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graduate student of the University has discussed the Kernels position on athletics.
See Page Four.

One hundred constitutional law
authorities have petitioned Congress to abolish the House
Activities Committee.
See Page Two.

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Vol. LVL No. 53

f Kentucky

University TUESDAY,
LEXINGTON, KY.,

DEC 8,

1964

Eight Pages

A

The traditional Hanging of the
See Page
Greens is today.
Seven.

The Wildcats have split the
basketball season in their first
two games. See Page Six

Trustees Appoint
Centennial Professors
The Board of Trustees today
approved University President
Dr. John W. Oswald's recommendation to accept four scholars to
become visiting Centennial proMR. ROBERT JOIINSON

DR. RAYMOND BARD

New Positions Created

Johnson Appointed
Vice President
Of Student Affairs

The Board of Trustees today created a new administrative
position and appointed a new vice president for research development.
Mr. Robert Johnson, now director of the Medical Center's Office
of State and Local Services, was named vice president for student
affairs.
Dr. Raymond C. Bard was appointed assistant vice president for
research development and executive director of the Kentucky
Foundation at today's board meeting.
The trustees' establishment of the vice presidency and their
appointment of Johnson came at the recommendation of President

Oswald.
offices should be pulled
Johnson said that the
because a number of organizations and administrative
together
offices which deals with different activities now concerned with
students affairs will give him an opportunity to think about all
aspects of campus and reorganize policies in the best interests of
the student.
Another reason for the newly created office was explained by the
president. With a rise of the present Lexington campus enrollment
of 10,700 to an expected 14,000 or 15,000 by 1970, such an officer is
increasingly essential.
Johnson, President Oswald said, will assume overall responsibility
for the activities of University offices related to student affairs. These
include the offices of the dean of men, the dean of women, the
foreign student advisers, the counseling and placement services, the
Student Publications Board, and the Office of School Relations,
which handles the student scholarship, loans, and employment
programs. These offices now deal with the president.
He will work with the Student Health Service, operated by the
Medical Center, and will maintain direct liason with Student
Congress and other student organizations.
Johnson said the first thing he plans to do is meet with the
heads of student affairs and with student leadership to become
thoroughly versed withe the daily routine.
Continued On Pare 8

Executive Editor
Wins SDX Award

Kernel Executive Editor David V. Hawpe won the student news
service writing competition Thursday at the Mgma ueita
paper-wir- e
winner of
Chi convention in Kansas City.
Hawpe, three-tim- e
Sigma Delta Chi, Professional Hearst awards amounting to
journalistic society, sponsored the $1,100, received a check for $50
stufor winning the competition.
writing contest. Eighty-fou- r
dent journalists from the major
Hawpe is a senior journalism
colleges and universities around major from Louisville, and is
the country participated in the serving as executive editor of the
Kernel.
event.
He has interned with the AssoThe students toured the Truciated Press in Louisville for the
man Library in nearby Independence, Mo., and then interviewed
past two summers.
Philip Brooks, director of the Library, in a press conference.
After the press conference, they
had one hour in which to write
their stories.
The winners of the contest
were announced on Friday during
the business meeting. Ilawpe's
story was posted at the convention
and filed on the United Press International national wire.
The stories were judged by a
panel of professional newspapermen. Heading the panel wasjack
Fallon, Southwest director of the
DAVID V. HAWPE
UPl from Dallas.

fessors in 1965.
for
specialized
Appointed
areas are Dr. Allen Tate, professor in humanities for fall, 1965;
Dr. Kenneth D. Benne, professor
in social sciences, winter, 1965;
Dr. Hugo Theorell, professor in
biological sciences, winter, 1965;
and Dr. Louis Gordon, professor
in physical sciences, fall, 1965.
Dr. Tate, a native of Winchester, has been a professor of
English at the University of Minnesota since 1951.
An occasional lecturer at more
than 70 American colleges and
universities, Dr. Tate was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Literature from UK in 1960.
Dr. Kenneth D. Benne, apin social
pointed professor
sciences, is director of The Human
Relations Center at Boston University.
Dr. Benne holds degrees from
Kansas State University, the University of Michigan, and Columbia University. He won the
Award for outstanding
contributions in American philosophy.
Appointed to professor in biological sciences is Dr. Hugo Theorell, director of the biochemistry
department of the Nobel Medical
Institute in Stockholm, Sweden,
since 1937.
Winner of the Nobel Prize
for medicine in 1955, Dr. Theorell is considered one of the
world's outstanding biochemists
whose work has been of importance for every field of the biological sciences.

DR. KENNETH D. BENNE

DR. ALLEN TATE

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DR. HUGO THEORELL
Dr. Theorell is currently engaged in a study of mechanisms
of action of the liver alcohol
dehydrogenase. He is the author
of more than 200 publications,
chiefly on enzymatic problems.
He is the chairman of the
Nobel Award Nominating Committee and the Swedish Society
for Medical Research, and is a
past president of the Swedish
Medical Society.
Dr. Louis Cordon, to be professor in physical sciences, in the
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Studies at Case Institute in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. Gordon is noted for his
contributions to science in the
implementation of a successful
method of extracting thorium, a
metal potentially useful in atomic
research work.
In 1957 he coedited the
International Series
Monographs on Analytical
Chemistry.

Housing Priority Approved;
Trustees Up Housing Rates
The University Board ofTrus-tee- s
today approved a housing
eligibility policy giving first consideration to Kentucky residents.
The Board also sanctioned a
rise in rates in all University
housing facilities.
Policy for single housing eligibility was defined priorities
were established as follows:
1. First consideration will be
given to new freshmen Kentucky

residents.

2. Second and equal consideration will be granted to transfer
students who are Kentucky residents and Kentucky residents
who were enrolled at the Lexington campus during the immediate past semester.
3. Third and equal consideration will be given to non residents who were enrolled during
the previous semester and transfer
students who are nonresidents.
4. Fourth consideration will
be granted new nonresident fresh-

men.
Robert F. Kerley, vice president of business affairs, explained the new policy as follows:
"The regulations are to establish policies giving as equitable
treatment as possible to Kentucky residents and to others in

terested in coming to the Uni
versity."
A student must carry a mini-

three.

apartment

2. A

has a minimum of three and a
maximum of four.

mum of 12 semester hours to
3. A
apartment
apply for housing, the policy
has a minimum of four occupants
said. A "full time advanced student," also eligible to apply for and a maximum of six.
e
University housing, was defined
graduate or advanas one carrying a load of at ced students or
stuleast 10 hours.
dents and
undergraduas one carrying a load of at least ate students are eligible to apply.
10 hours in Law, 12 in Pharmacy,
The Board passed another reg38 in Dentistry, and 40 in Mediulation raising housing rates for
cine.
single students, summer school
Refunds will not be made on students, and married students.
cancellations received later than
Regular semester rates for room
one month before the opening
and board will be increased from
of an term, the new policy pro$3G5 to $3S0, effective in the fall
vides.
or
for married
A similar plan
Summer school rates will be
student housing gives first con- equalized and raised from $70 for
siderations to students involved men and
for women to
in graduate, advanced, or
$100 for a double room in any
woik, whether or not dormitory.
they are residents of Kentucky.
Hates for married students'
Second consideration will be
housing have also been equalized
given to undergraduate Kentucky and raised to $S0 a month for an
residents and third to nonresiefficiency, $95 for a
dent undergraduates.
apartment, and $105 for a
includes a defThe regulation
apartment.
maxiinition of minimum and
The regulation eliminated difmum occupancy of various types
ferences in costs in the same
of units available in the followtypes of accomodations in the two
ing manner:
married student housing projects,
mini1. An efficiency has a
and Shawneetown.
mum of two and a maximum of Cooperstown
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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday.

11

Dec. 8.

7 Has Served Its Purpose

100 Petition Congress
To Abolish House Committee

One hundml ronstitution.il
bvr authorities across the nation
SUtfs
jrfitinl the United Saturlouse of Uepresentitivrs
day to abolish the Committer on
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Activities '!1UACV
v ere law professors, law school deans, and lay
authorities on constitutional law.
Among the signers of the petition
was Eugene F. Mooney. UK assistant professor of law.
Their ch are is that the H UAC
IS "irreconcilable with a system
of free expression in this country. "
The HUAC's activities, the? charged, have hindered new ideas and
new approaches to problems
"which face us in a rapidly

The petitioners

changing world."
"I think the Committee,' IYof.
Mooney said, "has served whatever valid legislative purpose it
might once have had.
"In my opinion, it doesn't
serve the public in any way
if it ever did."
The petition was nude public

in New Haven, Com., by Prof.
Thomas I. Emerson, professor of
law at Yale University, and Dr.
Alexander Meiklejohn, president
emeritus and professor of philosophy at Amherst College, and
winner of the Presidential Medal
of Freedom.
Prof. Emerson and Dr. M eiUe-joh- n
sponsored the petition, along
with Thurman Arnold, former
avvistant attorney general and associate justice of the U.S. Court
of Appeals iD.O; Henry Steele
Commanger, professor of history
at Columbia University and Amherst College;
Osmond K. Fraenkel, civil liberties attorney in New York City;
David M. Helfeld, dean of the
University of Puerto Rico Law
School; Mark De Wolfe Howe,
professor of law at tSe Harvard
University Law School;
Robert M. H urchins, formerly
president of the University of Chicago and now president of the
Cer.tfT for the Study of Democratic Institutions William M.
Kunstler and Shad Poller, both
civil rights and civ J hSrrties attorney s in New iork City;
S illiam C. Rce, professor of
law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, nd Malcolm T.
Sharp, professor of law at the
Ur.ivers.ity of Chicago Law
School
The II sponsors of the pet itioo
were joined by SS other authorities in presenting it to Congress.

Prof. Emerson said the petition has bee n presented to House
Speaker John W. McCornvacktlV
MavO. and that ropies are being
sent to all members of the SAh
Con cress.
The petitioner asked that the
House rrtuse to continue the
HUAC as a starring cocorns tree
when Congress convene Jan. 4.
HUAC vul J be abolished at that
time when the new House rules
are established.
The petitioner pointed cut

that adequate authority (or investigations of internal security matters already exists in the Judiciary

Commi tt ee. They further suggested that the powers cf therornrnit-te- e
be clarified.
The petition called for placing
the HUAC's fdes in the government archives and sealing them
for 50 y ears.
(The HUAC has often been
accused of destroying people's
lives,
iMany think of the HUAC as
a remnant of the McCarthy Era.
in which scores of Americans w ere
investigated because of alleged

activities during the

oOs.

iBy sealing the files of the
HUAC in the gov ernment archiv es
for 50 years, many persons' private liv es wxHjJd be un tinged by
any question of their patriotism.)
The petitioners noted that the
sole power given to the HUAC by
Congress is to investigate

propaganda activities"
and " subversive and
propaganda."

The HUAC's jurisdiction, they

declared, "is thus limited to inquiring into ideas, opinions,
speech, and other forms of expression."
The petition calimed that "do
precise meaning has been, or can
be, pv en to such vague terms as

or "subversive
Committee
has also
wrought much harm, they declared.
"It has attempted," they charged, "to create in the legislative
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guard the internal security of the
nation, for there are adequate
law, regulations, personnel, and
machinery for that purpose.
The constitutional law authorities stated that they' "do not
suggest the abandonment of all
legislative machinery" for investigation of internal security matters. The Judiciary Committee
has traditionally dealt with these
matters.
Any powers given to the Judiciary Committee, they said,
should be limited to investigation of overt acts, such as "mutiny, espionage, sabotage, insurrection, and other overt actions
relating to internal security," and
should not include "matters of
opinion, speech, association for
such purposes, or other forms of
es press ion."

Colonel Retires
J. P!ne (center), who plana to retire from Army duty
next week alter 35 years of service, receives the Department of the
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Army Citation from CoL James P. Akron, professor of military science
at the University. Attendinr the ceremony is Mrs. Pine. IX CoL Pine,
who has been on the University Instructional staff for two years,
also received the Army Commendation Medal this week.

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luncheon meeting, which will be
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Kernel Society Writer
President Oswald's family has a new addition -- a "bouncing
baby Saint Bernard.
the Lexington Puppy Show and
Socrates, or John Socrates L' won a first prize (because he
Ours Alpine, as he is officially was the only male
younger than
known, became a member of the four months).
Oswald family in late September.
Socrates eats about ten pounds
His previous home was the
d
of dog meal a day and weighs
Kennels in Lynn, Indiana. about thirty pounds. Hehasgain-e- d
Nancy, who isaco owner w ith
ten pounds in the past two
John, cl'ose his name mainly be- weeks, and when he reaches
cause of her interest in philo- maturity at five years, he will
sophy. Moreover, since Vc is go- weigh about ISO pounds.
ing to be raised on a college camHe has his own house which
pus, Socrates is an appropriate is located in the side yard of
name.
Maxwell Place. Nancy said, "He
He was born on August 22, isn't quite used to it yet and just
with ten brothers and sisters. barks and barks."
On Nov. 22 he was three months
When it is light outside the
old and according to John, "He puppy thinks it is time to get
didn't have a very happy third up, and at the crack of dawn
month birthday, because that was he starts barking. He has a bedthe anniversary of President Ken- time curfew of 7:30, says Nancy.
nedy's assassination."
"And he goes right to sleep."
Nancy first became interested
Socrates is attending "Nancy's
in owning a Saint Bernard when obedience school" and has learnone of her classmates at Sayre ed to obey the commands of
bought one. After reading about "come" and "stay". He will only
these dogs and art ending the Ken- obey Nancy, and John said, "I'm
nel Club Dog Show at Keene-lan- d going to have trouble in two years
last summer, the family de- when she goes away to school."
cided to get one. The Westwind
There are about seven Saint
Kennels had shown several St. Bernard owners in Lexington..
Bernards at that show.
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The Peace Corps has been
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young in spirit, are working along
with the citizens of dozens of underdeveloped nations in an effort to
share the abundance of human resources this country has available.
From agriculture to educational
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conceivable talent can be utilized
somewhere in the world to further
the Peace Corps' aims.

It will be difficult to imagine how anyone could get through
next week without hearing about
the Corps. Just as difficult is imagining how anyone could remain
unimpressed by the scope of operations of this organization.
We urge everyone to read the
pamphlets, to talk with the men
here to explain the program. And
for those with two years to contribute to the world, we urge you to
become Peace Corps volunteers.
-- The Daily Cardinal,
University of Wisconsin

College Planning

These aims are noble in endeavor, but small in scope. Few
who enter the Corps entertain delusions of altering the course of
world history or of uplifting the
standards of an entire country. Yet
all have the confidence they can
give a little help to a few people,
and in this small way improve the
welfare of the world.

tion, is facing, like all colleges, the
problem of increased demand for
enrollment. Fortunately, the problem does not constitute an immediate crisis at the college, as it does
at many.

The Peace Corps' recruiters
do not sit still and wait for people
to come to them. They make an
effort to seek out anyone who is
interested in joining, and they don't
even mind speaking with anyone
who just wants to talk.

As an alternative to simply cut-

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Carleton's president and board
of trustees recently reaffirmed their
present policy of limited enrollment.

ting off the numbers of students
who apply, it has been suggested to
found a "sister college" on available land near the present Carleton.
They conduct annual recruiting It has also been suggested that one
drives on many campuses across of the colleges might specialize in a
the country, and the regular fall particular area of study, or might
sign-uspree at this university act as a junior college.
has proved to be one of the most
The idea is not being seriously
successful.
considered at this time. When and
Peace Corps information booths if the time comes that Carleton is
are set up in the Union, recruit- really pressed for enrollment, it will
ing officers talk in classes. They not be a shock. We are glad to see
schedule movies, speeches and this kind of future planning, so
placement tests at convenient inter- close to home.
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Netvs Editor

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Graduate Views Paper's Position On Athletics

To the Editor of the Kernel,
I really hate to have to say
this, but I believe that the Kernel
is fighting a losing battle in tak-

ing the stand that it has on the
role of a major athletic program
in the total University program.
It's not that I don't agree with
the paper's position I emphatically agree.
The problem centers around the
fact, I believe, that a university
has to rely to a large extent upon
financial support from its alumni.
Unfortunately, in the case of the
University of Kentucky, the alumni
haven't had much to cheer them,
until very recently, that didn't come
on a football field or a basketball
court. Therefore, they cherish their
one source of pride in their old
school to a very extent.
What these loyal alumni don't
seem to realize is, that outside of
the South, the University of Kentucky is widely regarded as "that
hillbilly college with the good
basketball team." For all too long,
the athletic teams have carried the
morale ball for these frustrated
alumni, who undoubtedly would
have preferred to boast about the

school's excellence in the arts, in
the sciences, in engineering, etc.
The only problem would have been
that they would have been kidding
no one but themselves.
As a recent graduate of the University, I realize this only too well.
I am now living in another state,
and I am only too painfully aware
of the chilling change that people
I am talking to undergo when I
tell them that I am a University
of Kentucky graduate. Don't get
me wrong I feel a great deal of
pride in my school, but when I
defend it, I don't talk about its
winning basketball teams or its
promising football future. I talk
instead, of the excellent leadership
of President John Oswald, our fine
library, our vastly improved physical plant, and our long range plans
for academic excellence.
Basically, what I am trying to
say is that it would probably be
more practical of the Kernel to be
a little more patient with the overemphasis of athletics until the
visionary plans of Dr. Oswald and
his associates reach fruition. Until
that time, the paper will be butting
its head into a brick wall when it

tries to tell students, alumni, and
friends of the University that they
should be more concerned with
other things than athletics. Even
if it is right.
KEN BLESSINCER '64

The editorial cartoon by II
in the Dec. 3 issue of the
Kernel raises interesting questions
which I believe the Editor of the
Kernel should endeavor to answer.

Democrats, and Independents, and
must not be used to advance one
party, candidate, or philosophy
over another.
The Kernel must be guaranteed
its freedom of speech, but it must
also be responsible enough to present both sides of the coin, either
by editorial or cartoon, as it does
with columnists Buckley and
If the Editor of the Kernel believes his liberal Democratic philosophy is so faulty that it cannot
stand alongside that of conservative Republicanism to be judged by
the student, faculty, and staff of
UK, then he is welcome to continue
his policy of presenting only one
side. However, the University community will realize that by his
censorship, he is admitting the fact
that his philosophy cannot stand
alongside conservatism, for it would
fall on its face when confronted with
the conservative philosophy.
Mc-Cil-

l.

Since the cartoon was purely
the Kernel must be
interpreted as endorsing a certain
candidate, party, or philosophy, as
it did when it supported Lyndon
Johnson for the Presidency in November. Where does the Kernel obtain the right, legal or moral, to
indulge in partisan politics? Since
the Kernel is published with state
university funds and on state owned
property? Since the students of the
University are hardly of one mind
All I ask is for the Kernel to preon anything, let alone politics, how
sent both sides. Is that asking so
can the Kernel attempt to speak for much of
the "greatest college paper
the students of UK. The
money in the South?"
used to publish the Kernel comes
EHIC KAHNES
from the pockets of
Kepublicans,
A & S Freshman
r,

� THE KENTUCKY

KERNEL, Tuesday. Dec. 8. !9(l-

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1964: The Year Of The Student Protest
By PAUL DANISH

Collegiate Press Service
This is fast shaping up to be
the year of the student protest
at the nation's colleges and universities.

Students on campuses in all
parts of the country have staged
a rash of demonstrations and protests on a wide array of national,
international, and local issues,
and no let up seems in sight.
Protest action has been aimed
at

everything

from

new

reg-

ulations governing the consumption of alcohol at Trinity College
in Hartford, Conn, to policies
restricting student political activity at the University of California, and almost everything in
between.
At the University of Pennsylvania, several hundred students demonstrated aeainst the

Rioting At California
Tomorrow
construction of a new fine arts
building on campus on grounds
that it would destroy one of the
few

tree-shad-

open spots on

the university.
At the University of Texas,
the campus chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society
picketed against the use of Black

Face in a campus minstrel show
on grounds that it was degrading
to the Negro and the university's Negro students.
At City University of New
York, students organized a two
month campaign favoring free
tuition, and worked to defeat
candidates for the state legislature who opposed it.
At the University of Michigan,

A

a student political party staged a

demonstration demanding

"campus democracy now," as
well as more money for teaching, new student housing, better
facilities, increased student wages, and a lower cost of living on
campus.
Much student protest activity
has centered on civil rights. At
the University of Colorado, the
campus chapter of the Congress
on Racial Equality picketed a
resturant which had refusal to
hire a Negro girl. The restaurant
gave her the job within an hour
after the picketing began.
At Bradley,
the university
chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People has been trying to
get a local barber to take Negro
customers.
The biggest, longest, and best
organized of the protests, however, is at the University of California at Berkeley, where hundreds of students have been contesting a ban on campus political activity since last September.
Since it was instituted in September the ban, which prevents

student political organizations

from distributing literature,
members, and soliciting
funds in an area adjacent to the
university's student union, has
sparked a number of demonstra-tion- s
and protest violations, as
well as an administration threat
of mass suspensions.
At one point, a protest demonstration focused on a campus
police car drew a crowd so large
that university officials summoned 400 riot police to the campus.
Since then, a number of factions

have

trial to mediate the

dispute but without
much success. Neither the students nor the administration has
shown much inclination toward
compromise.
There is no single reason behind all the protests, but a good
many of them especially those
aimed at university
administrationshave centered on the
issue of "In Loco Parentis," or
the question of to what extent
the universi