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Lack of graduating physicists may hurt
U.S. science effort: Poge Two.

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Editorial comments on friction between UK students and police: Page
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By FRANK BROWNING

Kernel Associate Editor
LOU ISVILLE-Prioriti- es
were determined this weekend
for a blueprint on the future of
public education in Kentucky
w hile teachers backed a proposal
for obtaining a professional bargaining law from the state legislature.
About MO members of the Kentucky Education Association delegate asscmh!) approved priorities for the 1S Legislative Program, which should cost approximately SS.j million.
Major items in the schedule

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By GENE CLABES
Kernel Associate Editor

Part of the future of the College of Education's graduate and
undergraduate programs in teacher training literally finds itself
in the hands of Congress this session.
Dr. Lyman Ginger, retiring
dean of the college, who has versifies, that qualify, funds debeen in Washington talking with signed to aid in upgrading graduate and undergraduate faculthe National Education Association of which he is an executive ties, and
3. The National
Teacher
board member, said the future
internship proof three programs included in the Corps, a
for graduate students inTeaching Profession Act of 1965 gram
terested in teaching in pwrer
t
will depend on the results of a
areas.
battle.
strong congressional
The first and third are for I
are:
The University, through the
graduate students.
Roosting allotments for curof Education, particiCollege
It w as a real
Dr. Ginger said that in Washjumprent operating expenses lromSUOO
pates in the three federally subn Saturday as the
ing
sidized programs under the act. ington it appears President Johnto SI. 500 per classroom unit.
Wildcats vacated the SEC cellar
son wants Congress to again
death is:
Roosting capital outlay alFacing possible
and showed a little of that long-lofund the National Teacher Corps.
lotments from S'KK) to SI. 100 per
1. A graduate
fellow s proluster as they svv amped LSU
Hut Congress seems to be more
t lass soom unit.
gram, which provides fellowships interested in the
Mary Francis Wright, like
teaching fellows
to prepare students for teaching
Rringing teachers salaries in
while the NEA and the
many other fans, could barely
and to better prepare experienced program
range with national averages o!
contain herself.
U.S. Office of Education seem
S3. 000 tor a beginner w ith a bac
teachers;
bent toward getting all three
elor's degree to $10,000 or moie
2. A grant program making
(
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renewed by Congress.
tr.
for an experienced teacher with
available to colleges and uni- - programs
Even though the Teaching
a master s degree.
Profession Act of 1965, proposed
Urging legislation to impleby President Johnson, went
ment the first year of an Incenthrough Congress relatively withtive Plan designed to stimulate
out conflict, the NTC was not
local support for sc hool programs.
funded until August of 1966. The
Endorsing removal of the staBy WALTER SULLIVAN
President in his initial proposal
tutory limitation on school tax
c New York Times News Service
asked for $30 million to support
rates thereby leaving thedecision
NEW YORK The report on
the program for two years, but
to local school boards to fix tax
Friday that observations of the rates at any level consistent with
Congress, unwilling to raise doSun had brought into question
mestic expenditures while the
the desires of their electorate.
Special To The Kernel
Albert Einstein's General Theory
Vietnam war continues and inSAX FRANCISCO
CaliforRasing calculations for reof Relativity has awakened inflation lurkes in the wings, sliced
nia state college and university
quired local effort under the
tense interest in experiments that
the funds to $7.5 million, just
state's Minimum Foundation
students met here during the
might verify the challenge. Sevenough to carry the program
ear s
Program on the previous
weekend to plot a course of aceral such tests are in preparathrough June.
assessment figures instead of curtion in the wake of the firing
tion.
If Congress lets the NTC die
rent ear figures.
by the UC Hoard of Hegents of the
The challenge to the theory
program will have failed to
Each of the priorities will be
Dr. Clark Kerr a week ago and
was presented by Dr. Robert
its first class. However
goals for legislative approval in
a tuition proposal by Gov. Ronald graduate
II. Dicke, professor of physics
the teaching fellows program,
the 1U()S session.
V
Reagan.
at Princeton University, based
also designed to prov ide teachers
for California.
An "Alliance
The assembly spent a someon his observations of the Sun
for poorer areas, did receive its
what confused Saturday morning
Higher Education" was voted
last summer.
funds for two years enabling it
into existence by the 50 repreaccepting a Professional NegotiaHe reported that he had found
to graduate its first class in
tions report made by Roger Jones,
A
sentatives of the state colleges
the Sun to be flattened at its
1967. The grant which
and the University of California August
chairman of KEA's PN Commispoles and fat around its equaaccompanied the fellowships,
sion.
campuses. Included also were was for three years.
tor, much like the Earth. This
representatives of several stateA law based on five
would affect the
"I am not implying that the
shape
wide faculty groups.
on Page 7
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The alliance Sunday demanded that the UC Board of
Regents and the legislature take
strong stands against beginning
a tuition charge and endorsed the
protests of student organizations
against the budget cuts.
California has traditionally offered free higher education in its
grades, most seem to accept it as part of Etcheberry says, "I have seen many schools
By ROBERT BRANDT
state colleges and university camInternational students at the University college. There is competition in college just in South America and the facilities at UK
to resident high school
puses
say they least like the great pressure on the as there will be later in work, and you must are much better.
graduates.
Bernard
accept the fact and meet it.
Roiston, a Frenchman, says,
The alliance was formed as student.
A European student says the daily tests
These are just some of the feelings indi- "Labs, equipment and other teaching materGovernor Heagan was preparing
and quizzes cause more stress and strain cated in widespread interviewing of Inter- ials are much more advanced and numerous
to deliver his budget message,
than his own country's system of grading national students late last semester. Many here than in my country."
which is said to contain substanwere reluctant to be quoted by name.
tial reductions in both the UC in college.
Although she never attended college in
International students widely disagree her own country, Miss Pouw says, "I never
Patricio Etch cherry, a Chilian, says the
and California state college budpresent grading system is the only way to over the stress on social life at UK. Some saw any labs or anything like them in my
gets. Heagan will address the legtell wIk) does the best work. But another think there is time for both social life and country. The facilities here areinuch better."
islature Tuesday.
No International student questioned beThe alliance endorsed a Feb. student laments that UK students are too academic life. Etcheberry says, "Social life is
concerned with grades. He says, "In my not forced on the student. It is his own lieved that his ow n country had more educa11 march on Sacremento sponchoice."
tional facilities than are offered here. Most
country there is less stress on grades. Stusored by the California FederA French student says however, "The seem to feel
The group also dents are more concerned with learning."
they are better off here than
ation of Teachers.
Jane Pouw, an Indonesian, says, "On the social life here is too much of a distraction they would be going to school in their ow n
to visit the capital and
proposed
discuss the issues w ith imlivi- - whole the grading system is easier here than lor the student." He mentions jam sessions countries.
in Asian countries." She also says a "B" and dances as some of the distractions.
Several International students comment
dual legislators.
Another student says of jam sessions, "These that they are pleased with the informal
in her country is equal to an "A" here.
A plan of the Association of
are not part of a student's education and are atmosphere at UK. lloiston says, "The reMiss Pouw comments that here, "EveryCalifornia State College Profesuch lation between professor and student is more
sses for a "week of disaster" to body tries to get a gxnl grade." In her not beneficial like plays and other
forms of entertainment.
are not stressed so much.
relaxed here than in Europe. "He says, "In
tu'amatize the budget and tuition country grades
Although iiKist students feel that there is
Neaily all International students are France one does not speak to his professor
issues was approved by the
much pressure on students to make g(xd pleased with the facilities offered at UK.
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button of (lie Sun's gravity in
nearby space.
The effect of this flattening,
or oblatencss, is sufficient, he
said, to explain a significant
portion of the orbital behavior
of Mercury without recourse to
relativity. It was the precise conformity of Mercury's orbit to
Einstein's predictions that was
the chief pillar of his theory.
If Dicke is correct, this pillar
has been undermined.

General Relativity deals with
gravity and its manifestations
throughout the Universe. This
theory accounts for the bending
of light by gravity and the "reddening" of light that emerges
from a very strong gravitational
field. However, testing the theory
within the laboratory has been
difficult.
The earlier contribution of
Einstein, his Special Theory of
Relativity, deals with the relations between energy, matter,
time, and the speed of light.
Its validity has been demonstrated many times, as for example, in the equation energy,
equals mass times the square of
the speed of light, which was
of key importance in making the
Atomic bomb.

Dicke did not argue that the
general principles of relativity
do not apply to gravity, but
rather that Einstein's theory, as

formulated in his field equations,

may be incorrect.
Recause the Sun s spin axis
is tilted 7 degrees to the Earth's
orbit, the extent to which we
can see any flattening of the
sun at its poles varies during
the year.
As noted by Dicke, the assumed effect of relativity on the
motion of Mercury has been the
one precise piece of data supporting the gravitational theory of
Einstein. It concerns the manner in which the planet makes
its closest approach to the Sun
the perihelien as it migrates
slowly around the Sun.
The situation can be likened

to the behavior of
As one wiggles, the point at
which the hoop touches moves
slowly around the body.
In the case of Mercury the
hoop represents its orbit. Mercury moves rapidly within that
orbit, taking only 88 days for
each trip. But the
motion of the orbit, or perihelion
rotation, is very slow roughly
24,000 years for one circuit of
the Sun.
This motion is caused chiefly
by the gravitational tugging of
four planets: Venus, the Earth,
Jupiter, and Saturn. They move
Mercury's perihelion some 529
seconds of arc per century and
the motions of the Earth also
impart a large apparent motion.
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movement
arc per century is to be expected,
without any contribution from

relativity.
There are 3,600 seconds of
arc to a degree and 360 degrees
to a full circle.
Long before Einstein formulated his theory it was known
that the perihelion motion of
Mercury's orbit was greater, by
43 seconds per century, than it
should be in terms of conventional physics.
Einstein noted that Mercury
is close to the Sun and thus
within a strong field of gravity.
Using the field equations of his
theory he calculated that relativity should give the perihelion
an extra shove, amounting to
43.03 seconds of arc a century.
This was so close to the actual
observation, that his theory
seemed to be dramatically confirmed. His theory also predicted that the light of a star,
skirting the Sun, should be bent
1,745 seconds of arc by the Sun's
gravity.
Dicke is widely known for
his experiments in gravitation.
The one described Friday is the
fruit of several years' preparation.
It was performed with a vertical
telescope that, through a system
of mirrors, threw the image of
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predicted by relativity. The
theory said that gravity "pullshould
ing back" on the rays,
stretch their wavelengths.
The Mossbauer effect was sufficiently sensitive to detect this
variation between the bottom
tower at
and top of a
70-fo-

Harvard, in mis month issue
of Fhysics Today, Dicke says
these experiments have confirmed the relativity predictions

within one percent.
The trouble is, he says, that
the outcome of the experiment
would be the same, regardless
of whether Einstein's theory or
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Other projected tests
the matter. Two of them
seek to assess the role of gravity
in bending light. The most dramatic apparent confirmation of
Einstein's theory was the observation of a star as its light
skirted the Sun en route to Earth
during an eclipse in 1919.
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Lack Of Physicists Hurls
U.S. Scientific Advances
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Service

The nation's scientific progress is being seriousAmerican Institute
ly threatened by a shortage of physicists, the
warned Saturday.
of Physics
progress in physics education
According to the institute s
over the past few decades," Koch
latest biennial report on physics
said. "Any slackening of this
manpower, American colleges
progress now would certainly
and universities are not produchave its effect upon the teching enough graduates in this field
nologies of the future."
to meet the growing demands of
Two years ago, when the
education, research and industry.
A.I.P. made a similar manpower
"There arc now 5 to 10 jobs
study, experts predicted that inseeking every qualified physidustry and government would
cist," said Dr. H. William Koch, have a deficit of at least 20,000
director of the A.I.P.
physicists by 1970 about
of the total number reHe declared that if the present downward trend in physics
quired.
education enrollment continued,
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apparatus.
This consisted of a disk that
cut out all of the Sun's image
except a narrow rim around its
edge. Below this disk was a
wheel, spinning at high speed,
that cut off all light from the it could have serious consequenSun except for notches on opces for the nation.
posite sides of the wheel.
"Many of the important new
If the Sun bulged around scientific developments, such as
its equator and was flattened transistors, lasers and miniaturiDr.
241 SOUTHLAND
slightly at the poles, the light zation, have resulted at least
intensity would vary as the wheel in part from the considerable
spun, producing a flicker.
Such an apparatus was necessary, Dicke explained in an interview, because of formidable
Just a shot of me and the girl
difficulties in observ ing the Sun's
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shape. Its edge is made ragged
by a variety of gaseous upwel-ling- s
and eruptions. The brightness of its rim varies with
activity and its equator
is slightly hotter and brighter
than its poles.
Dicke believes that, by spinning his wheel from 9 a.m. to
3 p.m. every sunny day, from
early June to late September
last year, he was able to average
out or otherwise eliminate all
of these effects. He found a flattening of the Sun sufficient to
give the orbit of Mercury a slight
yank each time the planet passes
through perihelion.
This is because a flattened
Sun would produce a gravitational field, in nearby space,
NEWMAN CENTER PRESENTS
that is not perfectly uniform in
all directions. It would be
enough, Dicke said, to account
for eight percent of the movement of Mercury's orbit that
had previously been attributed
to relativity.
SATURDAY, FEB 1,
In other words the movement
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is 39 seconds of arc not the 43
seconds generated by Einstein's
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Perhaps the most precise laboratory tests of general relativ ity
to date are those carried out by
Dr. Robert V. Pound, professor
of physics at Harvard University, and his colleagues.

Service

The man who challenged Einstein was born May 6, 1916, in
St. Louis. It was the year that

Einstein published the complete
discourse on his theory of General Relativity, establishing the
basis for most thinking and experimenting in physics ev er since.
As a freshman at the University of Rochester, the son of a
government patent examiner, he
amazed his professors by being
the only one of 10,000 college
students in the country to turn
in a perfect paper in a national
physics test. Most professors, it
was said, could nothavedonethe

same.
After two years at Rochester,
he won a fellowship and transferred to Princeton, being graduated with honors in 1939. He
returned to Rochester to earn his
doctorate in nuclear physics in
1941.

The experimentalist in Dicke
came out during the war years
when he worked with a radar
research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He
considers his most important inventionhe holds some 50 patents, about 35 of them in radarto be the radiometer, an
electronic amplifier sensitive to
weak radio signals.
He used it in 1945 to receive the first radio waves from
the Moon and signals from the
Sun, by which he established that
the Sun's heat was 10,000
degrees centigrade instead of
6,000, the previously accepted

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They have exploited an
discovered in Germany in
the late 1950's by Dr. Rudolph
E. Mossbauer. He found that
gamma rays of extremely precise wavelengths can be generated by embedding radioactive
material that emits such rays
within a crystal.
Pound and his colleagues used
this effect to test whether gravity
alters w avelengths in the manner

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Nearly every morning last summer, Dr. Robert Henry Dicke
would shut the door of a little shack on the Princeton campus,
slide open the roof to aim a spinning-dis- k
instrument at the
sun and direct a calculated challenge at none other than Albert

Einstein.
If the Sun is not a perfect
this
sphere, Dicke
reasoned,
would presumably upset one important piece of evidence supporting the validity of Einstein's
General Theory of Relativity.
Dicke reported last Thursday the
results of his long hours of observation and analysis. The Sun,
he said, appears to be flattened
at its poles.
Though scientists were unsettled by a possibility of a basic
flaw in Einstein's theory, they
were not suprised that Dicke
was the man who raised the
question. He has done it before.
The
Dicke, Cyrus Fogg
Brack ett Professor of
Man Physics at Princeton,
In The snown u' his colleas
gues as a quiet
tist who mixes an inventive flare with a
questioning theoretical brilliance.
He made major design contributions to radar during World
War II and developed the first
microwave radiometer. He suspects that, contrary to Isaac Newton, gravitation may be weakening with the passage of time, and
he is trying to prove it.
"He is both a theoretician
and also experimentalist," observed Henry A. Hill, a former
collaborator and now associate
professor of physics at Weslcyan
"Most physicists
University.
can't cross the gap."
"When ou decide what is
and interesting,"
impoitaut
Dicke says, explaining the methods of an experimentalist in physics, "you have to work out all
the (Missible approaches, and that
often means you have to design
our own instalments to test out
your theories."

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shows that there is an unfortunate
antagonism between students and
the Lexington police.
Launched by a false fire alarm,
Lexington fire engines converged on
the new dormitory areas, attracting
the attention of about 1,000 male
students. City police were called
to the scene by Lexington firemen,
who said the students were blocking their way to the complex.
Fortunately, acting Dean of Men
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convinced city police that if they
would leave the students would do
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was apparent he was right.
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Rights
There is the everyday incident
of parking tickets, forexample. Students notice that police freely hand
out parking tickets to cars parked
illegally around the University,
while oftentimes similar offenses go
virtually unnoticed elsewhere in the
city.
Shortly before Christmas, the
Phi Delts and Tri Delts had a
prank by showering each other with
shaving cream from aerosal cans.
City police apparently thought this
was too much fun, and broke it
up, threatening to arr,est the participants.
There are just a few examples,
but they show that a certain amount
of antagonism does exist between
the students and Lexington police.
To correct this, students must realize that the police have a jobtodo,
and police officers must remember
that students, too, are citizens and
have certain rights which must be
respected.

"Would You Care To Join The Movement, Brother?"

Letters To The Editor

Would You
the Editor of the Kernel:
The purpose of this letter is to
challenge the nonsensical diatribe
presented by Mr. Savage in support
of the playing of Dixie. The two
graduate students who brought
forth this issue are dear and close
friends of mine. I have chosen to
support the playing of Dixie for
reasons which will follow, however,
in apology to my friends and others,
I refuse to have myself associated
in the ranks with those whose only
defense is to challenge my friends
as being Communists or Yankees.
To

No, I am neither of these. In
fact, I suspect that I live deeper
in the South than any of the parties
involved thus far, i.e., Memphis,
Tenn. Dixie means many things to
me, none of which relate to segregation or bigotry. It means hospitality, parades, warm weather and
provincial pride, kin to that felt
at singing My Old Kentucky Home.
It recalls childhood, old friends,
football games, and other recollections which are subjective with me,
but nevertheless are from which
I derive my pleasure in listening
to Dixie.
Every man makes things around
him what he wants them to be.
I challenge
my friends to erase
the cries of "Kill
or
of hate by the meie removal
years
of one song. The kind of person
who lowers himself to this state
is not going to be hindered by the
removal of Dixie.
digress from my own feelings
about Dixie. I feel that it is my
right to have the pleasure of listening to this song and deriving
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the spirit and enjoyment felt therein. But then what is my right
against the rights of others? Is my
right less important than that of
another man?
The issue here is one of interpretation of others' feelings. If
Dixie has fallen into the hands
of those as so challenged, then
I could no longer support its being
played. However, I feel that there
are many who derive pleasure from
hearing Dixie as I do. Those who
do should join in scorning the
use of Dixie for anything more
than what it was meant to be,
i.e., a song of spirit.
To my friends, what are you
going to do with my right?
Arvil Van Adams

Graduate Student
College of Commerce

Comments On 'Dixie'!
Why must people like Mr. Savage
continue to rub salt in a dead
scar?
As far as the band director's
controversy, I happen to like the
song Dixie. I didn't care if it
was being played at the games or
not. But, if it is to be the battle-cry
for all the bigoted and
socially backward people on this
or any other campus, I'd rather
disband the band than foster their

stupidity.
James W. Nelson
Graduate Student
in Biochemistry

Tart Of The Whole
In the Jan. 18 Kernel, Mr. Savage stated his assumption that students wanting to keep Dixie out
of school events are either Yankees
or Communists. As a
Yankee, I find his
letter a hodge-podg- e
of gross misconceptions and bigotry.
Certainly, Yankees are not trying to deprive the South of her
spirited song. This Yankee is mighty
proud of UK and enjoys hearing
the band play Dixie at our school
events. What would our basketball games be without it? Let Dixie
stay, but let insults like "get that
nigger" go.
Furthermore, let me say that
most northerners are not really
much concerned about where southerners have their hearts. We can
understand why people are proud
of their homeland. What we are
concerned with is where some
southerners have their heads stuck
in the sand.
These are the people who them
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The War Is Over
I have always considered myself to be an American. For 23
years I believed that the United
States of America stretched from
the Atlantic to the Pacific and
from the Gulf of Mexico to the
Canadian border. I have recently,
however, found this to be a fallacy on my part. I have moved
to the South.
According to Mr. Jim Savage
in the Jan. 18 Kernel, I am either
a Yankee or a Communist and in
his application neither is complimentary. Mr. Savage stated (and he
is not alone in his sentiments)
that we (Yankees) "won the'war.' "
What "war?" I haven't fought in
any war; I don't know anyone who
did. The Civil War ended in 1865.

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selves clamor for segregation, which
accuse Yankees of suppression of
freedom, of speech and song not
the Southernors (sic), but the sick
southerners.
Everyone! The war is over.
Neither North, South, East orWest
is blameless for this war and its
aftermath, but the war is over!
Keep Dixie. By all means, keep
Dixie and be" proud of your regional heritage. Just remember th