Volume XLVll, No. 2 Copyright 1975, The louisville Cardinal September S. 197 S
Surprise
Parking Foul-Up
by Steve Wingfield
New parking stickers, which were on
sale by the Department of Public Safety~
have been found to be in violation of a
state law.
The new stickers were to be placed in
the windows of cars rather than on the
bumper, which was the practice in past
years.
But the new stickers were found to be
in violation of a state law which prohibits
the placement of decals on automobilr
windows and the Departmentof Public
Safety, which oversees parking at U of L,
recalled the sticKers and ordered new
ones.
The stickers will be essentially the
same as those used in past years, and will
go on sale Sept. 8 at the Department of
Public Safety offices.
The cost of replacing the window
stickers will be borne by the University.
Dan Keller, Director of Public Safety,
said "We'll make the best of an
unfortunate situation."
Keller also said, despite the daily
complaints on the part of students who
cannot fmd a parking space, that "There
are always enough spaces available" even
during peak hours.
An investigation by The Louisville
Cardinal, however, shows Keller to be
Although most of the students have
moved into the dormitories eighty
students are still on a waiting list to
receive the rooms of students that do
not show up for classes.
wrong.
The investigation, conducted between
9:00 and 9:30 a.m. on Wedrtc~sday Sept.
3, surveyed every university parking lot
located on or near Belknap caiJnpus.
All of the lots were filled to capacity,
and some were barricaded by officers of
the Department of Public Safety. Also
cars were found parked on sidewalks, on
grass and on medians.
Many streets near the campus were
jammed with parked cars, most of which
had 1974-75 U of L parking stickers on
their bumpers.
"The first couple of weeks are always Students parking in areas without the proper parking sticker may have their can
bananas," said Keller. towed by the Dept. of Public Safety.
Keller did concede thj~ parking
situation is "somewhat tighter than
before," due to the loss of between two­and
three-hundred parking spaces which
are now new construction sites ..
There are, according to K·eller, three
lots which are not being used to capacity.
They are ( 1) behind the fraternity houses
on Third Street, (2) north of Confederate
Apts. on Third Street; next to the
Cardinal shopping center, and (3) a lot
located at Floyd and Brandeis Streets.
Keller also said the Department of
Public Safety is not currently enforcing
parking regulations except in red reserved
spaces, ftre lanes and access lanes to
parking areas.
There is, according to Keller, help on
the way to relieve the "serious" parking
situation.
The university is building one new
parking lot (located north of the Red
Barn) and the lot at Floyd and Brandeis
will be "expanded and improved."
Keller said, with the parking spaces the
university now has and the new ones now
being built, "we can make it through this
year but next year looks bad."
He went on to elaborate that the rapid
growth of the university will severely tax
the parking space available to the
university population, but gravel lots will
"hopefully" provide the necessary spaces.
80 Students Bedless
by Debby Graves
Eighty students are still on the waiting
list for dormitory rooms, a•ccording to
Harold Adams, Dean of Students.
Seventy-one of the students are local
residents and can commute from home,
and the other nine students are being
temporarily housed in private homes.
Adams says that Bellarmine College's
offer to house the students will probably
be rejected for several reasons ..
"First, they wanted $250 per student.
That's $20 more than we charge," said
Adams. "Second, there's the problem of
transportation. If those kids commute
from Bellarmine they might as well
commute from home."
The non-local students on the waiting
list will receive priority for rooms. The
remaining seventy-one studen~s are listed
in order by the dates their applications
were received.
The entire football team has been
housed, although several students on
track and baseball scholarships have not
yet received rooms.
Other students are being assigned
rooms in the study lounges located on
each floor of the dormitorie:s. All of the
study lounges in Miller Hall and Johnny
Unitas Tower are filled, but plans to
convert the lounges in Threkheld Hall
into rooms were not carried out, as the
University has run out of beds.
Adams doubt that all of the students
on the waiting list will receive rooms.
''There's someone sleeping in every
nook, cranny, and corner of Miller Hall.
The same goes for Unitas. Everything's
been turned into housing that's possible."
Adams explained new security
measures are being planned for the
dormitories acknowledging that there has
been trouble in the past with dormitory
security. This year locks will be installed
on each floor permitting only residents of
the floor to enter with their room keys.
"Of course its not to keep away
visitors or invited guests," Adams
stressed. It's to keep out the unwanted
guests-the people not invited."
Three rules that will be enforced this
year are the rules concerning noise,
cooking in the rooms, and drug usage.
"The noise rules we 'II have to
enforce," said Adams, who is a resident
of Miller hall. "Especially because of the
crowded conditions. You can't have a lot
of yelling and screaming and loud stereos
when some poor kid's trying to sleep or
study."
Adams explained that the rules
prohibiting cooking in the rooms are
regulations set by the Board of Health.
He cited the poor ventilation, plus rodents
and insects drawn by the food as the
major reasons.
Adams sees marijuana as "our biggest
head-ache" concerning drug use in the
dorms. ·
"We always have problems with drugs,
but for the most part "t's strictly 'grass'.
There's not much of the other, although
of course it's harder to detect pills.
'Grass' we can always smell."
Sorry 'bout That
Somewhere between the composition gets hairy sometimes) due to space
room and the printing plant, the Bacon's considerations, the Department of
fell off the front page of Bacon's special Modern Languages teacher-course
advertising supplement, left a nice, big evaluatjons was cut from the publication
white spot on the page and nobody could of the A & S teacher-course evaluations.
figure out whose advertising the front The results of the Modern Languages
page of tl!~ supplement was supposed to be. teacher-course evaluations are available in
The. Louisville Cardinal wishes to the Arts and Sciences student council
apologize to Bacon's for this mishap, and offices, located on the 1st floor of the
we hope Bacon's will forgive us. Student Activities Building (formerly the
Also, (the first issue of the year really University Center).
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