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University of Kentucky
1964

LEXINGTON,

Vol. LVI, No. 50

KY., WEDNESDAY,

DEC

To Lecture Here

A recital for violoncello and
piano will be held by Mrs. Anne
Plummer Hall, University music
major, at 8:00 p.m. Friday in the
Laboratory Theater of the UK
Fine Arts Building.
Mrs. Hall, daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. Niel Plummer, is presenting this program as a senior
recital in partial fulfillment of
the requirements for a degree of
bachelor of music in music edut

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New officers of Scabbard and Blade, military science honorary, are,
from the left, Bill Duncan, pledge trainer; Pete Davenport, secretary; Clyde Richardson, vice president; and Mike Cox, president.

Absent when the picture was taken was David Bolin, treasurer.

Methodists Establish
Church On Campus
Methodist
The University
Church was established last Monday night by a vote of the board
of directors of theWesley Foundation which serves Methodist students at the University.
Minister of the new congregation will be the Rev. Thomas C.
Fornash who has been directorof
the Wesley Foundation for eight
years.
"It is the viewpoint of the
general board of education of the

Summer Work Offers
Valuable Training
A

Chet Huntley of the NBS News "Huntley-Brinkle- y
Beport,"
will be the guest speaker Saturday at 8:15 p.m. in Memorial Coli
seum in connection with the Central Kentucky Concert and Lec
ture Series.
Mr. Huntley began his news
career in 1934 broadcasting news
on a Seattle newspaper's radio
station. "You know, it was one
of those jobs where you sweep
'
up and do everything," Mr. Huntley said.
Before he joined NBC in 1955,
Mr. Huntley developed his "nose
for news" as he worked with CBS
covering the Far West. One of
his stories was of the founding
of the United Nations in 1945.
After leaving CBS, he joined ABC
news and covered events in Asia
and the Middle East.
Within a year at NBC News
he was teamed with a young
CHET HUNTLEY
Washington correspondent named David Brinkley. Together, they documentary scries and regular
anchored the national political
contributions to NBC Radio's
conventions in the summer of "Emphasis" series. He also has
1956 and the election the folsuch hour-lonTV
presented
lowing November. With praise
specials as "The Land," and exafrom the nation's TV critics and mination of the American farmer
and the farm problem, "The Many
impressive ratings, the nationwide popularity of the newsmen
Faces of Spain," a documentary
was rapidly established. Nearly
that probed the economic and
half the viewing audience watchsocial development of that couned this team in 1962 as they antry, and "The Problem with Water
Election
chored NBC News'
is People," which examined the
water shortage in the Southwest.
Night coverage.
Mr. Huntley's other assignStudents will be admitted to
ments with NBC have included the lecture by ID cards.
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cation.
She is assistant first cellist
with the Central Kentucky Philharmonic Orchestra,
principal
cellist of the UK symphony orchestra, and she has frequently
been heard in programs played
by the Plummer String Quartet
in which she joins her brother
and two sisters.
A summer
scholarship was
awarded to Mrs. Hall in 1963
to study cello with the late George Bekefi at Colorado College.
She also has been the recipient
of grants-in-ai- d
during her four
years at the University, where
she is a student of Dr. Cordon
J. Kinney. She has hpen a member of Phi Beta and Arpha Lambda Delta.
Mrs. Hall will play "Sonata
No. 2 for Camba and Harpsichord," by Bach and "Sonata
No. 3 for Pianoforte and Violoncello, Op. 69," by Beethoven."
Her pianist will be Miss Mirwho
iam Hall, her sister-in-lais a junior music major at the
University.
The recital is open to the
public.

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Anne Hall
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unique summer in Europe awaits college students interested in

archaeology.

By joining a program sponsored by the Association for Cultural
Exchange, a student can travel to Europe, earn credits, and receive
able to students with a
valuable training in archaeology,
Volunteering students first join average.
Credits are not awarded diseminar for training
a three-wee- k
in British archaeology and excarectly by the Association. It does,
however, recommend that six unvation techniques at Westminster College, Oxford.
dergraduate credits be awarded
students who successfully comThey then split up into small
course.
plete the
groups for three or more weeks
digging on an archaeological site.
Participation in the program
is open to all college students but
Expanding housing programs,
is particularly suitable for upper
city center redevelopment, and
classmen and graduate students.
new highway projects have opened up many new possibilities for
Further details can be obtained by writing Dr. John H. Slocum,
archaeological investigation.
Total cost of the program is Association for Cultural Exair
$575, including round-trichange, 202 West 10th St., New
York City. Closing application
transportation from New York.
Part scholarships may be avail- - date will probably be Jan. 8, 1965.
p

Pioneering I he Vast

These college students are gaining experience in archaeology as a
part of the Association for Cultural Exchange. The student spend
site.
part of their summer In Europe digging on an archaeological

Methodist Church that facilities
on campus should be fully utilized so that more students can be
reached," Mr. Fornash said.
proAlthough a
gram has been in existence at
Wesley Foundation for some
years, the members have never
had Sunday morning worship services together, he explained, but
instead have attended various
Methodist churches throughout
Lexington.
There is a trend for university-centere- d
congregations throughout the South, he said, and Methodist students at UK have been
asking for Sunday morning services.
While students are on campus
they will have an opportunity to
be associate members of the University Methodist Church which
will give them the full privileges
of church membership. However,
the students will remain members
of their home churches.
The Methodist students will
have complete charge of the type
and format of services used. A
worship committee already has
been formed for this purpose. A
choir which sings at Wesley Foundation on Sunday evenings, will
sing at the Sunday morning services.
The initial service will be held
on the first Sunday of the spring
semester, Jan. 17, in Fellowship
Hall of the Wesley Foundation at
Maxwell Street and Harrison Avenue.
Two Sunday School teachers
already have been appointed.
They are Mickey Miller, a senior
law student who earned a bachelor of divinity degree at Vander-bil- t
University, and Miss Chrystal
Kellog, executive direc tor of the
YMCA at UK. One or two other
classes also will be opened, Bev.
Fornash said.
well-round-

"The students at Wesley
Foundation are looking forward
to the new opiiortunity of worshiping together and participating in church leadership, because
they think it will better prepare
them to return to their home
churches as well prepared adult
leaders," Peggy Haddcn, Elkton,
president of Wesley Foundation,
said.

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Monarch, UK Bull,
Wins Championship

a grand champion Shorthorn sales bull at the
in Chicago, will be put on the
bull was raised and enter
judging team placed fourth in
sheep judging and 14th in all
breeds selection in the intercollegiate event. Dennis Liptrap,
member of the team, was 10th
and possession
have
conin overall judging among
sold in the sale.
testants from 38 groups.
Dr. W. P. Carrigus, chairman
of the UK Animal Science Department, who is at the International, explained that the University will retain a third interest
in the bull and will breed out- standing females in the herd by
(if I
artificial insemination.
The University s livestock
Registrations for Spring Semester Sorority Open Rush will be
accepted until Jan. 15. Open Rush
will be held from Jan. 16 through
Feb. 8, and will be conducted,
without organized parties, skits (
UK's Sigma Alpha Epsilon
or favors.
fraternity has, for the past two
All entering freshmen and all
years, been making periodic
transfer women who areadmitted
visits to the Blue Crass Boys
standservice to the University in good
Ranch as their long-tering are eligible for rush. Women
project.
"The program started about who have attended the University
at least one semester are eligible
two years ago," said SAE president, Dave Clarke, senior com- for rush if they have a 2.0 cumulative standing and 2 0 for the
merce major from Maysville.
The Boys Ranc h, according to previous semester.
For rushees who w ere not regClarke, is for boys w ho have been
istered for Fall Rush, a fee of
in "some sort of trouble."
"They are turned over to the $2.00 will be charged when they
people there, who take care of sign a preference card. Rushees
who were registered in Fall Rush
them," said Clarke.
"We went out there to give may participate in ()h-i- i Rush
them a Hallow evil party," said without additional
expense. RegClarke, "We try to go out as istration cards are available to
to help, play all
much as we tan
sorority rush chairmen in the
games, clean up, and help the Panlu-lleuiadviser's office.
lxys with their studies."
Oral or written bids may be
The boys range in age, he extended at
any time dining the
said, from about six to 15 years.
"This is a long term project rush period and need not he
and we plan to keep it up," handled through the Dean of
Women's Offic e.
he said.
UK Monarch,

International Livestock Exposition
auction block tonight. The
ed by the University.
The pure white bull, grand
champion Shorthorn since at the
1964 Kentucky State Fair, will
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'Flowering Peach' Is Guignol Triumph

tinued, lie sparkled in the closing scenes. the rule w ith Cuignol. The austere sets were
The audience responded to the shrewish, appropriate in that they complemented the
ironical characterization of Leah by Beverly psychological and
physical desolation of the

By DAVID HAWPE

Kernd'Exccutivc Editor
The classic example of renewal through
sacrifice is played out against a backdrop of
chuckles and tears in the current Cuignol
Theatre production, "The Flowering Peach,"
which opened last night.
A brilliant characterization by Cuignol
chief Wallace Briggs breaths life into Noah
and the Biblical legend of which he is the
locus. Supporting performances by an able
cast add luster to Briggs' shining performance.
No small measure of credit is due producing
director Charles Dickens, who has pieced
together a production that latches on to the
spectator's consciousness and keeps it occuis
Dickens' production
pied throughout.
smooth, seldom falters, never bogs down.
The honor roll of supporting cast members
is headed by Sylvia Jackson, who portrayed
Noah's wife, Esther. Her restrained performance provided the necessary counterpoint to
the strong characterization of Noah.
Howard Enoch as Noah's son Japheth
seemed to warm up to the role as the evening
progressed, and his initial hesitancy metamorphosed into a very convincing portrayal.
Enoch adequately handled the nuances demanded by his role in the opening scenes, and
he was more than adequate inthecontextof a
stronger characterization, which the role
called for in the latter portions of the play.
Walter Lowe, who portrayed Shcm, seemed
reluctant to communicate with his audience
at the outset, but, as in the case of Enoch's
"Japheth," he became progressively more
cocatic as the esening's performance con

Lawhorn. Her few lines were well received.
On the minus side, Pat Mclnteeras Rachel
was perhaps less sure of herself than other
members of the cast. Her performance was
somewhat uneven, sometimes adequate and
sometimes not. However, Miss Mclnteer was
appearing in her first Cuignol role, and opening night performances are not always indicative of potential.
Neutral performances were turned in by
Don Schwartz as Ham and Mitch Douglas as
"a Man." Schwartz was too loud too often,
and Douglas' part was too small to offer real
challenge.
To return to Mr. Briggs, he came to the
role of Noah fresh from a successful directing
job with Cuignol's first play of the year, "A
Man For All Seasons."
Mr. Briggs' interpretation of Noah was
alternately powerful and tender. He nudged
his audience into smiles and urged them, with
success, to tears. He involved his audience in
his laughter, his quarreling, his ecstasy, and
his despair. He demonstrated a wide range
as an evocator of mood. In short, as Noah took
the burden of a new world upon his shoulders,
Mr. Birggs lifted up the burden of the play
and carried it well.
If the production itself possessed a major
fault, it may have been an inability to get up
and get moving quickly, but once it began to
quicken its pace, its progress was steady.
Lighting and effects were adequate, as is

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a demanding mode for actors, actresses,
set designers, costumers, make-u- p
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directors. It is encouraging that Cuignol is
attempting this difficult staging technique,
for the rewards it offers are great indeed.
The spectator is in closer proximity to the
action and is able to conceptualize the activity
more readily (if it is done properly). When all
goes well such staging causes the viewer to be
assimilated, mentally, into the action of the
play. However, when a miscue occurs, it is
more readily apparent than in conventional
staging.
"The Flowering Peach"deservestheatten-tio- n
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within the plot structure that the play's
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evolve into more noble persons. The major
motif of the play is interplay between the
central character, Noah, and the members of
his family. And it is through this motif that
the theme previously mentioned nobility
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Men don't care about the details of housedecorating aslong
as the place is clean and comfortable, they don't complain.
Is this the assumption you've
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what ever you choose for your
home will be fine with him? A
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brought some interesting facts
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Men do care about the appearances of their homes, and
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When asked the reasons for the
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meals more appetizing, engender
a family closeness, a respect for
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By CIIEANEY RINCO

Kernel Society Writer
Jane Stivers, a junior home
economics major from Lexington,
was named Student of the Month
at the November meeting of the
Home Economics Club.
Asa member of the club, she
has served as chairman of the
committee which planned and
arranged the program on travel,
"The Pleasure of Your Country,"
presented this month by Miss
Carol Lane, Women's Travel Director of the Shell Oil Company.
She is currently secretary of
the YWCA, and was Freshman-adviser last year. She attended

the International YWCA Conference at the University of Illinois
as a freshman, and the Regional
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Tennessee as a sophomore.
Jane is a member of Alpha
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home economics fraternity, a
Centennial subcommittee, the
Student NEA, and Embry's College Board. She has attended the
Leadership Conference.
Her past activities include the

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A Chance To Help
ods of instruction which he feels to

One of the most worthwhile
programs being conducted by University students may fail due to
the lack of interest from a large
percent of the student body. The
program consists of tutoring sessions held by University students
as a part of the YMCA campaign,
the "Battle Against Dropouts."
The tutoring program is being
conducted in cooperation with Lex-ington high schools in an effort to
help students who possibly could
become dropouts. The sessions are
entirely voluntary on a part of the
high school students.
The main problem comes from
the fact that tutors also are enlisted on a voluntary basis. A severe shortage of University students
to participate in the campaign has
been encountered. Unless more students see fit to do their part to
help society, this program may fail.
At the present time, one tutor
may have four or five students to
teach in the same session. Each
of these students have different
problems and are weak in different
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be most effective. This program is
designed not only as a help for the
high school students, but it is obvious that University students can
gain invaluable experience from
participating in such a campaign.
This experience is received while a
great service is being performed.
Present tutors have reported they
from
receive great
participating in this program.
High school students spend as
much as 40 hours a week in the
classroom. The average University
student spends no more than 20
hours a week in lecture sessions.
High school students participating
in this program have committed
themselves to two extra hours of
class work each week. Most University students would have little
trouble finding two hours a week to
devote to this program. This time
would be much more useful than
sitting in the Student Center Grille
or taking part in a dormitory "bull
session."
Students who feel a desire to
help humanity have their chance.
This is not the first time that
students have been called on for
help and it will not be the last.
However, a program such as this
can not survive without

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Reader Suggests Solution To School Problem

of the Kernel:
wish to suggest a solution to
the current public school financial
support problem in Kentucky. Gov.
Breathitt in a recent statement
noted that state government support
of local school districts increased
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from
to
in the
last decade or so. This trend suggests the obvious solution: the
state government should provide
100 percent of expenditures for public schools and should collect all
tax money used for public schools.
s
of support
The present
is financed from state taxes on sales
and on personal and corporation
incomes. Local school districts
raise money solely from the tax on
property. These school district taxes
on property should be abolished
(by appropriate constitutional and
or statutory changes) and replaced
by a state tax on property. State
property tax revenue should go into
the general fund along with sales
and income tax revenue, and all expenditures for public education
should be made from the general
fund. The total tax bill would not

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necessarily be increased by these
proposed changes. However, any
increase in expenditures for public
schools which might be thought desirable could be financed by increases spread fairly among state
taxes on the three most important
subjects for taxation: sales, income
and property.
Several advantages can be offered for this proposal. (1) The proposed changes would dissipate an
objection which I consider legitimate. A person or group
may be in favor of increased expenditures for public schools but not
be in favor of financing such increased expenditures from one or
another particular tax source. But
how could property owners, for example, reasonably object to a tax
increase spread fairly among sales,
income, and property taxes; provided, of course, that the expenditures are considered wise?
(2) A very serious abuse in public education could be corrected by
providing a uniform quality of public education per student throughout the state. I have never been able
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to discover one reason why a child
in one county, city, part of a city
school district, or school in a district, should receive a different quality of publically financed education
than any other child in the state.
Public education is based on the
philosophy of providing education
without regard to the financial
status of the parents of the particular child, and this principle should
be extended to provide education
without regard to the
ability (or willingness) of a particular subdivision of the state. And
even if it could be argued convincingly that residents of some parts
of the state can "get along" with a
lower quality education, the great
amount of migration within the
state prevents us from knowing,
where in the state a particular child
will live his adult life.
(3) Taxable property, which presently is an important source of revenue for school districts, is not always or even usually located among
the various school districts in such
a way that each school district has
an adequate property tax base. To
take an extreme case for emphasis,
suppose that a large factory locates
in school district A but that all of
its workers reside in school district
B. This means that district A could
tax the factory property for school
support, but the need for increased
school expenditures would occur in
district B where the workers' children attend school. Similarly, the
tendency for the more expensive
residential property to locate in suburban areas outside city school districts causes the average value of
residential property to be higher in
suburban school districts than in
city school districts. The result is
that suburban children often attend
tax-payi-

better financed public schools than
do children who reside in the city.
I can find no justification for this
condition within the accepted philosophy of public education. And I
can think of no better solution than
to transfer the taxation of property
from school districts to state government.
increase in
(4) A substantial
state government use of the property
tax (to replace the property tax
presently collected by school districts) would have a healthy effect
on assessment rations. Present differences in assessment
ratios
throughout the state would cause
property owners in cities and coun:
ties with high assessment ratios to
pay the state more dollars in property tax per $100 of true property
value than would be paid by other
property owners. A change to uniformity in assessment ratios, long
overdue in Kentucky, would thus
be encouraged. If accomplished,
each property owner would be comforted in the knowledge that no
matter how high or low property
taxes might be, his tax bill would
not be out of line with other property owners.
At this time of constitutional
revision and of crisis in the state's
entire public school system (which
crisis is only emphasized by the
troubles
in Louisville-Jeffersothe opportunity exists for
County),
Kentuckians to make a sensible and
lasting change in their method of
financial support for public schools.
The changes proposed above could
be made within accepted principle
of general laws without special
provisions for particular groups, or
geographical areas.
DON M. SOULE
Lexington, Ky.
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Tau Sigma will present its Christmas program at 7 p.m.
Sunday in the Euclid Avenue Building. The program will
consist of two sections, "The Little Match Girl," and "The
Nutcracker Ballet."
Tickets may be obtained from Tau Sigma