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Vol. XLVIII, No.2 The U of L Stuclent Newtpaper August 24, 1976
Graduate school
Dean Johnson fired
by Gary B. Mill
Dr. Alan Johns n, U of L Graduate
School Dean , was dismissed from his post
on July 27 by President James G. Miller.
Miller gave his reason for the dismissal as
"differences in management style."
Johnson was appointed Dean of the
Graduate school in June of 1975. He will
remain at U of L as a professor of
rna terial sciences at Speed Scientific
School.
Questioned further about the reasons
Johnson was dismissed Miller cited only
administrative differences.
Johnson however, claims "the whole
thing centered around the student in the
Psychology Department (Jeffrey Smith)."
Smith, a student in the Psychology
Department was dismissed from the grad­uate
school earlier this year. Johnson
opposed the action of the department
accusing them of denying Smith due
process.
"The Smith case was only one factor
in the dismissal of Dr. Johnson but it will
not be very helpful to bring any others
out, to do so would involve other individ­uals
who need not be named. I finally
determined the best thing to do was end
his deanship of the graduate school."
Miller said that he still believes
Johnson is a great asset to U of L as a
professor at Speed School, and praised
him as a "brilliant scientist and nationally
renowned scholar."
Miller offered Johnson a position as a
distinguished professor if Johnson would
resign as dean of the Graduate School.
"He never responded one way or the
other, he apparently wasn't doing any­thing
about it," Miller said.
Asked whether or not he planned to
initiate legal actions against the university
Johnson said, "I have certainly hired two
attorneys." He also indicated that devel­opments
during the last week would
change the situation, "drastically."
Johnson served on the faculty at Wash­ington
State University and served as the
chairman of the Material Sciences depart­ment
there until corning to U of L.
Hammond appointed
V.P. for student affairs
by Gary B. Mills
Dr. Edward Hammond was named
Vice President for Student Mfairs July 6.
Hammond replaces Dr. Thomas
Quatroche, who was appointed in May
but resigned for health reasons.
Having handled student affairs at a
large commuter school much like U of L
Hammond says, the problems he will fac~
here will not be new to him.
He plans to stress the vocational as­pects
of student affairs. Voluntary intern
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Photograph by Mike Heitz
Crews begain work on the parking lot behind Belknap Gym last week. The plan is to
enlarge the lot somewhat and rearrange the parking slots so to better utilize the
available space.
Hammond, who is 32 years old, is
corning to U of L from Seton Hall
University, where he served as Vice Presi-dent
for Student Mfairs from 1973 until Keller the present.
The student affairs office is the first of
its kind in U of L's history. The new vice
sees few parking problems this fall
president will be responsible for coordina­tion
of all student services.
Hammond's appointment was ap­proved
by the Board of Trustees on July
19.
Asked about the potentjal for a stu­dent
affairs officer at U of L, Hammond
said "I felt all along that U of L was a
tremendous opportunity." Citing in­creases
in student enrollment he said that
U of L is unique in its growth pattern,
since student enrollments at many univer­sities
are leveling off or even declining.
This expansion will guarantee funding for
student services at U of L.
''The expansion of student services
will be a subject requiring new definition
and review," Hammond said.
A young man, Hammond defends his
age, calling it an asset in working with
students. "My recent experience helps me
relate better to the problems students are
having. I know that there will probably
be someone, somewhere in the university
structure who will think I'm too young.
But I don't think my age will cause any
problems."
by Mike Quinn
Parking this fall at the. University of
Louisville Belknap Campus may not be
the problem it has been in the past.
Construction will begin within two or
three weeks on two new gravel lots.
The University is expecting a record
18,000 students, 2,000 more than last
spring, but the 350400 parking spaces
provided by the new green-sticker lots
will help to offset the crowding. The new
facilities will be located at Brook St. and
Avery Ave., and at Floyd St. and
Brandeis Ave. In addition, improvements
will be made at three existing locations.
Downtown, the Health Sciences Cen­ter
is not so fortunate: new building
construction has worsened the parking
there, and it is not expected to improve
until next year with the completion of an
800-vehicle parking deck. No parking
problems are expected at the Shelby
Campus.
The Department of Public Safety has
found that approximately 33% of all
students register a motor vehicle. With
that in mind, they attempt to provide a
parking space for every 1.8 cars, holding
that not all registered vehicles will be on
campus at once. According to these calcu­lations,
the University should have 3,300
parking spaces this fall. With the new lots
they will have over 4,000.
So why the parking problem year after
year?
Daniel Keller, U of L public.: safety
director, offered this explanation: ''The
reason there is a problem every year is
rather simple. The University of Louis­ville
is perhaps the most dynamic major
university in the country right now, as far
as growth is concerned. We're adding
2,000 students. When I cam here five and
a half years ago, we had 10,000 students
- now we have 18,000 this fall. It's just
not easy to compensate for that in rather
limited space perimeters. At the same
time, we're building new facilities, so
we're displacing parking.
This is going to be an annual problem
until two things happen: one - until the
growth tapers off and we settle down to
know exactly what we 'vc got to work
with, and two - until the construction
settles down , because we're not going to
invest a lot of money in asphalt parking
lots until we know where the correspond­ing
buildings arc going to be.
Finally, parking has a lower priority
on this campus than do educational facili­ties.
It's m~.>re important to have class­rooms
and labs and even offices than it is
to have parking. This is an educational
institution; without the facilities to edu­cate,
you won't need the parking any­way."
The scheduling habits of students fur­ther
complicate the situation. Stephen
Phelps, SGA president, explained it like
this: "Everybody wants to take morning
classes and they want close-to-class park­ing.
Needless to say, it's damn ncar
impossible to gel both. If you try to park
on campus from the hours of 9:00-11 :00
you may as well forget it, because then is
the highest con' centration of students ,
especiaJJy on Monday, Wednesday, and
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