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·VOL. 59, NO. 23 LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY MARCH 3, 1988
Devine says credit union is close
to obtaining federal approval
B JAME D . Ill E
A~w.t.tnl ew\ Editor
The tudent Govemmenl A~SOCt·
ation\ long-awaited ~tudcnt credit
unton 1~ expected to re eive federal
approval in the next week. accord·
1111;! to GA pre\ldenl Doug Devine .
We rc on pin' and needles. '
De~ me \aid Were dytng to get the
thing open I thonk the chaner i~
~ery do'e
· allonal Credu Umon A.,.,octation
offlctal' on llama have e pressed
thter \:tli\factton with SGA', credll
unt(lll pror<t,al. and '' expected to
jltvc SGA the ~n-ahead on the pro·
Jecl. Devon 'atd He added that he
;, 90 percent \Ure the a'sociatton
wtll approve the umon.
If a chaner " granted. U of L'
credll union would become eli!ltble
for the maxtmum federal deposttor'!.
tn,urance . v. hich Devine \aid will
be 'ual to the programs 'ucces, .
Once were chanered. the msur-ance
earner can·
not turn us
down. Devine
satd . ' In fact.
you can 't open
the doors wuhout
the insumnce.'
Insurance O\IS
will reprc;enl an
estimated one to
two percent of
the credit union .,
DEVINE a,sests. he 'atd .
Money m-vested
111 the credit union would be
insured up to the federal limit of
$100.000. which Devine 'aid " the
maxunum account ;i1e GA wtll
accept.
' Studenh money will be as .,are
as anvwhere el\e. he !.aid.
The only formality now remaining
in the chaner pnx:e;, is the ;igntng
of a leiter of undeNandin~ . ac·
mrdtng 10 Devine . SGA tml\t agree
to opentlt<mal gutdeline' devi,ed hv
the credit union association\ re­gional
in,pector.
Under term of the agreement. the
credit union would begin wi th a
maximum of 300 saving accounts
and would only be allowed to estab­lish
100 accounts per month .
AI the end of nine months, the·
union can i !.Ue a maximum of 900
uch a counts .
The credit union will not offer
checki n~ accounts, credit cards or
automaltc teller machines until
credit union association officials
have decided the program has de­veloped
necessary financial s tability .
In addition, the union would not
be allowed 10 have any capital ex­penditures
and would be required 10
have monthly meetings with a board
of advi!.ers.
Devine noted that terms of the
agreement are flexible and may be
altered if the credit union exceeds or
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University organizations endorse
policy revision protecting g~ys
B\ GREGORY IIARRI
h !ature' Ed11or
The nl\cr\lt) of Louiwille Fac­ulty
Senah! ha' joined the Student
Senate 111 recommending change~ in
the Untver"IY' equal opponunity
em pin) ment p<tltc.:y In prevent dl\·
c.:nmtnallon agatn\1 homo,exuab.
The Facuh enate unanimously
pa"ed a re,olution recommending
th<: change at thetr regular meeting
March 2.
The change' were reque,ted by U
ot L' Gay and Lesbian tudent
nton. "htch 'ecured a similar rec­ommendation
at the Feh. 2 meeting
of the Stuuent Senate .
GLSU repre!.entatives petitioned
the 'enate' a' pan of a campaign to
neate a more htleranl atmn!.phere at
Minorities
fare well
at career
workshop
By GREGORY HARRIS
Feature\ Edllor
ni ver\ity of Louisville mmonty
'tudent' had an opponunity to ex­plore
career po-.sibtlities and speak
with poten ti a l employers Feb. 25 at
the fifth annual Minority Career
Fair.
ixty-two employers sent repre­\
entative' to the fair. which was CO·
'r<msored by the Oflice of Minority
crvice' and Office of Placement
and Cooperative Education .
U of L for peo·
pie regardle" of
!.exual prefer­ence.
accordmg
"to GLSLJ 'ecre­lal)
my Petrie .
We ve had a
great amount of
!.UCCe% and a
great amount of
;;uppon. \aid
Petrie . who i'
PETRIE also a member of
the six-member
commiuee coordinating the project.
People are intelligent. and they re·
alize that thi ' thing needs to he clone
10 itl'lprove life at the niverslly .
However. the measure hit a 'nag
when some member' of the Faculty
Senate expre\sed confusion over it'
wording .
The mver,ity's current p<tlicy
forbid' di>criminalion on the basis
of race. color. religion. ,ex. or na­tional
origin . The proposed amend­ment~
would add the phra~e
affectional or sexual orientation to
the policy.
Some senators said ' affectional" is
redundant and ambiguous.
Petrie aid GLSU was deliberately
using language found in the Univer·
sity of Cincinnati 's hiring policy.
She said the wordinll is intended to
prevent di,criminatton ha,ed on
lifestyle as well as exual prefer­ence.
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12 PAGES AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Bird Watching
Kentucky Gov. Wallace Wilkinson (right) cheers with Untversity of Loutsville President Donald C.
Swain during LJ of L's basketball victory over Memphis State Feb. 29. Wilkinson was Swam's
personal guest: at the event and also attended a pre-game reception in Freedom Hall's U of L Room.
New A&S assistant dean
flips over U of L students
By DA A DUERR
Contributing Writer
The ollege of Am and Science'
new A!.,il>lanl Dean for Academic
Advising. a man of many talenh.
'ttid he hope\ 10 dive into hi' new
pmition and get into the \wing of
th ing-. .
Dr. Jim Caner. who JU!.I com
pleted his tir'l month on the job.
said he hope' hi' pa\1 oc.:cupallon'
and hobbie' wtll hring a tlatr hi
campu\ life .
While he wa' at llltnoi\ Stale
University. Carter coached the
women' dtving \quad He \atll the
po'i tion helped him hecome more
aware of \IUdent' need' and al'o
helped them became acquainted "uh
him .
traterntl) . appropn.ucl\ named the
(l,unma l'ht Ctrcu'
The Ctrc.:u' mcmhcf\ learned the
art ol trapt'll.. U'-ltng ( \t rter' own
1rape1e 'el Although he '1111 en1oY'
hi' hohh}. Caner 'au I ht' 1 rapae
'"' ha' now become a htl! he;~d,tt he .
lie \atd he " havmg dtlltcuhy
tinlltng a hotl\e 111 lh!! c·nuntry \\ llh
a > ard htg enough In hou'c the gt·
ganllc ng
Carter' w tic . I 11 . .ulll I I \car·
old \On. JutHil}. ate UIIICIIII~ II\ tng
in Mtchtgan llllltl Junmy ltnl\he, the
'chool year. "hen the) "til 101n
Caner here
He ""d h" w tk h," h ·en \CI)
acttvc on prt!\.Hlll\ l~un ptP"l:'' v. here
he h,l\ taught .• md he C\)teth het to
contmue the trend at L ''' I
The repre,entati ve> outlined spe·
cttic job opportuni ties for blach,
women. and other groups who face
umque challenge' on the workplace .
Pam Dun~on. a represen tative of
from Phtllip' Lightmg Company.
,atd the fatr was an excellent tool
for recruning qualified applicants for
her c.:omp.tn} .
PHOTO IIY GREGORY HARRIS
Jim Anderson (left) and Dena Schaaf describe job opportunities at the Minority Career Fair Feb. 26.
'The diving experience I had be·
came a per><mal ktnd of thing.
Caner 'aid . I came to wor~ with
them a~ a member uf a team They
were receptive of me. and what a
coach could do
Caner '"'d hi\ tllletc'l tn dl\ tng
anti gymna..,tt~:' al\o make h11n want
to teach or coach. hut he w til not be
able 10 llWI~ tnto th!! P""tlllllly until
alter he h'" heLonw mnre ac·
4uatnted \'llh h" dulle' "' the head
of the An' and 'iut•nc.:c 1\d~"'"!!
Center
We thnughl it '"" a great OJl ·
pnrtullll) 10 reauu 'ome college
t!t.uJuatc:' tor our c:ngineer prngntm,
butl\on ,,ud Phtlltp' "a' one of the
IC\\ companies at the fair to conduct
ntHtle JOh mtervtew\ .
Dun,on. who is black. said mi·
norille' face \Orne disadvantages in
the job market. but none that can
not be overcome with persever.rnce
and hard work .
' In most ca\es, the opponunity is
~ere , but you have 10 learn to apply
your,e lf.' Dunson sa id . 'To get the
opponunity. you ha e 10 be willing
to work for whatever you want .'
However . Patricia Ru sseii·M~ ­Cioud
. president of an Atlanta con­sultinjl
finn, said employers mu~t
take onitiative and take more active
measures to recruit minorities.
' There is unde r-representation of
minorities in business and in banks
and in decision-making structures
whtch are hidden from view .' Rus­sell-
McCloud said .
' Many minorities have become an
endangered species in corporate
America, ' she continued . 'They're
raised looking up at glass ceilings,
able to \ee the top but not to reach
it.'
Employers muM look for more vi­able
criteria than race or creed in
their potential employers if the,Y
wish 10 compe11: in Americas
evolving information economy, Rus­sell-
Me loud ~aid .
' Excellence i\ m 1 of one color or
Con11inued on Page 2
Speaker greeted by unusually low student resiJ•onse
By BARB RA BA MA
ontrtbultng Writer
A reactionary au thor who has
been recetved by large audiences on
campu'e' throughout the country
wu, greeted by an unusually small
~roup of 1ess than ten students dur­ong
ht~ March 1 vi~ll to the niver­\
ity of Loutsville.
Accustomed to addressing audi·
ences of 60 10 150 students about
the U. . onstitution' hi tory and
r.tttlication, Dr. M.E. Bradford aid
the U of L audience was the mall­eM
he ha en ountered during his
recent peaking tour.
Bradford, a professor of En t~ li 11
and Amenc n Studies at the Umverj
sity of Dallas , was termed ' one or
the mo t dangerou reactionary!
thinker in the republic ' by the eWI
York Ttmes.
He is traveling through the country
as ran Of a COilSiii UIIOnal bicenten·
nia series to present his paper enti·
tied 'The Ratification of the on­stitut
ion: A rudy in Political Dy­namics
.·
Duane Brown, president of tu·
dents for America, one of the
event's sponsors, did not attribute
the unexpectedly small audien e to
lack of student mtere I, but rather 10
a lack of publicity and topteal con­troversy.
'We usually draw in a lot of the
PSL ( Pro11res~ive tudents League),',
Brown ard ' This ts our first non­controversial
speaker. '
However, Brown emphasized the
significance of Bradford\ visi t ,•
which wa also ponsored by the
Intercollegiate Studies Institute and
the tude nt Government Associa­tion.
' I think it's imponant that the
conservative peakers are beginning
to make th rounds, to talk to the
students, ' he said.
In ht ddress, Bradford sires ed
that continued a~sessme nt of the
Constitut ion's original intent and the
hi story of it ratification is essential
to understanding its contents.
' Otherwise all the ~real questions
come down to polictes,' he said .
' And no one's libenies are secure.'
Bradford outlined some of the po­litical
factors that eparated con­tending
politic I factions .
Differen es in opinion concerning
uch issues as distribution of wealth•
and power, taxe , lavery , and sec­tional
di pute over navigational ex-pom
cau~ed controver~y among the
!.lares at the ratification convention.
according to Bradford .
More fundamental issue~ also
acted as a divisive factor. he said.
' Perhap\ the most central argu­ments
had to do with the nature of
libeny '"elf.' Bradford aid . 'The
original con tituticm with amend·
ment,. taken m the spirit of the time
in which it was produced, really
gives us u government of laws and
not of men. We huve changed it a ll
around, because wt: now have a dif·
ferent set of ctrcurnstances in creal·
inglaw.'
Bradford ~atd thatt the fundamental
intentions of the •onstitut ion, which
were conced d by .all Mates, were 10
defend the nation atgainst foreign in·
va ion, to draw up and negotiate
treatte , and tax tforeign impons.
Caner al\o cultivated relalton\htp'
wi th \ludenl., through another
hobby. the 1rapc1e lie wa., tramed
as a trape7e ani\1 by hi' father. who
had fnend~ in the circu, .
In turn. Caner taught the an to
studenh by e'>!abll\lllng a \Octal
INSIDE
Pro and Fawn. While Fawn Hall
~· her role In the Iran·
Contra 8Candltl, UK atudenta
protest the uae of student
lunda to pay for her speech.
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They've got a big art. Preview
of the Speed Museum's .. teat
exhibit of .orne aluble artlatlc
endeevora .................... Page 6.
You're out. Sports looks at the
tn.a. and tribulations of the
struggling Cardinal baseball
................................... P.age 8.
Welcome home. Cardinal baa·
UIMII triumph a at the aenlora'
laathomegame ............. Page 8 .
I am .tlrcad) dotng what need' to
be done . he \atd lm l.t~tng a
careful loo~ .11 \\hat need' 10 be
uone I have ulllmatel} hcgun 10 \Ce
Conttnued on Page 3
Created equal. The Editorial
Board looks at the question of
equal opportunity based on
sexual preference ....... Page 1 0.
In for a storm. A letter to the
Editor takes the Editorial
Board to task for jeering the
Rev. Pat Robinson's claim he
diverted a severe hurricane.
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News Brlefs ................... Page 2.
Afterclaaa ..................... Page 6.
Sporta ........................... Page 8.
Editorials .................... Pag 1 0.
Letters to the Editor .. Page 11.
ClauHieda and personals
.................................... Page 12.