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TheLouisville Cardinal
Vol. XLVI No. 14 Room 117, Otter Hall, Louisville, Ky. 40208 December 6, 1974
Photograph by Rick Yetter
Head football coach T. W. Alley submit.ted his resignation Wednesday amid specu·
lations he was about to be fired.
Did the axe fall?
Alley ·resigns as U of L
head football coach
by Kenny Vandevelde
Head football coach T.W. Alley
submitted his resignation to President
James Miller Wednesday afternoon at 4
p.m. The resignation was effective
immediately.
Alley resigned amid growing
speculation that the university was
preparing to buy out the remaining year
of Alley's three-year contract because of
his losing record as coach. His first season
produced five wins and six losses while
his second year ended with four wins and
seven losses.
The university issued a statement
Wednesday evening quoting Miller as
saying Alley's resignation "was his
decision and not the decision of the
university," apparently indicating that
the final decision about Alley's future as
head football coach had not been made
when the resignation was submitted.
MiUer reportedly had told Alley the
evening bef<)rc that he still had not come
to a final decision on the matter.
The university' statement quoted
Alley as saying, "l hope this resignation
will peed the university on its way to its
commitment for major college football. It
was done in the best interest of the
university,"
Alley could not be reached by the
Cardinal for further comment.
In accepting the resigna tion Miller
said, "T.W. Alley gave his best efforts to
the university for two seasons. For that I
am grateful. His honesty, integrity , and
conscientiousness arc admirable. lie is a
youngman who deserves success. I hope
that he will find that success in his future
career."
A six member search commi ttce has
already been appointed by Miller to find
a successor to Alley "a soon as possible."
Students protest garbage, roache~ in apt. bldg.
The committee will be chaired by
Athletic Director Dave llart. Also serving
will be Clark Wood, chairman of the
health, physical education, and recreation
department; Norbert Elbert,
vice-president for financial affairs~ Dr. J.
IIerman Mahaffey, chairman of the board
of the University of Louisville Associates,
a sports booster group: Dr. Louis
Krumholz, director of the Water
Resources Laboratory; and Greg Price
president of the student senate .
. by Kenny Vandevelde
A group of about twenty students
have organized to seek better living
conditions in the Confederate
Apartments on Belknap Campus.
The new organization, called the
Confederate Council, is composed of two
student representatives from each floor of
the apartment building.
In a letter to President James Miller,
dated October 31, the Council listed
several problems in the building which
they wanted corrected.
Two weeks later, the students received
a response from Ed Horning, the
Assistant Director of Housing. They later
me t with Horning, Executive
Vice-President William Ekstrom, and
Director of Buildings and Grounds Wade
Woods to discu~ the issues further.
The council's first complaint was that
"the building is infested with cockroaches
despite the monthly extermination
efforts."
In his letter, Horning told the council
that the university had a contract with
Pest-All Exterminators, Inc. to spray the
building for cockroaches and rodents
twice monthly. He also told them he had
forwarded their letter to the president of
the company, that they had toured the
building together, and that he would
terminate the contract if lPest-All did not
live up to the guarantee iin the contract.
By the time of the meeting between
the Council and the admlinistrators, held
Thursday evening, Nove:mber 21, the
housing office had termim1ted its contract
with Pest·All and hired Orkin. Orkin
sprayed the folJowing Monday, and is
supposed to return regularly.
TI1e council's second complaint was
that the garbage was not: picked up on
week-ends, causing serious health
conditions. They also complained about
garbage backing up in the chute that leads
to the first floor trash room. ·
The condition of the t;rash room was
felt by the students to , be especially
serious since that was the breeding
ground for the roaches, which then use
the chute to travel to other floors in the
building.
In his letter, Horning.- promised the
council that a larger dumpster would be
installed to help relieve 1the problem of
build-up on weekendS.
Horning also referred the council to a
memo from Wade Woods, written in
response to the complaing. Woods said
the back-up in the chute was caused by
two things: the students' dropping
pasteboard boxes in. the chute that are
too large to travel through , and a
forty-five degree bend in the chute that
tends to clog easily.
Woods told a Cardinal reporter that his •
department was installing a stainless steel
plate near the 45 degree bend, to decrease
the friction and reduce the likelihood of
clogging. He said it would cost too much
to redesign the chute.
Woods added that the effectiveness of
the new plate would depend upon the
students' willingness not to deposit boxes
that were too large.
At the November 21 meeting, the
council was told that the dumpster would
be emptied on weekends in the future.
But when a Cardinal reporter inspected
the trash room ten days later, on Sunday,
December 1, he was told by residents that
it had not been emptied that weekend.
(Continued on page 2)
The search committee is to consult
with the Athletic Council and the
University (faculty) Senate before any
names are submitted to the Board of
Trustees for approval.
"We're going to look for a man who
has had head coaching experience on the
college level," I Iart was quoted as saying.
Alley had not had experience as a head
coach prior to his selection two years ago
as U of L's head coach. He did have
experience as an assistant coach at
Princess Anne lligh in Virginia Beach,
Virginia , at Randolph Macon College, and
at U of L.
"But, of course, that does not mean
that we have to have a man who has been
a head coach," Hart added. "There arc
several top-notch a~istant coaches
around the country. We want to find the
best man for this program, and if it turns
out to be an a~istant coach, that's fine .',