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Accidents Spoil Yuletide
By GEORGE J. McNULTY
Kernel Staff Writer

Every year hundreds of American families
have their Christmas holidays marred by accidental poisonings. The really tragic part 'of
this is that the greatest incidence of poisoning
occurs in children of the preschool age group.

presents tins

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Dr. Charles A. Walton, head of the Department
of Materia Medica in the College of Pharmacy and
chairman of the Kentucky Poison Control Program,
pointed out recently that many of the accidental
poisonings in children during the Christmas season
are due to the toxic ingredients found In various
Christmas decorations.

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Such ornaments, he said, aa babble light' fire
place rotors, snow sprays, Iceclcles, holly berries, and
mistletoe have been known to cause poisoning la
children.
seeds
Other things, he said as certain bead-lik- e
used in floral displays and powdered bronze paint
used in gilding Christmas cards, which are often
within the grasp of small children, have also been
found to contain toxic ingredients.
But beside these seasonal dangers, Dr. Walton
cautioned, adults and parents should also be aware
of the more common causes of accidental poisoning.
Referring to a recent report of the National Clear
lnghouse for Poison Control Centers, he showed that
approximately 50 percent of all poisoning cases in
children five years of age and under are due to
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Vol. LI I

Fourth In Five Years

Rupp Praises Students
For Encouraging Team
By NEWTON SPENCER
Sports Editor

niver s ity o f Kentucky

LEXINGTON,

K.Y., TUESDAY, DEC. 6, 1960

No. 39

Directories Not Expected
To Be Out By Christ

Kentucky Coach Adolph Hupp referred yesterday to stu- William Grote, manager of
dent reaction at the Florida "State game as "some of the finest the Kernel Printing Plant, ex
encuuragemcm i nave ever seen
pressed doubt yesterday that
.A year ago, Coach Rupp kicked man and Larry Pursiful at guards the 1960-6edition of the stuabout the empty seats in the stu- and Billy Ray Llckert and Allen
dent directory will be ready for
dent section at the basketball Feldhaos at the forwards.
Captain 'Dick Parsons will not distribution before Christmas
games. Last week, he asked the
students to "raise hell" at the start because of the height ad- holidays.
vantage

the directory will be finished but pile an alphabetical list of names,
said it is "doubtful" that it will addresses, and telephone numbers
to give to the IBM operators. They
be ready before Christmas.
Acting Student Congress Presi- - wer,e to punch out and photograph
1
dent Bob Wainscott, said his com- - .the lists; then send them to the
mittee in charge of the printing Kernel Press.
of the telephone book hopes
Orote reported yesterday that
"they're out by Dec. 13."
he had not received the material.
David Sheets, director of the Of
"We need them for our election.
Notre Dame will have
games and they did.
Maybe that's asking for the im- f ice of Machine Statistics, said that
Orote couldn't estimate when possible I don't know.
his department will get the copies
"The students and public did over Kentucky.
Defending the late publication to the printers either today or toeverything they could to pull the
of the new edition, Wainscott said, morrow at the latest.
team through and I am only sorry
"We had it ready to roll several
He said, "It was just a matter of
that the team let them down.
days after we began working on time. We had to alphabetize the
want to thank the students for
list of names, addresses, and tele
it." This was in late October.
what they did."
Dunn, chairman of the phone numbers.
Marvin
Coach Rupp singled out the
committee, said that the Office of
Dean of Men Leslie L. Martin
rs
band as one of the biggest
Marhfns "RtjiMsf Ira hn hurl t.h and Wainscott have been keeping
among the students. "Those
A specialist in diplomatic and military history at Princeton material since "six weeks ago last In touch with Sheets trying to get
bandsmen really let go out there,"
him to hurry the process.
University, Dr. Gordon A. Craig, will speak at 8 o'clock tonight Friday.
Rupp recalled
-we aid wnat we naa io ao imBut "they let this thing ride In
Some observers have thought in the Taylor Education Building auditorium.
mediately."
favor of other things," was the
of the
that the noise-makiThe program, sponsored by the
Continued on Page 5
The SC committee had to com- Struggle."
crowd had disturbed Junior college Blazer Lecture Series, will concern East-We- st
One of this country's "most distransfer Vince Del Negro and other "The Role of Diplomacy in the
tinguished historians. Dr. Craig
younger players unaccustomed to
vtwwrwywwatwro
Joined the Princeton University
such noise.
department of History in 1941.
Rupp, however, discounts this.
After twice interrupting his career
"The fans were real peaceful at
for public service, he was made a
Negro was in
the start, while Del
full professor when he was 37
game and didn't really break
V
the
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years old.
"..
Josephine Portong Riggs, Admissions Counselor and Exloose until they saw that Ken,
He has written numerous his
tucky was going to lose," the
Tobe Coburn fashion school, spoke to stu- torical works that have attracted ecutive Director at
coach said.
attention both in this country and dents interested in the field of fashion yesterday.
Rupp intends to stick to the
in Europe.
She emphasized the important aspects of the field. The counselor
same basic lineup which he has
Princeton undergraduates rate mentioned many of the Important jobs in the field today and the vast
two games with
used in the first
Dr. Craig as one of the University's openings for young persons who have an interest in fashion.
Ned Jennings possibly replacing
most Inspiring lecturers, and he is
Background was one of the important things which she emphasized.
Del Negro at center.
a frequent speaker at the National Mrs. Riggs emphasized background, saying, "Summer jobs in the
"I may start Jennings in place
War College.
volume stores are the best experience.
of Del NegTO because Del Negro
"Reading the fashion magazines and the fashion newspapers such
Dr. Craig has won the H. B.
just hasn't been getting the Job
Adams Prize of the American His- as Women's Wear Daily will be helpful In learning the fashion lingo
:
done," Rupp said.
!
torical Association, served as visit- and the current trends."
"Against Notre Dame tomorrow
ing professor at Columbia UniWhile in college, student activities are one of the greatest ex
New- DR. ALEXANDER CRAIG
night, this would leave Roger
versity, participated in various
Continued on Page 5
studies, and taught at Yale.
He was valedictorian of the 1936
P reclassification Schedule
Princeton class and received the
Undergraduate and graduate students who first entered the UniBachelor of Letters from Oxford
versity this semester and those who plan to graduate In June will where he studied as a Rhodes
v
classify on the east concourse of the Coliseum according to the folScholar. He received both his
lowing schedule.
master's and doctor's degree from
Aa through Da
Monday, Dec. 5
Princeton.
Db through Mc
Tuesday, Dec. 6
Md through Sc
Wednesday, Dec. 7
Sd through Zs
Thursday, Dec. 8
Today s Meetings
Other undergraduate students will classify according to their
STUDENT UNION BUILDING
standings at the following times. .
respective
3.5 to 4 0
II a 1 1
Women's
Residence
Friday, Dec. 9, a.m
(
Council, Room 128, 7 p.m.
3.0 to 3.4
Friday, Dec. 9, p.m
3.0 to 3.4
Delta Sigma PI, Room 204,
Saturday, Dec. 10, a.m
7:30 p.m.
2.8 to 2.9
Monday, Dec. 12, a.m
..
2.6 to 1 7
Medical Center luncheon.
Monday, Dec. 12, p.m
noise-make-

Princeton Professor
Speaks On Diplor acy

Speaker Emphasizes Jobs
Open To Fashion Students

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Tuesday, Dec. 13, a.m. ...
Tuesday, Dec. 13, p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 14, a.m
Wednesday, Dec. 14, p.m
Thursday, Dec. 13, a.m
Thursday, Dec. 15, p.m

2.S

2.4
2.3
2.2
2.1

2.0

1.8 to 1.9
Friday, Dec. 18, ajn
0.0 to 1.7
Friday, Dec. 16, p.m
On Saturday morning, Deo. 17, all undergraduate students who
have not classified at their scheduled times may classify. Graduate
students who did not first enter UK this semester or who do not
etpect to graduate In June may classify from 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec.
15, to noon Saturday, Dec. 17.
Classification will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through
Friday and from 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays. Students may classify
during any period following their scheduled one. Law and pharmacy
students will classify according to Instructions from their respective college deans.

Room 204, 12:15 p.m.
Student Union Board dinner,
Room 205, 4 p.m.
Phalanx luncheon. Room 205,
noon.
Block and Bridle Banquet,
Ballroom, 6 p.m.
UK Dames' Club, Music Room,
7:30 p.m.
SUKY tryouts. Social Room,
5 p m.
I.F.C., Men's Reading Lounge,
6:30 p.m.
Y", "Y" Lounge,
Sophomore
p.m.
6:30
OTHER MEETING
AFROTC Cadet Subcommittee.
Room 20C, 5 p.m., Barker Hall.

Winner Again

Rex Bailey, president of the UK Sigma Delta Chi chapter, receives
a congratulatory handshake from the SDX vice president In charge
or student affairs. Bailey had Just accepted the Kernel's 19C0 first
place straight news writing award presented in New York during
the professional journalistic fraternity's national convention.

* KERNEL, Tuesday, Doc.

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Discuss
Accidents Pharmacists Change
..... Curriculum
Can Spoil
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overdoses of medicine, and that In
half of these cases, aspirin is the
medicine involved.
Other ir a Jor causes of poison in
the order of their frequency listed
were cleaning and polishing agents,
17 percent; pesticides, 10 percent;
petroleum products such as kerosene and gasoline, 6 percent; paints

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and varnishes, 5 percent; and cosmetics, 5 percent.
In the pesticide group. Dr. Walton explained the most common
product encountered is mothballs,
which children have a tendency to
pick up and swallow.
"Four hundred children die annually," he added, "as a result of
accidental poisoning, and for every
fatal case there are 500 non-fat-

Y?s, t's i Keeneland Hall Room!

pre-medlc-

by
Student Congress, YWCA. YMCA,
and the Student Union Board.
Jt will include selections by the
TVIen's Glee Club, under the direction of James King, accompanied
by Eric Kelly; the Women's Glee
Clab, under-th- e
direction of Miss
Huddleston, accompanied by
Ann

Walder; and the Baptist Student Union Choir, the carolers'
group, under the direction of Dick
Baker.
Members of the steering committee are Henrietta Johnson,
Linda Tobin, Rebecca Watson,
Patrick Ryan, and Larry Wester-fiel- d.
IVIay

Staff members who are assisting are Miss Mackie Rasdall, direc- -.
tor of the Student Union; Mrs.
B. B. Park, program director, Miss
Sondra Search and Fred Strache,
executive directors of the YWCA
and YMCA.
Solo performances will be by
Paula Choate, harp prelude and
postlude; Irma Strache, The
Christmas Story; James King, "O
Holy

Night;

ones."

Circulation Swells

The Hanging of the Greens, a tradition for over 20 years
in opening the Christmas season on campus, will be presented
at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. tomorrow in the SUB Ballroom.
The program Is sponsored

and Dob Walters, agriculture freshman.

Greens Hanging Presented
Wednesday At 4, 7 P.M.
solo accompanied by Ann Huddles- ton; Jim Childers, The Christmas
Story.
.
Others Include Tom Cherry, the
lighting of the star and the lighting of the tree; Sharon Chenault,
story of the evergreens, the laurel,
and the Ivy; and Jo Hern, closing
-

meditation.

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The National Clearinghouse's report estimated that within the next
12 months more
than 600,000
Americans will be poisoned through
accidental ingestion of solid and
liquid chemicals, and of these, 1.500
will die.

Dr. Walton advised that anyone
involved In a case of poisoning
storehouse of literature about the should phone their physician Imhealth sciences and related sub- mediately or call the emergency
jects, has had a steady increase ward of the nearest hospital.
In circulation since Its opening.
."The first 30 minutes after
When It opened last January, poison is taken are of vital imthe monthly circulation was 110 portance," he said. "Too often
books and 116 Journals; at the people wait to see what will hapend of October the circulation had pen and by then it's too late to be
grown to 927 books and 293 Journ- of any help."
als a month. This gives the library
an average monthly circulation of
Switow's NEW
360 books and Journals.
The library now contains some
50,000 volumes and subscribes to
THEATRE
1,200 periodicals. Alfred Brandon,

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In at the' Coliseum before Thursday, Dee. 15.

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Graduate students who first
this
entered the University
aemester and those who plan to
graduate in June will classify
Monday through Thursday acto Mhe alphabetical
cording
schedule which has been an-

Songs by. the glee clubs and the
carolers will include "Jingle Bells,"
"O Come; All Ye Faithful "Angels Medical Librarian, stated that this
We Have Heard on High." "O.Holy Is a better collection than half the
Night," "Jesus, Jesus' "My Soul medical schools in the country.
Doth Magnify the Lord," "O
"Carol of the Bells,"
"The Holly and the Ivy," "Deck the
Impress Your Date-T-ake
Halls." "God Rest Ye Merry
Gentlemen," "Silent Night." and
Her To .
Christ. We Do All Adore Thee."
OPEM DAILY

Graduate Classification

school;
Price, a freshman in the
sophomore social work ma- Gwynne Shilling, a
Jor; Pattl Cowgell, a sophomore commerce major;

Sunday afternoon during 4he Kerne land Hall Open
House male students were Invited to visit the girls'
Tooms.- - Casually enjoying a chat were, from left,
Joan Becker, a sophomore English major; Jim

Discussion of the various problems Involved In the conversion of
the pharmacy curriculum from a
four year program to a five year
program was the main business at
the Kappa Psi, Pharmaceutical
Fraternity Convention here.
Chapters from Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and Kentucky
were represented at the province
seven convention held Saturday
at the College of Pharmacy.
The 50 delegates to the convention, held every two years, exchanged ideas and reported on
their individual problems. R. M.
Doughty, assistant professor of
Materia Medica, was elected secretary-treasurer
of province seven.

ON CASH AND CARRY

SOUTH LIMESTONE AND EUCLID AVENUE

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday,

Club To Have Christmas Bazaar

Social Activities
KArrA DELTA Tl The Alpha Gamma chapter of
Kappa Delta Pi, educational
will hold Its fall initiation
and banquet Dec. 8.
The Initiation will be held at
5:30 p.m. in the Music Room of
the SUB. The dinner will be held
at 6 p.m. in the ballroom.
Graduate students to be initiated
are Julia Holtzclaw, Lancaster;
Mrs. Ollie Morgan. Hazard, and
Richard Stofer, Lexington.
Seniors to be initiated are Ray
Canant, Lexington; Jane Fitch,
Lexington ; Betty Dawn Weaver,
Lexington; Laurelee Vry, Lexington; Ann Woodward, Lexington;
Jeanette Glathagel, LaGrange, 111.;
Sandra Sayres, Covington, and
Elizabeth. Scott. Paris.
Juniors to be initiated are Judith
Bee tern. Lexington; Jacqueline
Cain, Independence, and Samuel
hon-rrar-

Stevens. Irvine.
Prof. Maurice Leach, head of the
Department of Library Science,
will be the guest speaker. Music
will be presented by the Bryan
Station Senior High School glee
club.
LANGUAGE READING EXAMS

The graduate reading

examin-ntio-

in foreign languages have
been scheduled as follows: Dec. 6,

Russian, French, and miscellaneous; Dec. 7, German and Spanish.
All examinations win be held at
4

p.m. in Miner

Hall. Russian,

French. Spanish, and miscellane-

fcriptions of Christmas in other
countries,

exchange

of gifts,

re-

freshments, and carols. All members are asked to bring a contribution of clothes, toys, or money
for the underprivileged family to
which they are giving gifts.
DELTA SIGMA TI
Delta Sigma
men's professional commerce fraternity, will
meet at 7:30 tonight in Room 204
in the SUB.
The subject to be discussed will
be the Dale Carnegie course "How
to Win Friends and Influence
People." The Commerce faculty
end all men students in the College of Commerce interested in
becoming a member may attend.
Refreshments will be served.
SOCIAL WORKS CLUB
The Social Works Club will have
a dinner meeting at 5 p.m. tonight
at 2108 Harrodsburg Road.
All social work majors and those
interested In the field may attend.
The cost of the dinner will be
25 cents. The money should be
turned In to the department's secretary by noon today.
Those who will need rides to the
meeting will meet in back of Mc-VHall.
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB
A panel discussion on what to
buy your boy friend for Christmas will be given at the meeting
of the Home Economics Club at
6:30 tonight in the lounge of the
Home Economics Building.
Members of the panel will be
Earl Campbell, Harvey Crouch and
Herby McComas.
Plans for the annual Christmas
Bazaar will also be discussed.
RECENT PINNINGS
Peggy Jo Crump, a former student and member of Kappa Delta
from Frankfort, to Freddie Birch,
Sigma Chi, Centre College.
Linda Mount, Delta Delta Delta,
to Bill .Condwright, Phi Delta

The Home Economics Club will be served at 11:30 and 12:30. Tichave its annual Christmas Bazaar kets for the luncheon may be purat 9 a.m.. Sat., Dec. 10, in the chased In advance at $1.25. They
Home Economics Building.
may be obtained from members of
There will be small gifts, cookies, the Home Economics Club or at the
Shirley Prow, a freshman music
major from Madlsonville and a and cakes, for sale. A luncheon will Home Economics Building.
student at the University of Louisville, to Joel Utley, a Junior education major from Madlsonville
and a member of Tl Kappa Alpha.
Carol Thornburg, a freshman
majoring in education, to Jim
Todd, a Junior in the college of
Arts and Sciences and a member
of Sigma Chi.
Susan Decs, a freshman in the
College of Arts and Sciences, to
Lcs Robinson, a Covington senior
majoring in education and a member of Sigma Chi.
"
RESIDENCE HALL COUNCIL
.
The Women's Residence Hall
-tCouncil will have a buzz session
N5D5z could save your life,
antithesis
on group problems at its meeting
of perspicacity. Right?
Worth knowing? Right!
at 7 tonight in the Lower Lounge
Too often, driving a car is like reading a textbook. It can make you
of Keeneland Hall.
drowsy no matter liowvmuch sWp you get. But safe NoDoz fights ihii
Miss Jane Broxton, head resikind of "hypnosis." Safe NoDoz alerts you with
dent of Boyd Hall, and some mem'".
bers of the council will show' how
calleine the same refreshing stimulant in
to apply counseling to different
coilee and tea. let
problems.
NoDoz is faster, handier, more reliable.
Any girl interested in counseling
So to keep perspicacious while you drive,
may attend and participate in the
Study, and Work keep NoDoz handy.
buzz sessions.

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The ability to keep a coolhead
In an emergency, maintain poise
in the midst of excitement, and
to refuse to be stampeded are
true marks of leadership.
R.
Shannon.

ous will be held In Room 316
German will be held in Room 306.
In advance of taking the examination, a student should confer
with Prof. Paul Whitaker. acting
head of the Department of Modern
Foreign Languages, to get an appropriate book approved.
DAMES CLUB
The Dames Club will meet at
7:30 tonight in the Music Room of
the SUB for their annual Christmas party.
The program will include de- - Theta.
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The well dressed dog and his UK cat
Side by side in the grill they sat;
Twas half-patwelve . . . how the

ALL WORK DONE ON PREMISES

hours do pass

Not one nor the other had gone

Your Campus Cleaner

wasn't there; I simply state".
what was told to me by a helpful
mate.)
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Across from Memorial Hall

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In the Kernel they read as they sat and

STANDARD PRICES
R.O.T.C. Uniforms

Men's or Ladies' suits
Pants

75c

$1.00
50c

Skirts

50c

CSMjCiS

thought
Of things to be done and clothes to,
be bought;
Of shows to see and food to eat
And places to go where friends meet. '

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(In case you doubt what

I have Just
said
Without UK this town would be dead.)

To the 10,000 students who need.
many things
The Kernel daily, a sales talk brings."
So

Sweaters

50c

Sport shirts

to get ycur share of the UK dollar

Just call 2306 for an advertising

50c

scholar.

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Men's or

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$1.25

Rain coats

$1.25

Overcoats

$1.25

successful advertiser told me so
And that is how I came to know.)

Dresses Plain

$1.00 up

Laundry shirts (2 or more)

24c each

A modem trantUticn of The Dutl by
Stuart CclJfarb.

* M anpower

School Spirit Hum bug?

Shor tage

will be made better aware of stuWe fount! last week that the
tides of campus politics have dents needs and desires in making detaken a new and interesting turn and cisions.
seem to have reached their ebb.
In dealing with the Faculty comStudent Congress President Dob mittees, congress members will gain
Wainscott issued what amounted to knowledge of the workings of the
an appeal for candidates to run for University and will learn how to efthe congress assembly in the Dec. 13 fectively deal with people with congeneral elections. This is, we feel, a flicting views. They will actually take
an active part in helping to determine
terribly sad state of affairs.
University policy.
In the past, when Student ConIf they would organize, campus
gress membership held a greater appeal to fraternities and sororities, political parties could become as
Greeks fell all over themselves trying strong as they were under the old
to get elected to the organization. congress. Where there were once bitCongress membership in those days, terly divisive battles over party nomiwe must admit, did have a certain nees among the fraternities and sororcharm it has lacked in the past year ities that comprised the parties' memberships, there are now enough seats
or two.
Membership was an honorary sort up for grabs at each election to
of thing; work was not expected of fy everyone. The parties could have
a greater degree of unity than ever
most members. Elections were popularity contests something to occupy before and much more to fight for.
Independent students could take
students frustrated because the University is not represented in "Who's a greater role than ever before in campus politics with the enlarged conWho in American Colleges and Universities." Most students of late have gress. Fraternity and sorority blocs
will not be as instrumental in selectfelt that the results of Congress elections indicate little more than whose ing representatives as they have in
past elections. Thus, the unaffiliated
friends can stuff the most ballots.
But Regardless of the past foibles student tends to stand a far better
of the- - congress, its representatives, ' chance of election.
All in all, we feel that all campus
and the campus electorate, the newly
reorganized congress would have groups stand to gain quite a bit under
a new congress. And now if we can
much to offer students.
just find 99 interested students who
By placing students on committees
aren't afraid of work . . .
of the University Faculty, the Faculty
ever-changi-

A Democratic Definition

Kernels

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University of Kentucky

Much S, 1879.
Entered at the poet office at Lexington, Kentucky ai second oUes matter under the Act ofand
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Published lour time
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thinking that possibly the school exists
merely as a base of operations for the
football and basketball teams.
Still I shall continue attending
games because I enjoy watching
sports events. I will yell when I witness a well executed play but not just
at UK games, and I'll rise to establish
my loyalty when the "All for Kentucky, stand up and holler yell is
done. But will the cheerleaders please
refrain from asking me to reaffirm
my allegiance every few minutes? I
will begin to think they doubt me.
And if the game is dull, or if the
weather is cold and rainy, or if my
flask is exhausted of its contents, I
will leave early with no guilt feelings
about my lack of school spirit.
Ferhaps I do lack school spirit but
possibly school spirit as it is popularly
defined will Ik? examined one day and
found incompatible with the ideals of
a new generation. Then perhaps edu-

cational institutions can get back to
the one thing they do best educating.

Challenging The Student
It

is clear

that there

is in American
education today a new emphasis up-

on the pursuit of excellence. There
appear to be several things implied
by the pursuit of excellence that have
relevance not Only to what we teach,
but to how we teach and how we
arouse the interest of our students.
The view has already been expressed that the pursuit of excellence
must not be limited to the gifted student. But the idea that teaching
should be aimed at the average student in order to provide something
for everybody is an equally inadequate formula. The quest, it seems to
many of us, is to devise materials that
will challenge the superior student
while not destroying the confidence
of those who are less
and
fortunate. We have no illusions about
the difficulty of such a course, yet it
is the only one open to us if we are
to pursue excellence and at the same
time honor the diversity of talents we
must educate. . .
One of the least discussed ways of
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Whit Howard, Associate

my association with mcmljcrs of the
Baltimore Colts or Boston Celtics.
If athletic squads represented a
student body, there might Ik? a legitimate reason for us to feel in some way
related to the team's success or failure. But under the modern athletic
program, normal procedure has lccn
reversed. Teams are not selected from
among the students. Athletes are selected and then induced into Incoming students. One can hardly avoid

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Another football season has drawn
to a close and we move directly into
a season of basketball. And students
are urged immediately to "raise hell
at the games.' The constant clamor
about our lack of school spirit begins
anew.
'We have had Kernel editorialists
deplore our lack of school spirit, heard
cheerleaders implore us to show more
activity at football games, and the
local pep club reprehend us for coming to games in such attire that we
aren't free to lose all inhititions and
raise a tremendous din when a Wildgain
cat breaks away for a
or a field goal, depending on the sport.
Such concern deserves an answer.
Through some perverted thought
process, school spirit now connotes
just one thing enthusiasm at athletic
events. No one entreats us to demonstrate our spirit in any other manner.
We are never encouraged to be proud
of, or be concerned over, the school's
academic reputation.
We devote one hour each spring
to the recognition of students' academic achievements and complain because
the Grill is closed during the program.
We are never asked to dress casually
on Honors Day so we can scream
when honor students are introduced.
I submit that were a graduate to
win a Nobel Prize, no one would beseech us to rejoice at the success of a
fellow or glory in the honor reflected
on our school. But let an athlete earn
recognition and certain
will condemn our lack of spirit
groups
if there is no dancing in the streets
and no bonfire in Stoll Field.
We subordinate academic excellence to athletic prowess and I question our sense of values.
The argument can be raised that
athletic teams bring in a great deal of
money and that our outstanding basketball teams have brought national
recognition to UK.
True. The athletic program does
bring in much money for the athletic
program and UK's basketball team
has gained the school a national reputationas a school that produces outstanding basketball teams.
Personally, I feel no more obligated to root for the UK team than for
my favorite professional teams. My
sympathies lay with each and my contact with UK athletes is on a par with
All-Ameri-

Democracy in America is many ' national motto for a vibrant democwonderful things. But there are some racy.
things that it is not, and this needs to
There are sharp distinctions among
be understood better than it is.
men as to both ability and character.
Democracy is privilege but it is Democracy is not a system dedicated
to blotting out these differences in a
not license.
In its name, individual Americans destructive leveling process.
By education and every other
are not free to violate or show disrespect for the property of others. A reasonable means,, democracy must
surprising number today seem to feel foster not smother the development
that democracy justifies a kind of of men according to their capacity.
"what's yours is mine" approach.
The equality in democracy is
Nothing in the democratic way of equality of opportunity. All must have
life is intended, furthermore, to en- - . the chance to develop the best that
is in them.
dorse unwarranted invasions of personal privacy. These often include
Democracy is not a warrant to
rude excesses which appear to pre- others to make your life and your
sume that the strict personal sense, property a community possession. Nor
every man is every other man's friend. is it a giant mixer that renders all men
Actually, the right to reject men alike in talent and purpose.
It is simply an opening of the
and ideas is a strong element in our
door. Those who pass through must
freedom.
Nor should democracy be taken be free to walk at their own pace in
as an abandonment of standards of their own way The (Biloxi) Daily
character and performance. If we do Herald
not respect excellence and the virtues
of man, freedom cannot flourish. For
it is not an invitation to enthrone
Let us not deceive ourselves; not
mediocrity.
In our land there has been of late only in Latin America but in the entoo great a tendency to accept failure tire world we are living in situations
that are radically new and that deas the proof of humanenes and theremand the establishment of a new sysfore to excuse it and to countenance
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