xt7kd50fxm9f https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7kd50fxm9f/data/mets.xml University of Kentucky Fayette County, Kentucky The Kentucky Kernel 19661212  newspapers sn89058402 English  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Kernel The Kentucky Kernel, December 12, 1966 text The Kentucky Kernel, December 12, 1966 1966 2015 true xt7kd50fxm9f section xt7kd50fxm9f Inside Today's Kernel
The Ford Foundation will support a
series of programs showing the potential of ETV: Page Two.
An editorial discusses the seating problem for basketball games: Page Four.
An

look

at Lexington's

trans-

portation system by Editorial Page
Editor Steve Rocco begins: Page Five.

Gov.

The University's post office will move
to Scott Street on Dec. 20: Page Nine.
UK has signed 19 high school stars
for the football team: Page Ten.

cause
Lagging construction
may
double session schools to increase in
Kentucky: Page Eleven.

Vol. 58, No.

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University of
LEXINGTON, KY., MONDAY, DEC.

12,

1966

Twelve Pages

Breathitt Expected

To Appoint Task Force
For Health Needs Study
ByJOIINZEII

Kernel Associate Editor
FRANKFORT-- It
is expected
that Gov. Edward T. Breathitt
within the next few days will
establish a special task force to

study the state's health

man-

power needs.
The commission probably will
be charged with developing a

plan to eliminate the current
shortage in health fields, with a
careful eye on the future.

A call for such a study group
came out of the health services
conferences held here in April by
the state Department of Education's bureau of vocational and
technical education. Representatives of the University, state

Mental Health Programs
'Doomed,' Dr. Albee Says
By GRETA FIELDS
Kernel Staff Writer
Community mental health programs are "foredoomed to failure"
because the type of manpower being created to staff programs is
inadequate to treat mental illness, George VV. Albee of the department of psychology at Western Reserve University, told a mental
health conference on manpower needed in psychology Friday.
Dr. Albee, who was a Ful- bright Scholar in Finland, and visible model. We can't continue
who has been a member of the to treat the mentally ill as 'sick.' "
National Task Force of the MenBelieving that research no
tal Commission
on Mental longer merits further search for
a biological explanation for menHealth, was one of several speakers at the two-da- y
tal illness, Dr. Albee believes we
conference
must view mental illness as a
held in the Phoenix Hote.
The conference was sponsored "social and cultural pathology."
must develop
Psychologists
jointly by the UK department of
their own institutes in order to
psychology and the Kentucky
Psychological Association.
carry out treatment based on this
Dr. Albee said that the heart concept, Dr. Albee said.
of his argument is that "the
"Psychologists are guests in
of action of calling others' institutions. They work
consequence
a mental disorder a disease leads in hospitals where a medical
to inaction inappropriate to treat language is spoken." But psy-

it."

As long as mental illness is
called a disease, it will be treated
in a setting which dictates the
type of personnel trained to treat
it. And, as long as it is called
a disease, manpower will be
wasted doing research to try to
discover a biological cause for
it, he said.
"We must abandon the illness model of mental health,"
Dr. Albee said, "and adopt a

T

agencies, and the University of
Louisville participated.
The bureau's health steering
committee suggested in October
that the commission be composed
of seven or nine lay people "exceptionally knowledgeable and
interested in the health manpower needs of the Commonwealth." A budget of $30,000
would be necessary for the first
year, according to E.P. Hilton,
assistant superintendent for vocational education and committee head.
Nursing tops the committee's
list of groups for which there
is "major concern" that educational programs be further developed. Others include lab technicians, physical therapists,
technicians, dieticians, surgical
technicians, inhalation therapists, medical hygienists, medical
secretaries, and engineer tech-

Jewell Display Is First

nicians.

Shortages in these areas

be-

come more critical as the state's
health care needs grow, officials
agree. Most attention has been
given the nursing situation recently, but the entire medical
field is pinched, Dr. Edmund
o,

past chairman of UK's
Medical Center said as early as
last summer.
More than a fifth of the present
technicians jobs, for example, are vacant in 97 of 142
hospitals responding to a recent
survey. Within six months, 23
more positions will need to be

chologists cannot place their
knowledge until they can work in
their own setting, he said.
filled.
Nor can the psychology profession train people to treat menHasty W. Riddle, executive
tal illness in the psychologist's secretary of the Kentucky Hosconcepts, in the psychologists pital Association, and Dr. Carl
language, until psychologists F. Lamar, director of the Rehave their own setting in which search Staff for Vocational Eduto train people, Dr. Albee be- cation at UK, reportedly worked
lieves.
closely with the governor's office
"Let's develop a new model on a draft of the upcoming executive order.
Continued On Page 9

Jewell Hall coeds pose around the dorm's Christmas tree that was
part of the overall decoration which won first place in the Women's
Residence Hall Christmas decoration contest. Blazer won second
place and Hamilton House was given honorable mention. Jewell
will receive a trophy for the display.

Services Held Today

For Paul G. Blazer

Private services for Paul G. Blazer, founder of Ashland Oil
and Refining Co., were held at 2 p.m. Monday at the First Presbyterian Church, Ashland. Burial was in Ashland Cemetery.
Blazer died r nday of a heart
condition at a Phoenix, Ariz, hos
Ashland was named in his honor.
Blazer Hall, a University
pital near his winter home in
women's dormitory, was named
Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 76.
First coming to Kentucky in after his wife, Georgia, a UK
trustee from 1939 to 1960.
1919, Blazer had maintained as
Blazer was awarded UK's Sulclose a relation with education
livan Medallion in 1948; a UK
as with the business world.
The
Paul G. honorary LL.D. degree, 1932; and
Blazer Senior High School at a Centennial Medallion last year
as one of the persons who contributed most to the University's
four-year-o-

Stress Increases Student Drinking?
By HELEN McCLOY
Kernel Staff Writer
"Students drink less during final exams

than during the football season," the head
resident said. "For my own girls, this is a
k
Pamper Yourself period. They're
not under stress, really. They take more
baths, are more certain to wear perfume,
pay more attention to their clothes, put
with greater care then
on their make-u- p
they go take a test and do better than if
they'd worried about it."
She was speaking from 23 years' experience as a housemother, and her view
that there is no more or even less drinking
now (popular definition: time of great stress)
than at other times of the year is held by
most dormitory and fraternity personnel.
Opinions on the role of stress vary, however, from a plain, "there isn't much of it
here" and "stress and drinking don't necessarily denote each other," to "increased
stress and increased drinking are definitely
related."
There are few national statistics available
on stress and college drinking, according
to Mary Ann Moldestad, who is writing
her Master's thesis on normal drinking
three-wee-

study conducted recently by Robert are many things you can't wring your hands
and Charles R. Sawyer at a over if you're going to lead a meaningful
small, unnamed men's college showed a life . . . and if you're going to get a degree
"slight relationship" between test anxiety in college. I think pressures are
and stress. The questions used in their
Ann Macdonald, Keeneland staff asinterviews were based on those for "DrinkBacon and sistant said "If students say they drink
ing in College" by Seldon D.
Robert Straus. Straus is now chairman of from a stress, it's only an excuse. I don't
think the academic pressure here is that
the department of behavioral sciences.
Whatever surveys might or might not great."
Three men's advisors, on the other hand,
say, the majority finding at UK was expressed by Bowman Hall's head resident, proposed a correlation between exam time
and increased drinking.
who said he has noticed "no trend whatsoever" toward more drinking in
"I can't speak officially for the halls,"
weeks. At least eight other advisors agreed Donovan resident adviser Don Walker said.
with him, including Alpha Chi Omega's "But I see an increase of drinking with
housemother, who added, "the fact surpressure. Nonetheless, it is never so bad
a problem that you can put your finger
prises me."
Some counselors felt age was a factor on it. And of the four years I've been here,
in the issue. Alpha Delta Pi's housemother this is the best one yet, with respect to
said "after all, most of my girls are juniors all problems."
A men's resident adviser who asked to
and seniors who have been through the
remain anonymous said there definitely had
tension before."
been more drinking among the men in his
A similar attitude was expressed by Miss
hall the last two weeks. "When stress inRosemary Pond, director of Women's Residence Halls. "If students are mature, why creases, everyone tends to relax a little
should there be more drinking?" she asked. more; it's almost necessary. But for some,
"Students have to learn to cope with the the relaxation means increased drinking."
Continued On Page II
situation, to say 'ok, exams are here.' There
A

W. Lundin

pre-exa- m

progress.

Other honorary degrees were
from Centre College, 1950; Marshall College, 1958; andPikeville
College, 1959.
He was the Kentucky Press
Association's Man of the Year
in 1954.
Helping to bring to the University campus "distinguished"
lecturers in history and social
science, the Blazers endowed
the Blazer Lecture Series in 194S
and still support it.
Blazer's alma mater, the University of Chicago, gave him its
top alumni award, the Useful
Citizen citation.

President John W. Oswald
said, "The University, the cause
of education and the Conn
hav e lost a strong friend."
"Our world, however, is a
better one for his being among us
and giving of his time, talent
and leadership to the problems
of the day," Oswald continued,
"His contributions to the University are almost endless."
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Ford Foundation Will Support
Series Showing Potential Of ETV

PR Names
Broadcast
Director

By JACK COULD

(c) New York Timet Newi Service

Manthis Manchikes, known to
Kentucky radio listeners as Pete
Mathews, lias been named to the
new position of director of Radio, Television and Films within
the Department of Public Relations.
Manchikes, associated with
Cincinnati's WLAV since 1957,
and more recently as television
production officer with the Armor
School at Fort Knox, has been
in radio and television for 21
years.
The appointment is effective

dation announced Sunday

MANTHIS MANCHIKES

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He will produce radio and television programs, film clips, and
work with the industry in its
news coverage of the campus.

immediately, Dr. Clenwood

Creech, vice president for
versity relations, said today.

The Ford Foun-

NEW YORK

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of $10 million for a series of
programs designed to demonstrate on the air the potential
of an educational television network broadcasting from coast to
coast. The series would start next
fall.
Plans for the demonstration
were announced by McGeorge
Bundy, president of the foune
brief filed
dation, in a
Monday morning with the Federal Communications Commission in Washington.
The brief is designed to support the foundation's controversial plan of last August for a
300-pag-

Benefit Concert To Be Given Tuesday
A Benefit Concert
for the University Choristers and Lexington Singers will be presented
at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Memorial Hall.

tet, Phyllis Jenness, contralto, and AimoKiviniemi,
tenor. Admission will be $1.00.
All proceeds will go to send the Choristers
and Singers to New York for their performance
in Carnegie Hall with the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra.

Featured on the program will be the University Chamber Singers, the Heritage String Quar

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Bttxinesa Manager

A Better Solution
The University is in a predic- -

ament.
Public demand for tickets at
basketball games is greater than
the supply of seats available and
it isn't likely things will change,
Six hundred tickets had to be cut
from those available to the pub- lie to meet increased needs of the
student and faculty community.
Those who were cut from the ticket
priority list had bought tickets for

two years. Others who have been
buying for six years had their al- locations reduced to a maximum of
two tickets.

The number of seats in the
present coliseum will not increase,
and it is therefore obvious a solu- tion to the problem will have to
be found.
Suggestions have includedinitin
program where- ating a
would get a sea-by each student
of all
son ticket for only one-hahome games, thereby reducing the
number of students present at any
one game. The same plan could
be used for faculty and the pub- lie.
However, a far better solution
simply be to make tickets
to only those students
split-seaso-

lf

who want to go to the games,
stands now every student
pays, through his activities fee,
whether he ever goes to a game or
not, or whether he even has an
interest in the sports.
Under the new system only those
students who sincerely want to
spend the money for a season ticket
woujd do so a situation far more
equitable for a matter of entertain- ment For athletic games are in- deed a matter of entertainment;
lhey do not hold the same po
sition as campus services subsi- dized through the activities fee.
The old argument that forcing
all students to contribute to the
As it

athletic fund through their activi- ties fee in order to assure a base
amount of funds is neither fair nor
valid. First, the demand for tickets
suggests all the seats would be
filled anyway. Secondly, meeting i
the budget by forcing students
to pay hardly deserves ethical ap- plause.
if after student tickets have
been made available there still
remains a seating problem, then
n
consideration of a
split-seaso-

op-wou- ld

tion would be worth considering-availa- ble
but not until that time.

Competing For Fun
Avery Brundage may be unrealistic in calling for reforms that
would restore amateurism to major college athletic programs. Still,
it is refreshing to find that, at
76 years of age, he hasn't given up
the idea that there are some people who would compete for fun
and fitness. And, given a chance,
they could represent this country
rather well in the Olympic Games.
He holds to this idea despite
the fact that almost all the athletes performing for major colleges
are bought and paid for long before
they attend their first class. Occasionally a youth steps out of
the ranks of paying students and
performs to the coaches' satisfactionwhereupon he is immediately
given a scholarship that entitles
him to the same payment for room,
board; books, tuition and "walking around money" that his teammates receive.
' Mr. Brundage would like to see
athletic scholarships eliminated
and schools and colleges concentrate on developing fitness programs for all students. He points,
out, correctly, that commercialism
rather than student fitness is the
goal of most college (and high
'school) athletic programs. But there
is little hope that this will change
during his life. It will be enough
if the effort is begun.
One contribution Mr. Brundage
could make, as president of the
International Olympic Committee,

to move toward stricter amateur codes for Olympic participants.
That would mark the beginning
of the move away from hypocrisy
and what Mr. Brundage calls a
"disgraceful fraud" in the sports
world. The line between amateur
and professional athlete should be
clearly drawn with those who accept athletic scholarships on the
is

y
side.
The Louisville

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Job Well Done
The Kernel wishes to extend
plaudits to those students responsible for fostering the holiday spirit
on campus by so beautifully deco-

rating the Student Center.
Planning was carried out by
the Special Events and Hospitality Committees of the Student Center Board, with numerous interested students participating in
hanging the decorations. Window
painting was accomplished by the
Student Art Club, not affiliated
with the Student Center Board.
This is indeed a job well done.

Kernel
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height
in civilization; it means that the
population is winding up its nervous and intellectual sy stem to the
utmost point of tension and that
sometimes it snaps.
Havelock Ellis

"Well, When He Hits Capitol Hill, He Might Not
Get A Chance To Move Very Fast"
Letters To The Editor

Joys Of Living In Complex 8
To the Editor of the Kernel:
We in Complex 8 Dec. 1 ex- perienced an incident similar to
the sounding of the fire alarm
in Blazer Hall as described in a let- ter by Kacy Chambers and Donna

Estridge.
The alarm went off about 12:15
a.m., and we all filed out into the
cold and snow fluries. There we
realized that it wasn't a drill be- cause there were no waiting fire- men, only Pikes.
After one of the dorm officials
discovered that it was a false alarm,
we were allowed back into the
building, and an electrician was
called to turn the thing off. We
were luckier than those in Blazer;
our alarm was off by 1 a.m. But
then the heating system went out.

Want to hear the best part?
Nobody ever did call the fire department! Had they been called,
they probably couldn't have gotten to the building because there
is no road, and padlocked posts
now keep "unauthorized" vehicles
off the nice, wide, muddy sidewalks. If they had managed to plow
through the mud, in front of Complex 7, they probably couldn't have
reached to the fire hydrant, which
probably isn't connected yet anyway (ihe phones aren't).
The heating failure was particularly interesting because three
"heating men" had spent the morning checkingthe rooms, whether the
residents liked it or not. Although
their presence had been announced
on the intercom, several sleeping
coeds were quite surprised when
they found the men letting themselves into their rooms by pass
keys, climbing on the furniture
(would you believe on the occupied

beds?) and otherwise creating a

distrubance.
Concerning the study problem,
our corridor is blessed with quieter
residents than I've ever known in
a "study dorm," but others are
not so lucky. We not only don't
have a study room on each floor
of this building, but we also don't
have a soundproof library in the
basement, or kitchenettes, or an
elevator, or a concession room, or
a TV or a stero. And have you seen
our "lobby"? We can't find it,
,
either.
We d have two small lounges
in the basement without furniture
which are too open and noisy for
studying. We also have a maid's
rom, a janitor's room, and sev- eral other iocked rooms down there
whose natures we can only conjecture.
If you'd like to see and hear
some of the other atrocites in Low
Rise 8 (isn't that a lovely, homey
name?), drop in anytime (the door
alarms haven't been installed yet).
Or maybe you would rather wait
until next semester. We've asked
permission to have open house every
other Sunday so we can show off
our new home to everyone!
Beverly Vance
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City Traffic Woes
Editorial Page Editor
Lexington Traffic Engineer
Joseph M. Heidenreich leaned
back in his green leather office
chair, gazing out his window
into the street below the Municipal Building, with a worried
and tired look on his face.
Rush hour traffic was beginning to congregate into its daily
muddle, and Heidenreich knew
little could be done about it.
"There are 250,000 vehicles
making daily trips in and out
of Lexington," he said. "By 1980
this number will reach half a
million. And we're using virtually the same arterial streets we
had in 1830."
But the traffic engineer said
downtown traffic was not the
worst problem. The south end
of town is the real trouble area
in respect to traffic jams. There
is a technical reason for this,
he explained. Radial routes, such
as Nicholasvilie Road, Winchester Pike, Harrodsburg Road and
Versailles Road, emerge from the
downtown area. "They split the
town into pieces of pie," Heidenreich observed.
"The real problem is going
from one piece of pie to
We need not only an outer
beltline but a series of others."
Heidenreich added, "You can
widen an existing road until you
reach the point of diminishing
returns. Every piece of property
has an access, and to eliminate
the access you have to buy the
property on either side of the
roadway. It is cheaper to build
a new facility."
Lexington's traffic problems
stem from one basic problem:

the lack of funds with which
to make necessary improvements.
A downtown transportation
improvement plan was finished
this year by Wilbur Smith and
Associates. The main proposal
is an east-weexpressway,
roughly running equidistant between Maxwell and High Streets.
The highway, costing $7,750,000,
may never reach theofficial planning stages. A number of citizens
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have opposed the planned location, suggesting construction
would necessitate thedestruction
of several "historic" sites.
Even if the plan were
adopted, Lexington isn't likely
to be able to secure the funds.
Heidenreich said there are
two
categories of financing
streets in Lexington. The state
assumes the responsibility for
arterial streets, and must get
traffic around anil to Lexington
on the various U.S. highways
that serve the city.
The controlling factor is the
state's expenditures. The federal
government matches each state
dollar with nine dollars when an
Interstate highway is constructed. Heidenreich noted,
"The state likes this."
When the state constructs primary and secondary roadways it
receives a different federal scale
of matching funds. To construct
an expressway in Lexington the
state would receive matching
basis.
funds on only a
Heidenreich said Kentucky is
spending $190 million this year
on liighway construction, yet
nearly all of it is going to build
Interstates.
One thing that disturbs Heidenreich is that the federal gov
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basis in the construcon a
tion of Appalachian roads, yet
will not allow cities the same
benefits.
"Not only will federal appropriations have to be increased
by the federal government (for
city expressways), but an increase in percentage in matching
funds is needed, Heidenreich
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The second category of securing funds for building urban
streets is a "local responsibility,"
he said. "It has been customary

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streets we had in 1830.'
said. "The state and federal government have
the
city's ability to tax motorists.
It is not this way in all states.
But money to improve streets
such as Maxwell and High must
come from the general fund, and
that goes for a thousand other

in Kentucky and other states to
make road users pay the bill."
When neighborhood
streets
are improved, each property owner is assesed so much for the
betterment. But, Heidenreich
said, "We have streets like Maxwell and High that are used by
thousands of people besides those
who live on these streets. They
are not owned by the state."
And it is here that the hitch

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purposes."

Money collected by the sale
of city licenses goes into the city's"
general fund.

The situation is only worsened
by Lexington's rapid
growth. In 1952, the citv had
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develops.
"It is against the law for
the city to reserve a portion of

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