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Show . ' J f iUVO Number 142 Students Honored At Dinner By SUSAN WILLIAMS Staff Writer Dr. Robert R. Kadesch associate associ-ate dean of College of Letters and professor of physics spoke on the "Catacombs of Academe" last night at the annual initiation dinner din-ner of Sigma Chi and Phi Kappa Phi honories. Joseph C. Whitacker received the L. H. Kirkpatrick Award and Sam-uel Sam-uel S. Kesler, inventor of 13 patents, pa-tents, received the Sigma Chi Award. "The Catacombs of Academe" was a title to parallel the dead bones of the universities the departments, de-partments, Dr. Kadesch said. Dead bones are brought on by separatism separa-tism and irrevelance between them. Dr. Kadesch said that a major ma-jor is a department or compart- wanted, they were no longer flexible flexi-ble they were set in their fields. Dr. Kadesch recommended a remedy re-medy that would organize a general gen-eral education in the graduate level lev-el a kind of vocation where one can look out of the back door of their own profession into the front door of another. More Communication He pointed out that communication communica-tion between the departments might lead to further relevance. Dr. Kadesch referred to another article which was written by L. L. White entitled "The End of the Age of Separatism" which suggested that the college presidents making mak-ing it a requirement that department depart-ment heads submit a statement of their goal toward life situation which would relate their major to real problems. "We should infiltrate the con-' con-' science that comes in the humanities humani-ties into the sciences," said Dr Kadesch. "As White says we should look at the major in a global glo-bal situation, besides national and this will bring about growth." "The dead bones are the departments depart-ments since they justified themselves them-selves years ago," said Dr. Kadesch. Ka-desch. "Together, they don't form a skeleton much less with flesh on it. We should strive for a physicist and at the same time a sociologist. We should knit the society together and have our fate a complete entity. en-tity. And then when we look for the skeleton in the catacombs, we will find a whole skeleton." ment label one does not find them in relation to each other or society. 1G Departments "As self -sought groupings I have found 16 departments at the University. Uni-versity. There are the 'ologies' anestheology, geology; nine sciences sci-ences pharmaceutical, bioligi-cal, bioligi-cal, library; nine engineering groups; nine tris, phys, mys, rys chemistry philosophy, theatre, four tions education, etc. Out of the 139 departments, there can be myriads my-riads of combinations that should relate; some may end up as philosophy phil-osophy of naval science, architectural architec-tural surgery or geological theology." theol-ogy." John W. Gardner, former secretary secre-tary of Health, Education and Welfare Wel-fare wrote an article on students ' that went all through school, but when they finally knew what they |