University of Kentucky

Vol. 58, No. 114

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LEXINGTON, KY., THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1967

Or. Richard Butwell criticites
policy in Vietnam: Poge Three.

Arthur Schlesinger says the Johnson
Administration does not want peace
negotiations: Page Three.

Eight Pages

Plans Told
For Forestry
Department

execu-

tive vice president, said decisions now have been reached to:
Appoint Dr. Blaine F. Parker,

also.

Name

a

committee

of

"about" seven representing all

segments of the state's forest and
wood industries to advise President Oswald.
Name two outside consult-

ants to study the department's
operations and industry needs.
Retain the responsibility for
the direction and management of
the 15,000 acre Robinson Forest
and the $640,000 Wood Utilization Center.
Employ a permanent chairman of the Department.
Foresters and wood industry
officials were aroused early last
month when Dr. Boyd Richards
resigned as department chairman
and charged "massive
of the divisions' programs."
James D. Manning former
president of the Kentucky Wood
Industry Association said, "We're
satisfied."
The present plan offers only a
plan, transferring students to other Southern schools
for the last two years and paying for part of the tuition.
non-suppo-

two-ye-

rt

ar

Harold Lasswell
Speaks On Friday

An internationally known political scientist, Dr. Harold D.
Lasswell, will speak on research
trends in political science during a colloquim which opens at
3 p.m. Friday at the Alumni
House.
Dr.

Lasswell

is

Edward J.

Phelps professor of political science at Yale University.
His best known books are
"Psychopathology and Politics;"
"World Politics and Personal Insecurity;" "Politics: Who Gets
What, When, How;" "Power and
Personality;" "The Future of Political Science;" and "Power and
Society" with A. Kaplan.

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IEEE Winners Told

Winners in the annual IEEE engineering competition are, first
row, David Six, second place; Bill Wray, second place; and Walter
Kroboty, first place. Second row, Jim Woodyard, honorable mention; Jim Freeman, third place; and Dr. Silvio Navarro, president
of the Lexington IEEE chapter. Third row, John Criesel, honor-

able mention.

Senate Votes Extension
Of Present UK Calendar

turn-overra- te

exThe University Senate Wednesday approved a three-yea- r
tension of the present academic calendar and then voted to purge
its own members who have excessive absences.
Labor Day was deleted as a list of 25 Senate members who
an academic holiday, and the he
says have missed every meetperiod for withdrawing from a ing this year.
course was shortened from two
In other business a motion
to five weeks before final
was approved to solicit an early
examination time.
for the Senate from the
Some opposition was voiced report
Committee of the. Evaluation of
against the drop proposal due to Teaching.
a change in the Senate rules
Criticism of the present calenwhich had to be made first to
dar mentioned prior to the meetallow the calendar alteration.
failed to materialize in the
interval ing
In addition a two-da-y
Senate session itself.
between the last day of exams
The basic criticism had hereand the day grades are due at
the Registrar's office, exclusive tofore centered around whether
of Sunday, was approved by a the present system, with short'vote of 34 to 32.
ened semesters ending before
Christmas and in early May proComAccording to Calendar
of
mittee Chairman Robert Rudd, vided long enough periods
total class time.
disthere was "absolutely no
cussion" on the merits of changWhile it was not stated in the
ing to another calendar system. Senate session, critics within the
A motion by J.M. Edney, asEnglish Department have presistant professor of zoology, to viously decried an inability to
make Founder's Day (Feb. 22) draw first quality term papers
from their students since the new
an academic holiday was decalendar has been instituted.
feated.
The Senate approved amotion
However, supporters of the
by Dr. Stanley Zyzniewsky that system claim that the
k
"three unexcused absences from period following Christmas vacaSenate meetings in an academic tion was essentially a "lame
year will automatically call for duck" period in which little of
purgation."
academic value was ever accomDr. Zyznewsky, associate pro- plished. Many instructors indifessor of history, has been a cated they no longer use extencritic of frequent absenteeism and sive research papers in their
at one time threatened to read courses.

CHRISTIAN

Kernel Staff Writer
There are some 1,600 students living in
the men's residence halls. Most are freshmen with mutual problems of schedules,
grades, roommates, girlfriends and, in general, adjustment to a strange environment.
They need assistance from someone on
their own level, and this is where the Office

Fint of two parts.
Halls has a problem:
How do you recruit other students, with
relatively little experience in advising and
counseling, and train them to advise these
freshmen to use their new freedom wisely?
There is no problem attracting applicants for the job. Before last month's deadline, more than 200 students had applied
for corridor adviser positions. That number
has since been cut in half, and from the

of Men's Residence

Doctors sometimes face a conflict between the law and their patients' beit
interests: Page Eight.

Kernel Associate Editor
Teacher and course evaluation questionnaires are due to be distributed April 3 and 4 for the Student Guide to Courses and InShanker was uncertain
structors.
Howard Shanker, first year whether the book would carry-lastudent and editor of the a cost or be free to students.
book, said Wednesday it would That question rests with the
decision of Student Gov ernment.
be available next semester prior
No feedback has come from
topreregistration for Spring 1968.
the faculty yet, Shanker added.
Modeled after a similar course
evaluation at Ohio University,
"It seems that the faculty
the book will contain critiques has decided they either are not
of every course and teacher at interested, or they expressed
the University, exclusive of the themselves through the unanigraduate and professional mous approval of the University
schools.
Senate," Shanker continued.
He contrasted the situation
include duplicate
Exceptions
sections of courses taught by the with his prior experiences at
same person and such courses Ohio University where, he said,
as Freshman Composition, faculty wrote frequent letters
both criticizing and praising the
taught largely by graduate asevaluation effort.
sistants who have a high
Earlier last semester Shanker
from year to year.
Shanker explained the omis- stated the purpose of the evaluation as an aid "to improve
sion of graduate and professional
school evaluations on the basis the academic excellence of a
that these areas have highly re- university."
Three goals of the Ohio Unistrictive curricula programs and
that more experience would be versity guide were:
needed to tackle evaluating such
Providing a detailed description of courses as taught by speprograms.
"You have to draw aline some cific instructors.
Providing a dialogue beplace. If you eliminate graduate
it cuts the number of tween faculty and students.
courses,
courses in half. If it the underPublicly acknowledging inevaluation goes over structors according to student
graduate
well, we can expand it," he said. evaluations.
The first known teacher evalFrom 200 to 300 persons will
distribute questionnaires to uation was initiated by students
classes on campus during 15 min- at Harvard University in 1924.
ute periods alloted by approval Since then the idea has spread
of the University Senate last widely.

two-wee-

November.

The questionnaire will have
approximately 40 items, like the
one as Ohio University where
Shanker was business manager
of the book, dealing with the
content and execution of the
course and a critique of the
teacher.
Questionnaires will be fed
to a University computer which
will tabulate the results for about
40 editorial writers before the
semester's end. Critiques will be
written over the summer months
and be sent to printers during
Shanker explained.
One person has been assigned
each department while there is
a division editor for each college.
The organization, Shanker noted,
is similar to that in the University Ceneral Catalogue.
mid-Augus-

t,

Finding Good Dorm Advisers Is Problem
By DARRELL

UK proposes link with Paducoh Junior
College: Page Seven.

By FRANK BROWNING

velopment" of the department.

chairman of the school's Agriculture Department, to be acting
head of the Forestry Department

standings: Page

To Be Out In Fall

"de-sinne-

Albright,

Editor advocates draft deferments for
Peace Corps volunteers: Page Four.

SAE's lead intramural
Six.

SG Course Guide

The Department of Forestry
has been presented a plan
d
to insure the maximum deDr. A. D.

U.S.

remaining group will come some 30 new
staff members for the 1967 fall semester.
The present staff is composed of three head
residents, 11 resident advisers, and 52 corridor advisers.
In efforts to acquire competent advisers,
the system's administrators just last year
initiated a seminar program in which the
final prospects are confronted with test situations and asked how they would handle
them.

The seminar has drawn praise from both
the administrators and subjects. It not only
reduces the ikjssihility .of bad counselors,
but it also gives the applicant a certain
insight into the job.
"The selection process is getting better
now," notes John Board, a resident adviser in Cooperstown. "The seminars are
good, but more weight needs to be given
to the recommendations from persons conducting the seminars."
Four years ago, Board recalls, "persons

would take the job because they needed
money to get them through school. They
(these corridor advisers) didn't want to be
bothered with you."
One basic problem with the system, according to Board and several other staff
members, is a "tendency to keep the advisers not worthy of the job on the staff
instead of getting rid of them."
Rodney Page, in Donovan Hall, agreed
with Board that "bad counselors Ucome
so Ix'cause no one sets them straight."
Periodic evaluations, suggests Bob O'Toole,
a senior corridor adviser in Haggin Hall,
should include interviews with students.

Roger LeMaster, director of the men's
residence halls before the recent reorganization by the Board of Trustees, said there
is a continual evaluation of corridor advisers conducted by the senior stall the
resident advisers and head residents. Their
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Officers

To Bo Installed
On March HO
Installation of new senators
of Associated Women Students
was tentatively set for the evening
of March 30 by AWS Tuesday
in a joint meeting of old and
new members.

A third of the way through
the session
president
Connie Mullins closed the meeting to reporters, saying that
several senators had petitioned
her that further business go "unreported."
A senator who asked to remain
anonymous said she thought the
move came in anticipation of
talk on changes in women's
hours, a topic that has occupied
the Senate in one way or another
since October. The senator said
the Senate, however, did not
"get around to discussing hours"
probably "because so many members left early."
Various aspects of the recent
Senate elections were also discussed, she said. The earl) closing of the poll at Blazer Hull
was attributed to misinformation
on the part of a senator manning
the poll. The Senate's consensus
on the issue raised oer candidates manning the iolls, according to the Senate source, was that
they "hadn't realized anything
would be said about it this year
because nothing had been said in
the past few years."
Reports on the work each retiring Senator did during her
term of office and on Stars in
the Night were also presented,
the Seiffltor said.
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