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Vol. 50, no. 25 opyright 1979 The Louis•dlle Cardinal March 30, i979
Eenie, meenie, minie, moe ... ·
Student go ' elections
to be held next week
8) D. FLOYD
Mark Mai cl talk a lot about
" tudent apathy."
Tim Shaughne<;sy want<; to
re. tore "school ~pirit."
And John Gardner . ays the
SGA mu t remain "acces ible'' to
students.
All three are candidatec; for the
office of President in next \\t:ek'
SGA election, an election which
drew 12 percent of the eligible stu­dent
votes last year and is ex­pected
bv )e\eral SGA official to
dra\\ even less thi. year.
The aw1idate'> propo als for
ending 'tud.:nt apathy include
haugh 1 t v'" Homecoming
parade, Gardner' commuter stu­dent
. en ice and \t1aisel' expan­ion
of intramurals and tudent
activities. The motive for each
Gardner provides an alternative to student!~: "acces.<~ibility" instnd ..t
"school spiril."
International Center
expands services
By CHICK WELCH
"Internationalizing the
community and playing a
tremendous role in international
education'' is how Acting
Director Dr. Everett Egginton sees
the role of the U of L Inter­national
Center.
The International Center wa
created in 1949 a a part of the
Seagram Corporation to deal with
import-export problems, not only
for eagram but for other
industrie with international
interes t in Louisville, aid
Egginton.
George Brotlsc hi was the
director of the Center from its
origin untill his retirement last
October. Commenting on the
hi~tory of the Center, Egginton
said, "Dr. Broschi was interested
in providing international educa­tion
opportunities for students
from local public and private
secondary schools. Thus the Inter­national
Center developed a close
program with the community."
Although the Center is
officially a part of the university,
it has always "leaned toward
providing services to the com­munity
because it has been the
community which has supported
the International Center," said
Egginton. "As a matter of fact,
the International Center histor­ically
has made very few financial
demands on U of L. The most
pressing demand now is the alary
of the director and a partial salary
for a ecretary.
"The International Center
building itself wasn't even built
by the univer ity but was financed
by coni ributions,'' he said.
Currently, the Center i in a
transiti nal period . Brod chi
retired, gginton was appointed
acting director until the new
director, Dr. James Van Cleeve,
take over May fifteenth.
Regarding the changes that are
being made Egginton tated: "The
International Center i now being
partially supported through the
(univer ity) General Fund; in
other word , it's becoming a
viable academic division. Also, a
faculty advisory board has been
created and members have been
appointed through Executive Vice
President Ekstrom.
"I am working closely with the
faculty of the university to
develope programs of mutual in­terest
between the International
Center and the academic com­nunity.
The faculty will define
what they see as their interest as to
Continued on .,..,. fo•r
proposal is the same: fill the needs
and sesires of studems, and the
tudents will become involved in
the universit y. The pecific inter­pretations
of those needs and
de ire remain somewhat
distinct, but never exclusive.
In interviews thi week, none of
the nine candidates running for
SGA admini trative posts voiced
di agreement with either the
general outline or pecific pro­po.
als of their opponent . All
agreed that should their entire
"!~late" not be elected, they would
have very little trouble working
with candidates from the other
"slate."
Maisel, the lone independent in ·
the administrative races, termed
him elf "an easy-going guy who
can get along with about Sltaut hnessy offers a choice to students: "school spirit" in'itead of
anybody." "accessi bilit~· ."
(Although the use of "slates" is
not allowed in SGA elections, the
candidates have customarily
grouped themselves in foursomes
for campaigning purposes. The
Gardner "ticket" includes
Michael O'Leary as a candidate
for Executive Vice President,
Angela Ford for Academic Vice
President and Jeanine Peterson
for Services Vice President.
Shaughnessy's "slate" lists Ron
Brumleve as a candidate for Ex­ecutive
Vice President, Johnson
Friel for Academic Vice President
and Sheree Drake for Services
Vice Pr.esident.)
Shaughnessy said that students
were "finally being offered a
choice"· in SGA electons, but the
candidates actually differed little
in their responses concerning stu­dent
problems and issues.
The three presidential can­didates
agreed that there should
be a student review of faculty
with the results being accesible to
students. And all three qualified
their support to some extent.
Gardner called the issue "sen­sitive";
Shaughnessy said it
should be handled "diplomatical­ly";
and Maisel said he would
need to "look at the proposal
closely."
In regard to registration delays,
Academic V .P. candidate
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Johnson Friel said, "I still have
problems figuring out how to
register ." He said the registration
process is "totally disorganized"
and suggested elimination of
"some of waiting and some
lines."
The other Academic V.P. can­didate,
Angela Ford, also
criticized the registration process.
Ford said that registration should
be "centralized" in Strickler Hall
to avoid unnecessary ''running
around all over campus."
Both candidates for Executive
V. P. stressed the need for training
seminars for incoming student
government officials and a relax­ation
of the formal atmosphere of
Student Senate meetings.
Jeanine Peterson, Service V.P.
candidate, listed carpools, campus
security and food service as areas
that need attention. Candidate
Sheree Drake focused on the
needs of dormatory students.
Both expressed concern that
neither the commuter nor the
campus resident be served to the
exclusion of the other.
New proposals for specific
student services were not mention­ed
by either candidate for the
Services V .P.
The only other offices for which
there will be contests are those of
Arts & Sciences Senate represent­atives
and Vice President of the
Business School student council.
Two Business School juniors,
Judy Ballard and Mickey Burch,
are candidates for the vice pres­ident
position. Neither candidate
was able to attend the two hour
Candidate's Forum held Wed­nesday.
There are six candidates for the
five available Student Senate
seats. They are Narice Casper,
Paul Chen, Timothy Henn,
Elisabeth Long, Jerry Spalding
and John Wolford.
Of those making public state­ments,
Long said she was "not
really sure what (she) wanted to
do specifically.''
Casper said she would be con­cerned
with the rights and respon­sibilities
of the students and
attempt to foster a better relation­ship
between dorm and commuter
students.
Chen said he would work
basically in "protecting student
interests in the area of academic
policies." Specifically, he said he
would "push" for publication of
mandatory course and faculty
evaluation by students.
Chen also said that although it
is not a campaign issue, he "is in
favor of the legali zation of
marijuana."
Maisel, the lone Independent, is concerned with sludenl apathy.
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