Vol. XLVIII, No. 22 The U of L Student Newspaper March 4, 1977
An administrative traffic jam
U of L crosses KIPDA
in Eastern Pkwy issue , .
By DEE WILSON The U of L masterplan would incor-
If you have ever tried to cross Eastern porate Eastern Parkway as . a university
Parkway near Speed School, you know loop closed ~o ou~side tra~fic. This move
the experience can be "hazardous to your wo_uld conflict With a reg1.0nal transpor- .
health." "It's a matter of time till we lose tation plan adopted by a predecessor of
a student," said Steve Bing, u of L the Kenlucky-Indiana Planning and De-vice-
pre_sident for university relations. velopment Agency (KIPDA).
A solution is caught somewhere in a "KIPDA's predecessor in 1969 didn't
tangled administrative traffic jam. realize U of L was there," s~d Dave Lee,
CPHE decides
on U of L
director of facilities management. Lee
called the 1969 study "the basis for
resistance" in masterplan inplementation.
A KIPDA spokesperson said Tuesday
that "our organization is willing to co-
Photogreph by Mike Heitz
French critic at conference
Health Sciences operate at any time, but we're based on Germain Bree, noted critic and president of the Modem Languages Association,
tax dollars. Our plans for traffic patterns - addressed the Twentieth Century Literature Conference last Thursday night.
are overseen by city, county, and state
By DEE WILSON officials. We have no power to implement
· U of L Medical School students pro- P1 a ns. "
bably breathed a sigh of relief last week. Communication between the involved
TI1e Council on Public Higher Education agencies and U of L began Tuesday.
_staff recommendation for shifting several City-county and university represen­doetoral
programs to the Uni~~rsity of tatives met and "got a lot of things out
Kentucky was sent to the councils health on the table," according to Bing. Lee said
sciences committee for further study. On he foresees a "new era of cooperation
Feb. 24 the committee issued a "draft" since we've decided to communicate for
recommendation that U of L retain its the first time since I've been here."
programs.
"I'm hopeful, but never certain," said "We've agreed that we ought to ?ack
President James G. Miller. "The matter is _up and take another look at the Situa­not
resolved-that can come only from tion," said Donald O'Banner, city-county
the council itself. If the draft passes, the director of traffic engineering.
possibility· of losing the programs les- ' The result of this new-found rapport
sens," he went on. may be help for students trying to get
The programs under consideration are across Eastern Parkway.
ana to my, biochemistry, microbiology,
immunology, pharmacology, physiology,
-and biophysics. "The first issue dealt with Student se. nate
too many programs; the second issue
which we are now addressing, is ac-credidation,"
said Ms. E. L. Hebbeler,
"We're currently exploring the idea for
a pedestrian-activated stoplight with a
fence or shrubs along the campus edge to
make sure students cross only where the
light is," said Lee. "I'm not sure it'd be
all that great since traffic problems will
occur, but it's better than students splat­tered
all over the street," he said.
Dodging responsibility for the stop­.
light within the U of L bureaucracy may
be as much an art as surviving a walk
across Eastern Parkway.
Lee said Dan Keller, director of public
safety, would have a recommendation "in
a couple of days."
Keller, who claimed to have spent six
years trying to deal with the problem,
said . the rna iter was "out of his hands"
and referred Louisville_ Cardinal to Bing.
Bing said he is waiting on a cost
estimate from Lee.
Besides all that, the city traffic en­gineering
department hasn't even agreed
to the stoplight as a solution.
"It's more complicated than just put­ting
up a light," said Bing. Permission is
needed-possibly from the state .highway
department-and U of L money is in­volved
for the fence or shrubs. That
requires a competitive bidding mandate,"
he said. ·
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associate director for health sciences
education. "The health sciences com­mittee
has taken one stand-that U of L
accreditation would be affected if the
programs were removed."
Phelps calls Board efforts lethargic
The health sciences committee draft
recorrimendation reinf.orces Miller's posi­tion.
"We're just biding time, getting our
homework together for the regular
council meeting," said Jim McGovern,
acting director of public relations.
Other recommendations on doctoral­level
basic-science education at U of L
and UK were issued at the committee
meeting.
One recommendation called for the
two schools to share resources and per­sonnel
in future research activity. An­other
suggested that the two schools not
compete for research funds but possibly
make a joint request to aid in obtaining
more total funding for the state.
McGovern stressed that the Feb. 24
committee draft recommendation dealt
only with . basic science programs, "not
with retaining the English Ph.D. pro­grams,
for instance."
By GARY MILLS
The Student Senate in a special meeting
Tuesday discussed the problems for
pedestrians crossing Eastern Parkway,
Cardinal Patrol beats to offer better
protection to night students, and heard
from Feminists on Campus at the
University of Louisville (FOCUL).
SGA President Stephan Phelps spoke to
the senate about the continuing problems
for students crossing Eastern Parkway
between the main campus and Speed
School. Phelps said that his efforts to have
a crosswalk installed had failed.
"I'm just absolutely apalled at the Board
of Trustees,'' said Phelps. ''Their lethargic
attitude toward the masterplan has slowed
down the process of implementation."
Phelps also said if the masterplan had been
moved on and pressure had been applied to
have it implemented, the problems with
Eastern Parkway would not exist now.
Phelps said that before he left office in
April he would try to have some solution to
the problems with Eastern Parkway worked
out.
In other action the senate discussed a
motion by Tim Barry, services vice
president, to have Cardinal officers from
Public Safety patrol parking lots at night to
cut down on theft and property damage.
Joe Pardieu, University College Student
Council president, said that U .C. students
were having problems with property theft
from cars. Ed Maloney, a Public Safety
officer, said problems with theft could not
be stopped by car patrol. He said that the
cars could not be there all the time and foot
patrols would be more visible.
The motion was passed. It will require
that Vice President for Student Affairs Ed
Hammond investigate the matter and
report back to the senate within 30 days.
The senate also heard from FOCUL
member Kevin McAdams concerning a
committee that FOCUL would like to
establish. The committee would ask for
written responses to questions about racism
and sexism from applicants for positions on
the Board of Student Communications.
The Board of Student Communications
will select the editors of student
publications and the student-run radio
station, WLCV.
The committee would be called the~
Review Committee on Racism and Sexism.
The committee would be composed of
several members of FOCUL plus an equal
number of other interested students.
FOCUL would like to disclose to the
student population the precise opinions of
the eight members of the BSC regarding:
"the .significance of sexism and racism as
social phenomena and exactly how the
student media of an institution of higher
learning can respond to these phenomena in
the context of the regular dissemination of
information, explicit opinions and ad­vertising.
The Senate took no action on the
request.