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Resentment Of Colleges' Inflexibility
ByJUDYCRISIIAM
Editor-In-Chi-

Inflexibility, a lack of opportunity to exercise responsibility for themselves, and irrelevance are the major sources
of st ress for today s able college student, not sex, drugs,
or even Vietnam or the bomb.
This was just one of the conclusions reached in a report on the National Conference on Student Stress held
last November, sponsored by the United States National
Student Association under grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the Da nforth Foundation. The
report, just recently released, was prepared by Dr. Edward
Joseph Shoben Jr., director of the Center for Study and
Training in Higher Education at the University of Cincinnati.
The conference was attended by representatives from
33 colleges and universities
usually two students and
one faculty member from each institution. With them were
about 35 consultants, observers, and specialists in the
behavioral science and the mental health professions.
Berkeley, the report states, "remains the symbol and
the symptom" of the current college "mood," and the
mood it continues is as "puzzling as it is potent."

The student feels the pressures for performance build
up long before he enters college. Even during high school,
anxieties over whether he willwinadmissiontothe "college of his choice" are commonplace. Then, once admitted, students find themselves pressed more and more
for early declarations of a major, and the increased standards for undergraduates mean increased applications for
admission and increased competitivenessafteradmission.
Such a state of affairs, the report states, imposes
"barriers to the formation of intimate, easy, and pro
found relationships with other students." Time for friend
ship is restricted by vigorous study demands, every student is viewed as a, rival for a place of the "normal
distribution curve," and the growing in both size and
confusion of the institutions themselves add more
momentum to the problem.

The student arrives at his chosen school, is oriented,
taught, graded, counseled by numerous people numbered, classified . . . and so it goes as every college student realizes. No one has time to help with the individual dev elopment of a particular student. Thus, we get
the picture of the student marching in protest with an

Vol.

IBM card taped to his forehead and a placard across his
chest labeled "Do Not Bend, Staple, or Fold."
The report acknowledges that professors and administrators also find these conditions distressful. Hut, it
states, colleges and universities are educational institutions and as such owe a "peculiar obligation to the
young people who enroll in them."
If the student revolts and demonstrations, then, are
symptoms of a general uneasiness on the nation's college
campuses, what is the nature of the difficulties to which
these protests are a response?
This was the concern of the conference.
Some of the remarks made by students were:
"We don't want to have our hands held or our head
patted. We want a really good education."
"Everyone in the universities thinks too much about
structures. They're important, but the new focus must be
primarily on making the structures compatible with
people, and the people more generous to each other in

the structure."
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"I want to tap my school's resources, pick the brains
of my profs, and make sure I don't come out the same
Continued On Page

University of Kentucky

LVII, No. 134 LEXINGTON, KY., THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1966

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Ginger Fails To Answer
Questions On Resignation
ByGENECLABES

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Dr. Lyman Cinger, dean of
the College of Education would
not comment Wednesday on reports stating he was asked to
relinquish his position after an
unfavorable progress report was
submitted concerning the college.
Asked about events leading
up to his resignation after 10
years as dean of the college,
Dean Ginger said, "No com-

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President John Oswald by a faculty review committee. He later
said he did so involuntarily.
Dean Ginger's is one of three
deans to resign in the last three
weeks, causing an aura of confusion at UK and around the
state as to what is happening.
Dr. A. D. Kirwan, dean of
UK's Craduate School and Dr.
Robert Shaver, dean of the Col

lege of Engineering, along with
Dean Ginger, have announced
they will relinquish their posts.
However, Dean Kirwan resigned his graduate school post
against the wishes of Dr. Oswald,
according to sources close to the
president. It is reported Dean
Kirwan had tried to resign on
four other occasions but was
dissuaded.
Dean Shaver resigned after
being told the College of Engineering was in line for a faculty
review. Reportedly, his action
was voluntary.

Dean Kirwan's resignation

was announced last Friday and
Dean Ginger's and Dean Shaver's
became known on Tuesday. The
initial announcement did not create the impact as the final two
did on the same day.
According to the Courier-Journarticle, the faculty ev aluation was not the only factor
prompting the request for Dean
Ginger's resignation.
UK also had complaints from
school systems in the state that

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Combs Speaks Out
About Constitution

What Next?
Now, this is the way it goes and goes and goes, a couple of somefreshmen are probably being told. But
what frustrated-lookin- g
f
somehow those
directions for the simple business of
classes signed up aren't quite what they might be. "First
getting
comes Station A, then Station B, or is C. No maybe it's D.Oh,
well, like they say about final exams, it's all a big game."
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the college was not providing
the type of help they needed.
After several meetings with
Dean Ginger, Dr. Oswald asked
him to step down.
"I plan to remain with the
University, "Dean Ginger said

Wednesday.
Accompanying his resignation was a report he would remain in the College of Education
as coordinator of undergraduate
teaching programs.
Almost simultaneously with
his resignation announcement
was another report that he may
enter politics. Former Gov. A. B.
"Happy" Chandler called him
a prime prospect for the lieutenant governorship.
However, Dean Ginger said
he had not talked with Mr.
Chandler about the approaching
race.
"All I know is what I've
read," he said. "Mr. Chandler
hasn't talked with me about

it."
The step down by the three
deans is part of a rotation
system which was started in
1964, one year alter Dr. Oswald
assumed the UK presidency.
UK

However a policy regarding
deans has been in effect since
Dec. 1, 1963. It says in part:
"As early as the beginning
of a dean's fifth year of service
and not later than the beginning
of his seventh year, the president
shall request from an advisor)
committee of the fac ulty a rev iew
of the accomplishments of the

Former Gov. Bert Combs said Wednesday night Kentucky's
present constitution places far too many restrictions on govern
mental operations.
which framed
Voters should consider the sembly, the group
the state's proposed new constidean."
present constitution before maktution, which will be on the
Announcement
of replaceing a judgment on the proposed
ballot in the November general
ments of the three deans is exnew one, Combs said.
election.
pected bcfoie the fall semester
Speaking at the third Je;:se
Continued On Page 10
Stuart seminar at the University,
begins.
Combs said few people know
as much about the present constitution as they should.
He said Kentucky's present
This special
edition of the Kernel is Ix'iug mailed to
charter, adopted in 1891, is writall students who will be entering the University for the first time
ten with too much detail. It is this fall.
seven times as long as the United
About 4,000 Kernels will be sent to incoming freshmen and
States Constitution, he added.
transfer students. The purpose of the special edition is to promote
Combs served as a member
the Kernel and help new students become familiar with certain
of the Constitution Revision As
aspects of the campus.

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Student's Goal:
'Usable Knowledge'

Continued From Page 1
tiling I was as a freshman. Hut I
want to do the changing, not he
molded by the cstahlishmcnt. I
just want to he sure they have
something for me as I change."
The crucial issue, the students
felt, was that of "getting a good
education." The student expressed a profound faith in education as the mainstay of civilization and an eagerness to find
values and the devices for
realizing them that will give the
modern world a humane aspect.
Students was "an educational
experience more relevant to the
modem world."
But this is not all a student
expects from a university experience. The student wants "more
authentic and personal relationships between students and
faculty, and the revision of the
campus community from that of
adversary to collaborator."
Underlying all these demands
is a desire for "more responsible
involvement by students in the
determination of auricular opportunities and in the management of those institutional affairs
that color their lives.
Some of the more specific
suggestions were:
1. The graduate schools should
give more attention to the preparation of teachers. Preparatory experiences should include work in
seminars and other academic
fields to offset the narrowness of
research training. There should
be supervised teaching by each
degree candidate, and the student
should participate in the evaluation of his teaching.
2. College officials should pay
to effective
closer attention

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teachers and reward them. Students should be involved in this
effort, and peer evaluations
should also be made.

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3. Students themselves should
play a larger instructional role.
Uppcrclassmcn could tutor freshmen and sophomores for credit.
Academic advising could be given
to graduate students so that faculty could spend more time with

teaching and the graduate student could keep in touch with
what it means to be a student.
4. Programs
of independent
study should

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privilege of inventing his own
course, designing it with professional help, and receiving

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a course and have it considered
for inclusion in the curriculum on
the same basis as any other new
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judgments should
be substituted for grades in the
freshmen and sophomore years
in order to encourage them to
concentrate on learning rather
than grades. This would also encourage them to take subjects in
which they know they are weak.
6. There should be more points
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time in
at which
the classroom is fused with experience in the outer world.
Higher education should provide
a "guided reflection" about
society.
7. Arrangements
should be
made to improve student-facult- y
interaction. Periodic faculty-studeretreats (about any subject) away from campus are helpful as w ell as Saturday discussion

5.

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between faculty and students
about institutional affairs.
8. All decision making bodies

within the university should be
reviewed to determine if students
could be members of them.
Students want a greater degree
of responsibility in directing their
own education and of capitalizing
on an institution's resources for a

relevant educational experience.
The report ends: "They are
not acquiring rapidly enough the
usable knowledge to get on with
the job that their faith and eagerness define for them; and that
central source of their distress
must be sharply discriminated
from the sometimes (but not always) tasteless, hotheaded, or

rashly immature responses they
make to it."
The student protests. There is
a general feeling of uneasiness
and unrest pervading the campuses, but, according to the report, the student really wants is
an education that is both relevant and demanding of their best

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the University's progress in recent years.
What was once referred to as the
"Country Club of the South" is
becoming at least regionally recognized as a leading institution in
higher education.
The University first began showacaing significant progress in the
demic world less than a decade
ago. A new administration and
incieased faculty participation in
program planning has accelerated
UK's academic facelifting.
The University has also widened
its scope to serve the growing demands of the public. The modern
university not only concerns itself
with teaching, but its activities
include extensive research and involvement in public affairs.
While few deny these obvious
changes, one thing at UK remains
student. It is unthe same-t- he
fortunate that both major and
minor changes started here have
received little support or participation from the student body.
The administration and the
faculty thus far have attempted
to raise the quality of education
at UK, while the average student
has appeared as unconcerned as
The administration and
ever.
faculty can go only so far in improving UK's academic program.
There is a point where active student support is needed before programs can be properly implemented.
At a time when students across
the nation are: demanding a greater
voice in administrative policies and
academic programs, the main concern of the average UK student
is his final grade in a course, the
athletic event or the weekend party.
Students at Berkeley and elsewhere across the nation have demanded greater freedom and more
effective government. Students at
UK remain silent.
All students, including those
at UK,, resent the multiversity and
its threatened impersonal treatment. The difference is that students at other universities are doing
No one underestimates

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something about it. Those at UK
are not.
The physical faces of UK students have changed, but their
activities have remained the same.
As an example, UK student government still is ineffective and does
not meet the governing needs of
the student body. Students still
elect to Student Congress persons
of too little concern with the more
important issues of hxlay's higher
education.
The UK student talks about
things which are going wrong,
but he does not complain through
the proper channels. Very few make
efforts to contact administrators
and voice their opinions on v arious
matters.
Little use is made of the petition. Students two years ago signed
a petition concerning registration
procedures. The result was a much
improved registration system. More
petitions should have followed, but
they did not.
Few students make known their
opinions on significant issues
through the "Letters to the Editor"
column in the Kernel. Those who
write are the same ones, week
after week and generally "weak
after weak."
The student will be given only
as much freedom and responsibility
as he demands. We challenge students entering the University for
the first time this fall to actively
participate in UK's academic facelifting. Students must make their
opinions known and not let the
administration forget they still hold
a vital position within the

Letter To The Editor

The play tloes, I think, have obvious
faults among them a too frequent use
of a certain literary device and a couple
of flights of rhetoric that failed. The
reviewer was correct, 1 think, to point
these out, although 1 deplored his overweening attitude and his use of such
phrases as "a vomit of conflictingly
described symbols." Unlike the reviewer
I found the play as a whole deeply
moving and somewhat disturbing, despite
its faults, and could conceive in my own
mind an organic unity which he did not
find. I thought that a certain scene in
the final act was masterfully written and
executed, and thought that this alone
would, have, Ji.mfc flitj evening a worth-whil- e
venture.

But I am not writing this letter simply
because the reviewer thought the production excellent and the play extremely
poor, whereas I thought the production
very good and the play good. My remarks
are provoked by the fact that having
just finished panning the play the reviewer says that one would be entertained
better by far at the movie "A Dig Hand
for the Little Lady," which is "a sure
academy award nominee."
Surely this is unforgivably poor. For
one even to compare such a trifle as this
silly little movie with a serious theatrical
production reflects a profound insensi-tivit- y
and lends discredit to any artistic
judgment one might express. As if the
Academy Awards meant anything!
No responsible critic would advise his
readers to prefer Jerome Kern to Mendelssohn or Ogden Nash to Wallace
Stevens, although the former are more
"entertaining" than the latter. The goal
of a work of art is certainly a higher one
than "entertainment" in the sense in
which the reviewer uses the word. And
even when a gifted man undertakes a
serious artistic effort which fails it is
usually a grand failure, an eloquent attempt that is itself worthw hile to witness.
WILLIAM PRIESTLEY
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On Stress, Grades
view with interest the
National
Student Association's
recently-release- d
report on Stuand the College Exdents, Stress,
perience which deals with the
results of a conference on causes of
student stress and the roots of
student revolt.
The conference of students,
teachers, and counselors offered
several recommendations
which
"could lead more comfortably to
further, and more creative ideas
and programs." The conference
concluded and we feel rightly so
that, in order to be meaningful,
g
learning must be
and develop from the intrinsic concerns of the learner."
It is on this premise that we
base our especial interest on the
conferences' suggestion concerning
grades. The conference recommended that pass-fajudgments be
substituted for grades in the "freshman year or in some significant
fraction of the total college
experience."
The reasoning behind the suggestion was that (1) students would
be able to concentrate on learning
rather than grades and (2) students
would be encouraged to take work
We

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More On 'Journey'
To the Editor of the Kernel:
It is not u pleasant thing to take
exception to a drama review which one
thinks is a sincere effort at an honest
appraisal, yet 1 find in the Kernel's
review of "A Long Day's Journey into
Night" an unfortunate example of poor
taste. I do not say this simply because
I think the reviewer is too harsh in his
judgments regarding the merits of the
play. On the contrary, I think there is
a lot to be said in favor of the
type criticism in the
spirit of Yvor Winters.

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in academic fields in which they are
weak.
Such a system would seem the
ideal solution to common complaintsfrom educators and students alike concerning the grading
system. Students, we feel, would be
free from the attitude that "I'll take
the easy course and get an A, rather
than the difficult (challenging) one
and get a C." They would be encouraged to explore fields that
before "scared them away."
On the other hand, a grade
evaluation would be given when it
would have the most significance
during upperdivision work. Furthermore, the attitude engendered during the "ungraded" period may
carry over and effect attitudes toward upperdivision work. That is,
even the upperclass student would
be more concerned with what he
learns in a classroom situation and
not concerned only with the grade
he receives.
With the inception this fall of
the Academic Program, providing
for all freshmen to enter the University in the College of Arts and Sciences, comes the ideal time for such
a system to be considered. It deserves consideration.

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Vietnam War Changed Since Oil Bombings
By FRANK BAILEY

Communist North Knrcadid state
that it would send "volunteers"
to North Vietnam following the
bombings. Further, it should be
noted that there are already an
estimated 10,000 Communist
Chinese troops in the North
building bridges and repairing
the main rail line between China
and North Vietnam.)

Kernel Staff Writer

Since President Johnson
authorized the bombing of oil
dumps in North Vietnam's two
major cities of Hanoi and Haiphong last week, the war in
Vietnam has changed considerably. It is still too soon to
determine the ramifications of
this change.
Ever since the United States
started its bombing of the North
in 1961, the President has assiduously avoided raids on these two
cities. What then were some of
the considerations entering the
President's mind as he made
this decision?
First, the administration knew
that bombing raids on Hanoi and
Haiphong would probably further
isolate us from our one "great"
power ally, Great Britain. Prime
Minister Harold Wilson has repeatedly stated that his Labor
Government could not condone
any bombing of the North's capital and its chief port city. Following the raids last week, Mr.
Wilson publically" dissociated
himself from the President's
decision.
Thus, Mr. Johnson, by his
decision, forced Mr. Wilson to
withdraw his previously strong
support for the United States
policy in Vietnam. This certainly
placed the British government in
an embarrassing position and did
little but isolate this country from
the one major ally that haa
backed our course of action.
Secondly, the administration

Because of the Sino-Sovisplit over basic interpretation of
ct

Marxist-Lenini-

doctrine, the

st

Soviet Union has previously had
to ship its supplies to North Vietnam the best way it could receiving little help from the
Chinese. The raids on Hanoi
and Haiphong, especially if they
continue, may put a new spirit
of cooperation into the hearts of
the two Communist countries.
Initially, such cooperation may
only be of a supply nature, but
could become broader in time.

had to take into account that the
bombings could mean deeper involvement by both Communist
China and the Soviet Union.
Since the raids, both Peking and
Moscow h ave promised increased
aid to the North. Previously their
aid has been primarily materiel
and moral. Neither of the two
Communist giants has committed
itself to sending "volunteers" as
the Chinese did in the Korean
Conflict. (It shoud be noted that

President Johnson must have
felt that these considerations
were outweighed by the benefits
derived by bombing these northern oil dumps.
One consideration, of course,
is that oil dumps are significant
military targets. Over the past few
months infiltration of both men
and material from the North into
South Vietnam has sharply in-- 1
creased. The destruction of oil
means that it will be much more
difficult for the North to move
trucks and trains; and therefore,
should mean that infiltration
should become harder and harder
as the oil supplies run low.

Secondly, there have been increasing presMires on the President from several sources to do
something decisive in Vietnam.
Congressional members from the
Mr. Johnson's own party, who
fear losing their House and the
Senate seats in the November
elections want the administration
to bring the conflict into a better
perspective so that at least it appears that an end to United
States' involvement in Vietnam
is somewhere in sight.
Since the administration has
repeatedly stated that it does not
intend to get out of Vietnam until
the North ceases its aggression
there, the Democratic Congresshave urged
men up for
the President to take decisive
action so that such action may be
used as campaign ammunition.
The bombings must certainly be
considered decisive action and
one of the few roads open to the
President given his
policy.

and takes much cogiiiame.
polls have indicated Mr.
Johnson's popularity slipping as
a result of the Vietnam situation.
Recognizing this, the President
has felt the need to do something
in an attempt to cope with the

On the other side of the
aisle, the
Republican
"hawks" have for many months
been advocating a harder line in
North Vietnam. They have increased pressure on the administration to bomb military targets
in both Hanoi and Haiphong and
to blockade Haiphong, the port
city, pressures which up to now
the President has withstood.

President Johnson recognizes
this fact of life about the South
Vietnamese people. Since he has
supported the Ky government and
wishes it to remain in power, he
has felt pressure from within
South Vietnam to act decisively.
Then there are those
elections in South Vietnam itself. The South's leader
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky needed
something dramatic to build
morale in his politically torn
country. If Premier Ky has any
hope of staying in power following the elections in the South,
he must be a part of something
that looks like it might bring the
strife to a speedy end.
The military establishment
has been another source of
pressure on the President. Also
certain civilian militarists who
have had the President's ear have
urged a much stronger stand and
an increased commitment
in
Vietnam.
Thus, President Johnson must
have weighed all of these considerations carefully and concluded that more benefit was to
be reaped by the bombing of
Hanoi and Haiphong than by
refusing to do so. It can only be
hoped that the military and
political gains that may be made
by the raids outweigh new and
serious dangers they may evoke.
It was a dramatic act that may
have accomplished little either
militarily or politically," here "or
in South Vietnam. It is too early
to predict the outcome. But the
war in Vietnam did change last
week.

Of course, all of this pressure
stems indirectly from the American people, for whose opinions-thPresident has much respect

Slobs Hurt Chances Of Geniuses
By LOREN

HICKERSON

Iowa Alumni Review
Back in the late '30s, there
was a coterie of students whose
dress was studiously casual and
whose hair was rather long. University Theatre was assumed to be

their principal campus habitat.
Rightly or wrongly, the "DAs"
held the reputation for being the
social

at Iowa in

the years before World War II.
A current
survey probably
would show that most of those
onetime student dissidents now
are staid citizens who follow a
variety of business and professional pursuits, and even that
some of them are unsuccessful.
But such a survey would document that certain of those Iowa
of the '30s now
are major names on the national
scene in many a facet of American drama and letters, and in
other fields. In their individual
lives and works, these few reflect
the touch of genius.
The social rebels of today's
campus community seem a different breed of cat. While some
academic department may attract more of them than others,
"department-oriented"
they are not
in the earlier sense.
If there is esprit in the