xt7xsj19pf0g https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7xsj19pf0g/data/mets.xml University of Kentucky Fayette County, Kentucky The Kentucky Kernel 19610427  newspapers sn89058402 English  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Kernel The Kentucky Kernel, April 27, 1961 text The Kentucky Kernel, April 27, 1961 1961 2015 true xt7xsj19pf0g section xt7xsj19pf0g Coed Ingenuity, Blank Check Build Jewell Chapel
By JUNE BYERS
Kernel Staff Writer
The first dormitory chapel on the UK campus
was completed In Jewell Hall last Saturday with
the aid of a blank check and a little Ingenuity
on the part of dorm residents.
Cynthia Allen, religious chairman, said the
Idea for a chapel was mentioned to her by several students before spring vacation.
"They felt the need for a place where they could
go to be alone a kind of sanctuary." she added.
The Idea met with the approval of the House
Council, and was then presented to the residents
In a general meeting. Cynthia said it was understood that If one girl objected, the whole idea
would be abandoned.
"I explained that It was not obligatory, but

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project could come to my room for a meeting. T
45 girls showed up," she said.
my surprise,
The proposed chapel was originally to hava
been furnished by donations from the girls living
in the dorm, but the blank check which arrived
during the vacation solved all financial problems.
Phyllis Klrtley, president of Jewell, said that
only a few persons know the Identity of the
donor, who wishes to remain anonymous. "I cast
say only that the person has no affiliation with
the university," she said.
The chapel, transformed from an old third floor
study room, was completed In less than two week
at a cost of approximately $35. The UK greenhouse supplies a floral arrangement every Sat
urday.
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University of Kentucky
Vol. LII, No. 99
A Jewell Hall coed stops for a minute's n.editation in the small
rhafel rxtablished by the dormitory's religious committee.

Dorms Will Open
For June Graduates

LEXINGTON,

APRIL 27, I9fl

Eight Pages

tcurL 'Stars In Night'
For Saturday

dorms or fraternities will be under
All University women have
University control," the president lx'en
given 2 a.m. late peradded.
Mrs. Marie Fortenberry. director mission for Saturday by the
of food services, said the Student women's
House Presidents'
Union Building cafeteria will remain open to serve seniors who Council.
remain at the University.
Miss Dixie Evans, director of
Robert W. Blakeman, director women's residence halls, said the
of men's housing, said no definite late permission had been granted
decision has been made as to by the council because of the late
which men's dormitory will be beginning of the Little Kentucky
open for the graduating seniors.
Derby dance after the George
"I would guess it would be Shearing concert.
he said. "We usually
This is the first time in several
Bradley Hall,"
keep it open on speciul occasions." years that the council has voted
Miss Dixie Evans, director of for a late permission. Miss Pat
women's residence
halls, said Patterson, advisor to the House
sorority members would be able Presidents' Council, said yesterto remain in their houses for the day.
nine-da- y
Interval between examThe advisor said that the couninations and the commencement cil decided Saturday night would
be an experiment to evaluate the
ceremony.
She said she has arranged a possibility of future late
Questionnaires are being sent
with senior women In
permissions.
to selected graduating seniors as meeting
and
she
part of a national survey concern- Keeneland which Holmes Halls to However, future also pointed out
each request for
dormitory, If any, that in the
career plans of college seniors. determine
ing
Prof. J. Kolaja of the Sociology will be used for other women who late permission will be considered
choose to remain at the University. individually.
Department is conducting the survey at UK.
Forty thousand students In 135 New
AntispgreHttion Group Acts
colleges will be polled to learn how
many students plan to go on to
graduate studies, and how many
Intend to go directly Into business,
aud to discover how the students
arrived at their choices.
By MIKE WENNINGER, Mananging Editor
Sponsored Jointly by the Office
A new local segregation-fightin- g
group came to the foreof Education, the National Insti-tu'- e
of Health, and the National front Tuesday night when it sponsored a "freedom march" inScience Foundation, the $125,900 volving 2(H) to 3(X)
persons in downtown Lexington.
project is being conducted by the
The new group, called the Lex- - things, "Khrushchev and Castro
National Opinion Center.
Is co- - can attend American theaters
UK President Frank O. Dickey ington Steering Committee,
with the Congress on why can't Negroes?" "We want
urijed each senior polled to return operating
Racial Equality in Us efforts to equality," and "We have waited
the completed questionnaire.
end segregation In Lexington bus- - 100 years."
James O'Rourke Jr.,
iness establishments.
a senior premedical student, said
The committee
organized
II) Tor-trai- t
of hundreds of yesterday that 13 University Negro
peaceful march
stuholographs for 1961-6- 2
demon-Main
dent Identification cards will be persons, mostly Negroes, along students marched in the
Street between Deweese titration.
taken from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Street and Broadway from 8 to
O'Rourke, a Negro and a mem-9:1- 5
May 5 in the east corridor of
ber of CORE and the steering
p.m. Tuesday.
the Student I'nion Building.
The demonstrators walked slow- - committee, said the LSC was form-l- y
All student
except graduating
in rain while chanting and ed about three weeks ago. Its
seniors are required to have picrhythm by clapping. They pose, said O'Rourke, is to encour-carrie- d
tures made.
Continued on Page 5
signs reading, among other
Seniors who graduate this semester will te permitted to live In
University housing between the
last day cf final examinations.
May 27, and the June 5 commencement ceremony. President
Frank a. Dickey said yesterday.
Dr. Dickey said seniors who complete all their work by the end of
final examinations will be free to
go home if they wish and return
for the baccalaureate set vice and
commencement exercises.
"Students who choose to live In

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Social Survey

To Ask Grads
About Plans

Recognizes 200

Nearly 200 coeds were recognized for outstanding scholarship and leadership at the annual "Stars in the Night" program
last night.
Twenty-fou- r
of the women were
named to Mortar Board, women s
leadership and service honorary.
at the 33rd annual ceremony In
Memorial Hall.
The new Mortar Board mem
bers are Alice Akin, Paintsvllle;
Judith Beetem, Lexington; Pa- tricla Botner, Paducah; Jacqueline Cain, Walton; Deborah Dan
iel. Lancaster;
Nancy Dee Ellis,
Ann Fitts. Lexington;
Harkey. Lebanon. Tenn.;
Patricia Harris. Carrollton; Mary
Ellen LaBach, Lexington; Sue Mc- Cauley, Lexington.
June Moore, North Miami, Fla.j
Elanor Ann Piper, Russellville;
Pixie Priest, Hartford; Germaine
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Atlanta, Ga.; Diane Ross,
Lucy Salmon, Madison-villAnne Shaver, Lexington;

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Kathleen Songster. Elizabethtown;
Sandra Tattersha( Ft. Mltcheu5
Gertrude
Myr Tobln- Webb, Lexington; and Molly By- land, Lexington.
The newly established Kentucky
Student Teacher's Association
award ,n honor of the late
Esther Adams went to Miss Judith.
Beetem, Lexington, and the Mor- tar Board Senior Servlce Awards
were preSented to Henrietta John-Barba- ra
son LeXlngton. and Diane Mills.
Washington. D. C. Beverly Wong,
Jarnalca was the recipient of th
pl Beta phl Freeman Woman
Award.
Alpha Delta PI received an
award as the outstanding women's
organization of the year. Miss
Byrle Davidson, Ft. Greely, Alaska,
president of the Stars in the Night
Committee, presided at the

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ALGIERS, April 2tf (AP The leader of the
y
Algerian army insurrection was clapped
Into a French prison today and his lieutenants fled
Into hiding as President Charles de Gaulle reasserted his rule over Algeria.
Gen. Maurice Challe, retired air force officer
and leader of the insurrection, flew to Paris and
surrendered. He was taken to Sante Prison in the
capital to await trial and, possibly, a death sentence.

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UNITED NATIONS. N.Y.. April 26 AP Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin
Insisted today that the Soviet Union would keep
1U promise to help Cuba against attack.

Zorin said, "If the Soviet Union says It will
extend assistance, it will extend assistence. It will
not act like Britain acted before the war in respect
to Poland.

Tsliomlx" Arrested After Walkout
COQUILHATVILLE. the Congo, April 26. (AP)
President Moise Tshombe of Katanga was dramatically arrested today after he scornfully'walked
out of a summit conference of Congolese politicians.
The leader of the Congo's richest province was
seized by soldiers of the Leopoldville central government of President Joseph Kasavubu. He was
preparing to board a plane for Eltsabethville, his
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Some of the 200 to 31)0 participants In Tuesday night's "freedom
march," protesting segregation In Lexington business establishments, walk past the Ben All Theater on Main Street. The leader
carries a sign reading "NOW!"

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Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Chi Epsllon, all
engineering honor societies, Introduced 25 new
members at a combined banquet held recently
it the Lafayette Hotel. Those honored were, first
row, from left, Tom Williams, William McCray.
James McDonald, Harry Hurd, Ed Prell, II. J.
Daily (professional member of Eta Kappa Nn) ;
second row, David Chittenden, John Gibson,
James Gover, Leon Hildenbrandt, Glen Braden,

third row,
Ray Troutman, Henry Bennett;
Sammy Guy, Robert Burns, Blaine Parker
of Tau Beta Pi), George Locke, Bill
(Alumnus
Howell, John McCann, Gerald Dapper; fourth
row, Larry Pinson, David Sanders, James A.
Proudlpve (alumnus of Tau Beta Pi), Lynn
Coe. New members not present for the picture
were Dan Hobbs, Danny Jasper, Robert V. Has-rha- k,
and Lowell Casebolt.

P.E. TEST DEADLINE

Concert Block Tickets

SET FOR WEDNESDA Y
Wednesday will be the deadline to sign up for proficiency
tests to
physical education requirements, Dr. Don
Cash Seaton, bead of the physical education department, said
yesterday.

dealing with
lng languages, opened this morn- In the Music Room of the Stu- lng
dent Union Building.
Gov. Combs will address the
delegates at the general session at
7:30 p.m. today.
Dr. James Halsted, assistant to
the vice president of the Medical
Center, will give an illustrated lecture on Iran at the same session.
Harris David Erickson, Evans-vill- e
College, will report on a visit
to Russia.
Among those presenting papers
at the Hebraic session are: James

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Students will be tested on sports
who will not have
skills and physical fitness.
their physical education
completed
requirements at the end of this
semester are eligible to take the
Foreign coins were legal ten
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J:30 a.m. to 13 noon and 1:30 p.m.
With women the heart argues,
to 5 p.m.
not the mind. Matthew Arnold.
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r cudents who
sign up will be permitted to take the proficiency
Impress Your Date
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Arts and Sciences Juniors will
meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Room
111, McVey Hall to nominate
candidates for 19C1-6- 1
senior
officers. A general class election
Is scheduled May 10.

Deadline for fraternities to order block tickets to the George
Shearing concert has been extended to noon Thursday.

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Coeds Contemplate 'Dieting

To Attract Male Eyes
By TOM LENNOS

It all began when the bustle
and hoop skirt were removed from
female fashions. Since then, It's
been one crash diet after another
for the weaker sex.
And now that Saturday afternoons at the lake seem to have
pained the sanction of the weatherman, contemporary coeds face
the dilemna: "Will I or won't I
do Justice to last year's bathing
tuit?"

The old fellow who so aptly
disclosed "vanity thy name Is
woman" forgot to continue "reason for vanity thy name Is man."
There's nothing like a model
to catch the male roving eye
the experts say. And the way to
that model figure for most women
Is filled with one way-sig...
diet, diet, diet.
Amid the Metrical, diet pills,
and exercise routines, one factor
remains . . . food. Even when surrounded by the former delicacies,
It Is still rather difficult to forget what cherry pie a la mode
(250 calories) tastes like: or choccalolate cake good size piece-20- 0
ories). Of course, If one would like
to enjoy a beverage such as a
glass of milk at the same time, add
another 100 calories.
That
candy bar
cr bag of potato chips and coke
will have to go If Venus-lik- e
pro

portions are to be attained. Their
caloric count Is too disastrous to
mention.
Likewise, think twice about the
cooling glass of beer a friend mi.y
offer to buy you between classes
on one of these humid spring days.
If you're not of age, it's illegal;
and If you are, It's 110 more calories.
When funds reach the point
of almost total evaporation, buy
as many tomatoes, onions, and
cucumbers as you can afford and
eat till your heart's content. It
takes three or four onions and
two or three tomatoes or cucumbers to add up to 100 calories.
You may face total financial emmore rapidly, but
barrassment
think of the calories you've saved.
When the opportunity arises,
have a hamburger rather than a
good - sized frankfurter. Nothing
against "Americas favorite food"
but there are five less calories in
the hamburger
(without trimmings).
If perchance you awaken in the
middle of the night because your
stomach protests the empty state
of affairs, it should be remember-broth- s
are premitted at any time
ed: clear coffee, tea, or fat - free
broths are permitted at any time
to relieve hunger. Where such
things may be found at 3 a.m. in
a women's residence unit . . . that
my friends is another story.

initiates 25

Sigma Alpha Epsilon recently
initiated 25 new members. The
new initiates are Wiliam A. Allen,
Merrill Orr Anderson, William
Frank Berry, David II. Binsladt,
Richard E. Capps.
James L. Congleton, Bradley B.
Cox, Reynolds M. Crain, Marvin
O. Dunn, Micheal O. Fosson, Ronald D. Fox, John S. Gaines.
Thomas A. Oreenwald, John H.
Helmers, William J. Howell, and
Sam B. Humphries, Jr.
Charles L. Kirk, James P. Moss,
William A. Pieratt, Robert L. Pin-so- n,
Bradley R. Ransom, Edwin
M. Squires, John A. West, Oary
E. Williamson, and James O. Wit-bec- k.

Sweethearts
Joyce Tallman, freshman education major from Louisville, has
been selected Phi Sigma Kappa
Moonlight Girl. Miss Tallman received the award at the fraternity's formal Saturday evening.
Diane Vittitow, senior education major from Owensboro, was
chosen Sweetheart of Kappa Sigma at the fraternity's Black and
White formal Saturday evening.

Social Activities
Elections
Meetings

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CLUB

The Dutch Club will meet at
noon today In the Football Room
In the SUB.
Miss Dixie Evans, director of
women's housing, will be guest
speaker. The club Is open to all
Lexington women and commuters.
YWCA

Honest

men marry, but
English proverb.

FRESHMAN MED CLASS
The freshman class in the College of Medicine has elected Joe
Clark Christian president for tho
coming year.
Others elected were Alan Dawson, vice president; John Hutton,
secretary treasurer; and Arthur
Hellcbusch, social chairman.

The YWCA conference will be
held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday in the SUB.
The program will consist of worship programs, leadership training, and program planning. Representatives from Murry State,
Morehead, Eerea, Sue Bennett,
and Kentucky Sstate will attend
the conference.

SUKY
Tom Harrington, Junior commerce from Falls Church, Va., hafi
recently been
president
of Suky, the University Pep Club.
Other officers elected lncludo
Irma Strache, Paducah, vice president; Molly Ryland, Lexington,
recording secretary; Linda Alvey,
Summit, corresponding secretary.
BETA ALPHA PSI
Va., treasurer; Lee Allen McMillan,
Beta Alpha Psi, the national ac- Va., treasurer; See Allen McMillan,
counting fraternity, will meet at Lexington, and Elaine Fancll.,
7 p.m. today in Room 123 in the Louisville,
managers.
SUB.
G. Kenneth Martin, vice president for Andrew J. York AssocDuring the Great Blizzard of
iates, will be the guest speaker. Mr. 1888, messages from New York to
Martin will speak on the Dale Boston had to be relayed by way
Carnegie courses. The meeting is of England.
open to the public.

Who marries does well; who
marries not does better.
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Lingerie Leads Double outer
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Press
Br The AvuM-iateRalph Montenero has not yet
chosen the woman who will share
his breakfast table, but he has
abiding pity for those husbands
d,
who must each morning face
creatures In
ragged robes.
His sympathy extends to career
women
ones who can hardly
wait to get home to shed their
fashionable constrictions for more
xpansive (but sloppy) comfort.
And he has understanding for
the housewife trapped in her
nightgown at nearly noon with
knocking
at the door.
Thus, to improve romance, comfort, beauty and modesty in the
American home, Montenero has
turned his talents to creating
lingerie that leads a double life.
To be worn over soft, filmy night
rs
powns he has made opaque
and doublets which do not
to much as hint at being "boudoir."
Unhampered by underpinnings,
a woman can don one of these
costumes early in the evening,
lounge comfortably without pulling the shades down, and in no
more time than it takes to stifle a

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yawn
garment
and be ready for bed.
"The importance is In the cut,"
says the handsome, slight, sometimes blushing
who
has been designing women's clothes
since he was 19. "The costume
is made to flatter the bust and
hide the stomach.
After eight years of designing
daytime wear, Montenero turned
to the sleepwear field because "I
have a feel for soft fabrics," and
because "there Is more opportunity for originality."
To avoid the boudoir look, he
has combined some unique materials. One of his pegnoirs. he says,
looks like a shaggy rug. But those
fibers are
stringy, man-mad- e
washably practical.
Making up in elegance for what
it lacks in practicality is another
wide-awaMontenero sleepwear
garment lavishly trimmed with
fur.
His "guinea pig" Mrs. Sylvia
Doole, (28, an enviable size 10)
believe Montenero's designs do all
he intended.
And she would be Just as enthusiastic, even If he were not her
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Let Commencement Die?

With final examinations drawing
near, graduating seniors should be
looking forward to commencement,
but such is not the case.
A large number of seniors are
looking on the official graduation
ceremonies with disfavor because of
a schedule that will leave them with
Bt least nine days to kill between
the end of final exams and commencement. If all the June graduates
who have threatened to pass up the
ceremonies in favor of having their
diplomas mailed to them do so, commencement could easily end up looking like a faculty meeting.
Since commencement attendance
has already been falling off at a
noticeable rate, it would take only
one or two more commencements
such as this to drive another University tradition to the grave.
Wc have heard a number of
reasons for the scheduling of commencement for more than a week
after the end of the examination
period, but none of them really justify
this obviously unsatisfactory arrangement.
One explanation is that seniors
lost a week or more of instruction
when they had to take their exams
a week before commencement. Another was that it was difficult for
instructors to administer one final
examination to seniors, another to remaining students. Still a third reason
was that having seniors on the cam

pus for a week or so with no classes
caused unnecessary confusion.
What is probably one of the most
important reasons the commencement date was moved ahead from
before finals to after has not received
much notice. The College of Law.
complained for years that it could
not grade its senior exams and still
enable Law seniors to take part in
the commencement exercises. Two
years ago the Law College even considered holding its graduates out of
commencement.
But whatever the reason for moving the commencement date up two
weeks, the present date is unsatisfactory and is causing many extra
problems. Seniors planning to begin
work immediately after the examination period will either have to
come back for commencement or miss
students must reit.
turn to Lexington from their homes
or find somewhere to live for nine
days. And even the faculty gets into
the act as those planning vacations
before the start of summer school or
summer study at other schools find
themselves marking time for a week
and a half before leaving.
Considering the reasons for the
commencement change, it seems that
the cure is worse than the disease
and a return to the former date is
called for.
Or perhaps it would be best to
just let commencement die.
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mike

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attended
Student Congress'
special meeting Monday night to observe how the newest and largest
product of students' efforts to govern
themselves operates. In general, I was
pleased by what I saw and heard.
Overall, the congress is an orderly
body, with Carry! Sipple presiding
effectively and with questions of parliamentary procedure being answered
immediately. President Sipple strives
to give all representatives equal
chances to speak on the floor, and
most speakers make their comments
pertinent and brief.
Unfortunately, however, at Monday's extraordinary session, as at the
regular ones, attendance by representatives was not what it should be.
I estimate that more than a third of
the congress' meinlnrs did not attend the special meeting.
Anyway, what prompted me to
write this article is that I noticed a
peculiar attitude prevailing among
the majority of representatives to SC.
It seems that they are not aware
that their duty is to represent students, not to act as footmen to them.
I got the impression that most of
the representatives feel that instead
of leading the student body, they are
supposed to act as puppets of it.
At the lK'ginning of Monday's
meeting, President Sipple asked the
congress to consider three possible solutions to the Homecoming problem
and then recommend one to University President Frank Dickey and the
Alumni Association. After about 50
minutes of discussion, it was moved
that SC go on record as favoring
leaving the Homecoming game scheduled as it is and promoting a "bigger
and better" Homecoming weekend
during the Thanksgiving holidays.
The motion was subsequently

No Place For

Peace Corps

By DAROLD POWERS
The Peace Corps will serve only
in underdeveloped countries which
welcome it, but it has not yet negotiated specific technical assistance
projects with any foreign governments.
Many details on the corps cannot
be made final until it is known what
its specific tasks and areas of operation will be. At the same time,
though, lack of concrete information
from Washington' has also delayed
official foreign response from the
underdeveloped areas of the world
where reaction to the corps ranges
from guarded enthusiasm to outright
denunciation.
Inability to set final details
especially for the training of volunteersuntil specific projects are approved bilaterally was the first point
raised by physical training consultant
Forest Evashevski in a recent interview.
The ice may, however, be broken
this week, as a current Newsweek
President
predicts
Kennedy will
shortly announce the site and project
for the corps' first mission.
Chances are the first country to
invite the Feace Corps will be one
of these: Nigeria, Gabon, Thailand,
the Philippines,
Pakistan,
India,
Colombia, Mexico, Chile, or Haiti.
The Colorado State University Research Foundation interviewed officials in these nations and reported
a high degree of receptivity in each

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"almost always tempered by caution . .
The Pakistani Embassy in Washington wrote this reporter that President Mohammed Ayub Khan "welcomes the idea and wishes it every
success. . . . Pakistan will welcome
this type of assistance."
The New York Times reported
deep regret in India, not that the
corps might come, but that probably
none of the Corps workers would be
sufficiently fluent in the indigenous
language to teach science on the secondary level.
Many underdeveloped countries
are neutralist and approach the possible political implications of involvement in the Peace Corps program
with caution. Ghana might be taken
as a case in point. A letter to this
reporter from the Ministry of Social
Welfare there said simply that no
comment could be made until copies
of the proposed program have been
made available to it by the United
States Government. Ghana has, however, accepted privately sponsored
volunteers such as those in Operas
Africa.
tions
But nations such as Ghana are
very sensitive to cries of imperialism
and colonialism raised by such groups
as the
People's Conferencetermed
by tKe West
which on March 31 denounced the
volcorps from Cairo as "a
unteer corps for peace set up by the
American government to reconquer
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But what makes SC's hesitant action really absurd is that the congress
was not alxnit to decide the final
solution to the Homecoming problem,
but was only going to recommend a
solution to Dr. Dickey anil the Alumni
Association. The final decision as to
what to do about Homecoming will
be made by the president, the association, and the Athletic Department.
In brief, SC goofed Monday night.
Instead of determining a definite
policy to le followed by students
during discussions of the Homecoming situation, it merely left everything up in the air for at least two
weeks. I hope this nonproductive
approach to student government will
not become standard operating procedure for SC. If the congress is to
ever become an effective governing
Inxly, its members must legin to act
more like representatives and less like
political weathervanes.

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and economically dominate Africa."
And South African papers have reportedly condemned the corps as
interference in local affairs.
In the same vein, the Nigerian
Daily Times editorialized that the
corps is a "deadly suspicious device
on the part of America to plant her
spies all over the world." As indicated above, however, it is reported
that Nigeria is one of the countries
with which the Peace Corps is now
negotiating projects.
Such ambivalence toward the
corps within underdeveloped nations
was further exemplified in President
Modibo Keita of Mali, who was
quoted as first opining the Corps
might be good primarily for opening
the eyes of young Americans about
Africa and then allowing the corps
might also be useful, if members
brought some skills and could help
in construction.
Carnal Abdel Nasser, president of
the United Arab Republic, is a man
whose attitude toward the political
implications of the Peace Corps may
be expected to influence the response
of other
neutralists. I lis
letter to this reporter demonstrates
well the
foreign
doubts about the Peace Corps, and
it should give pause to any who think
our idealism must automatically be
accepted elsewhere as patent altruism. Nasser wrote:
". . . the Youth Corps, proposed
by the American President, would
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tabled until the next regular meeting (May 8) because many representatives felt it would be unfair to
the student body if SC recommended
such a solution to the problem without first getting a consensus of the
students. I vehemently disagree with
that reasoning.
In the first place, SC members, as
representatives of the students, should
have known already what the consensus is. Sipple sent notices of the
special meeting to all representatives
Thursday and a front page notice was
published in Friday's Kernel, so the
representatives had at least three days
in which to learn how their constituents feel about the Homecomi