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THE CARDINAL
VOL. XXXVD, NO. 16 UNIVERSITY OF LOmSVU.LE, LOmSvn.LE, KENTUCKY 40208 FEBRUARY 18, 1966
YR To Hold
Convention
This Weekend
The College Young Republicans
of Kentucky will hold their sec­ond
annual state convention this
weekend in the Kentucky Hotel
Terrace Room. All University of
Louisville YR's are invited to at­tend.
The convention will open to­night
at 9:30 with a dance fea-
• turing the Monarchs while vari­ous
YR committees are in meet­ings.
The dance will have a pay
bar, and door prizes will be given
away.
Tomorrow morning from 9:30-
12:00 a general business meeting
and the election of state YR of­ficers
will take place. The con­vention
will end at noon with a
ham luncheon for all delegates.
KNIGHT'S NIGHT OUT
Eli Brown m, Chairman of the
UL Board of Trustees, speaks at
the dedication.
UL~ Bellarmine To Host
Ford Caravan Of Music
The Ford Motor Company has
announced that the University of
Louisville will "associate" with
Bellarmine College in sponsor­ing
the Ford Caravan of Music
starring Roger Miller and the
Good Time Singers March 19.
The University was originally
to be the sole sponsor of the Cara­van.
Bellarmine, according to in­formed
sources, had been trying to
get the Caravan to play at their
college for some time. When the
January 14 issue of The Cardinal
revealed that UL was to host
the Caravan at no cost except that
of publicity, Bellarmine officials
immediately contacted the Ford
Motor Company for an explana­tion
as to why UL had been
chosen. The Ford Company then
decided to allow Bellarmine to
share in the presentation.
Tickets will be $1.00, $1.50,
$2.00, and $2.50 and will be avail­able
after Tuesday in the Uni­versity
Center, at Bellarmine Col­lege,
and downtown at Shackle­ton's
and Baldwin's. All UL stu­dents
will receive a 50¢ discount
on all tickets purchased with the
presentation of an ID card before
March 19. The Student Activities
Committee will underwrite the
expense of this discount, which is
available only to UL students.
Dorm Mixer Sponsored
The SAC also sponsored a mix­er
with the Kinetics for UL dorm
students Thursday, February 3,
1966. Since most students were
confined due to the snow storm,
Marty Yenawine approached the
administration with this idea, it
was accepted, and the money
taken from the SAC fund.
Bingham Poetry Room Opened
In University Library Basement
Dedication Ceremonies Include A. Dialogue Between Poets
By Larry Weisenthal
"A quiet place where one can
read and browse at leisure" is
the Robert Worth Bingham Poet­ry
Room, observed Eli Brown III,
University Board of Trustees
chairman, during dedication cere­monies
last Thursday.
Before the dedication, a "Dia­logue
between poets" was held,
with Richard Eberhart from Dart ­mouth
College and Louis Simpson
from the University of California
at Berkeley participating. The
program is reviewed on page
seven.
The tastefully-furnished room,
which contains some 2,500 volumes
of poetry, was a gift to the Uni­versity
of Louisville by the chil­dren
of Robert Worth Bingham.
Bingham, a graduate of the UL law
school and former mayor of Lou­isville,
was Ambassador to Great
Britian under Franklin Roose­velt.
Faculty Initiates Project
Located in the basement of
the main library, the room was
constructed nine years ago, but
served as little more than a meet ­ing
place until this fall. The idea
of converting it into a poetry
room arose during a faculty dis­cussion
concerning the initiation
of a doctoral program in English.
The project received wide­spread
faculty support and was
whole-heartedly endorsed by the
Binghams. The poetry volumes
now in the room were collected
and catalogued during the fall.
The Bingham Room features
several outlets into which ear­phones
may be plugged. Coupled
with a "hot line" to the Lou-isville
Free Public Library, this
system enables the student to
hear famous poets read their
works.
"I am delighted with the poetry
room as it has been planned and
developed," commented Barry
Bingham, editor and publisher of
(Continued em. page 8, col . l )
Present at ~.:ne ti~cation of the Robert Worth Bingham Room
were members of the 11Jingham family. From left are Barry Bingham,
M~ Eleanor Bingham, a UL student, and Mrs. Worth Bingham.
Draft Boards Close Jn On Students,
Use Test To Deter1.nine Deferments
By Rod Larmee
Last semester, 99 male students
who failed to make their grades
and were not reinstated were of­ficially
dropped from the Uni­versity
of Louisville.
By the end of March at least
50 of these men wii! be in the
Army, Navy, Air Force, or Ma­r
ines. A few who are lucky may
be able to get into the reserves,
and some will enlist. But the great
majority of those who are eligible
will be drafted.
Publicity for the event will be
headed by Linda S or e ins o n
with the help of Marty Yena­wine
and the remainder of
the Committee. Also, Ford
will send two ad vance men
to Louisville before the perform­ance
to handle radio, television,
and newspaper publicity as well
as to generally oversee prepara­tions
for the show.
Barbershop Competition
To Be Held March· 16
Almost half the men, though,
probably won't even reach 1-A
draft status, reports Miss Rita M.
Boyd, clerk for Local Board 42.
The reason for their ineligibility,
she said, are things like "football
injuries, asthma, and similar
things you normally wouldn't
think of."
when the Selective Service Sys­tem
officially revises its stand­ards
for 1-Y classification. This is
the group that includes such nota­bles
as Cassius Clay, Joe N amath,
and others. The mental and physi­cal
standards are to be relaxed
somewhat, allowing those previ­ously
not qualified to be drafted.
But for UL men, with a 2-S
student deferment, there is a
much more ominous picture in the
near future. Lt. General Lewis
Hershey, director of the Selective
Service, said last month that the
SSS will probably reinstitute tests,
class rank, or both as factors in
By Avery Friedman
March 16 is the date finally
decided upon for the 18th Annual
Barbershop Competition. Original-
A maddening sight to UL commuters this week was the empty
parking lot above (behind UC Building) closed by a new chain and
lock. The lot, the campus' newest, has been open since September,
providing 14 more sorely needed spaces. Alas, aooordina- to B & G's
Wade Woods, the lot has now been reserved for special visitors and
pests, whose parkin&" space would otherwise would be unobtainable.
As lOIII" as they have clOHd it, we sure hope that darned lot is used
every day. Our office is rla"ht in front of it.
ly scheduled for next Wednesday,
the contest was switched by the
University Student Senate at the
request of several groups planning
to participate.
The large snowfall during se­mester
break, which hampered
rehearsal sessions, was cited as
the reason for the postponement.
This year three places will be
awarded in both the men's and
women's divisions. To be held in
the Multi-purpose Room, Barber­shop
is sponsored by the Senate.
15 Groups Enter
Arnie Levin ('66) and Joni
Huber ('67) will act as master
and mistress-of-ceremonies while
members of the Louisville
Thoroughbred Chorus judge the
competition.
Groups entering this year in
the men's division are Lambda
Chi Alpha, Nu Sigma Ch~ Theta
Tau, Phi Kappa Tau, Delta Up­silon,
Sigma Alpha Mu, Tau Kap­pa
Epsilon, and Pi Kappa Phi.
Pi Beta Phi, Chi Omega, Sigma
Kappa, Kappa Delta, Zeta Tau
Alpha, Delta Zeta, and Threlkeld
Hall are the teams competing in
the women's division.
This situation will probably be
.changed in the future, however, (Continued on page 8, col. 4)
Sorority Rush Begins
First Time Held In Spring
By Lynda Lane
For the first time in the his­tory
of the University of Louis­ville
there will be a compulsory
spring rush for sororities.
The main reason for instituting
such a rush program is that there
are more girls who would like to
pledge than there are openings in
the sororities under existing regu­lations.
By holding a compulsory
rush each sorority will be able
to take up to the quota set by the
Dean of Women (36) plus two
more.
Rush functions are to begin
Sunday with a compulsory meet­ing
at 1:15 in the Multi-purpose
Room followed by tours of the
various Greek houses. Monday
and Wednesday night there will
be parties by invitation starting
at 7:00 p.m. Unlike during fall
rush, the parties will be merely
conversation parties with no skits
or favors being given.
Silence is to observed by sorori­ty
members Sunday through Fri­day.
Rushees can pick up their
invitations in the Office of the
Dean of Students. Bids will be
signed on Friday.
Even though open rush will
continue throughout the semester,
Sue Herman, President of the
Panhellenic Council, suggested
that "all those definitely in­terested
in pledging this spring
should rush now because most
groups will probably fill their
number due to the fonnal rush."
It should also be noted that the
institution of a compulsory spring
rush for sororities is merely an
experiment which may or may
not be continued in the future.