xt7rxw47sr80 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7rxw47sr80/data/mets.xml University of Kentucky Fayette County, Kentucky The Kentucky Kernel 19660912  newspapers sn89058402 English  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Kernel The Kentucky Kernel, September 12, 1966 text The Kentucky Kernel, September 12, 1966 1966 2015 true xt7rxw47sr80 section xt7rxw47sr80 Inside Today's Kernel
Professor begins tabulating results of
study: Page Two.
Johl leares
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Berlin Woll divides Germany into
equal halves: Page Five.

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Editor discusses Peking's school
form: Page Four.

Dr.

for European tour:

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Demolition of White Hall, Patterson House, and the Carnegie
Museum should begin in
to make room for the planned

complex.
Robert F. Kerley, vice president for business affairs, told
the Kernel Friday that "working drawings and specifications
(for the complex) should be back
from the architect around Oct.

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The office tower will be
stories high and the classroom
high.
building will be
These two buildings will be connected by a portico.
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then.
"These documents will go to
Frankfort for review," Kerley
said. He estimated that this
would take another 30 days, until
about Nov. 15, until final approval is granted.
After this, bid will be asked
on the building, he said.
"This will take approximately another 60 days," he said.
Construction will begin as soon
as the contract is awarded.
"We were shooting (originally) to complete plans in September, 1966," Kerley said. "So
we are running
days behind
schedule."
He said for a "project this
big" this is "not really bad."
The construction period has
not yet been determined, but
Kerley estimated that it would

two-stori-

The office tower will be located approximately where
White Hall is now situated and
the classrooms will be east of
that about where Carnegie Museum and Patterson House are
located extending toward the
library.

The classroom structure is
scheduled to house the social
sciences.

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Two more such
complexes are included in
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campus development
plan. Similar complexes will
house the arts and a laboratory
serving the sciences.
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Not!
Failing? Maybe the
are hard
but

Good grades
to keep,
for
next week
or so a lot of instructors will find any kind of grade
hard to keep. The reason? The University bookstore
has run out of gradebooks.
The supply of gradebooks ran out a few days ago
due to the heavy demand for them. The next shipment isn't due for a week or more.
So look around. You could be the lucky
person who
hasn't failed a test yet, thanks to the University

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stating the University would train
health technicians this fall to
work in Vietnam was called completely erroneous by Dr. Charles
Wethington, director of the Lexington Technological Institute,
part of the Community College
System.

Wethington said plans
starting such a program are so
premature, negotiations have not
yet been begun with the Agency
for International Development
for

(AID).
He said AID

last year
quested the Department of Community Medicine to undertake
such training.
According to William Samuels, director of state and local
services at the Medical Center,
the very earliest the program
re-

could begin would be the spring
semester.
"If it should go, it would
be at the Somerset Community
College and would be open for
all people not those just interested in training for Vietnam
work," he said.

Health technicians would

unless a special voluntary contract were worked out with AID

he explained.
Samuels said the program
would be handled through the
Community College System w ith

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work wherever they were needed

Vietnam Vote Heavy

From Combined Dispatches
Citizens of South Vietnam, 4.4 million strong, Sunday turned out to choose 117 members of a constituent assembly,
thereby making the government a clear winner despite Communist
attempts to terrorize the election.
for
These 4.4 million people rep give astonishing percentages eviindividual provinces. No
resented 83.2 percent of the
dence of fraud was apparent.
eligible voters. Only the nationThis election, however, does
wide figures are considered ofContinued On Pare 8
ficial, but preliminary estimates
SAIGON

Constitutional Reform: Kentucky's Top Issue

By WALTER GRANT
Kernel Editor-in-ChiOne of Kentucky's most important issues of the
century will be settled by voters in the November
general election.
In fact, some persons say the question of whether
to revise the state constitution is the most significant
decision ever placed before Kentucky voters. Others
feel less strongly about constitutional revision, but
few persons minimize the importance of a constitution.
The question before voters Nov. 8 will be more
ef

than whether to change the present state constitution,
This is the first article in a
tucky's proposed new constitution.
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Ken-

75 years ago. They will be voting to ratify
or reject a new charter, written by the Constitution
Revision Assembly and placed on the ballot by the
General Assembly.
Although sentiment to change the present charter
began more than 40 years ago, this will be the first
time a
revision actually has been placet!
before the people.
The proposed new constitution is not an entire

adopted

pre-writt-

new document, for 70 percent of the revision is taken
verbatim from the 1891 constitution.
The revision is a much shorter document than
the present constitution, containing about 13,000 words
and 157 sections, as compared with the 266 sections
and some 21,500 words which now establish the basic
framework of state government.
The difference involves the large amount of statutory material removed from the present charter,
making the revision more flexible, while retaining
the basic guidelines of government.
The new charter was written by a special Constitution Revision Assembly over a period of 23 months.
The CRA was established by the 1964 Ceneral Assembly, and its members were appointed by a special
committee consisting of the governor, lieutenant
governor, Speaker of the House and Chief Justice
of the Court of Appeals.
The Assembly consisted of 50 members. One delegate was appointed from each of the 38 senatorial
districts, and five were named from the state at large.
at the time were automaThe seven living
tic members of CRA.
Framers of the proposed constitution represent
members of both political parties. Professions represented include banking, agriculture, business, education, law, politics, housewives, ami even one poet.

The document written by the CRA was presented to
fhe 1966 General Assembly, and members of both
Houses voted to place the revision before the voters
in the November general election.
Although this is not the procedure for revision
outlined in the present charter, the Rill of Rights
states the people have "at all times an inalienable
and indefeasible right to alter, reform or abolish their
government in such manner as they may deem proper."
The validity of placing the revision on the ballot
has been upheld by Franklin Circuit Court and the
state Court of Appeals.
The major reason the "regular" procedure that of
first calling a constitutional convention was not used
is that this procedure has not woiked three times
previously. The people voted against calling a convention in 1931, 1917 ami in 1960. Each time voters
rejected the convention call, apparently because they
did not know what changes might be proposed.
Nevertheless, the number of persons favoring revision has increased since the first vote was taken.
In 1931, only 20 percent of the people voted to call
the convention. That number increased to 42 percent
in 1947 and 48.5 percent in I960.
Therefore, it is evident that more ami more
are recognizing the inadequacy of the present
constitution for
government.
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Vietnam, Laos: Want Food, Not Ideology
By RICK

STEPHENS

Kernel Staff Writer
The United States has for a
long time espoused the idea that
the country burdened with economic plight is the country that
illicit find Communism appeal
inn.
The people of Laos and Vietnam are not interested in ideologies but in a more viable
homeland where starvation and
famine are not so prevalent.
If this is the problem that
must be eradicated before the
words freedom and democracy
have any meaning in these Commustud-

countries,
that will

nist-infested

ies must be undergone

determine how poor or underdeveloped these countries really
are.
Dr. Robert II. Stroup, a professor of economics at UK, completed the field work on such a
study in July, 1964, and has
since been tabulating the results
that will provide a base from
which other studies can be

With the backing of a $30,892
grant from The Agency for International Development, Dr.
Stroup traveled to South Vietnam in October of 1963 and
began the first known attempt
by either the United States Operations Mission to Vietnam or the
Vietnamese Government to secure data of income and expenditure patterns representative of
the rural Vietnamese.
The Rural Income Expenditure Sample Survey of 1964 encompassed 2,910 households from
29 provinces in South Vietnam.
The Central Highlands Region
was excluded from the survey,
"because the people in this
region are not South Vietnamese
but primitive mountain people
who don't even speak the lan-

guage."
"The survey was aimed at
the rural people because of the
lack of any information concerning their income or spending habits but also because these
are the people we must win

launched.

Two New Staffers Join
Student Assistance Offices

f

The Office of Loans Collection and Reports Officer, was
created to keep pace with the
expanding National Defense
Loan plan. Bruner acts as an
assistant in loan collection and
federal reports. The native of
London, Ky., attended Sue Bennett Junior College and holds
an AB in accounting from Union
College. For the past three years
he has been an agent in charge
of the Daton, Ohio, territory for
the Insurance Company of North

Bobby Halsey has been appointed coordinator of the College Work Study Program, and
John Lee Bruner Jr. has been
named to the new Loans Collect ion and Reports Office. Both
began work in July.
Halsey replaced Blukely Tanner who left to become Director
of Housing at the University of
Louisville.
The College Work Study Program provides funds to colleges
and to universities for work opportunities for students from low
income families. At UK $510,000
will be spent on the
program this year including community colleges and summer
school.
Under the program a student
may work 15 hours a week in
the fall and spring semesters
or 40 hours a week in the summer.
The program, originally directed through the Economic Op-

America.

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portunity, is directed through
the Higher Education Act.
Halsey, a Pulaski County na-

tive, holds an MA degree from
Eastern Kentucky State College.
He taught industrial arts in
Fayette County for seven years,
was a delegate at large for the
Kentucky Education Association
and is President-Elec- t
of the
Fayette County Teachers Education Association.

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"There arc few indications
that the rural people are getting
any of the aid going to South

Vietnam and it is imperative
that they do," he added.
Dr. Stroup worked in conjunction with people from several Vietnamese
Government
Agencies and they amassed statistics that indicate a poor rural
populace that reaps its income
from agricultural activities and
that spends most of its money
on food.
According to the preliminary
report released in July 1965, the
average household income of the
sampled Vietnamese is roughly
$229 U.S. a year and the per
capita figure is about $42. U.S.;
these figures are based on the
official ratio of $73 VN: $1 U.S.
However, the people in South
Vietnam are not so poor because
the land is conducive to easy
living, Dr. Stroup explained. The
houses are huts that never need
heat and that are rented for as
little as $50 VN a year. Fuel is
needed only for cooking and
lighting. Fruits and vegetables,
which constitute a large part of
their diet, are grown quickly and
easily. So the figures are deceptive.
About 76 percent of the income is derived from farming and
farm-base- d
activities. Most of the
rural Vietnamese live in hamlets
(plots of land) and engage in rice
farming. The rest of the total
receipts are made up of non-farwages, income from commercial
fishing, and cash from relatives.
income and reThe most
sourcewealthy region is South
Vietnam West w here the Mekong
Delta lies. South Vietnam Central is the most deprived region
in these catagories.
Well, on what does the South
Vietnamese spend his money?
"Nearly 77 percent of the
cash expenditures go toward food,
shelter and clothing. Very little
of this goes for clothing or
shelter most of it goes for food.

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spend more for smoking
and chewing than they do for
education," said Dr. Stroup.
When the hamlet people were
interviewed and asked what they
would do with a given additional
income, a huge majority said they
would buy food and clothing. If
they had no budget restraints
they would buy land or build a
house. As their income increased
more would go for land and
housing than for food and clothingThe rural people arc burdened
with debts mostly oriented
toward their land and their business -f- arming. Many people interviewed either did not know
the interest being charged on
their loans or failed to put it on
the form given them. The figures
show that over half the households owed debts and that little
was being done to decrease their
They

Dr. Stroup had some
comments about these
people that are alarming but not
surprising.

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Rush Drinking Rule
By BERT ROIIRER

Kernel Staff Wriler
Hushecs may lose their pledging privileges

Kernel Photo by A. Robert Bogosian

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coed has no mercy when it
comes to sponges and shaving cream. It's messy,
but she hits her mark, and even the target doesn't
sharp-shootin-

seem to mind. All's fair in love, war, and carnival
booths. Many such events took place Saturday at
Carnicus, Phi Sigma Kappa's fall carnival.

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Research Tour
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tour of Europe, during which he will confer with
many of that continent's leading health scientists and physical
education experts, began Sunday for Dr. Ernst Jokl of the University
of Kentucky.
The tour begins a semester's medicine authority will be at
Israel's University of Tel Aviv
leave of absence which was
as
of an international
Dr. Jokl alter his selecseminar on physical activity and
tion last spring as distinguished
aging. His colleague there will
professor of the year in the UK
be Dr. Paul Dudley White, the
College of Arts and Sciences.
Boston physician who treated
The results of his European
President Eisenhower after his
exstudies and information
1955 heart attack.
changes will be reported next
Much of Dr. Jokl's recent
April when he delivers the Uniresearch has been concerned with
annual distinguished
versity's
the role of exercise in preventing
professorship lecture.
heart disease.
Dr. Jokl is director of physical education research laboratories at UK.
First stop on his research
tour will be Madrid, where he
and other members of the executive board of the International
Council of Sport and Physical
Education will be guests of the
Spanish government during a
meeting of the Council, which
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During the Madrid meeting,
the UK professor will present
his views on the future of athletic records the likelihood of
their continuing to be broken
with regularity, or whether man
is approaching the physical
limits of athletic prowess.
From Spain, Dr. Jokl will go
to Berlin, where he is to preside
at the second session of the
Cerman Physiological Congress.
Then comes an international
symposium in Milan, sponsored
by the Italian National Olympic
Committee. Delegates to this

by violating the
latest interpretation of the controversial Interfraternity Council
drinking rule.
"If (a rushee) breaks the rule, Yushees "at any time," according
he's supposed to lose his pledging
to Sussman. This would include
President
IFC
privileges,"
selling it for a token payment,
he expanded.
Sussman said Sunday.
Danny
However, both Sussman and
Both Sussman and Hatterman
Hush Chairman Dave Hatterman
denied that any pressure had been
were rather vague about how
brought to bear on IFC by the
strongly this would be enforced,
University administration or any
agreeing that it was a "ticklish"
outside agency directly.
situation.
"There wasn't any at all."
"I don't know what we'd do,"
Ratterman said. "We'll have to Sussman said. "But personally,
wait till a case comes up. The before I do anything, I would
purpose of this is to put some talk to Dean (Jack) Hall. Part of
of the enforcement burden on the t he problem came from Judge
Johnson's crackdown here in the
rushee."
Punishment for the violating city."
would
be social
fraternity
"I'd say there was no real
probation in the fraternity house pressure," Hatterman said.
for one semester. Social functions
Several
fraternities
had
outside the chapter house would
already had rush functions were
be permitted.
alcohol was served to rushees be"We had a meeting last spring,
and said that we were looking for fore the present interpretation
came to pass, bringing up the
a rule that wouldn't kill the fraRatterman said."Inthe question of fairness.
ternity,"
"I don't know what to tell you
past, these things weren't always
enforced for fear of killing the about that," Sussman said.
fraternity."
Fraternities are largely on the
Previous penalties have been
honor system in enforcing the new
complete social probation or loss
rule.
of a pledge class, either of which
"You can't expect IFC to go
can prove disastrous, Ratterman
out checking on the various frasaid.
IFC's interpretation of this ternities," Sussman said. "It will
be up to rushees and other
rule has changed four times since
to report infractions.
the beginning of rush less than
two weeks ago.
Although some of the fraternities
"The rule itself was never would love to do this, they're
changed," Sussman said. "IFC hesitant to because something
like that hurts the entire system."
has nev er condoned drinking. The
is over the interprecontroversy
"If we show we're going to entation of the rule. It's my fault force it, all the fraternities will
and others' that a standard set abide
by it," Hatterman said.
has never been adopted."
"If a fraternity has to serve
Under the present interprea man alcohol to get him, they're
tation, no fraternity man
not getting much of a man,"
alcoholic
beverages to
Sussman added.

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Peking is preparing what is
perhaps the most drastic school
reform attempted by any country
in this century, a reform which
had its beginnings from a letter
written by a group of senior college
coeds.
The reform, based on such beliefs as "the longer students study
the more muddleheaded they become," and the duration of study
time should be reduced, is unbelievable. It is a means to realize
only a fanatical end.
Part of the "great proletarian
cultural revolution," the reform is
intended to purge intellectuals and
reduce the academic communities
to schools for only the revolutionary
activists. Promoters of the reform
are using revolutionary slogans to
advance their nearsighted beliefs.
The students of the Peking
college wrote Party Chairman Mao
g
and complained that the
methods of schooling were stifling
the advancement of the revolution.
Studying to pass college entrance
examinations, they argued, is
forcing students to slack up on
studying for the revolution.
The result: college entrance
examinations have been junked and
probably only true activists, properly recommended by factories,
Tse-tun-

villages, communes, and army
units, will become university students.

Further proposals were offered
by seven students of China People's
University in Peking. They argued
that too much time was being spent
in the universities and that uni

"Please

Reform

versity courses last so long they
don't meet the county's need for
trained people in a hurry. The
students suggested that those who
already have had two years of
college when the cultural revolution
ends should be given degrees and

sent forth to "unconditionally
integrate themselves with workers,
peasants and soldiers. The students also favored progressive
thinkers and revolutionary activists.

The result: the party's Central
Committee generally accepted the
student's proposals.
The whole reform reeks of
absurdity. While entrenching revolutionary activists in ideological
schooling and promoting "quickie
education", it completely rejects
students of science, the mechanics
of technological advancement.
Rather than suspending students of higher classes, who at
this point are better equipped to
cope with university instruction,
the party should attempt some type
of integration of the schools. Rather:
than destroying the work of higher
education, the party should begin
constructively building a lower
education system available to the
masses.
If China is to continue its impressive moderization, it desper-

ately needs to strengten the

intellectual Community. If the
contradictory proposals are actually
instituted, the "muddleheads" rejected, Chinese students will become experts in ideology and perhaps little else.

And In Russia
prime example of the ideological split between Russia and
Red China is evident in the area
of education. While China is
opening its doors to all revolutionary activists and undermining
the value of university instruction,
Russia is closing doors.
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That's Progress
To match
new
its

university

status, Eastern Kentucky

Uni-

versity has established a foundation
for its development and growth.
Already, a symposium entitled "Becoming a University" has been
staged to begin looking into the
future. Such foresight and planning
cannot go uncongratulated when
one realizes the dead seriousness
with which Eastern administrators
have tackled the task of elevating
the former college to a university.
Out of the symposium has come
the warning that the transition
from a teachers' college to a university "is exasperating and slow
at first." Undaunted by this advice,
Eastern has already taken a major
step forward by announcing that
two new degree programs both
in recreation have been added to
the curriculum. Specifically, the
programs are a bachelor of science
degree in recreation program administration, and an associate degree in recreation.
All of which makes you proud
to reflect, "isn't it amazing what
a university status can do for a
college?"

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The Soviets plan to make college entrance examinations so tough
that only a limited number can
pass them. This plan is not to be
applauded, but is more practical
than that of the Chinese. The
emphasis on the need for education
is at least recognized.
The Russian decision points up
a failure of administration and lack
of planning. While secondary school
graduates are already at a record
figure, entrance to day-tim- e
college
classes can be increased only eight
percent.
Other reform plans also point up
the squeeze in education.
The government's Council of
Ministers and the Communist
Party's Central Committee
giving universities and institutes a degree of self government to alter academic programs
to correspond with the varying
needs of the country's economy,
and expanding incentives to stimulate scientific and technical
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School's Woes
The American public school has
long been a bulwark of freedom. It
has, by and large, done a remarkably good job of educating the
nation's youth. And today it is
making great forward strides.
But, like the nation itself, it has
become the arena of swirling controversy. It is called upon to come to
with many potentially
grips
explosive issues. Under these circumstances, it needs the close and
informed support of an alert public.
The racial issue alone, with its
many ramifications, would present
a sufficient challenge. But it is
only one of many sensitive matters
knocking on the schoolhouse door.
Prayer in the public schools and
public funds for religious schools
continue to stir emotions. And educators are earnestly debating how to
teach religion and how to teach
sex in the schools.
Teachers, textbooks, and the
PTA are still under attack from
extremists who would impose their
own political and social philosophy
on American education.
In addition, to indicate the
scope of the challenge, we need
but mention the growing frequency
of teacher's strikes and the organizing of teachers' unions, salary disadvantages, aging physical
plants, overcrowding of existing
facilities, the process of adjusting to
new curricula and new teaching

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University of Kentucky
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Cene Clabes, Managing Editor
Judy Chisham, Associate Editor
John Zeh, Associate Editor
Fhank Bhowmnc, Associate Editor
Phil Sthaw, Sports Editor
Lahhy Fox. Daily News Editor
Ron IIehhon, Daily News Editor
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techniques, the problem of the dropout and delinquent, and an increasingly acute teacher shortage.
the most serious
Perhaps
problem of all is the lack of teachers
in certain critical fields such as
mathematics, physics, chemistry,
and the industrial arts, fields in
which job opportunities are the
greatest.
Whatever the causes of the shortage, the effect is already discernible.
In some schools some subjects
won't be taught at all and others
won't be taught as well. Teachers
are having to double up, take more

pupils, and teach subjects about
which they know comparatively
little. And some systems are having
to hire teachers with inadequate
preparation and poor qualification.
This shortage, as well as the
other problems facing the schools,
can and will be corrected once the
people see the need and grasp its
importance for the future of all of
America's children.
The Christian Science Monitor

Letter To The Editor

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Parking'

the Editor of the Kernel:
It is about time someone
thanked the City of Lexington for
putting parking meters in front of
the Coliseum. The city has always
been so helpful and has spared
no expense in solving the parking
problem around campus. The cost
of the "No Parking" signs alone is
staggering. No doubt all this help
is just another of the City's ways
of showing its appreciation for the
huge amount of money the University and its students spend in
the Lexington area.
To

Carl R. Seider
A&S Senior

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Monday, Sept.

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