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University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., Friday, Oct. 23, 1937

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By JOHN ECKRTOV

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UK's first Career Carnival, the
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Coliseum.

With joli opportunities and carter requirements as the keynote, the two-tlaevent will rjve students and other intetested
persons an opportunity to talk informally with representatives
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more than 125 "companies
throughout the United States.

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Kemper in the University Place,
ment Center, and a numtwr of
part ment.s on the campus nldrd
in the development of the event,
Speaking of the Mgniflcnnre if
the event here. Du key said the
University "may neer again have
the chance to observe and evaluate
such a wide segment of employ- ment possibility's. Mr added that
the Career Carnival "has been con.
ceived as a means of Riving our
students the best possible oppor-pa- st
tunity to become acquainted with
some of the Her representative
of our top business, industrial and
professional organization."
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ranging from Jet engines
to typewriters will show products
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and services of each of the bust- nesses. industries, governmental
agencies and professions repre- cca
sented. The displays will fill both
concourses of the coliseum.
v-I'K Is the second school In the
V. S. to present such an event.
Michigan State I'niversity has held
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the carnival successfully for the
six years. About 90 companies
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participated In their largest event
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earlier this month.
The carnival here is expected to
attract upwards of 10.000 persons
from Kentucky. Southern Indiana
and Southern Ohio. College and
higli school students and other
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; "I persons not now in school will
have an opportunity to learn of
the necessary qualifications and
-requirements for employment with
some of the nation's top companies.
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An informal tea and a
dinner will precede the
carnival on Monday. At the tea.
Carnival Display
set for 3 p.m. in the Student Union
Other exhibits such as this will highlight the first
of more than 125 companies. Exhibits ranging from Ballroom, the company representay
Career Carnival to be held at I K. The two-dajet engines to typewriters are designed to show the tives will be introduced to the Ed Beck, UK basketball star,
was elected president of the Colaffair, expected to attract about 10,000 people, w ill
products and services of the different businesses.
UK seniors.
lege of Arts and Sciences srninr
jrive students a chance to talk with representatives
I'K President Frank O. Dickey class jast Tuesday night,
will welcome the officials that
jun Urbaniak was elected
at a dinner In the rhoenlx president and Joy Bell, secretary.
Hotel. Dave Ravencraft. president Between 80 and 100 seniors at-SGA. will be toaslmaster at the tended the meet Inn which was
dinner, which starts at 6:.",0 p.m.
held in the Music Kootn of the
The carnival will be open from SUB.
y a.m. to z noon and from
l:o Donelene Sapp. chairman of the
p.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and
Wednesday, and from 7 p.m. to 9 nominating; committee presented
the slate to the group Candidates
p.m. Tuesday night.
were
A slightly "modified Sigma Chi Derby will be held tomorrow
event were begun for president Mills, Beck. Buddy
Plans for the
and Urbaniak.
Woodall. Don
Two UK students
April when
sent letfor the eighth straight )ear, starting at 1 p.m. on the west end this week in a vain were injured last of invitation Dickey the com- The candidate with the second
attempt to ters
to all
save their landlady from burning panies which have had job repre- highest number of votes was seol the baseball field.
to death.
sentatives on the I'niversity cam lected
All events will be the same as last year, except that the
Candidates for secretary were
Mrs. Julia Sallee, 75. was fatally pus in the past year
Bell. Jane Brock, and Jo Ann
Arrancements and reservations
course has been eliminated anil the queen contest burned Monday when her clothobstacle
ing caught fire at her home on were made through Mrs. Katherine Burbridge.
changed. The changes resulted from conlerencesj with repre- - Oldham
Members of the nominating com
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Avenue.
mittee upiointed by Dean M. M.
aCllltlllL'S Ol UIC'JJCMII oi .Men s
A'. Southall,
20, and
Thomas
ID CARDS
White were Donelene Sapp, Ed.
Students who had pictures Beck, Buddy Wocxlall, Jane Brock,
office, the Dean of Women's Richard Kammerer, 21, roomers at
-the Sallee home, suffered hand made for ID cards earlier in the
st
office, the Program Director, burns when they tried to smother semester and have not picked and Carlene I lass.
Dean White spoke to the croup
their cards up yet may do so in
the Women's Physical Educa- the woman's flaming clothing.
lobby of the Coliseum, on before the elections. He reminded
the
They were treated at a Lexingtion department, and
all seniors
ton hospital and transferred to Saturday morning, Oct. 2C, from so to file who ahave not yet done
degree. He al.o
for
the University infirmary.
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This year, the queen candidates,
one from each sorority's pledge
class, will not be asked to step
into the familiar Sigma Chi Derby
form. Instead, they will stand
outside, but in line with the profile of the "ideal" female figure.
The obstacle course has been
eliminated because of complaints
that it was too strenuous." Abas- N,sj
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ketball dribbling relay, vith Tour
girls on
team each racing 40
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yards will replace the evencr
Rogers dixieland band
Buddy
Each sorority will put up se- will play tonight at the Keys
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS
lected contestants in each of the Dance in the SUB ballroom from
derby events. Trophies will be 9 to 1 a.m.
awarded for the highest total
Keys Queen will
Voting
points in all events, to the queen, be from 8for theto 5 p.m. today at
a.m.
and to the team winning each the Sl'll. One sophomore from
event.
each sorority is a candidate for the
Other events include an epg toss, title of ".Most Beautiful Sophomore
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pie eating contest, pledge target, Woman." The queen and her two
apple bob, and flag chase. These attendants wilt be announced at
pa.ssed the p.cluA'visUatiou's in- about
tunight at the d upce.
vestigating committee without proThe queen nominess, by sorority,
test, throuuh the committee asked are Ethyl Insko, Alpha Delta Pi;
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lSupreme Court Justice William tor the first time that the pur- Holly Stevenson. Alpha Ciumma
f
;;'.A-U;O. Douglas will speak next Wed- pose of the Sigma Chi Derby be Delta; Sharon King, Alpha Xi
nesday at Memorial Coliseum at explained to the EGA Social Com- Delta; Scharme Wiggintnn, Chi
OmeRa; Patty Harjr, Delta Delta
mittee.
8:15 p.m.
An
Trophy is Delta: Jo Anne George; Delta Zeta;
Justice Douglas, who speaks un,
of the Concert given to the sorority compiling the Jan Thomas. Kappa "Alpha Thetaf
der the
greatest total of points, awarded Charlene Scheibel, Kappa Delta;
and Lecture Scries, will discuss
'Democracy vs. Communism in in each event on a basis of three Eklwina Humphreys, Kappa Kappa
for first place, two for second place, Gamma and Janet Jordan, Zeta
Asia."
Tau Alpha.
Douglas has been an associate and one for third.
Members of
Justice of the Supreme Court for
The Duruo.se. as hastily defined men's honorary, Keys, sophomore
are selling tickets
18 years. He practiced law in New hy Sigma Chi representatives,
is
was a member of to stimulate friendly competition in advance for $2. Admission at
York City and
the law faculty at Columbia and among sororities, to publicize them. the dance will be $2 50. The Keys
Yale.
an(i to provide a good time' for members can be Identified today
He is the author of several tne whole campus. After some by the giant silver key which each
Q uven Candidates
books the most recent being "Bus- - disrusskm of spt.cific events the member is wearing tied to his belt.
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Late permission until 1:30 am.
One of these girls will be chosen ".Most Beautiful Sophomore Woman"
s:an Journey
Social Committee unanimously ap- - has been Rt anted for firlj attend-Iv.- 'i
tonight at the Key Daixv. Ituddv Roger' dixieland baud will play
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the dunce.
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These models were constructed
by Dr. Roberto Ouatelli from the
notes and drawings which da
Vinci kept of all his inventions.
The display has been widely shown
and well received in Europe as
well as In other parts of the
United States.
Dr. Ouatelli. an authority on
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Shown are the new officers of the College of Arts and Sciences' senior
class. From left to rUht they are, Joy Bell, secretary; Ed Beck, presiThe new officers were elected
dent: and Jim I'rbanlak,
at a meeting of Arts and Sciences seniors last Tuesday night. Dean
M. M. White spoke at the meeting which was held in the Music Room
of the SUB.
. The University's
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He announced the schedule ns
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Co.. Huntington, W. Va.; Haynes
Stellite, Kokomo, Ind.; Union Carbide Nuclear, Oak Ridge, Tenn.;
Macomber Inc., Canton. Ohio;
Corning Glass, Harrodsburg.
Oct. 31, Convalr, Ft. Worth,
Texas; Los Alamos Scientific Lab.,
Los Alamos, New Mexico; Atlas
Powder Company, Wilmington,
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However, guard against gaudiness. If, for instance,
you are wearing a gold derbv, do not also wear a cavalry
saber. This is too much. Wear a dagger instead, or, for
formal occasions, a bowie knife.
Let us turn now to a iersistent rumor that a garment called the "suit" is on the verge of making a
comeback. Some of you older students may remember
this "suit." It was an ensemble consisting of a jacket
and trousers, both of which this'll kill you both of
which were made out of the same material!
The last "suit" ever seen on an American campus
was in 1941 and I ought to know because I was
wearing it. I was an undergraduate then, and in love
hopelessly in love with a beauteous statistics major
named Harry Sigafoos. (She is one of the two girls I
have ever known named Harry. The other one is her
sister.)
I loved Harry madly, though her expensive tastes
were the ruin of me. Bit by bit I sold off my belongings to pursue this costly courtship first my books,
then my clothes, until finally I was left with nothing
to wear but a "suit". One night I came calling for her
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in this garment and she, of course, slashed me across
';' the face with a riding crop and sent me from her door.
I slunk home and lit a Marlboro and sat down to
think. I always light a Marlboro when J sit down to
think, for their good mild flavor is a great aid to cerebration. I always light a Marlboro when I don't sit
down to think, too, because Marlboro is my favorite
cigarette, and I know it will be yours, too, once you
make the acquaintance of that filter, that flavor,-tha- t
fiiptop box. As the man says, you get a lot to like with
a Marlboro.
Well, sirs, smoking ami thinking thus, my eye happened to fall on an ad in a campus newspaper which
said: "WIN A COMPLKTK WARDROBE! Touhy's
Toggery, the campus's leading men's store, announces
man on campus. The
a contest to pick the
winner will receive absolutely free a complete new
wardrobe!"
Struck by a sudden inspiration, I took pen in hand
and wrote a letter to Mr. Touhy of Touhy's Toggery:
"Sir I see by the paper that you are giving a
d
man on camnew wardrol? to the
pus. What a ridiculous idea!
man on campus,
"Obviously, to be the
you must first have a lot of clothes, and if you have a
lot of clothes, what dq you need with another wardrobe?
"Touhy's Toggery should give a new wardrobe to
the jorsMlressed man on campus. Me, for. instance.
I am an eyesore. There isn't a crow in towrt that will
come near me. Three times this month the Salvation
Army salvage truck has picked me up. E&quifv hod
canceled my subscription.
"I submit that a vote for me is a vote for reason, u
vote for equity, a vote for the American way!"
With a llourish 1 signed the letter and sent it off,
somehow feeling certain that very soon I would be
wearing a complete new wardrobe.
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It Is our conviction that we can
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Coopcrstown
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DAVE ALTEMUEHLE, Managing Editor
ANN SMITH, News Editor
JAMES BLAND, Makeup Editor
ED FORD, Sports Editor
Tracy Waldcn. Society Editor
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Jim Hampton and Norma Shelton, Feature Editors
Bob Smith, Assistant Sports Editor
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NORMAN McMULLIN, Adv. Mgr.
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HEPOnTERS David Allen, Gilbert R. Parley. Sally Hurke, Neal Clay, Ann
Crutcher. Donald C. Deaton. John FBertnn, BUI Hammond. Jane Harrtnon. Betty
Ann Holtrrlaw, James Hudson, n.trbara Lake. Hal Lelchhardt. Don Leslie,
Pirhard Llttrell. Nancy Meadows. Dan Millott. Paul Nickles. Guernev Norman,
Fally Osteen. Bobby Perdue. Alice Heddtng. K. E. Kobinson. Paul Scott, Virginia Snodsrass. Judy Trivette. Larrv Van Hoose, S. C. Wayne Jr., Jean
Weatherford, Joan Weissinger, John N. Whitt.

UK's First Career Carnival
The University of Kentucky Career Carnival opens to tlio
public Tuesday morning. It is the first event of its kind here
and tlie largest of its kind anywhere.
On the basis of what we have been able to learn about it,
we heartily endorse it. If it is successfully continued, it holds
promise of being of immeasurable value to both the University
and to the firms represented.
To the University, it will mean that students can receive a
practical, visual lesson in vocational counselling. Upper division students will be able to narrow down their professional
goals to the few that interest them most. Lower division
students who are as yet undecided on a career, can get firsthand information that may enable them to choose that field
that is most in keeping with their interests and aptitudes.
The various business organizations that participate in the
Carnival have a chance to join in a healthy;" competitive event
that can result in growth for them all.
We congratulate those people who are responsible for the
Career Carnival, and trust that student and public interest
will justify their efforts.

The .Word From Ahove
The Sigma Chi Derby will take place tomorrow with one
or two minor changes. There will be no obstacle course this
year because the Sigma Chi's think it is too strenuous.
There will also be a change in the way the queen is
chosen. No more will the girls step into the cutout form of
the "ideal" figure to see who fits it. Instead, the candidates
will stand near the form, the reason for this change being
that a
Committee of Five disapproved of the
cutout form idea.
This committee is made up of Dean of Men L. L. Martin,
Dean of Women Doris M. Seward, their respective assistants,
and a student representative of Panhcllenic.
We agree with Sigma Chi President Bill Ilammons that
such matters should be placed in the hands of the Student
Government Association. President Ravencraft of SGA has
agreed to appoint a committee to investigate the matter.
Here is a chance for SGA and the entire student body to
find out whether they have any voice at all in those things
that directly affect them, or whether all standards must be
dictated by the Committee of Five.
If the students do have a voice in such things, maybe the
Committee can be stopped before it insists on
bloomers and high button shoes, and UK becomes the laugh-in- g
stock of the South.
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ask for profevsional rompetence,
sir, because we are not prepared to
give it to, you. If we were, we
would not still be in school.
As for our editorial policy, we
do not intend to let you, or anybody else, tell us when or whether
to take a stand, or what that
stand should be. We assure you
that we are as honest In this note
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LETTERS:

A&S Stiident
Calls Editor
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To the editor:
Your editorial in the Oct. 18 edition was certainly some of the most
flagrant, glaring hypocrisy which I
have ever encountered. I refer to
the column headed, "The Freedom
To Express Opinion; But What If
You Have No Opinion?". Such an
editorial, from the editor of a University newspaper which has made
itself conspicuous by the absolute
refusal to take a stand, either positive, negative, or neutral, on any
controversial issue of Import, is
amazing.
The Kentucky Kernel is in no
small way the voice of the students
of the University of Kentucky. A
university newspaper is expected
not only to furnish the students
with news; it is expected by the
students to reflect their opinions
and reactions, individual or collective, to those outside of the University. In this respect, the Kentucky Kernel, under its present

dent body to arms against a pile
of rubble in Coopcrstown. That
these matters should be brought
to the attention of the Kernel's To the Editor:
After reading your editorial of
readers. I do not dispute; that this
pile of rubble should have rated last week on the results you ob- the entire attention of the initial tained from your scientifically coneditorial of the fall semester I ducted poll of. the student body
gravely doubt.
concerning the Kernel Kutie, I
So now, Mr. Editor, you are cannot refrain from writing you.
crushed because 98 per cent of the
In your ed.torial you attempted
student body failed to become ex- to draw the conclusion from your
cited about a controversy over the survey that the student body
relative merits of the "Kernel doesn't think. May I draw some
Kutie". Certainly the majority of others?
By your own figures only 2
the remaining two per cent were in
favor of this feature remove the answered the questionnaire. From
"Kutie" and Max Shulman's cigar- this one can safely assume the
ette ad and the last vestiges of Kernel has some value for approxicolor possessed by this weekly mately 2"r of the student body. As
shopper's guide and social calendar to your allegation that the students
have been taken away.
aren't thinking, my answer can
We are all Kfudents,' Mr. Editor. only be that the majority occupy
I do not ask for professional com- their minds with things of a "highpetence. I might hasten to dis- er plane than the "scuttlebutt"
agree with you for taking a stand found in your paper.
opposite my own viewpoint honWhy don't you use some of the
est disagreement does not lessen good mind available to you to
mutual respect but I must con- write editorials on, say, the chal-

demn one who expresses no viewpoint whatsoever. "Such apathetic
attitudes on a university campus
where thinkers are normally supposed to dwell is slightly frightening." Do you recognize that. Mr.
Editor? It is a direct quote from
your editorial.
The opinion you voice is far less
important than the act of voicing
it. Say something!
Donald R. Read
policy, is a weekly insult to the
student body.
(We are truly sorry, Mr. Reach,
Here, in this environment, the that we here at the Kernel have
opportunity to speak one's mind failed to please you. We humbly
on almost any subject imaginable admit that thrre is a. great deal
(with the assurance of having in- of truth in what you say: we have
terested listeners ) - existsas- - in no norcommenlfd on the Little Rock
other place. Yet, Russia's earth situation, the launching of Sputsatellite was successfully launched nik, nor anything else that is not
an event bearing
directly connected with the Uniscientific and military implica- versity of Kentucky. Neither do
tions, and certainly one which we propose to do these things.
should be of interest to University
We do not have the time, the
students and you penned a
money, nor the facilities to cover
editorial against the Social national or international affairs.
Science building.
We are merely students, carrying
Prior to that, the Little Rock a full load of college work and
situation claimed the attention of trying, in our small way, to pubeditorial pages across the nation lish a newspaper for and about
and around the world; and the the students
University.
Kentucky Kernel called the stu
For news and editorial comment
far-reachi- ng

soul-stirri-

Thoughts Of
Students On
Higher Plane

ng

of-th-

e

lenge to us from Sputnik?
Sincerely,
W. T. Williams
Class of '55
(Our Kutie poll was intended
to be a oluntary sort of thing;
not a controlled, scientific experiment. Also, by inference ou say
that only those people who would
stop to read 'scuttlebutt" bother
with the Kernel. Obviously, sir,
you are among that group. The
Ed.)

Wildcats
the Editor:
Everyone wants to know what's
wrong with the Cats. Already
many of the "fans" are screaming
for Coach Blanton Collier's scalp.
If some of the "fans" who are
screaming for blood would yell for
the Cats instead, we.might win
this week's game. Let's wait and
see the outcome of the game before we condemn the team or hang
the coach in effigy as some are
wont to do now.
(Name withheld by request)
To

UNIVERSITY SOAPBOX

Students Take Issue With Kernel Editorial
By

MARY ELLEN CURTIN
and '
DORIS ET1IINGTON
(The SOAPBOX this week is devoted to a comprehensive reply to a recent Kernel editorial concerning the
teaching of the sciences at UK. We remind you that any
opinions expressed in the SOAPBOX are those of the
writers, and not necessarily those of the editor. However,
we do believe that the article this week contains some
points well taken. The Ed.)
On Friday. Oct. 4, 1957, the Kentucky Kernel carried
an editorial discussing the question of required laboratory
courses. We agree with the writer of the editorial that
one of the functions of the. college is to develop within
life, rich in Interest, rethe individual "a
sourceful, capable of continuous- growth and of adaptation to times and circumstances:" However, we do not
agree with his view that the liberal arts student should
he relieved of "getting his hands dirty In the laboratory."
In his opinion, the omission of required laboratory courses
would "help the average student by giving him a chance
to learn something about several scientific fields . . ."
This would suggest that whatever is taught in the laboratory Is not fundamental to a knowledge of the scientific
field, and Is to be included only In the curriculum of the
well-round-

ed

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technical student.

We feel that what Is taught in the laboratory Is fundamental to all fields of science as well as essential in understanding the specific scientific field. The one thong
that all the sciences have in common is the methods used
seeking answers to questions. Scientific methods re

It

place opinions with empirical observations to answer questions about nature. The
- acquired from experienceunderstanding of this method Is
in - the laboratory situation.
True, these methods can be verbalized to some extent, in
much the same manner that the methods for obtaining
an effect of movement or depth in a painting can be
verbalized. Yet one wonders just how much more understanding of either of these types of methods is obtained
with active participation on the part of the learner.
This question is not original with the present writers,
but was in fact asked some time ago. Had it been asked
In the time of the Greeks, the question would have been
answered on the basis of opinion (much the same as the
editorial of Oct. 4th). However, it was asked after the
scientific method of experimentation was considered the
beat procedure for obtaining answers.
One of the major topics of investigation in experimental psychology has been' the nature of learning and the
conditions for effective learning. One of these experimental findings is that active participation on the part of
the learner results in superior learning and retention of
what is learned. In the sciences, the teaching laboratory
is a device for attempting to secure the student's active
participation. We do not contend that something about
science cannot be learned without laboratory, but we do
believe this evidence suggests that it can be learned better with laboratory.
Learning through participation is certainly not unique
to science courses, but is an accepted method of learning
in other situations, i.e., working problems in algebra,
writing themes in Einglish, making case studies in social
science, debating in public speaking, practicing keys in
typing, conversing in foreign language, painting in art

courses.
In these fields, interest and ability are not only obtained but maintained through active participation. Alo
might we not be losing some potential scientists by not
giv