Louisville Cardinal
Vol. XLVI No. 10 Room 117, Otter Hall, Louisville, Ky. 40208
Senate nixes fee referendtJtm
by Kenny Vandevelde
The University Student Senate at its
weekly meeting Tuesday voted support
for a mandatory student activity fee for
most full-time undergraduate students on
Belknap Campus next year, and voted
down two motions, either of which
would have required a student
referendum on the issue.
The Senate vote was recommendative
only. The Board of Trustees must
approve all fees before they are official.
The Senate recommendation came
from its Activities Committee, composed
of Senators David King, Ed Lowry, and
Joe Fowler.
According to Director of the Union
for Student Activity (USA) George
Howe the USA supported the Senate's
recommendation on the fmancing of
student activities.
The proposal recommended:
(I) that an activity fee of $5 per
semester be charged for the fall and
spring semesters,
(2) that the activity fee be mandatory
for all undergraduate full-time students in
the following school: A&S, School of
Education, School of Business, School of
Police Administration, ·and Speed
Scientific School (including the fifth year
professional students),
(3) that the activity fee be voluntary
for the following units: School of Music,
University College, School of Law,
School of Medicine, School of Dentistry,
Kent School of Social Work, the
Graduate School, part-time students in
any unit, faculty, and staff,
(7) that the review committee strongly
consider the · possibility of activity
funding without the imposition of an
activity fee on students via direct
university funding, and
(8) that recommendati0as from the
review be made to the Student Senate for
appropriate action.
The fee was proposed as a voluntary
one for certain groups in the belief that
these groups would benefit less from the
activities to be financed by the fee.
The recommndation was controversial.
Senator Ian Sonego moved an
amendment that would have required a
referendum to determine whether the
students affected wanted :a mandatory
fee.
Supporters of a referendum argued
that the students should lbe consulted
before being assessed a $10 annual fee.
Sonego observed that the USA had held
such a referendum two years ago and
that, at that time, the full-time
undergraduates had approved the fee , but
only for $6 a year and only for that one
year.
In opposing the referendUlm, Chairman
of USA Robbie Merrick argued that the
student activities were too important for
the Senate to risk students' voting not to
have a fee, thereby ending the activities
program.
Senate Vice-President Dan Flynn, who
also opposed the referendum, said the
Senate should be able to speak for the
students, without having to rely on a
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Mayor Harvey
Sloane spoke
on campus
Wednesday to
gamer support
for the Nov. 5
TARC refere
Photograph by Richard Yetter
( 4) that the Uruon for Student
Activity be empowered to charge an extra
fee for events where a controlled
admission can be implemented; however,
the amount of .the extra fee would be at
the discretion of the Student Senate,
Sloane speaks I• n support of TARC
(5) that the imposition of the activity
fee be for the remaining year of the
biennium (1975-76) only,
(6) that a review of the activity fee be
made during the '75-'76 academic year,
by Kenny Vandevelde
Failure to pass the T ARC referendum
November 5 will leave Louisville with "a
bleak future," Mayor Harvey Sloane told
a University of Louisville audience
Wednesday.
Sloane spoke at noon to a crowd
consisting of a couple hundred students
and a sprinkling of faculty members.
Sloane came to urge his listeners to
support the referendum on election day.
Among the consequences he listed that
would result from the defeat of the
referendum were the following:
Student health hires six physicians
by Debbie Holmes
Six physicians have been hired to staff
the University of Louisville's Student
Health Center, located in White Hall at
Belknap Campus. Along with Dr. C.H.
Luhr, the doctors are part of a program
funded by the student fees imposed at
the beginning of the fall term.
The six doctors are, Dr. R. Chism, Dr.
J. Dean, Dr. W. Jennings, Dr. J. Kuhn, Dr.
J. Faurest, and Dr. T. Stephenson, all
practice in the same clinic in the south
end of Louisville and will have office
hours at the Health Center on a ·rotating
basis. The office hours have been
extended from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Mondays through Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to
12:00 p.m. on Saturdays. The physicians'
·. ·.
actual hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00
p.m. Monday through Friday. From 4:30
to 8:30 on weekdays and during Saturday
hours, a clerk and a registered nurse will
be in the center, with a physician on calf
in the event of an emergen1cy. Dr. Luhr
expects to adjust his office hours to
coincide with the other physicians' hours
to insure complete professional coverage.
The six physicians are in Family
Practice and one female doctor expected
to work at the center is a foreign fellow
in Family Practice. Doctors must take
residency and additional training to
become members of Family Practice.
Although walk-in patients are
accepted, Dr. Luhr urged that the
students make appointmen1ts. "We will
try to have two physicians - one to take
walk-ins and one to take appointment
patients. Naturally we will take
emergency cases first, but our work here
can be more effective if students will try
to make appointments." Dr. Luhr added
that students who take allergy shots
should continue taking then during the
day when a doctor is present. Any other
times should be .discussed with Dr. Luhr.
Receptionist Mrs. Jean Tucker is
available during office hours Monday
through Friday to make appointments.
She spoke of the plans the Health Center
has. "New equipment and lab facilities
may be ready by the beginning of next
year. We are expected to move into the
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• Fares would be increased, starting
November 1 0.
• The City would be unable to qualify
for millions of dollars of federal matching
grants that will probably be available next
year as aid to mass transit.
• Services would be cut back by about
a third, severely curtailing weekend
service and completely eliminating it at
night .
• The service cutback will mean that
between five and eight thousand people
will lose their means of transportation to
and from work.
Sloane also listed some benefits which
approval of TARC would bring:
• reduced air pollution . A pamphlet
distributed at the forum claimed that the
buses used produce 95% less carbon
monoxide and 97% less nitrogen dioxide
than the average car, on a per-person-mile
basis.
• reduced traffic congestion. The same
pamphJet also asserted that each TARC
bus could eliminate 24 cars from the
street.
• availability of public transportation
for more people to more places. T ARC
would provide 84,000 route miles of
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