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An independent student weekly Friday, February 26, 1~82
All students affected
Swain wants to cut $4.4
million from budget
By TERESA LEEZER
Staff Writer
President Donald C. Swain will cut
·$4.4 million from the University of
Louisville budget, affecting nearly ev­ery
student as early as the fall semester
of 1982. The complete impact of
Swain's budget which is based on 12
task forces he appointed in September
wi II be felt in the fall seme ter of 1983.
"The amount to be cut from the
budget is about $4.4 million, in spite of
new state money," Swain said. "This is
about one-half the budget of the Col­lege
Arts and Sciences and it's more
than the total University College
budget."
"There will be some impact of the de­cisions
next fall," Swain said. "But
1982 will mainly be a year of transition,
a pha e out period, allowing for faculty
contracts and students in the pipelines
of orne programs to complete them.
The impact will be more noticable in
the fall of 1983." Despite the 12 differ­ent
subject areas the task forces are
studying, one goal is kept in mind: im­proving
the quality of education of U of
L.
"My goal with the task forces and the
steering committee is to make tough de­cisions
on cutting the budget while im­proving
the quality of education,"
Swain said.
Last September, Swain appointed
nine members to the Steering Commit­tee,
of which Swain is chairman and of­ficial
spokesperson.
"The Steering Committee is an admi­nistrative
concept most involved with
long range planning," Swain said . "It's
priority is good communication tlow
between faculty staff and students ."
Long range decisions made by the
Steering Committee go through three
groups of the Faculty Senate: the deans
a1\d their departments, the Student Go­vernment
A sociation for the proce s of
review and student views and the deans "Task force number one identified
and vice presidents group. essential undergraduate programs,"
Steering Committee meetings are be- Swain said. "It separated the peripheral
coming more intense and frequent. In or non-essent ial ones from the essential
February there have been two all day undergraduate programs ."
sessions besides twice-a-week meet- Ten of the 12 task force report are
ings. There are four key groups in- in, lt!aving only two numbers-- II and
valved in the conference di ·cussions: 12 to be completed . Swain says these
Plans and Policies of the Faculty Senate will be in by the first of March.
and the Plan~ and Poli~ies o_f Staff Se- Task force II i studying the prob­nate,
Executtve <..ommtttee lor Student I em of the retention of quality students.
Senate and the Council of Vice Presi- an area Swain claim the university
dents and Deans. could do better in.
"These four groups will give us their
evaluations early, before digging on
our own, for their ideas and sugges­tions,"
explained Swain.
To help the Steering Committee
reach academic decisions, two faculty
members are nominated at large by the
Plans and Policie Committee of the
Faculty Senate. These members are Dr.
Joseph Dech of the chemistry depart­ment
and Dr. James McCage of the
Business School.
The member representing the Stu­dent
Government Association (SGA).
is its president , Rob Chile . This
member cohsults with the faculty staff
and students to insure a good flow of
communication to the wants and needs
of students.
''Student's educational needs are dif­ferent
than that of faculty ·and staff,"
Swain said. "Although we may not nec­essari:
y agree. we need to understand
the other point of view , the students'
side."
"The effect of the Steering Commit­tee
decisions will be tremendous,"
Chiles said, "and I don't think many
students realize this."
Committee task force number one
took the lead in drawing up the goals
and priorities process needed in cutting
the budget and reallocating funds. It
was presented to the Board of Trustees
in October of 198 I and passed by the
board~
"We are failing to draw large
number of good black and white stu­dents,"
Swain stressed . "On the whole,
recruiting black students is good, but a
large number of them Jrop out. We
need to improve our retention of these
students--of them staying here."
The Steering Committee review of
the task force reports is supposed to :X
finished around April I I . At this time
the reports will be made public docu­ments,
available to the faculty, staff
and student for review, placed in vari­ous
places on the Belknap campus for
easy access.
An open forum or "great debate" as
Swain calls it, will take place around
the first of Apri I. calling on the entire
campus to participate in questions, crit­icism
and discussion!> of the reports.
The $4.4 million cut will be made. it's
now just a question of where it will be
made.
'The report of the steering commit­tee
is just a draft," ~aid Swain. "It will
not be in the final form, it will be sub­ject
to change."
"The Great Debate will be very op­en,"
Swain said . 'There are many who
are anxious and fearful because we're
cutting large amounts out of the budget.
At least we can put together a process
that will be recogmzed as legitimate."
The final step in the reorganization
process will be held in special meeting
of the Board of Trustee~. scheduled in
April.
U of L starts physical therapy maJ• or
By GRANT LERNER
Student Writer
Students will soon have a new major
option. A fout year physical therapy
program, leading to a bachelor's de­gree,
is expected to begin this fall.
However, it max not begin at all if in­structors
cannot be found in time .
Robert I. Orendorf, acti ng program
director of the physical therapy pro­gram,
outlined the program's basic re­quirements.
He explained that during
the first two years, students will take
general education courses. These pre­requisites
will include two seme ters
each of English, history, humanities,
sociology, and electives.
The junior and senior year will en­compass
75 to 80 credits, as opposed to
the normal 60 credits. Students will ac­complish
this by attending classes dur-
Nothing
ing the summrrsemester. These upper­class
courses will include two semes­ters
of each of the following: biology,
chemistry, and physics, each with a
lab, as well as two semesters of psy­chology.
Orendorf, who is alos director of
physical therapy at the Institute of
Physical Medicine, said the program is
designed to begin with 10 students. He
plans on having 12 srudents the second
year, 16 the next year and 20 the fo l­lowing
year. Although this number of
students may appear to be small, Oren­dorf
points out that it is not a low
number by physical therapy standards.
''In the physical therapy curriculum
there is a substantial amount of lab
hands-on education." Orendorf said.
"Because of the time and the personal
contact required in providing that type
of education, it's difficult to handle
new
more than a 16 to one classroom/lab si- scribed this as a "money saving de­tuation."
vice." Most of these pan-time instruc-
Joy Kirchner, associate director for tors will be chosen from University
academic affairs of the division of al- Hospital and the School of Medicine, as
lied health, said a nationwide search is well as from other allied health facili ­under
way to recruit two people with ties.
Master's Degrees and appropriate clini- 0 d f 'd th t d · · h
cal and educational qualifications. The ~en or sat a a mts~wn to t &
positions of program director and facul- physt~al therapy program ~til be very
t be d t be fill d . d t selecltve. Presently, the mtntmum re-y
mem r nee o t e m or er o · 2 5 1 ·
begin the program in the fall. qutrements ar': a . cumu attve grade
"W t 1 k d 1 t t pomt average m the first two years, as
e wan . 0 rna esure, an wan ° well as a minimum of a 2.5 GPA in
underltne tht , that we are not guaran- th · H ·
teeing, we cannot guarantee, that this e sctence ~ourses . e potnted _out that
program will open by this fall. We're t~ese requtrements are subject to
moving as fast as we can, but we can't c ange.
move any faster, so we may not make Orendorf also emphasized that phys-it."
Dr. Kirchner cautioned. ical therapy programs are relatively
Only two new faculty members will small and that "competition to get into
be hired because other instructors will the program is very keen ." The typical
be drawn from the basic science and al- minimum requirement for a physical
lied health cores. Dr. Kirchner de- therapy program at other colleges is
University presidents always
like to change things
ByJIMJUNOT
Arts Editor
Talk of changing the U of L logo is
nothing new. In 1974, soon after Dr.
James G . Miller had been named presi­dent
of U of L, he sent a letter to U of L
archivist Dr. William Morison about
not only changing the U of L flag. but
also changing the school's colors.
Soon after his installation, Miller
wrote a letter \O Morison, asking if it
would be appropriate to include the cit­y's
symbol of the Fleur-de-li on a new
U of L flag. and also if a change in the
school's colors would be appropriate.
Morison replied in a Jetter dated Feb.
14, 1974, saying: "In my opinion we
could use a new flag." Morison also
suggested in the Jetter that a change
from the sc'hool's red and black colors
The old flag was used up until
1957. You can see it in the U
of L Archives.
dered. Neither of these suggestions ev­er
got past the suggestion stage.
Many students today do not even
realize that U of L has an official nag,
even though it tlies daily outside the
Administration Building on Third
Street. As a matter of fact, the Universi­ty
of Louisville has had an official nag
dating back to the 1920s. A quick trip to
the U of L Archives verified this fact.
The Archives has a letter written by
Creqse in 1957, in which he explained
the flag's symbols. "The introduction
of golden olive branches on the flag (in
place of the customary Minerva) is an
effort to provide a degree of variety by
employing another well-known attrib­ute
. The sunburst in the upper left
(comer) refers to the Sun God, Apol­lo."
The Jetter goes on to explain that thc>­sun's
rays are also symbolic of another
well-known figure in Lot~isville histo­ry,
King Louis XIV, the most re­nowned
of the French kings. The city it­self,
however, was named after King
Louis XVI.
The tlag in use up until 1957 dis­played
a large "L" split diagonally on a
field of red and black. The "L" showed
red on the black f~eld and vice versa.
The golden trim was for decoration on­ly.
about a 3. 3. or 3.4 G p A, he said. that can be admitted to the program,
"What's happened ," Orendorf said, ' Orendorf said the e~ec~ion process ~ill
"is that students in the 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, be des•gned to maxtmtze the potenttal
3. 1, 3.2 range look at a 3.4 and they for the student to finish the program.
don't apply. They say why bother." "We want to be 99 percent sure that the
Orendorf said he wants to encourage student we admit can handle it academi­qualified
students to apply, and not cally and have a commitment to the pro­screen
themselves out. "It doesn't nee- gram and to the profession," he said.
essarily mean anything if a student has a
3.0," he said. "Someone else may have W~en the student has completed the
a 3.5 but not be a good person for physi- ~rog~a1m an~ ~as recetved hts dtploma,
cal therapy. Their goals may not be
1
e WL be. eltg•ble to taketh~ ~t~te board
consistent with the physical therapist's examtnattons. Upo~ passmg . the
profession." 1~ards, the tu~ent wtll then recetve a
Other admission criterion will be
based upon a personal interview and
clinical experience. Although the clini­cal
experience tsn ' t a pre-requisite,
Orendorf said it "would weigh extreme­ly
heavy in somebody 's favor."
Citing the lim.ited number of students
ltcense to practtce.
Orendorf expects the program to re­ceive
accreditation either in its third or
fourth year. This will be before the first
class graduates. As of this time there is
no deadline to apply for the program ,
but it is advised that anyone interested
apply as soon as possible.
. Dwayne Cox, an Associate universi­ty
archivist, said the first tlag was in use
from the teens, up until the University
adopted a new banner in 1957, when
faculty member Dr. Walter Creese de­signed
Lhe.current flag.
So it seems whenever the lJmversity
gets a new president thest' days, tbe first
thing he does is see if there's any sym­bols
that are out of date, or in his opin­ion,
need changing. Very few of these
ever see the light of reality though, and
usually they get lost in some sort of
committee.
Poet Umar WUliams, author of 'Nubian Sunrise'. See story, pace 8.
Thill is the current flag.