Vol. 53 No. 16 An independent student weekly Friday, January'15. 1982
Winter stornts shatter pipes
Photo by Cindy Pinston
Clean up at· the Reynolds building a' few hours after
the flood.
By BILL CAMPBELL
Student Writer
The Great Flood struck the Universi­ty
of Louisville this week as sub-zero
weather cracked pipes all over campus,
sending torrents of water bubbling into
halls, offices and basements.
At the Reynold building, water cas­caded
over the fifth floor, down the
stairs and across lower floors after a
one-inch water pipe burst on Monday
night, Jan . II .
Firemen blamed the mishap on the
, weather, pointing the accusing finger at
a window left open next to the brokeo .
pipe. The pipe, a part of the building's
sprinkler system, froze and then broke.
Damage to the fourth and fifth floors
was extensive while lower floors re­ceived
only "some damage, ·• according
to a Department of Public Safety (DPS)
report. A monetary estimate of the
damage was not available.
The city police were the first to no­tice
that something was amiss. As they
rode by the building, they heard an
alarm and so they notified DPS.
A DPS officer discovered the broken
sprinkler system and notified the Louis­ville
fire department at 9:43 p .m. , ac­cording
to the DPS report.
When the firemen arrived, they
found water four inches deep standing
in the halls.
The number of firetrucks responding
to the scene is still in question. A fire­man
at the scene said four trucks re­sponded
to the call. An eyewitness saw
five and the DPS report says that one
truck responded.
Firemen and university maintenance
men worked into the wee hours of the
night, using squeegees to push water
off the fifth floor, down the stairs and
out of the building.
Clean up was made difficult, accord­ing
to Building and Grounds, as some
doors were locked with personal locks.
Also, firemen complained that instead
of having the I 0 maintenance men
promi ed them, they had two.
I he Keynolds buiidmg IS used tor
storage and is located on Third Street.
At .the Playhouse . a large pipe-in the
men's room broke sometime Tuesday
morning. Water rushed down from the
ceiling, soaking the d wall, floodin
U of L should establish a new college
the lobby and draining into the base­ment.
Costumes, sets, and props were be­ing
stored in the basement.
''We were probably fortunate," said
Bert Harris, chairman of the Theatre
Arts and Speech dt..:partment. The water
came close to flooding the auditorium.
However, the water did lots pf dam­age.
Harris estimates the damag to be
between $3 and $5 thousand.
His main concern is getting the Play­house
in shape for a production sched­uled
to be presented in four weeks. The
dampness could leave a shroud of mil­dew.
Damage to costumes was large, esti­matedat$
1100. 1naquirkoffate, water
destroyed eight new wool suits, miss­ing
several older costumes nearby.
Dr. Thomas J. Hynes 1 r. of the Thea­tre
Arts department said that actors and
stage hands are upset because the water
has temporarily killed their indoor bas­l:
etball games in the basement.
Gardiner Hall has had two pipes break
recently. The first burst in the women's
restroom on Dec. 21 . The leak left three
inches of water in the Academic Advis­ing
Center. Damage was slight but
crews tried twice before eliminating the
foul smell.
Tuesday, a pipe broke, showering
the records department of the Advising
Center. Gloria Bray, of the records de­partment
said it was lucky that the leak
happened during the day. Because he
was in the office, she was able to move
boxes of records from the floor.
A maintenance man had come to fix
GardinerHall 's broken heating system.
The leak started while he was in the
building, but no one noticed it until he
had left, Ms. Bray said. "We had to
send for them again," she said with a
smile.
At the Unitas Tower, a sprinkler in
an office closet broke, soaking furni­ture.
carpeting and possibly destroying
$200 worth of games.
Mark Whitehead, a freshman A&S
student, said he was sitting in the T.V.
room and saw water creeping across the
floor. "It looked like The Blob," he
: said.
· The watpl" wa~ cleaned tJi!. in about
two hours and except for the games
which are now drying in the basement,
little damage is expected.
Below zero temperatures compounded problems aris­ing
from a broken water pipe at the Reynolds build­ing.
A one-inch pipe burst on Monday night, Jan. 11.
Firemen blamed the mishap on the weather, pointing
the finger at a wind~w left open next to the broken
pipe.
Univer.sity College task force has finished
By CYNTHIA BAILEY
News Editor
Additional infonnation for this story
was gathered by Paul. Long, staff writ­er.
The task force studying University
College released its findings Wedru:s­day,
Jan . 13. The majority of the task
force favors abolishing UC and estab­lishing
a new University College of
applied arts and liberal sciences.
The task force has recommended that
the open admissions policy be revised.
Only students who show through ACT
scores, high school grades and class­standing,
teachers' and counselors' rec­ommendations
and diagnostic test
cores would be admitted under the rec­ommended
guideline!>.
The task force recommened that stu­dents
who were expected to require
more than one year of preparatory work
should nut be admitted to the universi­ty.
And, the task force stated, "any
change in admis~ion standards that
would force many students to enroll in
one of the commmunity colleges or
elsewhere" should be tied to an effort
. by the university to insure that those
students would eventually be pre pard to
enroll in U of L.
This would require closer ties to the
community college system than now
exist, the task force said.
The task force recommends that uni­versity
efforts to prepare students fur
traditional college work not be housed
inUC.
Rather, all preparatory courses and
all support services should be housed
and coordinated under one unit. The ad­ministrative
head of this unit would
then report to the Vice President for
Academic Affairs.
The four degree programs within UC
are Liberal Studies, Communications,
Interior Design and Legal Assistant.
The Task Force studied each separ­ately
and made the following recom­mendations:
Liberal Studies
The Liberal Studies program should
remain a department in a reorganized
University College.
The structure of the program would
remain the same and in this new sys­tem,
would not have to conwete with
non-degree programs for limited funds.
The program, the Task Force stated,
has "special appeal to adult students"
and flexibility that will allow for innov­ative
approaches such as weekend col­le~
e .
·communication
The communications pm~ram
should either be eliminated or g1ven
more funds. However, the task force
believes that eliminating the program
would be "very unfortunate" because of
the number of communications majors.
The best solution . the Task Force be­lieves,
would be to put the program in a
reorganized University College.
Another option is continued as it is.
This was considered because they
said that the program "is successful in
attracting high quality students in pite
of the low budgetary priority it has been
given and the perceptual problems re­lated
to being housed in the open admis­sions
unit of the university .··
The Task Force said an ideal solution
for the communications program is to
create a separate communications
school. "A move of this sort would be
symbolic of a committment to the large
number of students pursuing this de­gree,"
it said .
This idea was not deemed very likely
because of the "major administrative
overhead." Also, the Task Force noted,
there is an "inadaquate number of facul­ty
to justify a (separate) School."
Eliminating the program, the Task
Force said, would "alienate alumni and .
the community."
Again it noted the la1ge number of
students enrolled in the program, say­ing
that if it wa eliminated, "we would
be abandoni g the more than 600 stu­dents
pursui1 .. , • degree."
Interior Destgu
The Interior Design program, the
Task Force noted, has a "current level
of staffing (which is) dangerously close
to being in ufficient." The Task Force
thought that the Interior Design pro­gram
should also be placed in a reor­ganized
Univer ity College.
It is hoped the program would then
be removed from the "competition for
limited resources with non-degree pro­grams."
Another option considered for the In­terior
Design program was placement
in the College of Arts and Sciences as a
subset of the Department of Fine Arts.
This, the Task Force decid d, would
pose "serious compatibility problems
for faculty functions, personnel policy,
setting priorities, and possibly among
students and professionals in the com­munity."
Legal Assistance
The Task Force recommended that
the Legal Assistant program be kept in a
reorganized University College. !~ans:
ferring the program to either the :School
of Justice Administration or the School
of Law would be inadaquate, the Task
Force said, because (lf the " graduate­professional
orientation of the School
of Law and the emphasis upon correc­tions
in the School of Justice Adminis­tration."
TheTa k Force made several recom­mendations
for non-degree programs,
such as continuing education.
I ) Retain the continuing education
program as is in University College.
This would assure the program would
continue as a high priority, while reduc­ing
resources to University College's
other academic, preparatory and stu­dent
services.
2) Retain the continuing education
department in University College, but
to narrow it down to only the academic
and professional programs within UC
This would provide resources for other
functions and "promote faculty , curric­ulum
and program development," but
would abandon the broad continuing
education effort within the university
unless another office such as University
Coordinator for continuing education
could assume that responsibility .
3) Retain the continuing education
department in Universtiy College and
expand its effons. The Task Force felt
that University College already ha the
mechanism and experience to provide
continuing education efforts regardless
of the discipline or profession.
4) Create a University Center for
Continuing Education. This would in­crease
priority for the degree programs
within University College. The Task
Force felt that transfering the program
would "reduce loss of experience and
experti e " an result in some cost sav­ings
.
The final program within University
Collge the Task Force considered was
evening classes. The Task Force felt
that "an important change must be
made in the attitudes of many adminis·
trators and faculty members regarding
evening courses."
It recommended that the University
"examine its definition of its work
day," and define the work day from 8
a.m. to 10 p .m. instead of 8 a .m. to
4:30p.m.
The Task Force said, "it should be
the perogative of the Dean to assign a
faculty member a course as part of the
normal work at any time during the day
or evening. Also, there must be g(eater
recognition of the academic advising
and counseling needs of evening stu-dents,
and faculty must be willing to as­sume
those responsibilities as part of
their normal load."
The Task Force presented two op­tions
for the evening program. The first
option is to leave it in University Col­lege.
The major problem with this is
that "the competion between the degree
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programs of University College and the
evening program courses of other units
for limited budgetary resources will
continue ... However, this option would
assure "continued advocacy for even­ing
programs.·'
The second option is to transfer re­sponsibility
for the eve~ing course to
department which offers the class. Al­though
the unit offering the courses
would better manage them. it would al­so
mean that colleges not accustomed to
''providing academic !>Upport services
for students who attend in the evening"
would have to revamp their work sche­dules.
Student searches are
• effect at Freedom Hall In
.Jdy TERESA LEEZEK
Student Writer
Information for this article also ga­thered
by Alan Zukot; John Day and
Rick Cushinp.
Students are complaining these days
about a violation of their rights. They
say they are being searched when enter­ing
the student gate at U of L home bas­ketball
games.
Just inside the student entrance, a se­curity
guard in plain clothes has been
asking U of L students to open their
coats for inspection. Some women have
been asked .to open purses and hand­bags,
and there even hl~S been some
frisking.
Supposedly , the guard is checking
for food or beverages being smuggled
into Freedom Hall. The Cardinal has re­ceived
numerous complaints from irate
students.
"We've had complaints from every­body
about the searches." said U of L
ticket office manager Don Belcher.
·They are not limited to just students.
We have checks at every gate, making
sure no one brings in food or drink.
"It's a new rule by the Fair Board;
designed to bring in revenue usually
lost in concessions."
The Cardinal contacted the Fair­grounds
concerning the security checks
and was referred to Andy Frain, the lo­cal
security-guard service which han­dles
U of L games at Freedom Hall.
"The student gate is run differently
than the others," was the message from
an Andy Frain source who wouldn't
identify himself. "You 'II have to check
with U of Lon that policy."
"It's in the contract signed by us with
the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Cen­ter,"
Belcher said. " It states that there
will be no food or beverage brought on­to
the grounds."
But 'many students have insi~tcd that
students were the only ones being
searched for food and drink .
At a recent U ofL home game. sever­al
Cardinal staff members checked the
food and beverage rule. Our findings
show an inconsistency with the rule as it
applies to the smdent gate and all other
gates.
The search policy was implemented
at the first home game, Dec. 12 with
Tennessee State catching many ~tu­dents
by ~urprise. There was no ad­vance
notice. but a sign stating that no
food or drink could be brought into the
Fairgrounds was posted at the student
entrance.
"The sign was posted just prior to the
first game," said Betty Jackson, pro­gram.
assistant in the ticket office.
As a result of the signs, students were
refused entrance to the first game with
their Kentucky Fried Chicken dinners,
a long-time U of L custom. These stu­dents
were !Old to take their chicken
outside and dispose of it before they
could enter. Many ate their dinners
standing outside in the cold.
The Cardinal placed an observer at
each gate before the Jan. 7 game with
St. Louis but they reported that no one
was searched except at the student gate.
At the front gate, inside the colise­um.
there were four uniformed Andy
Frain personnel watching six entrances.
They were standing approximately 20
feet from the door, and they searched
no one.
A person sent by the Cardinal entered
by the front gate carrying two bottles of
whiskey inside his coat. He was not
searched. As he watched other people
entering, he observed that they weren't
being checked for food or drink either.
The new food and beverag.! rule was
not being enforced at the front entrance.
The Cardinal sent another person
through a back gate carrying two six
packs of beer under his arm in a paper
~ack . The sack was in plain sight, but he
was nor stopped, nor asked what was in
the bag.
At the student gate, however, a guard
in civjlian garb was searching ladies'
purses and demanding that students op­en
their coats for inspection.
The Cardinal was unable to reach At­hletic
Director Bill Olsen for comment,
but Associate Athletic Director Ken
Lindsey said, ''I'm not aware of that
(the searches). Don Belcher is our con­tact
person for game arrangements, in­cluding
security. ·•
Asked whether the search policy was
a provision of U ofL 's contract with the
Fair Board, Lindsey replied, "There is a
clause in the contract stating that no
food or beverages be brought in, but
I'm not sure of the exact language.
"In the past, there have been occa­sional
problems with people smuggling
in alcoholic beverages; we even had a
cheerleader hit by a beer can thrown
from the stand. ~o there is a legitimate
concern there. Up to now, food hasn't
been a problem."
Lindsey said he would find out about
the searches, and expressed dismay at
the prospect of individual rights having
been violated.
Denise Clayton , director of ~tudent
legal service , Denise Clayton said
there are two sides to the legality of the
searches.
"I think the legality depends on the
basis of probable cause for the ~earch ,"
said Clayton. "On one ide. thc proba­ble
cause could · be the contraband
brought in."
"On the other side, a valid argument
could be made that the contraband
brou~ht in could be from a number of
sources. rn this case, it is unfair and un
reasonable ro search only students."