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Vol. LIV, No. 119

LEXINGTON,

KY., FRIDAY, JULY 12,

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Four Pages

Loan Fund Awaits
Federal Decision

A hundred
students will be
from beginning or
prevented
continuing their studies at UK
this fall if Congress fails to appropriate the requested $251,000
in federal capital for loans.
This was the estimate made by
Dr. Elbert Ockerman, chairman
of the student loan fund and
head of a committee formed in
May to investigate the entire
student financial aid program.
Dr. Ockerman said the University had requested $40,000 more
than last year for aid under the
National Defense Student Loan
program, authorized by the National Defense Education Act of

Julie Ritchie, prospective freshman from Louisville, seems a bit
bewildered by the CQT test which Is a part of the summer orientation program. In addition to testing--, students also meet with
their advisers and register for the fall semester.

1958.

"I think we'll receive at least

SelfSupporting Students
Hindered By Rising Costs

By ANN POUNDSTONE
Kernel Staff Writer
Nearly a century ago Dr. John
B. Bowman voiced a dream:
"I want to build up a people's
institution, a great free university, eventually open and accessible to the poorest boy In the
land."
Dr. Bowman, first regent of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky University,
wanted "to reduce the cost of
this whole matter of education."
Dr. Leo M. Chamberlain, professor emeritus in the College
of Education, said that today
"the University may be pricing
people out of their opportunity."
He asked if this were in keeping
with American concepts and
ideals.
"We have about 40 students
who come here and start from
scratch every year," said Dr.
Elbert Ockerman, chairman of
the student loan fund and head
of a committee formed in May
to investigate the entire student
financial aid program.
"With rising costs It's becoming less and less possible," he
added. "If a student is willing to
work parttime and take out a
loan, he can make it, although
the University relaizes it's a very
rough situation," he said.
"The University will provide
14 students, who technically have
nothing, with room and board.
Housing is at the Alice Lloyd
Cottage," Dr. Ockerman

The National Defense Education Act, established in 1957,
provides for loans of up to $1,000
a year for a maximum of five
years. "We haven't followed a
the full
policy of granting
amount," Dr. Ockerman explained, "because we feel that the
individual has to have a share
in his education, too."
He admitted
that working
while going to school is not advisable. But often it Is unavoidable. Even if a student works,
"technically he'd have to have
at least a couple hundred dollars for his room deposit and
tuition when he entered," Dr.
Ockerman said.
"One student tried to make a
go of it a couple years ago," he
said, "but he dropped out after
a semester. Now he's back,
carrying 12 credits and working
35 to 40 hours a week as a
painter on Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
Dr. Ockerman told about another student, one of nine children, six of whom are still at
home. "He works up to 50 hours
a week at a Dairy Queen."
Good grades are important to
qualify for loans. But good academic records don't seem to coordinate very well with strenuous working hours.
The University ruling on this
reads: "Undergraduates who have
established at least a 2.3 cumulative standing at the end of
one or two semesters, and those
who have earned an over-a- ll

standing of 2.5 or above by the
end of three or more semesters
are likely candidates for degrees and can be considered for
loans."
Dr. Ockerman explained that
this was based on "our experience that if the person has academic difficulties, he's a very
good suspect to drop out of
school and land a poor-payijob. He's a poor financial risk,"
he explained.
Exceptions are made.
But Dr. Ockerman carefully
clarified that these students must
have integrity. Loan students who
flunk out aren't too eager to
repay what they consider to be
a wasted investment, he said.
"We're Just beginning to rebuild our loan fund with repayments which go out as fast as
they come in. Last year we were
down to $400 in the fund. We try
to keep a little bit in reserve in
case a student comes in who is
about to leave school," Dr. Ockerman said.

rority and fraternity houses are
not part of this plan since they
have city addresses and are served by 40500, Lexington's basic
code number.
The numbers are part of a
plan which will include machines
in certain large cities to distribute the mail automatically
according to these code numbers,
speeding up postal delivery which
has bogged down somewhat in
recent years due to an increase
in volume.

Ninety-nin- e
students from 39
Kentucky high schools are registered for the third annual High
School Speech Institute, which
opened this week at the University.
Students will learn research
methods and receive instruction
in forensic and drama divisions
of speech events, Dr. Denver
Sloan of the UK Division of Extended Programs, coordinator of
the
course, said.
The institute was begun by
Sloan and Dr. J. W. Patterson,
associate professor of speech at
UK, and director of the institute. Sloan said the recent in- -

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dent Congress loan fund, and a
United Student Aid Program.
The United Student Aid program is a new loan source for
the University, beginning this
fall. Businessmen and philanthropists started this nationwide fund. Banks make and collect the loans at what Dr. Ockerman called a "much less generous" rate of interest.
He said $25,000 of USA funds
will be matched by $1,000 from
Univeisity sources. The funds
will be used as "a cushion" fund
to support other programs. It will
be used primarily for students
"where the need factor- - is not as
great as under NDEA."
"The regular university loan
accomfund with $20,000-25.00- 0
0
modates
Dr.
students,"
Ockerman said, "and without
federal funds, we'd have to revert back to a period prior to
1958-59- ."

The Student Congress loan
fund, begun last spring, has
$1,000 available for short-terloans. The maximum amount of
the loan is $100, which is to be
repaid after 60 days.
Dr. Ockerman said he did not
know the exact amount of medical and engineering loans.

UK Speech Festival
Begins This Week

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UNIVERSITY MAIL
GIVEN EXTRA 'ZIP'
The University has a new address beginning this month, as
part of the nationally adopted
Zone Improvement Plan (ZIP)
which became effective July 1.
All mail addressed to either
the University offices or residence halls must now include the
number. In adlocal ZIP-cod- e
dition to previous information
number, city and
concerning
state.
For campus, this is 40506. So

as much as last year," Dr. Ockerman said. "Last year our total
loan program was $237,000, infunds
from
cluding
private
sources."
In case no federal aid comes
through, the University would
be able to grant "close to 500
student loans for the first semester," Or. Ockerman estimated.
"But we would have to revise
our second semester program
drastically."
Dr. Ockerman noted that the
is
for
committed
University
$300,000 worth of student loans
next year.
Six hundred applications are
approved a semester for an average of $241.
"We've been waiting to hear
from the federal government
since April 1," Dr. Ockerman
said. "Congress waited last year
till four or five days before school
began to appropriate capital."
The University must match the
of this
$251,000 with one-ninamount from the regular University loan fund.
Dr. Ockerman said
funds would come from four
sources: the regular University
loan fund, medical and engineering loans (granted to "a maximum of 50 students"), the Stu

creased interest in speech work
is due to a realization on the
part of teachers and students of
the need for better oral communication.
Instructors for the drama division aie: Charles Dickens of
the UK Department of English,
Speech and Dramatic Arts, and
Dr. Edwin R. Hansen, assistant
professor of speech and drama
at Transylvania College.
Forensics division instructors
are: Dr. GifTord Blyton, professor of speech at UK; Dan Tewell,
director of forensics at Pittsburg (Kansas) High School, and
Mrs. Virginia L. Patterson, speech
at Lafayette
instructor
High
School, Lexington.
lecturers will be RobSpecial
ert L. Johnson, director of State
and Local Services at the UK
Medical Center; Miss Linda Rue,
a professional actress; Raymond
Smith, technical director of the
Guignol Theater at UK; Wallace
Briggs, Guignol Theater director,
and Miss Mary Ellen Rickey, UK
associate professor of English.
The cost of the institute is $30
plus room and board. The students will live in dormitories.

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Shown in rehearsal for Guignol Theatre's summer opera workshop production of "Brigadoon" are Frank Browning, left; Peggy
Kelly, and Matt Barrett Opening night for the musical is
Wednesday, July 31, and it will run through Aug. 3.

Tetsuo Wakatsuki of Osaka
University, Japan, will work at
the University of Kentucky under
a National Science Foundation
fellowship during the 1964-6- 5
school year.
Wakatsuki, a nuclear physicist,
is one of 38 foreign scientists
selected to work at American
the
NSF
under
universities
senior foreign scientist fellowship program.

* Planners Eye 66 Acres Near UK

JOHN TOWNSEND
Kernel Staff Writer
The Board of Trustees has approved the University's participation
urban renewal
in a federally-aideproject in order to acquire 66 acres
of land near the present campus for
University development.
The Board also praised the designer's plan prepared by the Detroit firm of Crane and Gorwic and
the office of campus planning. Further review of the plan is scheduled
when Dr. John Oswald, the University's new president arrives in August.
Six of the most essential proposals
in the plan are:
(1) Designation of the proper
amount of land for each use set forth
in the University's program.
(2) Organization of these land-us- e
areas in such a way that they will
relate to each other in accordance
with the requirements of the University's operation.
(3) Differentiation of through
and local streets.
(4) Elimination of the conflict
between vehicular and pedestrian
movements.
(5) Removal of parking from all
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areas designed to accommodate moving vehicles.
park(6) Provision of
ing properly related to the areas it is
intended to serve.
According to supplementary notes
released in addition to the
general development plan brochure,
"land-us- e
areas must in turn be related to each other in accordance
with the requirements of the University's operation."
e

Present

Land-Us- e

At present, the University campus
covers 314.7 acres excluding the experimental farm. This can be broken
down into six use areas: academic,
118.8; physical education, 6.1; varsity
athletics, 34.7; housing 41.7; parking,
22.2; and
use, 91.2
acres.
With future land acquisitions, the
proposed campus size will be doubled. Estimated total area of the University is expected to be 573 acres.
The plan calls for the following land
utilization: academic, 158.2; physical
56.6;
education,
varsity athletics,
24.6; service center, 7.7; housing,
147.3; special housing, 44; parking
59.1; and related uses, 75.5 acres.
Of importance is the fact that the

general plan is linerar in nature, rather than concentric.
The only academic expansion will
be around the College of Education
and west of the Medical Center. In
order to bridge the gap created by
Limestone and Upper Streets, between the College of Education and
the main campus, a grade separation
or a pedestrian overpass has been
proposed.

Academic Development

Commenting on the position of
buildings on the campus, Lawrence
Coleman, head of the campus planning department said, "We have decided to confine academic developments to the areas in which it presently exists. This is essential if proper
academic
between
communication
programs is to be maintained."
At present it is expected that the
main physical education facilities will
be located just to the north of Cooper
Drive, with other facilities, including
the Coliseum, on the north part of
the campus.
A new service center, enlarged to
meet the demands of the expanded
campus, will be located between
Broadway and the Southern Railroad
spur.
Housing in the overall plan refers
dormitories
to
and proposed new ones. Major expansion of housing facilities is planned for the Clifton Avenue area, and
the north of Euclid Avenue both east
and west of the present girls' dormitories.
Land reserved for related uses refers to land set aside for research establishments, hospitals, clinics, and
special agencies which frequently try
to locate themselves close to academic
institutions.
already-constructe- d

University Soapbox

Education Stand Attacked
In response to Larry McCracken's rebuttal of Dr. James D. Koerner's
his assertions with a higher regard for the
study, I suggest that he
facts per se, and for those who compiled them.
Mr. McCracken gave no criterion which shows Dr. Koerner's lack of
erudition in the field of teacher training, and certainly lends no credence to
the fact that he might be incorrect. It is common knowledge that Dr. Koerner
is only one of the many individuals concerned with raising our educational
standards. The names Conant and Rickover should come immediately to Mr.
McCracken's mind, since he himself is in the field of education. Dr. Keeney,
teachers simply do
president of Brown University, says, "Many
not know as much about the subjects they teach as we expect a sophomore
to know." Oscar Handlin of Harvard's history department says, "The secondary school must adjust to meet the needs of the young people. In the
1960s, either it will prepare or it will fail to prepare them for citizenship
exand for careers." It seems to me that if these men are
perts," then Mr. McCracken is being overly audacious in implying that he
is more expert than they.
When Dr. Koerner says that students in education come from the bottom of the "academic barrel," he is absolutely correct. I would call Mr. McCracken's attention to the very study of IQ's that he quotes. Dael Wolfle,
director of the Commission on Human Resources and Advanced Training,
gives characteristics of students entering specialized fields. He lists IQ scores
of students graduating with bachelor's degrees, by field of specialization.
The mean AGCT score for all college graduates is 121. The average for
bachelor's degrees in education is 118. Mr. Wolfle lists mean AGCT scores
for 20 major fields; physical science is first and physical education is twentieth with mean AGCT scores of 127 and 112 respectively. On this same
basis, education graduates rank seventeenth. I'm sure Mr. McCracken will
agree that this is the "academic bottom."
Mr. McCracken questions Dr. Koerner's criticism of the qualification
of education professors. I again refer Mr. McCracken to another AGCT
study on the doctoral level. Dr. Lindsey R. Harmon, director of the Office
Reof Scientific Personnel at the National Academy of Sciences-Nationsearch Council, has done a correlative study of AGCT scores on doctoral
graduates as to ability rating. This group comprised the physical, bialogical,
and social sciences, as well as arts, humanities and education. This gave a
total of 12 doctoral fields with a mean AGCT of 130.8 for all twelve. The
highest score was physics, and the lowest, education with scores of 140.3 and
123.3, respectively. This places education majors again at the "academic bottom," and over seven points below the mean. I think this corroborates Dr.
Koerner's dismay over the quality of education professors, much to the opposite doubts of validity expressed by Mr. McCracken.
As to Mr. McCracken's worry over rote memorization of inert facts on
the opposite side of Limestone the dynamics of landing on the moon, feeding the world, and curing the sick are not done with inert facts, I'm sure.
Finally, in answer to the question posed by Mr. McCracken, how the
United States developed the most highly technical and industrial society
known to man, if our public school teachers are so poor and intellectually
handicapped? It seems to me that he answered his own question. Technology and industry are dependent on physicists, mathematicians, psychologists, and engineers, and it is clear that these people rank at the top of the
"academic barrel."
R. P. Granacheh Jr.

Pedestrian Communication
The expanded campus will probably, according to the general plan,
rely solely on pedestrian communication within the academic area. The
proposed campus is located within
an area defined by the two tentatively proposed major expressways
and three major roads.
The two expressways will be, one
north-soutmarking the northern
boundary of the campus along Maxmarkwell Street; and one
ing the western boundary along the
Southern Railway tracks. The eastern boundary will be formed by two
major roads, one proposed to the east
of the track and football practice
field and the other in the vicinity of
Oldham Avenue.
Broadway between the two expressways will complete the western
boundary of the campus. The Cooper Drive extension will form the
southern boundary.
east-wes- t,

Only Through Street

When the proposed traffic plan is
completed, the only probable through
street would be Limestone. This
would cut the campus in two; however, since most of the area west of
Limestone would be allocated for
"related uses," this, according to the

planners, would not present too much
of a problem in communication.
The new road pattern is predicated on the movement of through
traffic around the University area
and a system of local roads to serve
the immediate campus area. This will
involve the closure of parts of some
existing streets, and the construction
of several new roads, both major and
secondary. Small parts of Rose and
Euclid streets, presently
serving
through traffic, will be closed and
transformed into local roads. Differentiation of through and local traffic, according to the plan, will be "a
most important contribution toward
the solution of the traffic problem
within the University area."
While roads facilitating through
traffic are important, roads for internal campus use are equally essential. A complimentary system of both
major and local streets defining the
functional elements of the University and allowing easy access by or
through the University and the area
within it must form the basis for
sound development of the University.
Secondary roads will be designed
mainly to distribute the traffic within
the campus itself.
Pedestrian walkways, located
throughout the campus, will depend
upon the development of individual
building sites.
Off-Stre-

et

Parking

parking in the University area is a problem. Since roads
are lineal in character, adequate parking spaces for cars in the right place
is almost impossible. Therefore,
facilities in the form of parking garages and surface parking lots
at a ratio of 1:1 are being planned.
It is expected that proposed surface
lots will accommodate 5,300 cars, and
parking structures, 6,000.
The University now owns approximately 55 percent of the land needed for the expanded campus. The remaining land will have to be acquired
over the next 20 to 25 years. Most of
land needed by the University is not
farmland, but is now covered with
residential dwellings which will make
it more difficult and expensive to acquire.
Of first priority in the program of
land acquisition are a number of
scattered sites in the areas of Clifton,
Limestone and Rose Streets.
Of second priority is an area
across Limestone from the Medical
Center.
Third priority is an area near the
northeastern part of the campus.
On-stre-

Flexibility Needed

Despite all existing plans for expansion, flexibility of design is a
must if planners are "to allow for a
continuous reevaluation and restatement of the program."
Before any general campus plan
can be instituted, it must be considered an integral part of the plan for
e
the entire City of Lexington.
plans for the city are being
prepared and are scheduled for completion in December of 1964.
Long-rang-

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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Friday, July

1963- -3

12,

Campus Intramurals Business Conference
Continues Today
Will Be Disrupted
The coming semester schedule
change has caused disruption on
practically every organization on
campus. The University of Kentucky Intramural program Is no
exception.
Under the new system, the
regular school year will begin
September S and the spring term
will close the first week in May.
"Skeeter"
Bernard
Johnson,
director of intramurals, said the
new system will affect the scheduling of nearly all of the 16
sports in the Intramural program.
While the change will only bring
minor alterations In Individual
and minor sports, it will greatly
hlndre some of the more popular ones especially Softball.
"Since the spring semester will
end so much earlier," Johnson
said, "we will be unable to have
the round -- robin schedule In the
Softball league. There will probably only be a single elimination
tournament and maybe a practice game or two for each team
entered."
Although such a change would
mean no games beforehand, the
tournament field would be more
than twice its normal size. This
is because every team would be
eligible. Formally only the teams
making better showings in the
roundrobln schedule were advanced to the tournaments.
While the new schedule will

hurt softball to a degree, fall

sports such as flagball will be
improved under the new system.
Beginning next fall the season
will begin and end at earlier
dates and this will mean that
games near the end of the season won't be played in darkness
and freezing weather.
Johnson said that during the
coming season the intramural
organization hoped to cut down
on the number of injuries and
to place even more emphasis on
sportsmanship. He cited flagball
and basketball as the sports In
which most students were injured.
A major rules change has been
made in flagball which Johnson
hopes will be of help In cutting
down the number of injuries.
"This year the defensive team
will stand right up on the line
of scrimmage," he explained.
When asked how this would
help to decrease Injuries Johnson said that before the defense
was required to stand three yards
in back of the line of scrimmage.
"With the new rule the lines
won't collide at such high rate
of speed."
Intramural proThe 1963-6- 4
gram will officially begin on
September 19 when flagball, golf,
and tennis competition will

The University of Kentucky's 16th annual Conference on Business
and Economic Education, held yesterday and today at the UK
Chemistry-Physic- s
Building, will draw nearly 100 high school and
college teachers from Kentucky and surrounding states.
at the opening session yesterday were Dr. Harlan
Speakers
Miller, New York City, educational division director for the Institute
of Life Insurance; Arthur Walker, Richmond, Va., director of business education services for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Dr.
Russell J. Hosier, chairman of the Department of Business Education at the University of Wisconsin.
Miller, Walker, and Hosier will
Eugene Aenew. professor of ac- be heard again at this morning's
counting at Eastern Kentucky
session which will be concluded
State College, and Dr. Hosier.
by a luncheon address, "Horizons
A picnic for conference delein Business Education," by Dr.
gates and guests is scheduled for
Cecil Carpenter, dean of the UK
6:15 p.m. Thursday at Carnahan
College of Commerce. The luncheon will be held In the UniverHouse, the University conference
sity's new Student Center.
center on Newtown Pike.
The final conference session
today will include talks by Miss
Sarah Pyles, Ashland High
School; Mrs. Dolores Cheek, Lexington Lafayette High School;

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watched with amazement as the
Bluebirds won 50 consecutive
games over one stretch ot years.
His offense, it would appear,
has been proven to be worthy
of notice.
How much of his offense is revealed in the book? "All of It,"
Rice declared. "If you're not going to tell about something, why
write a book about It? There are
some coaches who feel they will
reveal their secrets. I don't.
There are no secrets in football.
I feel that the more an opponent
knows about my team, the more
tied down in details they'll get
while trying to prepare for us.
Everything I know about this offense Is in this book."
The only remaining question,
then, would be whether or not
Coach Rice can write in a manner that will let the reader know
what he is talking about, or
whether he will do as others have
done and simply beat around
the bush unintentionally.
Fortunately, the parts of the
book
thus far available for
study demonstrate that he can,
indeed, explain his subject.
And by its nature, when the
Prentice-Ha- ll
publication comes
on the market it may reach quite
a high degree of popularity.

For All Your

Arthur M. Schlasinger, Jr.: History,
as written in recent times, has become
a science rather than an art. "The Historian as Artist" is a plea for the return to the tradition of history as art.
"A Little Mora Time for Violence":
David Lowe replies to a "unique"
proposal (May Atlantic) that South
Africa be given time to solve its own
problems.
"Exercise and Heart Disease": Samuel A. Levine, M.D. disagrees with Dr.
Paul Dudley White's view that physical
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Coach Homer Rice
Writes First Book
Homer Rice, the man who built
a football empire at Highlands
High School, will have his first
book published early this fall,
In which he describes the basic
reason for his fantastic success.
And from early Indications,
"The Explosive Short-T- "
may
become a very widely read coaching manual.
Rke Is, for all practical purposes, the originator of this offense. It has In all probability
been, used before, someplace, by
somebody, but It has been forgotten until Rice brought It back,
or, as Is possible, created It.
In any event both Rice and his
offense hit the football world
like a tornado. After graduation
from Centre College, where he
played quarterback on Centre's
last scholarship team, Rice took
a Job in obscure Wartburg High
School In Tennessee. With an enrollment of 100 In Tennessee's
high school
had
football setup, Wartburg
never had great success and had
had none at all for quite a while.
In Rice's first year they won 10
straight.
He moved to Spring City and
lost one game in two years, then
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Friday, July 12, 1963

"NON CONFORMISTS" FIND NICHE
IN TOPICAL MAJOR PROGRAM
are

students
into
any Arts and Sciences department.
Interior design, biological and
social 'bases of behavior, religious aspects of culture, recreation, contemporary American culture, the ancient world, and child
development may be the center
of Interest for an A&S student.
John Kuiper, Philosophy Department head and chairman of
the committee on topical majors,
finds out whether an undergraduate who comes to him as
qualified (a 2.5 overall for the
first two years is required).
His next Job is to Judge how
strong his interest is.
"Twenty percent of the students who come to me should
not be topical majors," the chairman said, "but they do need to
talk to someone about their education."
If Professor Kuiper and his
committee approve the student's
program, he can be?in a topical
major at once. A few discontinue after a semester because
"they find their niche within a
department." He recalled counselling a student "obviously not
designed to be a philosophy major but interested in one phase
of the subject, the ancient world.
In his senior year he wound up
taking so much foreign language
that he graduated a classics major instead."
The topical majors program is
"not trying to compete with other
departments," the chairman said,
"but is trying to make the resources of the University available to students who cannot find
themselves."
Personal assessment of interest is a must for students within
the program.
"For this we rely a great deal
on the senior thesis, a comprehensive paper on the student's
focal point. They are encouraged to do independent investigation on this as early as their
said, handing me several recent
papers.
One was entitled "A Comparison of the Television Viewing
ic
Habits of Two
Groups of Children" by a child
development "topical." Another
was "Platonism In St. Augustine's City of God." A third exof
plored the interrelationships
Topical

majors

who don't fit,

Interest-wis-

e,

Tennessee
Williams'
complete
works to date.
Professor
Kuiper said he
"reads them all" because he's
interested In the results of the
programs his committee approves. One file cabinet drawer is bulging with
"comps" written up to this time.
They number nearly 200.
It came as a surprise that the
topical majors program is 30
years old.
"In the early 1930's the Idea
came up spontaneously from an
early A&S dean, Dr. Paul P.
Boyd. The program, supervised
directly by the dean, was made
possible by the faculty's action."
Professor Kuiper said.
"But very few students ever
tackled it," the chairman said,
adding that "within the last 15
years we've graduated up to 12
students a year."
Professor Kuiper forecast that
the number of students graduated from the topical majors
program may approach 20 in
June 1964. He saw the increase
due to the number of women attracted to the program.
"The program Is suited to
women," he said, "because they
find it more difficult to fit themselves into a pattern."
The most unusual topical majors are two women currently
on campus whose center of interest is horsemanship. "They've
ridden a lot and taught during
the summers, and are interested
in being owners of riding stables
and breeding horses," Professor
Kuiper said.
Junior year," Professor Kuiper
"Their programs include stiff
courses in animal genetics, animal pathology, and a great deal
of biological science," he said.
Another unique major was the
engineering student who transferred to A&S with a strong interest in transpo