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Vol. LXI] No. )8
Thursday. August 28. 1975

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Thousands of UK students are converging on the local
bookstores as fall classes begin. At left, several
students look for their books while another (bottom)
keeps a sharp eye for the price tag.

 

  

 

 

Freshmen found deficient in basic math skills

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Kernel Staff Writer

Mathematical knowledge has decreased substan—
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and SAT according to Dr Harriet Rose.
counseling and testing director.

To increase mathematical proficiency among fresh
men. the l‘nii'ersity is offering a new introductory
math course. MA 108R [1 is structured to teach
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The problem can be attributed to several reasons.
"Since 1964. around the time new math came into
being. math scores on ACT and SAT tests have dropped
consistently each year,“ Rose said. “However. new
math really should not carry the full blame because all
the scores in each category have dropped."

Several other factors. including the students. Course
content and school administrators. must assume some
of the blame.

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"The schools are partially responsible because they
tend to temper their courses toward the students,“
Rose said.

“Then. at times. the teachers turn around and grade
students much higher than they deserve. But, when
tests like ACT and SAT come around. where students
find out what they really learned. their knowledge
tends to we considerably less than iiliat was expected
of them" she explained “This is called ‘grade

inflation‘ and it is a national problem
the students .tlt‘ to blame because of their study

Iabits.‘ slit' said. ‘Wlien the time comes to choose
between studying or watching television, TV over-
whelmingly conquers all."

The two math courses required in most high schools
are algebra and geometry and they are the only
mathematics covered by ACT and SAT, Rose noted.

“If students had the proper high school background
there should be less decrease in math scores on the two

tests." she explained. “However. most students take

only oncy ear of algebra and one year of geometry.

“Therefore, they fail to attain college level
proficiency in math. High schools should stress the
importance of continuing math education beyond the
basic requirements."

At one time, several mathematics courses were

required for admission to the University according to

Dr. David Shannon mathematics professor. “Butnow
they have open attendance. which means no require-
ments tor Kentucky residents except a diploma and an
ACT test. This has added to the slow, but definite,
decrease in mathematical knowledge. "

Several remedial classes have been initiated by the
developmental studies program to aid the increasing
number of students lacking basic knowledge in math
and other areas.

The programs attempt to reeducate students in
math and other territories of basic education. Included
in this program is a two-hour. non-credit course in the
basics of proper study habits and skills.

 

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editorials

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Room m Journalism Building. They should be typed, double spaced and Signed
Letfas should not exceed 250 was and Spectrum articles 750 words

Editorials do not represent the opinions of the University.

Bruce Winges

Editor-in-Chief
Ginny Edwards
Managing Editor

Susan Jones
Editorial Page Editor
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’76 prospectives

offer no

WASHINGTON—Brother Theodore,
the great ”philosopher, metaphysician
and podiatrist," once said something
which sums up the contest for the
Democratic presidential nomination:
”As long as there is death there is hope.
All of our great leaders are dead. Moses
is dead. Mohammed is dead. Buddha is
dead. And I am not feeling so hot
myself.”

 

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Left without hope among the living
are Jackson, Wallace, Udall, Humph-
rey et al, moving backward in slow
steps like a recessional of deformed and
morally handicapped ecclesiastics be-
hind each of whom a hunchbacked,
public relations acolyte carries a
gonfalon whereon are embroidered
golden words like innovative, bold,
affirmative, forthright, open, respon-
sive leader. As Brother Theodore once
exclaimed in delighted, aghast sur-
prise, "Our graveyards are riddled
with corpses!”

Lying ahead for the quick of the
electorate, who will wish they were
among the dead disfranchised before
this campaign is over, are months of
such treats as televised debates bet
ween Jimmy Carter and Lloyd Bentsen.
Themeasure of the Democratic Party’s
purposelessness is that a man like
Bentsen—a filthy rich whose only
socially pleasing talent is picking a
good tailor-~would presume to offer his
less than mediocre self to his country.

Or there is Scoop Jackson, a gentle-
man whose zig~zaggery has brought
him so low that even George Meany has
thrown the man out of the swinging
doors of the AFLClO saloon. Do you
prefer Jimmy Carter, the Georgia
peanut farmer, one of those media
creations called a New South South»
ern Moderate, which should be taken to
mean he served his full term as
governor without assisting at as lynch
ing. Past Mr. Carter we have the
ever recurring Massachusetts Young-
est Brother, whom millions of his fellow
citizens believe to be a liar or even a
killer. Wouldn’t that be an edifying
campaign with him running. From 1972
to 1976, from Watergate to billingsgate.

Also sloshing about in the miasma
are: Udall, the Father of Postal
Reform, whose friends always tell you
how good, how witty, how straightfor
ward their candidate is...in private;
Mr. Humphrey, a changed man after
political plastic surgery took the John-
son eraAVietnam war wrinkles and
stretched them smooth; and poor,
dilapidated Fred Harris, the Jerry
Ford of the Left.

To impart the illusion of meaning to
this game of Wee King of the Midget
Mountain, behold the villain, George
Wallace. We’re instructed that he
must be stopped at all costs, which I
take to mean somebody like Ed Muskie.
In fact, though, since Mr. Wallace has

hope

commenced kissing black beauty que-
ens and Chicanco babies, one is hard
putto see how he differs from his rivals
in any important way.

The number of actors in the Repub-
lican theatrical is fewer. Here we are
invited to imagine that Mr. Rockefeller
and Reagan disagree with each other.
To steal William Allen White’s epi~
gram, "Between them is that fantastic
imaginary gulf that has always existed
between Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-

Clne leader, Brother Theodore ex-
cepted, hasn’t died yet. He is Raslph
Nader, against whose candidacy you
only hear the argument that the office
of the American presidency is not
available to one so virtuous and able.
As people, it is said, we love politicians
who proclaim their dedication, but are
careful not to live it. We can’t tolerate a
man like Nader, who earns a quarter of
a million dollars a year, lives on $100 a
week, and gives all the rest away.

Too blunt, too honest. A president
who writes his own speeches, who
knows so much that, instead of being
dependent on being briefed like the
pinheads and fruit flies who hover
over the White House punch bowl,
Nader can brief his briefers. No, can’t
be, Lincoln’s dead, as Brother Theod-
ore might say.

What kind of campaign would Nader
wage, what kind of administration
would he run? Hays Gorey of Time
Magazine speculates about that in his
new and good book called, "Nader and
the Power of Everyman." Gorey
imagines Nader coming back to his
furnished room after having conducted
the most gloriously imasginative camr
paign in 80 years. He has said that, if
elected, he will do things like make the
bureaucrats in the Department of
Agriculture 90 to work on a farm a
couple of months every year. While
infusing his campaign with a string of
such ideas he has also said how he
intends to lead the country toward a
humane and non destructive private
enterprise and peacetime living. Now
the campaign is over and Gorey has a
reporter ask Nader if he thinks he is
going to win. Nader answers, ”Certain-
ly. I said we can’t lose and we can't,
because even if se don’t get the most
votes, we have won by setting up a true
countervailing force against the win-
ner.”

William Jennings Bryan made that
happen once. The Great Commoner ran
for the presidency three times and lost
three times, but when he was fininshed
he had changed America. That’s the
role for Ralph Nader, a presidential
man.

But, if it is not to be, there is still
hope. As Brother Theodore would
doubtless put it, we do enjoy a one
hundred per cent mortality rate.

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Nicholas Von Hoffman is a
columnist for King Features Syn-
dicate.

 

 

Does 'justice' prevail in
treatment of athletes?

Our athletes are being mis-
treated. No longer will they be able
to use the M. l. King Library’s
plush Rare Book Room for nightly
free tutoring sessions, as was the
practice last year. Library admin-
istrators have uniustly crammed
them into a much smaller room
that isn’t even carpeted or wood-
paneled.

Library Director Paul A. Willis
attributes this obviously unjust
move to more demands upon the
facility’s available space.

But, it’s necessary to consider
the statement of one library em-
ploye. A football player threw a
chair out of a fifth floor library
window, according to the employe.
Another M. I. King employe saw a
clock and toilet tissue flung out'of a
library "window ~ also on the fifth
floor but wasn’t sure if an athlete
was responsible.

One wonders what would happen
if anyone other than an athlete
threw a chair out of a library
window. Well, consider what hap
pens if one fails to pay a library
fine no grades, no registration,
no diploma.

It’s hard enough to swallow the
fact that the tutoring sessions exist
at all. If these guys are not smart
enough to survive academically or
even seek help on their own, then
they should not be here in the first
place —~ no matter how well they
throw a ball.

On top of everything else, con,
sider the fact that half of Down,
ing’s $16,000 salary comes from
College of Arts and Sciences funds.
Even though the Athletic Associa-

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and the other half of Downing’s
in his own words,
"keeps the athlete in school” and
organizes the tutoring program.
treatment for athletes
has always been the way at this
University and at most institutions
higher education across the
country. Even in light of the special
treatment, however. when athletes
start throwing chairs out of the
window it’s time to start throwing
athletes out of the library.

  
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

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news briefs

UMW fined $500,000
in connection with strike

CHARLESTON. w. VA. (AP) —A federal judge imposed a
$500,000 fine on the United Mine Workers union for “feeble and
ineffective“ attempts to stop a rapidly spreading wildcat coal
miner strike.

Roving pickets spread the strike further Wednesday, idling
nearly 50,000 miners and shutting off much of the nation‘s coal.
UMW leaders and federal courts have ordered the miners to stop
the nearly three weeks of picketing, but to no avail.

“There has been no action by it (the union) to expel or discipline
persons keeping the membership from working," US. District
Judge K. K. Hall said. “The efforts of the International (the top
officers) have been feeble and ineffective and they owe it both to
coal operators and UMW members to make this contract work.“

Hall said the fine against the UMW would increase $100,000 a day
if the strike continues, but would drop $100,000 a day if the miners
return to work. If they go back by Tuesday, there would be no fine,
he said.

 

 

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JERUSALEM (AP) ——Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
returned to Jerusalem today with the wording of a Sinai settlement
approved by Egypt that could bring a new Israeli-Egyptian
agreement by the weekend.

“All issues have been defined," Egyptian presidential spokes-
man Tahseen Bashir said as Kissinger left Alexandria, Egypt. “If
the response from the other side is satisfactory then there will be
further progress."

Thirteen-cent postage
possible by Christmas

WASHINGTON (AP) —The Postal Rate Commission has
approved a proposal that could increase first-class postage to 13
cents by Christmas, postal sources said today.

The Postal Service has recommended for months that the cost of
mailing a letter be raised from 10 to 13 cents but has not been able
to act until the Rate Commission‘s decision.

The commission‘s decision, which is expected to win prompt
approval from the Postal Service. will be announced Thursday, a
commission official said.

The Postal Service is operating at a deficit of around $8 million
per day under present rates.

Federal judge grants injunction
against Gulf Coast longshoremen

CORPUS CHRISTI. TEX. (AP) ——A federal judge granted a
preliminary injunction Wednesday against longshoremen who
have boycotted grain shipments to the Soviet Union.

US. District Court Judge Owen Cox, who issued the ruling, set a
hearing for Sept. 30 on a permanent injunction sought by shippers.
Cox‘s ruling would affect dockworkers on the Gulf Coast.

Warner F. Brock, lawyer for the International Longshoremen’s
Association, said the ruling would be appealed immediately to the
5th US. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

AFL-CIO President George Meany called for a boycott last week
to stop all grain shipments. Meany said that American consumers
must be protected from higher food prices which could result from
Russian grain purchases.

Encephalitis found in Louisville

LOL'ISVILLE (AP) —At least one confirmed case of encephali-
tis. known as “sleeping sickness," was reported Wednesday by the
Louisville-Jefferson County Department of Heatlh.

Eight other county residents have shown symptoms of the
disease. which is transmitted by mosquitoes, health officials said.

Viral encephalitis is inflammation of the brain and spinal cord
and the tissues covering them. There is no known cure for the
disease.

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