The Kentucky General Assembly, historically a victim of
limited powers under the state's
past and present constitution,
may experience newfound and
additional influence, a Frankfort
attorney told a group here last
night.
Edward F. Prichard Jr., a
member of the state's Constitutional Revision Assembly,
focused upon this thought as he
outlined the recently completed
revision of Kentucky's current
charter.
increased
The
legislative
power, Mr. Prichard told new
Omicron Delta Kappa initiates
and their guests, will come
through:
1. Lengthening terms of senators from four to six years and
terms of representatives from two
years to four.

tools, and more opportunities for
the current
session up to 30 additional information and acquisition of
days, and having a yearly session knowledge," he said. "On the
rather than one every two years. whole, the Legislature has been
the weakest branch of the govern3. Paying legislators on an anment in the past."
nual basis, rather than per day.
The proposed constitution
4. Allowing the Legislature to
determine how all elective officers also extends more power to the
but the governor, lieutenant executive branch, allowing the
And
governor, auditor, and attorney governor to succeed himself.
would be chosen, rather allows for expansion of the judigeneral
than necessarily having them all ciary system. Presently, no courts
can be abolished or created beelected.
cause of constitutional limits, Mr.
5. Providing for a fresh start
Prichard said.
in the area of local government
Mr. Prichard was optimistic
through absence of a specified
about the new constitution being
form of rule.
adopted. The majority has gotten
6. Eliminating many antiquaprogressively smaller in the three
ted and too specific provisions
years attempts to call a conwhich should not be included
in the constitution, but rather stitutional convention were made,
he said. "And at those rates, if
should be passed by the lawwe make any progress at all this
makers and capable of easy retime, we ought to succeed."
peal and amendment.
"We must give the Legislature
Dissatisfied with the failure of
more prestige, more power, more the convention method of change,
2. Increasing

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Housemothers Concerned....
Vacation

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Discussed At Meeting

get in contact with the authorities when trouble
occurs.
Also suggested was the possibility of more
adequate lighting near the sorority houses, and
an increase of the police foot patrol. The campus
police have stepped up patrolling the area and
put into effect the foot patrol at the beginning
Five sorority houses were broken into during of the fall semester.
the past Christmas vacation: the Zeta Tau Alpha,
"They did not use the individual patrol during
Alpha Gamma Delta, Kappa Delta, Alpha Xi the vacation break," said Mrs. Palmer, "so from
now on during our vacation periods a more thorough
Delta, and Chi Omega houses.
will be made."
The entire situation was discussed Thursday patrol
During vacation periods it was also suggested
at the Alpha Cam sorority house.
at a meeting
to employ someone to live in the houses until
Attending the meeting in addition to Mrs. Palmer the students return and also to encourage the
were the housemothers from all the sorority houses,
women students to take home their valuable
and Capt. Linton Sloan of the campus police.
belongings.
The campus police will submit a list of safety
At the meeting there was a general sharing of
information and exchange of ideas on how to procedures for review by the sorority women to
eliminate the threat of future robberies during be put into effect for robbery protection.
There is still no estimate of the amount of
the school year and during vacation periods.
damage that was done during the robberies.
A list of possible measures for further proMrs. Palmer said the housemothers feel assured
tection against robberies was compiled. Leading that everything is being done to prevent further
the list was the suggestion that communication
robberies. Security has been tightened to a point
lines are to be straightened, making it easier to almost eliminating the threat of trouble.
By BONNIE GERDING

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Kernel Staff Writer
"Access to some easy money seems to be the
reason for the robberies which occurred in some
of the sorority houses," said Mrs. Betty Jo Palmer,
assistant dean of women and Panhellenic adviser.

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Kernel Photo by Rick Bell

llurrvn Trees Hut Fertile Minds
Trees on campus lay bare under winter's cloak of bleakness, but
the resuming of classes has brought about the hope of rejuvenated
learning, the spawning of new ideas, and the propagation of
minds. Hie shivering blur of class changes will soon
become idle walks through spring air beneath reborn foliage,
but until then heavy coats will brush against each other in the
rush to have bodies and minds warmed by the classroom.
well-educat-

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14.

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WBKY Begins New

Constitution
Limits Power.
Speaker Says
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Continued from

Broadcast Schedule
eduWBKY, the University's
cational FM station, begin a

new broadcast schedule this
eek, according to Don Wheeler,
assistant professor of radio-Tand films and WBKY faculty
advisor.
The station now broadcasts
from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. Monday
1
through Friday, and from p.m.
to 11 p.m. on weekends.
Several new programs have
been added to the schedule, including "Evening Concert,"
heard at 6:13 p.m. daily. This w ill
increase the WBKY classical

1

Frichard described the
froupas "a er duerpent CTOup
of people. " politically and personally.
He praised the work of his
fellow delegate, and then placed
responsibility for passage of the
Juccested constitution on the legislature and the public.
What now? As Mr. Prichard
pointed out. the following action
could be taken:
1. The Legislature could put
on the ballot this fall the proposition that a limited constitutional contention be called.
This assembly would ote es
or no on the draft of the CR.V
2. Whether a call for an unlimited contention should be
made could also be put on the
ballot. This one could start all
oxer acain. and draft a
Mr.

3. The whole reled constitution could be submitted as a
single constitutional amendment.
But. a problem arises. The
present constitution says that an
amendment must deal with one
subject, which has been interpreted by the courts to mean one
general subject. Now, a decision
on how general a general subject
can be wiU probably be required.
The General Assembly is expected to begin discussion on the
proposed constitution and method fcr adoption by the end of
this month.

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prime minister. Govind Khaduspur, an agricultural economics
graduate student from India gave a brief chronology of Shastri's
life. In addition, a resolution of condolence, read at the service,
will be sent to Shastri" s family.

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Indian students fathered last night in the Student Center to pay
tribute to Lai Bahadur Shastri, Indian prime minister who died
Monday in Tashkent. Russia. Dr. A. D. Albright, executive vice
president of the University, delivered a brief eulogy to the Indian

Students for a Democratic S
ciety will bold a meeting at
7. SO p ro. Tuesday in Riom 115
of the Student Center.
its initiation at 7.SD p.m.
IS in Room 2i5 cf the StuCenter. A second pledge test
in the
wJl be pen at 6 30 p-sime room for those w ho missed
the fjst one. Pledges are also to
pick up their plagues at Dr.

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UK Qaiz Bowl, sponsored by the
Student Center Forum Ceo
nuttee. Entry blanks hae been
mailed to all bousirg units, but
students and uruts
needing additional blaris may
pick them up in R:om 2Z1 of the
Student Center. All applications
must be in the Program Director's Office. Bccm 23 cf the Student Center, by 5 p.m. Deri Friday.

The
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week.
A scries of eight
programs will be presented at 7:30
p.m. each Monday featuring
Norman Chapman, the Canadian
concert pianist and assistant professor in the UK Department of
Music.
Produced by Carolyn Campbell, a senior
major from Cadiz, the first three
programs in the series will be
devoted to Baroque keyboard
music, notably "The Goldberg
Variations" of Bach.

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The community college

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praised
last week by a Florida admin-

istrator who said the program has

UK on its way to
becoming one
of the best in the natio'n.

Dr. Robert Wiegman, director
of the Kellogg Junior Leadership
Program at the University of
Florida, Gainesville, applauded
UK's program because of "the
things you arc going to do" in
Kentucky by providing an education for every Kcntuckian who
seeks one.
Dr. Wiegman and two other
officials from the southern state
involved in the leadership program there spoke at the first
community college conference in
Kentucky and predicted that

UK's community college system munity leaders. These people
will eventually be a model lor work with the director of each
college to direct orientation to
others,
of the reasons Dr. the local needs of the community.
One
2. The availability offacilities
Wiegman lauded the potential of
the University's system is the at community colleges for comd
staunch support of President John munity as well as
events. The state and
VV. Oswald.
"I have never heard a college UK plan to begin construction
president take as firm a stand on soon of community service centers
at all of the colleges.
the comprehensive community
Dr. Wiegman stressed the imas your prescollege philosophy
portance of the community colident," he said.
factors which Dr. leges when he emphasized that
Other
Wiegman cited to indicate the such institutions could accomsuccess of the Kentucky program plish many things that could not
be done on the university or even
are:
the junior college level.
1. Advisory board members for
Commending the University
each of the colleges have turned
"blue-ribbo- n
policy, he
people" who for its "open-doorup
said such a policy is a difficult
to be com
have already proved

idea for people to eagerly accept.
"I do not think that too many of
us actually believe that every
young person should have the opportunity to advance himself."
He added that there arc a
large number of schools which
have a "revolving-doorpolicy.
That is, they accept all students,
but a great percentage arc flunked after one or several semesters.
Such a policy only hinders the
student who, for one reason or
is not qualified or ready
fcr study on the university level.
lie reflected upon an earlier statement about the effect a community college can have on the
individual who can progress to
the university level providing he
is first given the opportunity to

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Henderson Head Says Community Colleges
Should Not Forget To 'Live Up To Name'
By SARA ANN RICH
Kernel Correspondent
HENDERSON
Dr. Marshall
Arnold, director of the Henderson Community College, hopes
the community colleges will help
to "lift Kentucky to a level more
comparable to the educational
development of other states."
"The community
college
should live up to its name," he
remarked. "As a college it should
be a 'center of learning.' As a
community college, it should educate the people of the community. . .and bring to the com

munity the activities and events
that contribute to the general
cultural life of the community."
Dr. Arnold pointed out that
the community college movement
is on a rapid upswing. "One out
of every five college students is
in a community college.
"Enrollment trends show that
Henderson Community College is
just being accepted," he revealed.
The enrollment has reached 400
students for the first time in the
histroy of the school.
He expressed a desire that
Henderson Community College

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Dr. Arnold feels the personal
atmosphere at a community college is most important for the
program.
One idea which he is in favor freshman and sophomore student.
of is that the college should offer At a community college, a teacher
has more time to devote to each
an opportunity for a broader education to people who do not student and his problems. This
aspire to obtain a college degree, personal acquaintance which can
but who hope to become better be achieved in smaller classes
between the teacher and the stuinformed citizens.
dent helps the student get a good
Dr. Arnold believes the community college should provide start in college.
"We hope to build an atmotraining in technical programs
which mean quicker employment
sphere where student life can be
and yet are necessary to fulfill expanded and, at the same time,
maintain a high level in the
a definite purpose in the total
work program. In the area of educational function we are dedicated to serve," he said.
technical training,
the community college at Henderson
boasts having the first associate
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Also speaking on the program
were Dr. Raymond E. Schultz,
director of the college leadership
program at Florida State Uniand Dean Alan J.
versity,
Robertson, director of University
Relations and Developments at
UK. Dean Robertson's comments
were primarily directed to the
various members of the advisory
boards. I le discussed the role they
must play in their particular communities in the promotion and development of the college.

Dr. Schultz defined the community college as "the educational darling of the 1960's,"
an entirely new concept of the
American educational scene.
He said the colleges are designed to offer a variety of programs such as: training the student for transfer to a senior college; terminal programs that last
from a few months to the full two
years; community service for
and providing a liberal education to the student who does
not plan to attend a senior college.

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Two more recent incidents accent President Johnson's failure to
inform the American people truthfully and completely about matters
of vital national concern.
Only reluctantlydid Mr. Johnson
admit to peace talk offers from
North Vietnam. Even then, the
admission was made only because
the news was stumbled upon by a
Yale professor traveling abroad.
The St. Louis
recently reported that the United
States arbitrarily rejected overtures
for peace talks on Vietnam with
Italy acting as a liasion.
The two incidents mark the
third and fourth examples in which
the Johnson administration has
turned down peace talk offers without even telling the public these
offers existed. Discovery by newsmen and other individuals has led,
in all cases, to belated disclosure
by government officials.
Such examples make the Pres
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ident's last spring pledge made at
Hopkins University to
"pursue any offer of peace" ring
flat with insincerity. For all its
verbal commitments, the Administration repeatedly has thwarted
attempts toward peace talks, and,
until last month, proceeded with(
escalation of the War in Vietnam.
The extent of this escalation, until
very recently, has been camouflaged
and falsely minimized by government officials.
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has chosen to cloak its actions in
secrecy, discouraging grass roots
consideration of the question.
With official channels of communication virtually closed, some
groups have dared register their
protest to the questionable commitment to Victory in Vietnam.
The somewhat belated discussion
of the issue now cropping up can
be credited entirely to the efforts
of these groups.
The Johnson Administration
continually hid behind the guise
of "national security" in attempting to cover embarrassment
when another of their "unreported"
dealings is discovered. It is, however, a very flimsy facade.
National security is harmed
much more when people begin to
feel they cannot trust their government to give them an accurate
picture of events shaping their
world.
Such discovery of deceit can
lead only to restlessness and disunity, not the unanimous mandate
the President so dearly covets.

Letters To The Kditor

Warren Visit Discussed
To The Editor:
This is to express my astonish-

ment at Warren's appearance at
the dedication ceremonies for the
new University of Kentucky Law
College building.
Warren and the Supreme Court
have been subjected to unprecedented criticism and abuse because
of decisions outlawing racial segregation and insuring separation of
church and state, fair and equitable
legislative representation and just
criminal procedure. Usually this
criticism originates in myopic
extremist groups such as the John
Birch Society.

However, i n S ept ember 1 964 , t he
Kentucky State liar Association announced as its official policy that
anyone advocating elimination of
"prayer or any phase of religious
expression in the schools on the
ground that it violates the principle
of 'separation of church and state' "
is "communistic." This enlightened Association also branded anyone who supports moves to
"eliminate all laws governing
obscenity by calling them 'censorship' and a violation of free speech
and free press" as "communistic."

The Bar Association went on to
label anyone as "communistic" if
he or she endorsed certain controversial political stands such as
recognition of Red China.
This position represents the
height of irresponsibility since a
Bar Association is supposedly
charged with promoting respect for
the rule of law and maintaining
impartial stands on purely political
issues.
Actually, this official policy
directly reflects the quality of the
University of Kentucky Law College
since this institution indoctrinates
the bulk of Kentucky's lawyers.
Governor Breathitt, as a member
of the Kentucky Bar, is guilty of
the most blatant hypocrisy when he
announced that "We have come
to praise our chief justice, not to
bury him or impeach him."
I certainly understand Warren's
utilization of every available forum
for the advancement of the rule of
law. I did not, however, expect
to see an institution, known for its
extremist attacks on your Court,
enhanced by the dignity of Warren's
presence.
DAN M. CHIFFITH

Congress Weak Wing
The history of Student Congress
at the University has been marred
by weak legislative bodies. Most
Congress representatives throughout tlie years have shown little
initiative in introducing new legislative programs and little concern in serving responsible roles
as student representatives.

that this year's representatives seem to fit these characteristics of their predecessors.
Several constructive legislative programs were passed by the student
governing body during the first
semester; all of these, however,
originated with the Congress administration. Only one piece of
legislation acted upon by the governing body was introduced by an
elected representative, a resolution
concerning the Vietnam conflict.
We regret

It seems that a body of 30
representatives should be able to
initiate constructive legislation on
their own. And, although most
programs passed by the present
body seem constructive, it seems
more meaningful debate and study

by Congress representatives would
mean improved legislation.
But the legislative body apparently wishes to follow its tradition
of being merely a rubber stamp
for administrative programs.
Student Congress has met with
very little success during its existence at UK. Most attractive programs passed have not been implemented properly. The unsuccessful Congress history can be
blamed on a weak administration
working with weak representatives.
We feel Congress this year has
one of its best recent administrations, but a progressive legislature still is lacking. Both are
necessary for a successful Congress.
We hope the second semester
will bring more interest from Congress representatives. The role of
a representative includes the initiation of workable programs and
the close evaluation of items presented for passage. Congress representatives who are ready to
give rubber stamp approval to any
bill or resolution have no place on
the governing body.

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AuburnNegroStudent:'Ignored And Accepted'

By RITA DERSHOWITZ
The Collegiate Press Service
Anthony Lee is a
sophomore at Auburn University
in Alabama. Auburn, like most
other state institutions feelingthe
pressures of growing enrollment,
is trying hard to find ways to accommodate and teach its growing
student population. But Anthony
Lee lives alone in a double room
on campus, with a private bath
for his exclusive use. The room
to the right of his is empty; on
the other side is the bath for the
dorm floor.
Lee is the only Negro at
Auburn. Last year, heanda friend
integrated the formerly
undergraduate division of the university. His friend dropped out
"I think the academic and social
pressures were just too much for
him" and now Lee faces alone
the indecisive,
attitudes of his fellow students.
"I expected it to be much
worse than it was," the
young man said of his
first year at Auburn. "There were
some catcalls and sneers, but attitudes are changing. I didn't
expect any overnight changes. I
plan on being here four years;
they will see that I'm not going
to leave, that other Negroes will
be coming, and they are going to
have to get used to it. If you take
your time, things will smooth
te

soft-spok-

over."

Lee talks with quiet assurance. A veteran of a successful
attempt to integrate the white
high school in his home town of
Tuskegee and a leader in the
Auburn Freedom League, a local
group of Negro teenagers that integrated seven restaurants in
Auburn last year, he nevertheless
expresses faith in the gradual process of desegregation. "You can't
force things," he says.
Lee's confidence in the ability
of his fellow students to adapt
to an integrated society is not
without some basis in fact.
For the first time in their lives
many young whites in the South
are finding situations in which
Negroes occupy the same stutus
as they do students within a
common university. This new experience has stimulated some
a groping for a
new system of values.
"My generation has been
brought up to regard Negroes as
inferior," said Tommy Ryder, editor of the Louisiana State University newspaper, the Daily Reveille. "We can look back now
and see that we've been taught
to hate an entire race. Although
a great majority of us would like
to accept integration, there still
remains the feeling that Negroes
are somehow different. A lot of
us are realizing, though, that if
Negroes are inferior in any way,
it's because we've made them inferior, because of what the white
man has done to the Negro."
Ryder related an incident in
which a group of students who
were attending a Southern student conference at the University
of Florida gathered in someone's
room one night after the formal
sessions had ended. The group included some Negroes. "My first
reaction was to hesitate, to think
twice about it, but then I immediately thought, 'Well, but it's
all right now, there's nothing
wrong with it.' It's a refreshing
process, this breaking off the
bonds of race."
Students like Ryder feel a responsibility to translate their personal experience into something'
meaningful socially. "We've hurt,
the South," he said quietly, "but
now we're making great strides
to help the South.
This does not mean that in all
areas of university life
activities are now fully integrated, nor that all members of
the campus think they should be.
At Louisiana State, which has

alxMit 50 Negro undergraduates
its 22,000 students, a Negro
student was barred from the cam-

pus swimming pool last summer
because, the story is told, the
Alaskan earthquake cracked the
bottom of the pool and it had to
be closed for repairs. The explanation which was supposedly
given for the closing of the pool
may be just a myth, but it indicates what many students think
is their administrations attempt
to avoid controversy and an unequivocal stand.
A petition demanding the reopening of the pool on an
integrated basis got 3,000 signatures during the summer session,
and another petition received
widespread support during the
fall term.
The LSU swimming pool is
now open on a fully integrated
basis.
Why are administrators slow
to move in the desegregating on
their campuses
The answer is
almost unanimous in every state
college or university the state
legislature. "The administration
here wants to be liberal," Tommy
Ryder said, "but they are afraid
of the state legislature and of the
threat of appropriations cut if
they go too fast."
Nor arc all of the students
ideas.
willing to give up long-hel- d
Jerry Brown, a student at Auburn
University, declared that he could
not become an integrationist.
"It's a question of values; segregation is what I've been