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.. The Louisville an independent student weekly "I've got a brand new pair of roller skates ... " Karen Klusmeler, an Arts and Sciences freshman and speed skater, breaks In a new pair of skates on her way to class Tuesday. She hopes to have the skates ready for a race coming up In two weeks. Karen Is a member of the Hlghvlew Speed Club. Black frats and sororities: bound by tradition and ritual By SUZETTE BRADY University of Louisville's black fra- ' ternities and sororities have a lot in common with Dr. Pepper. .. . They're both mi understood. Maybe you've seen a line-up of black males or females chanting and performing some fancy steps on campus, and wondered what was going on. Or maybe you've noticed several black males walking in a straight line, from shortest to tallest, and questioned why they weren't walking next to each other. The answers are easy. These are some of the rituals that black fraternities and sororities take part in. However, few people understand why they perform these rituals or the purpose behind them. "There ~eems to be a lot of ignorance. particularly in the black university community, about what these fra ternities and sororities do; they can't understand or see the impor- 1ance of some of the things they do," said Harold Adams, assistant vice president of student life. His sentiments are echoed by members of the fraternities and sororities. "Black students don't see the purpose of what we do." said Vi Engels. treasurer of Sigma Gamma Rho • sorority. "But thQse who are involved . can see the purpose, and.it prepares them to survive in the world ." "The University of Louisville is a , predominately white campus and the survival of Black Greek organizations is a struggle, "said Myra Drummond. financial secretary of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. "This is because people are ignorant of our purposes and don't really understand what we are about," she said. What black fraternities and sororities are "about" is quite different from other fraternities and sororities. For instance, other fraternities and sororities are controlled by the National Panhellinic Council ( PC). But, black greeks are controlled by a totally different council. the National Pan Hellenic Council (NPHC). because the purpose and rules governing the black greeks are altogether different. In the black groups you cannot pledge uptil you have an academic record. which happens well into the semester. In white groups you can pledge before or when you become a freshman. The rules of rushing are different. In black groups, before going "on line" you are required to have a C averag~ and in SO(I')e caS~Ji-Y0l.J neeo Jl 2.5 or 3.0 grade point average~ In white groups, you only need a 2.5 GPA when you get initiated and not at the time you pledge. "Black groups are not as socialminded as the white groups," said Adams. "Rather than holding beer blasts, etc., they hold their socials to obtain funds to meet their financial obligations and to perform philanthropic work," he said. Probably the biggest difference between black and white groups is· that black groups are more ritual . oriented. Few people understand what these rituals are all about. But the rituals that fra ternities and sororities are founded on are not something new to blacks. The pledge concept began in Ethiopia, where they walked in lines and carried symbols of their tribes and fami lies. This was done when boys at the age of 14 or 15 would enter manhood . The ritual of walking 'in-line' is done while pledging. It represents how the slaves were chained in lines together from the shortest to tallest when they were brought from Africa to the United States. The tallest per- ~.O fficials promote remedial ~programs as key to desegregation By BERNIE FELLONNEAU One of the ways to keep more blacks at the University of Louisville would be to improve the retention rate through remedial programs. officials say. U of L will have to improve the retention rate in order to stay within the guidelines of a federal order on Jan. 15 to desegregate Kentucky colleges. In the fall of 1980. 1,723 blacks enrolled at the University of Louisville. accounting for 8.5 percent of the school's enrollment. The federal study said that blacks made up 18.4 percent of the local high school graduates in 1978. In th.: fall of 1980,blacks accounted for 11.4 percent of the freshman class at U of L. The retention rate could be improved, some believe, through remedial programs. The Developmental Education Center (DEC), the Educational Advancement Program (EAP) and the West Louisville Educational Advancement Program (WLEP) are three programs that provide remedial help for U of L students. The three programs are not aimed at black students. DEC has two chief objectives, Professor Mark E. Blum,the program's co-director said; one is to give the student the intellectual skills needed to support college work, the other goal is to develop independent critical thinking. ,"The program is very successful." said Blum. He said that Ia t May, 61 percent of the program's first year students were still enrolled at the univer ity, while 45 percent oft he second year students sti ll attended U of L. "If a student survives the first year, they usually ~tay in school," Blum said. DEC offers courses in grammar, spelling, vocabulary and critical thinking. The program a lso provides tutoring for its students. "We try to prepare students who lack skills in spelling and grammar," said Daisy Yang, upervisor of the DEC learning lab. "With an open admissions policy,! think it's the university's responsibility to help students that are not as well prepared," Yang said. There were 330 students in the DEC program last fa ll. 170 students are involved m the program this semeste1. "Many students take English for granted becau e it's their native language," Yang said. "Students know when a phrase is awkward, but they don't always know why." "I took Vocabularly II last semester," one DEC student said. "I studied by myself. It 's not easy but it's not like you have to study all the time. I made an A." EAP i made up of three parts, aid Ralph Fit zpatrick, director of EAP. The Upward Bound Program is aimed at high school studl!nts who want to attain some post-secondary education. The Special Services Program is designed for freshman and sophomores and provides I utors. A third area of EAP deals with special programs such as CETA training pro- S•• "lf•m"l•l," b•ck pefl• son in back of the line is called the .h~ dkttocker ," because fie Is the biggest one and is supposed to keep them in order. The purpose of walking in-line is for unity. While pledging and walking in-line they learn how to step. "Stepping is basically a way of advertising our fraternity or sorority," said Arthur Simpson, presid~nt of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. "Stepping is a way to get freshmen interested in joining a fraternity or sorority," he said. Stepping originated in Africa and consists of two different kinds of steps. One is the traditional step that deals with ability, as these are difficult to do. 1 he second steps a re "dog steps," which are performed as a challenge to another fraternity and are used to get the crowd excited. According to Drummond. there is a distinction between male and female stepping. Males are known for their creative use of hands, feet and voices to create a rhythmic sound. Females are known for the versatility of their voices and creative themes. The themes are geared toward gaining the interest of the audience and to those interested in pledging to their sorority. "All stepping is a form of recreating our heritage in a unique way," said Drummond. Aside from rituals. black greeks are actively involved in philanthropic work. A lot of money-making events have recently been geared towards supporting and assisting the Louisville Repertory Theatre Company. Other projects include collecting food and ca nned goods for the needy at Thanksgiving, visiting and volunteering their time to nursing homes and orphanages, and raising money for the United Negro College f-und and the NAACP. The first black greek fraternities and sororities were founded in the early 1900's. At the time, blacks were not readily accepttd into colleges so they put together a fraternity or sorority to protect each other. "They saw a need for blacks to unify to overcome the oppressions they were faced with at a predominately white institution, "said Wayne Holloman, fraternity brother of Alpha Phi Alpha. Alpha Phi Alpha was the first black fraternity to be founded. Seven young black friends got together to study a nd came up with the concept. They saw that fraternities helped the white males and felt it would do the same for them. Alpha Kappa Alpha was the first black sorority to be founded. "It was SH "Black," back pafl• , . Friday, January 30, 1981 Vol. 52 No. 18 Night students claim discrimination By MELISSA McCONNELL Night school students at U of L are being discriminated against according to Susie Brady. University College student council president. ' A night student herself, Brady said, ··we pay the same amount as day students but we're not receiving the same services." Brady said she talked to president Donald Swain about the problem and was told that night students would have to pay an additional fee at registration to keep campus services open and alleviate the problems. Specifically, the problems Brady believes night students unjustly face are these: • Not enough classes to serve the number of declared majors in UC. • Some classes are offered so infrequently that students must delay graduation to take them. • Services such as Financial Aid, Student Health Care, the cafeterias, and the bookstores are not always open at night. • Parking problems and safety on campus. "In UC there are over 900 communications majors alone," said Brady. "If all of the students take only one communications class, there are still only 400 slots open." Brady said she had talked to UC acting Dean Leicester Moise about this problem. " While I am here. my hope is to modestly increase communications course availability," said Moise. Despite a tight budget, Moise says he is pushing for more full-time faculty in the communications program. But at the present, Brady says soi{Ie ~tudents are having. to delay graduation because some :Classes iA their program are only offered once a year. "By delaying graduation," said Brady, "tax dollars are being spent unnecessarily by the public to help fund our education." The main reason night students are finding classes closed is because traditional day students are taking night courses. "The night courses are filling up because more and more students are working," said Randy Embry. an advisor in ·uc. Besides problems with class availability, Brady said night students are denied campus services open to day students. "The Financial Aid office usually closes at 3:45, "says Brady, "and most of us don't get on campus until4:30 or 5. When I asked one of the receptionists what I should do about the problem, she said 'I'm sorry, I guess you'lljust have to take off from work · to get down here.'" Brady said Student Government Association President Angela Ford is trying to arrange for the Financial Aid office to be open later one night a week. As for the bookstores, cafeterias and health care services, Brady said, "We don't always have access to them and yet we're paying for them." Night students also resent having to pay more to park this year, with less safety protection on campus. according to Brady. "Because so many students drive to campus at 5:30, parking is bad. Many have to park in areas over on Fourth St. where attacks have occured in the past," she said. A & S night student Denise McLaughlin says when she used to have to park behind the Speed School, she was afraid. "It's just not safe," she said. "I won't go anywhere by myself." To help solve the problems night students face, Susie Brady is working with the United States Association of Working Students (USA WS), which has· a lobby in Washington. She said that organization was recently successful in getting part-time and evening students eligible for financial aid.· "The USA WS is new, but it's been helpful," said Brady. "What I would like to see in the future is a totally different evening student government with its own student council. Evening students lack representation. But ~t isn't justat U ofL, it'sall over." Murphy's Law Physics text contains 13 pages of errors ByLAURAKONERMANN Students enrolled in Physics Ill will have a little extra homework this semester making corrections in their text book. The author of Technical Physics is U of L Physics Department Chairman Dr. P.J . Ouseph. Instructors of the course have handed out a supplement of corrections for mistakes made in the book. The supplement is 13 pages long and the first chapter of Technical Physics contains 17 errors. The mistakes are mostly in numerical equations and formulas. Ouseph said, "All the mistakes in !he book are listed on the supplement and the supplement is provided for students at no cost." He said the book was correct when it was sent to the Van Nostrand Publishing Co. in New York, and that the mistakes are the publisher's. Ouseph said that when they were deciding on a book for the course Technical Physics worked best. He said the book serves it's purpose, but there should be a new book out next year. Ouseph ~aid he is disgusted with the problem, but students have been provided with an adequate supplement. Jim Conkin, the assistant manager of the bookstore, was unaware of the situation until last week and was surprised to hear of a book with so many errors. He saiq it is unusual to have a correction sheet that is over one page long, but that mistakes occur more often with technical books. Conkin said that occasionally there are bindery mistakes and they can often trade them for good books. He said that the Technical Physics book might be traded but since he has never encountered a situation · like this he wasn't sure what will be done with the books. "The second edition will have the mistakes corrected," he said. "It is the responsibility of the publisher to find any mistakes; that is what they have editors for," said Conkin. The D. Van Nostrand Company claims that the mistakes could have happened during the process of publishing. Judy Johnson, the vice president publishing director,said,"There are so many people with their hands in the pie that mistakes are hard to track down. The mistakes could be blamed on the sloppiness of the author but it is likely through the long process of editors, proof readers, composers, etc. ,that the mistakes happened.'' Johnson said this is common for ... "8cN*, .. -·,.,.
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Title | The Louisville Cardinal, January 30, 1981. |
Volume | 52 |
Issue | 18 |
Description | The University of Louisville’s undergraduate newspaper. The title of this publication has varied over the years, but with the exception of the period 1928-1930, when it was known as the U. of L. News, the title has always been a variation of The Cardinal. |
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Date Original | 1981-01-30 |
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Full Text | .. The Louisville an independent student weekly "I've got a brand new pair of roller skates ... " Karen Klusmeler, an Arts and Sciences freshman and speed skater, breaks In a new pair of skates on her way to class Tuesday. She hopes to have the skates ready for a race coming up In two weeks. Karen Is a member of the Hlghvlew Speed Club. Black frats and sororities: bound by tradition and ritual By SUZETTE BRADY University of Louisville's black fra- ' ternities and sororities have a lot in common with Dr. Pepper. .. . They're both mi understood. Maybe you've seen a line-up of black males or females chanting and performing some fancy steps on campus, and wondered what was going on. Or maybe you've noticed several black males walking in a straight line, from shortest to tallest, and questioned why they weren't walking next to each other. The answers are easy. These are some of the rituals that black fraternities and sororities take part in. However, few people understand why they perform these rituals or the purpose behind them. "There ~eems to be a lot of ignorance. particularly in the black university community, about what these fra ternities and sororities do; they can't understand or see the impor- 1ance of some of the things they do," said Harold Adams, assistant vice president of student life. His sentiments are echoed by members of the fraternities and sororities. "Black students don't see the purpose of what we do." said Vi Engels. treasurer of Sigma Gamma Rho • sorority. "But thQse who are involved . can see the purpose, and.it prepares them to survive in the world ." "The University of Louisville is a , predominately white campus and the survival of Black Greek organizations is a struggle, "said Myra Drummond. financial secretary of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. "This is because people are ignorant of our purposes and don't really understand what we are about," she said. What black fraternities and sororities are "about" is quite different from other fraternities and sororities. For instance, other fraternities and sororities are controlled by the National Panhellinic Council ( PC). But, black greeks are controlled by a totally different council. the National Pan Hellenic Council (NPHC). because the purpose and rules governing the black greeks are altogether different. In the black groups you cannot pledge uptil you have an academic record. which happens well into the semester. In white groups you can pledge before or when you become a freshman. The rules of rushing are different. In black groups, before going "on line" you are required to have a C averag~ and in SO(I')e caS~Ji-Y0l.J neeo Jl 2.5 or 3.0 grade point average~ In white groups, you only need a 2.5 GPA when you get initiated and not at the time you pledge. "Black groups are not as socialminded as the white groups," said Adams. "Rather than holding beer blasts, etc., they hold their socials to obtain funds to meet their financial obligations and to perform philanthropic work," he said. Probably the biggest difference between black and white groups is· that black groups are more ritual . oriented. Few people understand what these rituals are all about. But the rituals that fra ternities and sororities are founded on are not something new to blacks. The pledge concept began in Ethiopia, where they walked in lines and carried symbols of their tribes and fami lies. This was done when boys at the age of 14 or 15 would enter manhood . The ritual of walking 'in-line' is done while pledging. It represents how the slaves were chained in lines together from the shortest to tallest when they were brought from Africa to the United States. The tallest per- ~.O fficials promote remedial ~programs as key to desegregation By BERNIE FELLONNEAU One of the ways to keep more blacks at the University of Louisville would be to improve the retention rate through remedial programs. officials say. U of L will have to improve the retention rate in order to stay within the guidelines of a federal order on Jan. 15 to desegregate Kentucky colleges. In the fall of 1980. 1,723 blacks enrolled at the University of Louisville. accounting for 8.5 percent of the school's enrollment. The federal study said that blacks made up 18.4 percent of the local high school graduates in 1978. In th.: fall of 1980,blacks accounted for 11.4 percent of the freshman class at U of L. The retention rate could be improved, some believe, through remedial programs. The Developmental Education Center (DEC), the Educational Advancement Program (EAP) and the West Louisville Educational Advancement Program (WLEP) are three programs that provide remedial help for U of L students. The three programs are not aimed at black students. DEC has two chief objectives, Professor Mark E. Blum,the program's co-director said; one is to give the student the intellectual skills needed to support college work, the other goal is to develop independent critical thinking. ,"The program is very successful." said Blum. He said that Ia t May, 61 percent of the program's first year students were still enrolled at the univer ity, while 45 percent oft he second year students sti ll attended U of L. "If a student survives the first year, they usually ~tay in school," Blum said. DEC offers courses in grammar, spelling, vocabulary and critical thinking. The program a lso provides tutoring for its students. "We try to prepare students who lack skills in spelling and grammar," said Daisy Yang, upervisor of the DEC learning lab. "With an open admissions policy,! think it's the university's responsibility to help students that are not as well prepared," Yang said. There were 330 students in the DEC program last fa ll. 170 students are involved m the program this semeste1. "Many students take English for granted becau e it's their native language," Yang said. "Students know when a phrase is awkward, but they don't always know why." "I took Vocabularly II last semester," one DEC student said. "I studied by myself. It 's not easy but it's not like you have to study all the time. I made an A." EAP i made up of three parts, aid Ralph Fit zpatrick, director of EAP. The Upward Bound Program is aimed at high school studl!nts who want to attain some post-secondary education. The Special Services Program is designed for freshman and sophomores and provides I utors. A third area of EAP deals with special programs such as CETA training pro- S•• "lf•m"l•l," b•ck pefl• son in back of the line is called the .h~ dkttocker ," because fie Is the biggest one and is supposed to keep them in order. The purpose of walking in-line is for unity. While pledging and walking in-line they learn how to step. "Stepping is basically a way of advertising our fraternity or sorority," said Arthur Simpson, presid~nt of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. "Stepping is a way to get freshmen interested in joining a fraternity or sorority," he said. Stepping originated in Africa and consists of two different kinds of steps. One is the traditional step that deals with ability, as these are difficult to do. 1 he second steps a re "dog steps," which are performed as a challenge to another fraternity and are used to get the crowd excited. According to Drummond. there is a distinction between male and female stepping. Males are known for their creative use of hands, feet and voices to create a rhythmic sound. Females are known for the versatility of their voices and creative themes. The themes are geared toward gaining the interest of the audience and to those interested in pledging to their sorority. "All stepping is a form of recreating our heritage in a unique way," said Drummond. Aside from rituals. black greeks are actively involved in philanthropic work. A lot of money-making events have recently been geared towards supporting and assisting the Louisville Repertory Theatre Company. Other projects include collecting food and ca nned goods for the needy at Thanksgiving, visiting and volunteering their time to nursing homes and orphanages, and raising money for the United Negro College f-und and the NAACP. The first black greek fraternities and sororities were founded in the early 1900's. At the time, blacks were not readily accepttd into colleges so they put together a fraternity or sorority to protect each other. "They saw a need for blacks to unify to overcome the oppressions they were faced with at a predominately white institution, "said Wayne Holloman, fraternity brother of Alpha Phi Alpha. Alpha Phi Alpha was the first black fraternity to be founded. Seven young black friends got together to study a nd came up with the concept. They saw that fraternities helped the white males and felt it would do the same for them. Alpha Kappa Alpha was the first black sorority to be founded. "It was SH "Black," back pafl• , . Friday, January 30, 1981 Vol. 52 No. 18 Night students claim discrimination By MELISSA McCONNELL Night school students at U of L are being discriminated against according to Susie Brady. University College student council president. ' A night student herself, Brady said, ··we pay the same amount as day students but we're not receiving the same services." Brady said she talked to president Donald Swain about the problem and was told that night students would have to pay an additional fee at registration to keep campus services open and alleviate the problems. Specifically, the problems Brady believes night students unjustly face are these: • Not enough classes to serve the number of declared majors in UC. • Some classes are offered so infrequently that students must delay graduation to take them. • Services such as Financial Aid, Student Health Care, the cafeterias, and the bookstores are not always open at night. • Parking problems and safety on campus. "In UC there are over 900 communications majors alone," said Brady. "If all of the students take only one communications class, there are still only 400 slots open." Brady said she had talked to UC acting Dean Leicester Moise about this problem. " While I am here. my hope is to modestly increase communications course availability," said Moise. Despite a tight budget, Moise says he is pushing for more full-time faculty in the communications program. But at the present, Brady says soi{Ie ~tudents are having. to delay graduation because some :Classes iA their program are only offered once a year. "By delaying graduation," said Brady, "tax dollars are being spent unnecessarily by the public to help fund our education." The main reason night students are finding classes closed is because traditional day students are taking night courses. "The night courses are filling up because more and more students are working," said Randy Embry. an advisor in ·uc. Besides problems with class availability, Brady said night students are denied campus services open to day students. "The Financial Aid office usually closes at 3:45, "says Brady, "and most of us don't get on campus until4:30 or 5. When I asked one of the receptionists what I should do about the problem, she said 'I'm sorry, I guess you'lljust have to take off from work · to get down here.'" Brady said Student Government Association President Angela Ford is trying to arrange for the Financial Aid office to be open later one night a week. As for the bookstores, cafeterias and health care services, Brady said, "We don't always have access to them and yet we're paying for them." Night students also resent having to pay more to park this year, with less safety protection on campus. according to Brady. "Because so many students drive to campus at 5:30, parking is bad. Many have to park in areas over on Fourth St. where attacks have occured in the past," she said. A & S night student Denise McLaughlin says when she used to have to park behind the Speed School, she was afraid. "It's just not safe," she said. "I won't go anywhere by myself." To help solve the problems night students face, Susie Brady is working with the United States Association of Working Students (USA WS), which has· a lobby in Washington. She said that organization was recently successful in getting part-time and evening students eligible for financial aid.· "The USA WS is new, but it's been helpful," said Brady. "What I would like to see in the future is a totally different evening student government with its own student council. Evening students lack representation. But ~t isn't justat U ofL, it'sall over." Murphy's Law Physics text contains 13 pages of errors ByLAURAKONERMANN Students enrolled in Physics Ill will have a little extra homework this semester making corrections in their text book. The author of Technical Physics is U of L Physics Department Chairman Dr. P.J . Ouseph. Instructors of the course have handed out a supplement of corrections for mistakes made in the book. The supplement is 13 pages long and the first chapter of Technical Physics contains 17 errors. The mistakes are mostly in numerical equations and formulas. Ouseph said, "All the mistakes in !he book are listed on the supplement and the supplement is provided for students at no cost." He said the book was correct when it was sent to the Van Nostrand Publishing Co. in New York, and that the mistakes are the publisher's. Ouseph said that when they were deciding on a book for the course Technical Physics worked best. He said the book serves it's purpose, but there should be a new book out next year. Ouseph ~aid he is disgusted with the problem, but students have been provided with an adequate supplement. Jim Conkin, the assistant manager of the bookstore, was unaware of the situation until last week and was surprised to hear of a book with so many errors. He saiq it is unusual to have a correction sheet that is over one page long, but that mistakes occur more often with technical books. Conkin said that occasionally there are bindery mistakes and they can often trade them for good books. He said that the Technical Physics book might be traded but since he has never encountered a situation · like this he wasn't sure what will be done with the books. "The second edition will have the mistakes corrected," he said. "It is the responsibility of the publisher to find any mistakes; that is what they have editors for," said Conkin. The D. Van Nostrand Company claims that the mistakes could have happened during the process of publishing. Judy Johnson, the vice president publishing director,said,"There are so many people with their hands in the pie that mistakes are hard to track down. The mistakes could be blamed on the sloppiness of the author but it is likely through the long process of editors, proof readers, composers, etc. ,that the mistakes happened.'' Johnson said this is common for ... "8cN*, .. -·,.,. |
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