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Culton, Gayle Chosen To Reign SGA Approves Budget, Leadership
Al Annual Fall Festival Tonight Asks For Longer Holiday
Budget
1941-4- 2

Scrivner, Triplett,

Will Be Submitted
To Donovan

England, Fugett
To Be Attendants

The Student Government association budget was approved and a

Helen Culton. Parksville, and Joe
Gayle. Lexington,
will reign as
queen and king over ihe Pall Festival which will be held at S p.m.
today in the Stock Judging pavilion, under the sponsorship of Block
and Bridle, honorary animal hus-

resolution passed to extend Thanksgiving holidays ln a meeting of the
student legislature last night.
The budget calling for $2,512.50
will be within the year's income,
as estimated by University officials,
according to Givens Dixon, SGA

bandry fraternity.
Attendants to the queen will be
Wanda Scrivner. Lexington, and
Sara Triplett, Henderson. The king's
knights will be Kenneth England.
Campbellsburg, and Kenneth
Stamping Ground.
James Ison. chancellor of Alpha
Zeta, honorary agricultural fraternity, will crown the queen, who.
with her attendants, will wear fall
colors in simple styles.' Blue Jeans
will be the kingly robes of Joe Gayle.

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fraternity.
PLEDGES
Block and Bridle pledges who
will perform stunt during the pro- gram are Ray Bunch. Waynesburg;
Reid England, Tompkinsville: Wil- liam J. Poster. Stanley; Fischer
Harned. LouisviUe; Robert Johnson,
Rockfield; MarshaU McKenzie, Mar- tha; Alfred Pettus, Stanford; Ro- bert Pieratt. Lexington; Jim Strauss,
Louisville; John H. Gray and Wil- 11am Sharp, both of Harrodsburg,
Laurence Embry. Morganfleld; and
James Monroe Leer, Millersburg.

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Phi Dpsiion Omicron pledges who
were introduced at the assembly
yesterday
are Dorothy Bostick,
Water Valley; Imogene Art, Ewing;
Helen Culton. Parksville; Mary Lois
Denny. Bronston;
Sue Dawson,
Olmstead;
Anna Jane Gabbert,
Lancaster; Jody DiGiacomo, New- ark, N. J, Esther Kalb. BrooksviUe.
Mary Jeanne Lancaster, Lebanon;
Margaret Newcomb, Campbellsville;
Lyda Mae Sutherland, Win go; Mar- tha Marlow. New Alany, Ind Nancy
Byers, Caneyville;
Susan Word.
Hopkinsville; and Gaynell Mallory

Sing
Annual
To Be Held December 11
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December 8. Clark said yesterday.
Last year. Delta Tau Delta f rater
The annual a 11 --campus sing will nKT and Alpha Gamma Delta soror-b- e
held Thursday. December 11, tty won first pries and Sigma Alpha
in Memorial hall it was announ.d Epsilon and the Independent women
yesterday by Frances Jinking rts- - won the "most original" trophies.
ident of Cwens, and Johnny Curie,
RILES
president of Omicron Delta cCapi.
he coat".. rulr require thut
sponsors of the sing.
each participating group have a
All campus organizations ore eli minimum number of 12 and a max- gible to compete in the contest lnium of 24. Not oix-- than five in
sponsored by Cwens. sophomore wo- - my group may be ru:irbei: of an- men's honorary, and ODK. nen's other campus singin? organization
during the present or pist tchool
leadership honorary.
Trophies will be awarded the wui- - year,
Each group is allowed a presenta- ner ln the male and female divi- to the organization in tion not longer than tel. nnnutts.
sions and
th not more tha thre-- songs.
each group whose presentation is
of which must be a Chnstma
Judged the most original.
son8- A Piano accompanist and a
BETTER THIS YEAR
group,
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"It will probably be a better con- - director may be used by ch
A fee of one dollar is charged each
year because several frater- test this
nities and sororities who did not entering group to cover costs of Uir.
enter last year are already making sing.
arrangements for practice periods,"
The three Judges ol the cvmett
will be announced later. Clark add
Clark said yesterday.
Lists of each group participants ed.
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tonight and tomorrow.
and Martha Poe, both of Lexington.
Pledges to Alpha Zeta who were
presented are W. Albert Seay, Clin- ton: Cyril Luckett, Milton; Conrad

oernaun; james wngni,
Franklin; Patch Woolfolk, Branden- urf; James K. Stacey, London;
Harold J. Evans. Woodburn; Reid
England, Tompkinsville: and James
A. Porter, Mansfield. O.
FARMERS BALL
Tonight's program will be the
oniy one neld at tne stock Judging
paviUon. since the Farmers Ball
wiu
heid from 9 to 12 Saturday
night in the Bluegrass room of the
Union building. There will be no
program Saturday afternoon, it has
been decided by festival officials. ,
Preceding the festival there will
be held at 6:30 a livestock showmanship contest including rings of
dairy heifers, breeding gilts, beef
cattle, and sheep. Angus, Hereford,
and Shorthorn steers will be shown
In the beef cattle section.
Awards will be presented to the
winners at the festival Judges for
the contest will be Dr. Pordyce
Ely, Robert Holmark. Jake Long,
and John Frazier.
Principal stunt of the evening
will be a game of wheelbarrow
hockey played by the Block and
Bridle pledges. Rules are a cross
between field hockey and polo.
The players mount wheelbarrows
pushed by other members. The
sticks are to be brooms and the ball
will be croquet for a while. After
that a shot will be substituted.
Members of the home economics
department will compete in milking
and chicken picking contests, while
members of Alpha Zeta and Block
and Bridle will oppose each other
in corn husking.
Professor Emeritus E. S. Good
will make the welcome address Immediately after the presentation of
colors and the singing of "The Star
Spangled Banner" and "God Bless
America,"

UK Campus Gets The

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versity officials.
Representatives
absent frm the
meeting were Dare KJnnaird, arts
and sciences; Doris Rcfchenbach,
arts and sciences; and Artb.Br
Walsh, commerce.
The recommended budget appropriations were:
a Social committee. $700; to be
used for dances and social functions. This is a reduction of $100
from last year's appropriation.
b) Kentuckian, $717.50; same as
last year.
c) Student directory, $300; assumed for the first time by the
SGA because of its benefit to the

SuKy Announces

Parade Tonight
To See Team Off
pep parade, sponsored by SuKy,
form in front of the Union
at 8:30 tonight to march.
le1 by the band, to the Union station on Main street, from which
pint the football team will leave
:m Atlanta at 9:02.
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park. Maxwell street, and Euclid
avenue the center of the bird offensive have been seen frantically
s
beating pans and clapping
in apparently demented
manner. In truth, they were using
one of the most effective means of
driving the birds away.
Several students reported yesterday that they had missed classes
and campus meetings because of
bird incidents. A commerce student
asserted that he had been attacked
by an aggressive starling while sitting in a class in the lower floor of
White halL
Members of Alpha XI Delta sorority are forced to use the side door
of their house on Maxwell street betrees in their
cause of
liont yard.
EARLY BIROS
A representative of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority told the Kernel
yefterday that the starlings were
waking house residents each morning.
A Delta Delta Delta member declared that she was keeping an
umbrella in her car for protection
while walking from her car to the
sorority house on Rose 6treet.
At the Kappa Alpha house on
Linden walk, plans are being made
lor the installation of a siren to
serve both as a warning and as a
weapon against sky marauders.
Downtown hat shop owners were
to be bringing out additional
snicks for the starling emergency.
REMEDIES
The only method of combating
these natural counterparts of Germany's Dorniers and Heinkels is
producing noi.se, it was said yester- then-hand-

day by Dr. W. R. Allen, professor
of soology, in an exclusive interview with The Kernel.
Lexington city laws do not permit the use of shotguns against the
birds within the city limits. Dr.
Allen said, adding, "It's well they
don't because the control would be
worse than the menace."
"It's a real problem to get rid of
Roman candles and
these birds.
noise may drive them away tem
porarily, but the only effective
means is cold weather," he added.
THEY'LL LEAVE
Dr .Allen said the starlings and
grackles would stay here until the
leaves fell off the trees and the
weather became cold enough to send
them farther south.
"They are gregarious birds. They
like to roost together for warmth.
That's why they flock in small
areas most of the time."
During the day, the starlings and
grackles fly to the country to feed
and return in the evening to roost.
Dr. Allen added.
The birds like the shade trees of
the residential areas because there
is more shelter and the cold is not
so Intense in these areas, the professor continued.
WHAT THEY EAT
They feed on grain, seeds, grubs,
caterpillars, and wild berries and
pay little attention to humans, he
said.
"They come every year and some
of them stay through the winter.
Some cold night, however, they will
leave together."
The starlings and grackles are
related. The grackles are the most
numerous of the birds in Lexington
now.

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holidays follows:
, "Whereas
the overwhelming desire of the Student body of the
University of Kentucky, as expected
by the petitions circulated and
signed, is to the effect that the
Thanksgiving holiday should be extended, and
Whereas the Student Government association Is the representative body or the University stu-

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yesterday.

The contestants should be able to
sing, play an instrument, impersonate,, or interpret dramatics. Auditions are limited to Individuals.
Excerpts from plays which require
royalties are not permitted, and no
selection by the contestants should
exceed two minutes.
Three finalists are chosen by
Judges, who are members of the
Student Government association,
under faculty guidance. These will
be presented to the student body
ln a broadcast over WHAS, Louisville, on Friday or Saturday, the
date to be announced later.
A general election will be conducted on the campus the following Monday. Ballot boxes will be tional Foundation for' Infantile
located at central spots on the cam- Pare lysis, and will be around to
pus and the ballots will be tabulated answer questions that come up.
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These members of the lumpus YMC..I planned the state convention of YMCA-YWCrollrge groups whuh is being held
morrow.

Club To Serve Luncheon
The University of Kentucky club,
in order to fill a long-fe- lt
want
among the faculty and staff, has
been "rejuvenated" and now offers
luncheon facilities.
The club, which occupies the
building next to the Law college, was reorgani.'Vd about a month
ago. Committees were appointed to
plan an organized program for. the
year and $600 was appropriated to
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local
president, will preside as
state-wid- e
president.
YM
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Leaders of the conference include
Miss Augusta Roberts, former YW
secretary at the University, and
Misa Rose May Withers, associate
secretaries of the Southern regional
council of the YWCA; Henry Ware
and Charles Lawrence, associate
secretaries of the YM Southern
council.
8TIDENTS INVITED
According to Misa Ann Morrow.
YW secretary, all YW or YM stu-- !
dents are invited to attend any
or all of the meetings which will
through 5 p.m.
The round-tabl- es
on Christian
faith and campus programs will
be considered during the monv- lng. while the discussions on the
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National Student assembly, the
business session, the tea. and wor
ship service are to be held following lunch.
DELEGATE
Colleges to be represented
are
Berea. Morehead State TeacheTs.
Kentucky
State. Ashland junior.
Centre. Eastern State Teachers.
Kentucky Wesleyan, Lee's Junior.
Pikeville Junior. Sue Bennett. Un- ion, Louisville municipal. Transyl-- ;
vania. University
f Louisville, and
the University of Kentucky.
University delegates to the con
ference include Jean Ewers. Somerset: Betty South. Frankfort: Dorothy Paul Indianapolis. Ind.; Catherine Ellison. Twila; John Long.
Earlington; Fred Erwin, Central
City; Robert Davis. Upper Mont-clai- r.
N. J.; George Terrell. Glenn
Mohney. and Walter Leet, all oP
Lexington.

remodel the kitchen and to provide
lunchroom facilities.
Professor Emeritus Fordyce Ely,
president of the club, said that a
cook and housemanager
had been
hired, and the lounge equipped with
seven tables, capable of seating 42
persons. Lunches will be served
Monday through Friday, and the
facilities' will be used for afternoon
teas, and committee meetings.

Central American, Canadian
Students Are Registered At UK
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and Sl'E FAN GOODING
Among students at the University
registered from foreign lands are
two who aren't "foreigners" at all.
gical Society of America, of which but who have lived in foreign lands
he was president in 1940, New York before entering UK. Interviews with
these and with a student from
Entomological society, Broolyn
society. American So- Canada, and one from Costa Rica,
ciety of Zoologists, American Eugenics Society, National Geographic
society. New York Geographical
society. Kentucky Academy
of
Sciences. Kentucky Education association, Kentucky State Historical
Ornithological
roclety,
Kentucky
soociety, American Museum of Natural History, Kentucky Archeolog-icsociety, of which he was president in 1936. and the Kentucky
Research club.
ORGANIZATIONS
Dr. Funkhouser is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Xi, Omega Beta Pi, the
League,
Author's
Rotary club,
Conference of Deans of Southern
Graduate schools, UK Athletic
council, UK Extension committee,
and the Lexington Council of Boy
Scouts of America.
Doctor Funkhouser was born in
Rockport, Indiana, and received his
A. B. degree from Wabash in 1905.
M. A. from Cornell in 1912, Ph. D.
from Cornell in 1916, and Sc. D.
from Wabash in 1929.
Other professors whose classes
will be open for "vagabonding"
include
Prof. H. H. Downing,
mathematics; Prof. R L. Driver,
anatomy and physiology; Prof.
T. Huntley Dupre, history; Prof.
E. P. Parquhar, literature; Prof.
Prof.
John Kuiper, philosophy;
Vincent E. Nelson, geology; Prof.
Irwin T. Sanders, sociology; and
political
Prof. J. B. Shannon,

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Dr. W. D. Funkhouser, dean of
the graduate school, will act as
host for the second "open class"
in the arts and sciences college
when he lectures on "Dead Indians in Kentucky" to all Interested
students, at 10 a.m. today in oom
124
ln the Biological Sciences
building.
The talk has not been especially
prepared, but a regular lecture In
connection with Dr. Funkhouser's
course. Principles of Anthropology.
Although the lecture is scheduled
for room 124. if the number of students attending warrants, the main
lecture room, 200, will be used, it
was announced. Approximately 60
extra students attended Dr. W. S.
Webb's first open class last Friday.
APPOINTED IN 19U
Dr. Funkhouser.
who was appointed to the UK faculty in 1918
as professor of zoology and head
of the department, is listed ln
Who's Who in America, American
Men of Science. Who's Who in
the South, Who's Who among Authors, Who's Who in Kentucky,
Who's Who in American Education,
and American Geneaologles. He is
the author of over 300 books, reports, and technical papers, most
of which are on the subject of
entomology.
Organizations to which Dr. Funkhouser belongs are the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science, Entomological Society
of America, of which he was president in 1940, New York Entomological society. Brooklyn EntomoSo- logical
society,
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Committee Selects Finalists
In Fred Allen Talent Contest
by the Student Government com
mittee.
The winner will be announced
on the Fred Allen show Wednesday,
Nov." 12th. and will appear on his
program one week later.
When the winner arrives In New
York he will be met at the train
or plane by a representative and
taken to a class "A" hotel. Besides
st
broadcast,
the
the
winner will be taken on conducted
tours' of Radio City, sightseeing
frips, and to any hit play or musical on Broadway.
Fred Allen has no voice in deter
mining the winner, but reserves the
right to withhold publication of his
or her name until It has first been
announced on his program.
John Rider, Allen's represents
tive, will arrive on the campus today to help direct the campaign
but will make no attempt to inter
fere with the operations of the
committee. Rider has been a radio
executive on the "March of Time'
staff, working ln behalf of the Na-

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We hereby resolve: that the
holidays should be
Thanksgiving
extended from Friday, November
21, at 8 a.m. until Monday, No
students.
d) Printing, (stationery, report vember 24, at t a.m.
books, advertising and election maThe legislature of the Student
terial) $125; last year's expenditure Government association
was $120.
Signed,
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Committee expense (Welfare
Russell Patterson, president
Helen Powell, secretary.
and Student Standards), $30; to be

Try-ou- ts
for the Fred Allen talent contest, which awards a free
trip to New York and $200 ln cash
to the winner, will be held at 2:30
p.m. Thursday in the UK radio
studios. Any undergraduate is eligible, John Sutterfield announced

Kentucky college YWCA-YMChold their annual leadership
conference tomorrow at the Max-wwill

Street Presbyterian church,
'1 with the University organizations
acting as hosts. Approximately 150
students from 15 colleges are expected to attend
The program will Include round-tab- le
discussions, a luncheon, a tea.
and a worship service. Christian
refaith, social reconstruction,
sources for building a vital program in colleges, and the National
Student assembly to be held during
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Crackles, Starlings Funkliouser To Speak
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By JIM WOOLDRIDGE
Kernel News EditM
Capistrano has its swallows, San
Quentin has its quail, Venice has
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pigeons, and the University has
its gosh dam starlings.
Blackening the skies and chalking the sidewalks
and streets
around the University's 106 acres of
Bluegrass. these smarms of starlings
and grackles have infested Lexington for almost a month now.
Estimates by campus observers
place the number of the pests in
the millions.
Students walk to or from school
on the ea-s- t side of the campus ln
holy terror. Automobiles are no
longer parked on the streets in this
area. Particularly disagreeable is
the vicinity after a rain.
CLEANING BILLS
Laundries near the campus reported yesterday to The Kernel
that student cleaning bills had tak-- n
a decided jump because of the
birds.
Housewives on Rose 6treet, Linden walk. Rose lane, Transylvania

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treasurer. It will .be submitted to tertsinment of freshmen at the
President Herman L. Donovan for opening of the school year.
consideration, and if approved will
h) Miscellaneous, $40; for incigo into effect immediately.
dentals that 'cannot be anticipated.
The resolution, sponsored by the
A balance of $2500 is left from
Student Bar association, to extend last year out of which further ap- I
holidays over propriations may be made.
the Thanksgiving
Two t
Friday and Saturday was presented items were removed this year the m.
by Edwin Ockerman, law represent- $500 loan fund was provided, last
ative. Petitions containing the sig- year and not used, and the Alumni
natures of 1500 students and the association appropriation was asresolution will be presented to Uni sumed by the University.

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who will be crowned by Sonia
president of Phi Upsilon
Omicron, honorary home economics

used for postage, distribution of
questionnaires, and other items in
the performance of duties.
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE
' ft Vocational Guidance, $500; to
be used in a program to be conducted to give guidance to students
ln selecting their fields of talent.
James Crowley, Mary Olive Davis
and Richard Adams were appointed
by President Russell Patterson to
conduct the function under the supervision of faculty members.
g YMCA for Freshman week.
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Conference
Of Kentucky College Ys
Will Be Held Tomorrow

follow.
Don Rose, a sophomore from
Ponce, Puerto Rico, has lived there
for four years because his father
owns a handkerchief factory in
Ponce.
Rose came to Kentucky, because
his father knew some people from
Kentucky and liked them, so he
thought that Don would like the
University. The fatf that Rose
wanted to major ln economics and
thought that there was a good department at UK was another reason.
He likes Puerto Rico. He says that
it is quite different from anything
in the States, but it is not as backward as people here seem to think.
Of course, with the exception of
San Juan, a beautiful modern city,
most of the towns are a little rustic.
Puerto Rico is. however, fast becoming
says.
modernized.
Don
"Since the United States is making
Puerto Rico a naval base, the whole
island is being built up. New roads
and buildings are under construction everywhere. Before all this,
there were comparatively few Americans there, but now they are everyplace and seem to play a great part
in the running of the island."
Rose doesn't know exactly what
he wants to do when he gets out of
school. He thinks that he'll probably go into his father's business. If
that should take him to Puerto
Rico, he won't mind; in fact, Rose
syys, "I'd i'lst as soon live there

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I like Kentucky,
too."
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Another of these "Yankee foreigners" Is Bill Prazer. a freshman, who
is registered from Havana. Cuba,
but has lived in New York City
all of his life. Of course, he has
visited his family in Havana several
times, but has never really lived
there.
Frazer came to the University because he has an uncle who lives
in Kentucky. The uncle never attended the University, but. just the
same. Prazer came on account of
him.
Cuba will probably be his home
some day though, because he plans
to go into his father's oil refining
business there.
Frazer likes Kentucky very much
and would like to finish school here.
Phil Orr of Winnipeg.
Ontario. Canada, came to Kentucky
after he was graduated from high
school in Canada and repeated the
process in BrooksviUe high school.
Since he was already down here.
Orr decided to take advantage of
this University rather than go to
McGill or one of the large colleges
ln Canada. He Is a chemistry major.
His family was originally from
Kentucky but are now citizens of
Canada. At present Orr is an American citizen but will lose this after
he has been in Canada six months.
He would like to Join the RCAP
for the adventure it would afford.
When asked about the war Orr told
The Kernel that the part of Canada
in which he lives has not been seriously affected by it and that no
noticable change has taken place.
The eastern part of the country,
however, has been affected.
Orr likes the University, the girls,
anrt the iienem! set up but he did
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assert that he has never seen any
nicer, more refined, better behaved
or better dressed girls anywhere
than In Winnipeg.
After completing his four years
college, Orr expects to live in Kentucky (if the army doesn't get him

first.

Virginia Zuniga comes from San
Jose. Costa Rica, to major in music
at the University.
She came on an Institute of International Education scholarship
Miss Zuniga is a graduate of the
Colegio de Senoritas in San Jose
and wanted to finish her education
in America which she hopes wil!
enable her to teach music in grammar schools.
Miss Zuniga was more than amazed by the American's conception of
Costa Rica as a backwoods country
customs. Although
with
may of the traditions differ from
those of American- neighbors, they
are fundamentally the same. Costa
Rica is up to date ln all respects,
their buildings are quite as modern
as ours though frequent earthquakes
unand shakes make
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practical
Costa Ricans dress as Americans
do and import most of their commodities from the United States.
The Central Americans are getting
their cars there too although before the war they imported most of
them from France and Germany
was
because the transportation
cheaper.
Like the other foreign students
Miss Zuniga finds North Americans
easy to get along with. She said
that Costa Rica will back the United States In any action she might
take in the present war. However.
Costa Rica is a peace loving country. It keeps no standing army, only
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a national polire force.

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year now. tute furl in fiarticular
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his Item apfwrrnt to close observers of the A
scrttr: something i tticmg with the present
generation of yemng people. fiotnewhere the
wires haie been pulled loose, the holts lur.'e heen
unscrewed, ihe current has hern shut off. the
dynamo is spluttering.
Us pet tally it the universities there has lerl-upran attitude which is viewed with no little
torn em hy those interested in the youth of the
tuition. 4iud yet, it is such tin indefinite attitude
that few ould say exactly irlial it is.
And so, as on attempt to help interpret the
i allege generation of Xmetnher, 1941, we would
like to present jiW we Itrliene to he the nature
nf this state o mind, some conclusions made
after s timnlh of talking to students and faculty
tnemliers. In thr following two issues of 'I'm.
klkvri. ur will fwesent what we helier to hr
its causes, and a few suggestions as to what we
"
think 141 u he dour silutut it.
titer-na-

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lie most noticeable fiarae leristic of college
student today is that they don't give a l;iinn.
Thev arc on filled and disillusioned.
ni aI.
m If centered. superficial,
and materialistic. And
what's more, they know it and don't care if thev
oor manners, and
aw.TJiev have no respect.
no ambition. And if you say anything to them
:iloii it, they laugh and sav Oh. what the hell.
The students themselves are the first ones to
admit it. hecatie it is an attitude no one 'an
fail to notice: there is a listlessness in classes; the
el Kiting ai the football games is
there is more drinking and horse-lain the
stands: the crowd in rhe grill is more raucous
and ill mannered; jokes are dirtier and laughter
loncicr; hoys and girls are freer in their relations.
Oances lack ihe sparkle they once had; interest
lags in almost every mident activity: organizations which pay no money find it difficult to get
eopJc to vork: students resign SGA osiiions
as fast as the president can fill them; in main
andem meetings here is an undertone of
hot when they are
through ito one does anything else; students
are frank, often over critical and intolerant.
J

half-hearte-

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Several commentator have pointed out the
unconcern with which American youth is facing
i lie jweseni crisis in world history. They make
tlie easiest answers which come to their minds,
but. when questioned, admit that they reallv
auu't very sure. Vou find hut a few who can take
an intelligent stand on iiher side. Most jn.st

don't

to tare.

Senator Wheeler tells them that they are licing
led into another iraperialiot war. .and thev sav
Oh. that's bad. and go on drinking their cokes,
fcenalor Pepjjcr yells that the dread nienaie of
of I lilies ism is creeping tip on them and mav
catch them unless they wake up. and thev sav
Oh. sotneone ouglM to da something altoui that,
and go on with their bridge game.
7 his is something that is hapM'iiing. no! onh
in the I'nivcrsity cjf keimukv, but in :n..s col
lege and universities throughout the nation,
according to most observers. Perhajis it is the
making of another "lost getteration."
U'Im n you scratch
the surface of this
apathy and cvnicism. however, vou find the one
thing which is at the fouuiaiitn of it all-- a feel
iug aA iiim mit v. disillusion, and alx
all con

I'lijiiiie'r In vi te
Slllart,J)ant,
To Trv Calculus
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To tue Editor of The Kernel:
I would like to reply to Mr.
Smartyptoite' article of November
the fourth. No doubt Mr. Snaarty-pun- ts
has filled hie schedule card
full of crip oeurstie. I'll wager
oould state a book wora right
Ijiu-into his hole.
I would like to see hint over in
OV Engineering college with an
18 hour schedule and working six
or seven hours for his room and
board. Perhaps he thinks everyone
i.s well
blessed with cash and all
tru-have to do is to attend classes
hud study. For his informatien I
Mould likif U acquaint him with the
fact that approximately half of the
mudents bee in school work for
part or all of their college expenses.
if he ever has time off from his
studying. I would like for him to
ti.sk Dr. Downing if his calculus
courses can be passed by just
class.
ENGINEER WITH A 16
STANDI NO, AND WiOUD OF IT.

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No one ccmld blame today's college students
tip in their thinking or lor hot
ir.iving any solution to the world's problem.
hut there is one thing that they certainly can
he hlamed for, and that is their, failure to stand
up and fare those problems and at ''? try to
fot Ix'ing mixed

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Listen to the pallor in the grill some day; notice what students talk about when thev eai
lunch; see what they bring up in
See how they all try to step arm. nil ihe real
problems; see lww they are afraid to grab i
by the neck and wrestle with it.
They seem tired of fighting their own confusion: weary of trying to make our where the y
siand.
Faced with a world which they ihink is too
big for them, many are already groggy, some
have thrown in the towel. A large number have
merely walked out of the ring and said, Oh whai
the hell.
Instead of trying to figure things out. thev
have taken on the pose of unconcern or have
escaed to some refuge where thev d'n't have-tthink of what is going on outside
That is why you find, many students making
the highest grades in their lives as they draw into
their academic shells, convincing themselves thai
art and music and litcrauire and philosophv are
alxve all earthy matters.
That is why you find many science students
sending more time in their laboratories, satisfied that their mission is to add to the st'ir"
of knowledge no matter what is happening in the
world.
And that is why you Mill find just as many .students laughing at the hard workers, taking their
pleasures without restraint, "getting their share
of the
defense juoney
'bile the getting'
good." assuring tltemselves that todav is the onlv
bull-session-

Band Work Is Not All Play,
Protesting Member Declares
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To the Editor of The Kernel:
This letter is in reply to the edi- torial titled -- $1500 Worth Is A' Lot
of Music", in which The Kernel
advised against the University of
Kentucky band being sent on long
trips, such as the Alabama game,
I can't figure out the motive be- hind your unscrupulous editorial,
undoubtedly
time will show the
reason, that is if you even had a
reason Of course no one on the.
campus is safe from your outbursts

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iJUJPCtS JO iWvtlHHl
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Dormitory

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DOIICCS

to tne tatitor

or ine Kernel;
The past Friday the girls of the
dormitories held a dance in honor
of the boys of the campus. The
boys in the dorms were invited to
the dance in Patt hall while the
oi uie iraierniueo were
invited to a similar affair in Jewell,
i
I have talked to many of the
boys of the dorms and they felt
lather left out in