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By SI I) WEBB

President Oswald would like to shy away from cither
name.
three-par- t
series.
First of a
When John Oswald took office as president of the
University, new life rocked the century-olcampus alThe catch phrase, "publish or perish," with its
most immediately. His program amounted to an academic
derogatory implications, has oversimplified and partially revolution.
obscured a controversy raging at the heart of American
Since his arrival, criteria for faculty evaluation have
higher education.
changed and become more clearly defined. Although
The question, essentially, is whether publishing confaculty committees had already set a "research and pubtributes to the educational process more than it takes lish" philosophy in motion before Dr. OsvTald came,
from it.
some instructors and professors refer to it as "Oswald
In some quarters, there is criticism of emphasis on policy."
When he arrived, Dr. Oswald helped in preparation of
publications on the grounds that it results indecmphasis
on teaching. On the other hand, proponents of rewards the present plan and passed it along to the faculty on
for publication cite a university's obligation to contribute Oct. 28, 1963.
This was the first formal statement of University polinew knowledge as well as to disseminate existing informacy on faculty evaluation.
tion.
President Oswald's statement outlines criteria in four
The type of "publishing" implied in the debate is the
areas: teaching, research, professional status and activity,
scholarly research behind articles published in refereed and
University and public service. Lesser emphasis is
journals these journals which have boards of experts w ho
placed on the latter two "service" criteria than on teachscreen articles before publication.
ing and research.
"A major consideration in any appointment or promoEmphasis on research, as one mode of faculty evaluation, has been given greater priority in the two years tion which carries tenure," writes Dr. Oswald, "must be
since the administration of President John W. Oswald superior intellectual attainment as evidenced in teaching
and in research or other creative activity."
began. Of that there is little doubt.
But one student referred to the system here as "pubAt this point, however, no designated system of weights
lish and prosper" rather than "publish or perish." has been formalized for the criteria.
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Dean Ginger Says
'Money No Problem
By FRANCES NAPIER

Kernel Staff Writer

"The College of Education

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Dr. Ginger estimated this
grant would ultimately result in
a grant of from $125,000 to $145,-00depending on the number of
dependents.
Dean Ginger said, "One program which the College of Education now has that will not be
renewable at the end of the year
is the training of school administrators in the Eastern Kentucky
region." This grant wasfor$125,-000- .

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Summer grants applied for involve 30 teachers in history
($30,000), teaching of reading
($30,000), use of television ($42,-000- ),
research for the culturally

deprived in Lexington and other
areas ($400,000), and a training
program for 90 teachers for
and slum areas.
A grant that will be a free
summer program for people without a college education has been
applied for. This program would
train them for the preparation of
children. This grant
is for $25,000 each summer.
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Eight Pages

Extended Hours Approved
As Permanent AWS Policy

By SALLY ATHEARN STULL
Assistant News Editor
Extended women's hours for
final week was voted a perman-

ent policy by the AWS Senate
Thursday night.
A temporary legislation for
the past four semesters, the lengthening of women's hours until
12 p.m. will now automatically
go into effect two weeks before
the first day of finals, and continue through the end of final
week.

Extended hours will begin this
semester on Sunday, April 18,
and be in effect, as usual, from
Sunday to Thursday of the three
following weeks.
The resolution, submitted by
Blithe Runsdorf, allows the in- -

SC Releases

Applications
For Officers
president, secretary, and treasurer of Student Congress should
apply now to SC Secretary Janie
Olmstead, it was announced at
Thursday night's meeting.
Miss Olmstead acted as president of the meeting in the absence of President Steve Beshear.
On a motion by Larry Kelley, she
appointed a committee to look
into the nomination and election
of student government officers.
Members of the committeeare
Winston Miller (chairman), Rich
Robins, John O'Rrien, Larry Kelley, Michele Cleveland, Rarry
Porter, Lois Kock, and Willis
Bright.

Nominees for Air Force ItOTC sponsors were introduced at
jam
session Thursday afternoon. Election of seven sponsors from the 22
nominees will be held Monday and Tuesday. The jam session was
sponsored by this year's sponsors.

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them apart."
Quality research is relatively easy to judge, he said,
because definite evidence can be seen in the articles a
professor has published. However, what constitutes good
teaching, and the means to properly evaluate it present
serious difficulties for adminstrators.
"If the methods aren't properly balanced, emphasis
on one tends to pull a man away from the other," Dr.
Oswald said.
Evaluation of individual professors begins at the departmental level. Periodically, members within a department make judgments as to the proficiency of a particular member on each of the four criteria. A continuing
record of these evaluations is kept in the respective
dean's office.
A professor, up for review to gain tenure or promotion.
Continued on Page 7

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is for $125,000 yearly.

The Newman Center will hold
an election of officers Sunday for
the 1965-6year.
The candidate for president
is Denny Bricking. Nominated
for vice president were Tim
Lynch, Frank King, Ron Wheat,
and Joe Degrieso. The other offices will be appointed.
Voting will take place after
every Mass Sunday at the Newman Center. All Catholics on
campus are members and are eligible to vote.

Dean M. M. Wliite of the College of Arts and Sciences has proposed that the two service areas each be
given a weight of one, and that the teaching and research components be given a weight of two each.
Dr. Oswald prefers to keep evaluation on a more informal basis, at least until committees, now reviewing
aspects to be used in making standardized judgments of
teaching ability and research come up with proposals
acceptable to a majority of the faculty.
"Tcacliing and research," the president said, "arc so
intertwined, people do a disservice when they try to pull

9

will have at least $1.5 million
in federal grants, if we get all
that we expect," said Dean Lyman Ginger recently.
"At this moment, as far as
grants for refearch are concerned," Dr. Ginger said, "money
is no problem. We need at least
25 more staff and faculty members to take care of upcoming
projects."
For the area of special eduSeveral grants already have
cation, the University now has a
been awarded to the College of
of $35,000 which may or
Education, and applications have grantnot be renewed.
may
been filed for several others.
The state has approved a vocaA grant to conduct its second
National Defense Education Act tional education project for $100,-00- 0
which may be renewed each
Counseling and Guidance Instithe Univer- year. However, the University
tute was received by
sity recently. The project will be has not yet approved the project.
for 30 students, each of whom
A grant which the University
will be paid $75 per week and has applied for is one for research
$15 for dependents.
work in Lexington vith recreation
and mental hygiene. This grant

Newman Center
To Hold Election

Complex Problem
Is Oversimplified

Representative Kelley also explained the provisions of a proposal to expand and reorganize
student government.
The proposal is to be presented at the upcoming campus leadership conference, to be held
April 17.

dividual women's residence units
to determine their own desk policies after the regular closing
hours. Women will not be allowed to leave their own units
or to enter another residence after
the regular closing hours of 10:30
p.m. on weekdays and 11:30p.m.
on Sundays.
The AWS Senate for the current year stepped down Thursday
night, and 14 new members were
initiated into office.
The senators for the coming
year are Madeline Kemper, Janice Ashley, Dede Cramer, Ann
Brreding, Courtney Helm, Dede
Alexander, Linda Lampe, Connie
Mullins, Ann Randolph, Gail
Mayer, Marion Spencer, Becky
Snyder, Suzanne Ziegler, and
Winnie Jo Perry.
President
Current
Sandy
Brock handed the chair to Dede
Cramer, the new president.
In committee, it was announced that the
booklet,
annually published by AWS for
the orientation of freshman and
transfer women, will be printed
by the University Press.
.

SANDY BROCK
Outgoing President

Head Resident's Day will be
April 25, in the President's Room
of the Student Center. The program will begin at 9 a.m.
The High School Leadership
Conference, held March 27 and28,
was reported to have been a success. High school juniors from
across the state were on hand to
receive an introduction to UK.

Interfaith Council
Elects To Disband

The Interfaith Council has vot ed to discontinue functioning for
the rest of the semester.
The decision was made beshowed up at all the meetings.
cause the organization was not "We couldn't do anytliing withfulfilling its purpose said Penny out support and we couldn't have
Price, president of the council. support without doing anything,"
she said.
"According to the constitution,
the purpose was to coordinate
Miss Price said this is not
to indicate students are not inthe religious foundations. A
body was to meet and terested in the religious organitalk about their dif ferences and to zations. The groups have their
learn from each other. This is own projects and the students
where we ran into trouble," said do not feel the need lor an interMiss Price.
faith group at this time.
The organization was not
If the council is to be active
really an interfaith group, she again the idea must come from
said, because it did not have the students rather than the
representatives from all the counsthrs of the individual
groups, and only a few iK'oplc groups.

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-- THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Friday, April 2,

Engagements
Itnrhara Grant, senior German
major from Louisville and a
member of Alpha Gamma Delta
sorority, to Maurice Scherer, electrical engineering major at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology from Cambridge, Mass.
Sherry Sylvester,

freshman

math major from Charleston, W.
Va., and a member of Chi Omega
sorority, to Hcrk Sims, graduate
of Davidson College from
Charleston, W. Va., and a member of Kappa Alpha Order.
Aida Rodriguez, from Coamo,
Puerto Rico, to Micjucl A. Martinez, sophomore political science
major from' "Morouis, ' Puerto
Rico.

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Recently

Sally Athcarn, junior journalism major from Glen Cove, N.
Y., to Ottis Stull, senior business
administration major from Ash-

land.

Guthrie Group Tours
MINNEAPOLIS (AP)

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Eight members of the Tyrone
Guthrie Theater repertory, com- pny perform a play which illu- f
trates the history J of . drama at
each tour stop," and the" following
day participate in a symposium
with students.

Gamma Phi Beta Has
Girls' Camp As Project
tional Panhcllenic Conference.
The membership is now 28 national sororities.
Because Gamma Phi Beta believes that it has a rcsionsibility
to those less fortunate than themselves, it has set up several projects with emphasis in Child Welfare. A certain iwrtion of each
initiation fee, and of the annual
dues of collegiate and alumnae
groups, goes toward the Philanthropy Fund.
From this Gamma Phi Beta
owns and operates two camps,
one at Indian Hills, Col. the
other at Sechelt, British Columbia. Two week vacations are
given to more than 200 needy
girls with Gamma Phi Betas as
counselors.
Gamma Phi Beta's colors are
light and dark brown, the badge
is the shape of a crescent, and
the sorority flower is the pink
carnation.
"The object of this organization shall be to develop the
highest type of womanhood
through education, social life
and service to" country and
humanity" is the motto known
to every Gamma Phi.

On November 11, 1874 four
Syracuse University students became the founders of Gamma
Fhi Beta. The word "sorority"
(sisterhood) rather than fraternity was coined by Dr. Frank
Smalley, Syracuse faculty, and
Gamma Phi Beta has ever been
known as such.

Today there are 78 collegiate
chapters of Gamma Phi Beta,
five of them in Canada, extending from Vermont to Florida and
from British Columbia to southern California andTexas. Gamma
Phi Betas may be found in all
50 states and in many foreign
countries.
Gamma Phi Beta has a Grand
Council of seven officers, six elected at biennial conventions, and
r
an appointed
who is in charge of a Central
Office in Chicago.
Alumnae members serve as
chairmen of international committees and carry on the various
phases of sorority work relating
to both collegiate and alumnae
chapters.
Gamma Phi Beta was one of
the seven national sororities
which, in 1902, formed the Na
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Billy Edd Wheeler Displays More Talent
Than His Latest Album Might Present

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"Memories Of America," Billy
Edd Wheeler's newest album on
the Kapp label presents the West
Virginia-borartist at his best.
The poignant power of Wheeler's songs "Anne," "Winter
Sky," and "Sister Sara" show
off his best side. Raised in a
tradition of country music,
Wheeler continues to defend the
style against all comers. The
fact that this is no longer necessary mars his performance in
some ways.
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upon building Wheeler's name
uiwn this top forty success, the
danger is obvious. As one symptom of this bliglit, consider the
fact that virtually all the selections on the new Wheeler album
appeared on an earlier Kapp release of Wheeler's work.
This is not only cheating the
public, it is cheating Billy Edd
Wheeler. The man has great talent, but. talent that the commercial moneymakers may easily
sidetrack and waste. Perhaps not,
though, with such a determined
artist. Perhaps Billy Edd will
finally get back to the writing-dramusic, whatever which
he knows so well how to do.

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letters larger than either the album title or Ids own name. The
back cover of the jacket repeats
the large "Ode" title but nowhere even mentions the name of
the album itself.
This is too bad. "Ode," for
all its commercial success in the
and top forty markets, is not good. Freshman poets
have repeatedly studied the "upon my golden throne" position
with very nearly the skill Wheeler
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It is also making money.

talent, as is "Blistered." Not
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to the listener, these limerick-type- s
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Billy Edd Wheeler once tried
his hand at playwriting, had six
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he was taking his degree there.
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Science fiction, besides making an heroic attempt now to be
recognized as a legitimate film genre, may have just been given
a needed dose of
The cross is one of times and styles. Lancer Science Fiction
has begun at last to put Dr. Edward E. Smith's many novels
in to paperbound editions. Until this began, Doc Smith had been
out of print, out of circulation, and virtually out of mind for the
present generation of upcoming writers.
In the 1930's, 40's, and 50's, E.E. Smith published ten novels
primarily through Fantasy Press. Unfortunately, Fantasy Press
became defunct and Smith's scries went off the market. While
science fiction today seems determined to write itself out of action,
strength, and scope by belatedly adhering to rigid realistic dogma,
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tied to the past century of science fiction melodrama. Yet, even
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action. Doc Smith here is credited with presenting the first use
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However, it was in his longer "Lensman" series that E. E.
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for Dean of Science Fiction Writers.
Six complete novels, the Lensman books accepted a total picture
of the history of Man, beginning with Atlantis' and carrying him
into a galactic civilization. Yet it was doind more, by postulating
a fantastic origin for the human race, and a marvelous view of its
final purpose.
With Doc Smith again on the open market, appearing in all
bookstores, perhaps some of the color and strength may find its
way back into science fiction, along with a
maturity
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* Marvin Henderson, writing in
the Winter issue of the Kentucky

Imw Journal, slights that an expert board he established to adjudicate medical malpractice cases.

Mr. Henderson, following discussion of the legal aspects of malpractice cases, concludes that there
are no "cut and dried cases" in

malpractice.

or Wc Can Take That One To The

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cal profession on the defensive so
is often
thwarted in his effort to get expert

that an injured claimant

testimony.
These points lead him to conclude that an expert board should
be set up to hear, and decide,
cases involving a charge of medical malpractice.
We agree.

The author suggests that malpractice cases have increased in
number to the point vyhere it is
becoming a field of negligence in
its own right, and he suggests that
more definite rides need to be
established.

The problem has long been
pressing. Doctors wonder just how
far they may go in treating" a
patient at the scene of an accident or in some other emergency
without permission.

"The fact is simple," Mr. Henderson writes, "a physician who

suits brought by disgruntled patients has made the medical profession touchy and, perhaps, overly defensive on the subject.
Such a board as Mr. Henderson suggests, where cases could
be heard informally in a nonpub-licize- d
atmosphere, would take
much of the stigma from malpractice suits while, at the same time,
assuring that any legitimate claim
would be heard and resolved. Any
case not resolved by this method
could then go to trial.

sued for malpractice, whether to
be found guilty or not, is often,
irreparably, harmed in his career
due to the publicity of the suit
and due to the tendency on the
part of the public to feel that a
suit would not have been brought
if it had not been for a justifiable
claim."
The author also suggests that
the current situation of malpractice
hearings in court has put the medi
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Let 9s Put Teachers Back Into The Classroom
great university is emerging
here at Ohio State. The physical
plant has never been in better
shape thanks to Dr. Gordon Carson. And now, thanks to Dr. John
C. Weaver, Ohio State has a chance
to catch up academically.
A

Dr. Weaver is the man who felt
that undergraduate teaching was
so important that he stood up before all the faculty to give them
a scholarly chewing-ou- t.
"You are not reaching enough,"
he told them in effect at the Distinguished Teaching Awards presentation last week. "You should
spend less time in research and
more in the classroom."
The trend toward more research
has increased markedly at Ohio
State in the last ten years. From
1955 until 1958 Ohio State's annual research expenditure remain

ed just under $4 million. Then it
began to skyrocket to its current
$12.2 million.

get master's degrees. Instead they

will go to cities and towns to hold
good jobs and be influential opinion-makers.

Of today's figure more than 90
percent is from federal grants.
Dr. Robert C. Stevenson, director of the Research Foundation,
explains that the increase is beginning to level off because of increased competition from other schools.
The race for research has taken
professors out of classrooms across
the nation. The American Association of University Professors figures average teaching loads have
shrunk from 12 hours a week a decade ago to six to nine hours a
week today.
The immediate result is that
the university's newest students
rarely see a professor and their
fresh minds are molded by the not
quite jelled minds of graduate students.
Of course, some graduates are
competent instructors, but most
have had no training in teaching.
And many seem interested only in
their own studies.
Obviously the undergraduates
are suffering.

They need the vision of a true
liberal education. They need to be
broad-minde- d
and mature because
be the leaders in their
they will
communities. From their vintage
points on the home fronts, they
will fight the cold war not a task
for unchallenged, undereducated
Casper Milkquetoast university products.

Dr. Weaver has the shell of a
plan to improve undergraduate instruction. In his speech last week
he urged faculty members to spend
less time in research and more time
in the classroom. He also promised
to appoint a committee to determine how to measure excellence
in classroom teaching and asked
every department to find ways to
bring professors into freshman and
sophomore classes.
Rut this is just a plan. It is up
to both students and faculty to see
that Dr. Weaver's plan is not washed down the drain of inaction.
There are over 30,000 students
and about 2,500 faculty members
here and both groups seem to applaud Dr. Weaver's idea to do some

thing about undergraduate instruction. Nothing will happen unless
everyone insists on improvements.
You the students and faculty
can do one thing immediately.
Make your gripes and suggestions
known. Talk to your superiors,
your professors, and your administrators. Write letters.
Say something now before it is
too late before the shape of the
coming "multiversity" hardens and
the undergraduate of the future
finds himself studying about the
extinct breed the classroom professor.

The Lantern
Ohio State University

Rites Of
Spring that

the
annual rites of spring have begun
on the Sports Center Field.
Rut then that is natural enough
. . .spring has traditionally been a
period of religious renewal.
One English professor recently remarked, "I played football
in high school, but I never perceived the experience as a mystic
union with the Lord."
We note with interest

Must we still fight the spurt
of the Sputnik that aimed education
at research and little else in the
1950s?

Research is vital. Rut, the students are just as important, perhaps
more so. ". . .What really matters
in higher education is young people
individual minds,"
. . .and their
Dr. Weaver said.
Most undergraduates will never,

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Finally Getting Around To Bobby Baker

This finally gets around to the

Bobby Baker case.
Alan Arkin, star of the Broadway success LUV, in a recent
interview about himself (including that mysterious region we

call "the innerself'), discussed
briefly his trouble with a previous role in which he was asked
to interpret his part as "a sunny,
charming one."
"They wanted me to be the
boy charming," he said "and to
me that word is death. Charming
is a surface effect. , I suppose
you get your way more if you
are charming,, but I don't think
it has anything to do with values
or ideas. , .1 did it (the role)
their way and they were right
. . .but what did we prove, that
life can be cute?"
This brings us to the Bobby

Baker case because Bobby Baker
was perhaps the most charming
man in our time. He was charming and cute and made himself
the
man in
his job, because he worked very
hard at it. He was efficient, always available, and he served and
charmed Democrats and Repub-lican- s
equally. Everyone liked
him because he was so charming
and did his work so charmingly.
It was inevitable that a man
so charming and on such friendly
terms with those for whom he had
done so many chores that they
would like to do him a favor
would attract the attention of the
type who hang around
any legislative house, court house,
city hall, state house, or the
House on Capitol Hill by the
Potomac.
almost-indispensab-

le

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How deeply Bobby Baker became mixed with the
promoter types likely will never
be known. Any reporter who has
covered city hall, the court house,
the legislature or the congress
knows that few who talk about
influence have it. An influence
peddler will whisper that he is
very close to someone who is
even closer to someone who
makes big deals. Sometimes, of
course, this is true. But for the
most part it is bunk. Charm is
perhaps the greatest asset in the
"influence" racket.
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money to buy into things are dead
and can't tell why they made the
loans. We live in a
age
in which a great many persons
with the moral decor of Las Vegas are big operators. A charming
fellow can do very well.
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The Baker case came along
with a political campaign. The
more fanatic opponents of the
nominee Lyndon Johnson whooped and hollered so much about
the Baker case they ballooned it
to absurd proportions. "What