Volume XLVD, No. 13
1rhe U of L Student Newspaper·
Copyr~ght 1975, The Louisville Cardinal
November 21, 1975
Miller says he won't ''trade'' tuition reduction
by Steve Wingfield
"I don't want to slow it down and I
think the chances of it being slowed are
essentially nil," said U of L President
James G. Miller about the rumor that he
might attempt to "trade-off' the
proposed tuition reduction for more
operating funds. Miller was interviewed
by the Louisville Cardinal on Wednesday.
The Council on Public Higher
Education recently recommended a $300
tuition cut for U of L students. It had
been rumored that Miller might attempt
the "trade" since the university's request
for operating funds had been trimmed
seriously.
"It's possible we might come down a
little slower," said Miller, but he added
that it is doubtful.
The tuition reduction, if approved by
the governor and the state legislature, will
lower U of L tuition from $780 to $580
in the fall of 1976, and to $480 in the fall
of 1977.
At the Board of Trustees meeting
Monday, Miller said he was "delighted"
with the reduction and speculated that U
of L's enrollment might increase by 2,000
students next year because of the
reduction.
A Courier-Journal headline the next
morning, however, said that U of L might
limit enrollment since the university
would not have enough operating funds
Photograph by Michael Brohm
Football season slowly changes into basketball. Alvin Tunstlll shoots at n basket near
Unitas Tower while the Manual High football team practices in the back1~round. U of
L plays its last football game against West Texas State tomorrow, and the Cardinal
basketball team opens with Athletes in Action Monday night. A special section on
this year's team written by Jim Morris was cut due to budgetary problems.
to deal with a large enrollment increase.
Miller said the headline was "erroneous."
He said that the enrollment limit was
not a very real possibility at this time
since nobody could accurately say how
many students the reduction would
attract, nor whether the university would
receive more funds in the state legislature.
He added that he didn't know the legal
aspects of enrollment limits since state
law requires state-supported institutions
to have "open admissions."
Als-, at Monday's meeting, several
trustees were critical of the U of L budget
recommended by the CPHE.
Trustee Skip Grafton Jr. , the most
vocal of those at the meeting, said, "I
think it (the budget) is a miscarriage of
justice this time.''
He said, "This county has been
slighted by the state of Kentucky for too
damn long." He added, "As one trustee, I
intend to fight."
Some of the trustees were decidedly
more cautious than Grafton. Student
member Stephan Phelps said, "If we
:>cream like stuck pigs now, I think it's
going to hurt us in two years" when U of
L goes back to the CPHE for the next
biennial budget.
Miller pointed out to the board that U
of L had achieved many inroads in the
budget. Trustee Samuel Klein , agreeing
with Miller, said U of L "has a lot to be
thankful for, and if we don't get what we
want this time, we'll be around next
time."
UC renovation cut back
by Debby Graves
Plans to renovate the Student Center
(formerly the UC Bldg.) are still
underway although the Council on Public
Higher Education (CPHE) refused to
recommend funding of such a project in
meetings held earlier this month .
Extensive renovations of the building at
an estimated cost of $1.2 million were
scheduled to begin in January.
Sparks says that the plans were drawn
up "under the assumption that the
council would recommend funds for the
work."
The facilities planning office presently
has $200,000 budgeted for the work.
"We'll go ahead and spend a couple of
hundred thousand, and try for other
funds later," says Sparks. "We'd like to
have a million or maybe a million and a
half to do it properly."
The revised plans would first remodel
Bigelow Hall, installing a better floor,
new curtains, and leaving it "better suited
for the same purposes."
The corridor on the lower level
running from the telephone office to the
Lincoln Room would be renovated.
Officea slong the corridor presently house
student organization offices.
The third level of the building will be
remodeled to house a communications
and radio broadcast center, and a
broadcasting booth would be built on the
building's first level. Student radio station
WXKE would then move from its
location in the old chemistry annex into
the new facilities.
"And last," says Sparks, "if we stiJl
have enough money, we'd like to try to
accommodate elevator renovations."
Some juggling of office space is still
planned although at this point Sparks is
not sure "who is going where." The
Student Government offices, presently
occupying the old University College
offices will be moved into the Lincoln
Room. The offices will then be made
available to the Placement office and the
Financial Aid office.
Student publications, including the
student newspaper, The Louisville
Cardi1111l, and the yearbook Deja Vu, will
be moved into the communications
center on the third noor. They are
presently housed in Otter HalJ, one of the
old barracks buildings.
"We'll try and get them in the first
go-round," says Sparks.
Cutting back
The Louisville Cardinal is cutting back
because of budgetary problems. As you
can see, this issue has only 12 pages (our
normal size is 20 pages). Also, we have
cut circulation from 10,000 to 6,000.
There are several reasons for the
budgetary problems. They are
1) increased production costs, 2) what
we feel is an inadequate allocation from
the university, and 3) less advertising
revenue than we anticipated at the
beginning of this year.
To make the newspaper fit into 12
pages, we have cut several news stories,
some registration information, the
editorial, several feature stories, the Past
and Present column, several sports
articles, many arts articles and reviews,
several Letters to the Editor, the Jules
Feiffer cartoon and various
announcements that we usually run.
We plan to petition the university for
more funds. But if we are not successful,
12 pages will be the maximum length of
the newspaper for the remainder of this
academic year.
We have enjoyed bringing you a larger
newspaper with more variety than our
budget presently allows us, and we hope
that our readers will bear with us during
this crunch.
The Editor