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Volume 51 Number 23 An Independent Student Weekly 7 March 1980
Checkma1te
Tachau clhallenges Home Economics Dep~t. abolishment
by Holly Holland
Cardinal Staff Writer
department must be abolished .
And she insists she has the right
to do it.
The game of chess being Faculty Senate chairman
waged over the Home Marv K. Tachau insists she
Economics Department finds doesn't. Any decision affecting
the dean of Arts and Sciences curriculum must be approved
ready to cry "checkmate." by the Board of Trustees, said
However. members of the Tachau. And she points to the
Faculty Senate will attempt to Redbook. the university's
capture the queen on a governing document , to lend
technicality. s.upport to her argument.
Meanwhile. student in the Section 3.4.2A of the Red-department
feel like pawns m book state that "changes in
this universav game. degree granting programs re-
Who has the next move? quiring Board of Trustees ac-
Apparentlv the gods. tion shall require prior
Arts and Science dean Louis (faculty) Senate approval."
Cronholm has decided that , Nevertheless, it appears that
because of financial con- the game will end by adjudica-straints,
the hom economics tion.
Alcohol check at games
"We are going to review
Dean Cronholm's p~oposal very
. carefully," said Scott Miller,
cnairman of the governance
committee of the Board of
Tru tees. " In all likelihood , we
will review it in the next
meeting."
The controversy over the
home economics department
began last October when
Cronholm said that budgetary
priorities offer no solution but
to reorganize the department.
The dean estimated that bet­ween
$76,426 and $87 ,116
would be needed to retain the
department through 1982. In
addition, the cost of renovating
the Home Economics Building
was estimated by Facilities
Management to be over
$250,000.
Cronholm said that redesign­ing
the home economics pro­gram
would result in a stronger
curriculum for studems. Thi
would also require no addi­tional
funds for opera1tion ex­penses,
said Cronholm.
"In the next four years we
hope to offer even more courses
in the home economi<:s field,
but they will be taught from a
broader perspective," said
1 Cronholm. "The way the pro­gram
is arranged now, Home
Economics is the only depart­ment
in natural sciences whose
courses do not county towards
the natural science
ment, because ·of the
perspective of
Economics courses."
require­peculiar
Home
Studer1ts loose their 'spirits'
by Debbie Zellar
Cardinal Staff Writer
Although the last lJ of l
home basketball game had a
sellout crowd. many students
were forced to leave their
"spirits" at the door.
The students were stopped
randomly as they entered the
game and checked for alcoholic
beverages. 79 cans of beer, 31
bottles of beer. 17 assorted soft­drinks,
10 bottles of hard li ­quor,
and one bottle of wine
were confiscated, according to
Lt. Col. Roger Mullins of the
security force at the game.
Student the only
I o
ones checked at the basketball
games this year. Guards con­d
ucted "patdowns." the patting
of the outside of th<"' 'itudents
coat and pants legs. 1 nyonc
found carrying contraband was
giv<:>n the option of leaving the
,~, Tame if they didn't want it con-fiscated.
Mullins said the gates were
chekced bec-ause students were
openly displaying the beverages
and throwing the cans, which
endangered the safety of the
fa ns and athletes.
No food or drink are allowed
into the games because Volume
Service, the contracted
1Fa · food service, has
An unidentified U of L student closed his eyes as he gave blood Wednes­day
afternoon. The Red Cross bloodmobile visited campus Tuesday and
Wednesday. For more Information abe>ut Red Cross blood services, call
589·4450.
excl usive rights and must main­tain
a liquor license to sell
alcoholic beverages there.
Some student at the game
weren't too pleased about p<l.r­ting
with their party supplies.
One who carried a can of
Millers in each pocket kissed
each can goodbye before turn­ing
them over to the guards.
Another student, wearing a
large green army jacket , told
the guards he did not have any
beer with him. But as the
guard touched the student's
coat . a can of Strohs dropped
from his pants leg and rolled
across the floor.
Confiscated beverages go in ­to
a dumpster at the end of the
night, according to Mullins .
New Wave
Wierdness abounded at the Red Barn Wednesday nigh~ at t~e New
Wave concert_ Many local New Wave groups performed, mcludmg the
Blinders and the Babylon Dance Band-
Pioneer in creation of atomic
bomb to speak on black hole
Dr. John Archibald
Wheeler, the physicist who
coined the description "black
hole," will be the Distinguished
Lecturer at the University of
Louisville March 10.
Dr. Wheeler, who is Ash bel
Smith Professor of Physics and
Director of the Center for
Theoretical Physics at the
University of T exas at Austin,
will speak at noon in Hassold
Auditorium in the Bingham
Humanities Building. The talk
is free and open to the public.
It will be preceded by a recep­tion
at 11 a.m_ in the Faculty
Colloquium, Room 300, of the
Humanities Building.
Dr. Wheeler's topic will be
"Beyond the Black Hole," a
discussion of the new vision of
t e laws of physics - including
I space and u.m e.
T he author of seven books,
Dr. Wheeltr's recent work con ­cerns
gravitational collapse,
neutron stars, "black holes"
(the term he coined in 1968),
gravitational waves and the im­plication
of the quantum prin­ciple
and "delayed choice ex­periments"
for the mechanism
by which the universe •came in­to
being.
His earlier research was in
nuclear physics. After receiving
his doctorate in physics from
John Hopkins University in
1933, Dr. Wheeler studied with
George Breit at New York
University and at the University
of Copenhagen with Niels
Bohr, who won the 19:~2 Nobel
Prize for his investigation of the
structure of the atom. In 1938,
Dr. Wheeler and Bohr publish­ed
their treatise , "The
Mechanism of Nudear Fis­sion,"
which beca1me the
foundatioQ for all fuwr<;
research on the fission process.
During World Wa 1r II, he
was among the elite scientists
chosen to develop an atomic
bomb. Dr. Wheeler also work­ed
on the development of a
hydrogen bomb as well as the
development and construction
of the first nuclear reactors.
For 38 years, Dr. Wheeler
was on the faculty at Princeton
University where he is Joseph
Henry Professor of Physics,
emeritus_ He holds nine
honorary degrees and is the
recipient of the 1965 Albert
Einstein Prize of the Strauss
Foundation; the 1968 Enrico
Fermi Award of the U.S.
Atomic Energy Commission;
the 1969 Franklin Medal of the
Franklin Institute; and the
1971 National Medal of
Science of the United States.
The Distinguished Lectures
Series is made possible by a
grant from the Bingham Enter­prises
.Foundation Inc. for the•
advancement of knowledge,
the stimulation of learning and
the enrichment of the Lultural
life of Louisville.