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Sp.irks. 27. oi 20 Coll,- l(ulc(l iiiilt)' in Lcxiimton rolit-r t Mun-ilato c li.uut'S o ston lionsc lir.ikiim aiul
saft' l)iiri:lai in connection with the Fcl. 2")
theft of $12.0(K) from a Memorial Coliseum
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safe.
- Sparks, a fornuT UK employee,
was" held
to the grand jury. He was placed under $l,(HK)
bond on each count.
Sparks was arrested Saturday morning in
Irvine after someone in that city had tipped
off Lexington Detective Capt. Hollie Leach
that he (Sparks) had been spending a "lot of
money" since the burglary.
A reliable source said early in the week
that a warrant had been issued for the arrest
of a second man in connection with the theft.
According to Seth Taylor, UK chief of services, the only clues authorities had to go on
in the case were the outer wrapper of a package of gum and the failure of two dogs to
bark.
Taylor said investigators found the gum
wrapper lying on the floor beside the safe
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Sparks, riffht,
UK employee, is shown at the
Lexington police station with Police Capt. Frank Gravitt, left. Sparks
pleaded guilty to a charge of storehouse breaking and safe burglary
in connection with the robbery of $12,000 from a Coliseum safe.

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the intnii;i'4 follow in the burdarv.
A seauh ot the immediate neihlMuhood
imcmcred some e,tim wrappers in the atd of
2(U College View; a short which runs
hind
the Coliseum.' The wrapjvrs were of tin
same brand as that found in the Coliseum,
Ta lor said.
After Spaiks had been apprehended. Taylor said he (Sparks) was asked during the
questioning if he smoked. According to Taylor, Sparks replied that he did not-b- ut
that
he chewed gum. a fact which helped to
strengthen the case against Spaiks.
Tho dogs entered the picture, T.nlor said,
when they started barking at investigators
looking behind the Coliseum for tools used in
the burglar'.
figured if the dogs made that much
racket, they were sure to have harked when
the 'thieves" left "through a rear door in tin "
Coliseum," TaIor said.
The UK official then phoned Mrs. Met.i
Hcnnett, the dogs' owner, to see if the animals
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EngineeringDean
To Retire In July
Dr. D. V. Terrell, dean of the
UK College of Engineering, has
been granted a change of work
status, to begin on July 1, 1957.
Dean Terrell, who has been head
of the College of Engineering
since September, 1946, has announced no further plans. President Frank G. Dickey said no list
of possible successors, to Dean Terrell has been drawn up yet.
lie came to the College of Engineering in 1912 as assistant professor of highway engineering. He
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director of Kentucky State Highway Research. He is a member of
the American Society of Testing
Materials, the Society for Promotion of Engineering Education, and
has been a consultant for the Kentucky State Highway Department
for many years.
He was chosen Dy California
Gov. Goodwin S. Knight as one of
the two consultants on the San
Francisco Bay Bridge. He served
as consultant to the architectural
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Shannon is currently teaching

at Nebraska.

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An authoritative source indicated
Wednesday that Prof. Jasper B.
Shannon, Political Science Dept.,
would resign in the near future
to accept a similar post at the
He is on a one-yeleave from UK.
The source- said that Shannon's
resignation was not yet official,
but that all indications pointed to

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mine whether female students are
in lavor oi extending baiuraay
night nours to 1 a.m.
This action was approved at an
SGA meeting last Monday at
which a member of the House
Presidents' Council said the council's recent negative vote on "the
later hours issue did not reflect
the wishes of most women students.
"I do not feel it was a valid
vote." Helen Shuck told the assembly. She said she knew of
two council representatives who
favored later hours, but voted
against it for fear of losing special late permissions.
Prior to the council's vote last
week, President Harriet Hart told
the group that Dean of Women

all-camp-

Shannon. 53, first came to the
University of Kentucky in 1928,
remaining for one year. He returned in 1936 as an assistant
Hill CillospiV, past presiiltMit of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, was
professor, was advanced to the
rank of associate professor' in elected president of the Interfraternity Council Tuesday night.
1937, and to professor in 1945. He
Wn Mills, president of Alpha Tan Omega, was t lectrd vice
served as "acting brad of the
Ilitical Science Department
president of the governing group, lie will also serve as chairCr
ShirTneh is the author of "To- man of the Judiciary Committee.
wards avNcw Politics in the South"
John Darsie. Kappa Si;ma rep- - lorn resided almost completely wfih
(1950
and "Presidential Politics rescntative. and Charlie Juhnsc-nthe pledges since There is not one1
1!)31. He edited. i'hi Kappa Tail representative, "fraternity whose actives were
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in Kentucky"
"The Study of Comparative Govaveiaue.
and treas- - l.nv th' required
ie elected setretarv
ernments" tlfH9.
Dean Martin said that three fra- uivr. Jac!; White, represent in-The proit.ur al?o served as di- Pi Kappa Alpha, was elected ru.-ternities were consideiiim cnloniz- rector oi the Hureau of Governhi'4 at the University. Martin said
chairman.
as nso- ment Research in 1940-4t
Dave Noyes two had already vwted the otfiee.
Retiring
ciate dnector ot the Auriculture urued II C ta cooperate with the Before a national lraternity can
Department Graduate School 1,1 administration.
obtain a charter on the campus,
1944-4as an instructor at the
Mills succeeds Chip Rice and it must be approved by the IFC.
U.S. Army Training Center in Darsie replaces Gentry Davis.
An effort to open rush inform- Florence, Italy in 1945, and as a Barkley Baird was succeeded by ally for fraternities who pledged
research associate for the Tennes- Johnson.
five men or less during spring
see Valley Authority in 1936-3Dean L. L. Martin greeted the rush failed by a vote of. 10-He was president of the South- new officers by saying that if all The opposition felt that informal
ern Political Science Association organizations were run as well rush was harmful to formal rush.
in 1950.
as IFC. there would not be very
It was announced that pledges
Dr. Amry Vandenbosch, head of much work for the administration living" la the dormitories could arthe Political Science Department, to do.
range their meal schedule in order
Dean Martin announced that
refused to comment on the rumor.
President Frank G. Dickey was seven fraternities were on schol that they could eat the evening
not available for comment.
astic probation. He said the prob- - meal at their fraternity hou-e- .
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she iater hours was supposed to meet
thought the later hours Issue had With the HPC again before they
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been settled by the council's .vote. voted.
She replied that there was a
SGA representatives will attend
the meeting of the House Presi- "lack of time" and a "need to get
dents' Council Monday to present at the answer."
polling forms to council members,
Speaking trom tne floor.
who, in turn, will return them to Nina Vann charged the council
the residence homes they repre- "slammed" SGA's suggestion and
sent.
"questioned the morality of womResults of the poll will probably en on campus."
be turned over to the HPC for
Ravencraft- asked if women
reconsideration, said Dick Lehstudents were polled before the
man, president of SGA. He said
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a final report should be available
Mrs.

Bill Gillespie Elected
President Of IFC

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Appearing ai Monoay msni s
SGA meeting. Harriet Hart reiterated the council's reasons for
voting down the proposal. She
said she appointed a committee of
seven to study the issue before
the vote was taken.
"I was proud of the clear thinking they displayed," Miss Hart said
of the committee.
SGA Vice President Dave Rav- -

extended."
Dean Holmes met with n delegation from SGA and the HPC
Tuesday, but would not commit
herself on the fate of 1:30 a.m.
permissions for
dances
if hours were extended 30 minutes.
"I can see no reason for grant
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Active in the field of civil engineering, Dean Terrell is presently

Resignation
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Friday, March 8,

Late Hours Poll To Be Taken
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Shown above are the new officers of the Intrrfratrrnity Council. They
I. to r. Jack White, rush chairman; John Uan.ir, icrr-tarBill Gillropie, president ; Don Mills, ice prrsident; and C'harlio

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University of Kentucky's
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program. International

Administration
(ICA), already has begun to pay
dividends.
One such dividend, is the in
struction being given to a team of
VUK professors soon to go to In- dohesia under the ICA program,
Their teacher is an ICA bene- ficiary himself.
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Bahasa Indonesian is the official
tion. A high school principal from language of Indonesia. "I want to
Sumatra, Taib was sent her? by give the people here a working
the Indonesian Minister of Educa- knowledge of my language. I do
tion to learn American teaching not want them to feel as if they
methods so that Sumatran educa- are total strangers when they arrive in my country," Taib
tion might be benefited.
"Bahasa Indonesian is
is showing his gratitude to
Taib
the program that brought him spoken in our schools, offices, and
here, and incidentally, showing the daily conversation. Dutch and
uniquely reciprocal nature of the English also are spoken in IndoICA, by giving a weekly class in nesia.
Under the contracts, UK agreed
the Indonesian language to the
to provide educational and scien
team.

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held in April, Dean Herman i:.
Spivey announced.
Schedule for the tests is:
Frcnch Tuesday. April lfi
German, Wednesday, April 17;
Spanish, Italian, and Russian
Thursday, April 18.
All examinations will be held
at 2 p.m. in room 306, Miller
Hall.
Dean Spivey said that students should confer with Dr.
Adolph Bigg well in Advance to
taking the tests In order to get
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"was the way they conducted engineering. I'd expected rooms full of
engineers at desks. Instead, I found
all the informal friendliness of my
college lab."

Text Books
School Supplies
Engineer's Supplies

tific services to the University of the school.
Also included in the plan Is tha
Indonesia, located at the city of
training at the University of KennegotiaBandung. The contract
tion marked the first major foreign tucky of advanced Indonesian
students and lecturers
operations project undertaken by graduate become professors
who will
at the
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purposes of the plan University of Indonesia.
The chief
The real payoff of ICA wai
of assistance to the foreign unievident in Taib's first words to hi;
conversity, according to the ICA
tracts, is to help meet the teacher class: "I hope that you will soon
shortage crisis in that country and learn more about the land. th
to study ways and means of in- language, the people, and the govcreasing the effectiveness of the ernment of my country when you
technical and science faculties at are in Indonesia."

Gerald, an E.E., came directly to
IBM from the University of Buffalo,
in 1953. Starting as a Technical Engineer, he was immediately assigned
to work, with two others, on design-in- g
a small calculate!
this project was Dr. R. K. Richards,
author of "Arithmetic Operation in
Digital Computers." Jerry learned a
great deal about computers in a very
short time. Incidentally, his particular machine is now going into pro- -

Three years ago, college senior Gerald Maley asked himself this question.
team Jerry.re- Today, an Associate Engineer and leaderola nine-ma- n
views his experience at IBM and gives some pointers that may be helpful
to you in taking the first, most important step in your engineering career.

(his brother is a mathematician) and
is fascinated by these mathematical

marvels which are revolutionizing
man's ways of doing things in so many
fields. He enjoys working on large"
equipment . . . and on "pulses." "It's
more logical," he says. "In computer

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duction. As Jerry says, "It makes an
engineer feel good to see his project
reach the production stage and to
be able to follow it through."
Promoted to Associate Engineer
after 16 months, Jerry is now the
team. He asleader of a nine-ma- n
signs problems to his group for solution, approves their block- diagrams
and thejnodels they build. IVrhaps
goes into paper work
an hour
such as requisitioning equipment for
his group and reviewing technical
publications, in counseling members
of his team ami preparing for trips to
technical society meetings. Apart from
his regular responsibilities, he teaches
at night in the IBM school.
Why Jerry chose IBM
Of course, there were other reasons
why Jerry selected IBM. He was
vitally interested in computers, and
IBM was obviously a leader in the
field. He comes from a scientific family
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Gerald has' done recruiting work
himself for IBM and believes he understands some of the college senior's
problems. "I usually begin an interview by determining a man's inter
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are equal opportunities for I.E.'s, M.E.'s,
physicists, mathematicians, and liberal
arts majors in IBM's many divisions-Resear- ch,

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What about promotions?
When asked about advancement
opportunities at IBM, Jerry says,
"You can hardly miss in this field and
IrTthTs company. They telPmeTales"
about double every five years which
in itself makes promotion almost axiomatic." He endorses the IBM policy
of promoting from within, with merit
the sole criterion. The salary factor,
he remembers, was not his first consideration. While excellent, the tremendous advancement potential was
of far greater importance.

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plays. The latter is his own interest,
which is why he is in advanced machine design. He points out that IBM
is careful to take these factors into
consideration another reason, perhaps," why turnover at IBM is less
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est," he reports. "Then the diversity
of work at IBM enables me to oiler
him a job which will challenge that

interest." Gerald distinguishes

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who like to work on components, such
as circuit designs, and those who are
interested in the part the component
TYPEWRITERS

Engineering,

Sales and Technical Service.Why not drop
in and discuss IBM with your Placement.
Director? He can supply our brochure and
tell you when IBM will interview on your
campus. Meanwhile, our Manager of
Recruitment, R. A. Whitehorne,
will be happy to answer your questions.
Just write him at IBM, Room 8801. 593
Madison Avenue, New York 22, N. Y.

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Mrs. Bonita Valien Speaks
On 'Myths About The South'
'The South Is a rmirh hrtfnr also realize it is part of
place than it realizes." Mrs. Bonita and part of the world." the nation
II. Valien told Dr. Hollis Summer"
Mrs. Valien is the first
Creative Writinjr Class Tuesday. :'rr to address UK students Ne:ro
dur"But." she added, "the South must ing Relipious Emphasis Wee k. She

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with UK students. Our "financial department store" is ready to give you
prompt, friendly service whenever you
need it!
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'at Fisk t'niversitv.
Her topic was "Myths Alxnit the
South."
She told the class that soprrta- tion was not lust a ficht at thp
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local level between Neuroes and1
whites, but is a national concern.;
"A chip at our liberty."
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Her husband, the sociolocist
said, while in India reported to
Nat First
her that the papers there were
full of the sciTKation isue in
Clinton. Tenn. When asked by
a student if it wasn't true th.it
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racial prejudic e, she replied. ' Our
job is to sell democracy to India,
n it India to thr U.S."
"Leadership is needed ;.t th" .
tvith
'local level." she s;;id. "Snmcoi-.must step out ar.d act fir-t- .'
have acted frii;htcr.ed. 'I he
church has assumed little respon(Author of "Rartfool Boy With Chek," tie.)
sibility. Most of the action taken
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said, adding that the South must
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loses its respect and dignity.
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Speaking' to a sociology cla
later. Mrs; Valien pointed out.
AS OM
"Discrimination Is "found not only7
in the South. It exists to a great
extent in the North, too."
Now in tho final months of the- school year, one thinff
"In two and a halt" years of
is certain: you and your roommate are-i'io- t
speaking.
studying the whole problem of
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segregation in southern school-I'.tit it is not too late to patch things up. Kxaminc tho
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said. "The
the fault is yours. Terhaps you are guilty of violatinj;
reasons
this were either justisome of tlie basic rules of roommate etiquette.
fication of the person's view or
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rec.ation will uive to him."
Tor instance, in deeoratinjr your room, have yoti
One of tTie aixumcnts most
forced your preferences on your roommate without re-jolten advanced was that secrc- -rri tcr hi sror her taste s?T
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way of life, Mrs. Valien said. As
friction. Indeed, it once happened to me hack in my fresh
such, these people claim, it is
man year when I was sharing a room with a boy named
deeply ingrained in their culture
Rimsky Sipafoos who covered every inch of our wall
and they are born into the cul- with 850 pictures of James Dean.
ture. she said. "These people)
Kernel Kutic
either don't know any better or
"Rimsky," I said to him in pentle reproof, "please
This week's Kernel Kutie is a
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campus figure, Miss Jane pretend not to. in- - the hope that
don't think me unduly, but I had hoped to put a picture
nderson. This pert little miss is a member of Delta Delta Delta and everyone will accept this argu-- 1
of my fiancee Mary Peth Thermidor on the wall."
.ment," the sociologist said.
omes to US from Louisville. .lane i a inninr In th rnUvtrf nf rfs
Speaking of civil rights legisla-- n
ind Sciences.
Ilimsky examined the picture of my fiancee Mary Teth
tion. Mrs. Valien pointed out that
Thermidor. VYou're kiddinp, of course," he said and
the discriminators argue that law
lean not improve what the people
dropped the picture in the wastebasket.
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will not do voluntarily.
Well, that got my dander up, and I was mad as a wet
can't legislate morality and you
can't change, human nature,' they
hen till Kimsky pave me a Philip Morris Ciparette.
say. This is - not the case," the
As we all know, there is nothing like a mild, natural
Fisk University professor said. "If
one man keeps another from his
Philip Morris. Treats a man ripht. No filter, no foolin'I
right to vote he should be tried
Anger melts and frowns become smiles with Philip
under law just as other criminals.
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about Kimsky's slight to Mary Peth Thermidor. In fact,
with her picture out of sight, I soon forgot all about
Mary Beth Thermidor, too, and one night at the Freshman Frolic, spying a round young coed over in a corner,
I came up to her and said with a fetching leer, "Fxcuso

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horrid, horrid youth! I am your fiancee Mary Ik'th
Thermidor." With that she stomped furiously away, anci
though I tried to win her back with Philip Morrises, she
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Human behavior is subject to con
trol. While a law against murder
does not do away with murder,
it certainly cuts down the num- Der, she said.
Another argument, Mrs. Valien
said, is that civil rights leBisN'iM
is not necessary because so much
progress is being maue witnoiu n.
She pointed out that some Deople
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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL. rrM.iv. March

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Later Hours
Still An Issue

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On Monday, February 25, the House Presidents'
Council, by a vote of 10 to 5, rejected a proposal
that Saturday night hours for women be extended
from 12:30 to 1 a.m. thus ending, at least temporarily, an issue which was conceived by the Student
Government Association early last fall.
But in the interim, the proposal degenerated into
one fraught with mishandling, ineptitude, and what
appears to border on collusion.
When the proposal was first advanced, SGA representative Terry Kucster was named to handle the
project. His first move was a wise one he polled
some 100 other colleges and universities as, to their
women's hours.
He learned that approximately 60 per cent of the
respondents had later hours than UK. Then Kucster, and SGA, made their first mistake they turned
the matter over to the House Presidents' Council,

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a group headed by Harriet Hart, a staunch oppon-

ent of the proposal.
The Council, under the guidance of Miss Hart,
who kept an attentive ear timed to the wishes of
Dean of Women Sarah B. Holmes, dawdled and
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haggled over thc proposal for some" three "months.-Thesuddenly, a few hours before the Council was
scheduled to meet with Kucster's SGA committee
Dance, Marionette
in an attempt to solve the problem, the girls, with
an unexpected burst of energy, met and rejected
of us want to bo bigger than wc arc, but most of us have
to "act as the responsible authority in relations perthe later hours.
;t limited finami.il means., Wc hac to do what we (an
But the conditions under which the vote was taining to students and affecting student organizawith what we hac. Many of us know that most of the
taken were hardly ideal. Just prior to the balloting, tions."
engineering students have this financial problem. Wc,
Since the later hours proposal seems to fall in also, know that most engineering students are people
Miss Hart tossed in an additional stipulation one
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which Miss Hart quoted the dean as saying, if the would have presented, an interesting test case of about all of them. If such a student wishes to strive
in order to do some of the
Saturday hours were extended, she (Deari Holmes) the constitution. If Dean Holmes was supposedly toward specialization needs to be done today, then vast
we
of work that
amount
"could see no reason for keeping late permission as willing to trust House Presidents' Council with the believe he should not be defeated by the stumbling
decision, shouldn't she also be willing to trust SGA blocks of a prescribed liberal education.
it is now."
a higher governing body?
At present anyone who has the time and money can
This, according to many of the Council members,
get both a liberal 'education and specialized training at
In short, the entire situation has created a slightwas interpreted to mean the girls were in danger
the University, if he so desires. But let us recognize tli.tt
of losing the few 1:30 a.m. permissions they are now ly unpleasant odor.
the only goal of a liberal education is to lend power and
Only one question still bothers us. Why is Miss vision
allowed on special occasions (sorority dances, and
to a mind specialized to do one complex job well.
such asthe Kentuckian, IFC, Hart, who lives in town, so determinedly opposed
dances,
The first lesson taught in engineering is: the tool
to her less fortunate sisters being granted a little argues, the engineer experiments.
Mardi Gras, and the like).
Kernel, Wheie art thou?
This, beyond a doubt, prejudiced the voting. At more free time?
Test your theory. In six short years you may make
least eight Council members have voiced the opinyour first contribution to society.
ion that several of their number changed their
James B. Coomcs
votes from "Yes" torNo" only because of the fear
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of losing 1:30 permissions.
It has since been determined that this interpretation was entirely incorrect. Dean Holmes has admitted that, in speaking of "late permission", the
only 1:30 permission to which she had reference
was the one allowed for sorority formals that the
issue of 1:30 hours for "big" dances was never discussed prior to the vote. Miss Hart, however, neglected to tell the Council this thus, the later hours

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proposal was defeated.
We wonder why this additional stipulation was
included at all. It was certainly not in the original
SGA proposal. Furthermore, many of the Council
members had never heard of it until just before the
vote was taken.
Also, we wonder w hy the Dean of Women chose
to intercede as she did especially in view of the
fact that only a few weeks before, she had said she
would follow the recommendations of the Council.
statement that the
To back up her Pollyana-is- h
girls of the Council made a "wise and mature decision," Miss Hart pointed out that a committee
"set up" to study the situation had come up with
several valid reasons why hours should not be extended.
These "valid" reasons included such as "the boys
would feel obligated to buy food if 4he hours were
extended," and "what would the girls do with the
extra time" implying, it seems to us, that most of
the women at UK are somewhat stupid.
The committee was, naturally, appointed by Miss
Hart.
The whole situation could possibly have been
avoided if SCA had, after polling other schools,
polled the women students on the campus as to
the proposal. If it was established that a sufficient
majority of girls on campus wanted the hours extended, why couldn't the assembly have taken the
initiative and passed a resolution to this effect?
The new SGA constitution, which we so staunchly advocated, says the function of tbo Assembly is

Letters

Cue Ball Or Knife?
To the Editor:
In last week's issue of The Kentucky Kernel you inferred that the University of Kentucky's engineering
graduates are merely specialized simpletons, who are unable to cope with and express themsehes in our society.
Your suggestion was that we add two years of "liberal
arts" to our present engineering curriculum in order to
make us well rounded, educated, acceptable people rather than the abominable, illiterate creatures you now
accuse us of being.
Since you neither defined education nor specialization,
allow me to do this for you. Education is the enlargement of the mind. Education gives the mind roundness
like a sphere or a "cue ball". Education gives the mind
capacity, and sometimes vision. Specialization, on the
other hand, is the process of making the mind an lifetime tool lor doing some type of woik. A specialized
mind is like a knife. It ha--s a sharp edge for cutting
through the propaganda of a situation to get straight
to the heart of it.
We know an engineer whose faculties are as keen and
as sharp as a surgeon's knife. He has a good position
doing a job that is contributing to America's standaid
of living and to our ease and convenience.
We, also, know another man, who is "educated". He
can talk and write about almost any subject campus
odors, faculty, fences, S.G.A., Stylus, etc. This man
doesn't hold a job that pays much. His mind is well
rounded, but it is not sharp at any angle or surface.
A surgeon wouldn't think of using a "cue ball" to perform an operation, so don't be too bitter at the engineer
just because industry doesn't use the journalist to perform its operations.
Only a very few m