The Kentucky Kernel

VOLUME XLIII

LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1952

23 rd Triennial Meet
Will Be Held Here
By Phi Beta Kappa
chairman: Margaret Humphreys,
and L. Neil Plummer.
The Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa at the University consisted
of 85 members at last count. In 1951.
They are:
C. H. Albro. MA; instructor in
Romance Languages.
William R. Allen. MA, PhD;
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The 23rd Triennial Council of
Phi Beta Kappa w ill niett on the
UK campus Sept.
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The council, w hich is the legislature of Phi Beta Kappa.
meets every three years to pass
on applications for new chapters
am! to transact necessary Business. This will Ik the first time
that the council has met south of
the Mason Dixon line since 191fi.
when they convened at W illiam
and Mary University, Ya.
Guy S. Ford, former president of
the University of Minnesota, will
preside over the meeting, and Mr.
Irwin D. Canham, editor of the
Christian Science Monitor, will be
the speaker at the council banquet,
to be held September 5 at 6:30 p.m.
in the Bluegrass Room of the Student Union.
Officers of the united chapters of
Phi Beta Kappa are Guy Stanton
Ford, president; John E. Pomfret.
vice president: Carl Billman, secretary; Paul Sturtevant, treasurer,
and Josephine Bertelson, assistant
treasurer.
Local Committee
The local committee for the Triennial Council of Phi Beta Kappa
will consist of the following:
Housing and Meals: A. D. Kirwan.
Dean of Men, chairman: Margaret
Humphreys, assistant professor of
Commerce, and Frank D. Peterson,
University Comptroller.
Financial: George K. Brady, pro- fessor of English, chairman: H. L.
Donovan, president of the University, and Frances S. Dugan, associ- at archivist at the Margaret I.
King library.
Registration: Shelby T. McCloy,
professor of History, chairman ; L.
Niel Plummer. head of the School
of Journalism, and Daniel Hegeman,
professor of German language and
literature.
Entertainment: Frances S. Dugan,
chairman: A. D. Kirwan, and Margaret W. P. Johnston.
Publicity: L. Neil Plummer. chairman; and Lee Coleman, assistant
Rural Sociologist.
Banquet Arrangements and Program: Margaret W. P. Johnston,

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An 11 point program created to keep UK athletics on the campus and stipes tint; that the Southeastern Conference help to cut
down on the costs of college athletics, was announced last week
by University officials.
The program was part of a statement prepared in answer to
partial fulfillment toward her
public criticism directed at the University as a result of the recent
Bachelor of Music degree in Music
Education, which she will receive basketball scandals. The statement was the result of nine months
August 8.
work by the University Trustees, the Athletics Association, ami
Mrs. Simons studied for two years
the Alumni Association. It was issued at the same time SEC
at Transylvania, before taking a
teaching position on the staff of officials in Birmingham were considering the findings of a conMidway Junior College for Women ference investigation of athletics at UK.
in Midway. Ky. While at Transyl7. Give financial assistance to the
The 11 "policies upon which upon
Mrs. Jeanne Ezelle Simons, a senior in the UK Music Department,
will present a soprano voice recital
Monday at 7 p.m. CST in the
Laboratory Theatre. This recital is

The 1951-5- 2 Kentuckians will be
available during the latter part of
August or the first part of September. Dr. Niel Plummer, head
of the School of Journalism has
announced.
Any graduate who will not be
back or those who have purchased
copies in advance may leave their
mailing
addresses and a
fee for the yearbook with Mrs.
Shirlee Leathears, in Room 116 of
the Journalism Building.
August 4 and 5 will be the last
days that mailing fees will be accepted for the Kentuckian.
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HOWARD W. Bl'ItNETTE. center, made a clean sweep of the recent intramural tennis tournament, performing the seemingly impossible feat of winning both the faculty and student divisions. Burnette was
able to enter (and win) both divisions because of his combination status as a graduate student and teacher in the Mathematics Department. Pictured with Burnette are Boyd Keenan, of the Public Relations Department, who was runner-u- p
in the faculty division and Wilson M. Zaring, mathematics student, who
placed second in the student division.

Graduate List A Music Composing
Now Contains
Sends UK
By Leslie Morris

Out of 452 students scheduled to
graduate at the end of the summer
session, only 359 remained on the
commencement list, as of Wednesday.
The following colleges now expect
the following number of students to
graduate:
Arts and Sciences. 42: College of
Agriculture, 24; College of Engineering, 37; College of Law. 2: College
of Education. 35; College of Commerce, 27. and Graduate School, 192.
The Rev. W. Ben Lane, recently
appointed pastor of the Firs Presbyterian Church in Lexington, will
ask the invocation and pronounce
benediction and Dr. Frank L. Mc-Vwill deliver an address to the
graduates.
The annual summer commencement program has been scheduled
for 7 p.m. on the west side of the
Coliseum.
Graduates will assemble

As a result of the extensive activi-- I
ties of one Frank J. Prindl, of the
UK Music Department, the Uni-- I
versity is now in possession of more
than forty tuneful compositions by
amateur coma rather
poser of the continent. This would
not be so noteworthy, but the eu-- I
phonic architect in this instance is
known as N. Forbandar, Maharajah
of Porbandar.
To further enlighten the reader
who is not on speaking terms with
the geography of native India, Porbandar is a state of the 'Western
India States Agency of Bombay, and
its chief, who is a Jethwa Rajput,
wields a staff over some 150,000 subjects. While it is granted that the
maharajah is but a poor relation
as compared to the Ali Khans of
Rita Hayworth fame, he probably is
not wanting in dancing grils or imat 6:30 p.m.
ported American Coca Cola, because
The principal speaker for the the town of Porbandar is a promcommencement will be Dr. Freder- inent maritime terminus for a cenick L. Hovde, president of Purdue tral railway system. A large trade
is conducted with coastal ports.
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vania, she was a member of the Phi
Beta national honorary fraternity
for women and an honor student.
Mrs. Simons nas been full time instructor of all vocal music at Midway Junior College since fall, semester, 1949. Also, she has worked with
and directed the Midway College
Choir and various church choirs.
While being active in these organizations and teaching full time, she
has been a part time voice student
at UK. This past academic year,
however, she has been a full time
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Statement Also Suggests
That Conference Help
To Reduce Athletic Costs

Date Is Set
For Recital
By Simons

Persia, and the east coast of Africa.
So the Maharajah, whom we picture as a paunchy,
playboy, spends a portion
of the sheckles which fall his way
in pursing the fine arts, and the
bewitching strains of the Muse.
Mr. Prindl first became acquainted
with the Irving Berlin from the land
of the Hindu through the President
of the University of Hawaii, and
from this international potpourri
there came winging from Bombay
forty-tw- o
assorted compositions to
the campus of UK.
The Kentucky proressor was in
Hawaii acting as guest arbiter at a
local national music contest, and
amid the grass skirts and falling
cocoanuts, he became known as
quite an authority on concert band
music and homophonic composition.
Since these were the kind of concert
instrumentals in which the Indian
prince indulged, his Hawaiian friend
informed him of the presence of this
American musician and the manuscripts came as fast as the barefoot
mailmen of the Gaekwar could carry
them.
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Though we could not say whether
the Maharajah is a good composer,
it is safe to say that he is, at least, part-tim- e
at Midway.
a prolific and versatile writer. His
Mrs. Simons is married and has
manuscripts include little ditties
with such original and passionate two children. She was originally
titles as "Romance," "Dawn," "Sun- from Madisonville, Ky.
Monday night was chosen as the
shine." "Tulips," "Lullaby," and "The
date for her recital Mrs. Simons
Lily Pond."
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said, because that is her younger
From these simple creations N. child's first birthday.
Porbandar skips wildly Into a "Zum-pad- i"
After graduation next Friday, Mrs.
concerto, and goes wild with a Simons will return to Midway where
tango "Tentena." Then to prove his she will again be full time instructor
unmatched protean genius he in- of vocal music at the College. Her
cludes a symphony, and throws in a husband is also a teacher there.
hopped-u- p
"Oriental Ensemble." folWhile attending UK as a part
lowed by two Far Eastern numbers time student in summer school of
entitled "Bangalore," and "The 1950, Mrs. Simons sang the role of
Snake Charmer."
Mercedes in the opera "Carmen"
Though the Mahrajah is not in given by the opera workshop group
the desperate plight of most music here.
Mrs. Simons' recital Monday night
touts, he
is anxious
for his work to become known, and will feature of composition by Pur-cel- l,
an English composer, and three
in a mesage to Professor Prindl he
urged that "if the music does not German numbers by Hugo Wolf.
come into your use, I shall be in- She will also sing a North Carolindebted if you would be kind enough ian folk song and "The Water Mill"
to pass it on to . . . friends to whom by Vaughan Williams, another English author.
it would be of some interest."
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which special emphasis will be-placed in carrying out the purposes
the NCAA National Collegiate
Athletic Association and the SEC."
according to the statement were:

intramural program for both men
and women in amounts to be de-termined from time to time by its
Board of Directors.
(Last week the Athletics Association announced the establishment
Program
of an annual grant of $7500 to be
1. Continue to require any athlete
given to the intramural program.
requide-- i
to meet the same entrance
8. Give the UK faculty a larger
ments as other students, and to pay
until he is ofhim no grant-in-ai- d
ficially admitted.
2. Play basketball games outside
The complete text of the I'ni- Kentucky only on the campus of the
athlrtics sUU.m,nt Ksurd
opposing school, except in those last wrek starts in column four.
cases where another floor is official- page three.
ly the "home floor" of the other
team.
(The policy statement said that
by special action the Athletics Asso- - representation
in goverinng the
ciation could make the Sugar Bowl Athletics Association.
9. Cut the grant-in-ai- d
of any
and Cotton Bowl tournaments ex- athlete taking part in non-Uceptions to this policy.'
3. Play no
basketball barnstorming tours.
tournaments except the NCAA and
Curricula
SEC tournaments, and elsewhere in
10the curricula of
school asked that
the statement the
the Department of Physical Educa- ' the latter be discontinued.
tion.
Pay No Bonus
ji Continue to call upon its
4. Pay no bonus to any athlete coaching staff to emphasize stan- without written approval of the can- - dards and ideals rather than vic- tories.
ference.
abus- 5. Prevent any grant-in-ai- d
"In the light of the charges that
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have been made against the Univer- 6. Request its educational staff to sity of Kentucky." the statement ex- require proper scholastic schedules plained, "many of them without
and testing for athletes. "This state- - foundation, it is deemed essential
ment is not meant to imply that to spell out in some detil certain
there have been abuses of this kind policies that are to govern the man-- at
the University of Kentucky," the agement and control of its athletics
program.
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A Review (With Added Late Developments) Of The Summer
Heat, Social Security Dominated
Initial Week Of University Life
Enrollment for the 1932 summer session at UK was
that of previous summers, but
alxwe that which Dr. 11. L.
University Begistrar. expected. The draft, high lalxr
wages, and courses which
late in the summer kept the enrollment down.
Students had to accustom
themselves to the ordeal of attending classes in the heat.
Short sleeves and open collars
were the order of the day. Informality prevailed.
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Social Security Mess
On June 18 Dr. H. L. Donovan,
President of the University, announced that University employees
were no longer covered by the bene-

fits of the Federal Social

Security-Act- .

This ruling came as a surprise,
since only 13 days remained before
UK would have been eligible to collect Social Security benefits. Dr.
Donovan hinted that UK employees
might be reintegrated into the Social Security program, after time
for negotiations.
The Kernel (June 27 came out
with the first in a series of faculty
profiles, designed to better acquaint
students with members of the
faculty. The first one, on Dr. George
K. Brady, had a headline which read
"Gardening. Translating Japanese.
Unfortunately, Dr. Brady dixs
not translate Japanese. The chaos
paper was rearof an under-staffe- d
ing its journalistic head.
Confusion Reigned
memUK became a
ber of Confusion Incorporated when
it was put on a different time schedule from If.xiniMon. Pres. Herman
L. Donovan explained it ill this way:

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"Central Standard Time is the official time on which the University
will operate in the future, or until
the General Assembly changes the
law relative to this time zone."
The explanation was scientifically
accurate students were still confused, secretaries bitter.
The University's fourth summer
workshop, which began on June 16,
ended on July 11. Dr. Donald P.
Cottrell, Ohio educator, made the
principal address at a public conference. The topic for the workshop
was "Moral and Spiritual Values in
Education."
2.11? Bricks, That Is
The Maintenance and Operations
Department of UK is removing approximately 2,142 (exactly was the
right word) red bricks from the
northeast side of the Enginering

Building to provide space for new
windows. We forgot to mention that
one of the hod carrier's names was
Alphonso.

The editor wrote an editorial that

was destined to become one of the
most controversial editorials of the
summer concerning the benefits of
small towns. Letter after letter was
to pour in, making fun of the idea
that small towns are a good place

One of those inevitable summer
fillers ran on the front page, following the style of countless otlitr
feature
papers. A
accomplished the purpose of filling
space.

In the July 11 issue of the Kernel
story about Maintenance and
derations spending $1,000,000 for
the 1951-5- 2 fiscal year appeared as
a Number One story. E. B. FarrLs,
Chief Enginer of M and O, was
mentioned only as "FarrLs." Not
'Book Thieves' Featured
once did the Kernel mention who
summer
Leslie Morris, a newcomer to the
he was. More credit to
Kernel, turned out one of the best
chaos.
stories of the summer the one on
Architects began redesigning the the UK book thieves. A story which
four-stor- y
dormplans for UK's new
should have been written a long time
itory, in order to cut the costs of ago finally was written excellently,
the building. The project of build- at that.
ing a new dormitory was welcome to
Social sciences were not being
those with the interests of UK at
that the ignored. Trofessor James R. Henheart. It was
University was no longer capable derson, chairman of the Division of
of handling a full load of students. Social Sciences ut Union College,
came out with Barbourville. spoke on "The
The Courier-Journan editorial knocking the temporary Church's Part in Croat inn Belter
Family Living'' at a icctiunal acs- housing projects on the campus.
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many ways, this was one of the finest summers the KerIn spite of the "impossibility" of getting out a
three, sometimes four, people, the Kernel came
paper with
out every week.
That it was in the pangs of frustration and confusion was
evident. For example, one famous week, a whole page of past
cartoons was run to fill space.
Hill Mansfield, who graduated in June, Dick Cherry, who
works
on the Lexington Herald, attends classes, and
sees that the Kernel doesn't die, Leslie Morris, and Ronnie
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Hutler weathered a storm of frayed nerves and
frustration.
To the everlasting credit of the Kernel, no articles on Hying
saucers appeared in the paper although the temptation was
there.
It was a hard summer.
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The perplexing Stxvial Security
poked its head up again,
giving UK officials a pain in the
neck, but sending the Kernel
stall to its knees in grateful appreciation for another g(xxl
"number one" story.
This time it was announced
that, pending an appeal on the
previous Federal ruling.
Security taxes would again
per usual.
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for opuortunitv.
Jack Cady, normally contented
with the business of soliciting advertisement for the Kernel, showed
up with an article on the heat. He
reached the acme of humor when he
stated that he had seen a secretary
in the Administration Building
shooting salt tablets to President
winPatterson, from a second-stor- y
sion of the UK Institute on Family
dow.
Life Education.
The editorial page of the July 11
issue was an interesting one. Already letters concerning the editorial on small towns were coming
in. "Disgusted Student" sent one
blasting misle to the paper, mocking
the opportunity to be found in small

Large Maintenance Budget
Grahhed Number One Spot

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Social Security Pops-U- p
And Convention Enters News

This Is The Last Issue, Whew!

towns.

The cartoon was unusual in the
respect that it dealt with politics.
For the first time in "volumes" the
Kernel had a cartoon that wasn't
devoted exclusively to campus affairs.
aspect of the
Another
editorial page was the picture of the
Toolbox one which looked as if the
poor devil had just "stepped off the
boat." Butler later explained that
the photographic atrocity was caused
by Betty Baugh pushing a button
when he wasn't ready.
By this time, Betty had established herself as "Flash. Girl Photographer." She had acquired a reputation for bringing in picture after
picture, overlooking the tedium and
piceffort required to
tures for the paixr.
Another
tradition
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A guest lecturer from England
described the Republican convention as "the greatest show on
earth."
Shannon Pens Article
Dr. J. B. Shannon, political science instructor, attended the convention, and in a fine, but
faculty contribution vividly recalled his experiences at the political gathering which eventually resulted in the nomination of UK favorite, Dwight Eisenhower. "One of
the most significant conventions of
modern times," he summarized.
Lawyers asked for the minutes of
the N. Y. grand jury in the case involving former UK
Bill Spivey. The promised "speedy"
trial of Spivey still lay in the dim
future.
Keeneland granted UK $6000 for a
police academy, the money to be
used buying supplies for the school
which will be inaugurated in the
fall. The proposed lie detector was
of the
frightening to the bad-bocampus.
The busy UK Music Department
presented a faculty recital July 22
which officially opened the high
school orchestra workshop to continue through July 25.
Webb Completing Work
Professor Emeritus William S.
Webb was completing work on a
manuscript concerning late prehis

toric people in the Kentucky Lake
area.
The Toolbox gave out the interesting news that the tin structure
in back of Memorial Hall was not
an outhouse, but a projection booth.
The Kernel presented the first
whole page of cartoons in its life
lamented,
which, it
proved that summer news gathering
was certainly loaded with a generous
amount of strife.
I'K Not Summoned
Dr. J. M. Gallalee, president of
the Southeastern conference, said
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that UK officials had not been summoned to an SEC meeting at Bir--

mingham. A story had been circulated to the contrary in an Alabama
paper.
UK lost baseball and basketball
star. Charles Keller, to the St. Louis
Cardinals, drawing a blast from
sports editor Tom Easterling that
"this wholesale robbery" of college
campuses must end.
star quarterback. Piul
Cutchin was named to the Kentucky
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was broken by the frantic rush and
bustle of the summer staff that of
maintaining a serious Colonel of the
Week advertisement. The author of
the Toolbox took the liberty of writing the copy for himself, and, as a
result, the Colonel of the Week was

"unusual."
WBKV Praised
University radio station, WBKY,
was given some
praise,
while, at the same time, head of the
Radio Arts Department, Elmer Sul-ze- r,
was making arrangements to go
to Indiana University next fall.
Speculation as to who would take
his place arose on the campus.
The editor, anxious to inject some
wholesome
cheesecake into the
paper, ran a picture of Lydia
who was heard with Jan
Peerce, Robert Weede, and Hilda
Reggiani in "Rigoletto," at Cincinnati's Opera at the Zoo.
The July 11 issue came to a fitting end with a feature on ten-cenovels in the Margaret I. King
library, depicting with journalistic
genius the colorful covers and
famous authors of those ancestors
of the comic book and Sundav
comic strips.
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As It Gets $7500 Grant
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The high school orchestra workshop presented a concert July 25 at
the Memorial Hall Amphitheater
ending the week's activities. Robert
Whitney, conductor of the Louisville
Philharmonic Orchestra, was the
visiting director.
The big news of last week was that
UK's intramural program had received its first $7500 as part of a
new annual grant from the University Athletics Association. Athletic
Director Bernie Shively explained
that the grant came as a result of
an investigative committee's report
on the
situation.
Kernel Claims Assist
The Kernel took great glee in
claiming an assist when it boasted
of the fact that the Association'
action was brought about largely
through a past editorial which
showed what a sorry state UK's intramural program was in.
Miss Chloe Gifford of the University Extension, attended the Democratic convention, but she could not
rebe reached for any
port a la Shannon.
The Kernel was sorry to report
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that Dr. William Durre'.t Nicholls,
head of the Farm Economics Department, had died in Louisville.
Veterans of the Korean war became eligtble for GI training and
education benefits, and UK hoped it
would bring a new crop of students
to the campus.
Summer Band Performs
The UK Summer Band gave its
final concert of the summer, featuring the Twirling Wilsons, and lively
concert pieces and marches.
The omnipresent Toolbox, showing signs of suffering from the sticky
weather, discussed at length the
danger involved should a mo'h invade a bathroom light while a poor
student was shaving.
First round play began in the
summer intramural tennis tournament which was to be contested on
the Downing courts.
The sports editor bemoaned the
fact that UK was apparently neglecting a good bet to give its golf
team an "unbeatable" Number One
man by not offering Bluebrass
r.
Gay Brewer, a sports
scholarship.
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