An independent student weekly
Pre-registration to be
implemented next fall
By PEGGY HAYES
Student Writer
A pre-regt~tration system for U of L
will be put into effect at the end of the
~pri ng ~emester. according to Regis­trar
Bruce Bursack.
Bur~ack met with the Student Go­vernment
Association this Tue day
night to infom1 the repre~entatives of
the new plan.
The pre-registration plan involves
having every student at U of L fill out a
forrn for the fall seme~ter requesting the
clas~es they want at the time they want.
The requests will then be put into a
computer syMern which will take each
person and place him into slot for the
class being reque~ted.
When the slots are filled for the par­ticular
class and time asked for. then the
computer will put the other students
who want into the class on a waiting
list.
The ~tude nt~ on the waiting list may
get the classes. but not at the time re­quested.
If this happens, the student can drop/
add to adjust his schedule.
Bursack told the SGA that this sys-tern
will be much more accurate and
that students will get a print out listing
all their classes with the time of class.
room number and the name of the in­!'.
tructor.
··1 f we can get the bulk of the students
in the spring to fill out the forms and
send them in. we can send out, hope­fully.
the schedules and the bills in the
!>arne envelope," Bursack said. The
bilb will be sent out sometime in Au­gust.
Bursack hopes to get between 80 to
90 percent of the tudents to take part in
the system, which will not include in­corning
freshmen.
"It is for the student's advantage to
IJSe a system like this, which will help
the charipersons of each department
make good management judgements.
They will then know through this sys­tem
how many student~ are asking for
cour~es ," Bursack said.
There will still be some problems re­garding
the new system, Bursack told
the group. He feels that there will be
~ome students who will not want to fill
out the forms .
"Some students will want to go
through the old process of registration "
he said. "Somehow these people will
find a way to get around the pre-regis­tration."
Bursack also mentioned that at the
end of the fall semester, when the bills
are sent out for the spring, there will be
a question on the bottom asking wheth­er
the student will register for the spring
semester.
According to Bursack this will give
the student the opponunity to say
whether he is planning to come back
and it puts pressure on people who do
not pay their bills.
"By doing it this way," he said,
"there will not be people who do not
pay their bills taking up space that can
be filled with those who have paid."
He also pointed out that many of the
closed classes up to now have Included
a number of students who were dropped
. from registration because of delinquent
tuition bills or had dropped out of
school for some other reason.
One representative suggested that the
University establish orne son of down
pa)'•:>ent to be made by the student who
is planni,;~ on returning. This way the
university would know that the tudent
continued on the back page
Tuition rising
'Friday, November 13, 1981 Vol. 53, No. 13
Photo by Cindy Pinkston
Administrative Assistant to the SGA President, Tara Spencer, watches as Dr. Bruce Bursack, University
Registrar, speaks to the Student Senate un the new proposals for registration processes.
Expect to pay ntore at colleges in the future
Hluver Washington tunes up Cor Saturday's bout. Story on page 8
Wannabe in pictures?
Aspiring broadcasters
get their first chance
By JOHN R. DAY
Starr Writer
Have you ever dreamed of appearing
on TV'!
Well , now is your chance. Campus
NOW (New of the Week) is currently in
production under the auspires of Jon
Morris' Communication 333 class. The
~how i taped every Thur day night
for prc~entation the following Monday
and Thursday on Louisville and Jeffer­son
County cable TV sy~tem'>.
The student production can be seen
on Monday at 9 p.m. in the city on the
CPI network\ channel 13, while those
in the county have a chance to view the
show on Thursday at 7 p.m. on Storer's
Channel 7.
CPI has been very generous to the
class, said Morris. by donating the
space for production via the public ac­cess
channel. But he added, hopefully.
the show can move to another facility.
Taping the show is usually very hectic ,
especially since the allotted three hours
is hardly enough time to polish and ef­fecttvely
edit a program .
"People don't realize how much time
must go into the production of a half­hour
show," noted Morri . "So much
behind the scenes work must be fin-ished
before we can produce even one
minute of our program. In addition,l'm
attempting to mix two communications
media: advertising and news produc­tion
. It is important to mesh different
areas of communication."
Morris is well qualified in both of
these aspects of communication. After
spending his childhood tinkering with
radio components in his basement,
Morris attended UK and graduated
from Transylvania. He received his
Master's Degree in mass communica­tions
from Murray State, during which
time he registered the trademark for his
NOW fonnat.
Also while at Murray, Morris pro­duced
and narrated a half-hour docu­mentary
on Kentucky's maltimum se­curity
prison at Eddyville. Inside Eddy­ville
looks at the adequacy of the insti­tution
and the treatment of prisoners.
Morris believes his film is the only one
of its kind which deals with the subject.
After Murray, Morris went to New
York to work for two large advertising
agencies; Doyle, Dane and Bembach;
and Danor, Fitzgerald, Sample. These
two heavyweights in the advertising bu­sme
s represent Alka-Seltzer, Gener­al
Mills and Rival pet foods, among
others. Morris parlayed his eltperience
ByJIMJUNOT
Student Writer
In less than two years, full-time Ken­tucky
residents attending U of L will
be paying more than $475 per ·etnester,
and more than $900 to attend for a full
school year.
Larry Mehit-auer, acting director for
Planning and Budget at U of L, says
that Kentucky-resident students face a
15 percent raise in tuition for next year.
and then another 15 percent raise forev­rollment
for 1983-84.
Students who attend U of L from out­side
the state of Kentucky face a seven
percent raise in tuition after that.
Mehlbauer said the rising cost of en­rollment
was a suggestiOn made by the
staff of Kentucky's Council for Higher
Education . The suggestions were then
sent for approval to the lay-members of
the Council. which met yesterday .
In a telephone interview Tuesday,
Mehlbauer said: " If the lay-members
approve, it will become mandatory for
the University of Louisville, the Uni­versity
of Kentucky, and Nonhern
Kentucky University to raise their tui­tions
by fifteen percent in 1982-83, and
another 15 percent in 1983-84.''
The raise in tuitions was the direct re­sult
of approximately 600 students en­rolling
in Jeffer on Community Col­lege
instead of U of L. J. C. C. has not
raised its tuition costs since the influx of
students.
But with the rise in tuitions, how
does U of L hope to encourage prospec­tive
students to attend U of L? Mehl­bauer
listed several possibilities:
I) Class availability. "Students
into forming a private pannership and
firm, called Nicholson-Morris.
Morris then went to St. Louis for
some on-the-job-trainimg in hi~ field.
He worked there for one year with
news and news production at KTVI.
He now felt prepared to attempt to
obtain his doctorate. Morris decided he
wouldn't mind spending a few years in
Jacksonville, Florida, so he pulled up
stakes and traveled south. He returned
to Louisville with some work left on his
Ph.D. He picked up a wife and a Pugeot
on the way, but he retained a desire and
enthusiasm for teaching.
Campus NOW is in its first semester
of production, but next semester the op­eration
should run more smoothly when
the current taff will be assisted by stu­dents
in the nut class. The staff needs
people willing to re earch and report
hard news stories for the program.
"Everyone wants to do feature stories
have a better chance of getting the that is where the new Student Center
number of classes they want and need building now Jies."
with fewer ~tudents to compete with." Mehfbauer said the third and final
said Mehlbauer. priority deals with all other request
2) Class quality. Mehlbauer said, from the universities involved (U ofL,
''If we keep up t'1e current quality and U.K., and N.K.U.) which need total
improve the quality of exi ting clas es, state upport.
we can supply appeal that way." Speaking on the last two, Mehlbauer
Al~o in the works for U of L i the said. "It's very unlikely that the state
planning of a new building for the Busi- will fund any of the eat this time."
ness School , but plans for a new Stu- Student Government A!>sociation
dent Center annex may have to be President Rob Chiles commented on
scrapped. Mehlbauer said. the reason for new buildings being
"The Council outlined three priori- planned in the face of higher tuitions
ties; the first being structures or and budget cuts. "It is important that we
purchases that will be funded by the Uni- don't halt the education proce s while
versities themselves. This is what the this thing is in gear," said Chiles.
Business School building falls under. Chiles. the student representative on
"The second is purchases that will be the Council for Higher Education and a
funded by the state of Kentucky, and member of President Swain' Steering
Swain concerned
Committee , added, "The Steering
Committee will change the face of the
University over the next few years."
Neither Chiles nor Mehlbauer would
be specific when asked what areas
would be reduced or cut out due to U of
L 's current budget cri!>i~.
."1 re'lllY don't want to get too specif­ic
on· this subject hecause then every­body
will tart fighting for their turf,"
Chiles ~aid.
Mehlbauer said that all areas of U of
L are open to "evaluation" but there will
be no reduction in current programs at
U ofL.
An immediate remedy is to not fill
temporary po~itions which are now va­cant.
''These arc usually found in ad­ministration
~uppon units," !>atd Mehl­bauer.
Money woes continue at Hospital
By GRANT LERNER
Student Writer
"There is a potential catastrophe
there."
President Dr. Donald Swain was
reacting to a question posed to him con­cerning
University Hospital, during the
Faculty Senate November 4 meeting.
Swain addressed the Senate in order to·
update the situation of the hospital.
Swain said, "We have serious prob-in
reponing, for obvious reasons ," aid
Morrill. I'm not knocking a good fea­ture,
but there is much more tedious
preparation involved in hard news re­porting.
Researching and talking on the
phone are not as interesting as inter­viewing
people, so reporters shy away
from hard news."
As format now stand , Campus
NOW offer~ university related news,
activities, profiles and tidbits of gossip.
The show also has a billboard segment
which announces coming events and
notes of interest. The staff reads press
releases, but prefer quotes and mter­views
to present on TV.
The show i augmented by film clips
from similar student production com­panies
around the country, but strive
to report news which is relevant to U of
L students. Those attempt' have in­cluded
campus profiles and sport .
continued on the back page
I ems with the hospital :· but he was
quick to point out that the problems
were not with management, but rather
with money. ··we c;ould have perfect
management and still go bankrupt."
He said that as long as state and local
leaders don't understand that money i
the main issue, the hospital will con­tinue
to have problems. He plans to
meet with Harvey Sloane and Mitch
McConnell to discuss the money prob­lems.
"I rather suspect they're longing for
some miracle," said Swain . .. There are
no miracles available."
From the statistics Swain gave, the
hospital does indeed seem to be in
trouble. Only ten percent of the patients
are private pay patients, and the other
90 percent are either using Medicaid or
cannot pay anything.
"Until we change the mix of patient~
in our hospital, there's simply no way
to make that hospital break even,"
Swain remarked. "Sooner or later we
get down to the question of whether or
not Louisville and Jefferson County,
and the Commonwealth will want to
continue a hospital of this kind." He
funher said that the hospital seems too
important to U of L, and the university
·'should not give up on it easily."
The hospital and U of L separated on
July 6, 1980, although the university
sti ll maintains ownership and control.
When the books were closed there was
a $3.2 million defici t. Since that time
the hospital has been making some
money, and the defiu t ha~ dropped to
about $2.4 million. According to a con­tract
between the U of L Board of Trus­tees
and the corporation running the
hospital , the corporation will execute a
note to U of L for an amount between
$2.4 and $3 .2 million . If the two had
not separated, U of L would have had to
absorb the loss.
After a facutly senator quoted a local
newspaper as saying that the hospital
was losing $10,000 a day. Swam com­mented
, "That'~ true. while we're sit­ting
here we just lost $25." For some
reason the senate then erupted in laugh­ter.
Another que!>tion brought out is
whether the ho~pital is causing the qual­ity
of medical !>tudents to fall.
"It could be that if the word gets CJ\Jt
that the hospital'~ in jeopardy that it
would affect the quality of our medical
students and residents." Swain said.
Swain said that if the hospital went
bankrupt the psychological effects
would be much greater than the finan­cial
effects.
"I think it will be !>cen as a blow to the
quality of U of L, and will be seen as a
blow to the confidence of the institution
-- and that concerns me much more than
the loss of mone 1."
Registration nearing
BY PEC.GY HAYES
Staff Writer ----
Registration for the Spring seme ter
will be earlier than in the past.
Students with 90 or more hours com­pleted
by the end of the 1981 summer
term will start registering for cia ses
November 16-18.
Those students with 60 or more hours
will register November 18-23. And stu­dents
with 30 or more hours will regis­ter
for classes on November 23 through
December I.
Students with less than 30 hour will
get their chance to register for their
classes December 1-7.
December 12- 18 will be only for stu-
'dents who want to drop or add a class.
And during thi date the drop/adds will
be done at the Regbtrar's office.
For late registration or drop! add, stu­dents
will get their opponunity on Janu­ary4-
12.
Since regi tration is early, ;nany stu­dents
are wonderiug when tuition bills
will be sent out.
According to registrar Bruce Bur­sack,
the bills will be ~ent out in De­cember
u.1d classe~ will start on January
6.
The Ia. t day for undergraduate stu­dents
to apply for May degree~ is Jan.
18. The last day for graduate :.tudents to
apply for May degrees IS Feb. 12.
Spring break will be March 14through
21.