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Volume XLVII, No. 24 The U of L Student New paper March 12. I 976
Copyright 1976, The Louisville Cardinal; Louisville, Kentucky
U of L opens NIT play Tuesday night .
By JIM MORRIS
or a town that prides itself on having
the best of everything · New York has a
curious affection for losers.
Remember back in the Sixties when
the New York Mets astounded the sports
world with their inept play? They won a
place in the hearts of those in the Big
Apple. The Knicks are no longer what
they used to be, but they still draw
near-capacity crowd to watch them play.
To those two you might add the
ational Invitational Tournament. Once
rivaling the National Collegiate Athletic
Association meet in prestige, it now
attracts those schools that weren't invited
to the NCAA plus a few locals that the
promoters think will help the gate.
To this once-proud tournament comes
the University of Louisville basketball
team. A surprise loser to Memphis State
last Friday in the semifinals of the Metro
Six tourney, the Cardinals drew a bye in
the first round and open quarterfinal play
Tuesday night against the winner of the
Providence-North Carolina A & T game.
Although he's disappointed not to be
playing in the NCAA for the fourth time
in five years, head coach Denny Crum is
still happy to be in the tournament.
"We're very pleased to be able to
participate in the NIT," said Crum, who
spent Tuesday evening in New York after
a snowstorm delayed his departure from
an afternoon press luncheon. ''The field
for this year's NIT is much stronger than
the last couple of years because they're
not holding the commissioner's
tournament any more. Look at the
NCAA regionals and you'll see that this
NIT field is more impressive than some of
the regionals."
Indeed. The demise of the
Commissioner's Tournament - which
featured the second and third place teams
from different conferences - and the
decision of the NIT officials to limit the
field to 12 entries instead of 16 increased
the quality of the teams.
Six of the 12 teams entered have won
2{) or more games this season with North
Carolina-Charlotte's 21-5 mark leading
the pack. North Carolina A & T is 20-5,
San Francisco 23-7, North Carolina State
and U ofl 20-7 and Holy Cross 21-9.
Rounding out the field are Oregon
(19-1 0) Providence (19-9), Kansas State
(19-7), St. Peter's (19-10), iagara
(17 -11) and Kentucky ( 16-1 0).
That last one should hold some
interest. UK athletic director Cliff Hagan
has refused several times to schedule I uf
L in either Freedom Hall or in Lexington,
but a matchup between the two could
occur in Thursday night's semi-· finals. For
a UK-U of L game to take place,
Kentucky would have to defeat Niagara
(its first-round foe and Kan as State
(who received a first round bye).
Louisville would also have to win its
Tuesday night game.
The last time the two schools met was
in 1959, when the Cardinals upset the
Wildcats 76-61 in the semifinals of the
Midwest Regional at Evanston, Ill. U of L
went on to win the Regi nal anJ capture
fourth in the finals.
That Louisville is in the NIT, and not
the NCAA, is surprising.
Metro Six commissioner Larry Albus
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A&S faculty adopts new programs,
revises modern language requirement
By DEBBY GRA YES
The Arts and Sciences faculty voted
Tuesday to adopt three new programs
and to revise the present modern
languages requirement for the fall
semester.
The new programs include an
American studies program, a Bachelor of
Science in Theatre Arts and Speech, and a
program for chemistry majors with a
business option.
The revision of the modern languages
requirement would allow students to
complete the 12 credit hour requirements
in three semesters, earning four credit
hours per semester. Students must
presently take four three credit hour
If you're not there yet
courses to complete the requirement.
The American studies program, which
would provide an inter-disciplinary scope
of American thought, culture, and
history, is the product of a 12 member
committee from the various A&S
departments.
According to Dr. John Raeburn of the
English department, who served on the
committee, the program would integrate
various disciplines into a more holistic
study.
"What happened in American culture
is a seamless web," said Dr. Raeburn.
"The distinctions of Americ&n literature,
history, are arbitrary breakdowns."
Raeburn hopes that the program
Photograph by Mike Brohm
would re-integrate the various disciplines
into a more comprehensive and
structured program. He added that
flexibility within the program would
enable students to concentrate in areas of
American culture provided by "special
interest blocks."
The Bachelor of Science Program in
Theatre Arts and Speech wilJ be offered
for the first time next falL According to
Dr. Albert Harris, department chairman
for TAS, the program is chiefly for
students seeking professional work
including theatre, acting, design, and
management.
"The basic difference is that the
program is more highly concentrated in
skills than a B.A.," said Harris. He added
that U of L is one of the few universities
to offer a degree of this nature .
A program for chemistry majors with a
business option would enable chemistry
majors to earn additional hours · in
business courses that would count toward
their major.
According to a chemistry department
spokesman, many firms arc interested in
chemistry majors with experience in
management and administration.
A proposal to redistribute credit hours
for the modern languages req uircmcnt
v.,tould allow students to complete the 1 2
hour modern languages requirement in
three, rather than four semesters.
The revision, passed unanimously,
would affect 101 -102 and 201 · 202
sections of French, G~rman, and Spanish.
The courses would be four one-hour
sections, meeting four days per week with
an optional conference period.
According to Dr. David Hume,
chairman of the modern languages
department, there are two main
advantages to the program.
"Through more frequent meetings it
has been pedagogically shown that the
student will learn more if he's exposed
more frequently," said Hume. "Also by
completing the requirement in three
semesters the student will have more
latitude for his major area of interest."
or if you're not going at all, this is what it looks like. Spring break begins today.
The pt ogram will be "phased in" next
fall to permit students presently enrolled
in introductory and intermediate
language course to complete their
requirements.