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University of Kentucky
LEXINGTON,

Vol. LIU, No. 31

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KV., THURSDAY,

NOV. 9,

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Eight Tages

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Seeks 10 Percent
Of Vending Profits

A proposal to give the Student Congress the profits received by the University from
campus vending machines was
presented to Dr. Frank G.
Dickey, University president,
yesterday afternoon.

The request was placed before
Dr. Dickey by 25 students headed
by Jim Daniel, congress president,
at a meeting in the Student ConLots Of Room
gress office.
Student are now parking their cars where they once had psyIn the light of the estimated
$8,792 the congress Is to receive
chology classes. The area occupied by Neville Hall before it was
for its budget from University apdestroyed by fire last January lias been transformed rerently,
propriations, Daniel said the orInto a new parking lot.
ganization had begun to look for
additional sources of revenue.
Daniel noted that the University
fund appropriations would be insufficient to permit the student
governing body to adequately meet
the needs of various student organizations and the special projects that the congress may seek
to undertake.
Fifteen members f the debate sjder the question "What pro-teaPresently, the I'niversity fund
will represent the University cedures should the federal gov-i- n appropriation to the Student Conforensic activities this weekend, ernment follow to guarantee civil gress is obtained from an allot
Four will to to Columbia. S. C, rights for all citizens?"
of SO rents deducted from the
and eleven will go to Cincinnati,
Ohio.
The Carolina group is to parnt
ticipate in the Carolina Forenslcs
tournament cn the campus of the
cf South Carolina.
University
Bettye Chcate. Herndon, and Warren Scoville, London, will debate'
col- This year marks the l(X)th anniversary of land-graand Ben
for the affirmative,
Wright, Cadiz, and Deno Curris. leges and universities. The Un iversity of Kentucky is one of
Lexington, for the negative.
these 08 institutions.
the real purpose of these colleges.
Eight debaters and three disThe American Association of
schools were
The land-gracussers will make the trip to the Land-graColleges and State established so the average person
University of Cincinnati to take I'niversities will hold its centenan education.
part in the annual Regional Con- nial convocation at Kansas City, might obtain
ference of Tau Kappa Alpha, col- Mo., Nov.
The Morrill Act, signed by Presilege forensics honor society.
Dr. M. M. White, dean of the dent Abraham Lincoln in 1862,
The debaters are Kathy Can- College of Arts and Sciences, is gave to each state 30,000 acres of
Phil Grogan, the national centennial chairman federal land for each member of
non, Hopklnikville,
for that state.
Bowling Green, Paul Cheilgrrn, of the Division of Arts and Sci- Congress serving
Some states kept these grants as
Ashland, Earl Orcmus, Lexington. ences.
Julia Blyton, Lexington, F.bernard
"The main purpose of the con- In the case of Cornell University,
Zopp, Lriington, Donald C'lapp, vocation is the evaluation of where which Is still receiving profit from
Lexington, and Paul Osborne, we are and what we can do to Im- the investment. Other states sold
these grants.
Mindman.
prove," Dean White said.
The college built under the reThe discussers are Jo Hern, Ben-haDean White stated that the
Nancy Louthridge. Lexing- liberal arts division will encourage quirements of the grant were to
ton, and Susan Shelton. Vine various land-gracolleges and offer courses in agriculture, miliGrove.
state universities to write articles tary science, and mechanical arts.
All debaters will debate the respromoting the part of liberal arts They could not neglect liberal arts
studies.
institutions.
olution "Resolved: That labor or- In land-graHowever, most colleges at the
He also said that the question of
ganizations should te under the
tuitions will be discussed to time of the original grants conJurisdiction cf antitrust legisla- high
tion." The discussers are to con- - determine if they are destroying sidered such courses unnecessary.

Debaters To Compete
In Forensic Tourneys
Land-Gra-

Schools

Observe Centennial

tuition fees of each student enrolled during the spring, fall, and
summer sessions of each school
year.
The University receives ten percent of the total profits from the
campus vending machine sales.
The amount received for the fiscal
year beginning June 30, 1960 and
ending June 30, 1961 was $6,800.
Daniel pointed out that In requesting this money to be given to
Student Congress, the students
were seeking profits from cokes,
cigarettes, and candy bought by
their nickles and dimes. He emphasized that no request was being
made for financial aid from legislative appropriations.
Earlier this semester, Dr. Frank
D. Peterson, vice president for business administration,
rejected a
proposal for SC ownership of the
machines.
Daniel recalled that Dr. Dickey
had previously expressed concern
about the prevailing student apathy. The congress president noted
that student interest and enthusiasm could be achieved if worthwhile projects were offered to
them, but these projects would
necessitate additional finances.
The discussion with the University president indicated that the
profits from the vending machines
were used for matters that did not
merit financial support from state
appropriated funds.
Especially noted were the Com

mittee of 15, a Faculty committee
to study University
appointed
problems, and the Curriculum
Committee.
Study
Daniel asked that a report be
submitted to Student Congress
after Dr. Dickey had made an investigation of how the funds had
been used in the past five years.
The congress head requested
that further consideration be given
the matter if the results of the investigation indicate that the funds
are not being used for the purposes
enumerated by Dr. Dickey.
Indications were that if Dr.
Dickey found the University could
do without the funds, he would
make this recommendation to the
Board of Trustees. The board
would make the final decision.
Student Congress was asked to
submit to Dr. Dickey its proposed
budget and a report of special projects suggested for the year.

Merrill Concert
Robert Merrill, Metropolitan
Opera baritone, will be featured
at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow in Memorial Coliseum.
He will sing selections from
Handel, Pergolesi, Motzart, Verdi,
Ravel, and others. The concert
is sponsored by the Central Kenand
Lecture
Concert
tucky
Series.

Professor Awarded Grant
To Study Learning Process
Dr. David L. Horton, assistant
professor of psychology, has been
granted $10,900 by the National
Science Foundation to compare retention of learning through sight
with that of hearing.
The answer will be especially
significant to the University, he
said, since students are required
to learn so much material through
lectures.
In the experiments. Dr. Horton
said he is attempting to find out
how people learn languages by
teaching them an artificial one.
Successful teaching of an artificial language would back tip current explanations of the learning
process.

Using students as experimental
subjects, Dr. Horton will be seeking to learn:
1. How persons form new ideas
and how they form a mental bridge
between the ideas.
2. The manner in which a task
or problem is explained to a person and the effect it has upon
solving problems.
The experiments are especially
concerned with the learning of individual items and the ability of
people to form relationships between ideas.
Dr. Horton's grant will be administered by the Kentucky Research Foundation.

Hillbilly 'Beats
?

UK Coed Enjoys 'Beats, Big City Life
By MIKE FEARING

Kernel Daily Editor
It was quite ironic that a group of UK students
had to travel all the way to New York City to hear a
Li'atnik hillbilly!
Like must tourists we passed by many a "hole in the
vail" looking for Die choice spot to get that Greenwich
Village atmosphere, finally we decided that the Gas
Light Cafe was just the place and descended to discover
a rather sorry looking young man strumming a guitar
and singing a hillbilly ballad.
It seems that Ntw Yorkers are crazy about what they
call folk songs. 1h utically this Is probably right since
most of them never u me in contact with the South where
this type of music is to often heard.
This was the thinning of one of the many experiences the University ttudents encountered on their study
tour of the United Nations last week sponsored by the
YMCA and YWCA.
Of course no "teat" atmosphere is complete without the recitation if poetry. The young man who read
his poems that niht even admitted some of his verses
were just "nice to listen to."
Hp read one long poem from t!-- back of an envelope
1 1 an
acc ent not unlike the one you would find around
Lexington. It was interestiinc to discover later lie was

a graduate student from a near-b- y
college and born in
Knoxville, Tenn.
New York City than
The University is closer to
most of us thought. On the mirror in the rathskeller
Club was the decal of Kenof the German-America- n
tucky along with hundreds of other stickers from colleges all over the nation.
Rightfully called the fraternity house of the nation,
the rathskeller was filled with college students singing
and enjoying themselves.
Some of them would probably outclass the average
d
UK student financially, though. One
young man paid his check with a bill in the three-figur- e
bracket.
For one who has never been to New York the only
impression that can be had Is perhaps through books
and personal sketches of the city. Primarily, a book
would never convey to a reader the different types of
people in a big city nor the actual size of things.
The printed page never told me that the Broadway theater is not big and grand. The theater in my
hometown of 30,000 is biKgrr and more beautiful than
the one that presented "The I'nsinkable Molly Brown."
Or that Times Square is so small that on Saturday
night one has to walk in the street to get past the
crowd on the sidewalks.
Or the feeling I got standing beside a

couple In Tiffany's who were buying a $1,000 gold charm
for a bracelet or the lady who was selecting $500 worth
of glass to decorate for a dinner party she was having
that evening.
Or how flabbergasted I felt when I discovered I
was eating lunch with the president of one of the biggest advei Using agencies in the city during a series of
U.N. conferences.
I suppose one of the most true-to-licharacters in
New York City is the cab driver. Some of them will talk
to their passengers and others will only mumble.
After you have stepped into the street to flag a
cab and Jump into the back seat followed by his demanding prod that you hurry up, the taxi driver races
down the street to Jam on his brakes behind a stopped car.
Gay Kinglesmith. a sophomore radio arts major,
said she was going to be disappointed the next time she
uses a taxi if the driver does not take her on a nerve-rackiride.
The great city does have a nervous, fast moving
pace and probably creates many ulcers. But it Is not a
hard city to learn. Once you have mastered the subways and the layout of streets and avenues then you
automatically acquire the half running, half walking
style of the natives as they rush from place to place.

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