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Vol. XLVIII, No.6 The U of L Student Newspaper September 24, 1976
Student Senate lacks
quorum to conduct business
by Gary Mills
The Student Senate took action Tues­day
on a new university billboard and
posting policy, and approval of a new
campus organization, The Black Engi­neers
and Technicians Association, before
losing a quorum.
The billboard policy would restrict the
posting of announcements and posters in
any but designated areas.
The Black Engineers and Technicians
Association describes itself as an organiza­ti
n to help black students at U of L's
Speed School. The organization is open
to all Speed School students.
At this point several people left the
senate meeting. No longer having a quo­rum
to conduct business legally, SGA
president Stephan Phelps asked to address
the senate.
Citing the SGA constitution which
allows the removal of a senator after he
has missed two meetings without accept­able
excuses, Phelps said, "Tomorrow
Mark Neff (Executive Vice President of
the SGA) is going to send out letters to
those senators who have given up their
tenure on this body by their non-atten­dance,
informing theJll of their removal."
"Last September I was elected by
students of this university to represent
them here and on the Board of Trustees.
I've done my job there," said Phelps, "the
Redbook is being rewritten.'' The Red­book
is the governing document of th.e
university.
"But I am not going to put a constitu­tion
into the Redbook that is not going
to work. Students are going to be repre­sented
by students who give a danm ,"
said Phelps.
Dr. Edward Hammond, the vice presi-
Area merchants upset­parking
is the problem
by Robert Royar
Many area merchants have become
upset recently about U of L students
parking in their lots. Some have decided
they will start towing away the cars if the
problem doesn't stop.
The managers of Lum's, Frisch's, Ire­land's,
Masterson's. and McDonald's say
their customers are complaining about
parking. Restaurants are having the big­gest
problem around lunch when they
have the largest number of patrons.
Inc. said that the extra cars in the lot
were making it hard for the delivery vans
to park and turn around.
Keller said that there were two reasons
for the parking problem: some students
will not buy permits and park in the
nearest place that they can find, and
some students with permits cannot fmd a
place to park on campus and must find
one somewhere else.
Photograph by Mike Heitz
Michael Ry.an sang tenor during the concert perfonned by the United States Marine
Corps Band, Wednesday . The Band performed pieces from operas as well as many
~mrches. The concert opened with the Star Spangled Banner and ended with the
Marine Corps Anthem.
Noble Yunt, manager of Lum's, and
Jack Rupe, manager of Frisch's, both said
that they allowed parking in selected
areas. Yunt said that he was still having a
problem. Starting Thursday, he said, he
wonld probably start towing the cars that
were not parked in the rear.
Enrollment rises to new high
According to Yunt, the Department of
Public Safety (DPS) told him to go ahead
and tow the cars
Action by the merchants so far has
been limited to the posting of signs and
watchmen to stop the parking.
When asked abo~t the problem Dan
Keller, director of the DPS, aid that two
new lots were probably opening by the
end of this week. He said that the lots
would hold 3 SO to 400 cars. The lots
would be located north of the Red Bam
and at the corner of Brandeis and Floyd
streets.
Younger Realty Co., the owners of
Cardinal Shopping Center, said that they
wanted to remain on good terms with the
U of Lstudents. Mr. Younger said that he
may have to start having the cars towed.
The manager of Sav-A-Step Food Mart
but is much lower than expected
by Steve Wingfield
University of Louisville enrollment
this fall is much lower than expected,
according to tentative figures released to
the Louisville Cardinal this week..
Total university enrollment as of Tues­day
was 16,603, an increase of 1.8 per
cent from last fall's final total of 15,781.
University officials had expected a 10 per
cent increase in total enrollment.
A four or five per cent increase is
anticipated when late and other registra­tions
are added to the present total,
according to U of L Regisrar W. Gary
Morrison.
Morrison said that the university had a
much larger increase in full-time equiva­lents
(FTE), approximately 10 to 11 per
cent. He also said U of L officials had
anticipated a 13 per cent FTE increase.
The business school reported the lar­gest
percentage increase. Enrollment went
from 476 last year to 642 this fall, a 34
per cent jump.
The Speed Scientific School had the
second-largest percentage incre.ase, up 13
per cent from last year's total of 975 to
1 ,1 00 this year.
The College of Arts and Sciences, the
main undergraduate college, had the lar­gest
numerical increase and the third­largest
percentage increase. Enrollment is
currently 4,703, a jump of five per cent
from last year's total of 4,491.
Uruversity College had the largest en­rollment
drop of any unit in the uniYer­sity.
Enrollment fell from 3,793 last fall
to 3,456 this fall, an eight per cent
decrease.
U of L President James G. Miller said
that he thought the lower than expected
figures were the result in part of a faster
attrition rate among students.
Miller said the number of new students
"were just about what we figured but the
number of returning students was down."
He also said the enrollment figures
would not affect U of L's funding in the
near future. The Council on Public Higher
Education uses FTE figures in deter­mining
funding for state institutions and
U of L's FTE figures were not very low,
said Miller.
The council is the governing board for
all state colleges and universities.
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