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University of Kentucky
Vol. LI I, No. 54

LEXINC.TON,

KY., TUESDAY, JAN. 17, 1961

Eight Pages

Jokl Submits Plans Pranksters Take Advantage
For Youth Fitness Of Recent
Campus Fires;
Scare Dormitory Residents

At the request of a Senate sulx.ommittee, Dr. Ernst Jokl,
physiology professor, lias submitted a plan for the establishment of a Division of Youth Fitness in the U. S. Department
of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Dr. Jokl Is president of the
UNESCO International Council of
Sport and Physical Education Research Committee.
He forwarded the plan last week.
The Subcommittee on Reorgani-tatin- n
and International Organ!-gallomade the request Dec. 26
following a policy statement on
youth fitness by President-elec- t
John F. Kennedy.
Basically, Kennedy's declaration
makes the Improvement of physical fitness of the nation's youth a
responsibility of a White House
committee and the execution of
policy the duty of the Department
of Health, Education, and Welfare.
It also makes provision for an
annual National Youth Fitness
Congress to be attended by governors from all states and proclaims
that sports participation anj physical fitness is a basic and continuing policy of the United States.
In his
report. Dr. Jokl
specifies a number of recommendations. Among them were:
The introduction of a comprehensive fitness scheme In the nation's elementary and high schools.
The plan provides for measures
aiming at the betterment of the
moral, mental, and medical shortcomings revealed In Selective Service records and at the lmpiove-me- nt
of physical efficiency.
The recocnition of performance
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achievements
by Introducing
"President's Fitness Badge" as an
Incentive measure.

By WHIT HOWARD
Associate News Editor

the girls Informed Mrs. William
At 4 a.m. the police sent the
Turner, head resident of Patter- - monitors, who had remained awake
With the recent outbreak of son Hall, that the building was to all night, upstairs so everything
would appear normal.
fires on camptus, pranksters be 8610,1 flrcat 4:20 am'
As soon as the monitors rot up
She In turn informed Dean of
have been taking advantage of Womtn Doris M Seward. who stairs, all of the girls' alarms went
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the situation by spreading rumcampus police. Campus off. The resident said the funny
ors and phoning women's resi- - Plice stationed men outside and thing was that not one of the
Inside Patterson Hall and main- - girls woke up.
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At 4:20 a.m. nothing happend
Thursday night Patterson Hall
The resident said most of the except the paper boy approached
was alerted by three girls who had
giIa had packed their clothing, the building to deliver the paper
heard that the dorm was to be slept with their clothes on, and and scared the police and the girls,
burned at 4:20 a.m. Friday.
set their alarms for 4:00 a.m. in the resident said.
As late as yesterday some of the
According to a responsible resi- - anticipation of leaving when the
dent, who refused to be Identified, blaze broke out.
girls we;e still packing their
clothes at night, and leaving their
coats out, so they would be ready
if anything happened, the resident
said.
The police are still standing
watch over the building.
To add to the confusion, a girl
A theatre trip to New York sponsored by the Student In Boyd Hall said a boy had call-Unihe and
t0 Pack hep
Special Events Committee is being planned for spring fd because told
Patterson was going
ba8s
vacation for the UK students, faculty, and stalf.
t0 burn This was reported to Mrs.
The trip will cost $75. This in- - Revue." "Tenderloin," "Advise and Turner also,
eludes four Broadway shows, bus Consent." "All the Way Home,"
The three girls who reported the
transportation to and from New "The Wall," "The Best Man," and rumor to Mrs. Turner refused to
"Beckett."
York, four nights at the Taft
say where they had heard it.
The group will leave Lexington
The resident said actually It was
Hotel, and baggage tips.
Four shows from the following at 12 noon April 7. Reservations really all quite ridiculous but It
groups will be seen. If tickets are for the trip must be made by 5 did upset the girls an awful lot.
gram. The show Is telecast over p.m. Feb. 10. A $25 deposit Is re- .
WKYT-Tquired. Make reservations In Room
available: "Camelot," "An Eve- - 122 of the Student Union Building. JIV W OI'KSllOp
A maximum of 37 reservations
ning with Mike Nichols and Elaine
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May," "Do Re Ml," "The Unsink- - will be accepted. Unless 31 reser- able Molly Brown," "Show Girl vations have been made prior to
Feb. 10, the trip will be cancelled
Network obligations have forced
and deposits refunded. No refunds the time of the UK Television
will be made after March 10.
Workshop to be changed from
Additional information can be 5:30 p.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Satur-obtalnfrom the Student Union days the remainder of the school
Social Director.
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a dummy and a "help" flag from
the WBKY radio tower at Mc-VHall. The firemen's extension ladder was too short, so a
Maintenance
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man had to climb the
tower to rescue the stuffed dummy which was clad in blue pants
and a white sweat shirt.

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Integration Scene Serene

ATHENS, Ga.. Jan 16 AP A rolling University
of Oeorgia campus where curses and rocks flew in
violent rioting over the admission of two Negroes
last week was serene today as tehy returned under
a federal court order voiding their suspension.
Peace and quiet prevailed as Charlayne A. Hunter, 18, and Hamilton E. Holmes, 19, resumed their
classroom work with 7,500 white students in Georgia's
"classic city."
They were suspended after the Wednesday night
rioting and were removed from Athens by state
troopers for their own protection on order of Gov.
Ernest Vandiver. Later a federal Judge decreed that
they should return and be protected.
They returned under guard of officers In plain
clo'hes, apparently city detectives or agents of the
Georgia Bureau f Investigation although they did
not identify themselves. The GBI, state counterpart of the FBI, is controlled by Vandiver, who has
pliJged a quelling of further disorders.
There was nothing to indicate further trouble
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Alpha Canuna Rho and Sigma Chi fraternity members
anticipate moving into their new homes sometime in

The University debate team won
the two trophies awarded at the
14th
Debate Tournament at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga., last weekend.
The team won first place among
the teams represented, and Deno
Currls, Lexington, was the top Individual speaker.
The Kentucky affirmative team
included Ben Wright. Cadiz; and
Jay Roberts, Richmond.
Michael Snedeker, Owensboro,
and Curris were on the negative
team.
Currls placed top individual
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Atty. Gen. William Rogers.
Miss Hunter and Holmes walked to classes without encountering groups of students like those who
hurled epithets when' they first appeared on campus
last Wednesday morning.
They smiled last week when they became the
first of their race to break the
color barrier at Georgia. There were no smiles today, only
a set look of seriousness. Observers said the girl
appeared downcast.
Holmes summed it up for both of them just before they left their Atlanta homes In a
drizzling rain:
"I'm Just interested In getting back to classes
and catching up. That is my main concern."
Miss Hunter and Holmes asked to be excused
news conferences university offrom twice-dail- y
ficials had set up for them. Newsmen were asked
not to Intercept them on campus walkways for attention-gathering
interviews.

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Teachers College.
Wright, Roberts, and Snedeker,
all freshmen, placed among the top
10 debaters out of 240 at the University of Illinois in Chicago last
month.
Dr. Gifford Blyton accompanied
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University coeds, discussing
the overcrowded
dormitory
telephone lines, favor an extension' of the 11 p.m. cutoff for
calls, according to a weekend
rurvey.

T think the phone situation is
terrible," said Carole Meyers, an
education sophomore from Louisville. "I think the time should be
extended, but not beyond midnight
because unnecessary calls would be
coming in all night."
"The motto seems to be 'first
come, first serve'," said a Holmes
Hall resident. "Many girls don't
even get an opportunity to make
or receive calls."
"People are always complaining
that they can't get a line into the
dorms," said Judi Kirn, a Keene-lan- d
Hall resident.
" Joanne Berry,
sophomore in
home economics, said, "The phones
are much too crowded. There are
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two hours, there are 13 girls without phone service. And when a
phone is out of order, It takes
two or three days to get it fixed."
Students were unanimously in
favor of extending the time limit
for placing and receiving' calls.
"Sometimes it is 11 p.m. before
the phones are free," said Kay
Francis Grimes, a Junior from
Paducah. "Then the line is cut
off."
"I think the phone service should
continue much longer than 11
p.m.," commented Jackie Alexander, a freshman from Paris.
Mickey Kroger, an education
sophomore, said, "Maybe if the
time is extended, these phone bug
will get tired of talking and give
others a chance."
Lynda Lee Glore, a Junior from
Louisville, felt that the time should
be extended at least a half hour.
"Girls have to be in at 10:30 and
11:30 isn't too late to be getting
calls."
Mary Ruth Cinnamon, a sophomore from Bondville, did not
agree. "If the time were extended
it would be 2 a.m. on weekends
before they cut the phones off.
Who wants to be talking on the
phone at 2 o'clock in the morning?"
Miss Sandra Waybrlght, assistant head resident at Holmes Hall,
was also against an extension. "I
think 11 o'clock is late enough for
week nights," she said.
"There
hardly seem to be any study habits
among the girls anyway, and more
phone time would make them even
more lax."
She said anonymous phone calls,
coming at the last minute before
the cutoff, had bothered some students, and an extension of time
would only give the pranksters a
fuller opportunity to disturb girls
trying to sleep. "The cutoff doesn't
prohibit emergency calls which can
come through the housemother's
line," Miss Waybrlght said.
The main question in extending
the phone service is whether ringing of phones at a later hour
would
disturb women sleeping.
Most of those interviewed agreed
that no one went to bed before
midnight anyway.
A Keeneland Hall resident felt

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CAROLE MEYERS

JACKIE ALEXANDER

the regulation limiting phone calls you answer it and the call

to five minutes should be enforced.
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"That would solve the phone
she said.
"Some girls take advantage of
an open line and Just talk too
long. Any one can say what they
have to say in five minutes unless
they want to court on the phone,"
she said. "The present hours would
be all right if the rule were enforced."
Rochelle Goldberg, a freshman
in Boyd Hall, said, "If the time
were extended, a lot of emergency
calls and long distance calls which
usually come after hours would be
blocked. Otherwise, I am in favor
of extending the time." She said
that her parents and many people
she knew made long distance calls
after hours because they were unable to get through before then or
because girls were out. Also in
other arras the time is slower and
"after hours" is not really late,
she mentioned.
"There should either be a time
limit on conversations or more
phones," said Babs Bonino, Junior
education major from Louisville.
"Doubling the number of phones
doesn't sound too unreasonable to
me."
Miss Bonino added that she
thought the new system of roommates having the same ring was
inconvenient. "When the phone
rings, you don't know if it is for
you or your roommate. Finally
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is usually for the other roommate."

One other student felt that
roommates should have separate
numbers. Others indicated that
this was an irrevrlant matter.
Several girls commented on the
improvement of the University service over last year. "You could
never get an outside line last year,
and you always can now," said
Ruth Welbel, a senior in home
economics.
Johanna Draper, a senior education major, said, "I think we
should be able to make outside
calls at all times." Last year outside lines were never closed.

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Junior in Arts and Sciences and
a member of Kappa Alpha Thcta,
to Merritt Dcitz, a senior Journalism major from Lexington and a
member of Sigma Chi.
Jane Gilliam, a freshman in
Arts and Sciences from Louisville,
to Jim Maggard, a Junior com- merce major from Lexington and
a member of Sigma Chi.
Jerry Sue Sanders, a sophomore
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Ann Goddard, a Junior business
education major from Russellville
and a member of Alpha Oamma
Delta, to Bob Miller, a Junior radio
and television major from Fulton
and a member of Sigma Alpha Ep- eilon.
Gayle strlecher university or
Cincinnati, to Tony Mann., a Jun- ior education major from Louis-Engli- sh
ville and a member of ZeU Beta
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among her sons, her eldest seemed
the most likely choice.
"Joseph Jr. was the one we
hnntrhf wniilH en into nnlities"
the says. "Jack always thought
he'd be a writer, or perhaps the
head of a boys' school in the
country. He thought companion- with students and books
would be a fine life. It certainly
would be a quieter one."
But Joseph Jr., a Navy lieutenant and pilot, was killed when
his plane blew up in World War II.

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The attractive Mrs. Kennedy,
mother of 9 children and grand
mother of 18, has seen one son
elected president, another, Robert.
n umu,
namea Buorney-fcrncia- i.
Ted. was a mainstay of the Kennedy presidential campaign and
has Just finished a
tour of Africa. All three definitely
are in politics.
And Rose Kennedy herself hit
tne campaign uuu iast iuu iur
her son.
"Of course I didn't discuss poli- tics," she says. "I leave that for
the experts."
and
At 70, she's
looks years younger.
walks have kept
Daily four-miher aelle. She still Dlavs Kolf and
ice bkates when she has a chance,
and "for years they couldn't beat
me in tennis." She draws the line
at participating in the family's
touch football.
Rose Kennedy has always- been
wrapped up in her children.
"People used to feel sorry for
me because I was having so many
children. I made up my mind I
wouldn't give anyone the opportunity to feel sorry for me or
niy children.
DEVOIEI) TO CHILDREN
She loves babies
"When you look at your baby

moment
what an
is. You can form his charac- ter. his way of life.
"And when vou have more ad- vantages, it's more difficult. When
ymJ have ft ch()ice of gchoclSi or
trins abroad at a certain aue.
then you have to make many
moi e d,,cislons about what s best
for him."
And she loves large families
"You might as well sit in a
1a!n ri,iiHrpn
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Rnd ,f you.re takin( U,Q tJ Bee
.Hal.sel and Qretel' it's lu.st as
easy t0 take three. It's much more
,UIli an(j they're companions for
eacn other, too.
"Of course, you can't have nine
children without some crises.
That's why parents should inspire
confidence. They should explain
why they take a certain stand,
Then when the children are older,
they will come to you with their
problems. Some boys of 17 or 18
can't talk to their parents. But my
boys could talk to their father. He
always said to them: 'Corne clean,
tell me all of it. If you don't I
won't know how to help.' And they
told him."
SHE WAS A DEBl'TANTE
Rose Kennedy was the debutante
eldest daughter of John Fitzgerald,
and
f()rmer u g ConBresMnan
mayor of Boston, for whom the
President-elec- t
was named. As a
girl, she traveled widely with her
father, who died a decade or so
ago. Her mother is still living.
When she looks back on her
chiUlno()d and marriage to Joseph
P. Kennedy in 1914, she says:
"I've had such a thrilling life
And being a Catholic has been a
tremendous help. A strong belief
is the most wonderful thing that
can happen to you. The fact that
I've had one has given me a cer
tain stability. But don't say I have
fortitude. That makes me sound
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"Life seems more involved than
when I was a girl. Children have
so much more freedom now. That's
why children who have had re
ligious training and had their
characters formed when they're
y"n8 are pretty level-head- and on
when they're grown up

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Today let us auMross ourselves to a question that has long rocked
nnd roiled the academic world: U a student better off at a '
email college than at a large college?
To answer this question it is necessary first to define terms.
What, exactly, do we mean by a small college? Well sir, some say
that in order to be called truly small, a college bhould have an
enrollment of not more than foifr students.
I certainly have no quarrel with this statement; a four.
Student college must unquestionably be called small. Indeed,
one could even call it iutime if one knew what intime meant.
But I submit there is such a thing as being tx small. Take, for
instance, a recent unfortunate occurrence at Crimscott A nnd M.
Crimscott A nnd M, situated in u pleasant valley nestled
between Denver and Baltimore, was founded by A. and M.
Crimscott, two brothers who left Ireland in 1700 to omi
the
potato famine of 1841. As a result of their foresight, the Crim-Bco- tt
brothers never went without Ktatoes for one single day of
their lives and mighty grateful they were! One night, full of
pratitude after a hearty meal of French fries, cottage fries, hash
Lrowns, and an gratin, they decided to show their appreciation
to this bountiful land of jiotatoes by endowing a college. They
stipulated that enrollment should never exceed four students
because they felt that only by keeping the college this small

She doesn't think being mother
the President is going to make
amerence m ner me.
She still works hard for char
ity. Richt now this is taking the
form of making speeches for wo- men's clubs trying to raise money
t,,T tncir favorite charities. "I talk
about life in England when I was
there in the 30's with my husband,
the ambassador. It's fun and I
enjoy it."

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could each student be assured of the iersonalized attention, the
camaraderie, the feeling of hlonging, that is all too often lacking,
in higher education.
Well sir, things went along sw imniingly until one Saturday a
few years ago. On this day Crimscott had a football game
scheduled against Minnesota, its traditional rival. Football was,
of course, something of a problem at Crimscott, what with only
four students enrolled in the entire college. It was easy enough,
to muster a back field, but finding a good line or even a bad
line baffled the most resourceful coaching minds in the country.
Well sir, on the morning of the big game against Minnesota,
its traditional rival, a capricious destiny dealt Crimscott a cruel
blow in fact, four cruel blows. Sigafoos, the quarterback,
voke up that morning with the breakbone fever. Wrichards, tho
slotback, was unable to start his motorcycle. lSeerbohin-Trethe wingback-tailbacgot his necktie caught in his espresso
r'achine. I.angeihans, the fullback, was stolen by gypsies.
Consequently, alas, none of the Crimscott team showed up at
the game, and Minnesota, its traditional rival, was able to score
almost at will. Crimscott was so out of sorts that they immediately broke oil football relations with Minnesota, its traditional
rival. This later became known as the Died iScott Decision.
So you can see how only four students might be too small an
enrollment. The numljcr I jicrsonally favor is twenty. How
come? Because when yon havo twenty students end one of
them ojx'ns a pack of Marlboro Cigarettes, there are enough to
go around for cvcryUidy, and no one has to be deprived of
Marlboro's fine, mild flavor, of MarlUiio's
filter,
of Marlljoro's joy and zest and steadfast companionship, and
as a result you have u student body that is filled with sweet
content and amity and harmony and concord and togetherness
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Newton Spencer, Sporlt Editor
Bobbie Mason, Assistant Managing Editor
Stuart Goldfabb, Advertising Manager
Alice Akin, Social Editor
Skip Taylor and Jim Channon, Cartoonists
Business Manager
Nicky Tor, Circulation
Perry Ashley,
TUESDAY NEWS STAFF
Whit Howard, Associate
Warren Wheat, Netcs Editor
Scottie Helt, Sports

Mkk Wenninger, Managing Editor

Getting Physically Educated

Much lias been said anil written
the past two weeks concerning the
value or lack of value of the University's physical education requirements.
Out of this heated argument two
factors seem to have gained general
recognition. First, everyone should respect his own body enough to remain physically fit. Secondly, the current physical education requirement
for nonmajors is a mockery to higher
education.
Money and facilities are not suf- -'
ficient to provide all students with a
thorough physical education, but
much can be done with the available
facilities to increase the amount of
exercise gained by University students.
For example, much goes on in
Alumni Gym numerous physical education courses plus intramural competition in volleyball, basketball, badminton, and the like.
But what about students not enrolled in a physical education course
and not engaged in intramurals? Are
the gym's facilities available to these
students?
Of course, say the physical educators, students may use the Alumni
Gym facilities whenever the gym is
not being used for a class or intramural competition.
That is well and good, but just
how often is the gym available? Prob

ably little more than two hours each
weekday. During the day physical
education classes dominate and during the winter intramural basketball
keeps the gym busy in the evenings.
This leaves little time for a student to make use of the gym's facilities. He has Saturday afternoons, Sundays, and weekday nights (when
intramurals are inactive) to develop
his physique.
But can he use the gym on these
infrequent occasions? Nol The gym,
quite as expected, is closed. Closed,
and the physical educators continue
to stress the need for more student
exercise.
The Coliseum swimming pool,
likewise, is open only on a limited
basis. Students must pick their spots
and hope for the best when attempting to take a dip.
Why isn't the gym pool available
for the students? Wouldn't the time
and effort be worthwhile, if the students are actually in as desperate a
need of exercise as we have been led
to believe?
Would it be so difficult to find
some students willing to spend a few
hours each week (for pay, of course)
serving as gym or pool custodians
while student activities went on.
Or why not avail the use of some
of the athletes on scholarship in need
of some extra spending money to fill
the custodian positions?

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Probably
repeated
discouraging phrase heard at the University is "Sorry, the line's busy."
The crowded telephone lines to
the women's dormitories are created
by the assignment of from
girls
to the same telephones. Adding to the
problem is a regulation that prevents
any calls from l)eing made into or
out of the residences, sorority or
dormitory, after 11 p.m.
Dean of Women Doris Seward
said yesterday the regulation was
made to enable the girls to study undisturbed and the House Presidents'
Council recently voted to have phone
r
calls restricted a
after the
10:30 curfew for week nights.
We feel that in this case, as in
many- - at the University, students'
wishes have not been truly represented. A Kernel poll revealed that most
women want the restriction lifted.
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University nothto finance the extension, so we
ing
recommend that the council and the
dean lxk into the situation more
deeply and extend telephone hours to
midnight during the week.
This would eliminate the rush for
telephone lines between 10:30 and
11 p.m. Women do not have to be in
their residence halls until 10:30, few
women go to led before midnight,
ami they do admittedly little studying
during this time.
All the telephone service needs is
a word from the dean's office and the
operator who is on duty all night
would throw the
f
switch at
midnight instead of 11 p.m.
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Kernels
"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient
premises." Samuel Butler,

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To The Editor:
Another crisis, another raft of
verbiage to the discredit of the dormitories, brings us to the point of either
making a decision or allowing the
same situation to repeat. This is not
the first fire in a UK dormitory. Nor
is it (if the confession in this case
is allowed to stand) the first admission of complicity in this sort of situation. With all of the complicated
involvement of the' Jewell Hall fire,
it merely takes its place among a
series of incidents.
As a former dormitory director
in
myself, I have seen at
the men's residence halls the number
of times in which students have reacted to the severe emotional strain
of facing the threat of failure in college. On cannot rationally ignore the
fact that these mistakes must be corrected. However, the punishment of
any one "offender" will not deter
future trouble. I have seen, again
and again, that history repeats.
I have sounded my warnings in
the councils of learned men. And now
I sound a public warning. The counselors, my friends and companions
one and all, and the administrators,
who hold my high esteem, cannot do
the job alone and without
support. We have left the dormitories
to pay for themselves through rental
have suffered.
charges. Programs
first-han- d

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People have suffered. And the job of
counseling and guiding students goes
begging, begging, begging.
When, my friends, when will we
learn that the dormitories are the
bedrock upon which our student lives
are forced to grow? I say the hour is
late, and I say the time is right. Let's
spend a few dollars and correct the
ills of this compelling need. Let's do
it now.
Donald L. Armstrong

Little Things Count

To The Editor:
You are right, Mr. Editor. A fire
is no laughing matter. In fact, it "is
conceivable tnat a condition of total
demoralization may develop if more
fires occur. I cannot imagine an individual so unstable as to derive
pleasure from the sight of a burning
building. Such a fire is a terrible
thing. Regardless of what burns, be
it Neville Hall, a beautiful woodland,
or whatever, uncontrolled fire is an
ugly raging monster.
But a serious problem has been
exposed by the recent outbreak of
arson. Our university is not safe. Not
only are many of thr buildings
but no adequate provision is
made for escape from a burning building. The Neville Hall fire escape
would not lower. The girls were unable to lower the fire escape in Jewell
Hall, and furthermore some of the
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fire

extinguishers would not work.
What would have happened had the
fire not been confined to one room?
(Like, I have friends in Jewell Hall.)
The dorm residents have not been
sufficiently indoctrinated as to the
most efficient escape procedure in
case of fire. Never in a classroom
have I been told what exit to use in
the event of fire. These deficiencies
must be corrected. More is required
than a new medical center and science building to make this university
great.
Can it be that our administration
and M&O Division have become so
engrossed in cutting grass and picking up cigarette butts that they have
forgotten the little things like oiling
fire escape hinges?
Fohhkst Calico

A Little

Friendship

To The Editor:
I do not know the entire "tone"
of the campus about the situation
concerning Miss Catherine Campbell.
I do know, however, that it is a topic
of gossip.
I am in sympathy with the University faculty and staff and all of
their many problems and I think it
is the duty of each student to lessen
or not create any problems that would
add to their burdens.
However, I sincerely hope that
each member of the student body,

before he judges Miss Campbell or
finds her an interesting topic of gossip, will take