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University of Kentucky
1961

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LEXINGTON,

KY., THURSDAY,

OCT.

8,

Eight Pages

11 Students Named

To Plan Homecoming
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Clay Stephens; Publicity
Larry Kelly and Louis Straney;
Mike Jones
Display
and Cathy Adams; Pep RallyChair-man- ,
Jane Cabbard; Alumni Relations Chairman, Elaine Baumgart-ner- ;
Special Events, Fred Myers.
Jane Batcheldor and Bert Cox are

Pershing Rifle Queen Candidates

The Pershing Rifle Queen candidates are first row
from the left: Betty Taring, Cathy Coffman, Sandy
Eaton, Mllly Rice, Barbara Curtin, and Glenda
EUnehart Second row: Diane Turley, Patsy Purdom,

Pam Mitchell, Becky Snyder, Judy Grant, Shirley
Meadcr, and Barbara Finr. Third row: Betty Cline,
Elizabeth Hendry, Barbara Van Iloose, Vickl Nel- son, and Martha Thebaud.

advisors.
The rules concerning Homecoming Displays are as follows:
The maximum expenditure allowed on each display is $100.
Any recognized campus group is
eligible to enter a display'.

Move Won't Upset 'Playtime,9
Law Students Assure Coeds
By CAROL TENNESSON
Kernel Staff Writer
Loss of their central loca-

"We'll still get them, but from a
different angle," he said.
Most of the law students are
pleased at the prospect of a new
building, but regret the prospective
loss of their present location.

tion on campus next September will not curb the law students' traditional recreational
activities.

"We're looking forward to some
between the law
students and students studying in
the College of the Bible," one prospective lawyer said. The new law
building is situated near the
the Bible.
"Whether or not we play any
new games next year will depend
on who will play with us," said
law stuFed Zopp, a third-yea- r
dent.
Since the new law building is
also near the home economics
building, prospective recruits for
football games may be found in
that department, according to Marlaw stushall Loy, a second-yea- r
dent.
A few of the law students will
new ball games

Despite the fact that a new law
building is tentatively-schedul- ed
to be completed by. next year on
Lmestone Street, interested
will still have the opportunity to see the law students in
action.
According to several law students, such activities as football
snowball
games,
fights, and throwing pennies at
coeds will still be organized during lunch hours and breaks between
classes.
Coeds will still be the center
of attraction according to Cam Nick-ellaw student.
a second-yea- r

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Sue Dorton; Queen Selection
Vicky Sutherland and

Display themes shall center
around famous sayings or quotations; commercial sayings may not
be used.

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candidate must be presented.
Voting will be by ballots supplied by the Homecoming Steering
Committee and will take place from
9 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 3 and 4 in the Student
Center.
All students must present their
I.D. cards in order to vote.
All candidates must be present
at a Pep Rally on Thursday, Nov.
5 at 6:30, when the five finalists
will be announced.
e
of the HomeDuring
coming game, the presentation of
the queen and her court will take
half-tim-

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Homecoming activities

will include a dance after the game,
and various events for visiting
alumni. This year's Homecoming is
sponsored by the Student Congress.

Trophies will be presented at
There must be a representative to receive the trophy.
APPALACHIAN
There will be three divisions Fraternity, Sorority, and Independent
VOLUNTEERS
with one trophy awarded to the
A committee is being organized
winner of each.
on campus to coordinate participThe following are the rules govation in APPALACHIAN
the Queen Contest:
erning
Students interested in parAny residence unit on campus is
ticipating may obtain application
to nominate one candidate.
eligible
forms at the Student Center InA residence unit is a dormitory,
formation Desk. Deadline for apfraternity house, sorority house, or
plying is Monday, Oct. 12.
house.
Campus participation in AppaAll nominees for queen will be
lachian Volunteers will be based
single senior women in good stanon Circle K, with support and coding (a minimum 2.0 overall) with ordination from this
steering comthe University.
mittee.
No past Homecoming Queen is
The first service project will take
eligible. No candidate can represent
place Saturday, and will be a commore than one group.
munity development project at
All nominees must be submitted
Spruce Pine, Ky. Interested groups
to the Homecoming Steering Comor organizations should contact the
mittee between 3 and 5 p.m. on
University YWCA Office immediateOct. 23 in the Student CenFriday,
ly. Further information will be
ter. Upon nomination, an 8" x 10"
black and white photograph of each

not participate in the usual heckling of brave coeds who either have
the courage to pass by the law
school or are late to class and do
not have time to make a detour

half-tim-

around the building.
"There is a certain amount of
tradition to the lunch-hou- r
games
in front of the building," said Joe
law student.
Harkins, a third-yea- r
"Some of the law students have
stopped participating in these
games because they occasionally
become cruel or crude. These games
are only fun when they are engaged

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In general, however, students
enrolled in law school next year will
continue to get the same kind of
education that they
have in the past.
Jim Varellas, who is beginning
his second year in law school, just
hopes he will be here next year to
enjoy the cultural advantages of
being a law student.
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Dedication Set For Spindletop Building

The Spindletop Administration Building will be dedicated
Oct. 21 in ceremonies featuring an address by Dr. Peter G.
Goldmark, president and director of research at CBS Laboratories.

Also Included In the dedication program, which begins at 10:30
a.m. is former Lieutenant-Governo- r
Wilson W. Wyatt, who played
a prominent role in the founding of Spindletop.
Following the dedication, Governor Edward T. Breathitt will deliver the deed for the Spindletop land and for the Administration Building to Spindletop Research.
When Spindletop was founded In 1061, the state provided $1 million to be used for Initial operating funds and set aside 130 acres on
the Spindletop show horse farm on wlilch the research association agreed
to erect a building to house the research and administration staff.
The state's obligation was fulfilled this summer when the Administration Building was completed and furnished.
Governor Breathitt calls the dedication a "signal event" in the
liistory of Kentucky.
The ready availability of scientific and technical manpower Is a
great asset in the attraction and establishment of industry. Spindletop
has played a very effective role in our past efforts and I believe that in
the years to come Spindletop't very existence will be decisive in Kentucky's economic growth," Governor Breatliitt said.
The Administration Building, at present, contains office space, laboratories, conference rooms, and a computing center.
Since Its inception in 1062, SfHndletop fuis done contract research
work in the fields of physical sciences, technoeconotnks, systems sd
ences, and befuivorial science.
The present professional and administration personnel numbers 63
and the research center is doing business at $1.2 million annually.
The building program at Spindletop has not been completed. In
future plans is the construction of several laboratory buildings, a cafeteria, a library, and an auditorium.
Spindletop Research Park, in which land will bo sold or leased to
industrial organizations and government agencies to establish research
laboratories, is also planned. An additional 350 acres of laud has been
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8, 1964

'Sawdust And TinseV Bergman Again
Film Depicts

Kernel Extcutire Editor
Bergman fans have a treat
in store this .weekend as the
Student Center Theatre plays
the Swedish director's "Sawdust and Tinsel," a work well
calculated to keep you on the
edge of )our seat.

It is not so much the beauty of
the images captured by Bergman's
camera
although these entrance
the viewer but rather it is their

power to send one reeling at once
repulsed by degradation and attracted by truth that makes this a
fascinating and powerful film.
The story is simple a circus
comes to town, and Albert, the
circus owner-managevisits his estranged wife, whom he left three
years earlier, and who lives in the
tow n. Albert offers to return to his
w ife and children, but is rebuffed by
his wife. Albert's mistress, who travels with the circus as a bareback
rider, is enraged because he visits
his. wife. She visits an actor in the
town to make Albert angry. When
Albert discovers she has been unfaithful he is enraged, and at the
circus performance, attended by the
actor, Albert embarrasses him. They
fight, and Albert is humiliated. Al- -

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Albert, the circus manager, and Anne, his mistress, struggle to find
meaningful structures in their Bohemian lives. In this scene from
the Ingmar Bergman production, Albert prepares to visit the local
theater manager and later to visit his wife. "Sawdust and Tinsel"
will be playing at the Student Center Theatre this weekend as part
of the SC Board Art Film series. A discussion period will follow
the showing.
others might qualify-com- es
at the
bert must then decide whether life
is worth living.
beginning of the film. The circus
Typically, Bergman here deals clown's wife Alma gos bathing
with the most basic themes: life, w ith soldiers camped near the place
where the circus has pitched its
death, loe, and so on. His symbols
tents. And as the sounds of battle
are powerful. This is one of Bergprovide counterpoint for her perman's "dark" films, with the abformance she begins taking off her
sence of brightness complementing
clothes. The clown is told his wife
his themes.
Probably the most stunningscene is bathing with the soldiers, and he
in the movie
although several rushes to the scene. He carries her
back to the circus.
In these moments Bergman captures the clown a Christ figure
against the wide, expansive landscape, carrying his own particular

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angelic.
Perhaps this is Bergman's most
basic message: renewal. He is an
artist who can paint with bold
strokes a portrait of anguish and
humiliation, of the debasement of a
man yet add to it with complementing tones a dim, yet steady,
ray of hope.
After seeing "Sawdust and Tinsel'' the viewer is exhausted, shaken,
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edited by Frances Wright

Sigma Chi Derby Set Saturday
The twelfth annual Sigma Chi
Derby will take place at 1 p.m.
Saturday on the baseball field behind Haggin Hall.
The main event of the day will
be the chase for the black Sigma
Chi derby which is worn by every
member of the fraternity. Five members of each sorority pledge class
must, by hook or crook, capture as
many of these derbies as possible.
The sorority with the Ihost derbies
will be named the victor.
Other events of the derby are a
cream squirt, an egg throw, a three
legged race, a pie eating contest,
the
a balloon toss,
and a poster contest. Two unsuspecting pledges will be the victims
of a mystery event.
Pam Robinson, last year's derby queen and a member of Kappa
Alpha Theta, will crown a new
queen. The winner will receive a
rotating trophy for her sorority and
an individual trophy for herself.
Queen candidates for the derby

and the organizations representing
each one are:
Marilyn Korns, Alpha Delta Pi;
Pat Bennett, Alpha Xi delta; Car

olyn O'Brien, Alpha Camma Delta; Sherry Smith, Chi Omega; far-t- y
Reed, Delta Delta Delta; jeanie
Hancock, Delta Zeta; Andi Ryan,
Kappa Alpha Theta; Judy Hippie,
Kappa Delta; Pam Ellis, Kappa
Kappa Camma; Donna Sue Morris,
Pi Beta Phi; and Linda Law, Zeta

Tau Alpha.
On Friday night before the derby the Sigma Chi's will sponsor
a campuswide dance from
in
the Student Center Ballroom. The
band will be the Drifters, and the
price of admission will be $1.50 a
person.
Tickets can be bought at the
door or at Kennedy's Book Store.

The members of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon will have a party from
p.m. Saturday at the chapter
house. Music will be by the Turbines.
Eta Sigma Phi, classical language honorary, will meet at 7 p.m.
Monday in room 109 of the Student
Center.
Centenary choir will present a
program at 6 p.m. Sunday at the
Wesley Foundation. Supper will be
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LAW WIVES -- The University Law
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The regular meeting will be at 7:30
p.m. Thursday at the home of
Mrs. Thomas Lewis, 347 Queens-wa-

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DUTCH LUNCH -- Dutch Lunch,
which is designed to integrate women students who live in town into
the University atmosphere, meets
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to read racing forms.

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effect on the University community.
Most of these agencies have their own
needs and their own budget; however, it is necessary for residents of
Lexington to support these groups
if this invaluable service is to continue.
The United Community Fund
plays an important role in producing
funds that allow these agencies to
operate effectively. These funds come
from contributions which are made
by citizens, who in turn receive direct
benefit.
University students have set a
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a booth which will be constructed to
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Quieter Victories Revisited
To The Editor Of The Kernel:
A Lexington Leader sports columnist voiced his opposition to the
Kernel's "Quieter Victories" editorial
last week by saying, "facetiously," . . .
everybody is out of step except the
Kernel editors."
It seems that the Leader exaggerated the number of students who
share their jubilation over the "University's victory." Perhaps just 80 percent are out of step, but that is not
important.
What is important is the insight
gained by comparing the response to
the last two football accomplishments
and student response to "quieter
Implicit in this discussion of
course, is an assessment of teh imfootball in the
portance of
academic community.
One writer commented that "the
school has not had a victory of this
magnitude in 10 years." Yet just five
months ago, the university's new president was inaugurated. The school
had not had a victory of such magnitude, i.e., the selection of an esteemed scholar, educator and administrator as president, in 99 years. However, the fraternities did not parade
the streets with flags, girls in the
dorms did not pour out to celebrate,
in fact, only a handful of students
attended the ceremony. Granted, football victories are inherently exciting.
On the other hand, inaugurations are
not inherently dull, and they are often
significant. The obvious retort is that
students can relate to a victory on the
football field, but were not intimately
concerned with the change in the
university's leadership. This "defence"
leads us back to the reason why the
question about "quieter victories" was
asked. The point is, why can students
not relate to a significant, important
occasion.
At this point the assumption that
football games do not (it into this
category must be made explicit. This
letter does not attempt to discuss the
importance of intercollegiate athletics per se. Hut since this topic: will
be debated lor some time in these
pages, we shall take this oppoi tunity
to cut away some of inconsistencies
big-tim- e

included in the arguments

of both

sides in this emotional issue. Both the

attackers and defenders of the kind
of athletic program which now exists
assume that the campus of the U. of
K. is different from society around it.
The defenders implicitly assert that
football has only entertainment value,
and that students can become absorbed in a game each Saturday without
assigning to it inappropriate significance in their scheme of things. The
attackers, on the other hand, seem to
feel that the campus is potentially a
scholarly group. As soon as the corrupting influence of football is removed, students' true intellectual orientation will be revealed.
Unfortunately, neither side is correct in its observations. The defenders' assumption is wrong, because
many would ratehr be concerned with
football to the exclusion of more important areas of interest. As is true
throughout our society, they want to
look up to and identify with celebrities, in this case, the gridiron variety. When "their" celebrities succeed,
they can share the triumph in a personal sense. Therefore, football's attackers are mistaken in their apparent conviction that the mundane interest in football would not give way
to higher concerns if the team were
taken of fthe campus. In fact, its absence wolud be sorely missed by many.
What is the solution? It is highly
doubtful that elimination of intercollegiate athletics from above would
have the desired effect of improving
the intellectual climate of the campus.
Therefore, those who are incensed
when students, townspeople and newspapers identify the rise and fall of
the university's stature with its fortunes on the athletic field must wait
until the day when there is more general agieement among the student
victories ate
body that
not so significant no matter how long
its been since we've had one. Then
a push can be made to break the
course that would be maintained by
inertia. Now attacks will soften the
system a bit, but not topple it.
JIM SVAKA
l&V Senior

The Tonkin Gulf Mystery
and widening the Vietnam conflict.
The United States would have been in
an indefensible position before world
public opinion if it had bombed
North Vietnam as "retaliation"
against bullets and torpedoes that-ev- en
accepting the official interpretation-were
never fired.
The incident will have been useful
if it reminds the nation and its leaders
of how inescapably confusion is a
part of war, and of the need for maximum responsibility in dealing with
that confusion. The destroyer captains who opened fire last Friday
acted out of understandable concern
for their ships and their men in putting the worst possible interpretation
on what their radar screens showed.
They used -- and had permission to
use-on- ly
conventional weapons.
Hut it is conceivable that in some
analogous situation commanders of
land or sea forces might, if they had
the authority and the means, employ
nuclear weapons, with the gravest
possible consequences. The dangers
that were faced and avoided in the
Tonkin Gulf incident make more evident than ever before the wisdom of
national policy in retaining authority
over nuclear weapons in Washington,
where the fullest picture is known and
can be evaluated.
- The Xau York Times

Though some details have been
cleared up, the recent shooting incident in the Tonkin Gulf and its consequences are in some ways more mysterious and more disturbing now
than they were originally. Bureaucratic confusion and secretiveness in
Washington are still denying to the
American people a detailed official
account of what the United States
Government knows about the skirmish.
Amid the welter of unanswered
questions here, one of the few certainties is that Senator Gold water was
wrong when he implied the United
States military communications system had broken down during the
incident.
The most disturbing aspect of
the affair is President Johnson's revelation that when first reports arrived
last Friday some
among his military and civilian advisers-had
urged rapid retaliation
and American bombing of North
Vietnam. As was to be expected, the
President had a cooler head and correctly rejected that advice. Hut it is
sobering to learn that there are individuals in the President's close official family who are so quick on the
trigger, and who wanted to take
action that could have had very
serious consequences in escalating
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Ralph McGill

The Cause In Vietnam Crisis
Maj. Gen.
G. Lansdale was assistant to the Secretary of Defense. His earlier credentials
include that of adviser to the
Philippine government during the Huk (Communist) rebellion in that country; and
from 1954-56- ,
during the
President Eisenhower
years
wrestled with the Viet Nam
war, he was adviser to President Diem.
Oen. Lansdale has written an
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Do We Un-

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derstand Revolution?" It Is published in the October issue of
the Foregin Affairs Quarterly.

Sen. Goldwater and all others
who have been demanding "answers" can have them by reading Gen. Lansdale's comments.
The struggle began during
President Eisenhower's administration. It continues. The Viet
Cong (Communists) have grown
stronger. The South Vietnamese
governments have failed, one after the other, to attract popular
support. But Gen. Lansdale's
sound thesis is that this is but
one of several "people's wars" in
which we will be drawn. The
hour is, he admits, terribly late.
But he believes it necessary to
consider the war in its "people's"
nature since there will be more
of them.
Sen. Goldwater and all others
who are so bent on seeking to
harvest prejudicial votes that
they will destroy any possibility
of bipartisan policy owe it to
themselves as persons and as citizens of a nation so involved at
least to read the argument of
the man perhaps best equipped
by experience to discuss this critical issue.
Gen. Lansdale notes the three
general reactions. One is that we
should get out, preferably by having a negotiated settlement. Other persons want to send in a
half million troops, air force and
army and "win" the war. A third

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plan is to proceed along our present course, but increase the quantity and efficiency of aid until
it overcomes.
But the general, who watched
the long struggle of the Philippines to overcome the Huks, and
who witnessed first hand the failure of the Diem government to
attract people's support, reminds
us that this is not ju