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THE KENTUCKY

Tuesday-Afternoon, August 29, 1967

The South’s Outstanding College Daily

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

[\ERNEL

Vol. LIX, No. 2

 

Registration Is Smooth

As First 10,000 Sign Up

By LEE BECKER

Registration went without rm-
jor [xoblems Monday, saving the
average student 10 minutes over
previous years, Dr. E. W. Orr
kerman, dean of admissions and
registrar said.

”It went a lot smoother than
last year. In terms of mechan-
ics, it went better," he said.

Most students spent only 12
minutes in Memorial Coliseum
confirming their registration.

The improvement was due
mostly to the use ofthe Digitek
form, used for the first time this
year, he said.

The single card replaces nine
cards usually filled out by the
student.

”The information from the
card is merged with tapes through
a computer, and all the data is
printed out for the separate of-
fices," he said.

The only other card students
filled out was a request for draft
deferments.

Lateness A Problem

"Our biggest woblem has
been with students who don't
come to the coliseum on time,"
Dr. Ockerman said.

About 10,7“) students with
complete schedules were ex-
pected to confirm their registra-

    

   

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9

Roughly

OJ“) students with completed schedules

tion Monday. Between 14,8“) and
ISA!) students are expected to
attend the University this fall.

About MIX) students paid
their fees by mil, anopportunity
offered for the first time this se-
msta.

“Students could pick up their
ID cards earlier this year than
ever before,” Dr. Ockerman said.
They were available Monday.

“It was the first time stu-
dents could complete their re-
gistration in one day," he added.

_ A problem arose, however,
n the line for picking up the
ID's extended from the Student
Center Art Gallery through most
of the second floor of the build-
ing. ’ '
Students were told they could

obtain the cards later in the
week, the deadline being ex-
tended to Thursday.

Small Problems Expected

”Whenever you attempt to ex-
pedite the process, you always
run into little things like this,"
Dean Ockerrmn said.

One registrant, senior engi-
neering sturkant Jim Ellis, said,
"I think it will move even faster
next year, when people know
how to fill out the new fomrs."

Ellis said he completed the
pocess, composed of stops at

registered Mon-

day in what was by-and—large a smooth registration.

Rep. Carter Calls For
Vietnam Withdrawal

WASHINGTON (UPI)—Rep. Tim Lee Carter, of Kentucky, be—
came the first GOP member of Congress Monday to advocate un-
qualified U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam.

He said he had been "haunted" by the war for the last few
months and "It was something I had to get off my chest."

The two-term congressman told the House, ”Our sons' lives are
too precious to lose on foreign soil. If they must die, let it be in

defense of America."

Rep. Carter told a reporter that while he has never been happy
with U.S. policy in Vietnam, he had thought it was his duty to
”my Commander in Chief" not to speak out until the 1968 election.

”But now I don't think we can wait that long," he said. "The
country could be destroyed by then in World War III."

Although some Republicans in the House and Senate have ad-
vocated U.S. withdrawal if the United States did not intend to
win the war, Rep. Carter was the first Republican in either house
to propose unqualified withdrawal. .

only two stations, in five min-
utes. ‘

As always, it was the fresh-
rmn who were the most baffled
bythe process.

”It was confusing," John For-
man said. “But it was about the
same as I expected."

“Freshman have never regis-
tered before in any way, so they
are mixed up," said George Dex-
ter, senior advertising major, who
helped with the process.

Dr. Ockerman has taken steps
to alter what he refers to as
”the student’s favorite sport”-
drop-adding.

These are now the only valid
reasons for changing a class
schedule:

A conflict in schedule pro-
duced by student error, or a
change in the schedule made
by a department after advance
registration, or through data pro:
cessing.

Being placed on probation af-
ter advance registration, neces-
sitating a reduction in class
hours.

Failure of a course after ad—
vance registration.

Acceptance of part-time em-
ployment because of financial
need.

Adding night classes.

Implores Students
“We are begging students not

to change schedules for other
reasons,” Dr. Ockerman said.

Classes previously scheduled
for the Social Science building,
which burnt August 13, have
been rescheduled.

Students receiving an incom-
plete schedule register today.

No More Lectures?

 

 

.Candorf, At Least-"1 1

Everybody knows the University has become a vast bureaucracy,
but it's rare to find an administrator who admits it. Stu Forth,
director of libraries, at least is candid.

 

Federal Regulation

 

Students Classed By Race
As Part Of Registration

The three boxes, partially filled with orange IBM carch, read
in rough lettering, “Negro," ”Foreign" and ”Regular.”

Fifteen years ago the registra-
tion classifications might not
have seemed strange.

Monday, setting on the tab-
les at the exits to the Coliseum,
the lettered boxes seemed out
of place].

Dr. E. W. Ockerman, dean
of admissions and registrar,
stressed that the move was in
compliance with a request from
the U.S. Health, Education, and
Welfare Department.

“It is a matter simply of

gathering information," he said.
“It is a survey."

Dr. Ockerman said that the
University had to take the sur-
vey in this way since race class-
ification is not allowed on the
registration forms.

“We emphasize that this is
a requirement for the University
in compliance with the Civil
Rights Act," he said.

Dr. Ockerman said that he
did not anticipate any ill feel-
ing over the matter.

UK Astronaut Wants Action

By DICK KIMMINS

Franklin Story Musgrave
waited 23 years before finishing
his first college degree.

Within the next nine years
he had five more—including a
second bachelor's, two master's
and a couple of doctorates.

Dr. Musgrave leaves this week
for Houston where he will begin
training as an astrounaut. He was
one of 11 scientist-astronauts se—
lected by the National Aeronau-
tics and Space Administration
early in August.

Be 'nning a new career
doesn't worry Dr. Musgrave. He
has wanted to be an astronaut
for some time, but failed to meet
two of NASA's requirements—
1,(X)0 hours in experimental air-
craft and 20/20 vision.

When the two requirements
were dropped to broaden the
program, Dr. Musgrave knew he
could qualify and went after a
position on the NASA team.

Has M.D. Degree

His NASA speciality lies in
his M.D. degree from Columbia
University. His interest and abil-
ities in aerospace medicine are of
keen interest to NASA, which
wants to further study the in—
creased heart rate after an as-
tronaut has landed, the decrease
in heart rate during flight, the
white cell increase in the blood,

and other phenomenon peculiar
to astronauts.

Going with Dr. Musgrave to
Houston are his five children and
his wife Marguerite.

Dr. Musgrave's accomplish-
ments include service as research
associate with the Jackson Can-
cer Laboratory, aircraft crew chief

.. in the Marine Corps, industrial
engineer and statistician with
Eastman Kodak, computer pro.
grammer, ardent parachutist, pi—
lot, and intem with the Medical
Center.

After his years of schooling,
Dr. Musgrave is anxious to begin
training as an astronaut. ”Ihope

   
 

Houst-.. doesn't have a class—
room atmosphere—lectures, ex-
aminations and more lectures,"
he said.

“I want to jump in and out
of test chambers, crawl through
mazes and experience weightless-
ness, high pressure and low oxy-
gen tests."

Even though the family will
make its new home in Texas,
Dr. Musgrave will continue his
association with UK. ”Houston
said I could spend 25 to 35 per-
c at of my time pursuing my own
Continued on Page 5, Col. 1

Five-year—old Bradley Scott Musgrave takes a space helmet-fitting

lessm from his dad, Dr. Franklin S. Musgrave. Dr. Musgrave, a
post-graduate student and researcher at the Medical Center. was
one of llscientistsreeently selected as astronauts by NASA.

 

 2 — THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, August 29, 1967

Stipends of $2,400 A'Student

 

 

$20,000 Goes To Disadvantaged-Children Program

A $20,(XXJ grant fof additional
students in the College of Educa-
tion prospective teacher fellow.-
ship program has been made by
graduate students are studyingto
be elementary teachers who will
work with disadvantaged chil-
dren.-

With the addition of the four
students, the fellowship program
will have a strength of 12 fel-
lows, according to Dr. Harry
Robinson, director. UK received
$401!!) for the program last year.

Each student receives a sti-
pend of $2,400 a year plus a de-
pendency allowance; he pays no
academic fees, which are ab-
sOrbed by the University, accord-
ing to terms of the government
contract.

Purpose of the program is
three-fold, Dr. Robinson said.
“It helps us improve our grad-
uate program for persons who
will teach these children; it pre-
pares better teachers, and it also
allows us to help disadvantaged
children."

The fellows are fully quali—

fied to teach, but either have not
taught during the past year or
they have never taught.

Their first semester will be
spent on campus, taking 12 hours
of graduate work, including
courses in behavioral sciences
and professional education.

Field Work Included

They will spend a day each
week in the laboratory or field,
helping in school and commun-
ity projects that serve the dis-
advantaged, and observing the
activities of social workers, Red
Goss personnel and public health
nurses, “so they can better un-
derstand the sociology of pov-
erty," Dr. Robinson said.

The trainees also will have

an ”exploratory seminar once a.

week, enabling them to take a
closer look at themselves and
their behavior, and their impact
upon others. This will be, hope-
fully, a maturing experience.”

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the trainees, will go to those
schools as interns and actually
will direct a class. This difiers
from the program followed by
Teacher Corps trainees who also
are assigied to the school, but
as ”teacher-helpers,” since they
do not start as qualified teach—
ers.

The fellows will take two night
courses, includingone called"ac-
tion research," which Dr. Robin-
son describes as an “on-your-
feet" type of investigation. “By
using such a method, the teach-
er can check out her research
right in the classroom, learning
to improve and utilize her skills. ”

Also during the second semes-

ter, the fellows will serve as “ex-
tems" for two-week periods in
school systems that have well-
established programs for the dis-
advantaged, including those of
Baltimore, Md., and New Haven,
Conn.

_ At the end of the two-week
period, the students will have
a week-end seminar with a UK
education faculty member and
a sociologist to help them to in-
terpret their extem experience
before it “cools” down, Dr. Rob-
inson said.
To Get Certification

They will complete their
course work next summer at UK,
entitling them to a master of

arts in elementary education de-
gree and a Kentucky standard
elementary certificate which is
reciprocal in most states.

"This program will help us
develop our own graduate cur-
riculum," Dr. Robinson ex- »
plained. “Eventually it will be a
permanent part of the graduate
program of the College of Educa-
tion. -We are trying to identify
what type of training and ex-
periences best helps teacherspre-
paring to teach disadvantaged
children."

UK also has a $65,“ insti-
tutional assistance want to em-
ploy and strengthen the faculty
for such a program, Dr. Robin-
son said.

STUDENT EDITORS ACT TO STOP
REELECTION OF JOHNSON IN 1968

By FRANK BROWNING
Special To The Kernel

MINNEAPOLIS — One hun—
dred college editors meeting here
at a US. Student Press Associa-
tion Congress have added their
names to a campaign to ”dump"
Lyndon johnson in 1968.

The petition, initiated Satur—
day at a National Student As-
sociation Congress at the Uni-
versity of Maryland, claimed
backing from nearly half the US-
SPA editors. The collegiate edi—
tors announced their support of
it Sunday immediately before
leaving the Congress.

Officially entitled Altcmativc
Candidate Task Force 1 ' (ACT
68), the movement is des'gned
todcfcat Mr. Johnson at the polls
by working through established
political parties.

While not having any official
endorsement from USSI’A, the
petition gathered signatures cut-
ting across the wholc spectrum
of college newspapers.

Principals in forming ACT 68
were members of NSA and the
Americans for TJemocratic Ac-
tion. While the organization was
not announced until Saturday.
its initiators began circulating
petitions, usually referred to as
”dump Johnson,“ late Thursday
night.

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An explanation given to US-
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editor signature as ”echoing" the
statement signed by several hun-
dred student government officials
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the most important issue (Vict-
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An explanation also rctcrrcd to
students who in juncaud Decem-
ber wrote Mr. johnson protesting
war escalation. ”()ur predecessors

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now convinced that it is neces-
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The South’s Outstanding College Daily
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ESTABLISHED I894

TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1967 ,

 

Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.

 

William F. Knapp, Jr., Editor-In-Chief

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What Value ClaSsrooms?

Seldom does an educator at—
tack the American college educa-
tion system. However Commis-
sioner of Education Harold Howe,
speaking at the NSA Congress,
added his name to the dissatisfied
when he berated the “second class
status of undergraduate educa—
tion."

University collegians and aca-
demicians should listen.

”Impersonal, inflexible, and
sometimes obsolete,” he called it.
Bright college students call the
usual classroom experience “irrele—
vant.” And perceptive teachers of-
ten find themselves hamstrung by
such arbitrary mechanisms as
grades, 50—minute lectures (even
lectures at all), sixteen week Lle-
mesters, discipline oriented curricu-
lum, ad nauseum.

But even more repugnant to the
student is that old and unsubstan—
tiated saw that teaching is a top-
down process. It is strange that
the leaders of universities still cling
to notions even the most primitive
behavioralists tossed out years ago:
namely, that learning happens
when an authority coughs up in—
formation for a block of neat, clean
receivers to gobble into their minds.

Paradoxically, student partici-
pation in operating the University
has not come from the academicians
whose theories support it. A case
in point:

This summer approximately $70
thousand was spent refurnishing,
redecorating, and redesigning the
"guts" of four dorms: Patterson,
Boyd, Jewell, and Donovan halls.
The work was done primarily in
the lobbies and recreation areas
of each one, and residents were
directly consulted about their pref-
erences, even including color,
styles, and distribution of func-
tional furniture. Given the struc-
ture of the buildings, there was
little which could be done with
the mass cubicles where students
sleep and study except keep them
in good repairf Yet, the point is
that those most. directly involved—
student residents—largely deter-
mined their surroundings. Credit
for student participation goes to
Business Manager George Ruschel
and Auxilliary Services Director
James King. ~

If the story has a moral, it is
that the real guts of this Univer-
sity—its classes, curricula, texts,
researchers, teachers, '- students—
must muster the courage to develop
a real participatory learning ex-
perience. Indeed, it ought to be a
case of unmitigated outrage to the
faculty that they haVe allowed the
administrators of the community
to beat them at their own game.

Thus, there is a real lesson to
be learned from the Free Univer-

sities popping up in the nation’s

‘major urban centers; that mean—
ingful learning happens when stu-
dent and scholar are jointly en-
gaged in the pursuit of a truth.
Such an attempt, albeit a minute
one, was begun at UK last semes-
ter when a group of young Eng-
lish teachers and curious students
began meeting together to study
common problems and interests on
a voluntary basis. The ”class" did
not go far, but it was an optimis-
tic beginning—proof that a desire

for relevant education does exist

at UK.

So what does the Free Univer-
sity example say to large bureau-
cratic institutions like this one
which are already deeply en-
trenched in the political, financial,
and service functions of the com-
munity and the state?

It says that if the ”education"
this institution manufactures is
to mean anything of deep import-
ance to the people who pursue it,
then that education must be in
every-way a joint production of
teacher and taught.

Not a member of the faculty
senate, but a truly merged gov-
ernment of faculty and student;
not choice students “interning"

 

in student affairs, but several stu—
dents directly participating in staff
meetings and making decisions
with administrators; not voteless
student trustees, but a fair num—
ber of students on the tenure com—
mittees who select the faculty; not
a registrar who gets selective ser—
vice registrations filed quicker, but
a thoughtful consideration of
whether the university community
should even cooperate with the mili-
tary establishment; not just a so-
ciology course where students sta-
tistically analyze ghetto per capita
income, but a chance for students
to wipe out the grime of Irish-
town. 'Not a University which gets
students to classes quicker, but a
University in which students and
faculty alike ask, "What value
classrooms?"

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“Sorry, Man . . . I Thought You Were Pushin’ Pot . . .
We Don’t Dig ThatLung Cancer And Heart Jazz!”

 

SNCC’s Attack Against Israel
Likely To Antagonize Liberals

The militant Negroes’ desperate
effort to find both physical and
psychological allies lies behind the
Committee’sattack upon the State
of Israel and behind its defense
of the Arabs. It is part, as SNCC’s
program head Ralph Featherstone
admitted, of an effort to build a
“third world alliance of oppressed
people all over the world—Africa,
Asia, and Latin America." It is,
in short, one further means of strik-
ing against that white world which
so many nonWhites say is exploiting
and frustrating them.

Thus the attack upon Israel.
Zionism and Jews must be weighed
as part of the patter which led
former SNCC head Stokely Car-
michael to Havana, and has now
led to the indictment in Cambridge,
Maryland, of the organization's
present head, H. Rap Brown, on
charges of inciting to riot and ar-
son. Additional resentment is fur-
nished by rmny Negroes’ conviction
that Jews are heavily represented
among the shopkeepers and slum—
lords of the ghettos.

Behind the anger also lies a
recognition that, in so many areas,
the nonwhite's future and well—
being reside so decisively in white
hands. Thus the Negro in the Unit-
ed States often sees himself as being
able to exercise his legal right
largely to the extent that white

 

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society permits. He now sees the
Arab states as able to get back
their conquered territory only when
white Israel agrees. He finds India
increasingly dependent upon
whether a handful of white lands
are ready to send her food. And
he recognizes that black Africa
must rely almost wholly upon the
white world for the know-how of
modem development. In short,
whithersoever he turns, the
nonwhite comes face to face with a
hard fact: so much of his life is in
the white man's hands.

While there is philosophical just-
ification for believing that this is
a period of racial confrontation
around the world, there is little
practical justification for believing
that the progress of the American
Negro will for the foreseeable fli-
ture be in any wise linked to or
influenced by the future of the Arab
states. Indeed, the exact opposite
is likelier to be the case. By taking
a world stance, and particularly
by antagonizing so strong a seg-
ment of American liberal opinion
as that represented by the Jews,
SNCC can only further lessen its
ability to improve the American
Negro’s lot. I

Improvements in race relations
call for clear thinking, strong com—
mitment and occasionally the ju-
dicious use of pressure. But, above
all, they call for sound judgment
as to how the goals are to be
reached. They 'will never be reached
through confusing them with the fu-
ture of Arabdom, through espousing
Fidel Castro’s plans for a New
World in flames or through the
violent preachments of an H. Rap
Brown. Whoever says so will even-
tually be shown to have betrayed
the cause of Negro advancement.

The Christian Science Monitor

 Aliens Watching,

Professor Suggests

United Press Intonation!
SEATTLE—A University of Arizona scientist told a scientific
meeting Monday the earth may be under observation from some-

where else in space.

The scientist, Dr. James E.
McDonald, said midentified fly-
ing objects (UFO'S) may repre-
sent probes of the earth by
another life system in space. He
said they shoukl be investigated
more seriously than they have
been.

Dr. McDonald, a senior [hys-
icist and professor of meteoroloy,
said a 15-month study caused
him to believe “it is highly like—
ly that we are under some kind
ofsurveillance. "

He addressed about 250 aero
space engineers and scientists
attending the American Institute
of Aeronautics and Astronautics
meeting on ”Space Program Is-
sues of the 70's."

”The aerospace industry will
be making a very great mistake
if it doesn't make an important
effort to find out what is going
on," he said. "Instead of going
out and looking for life in space,
it very well may be that life
from space has found us."

Dr. McDonald said UFO in-
vestigations to date. limited
mostlyto the Air Force, involved
but a few persons who lacked
both the necessary scientific

Poverty Has
Rural Roots,

Breathitt Says

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-— Pov-
erty was described as a "trans-
portable item which particular-
ly liked to go to town" by Ken-
tucky's Cov. Edward Breathitt,
addressing a meeting here of the
National Rural Sociological So-
ciety.

Cov. Breathitt said Sunday

{Frhft city slurm would not be
orced to depend on welfare if
greater thought had been given
and wiser action talen in fight-
ing the problems of mral Ameri-
ca within past generdions.

He also called cities the "pro-
duet of the countryside," and
repeated a personal theme that
rural areas should absorb part
of the urban pomlation.

Cov. Breathitt has voiced the
sane theme as chairman of the
President's Commission on Rural
Poverty.

He said it is tragic that, at a
time in national history with less
need for big cities t