An independent student weekly
New athletic fee. ,
Students rnust
pay for tickets
By PAUL A. LONG
Student Writer
University ofLouisville students will
no longer be able to attend Cardinal
home games free of charge, according
to a new policy put into effect by the U
of L ticket office.
The policy, which was approved by
the Student Government Association
(SGA) and the Athletic Department,
was in response to an edict by the facul­ty
senate which stipulated that the At­hletic
Department must become self­supporting
within five years.
The policy also conforms to a Louis­ville
city ordinance that outlaws "festi­val
seating." Festival seating means
that there are no reserve seats for an
event. Spectators are admitted on a
"first-come, first-served" basis. The or­dinance
states that all seats to an event
must be reserved.
. Louisville passed the ordinance in
order to avoid a repeat of the incident at
The Who concert in Cincinnati on De­C
·ember 3, 1979, in which II people
were killed when fans rushed the gates
in an attempt to obtain the best seats.
Students who desire to attend home
games must pay a $20 fee. WheQ this
fee is paid, the student's identification
card will be validated. This fee entitles
the student to pick up one student ticket
and to purchase( for an additional three
dollars) one guest ticket for all six foot­ball
and fourteen basketball home
games. To gain admitance to a game,
the student must have a validated I.D.
card and a student ticket. A person with
a guest ticket must be accompanied by a
student. Tickets may be picked up as
follows:
For football games, the tickets will
be available in the ticket office the week
of the game until noon on Friday.
Mitsch
visits
U.S.S.R.
By TERESA LEEZER
Student Writer
"Just delightful" is how Dr. Mitsch,
associate professor of system science
describes Russians. "At least on an in­dividual
basis," he's quick to add.
Mitsch was one of four Americans
invited to participate in a United Na­tion's
workshop on wetlands in the So­viet
Union. There were 30 interna­tionals
at the ecological conference
coming from 14 different countries.
Mitsch says a wetland is simply a
swamp. He calls himself a biology·
ecology hybrid, specializing in the
value of wetlands both in their natural
state and when they are drained to grow
crops.
Mitsch says the workshop was a suc­cess
from both a scientific and cultural
perspective.
Scientifically, the international
group studied two sites of Russian we­tlands
that were being drained for crop
use.% The ftrst site (Georgia, Russia)
has subtropical weather and little frost­like
Florida. Its wetlands are compara­ble
to the Everglades. Its dark beaches
bordering the Black Sea make it a popu­lar
resort area for many Russians.
Mitsch describes it as a place "where
residents eat Dannon yogurt and live to
be 113."
The second stop the conference made
was Minsk, Russia. The climate and
wetlands compare to Minnesota.
Mitsch complimented the Russians
on the two sites, concluding they both
had many natural areas to observe.
Mitsch felt that the United States had
more to contribute scientifically to the
.conference, but felt that culturally, the
Russians taught him much.
"'lbc Russian hospitality and the
welcome we received were a nice sur­prise"
Mitsch said. He thought the city
of Moscow fascinating, comparable to
New York in size and importance as
aucity.
World War II monuments fill the
land with flames lighting soldiers'
graves, Mitsch said. Bitter memories
from the war are strong and Russian
children are taught to remember.
"Everywhere we went were monu­ments
from the war and the Russian
children are taught what defeat meant to
Russia," Mitsch said.
Fot basketball games, the tickets will
be available 1lhe week of the game, and
must be pick:ed up before noon on the
day preceding the game. If there is
more than one game in any given week,
the tickets will be available until noon
on Friday t:he week preceding the
games.
Students must present their valid
J.D. card when they pick up their tick­ets.
If two students with validate I. D.'s
wish to sit together, then they must pick
up their tick.ets together. The tickP.ts
must be pick.ed up in person Groups
will be allowed to sit together by
having one person with all ID's
pick up the 11ickets.- ·
Once a stutdent pays the $20 fee, he
may also el4~ct to purchase a season
ticket. For an additional fee of $20 the
student will be entitled to a reserve seat
for all home games. The student may
also purchas'e for an additional fee of
$40 one season guest ticket. With this
plan, the student will not have to pick
up a ticket ev•ery week. He will have the
same reserved seat for all home games.
According l(]l the U of L ticket office,
this is the "ideal way to assure best seat­ing
and eliminate standing in lines ."
If a student wishes to attend just a
few games, or fails to pay the $20 fee,
he must pay (he general admission price
on the day of the game.
Any student tickets unsold on the day
of the game will then be sold as general
admission tickets.
The new policy was needed because
of a special ~neetin..&-of the f~t;Y. se­nate
on January 28, 1981 in which the
senate declar1~d that "a ceiling in gener­al
ful\ds ... be established for the athlet­ic
program for the coming year. The
ceiling would! be progressively lowered
over the next four years, lookine to-
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Many fUJ1l) Russians live in small
wood shack homes trimmed with blue
windows. A plot of land in the back
provides a p«~rsonal garden. Most work
on a commuhal farm for the state.
A frisbee in the USSR i;; a "unique
success." sq, are Pittsburgh Steelers T­shirts.
Mitsclh took both with him to the
Friday, September 4, 1981 Vol. 53 No.3
Photo by Rick Musacchio
A September Study Bre:ak
Junior English major, Susannah Jaffee took advantage of a couch in the Ek:strom library to catch up on some studying.
Students uninformed on new policy
By PAUL LONG
Student Writer
University of Louisville students
were, for the most part, uninformed of
the new tic"t policy now in effect. And
the few INdents who had beard of it
were not sure what it was all about.
Workers at the U of L ticket office
were constantly explaining the facts of
the new plan to students who came u1 to
pay the fee. What most students were
unaware of is the fact that the activities
that is with the tuition has no-
Dr. William J. Mitsch
conference, but returned home with
neither.
"They make popular and valuable
gifts," Mitsch said. "In fact, we gave
away any hats and T-shirts we had that
looked American."
Mitsch is currently working on a
book about wetlands which will be pub-thing
to do with the new student athletic
fee.
"They are separate and distinct, they
are not the same." Stresses Don
Belcher, the manager of the U of L tick­aomcs.
News Analysis
What most students objected to was
the Idea that now you had to pay to get
into games when last year they were
free. Some students thought that the
idea of reserved seats was good, while
others did not,
lished soon. He says in two years anoth·
er such conference is planned and he'd
like to be on it.
This was his first trip to the USSR
and he hopes it's not his last. It was "a
. very good social time as well as scien­tific,"
he said with satisfaction. "A fair
exchange."
"It's another$20outofmy pocket," "We've got to keep everything the
said Bill Pearse. And a friend of his, same. If we make an exception for one
who asked not to be identified because person ... then we have to make it for all
she is a member of the Student Govern- the students," he said.
ment Associatio111,. said that the whole Frank Albicocco on the other hand
id':a was "ridi~ullous . " Not only did she · was all in favor of,the assigned seats:
o~t to pa~n~g the fee, l>u.t she also "Last year I was spending more time
claimed that It IS now. more difficult for going to the game and waiting in line."
group~ o~people: to s1t together. . Now he says "if I pay (the money) at
While m the ticket office paymg the least I'm guaranteed a seat without ...
f~. Jack Schaef€~r broug~t out the same going down six hours before a game."
pol~t. "!be $2~ doesn't .bother me, I His only objection was that if you want­don
t mtnd ~yn~g t~ get mto games... ed the entire deal (the $20 fee, $20 for a
(but you). ca~ t ~·~t With the people you season ticket, and $40 for a guest sea­wan~
to Sit .w1th.. . . son ticket) then you had to pay the $80
H1s mam O~Jechon was ass1gned all at once. He claimed that the "aver­seats.
He claimed that if you wanted to age student can't afford $ 80 ... at one
attend the game with another student, shot."
t~en you both had to 8? down to the Belcher claims that it is "great for the
t~cket office at. the s~ tn~e to get your students." And as for Schaefer's objec­tlcke~
s .. He s&d rthat 1f the pe~ons had tion, he said that the "easiest way to get
confhchng schedules, then th1s would around it is to get a guaranteed (season)
be difficult. What he wanted to do was seaL"
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story contains interpretations
and pick up his ticket for him. Howev- by the writer.
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Changes in financial aid
Students Start
"P~anic Borrowing"
By CYNTiliiA R. BAILEY
Stud11mt Writer
The "panic be>rrowing" of some stu­dents
who are "trying to get in the last
lick on the guaranteed student loan pro­gram"
has kept the financial aid office
busier than usua] this year, Blake Tan­ner,
director of lrinancial Aid said in a
meeting of the student senate Tuesday
night.
"On Oct. 1 ~he guaranteed student
loan program wi~l shift to a need based
program," Tannc:r said. This will mean
students will have to supply additional
information alx:klt their income and
their parent's inc:ome.
"Right now the definition of need is
anyone with a $.30,000 adjusted gross
income or less," Tanner said. In this
case the progran:• will continue to oper­ate
as it has in the past.
"If it is a gn::ater than $30,000 in­come,
there is a, process of determina­tion
of how much you may be eli ~ible
to borrow which will be detenriined
based upon your cost of attendance."
Tanner said t11at presently he has no
information describing how the new
program will alffect independent stu­dents.
"If you a:re an independent stu­dent,
the same rules will apply as I
know it today, If your income is
$30,000 or lcSl• the proaram should
function as it hail in the past."
Students with promissory notes
signed after Aug. 23 will be charged an
originator's fee, which is five percent
of the face value f the note and this will
be deducted f the check, Tanner
said. .
Students may still apply for the basic
grant program l1ince the deadline for
applying for thi• school year is March
15, 1982. Howl~ver, the National Di­rect
Student W.n Program, the college
work study pro,gram, and the suppli­mental
grant program, are overbooked,
!Tanner said.
"At this point basically we've
awarded all we have for the whole year
which is the first time since I've been
here that this has occurred this early.
The earliest other time I can recall was
somewhere around October, maybe a
little closer to November," Tanner
added.
Also, there will be an extension of
the tuition deadline, which was Aug.
31 ,for seven days making the new due
date Sept. 7. "There is no way physical­ly
for everyone to get the bills paid or to
get student aid and get to the Bursar's
Office and go through lines at both pla­ces,"
Tanner said.
Problems have been compounding
this fall because the new student infor­mation
system is working and there­fore,
the bills are being produced at a
quicker rate than ever before, Dr. Ed­ward
Hammond, vice-president for stu­dent
affairs said.
"Hopefully that is a good sign and the
speed and efficiency of that system will
I pay off with advanced registration next
~pring so you can register for fall before
you leave here in the spring," Ham­mond
said .
Hammond also announced that tht:
Humana Gym, which suffered from
budget cutbacks, is now in the go-ahead .
stage due to an anonymous donor who
donated the $150,000 needed to fund
the renovation of the old St. Josepth 's
Hospital Gymnasium. Bids will be
opened for the project by early next
week, and hopefully this facility will be
open in time for next semester, Ham­mond
added. The gym will be used for
intramurals as well as other activities.
Also, as the situation now stands, the
Red Barn expansion is still safe, Ham­mond
said. Last week the federal go­vernment
notified U of L that the uni­versity
did not qualify for federal disas­ter
funds because the university is a
state agency.
"There is a possibility that the deci-
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