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Vol. 63, No.14 LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY NOVEMBER 21,1991 12 PAGES AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER FREE
Campus to receive face lift;
Belknap undergoes reno.vation
By PAUL A. FULTZ
StaffWri!er
The University of L.oui ville is cur·
rently undergoing a series of changes
that will result in the demolition of some
existing buildings on campu and the
COli truetion or renovation of others.
"We're making a whole array of as­signments
and reassignments," said
Lany Mehlbauer, director of U of L's
Office of Planning and Budget "Our
basic plan is to try as much as possible to
concentrate a single discipline or de­partment
in a single building. We arc
trying to free up as much space as pos­sible."
Mehlbaucr said U of L is in a space
crunch, particularly when it comes 10
for faculty member offices.
"We have a very hard time finding a
place to house faculty commg m, and
that's an impcdimentiO hiring new fac­ulty,"
he said. "Right now some of the
faculty arc in some prelly bad places.
Several classrooms have been sub-di­vided
10 make offices, and some of these
back into classrooms."
Helping to allevialC the problem will
be the construction of a new $ 15 mill ion
Academic Building on the space cur­rently
occupied by Belknap Gym and
the Arts Annex.
Mehlbauer said 60 percent of the
building will con min faculty offices and
labormory space for the Speed Scien­tific
School, while the other 40 percent
will house f ulty offices of the College
of Ans and Sciences.
Construction of the building is tenia­lively
scheduled to begin next summer
after the renovation of the Central Re­ceiving
Building, located on the comer
of Warnock and Floyd Streel.S. There­furbished
building will contain sculpt­ing
and ceramics classes, the Theater
Ans Department and the department of
Health, Physical Education and Recre­ation.
Chair of the Theater Arts Department
Stephen Schulv said he was satisfied
with the planned move and the proposed
fa lill.JeS.
"We'll have an cqu1valentamountof
spa c," Schulv said. " It will be a space
in which the department can do its work.
We've been told we're moving next
July."
Schulv sa1d one of the highlights of
the move will be the construction of a
new theater. The department currently
ha~ an arena tJ1eater, which scats the
aud1ence on all four sides of the stage.
The new structure will be a thrust thc­a~
er, scatmg the aud1ence on only three
s1des.
"That's what people are building
now," he said. "The arena theater was in
vogue 40 years ago. I like the space
we've got, but I feel somewhat old­fashioned."
The space occupied by the Thealer
Arts building will most likely be turned
into a parting lot, at least for the short
run, Mehlbauer said.
The other big renovation project on
campus involves the old Student Center,
which is already partially under con­struction
in its basement areas. The build­ing
has stood nearly vacant since the
majority of its occupants moved 10 the
new Student Activities Center in the fall
of 1990.
Of the buildings current occupants,
The Louisville Cardinal, TM Thinlrer
and the Office of Financial Aid will
remain fornow,Mehlbauersaid. WLCV,
thecampusmdiostation, will most likely
move to Strickler Hall next 10 Univer­sity
radio station WLOU and the Com­munication
department
The Cardinal's Nest cafeteria will
close, but a new cafeteria will open in
the basement, the space formerly occu­pied
by The Sub.
But the building's main tenants will
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Parrish seeks to spread libertarian ideas
By KEN BRANAMAN
Conuibuting Wriler
A country without governmental regulation
and taxes, personal freedoms that include legal­ization
of drugs and the repeal of anti-sodomy
laws: that is what co-founder of the Young Lib­enarians
and economic student Chris Parrish has
been working toward for the past two years.
During his four years at the University of
Louisville he has managed to align with the
Young Republicans on some issues while par­ticipating
in Progresive Student League activi­ties
on others.
Throughout, Panish has stood firm on his
own polilical beliefs.
"I've been a card carrying Libertarian for two
years," he said. "In one word, libertarianism is
tolet'lliiCC. Tolerance across all barriers, across aJ I
races. The liberal side of the Libertarian Party has
legalization of drugs and free speech."
Parrish said de pile serving as vice president
of the Young Republicans at U of L from 1989
until the spring of 1990, he always leaned toward
the libertarian philosophy.
"I think I was always a Libertarian," he said.
PARRISH
the University to espouse thepany philosophy of
tolerance and freedom to live life without gov­ernmental
interference.
believe the only viable economic system to date
is capilalism."
Parrish said the libertarian belief in freedom
from laXation caused him to participate in differ­ent
library tax protest rallies.
"Recently, we took pan in the Ax the Tax
organizations re-enactment' of the Boston Tea
Pany to oppose the library mx," he said. "Aboli­tion
of the income laX is one of the fundamental
premises of the Libertarian Party."
Chairman of the Ax the Tax organization,
Tom Riddle said that Parrish was instrumental in
carrying the anti-laX vote to the University earn­pus.
"Our organization consists of individual ef­forts
working for a common cause," he said. "He
did a lot of things on his own as well as participate
in group efforts to thwan the laX resolution."
Parrish said in addition to the opposition to the
library tax, he was active in the anti-war move­ment
last winter. He worked with the Progressive
Students League in a debate with student sup­porters
of the war effort
PSL's co-chair Christine Jones said they
worked together to protest the war although their
reasons were different
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STAF\PI~TOS BV HARRY SANDERS
Workers, top left, used a laser beam to level the floor
In the new computer center. The Bursar's olllce, left,
Is temporarily located In the lower level while the
Houchens building Is renovated. The old Student
Government offices, above, have been gutted to create
a huge room to house the Office of Computing and
Telecommunications.
Sex crimes plague school
By JACKIE HOLLENKAMP
Staff Writer
Since Sept. 12, six sexual attacks have
taken place on or near the west side of the
University of Louisville Belknap campus.
According to Lt. Tom Fitzgerald of U ofL 's
Depanment of Public safety, five of the
attacks wereoncampus,and one involved an
attack on a Noc Middle School student at the
1600 block of South Third Street.
Kelly King, a sophomore majoring in
Pre-Physical Therapy, resides in Cardinal
Hall and must walk home after her night
classes. She thinks in lieu of the recent at­tacks,
there should be more security even
though the attacks took place on the other
side of campus from her dorm.
"I don't really sec much security on my
side of campus," she said. "I think maybe
there should be, especially now."
Fitzgerald said precautions have increased
by assigning foot and car patrols to the area.
He also emphasized usc of the DPS escon
service by calling 588-6111 .
Virginia Johnson, student development
specialist at the University's Counseling Ccn-
1er and a member of the Rape Prevention
Committee, hopes people will pay attention
to these auacks and take precautions for their
own protection.
"I'm discouraged," Johnson said. "I'm
r<; "y l-oring we c u•r this as an educa­tional
tool."
Dr. Madelyn Jacobs of Student Health
Services and chair of the committee, said
people should utilize these incidents as a way
to promote awareness for personal safely.
"Everyone is very concerned because it
appears that we've got somcooe on campus
or on the outskirts of campus, or at least
knows about the campus, that is a bad person
and seems to be becoming more and more
bold," Jacobs said. "It certainly puts more
pressure on us (the commillCC) to be sure that
people are aware of their personal safety."
The committee is made up of faculty,
staff, students, DPS and a representative from
the Rape Relief Center of Louisville. The
commillCC also works with the Physical plant
and the Vice President for Administration
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"I just didn't know there was such a party. I was PagcJ
originally an officer in the Young Republicans.
The more I got into my major (economics) the
more I realized that government involvement in
the economy really fouls things up."
He said he officially joined the Libertarian
Party and co-founded theY oung Liberlarians at
"Personal issues are very liberal," Parrish
said. "Victimless crime laws, we think, should be
abolished. There is no victim. There is no crime.
On the other side we're fiscal I y conservative. We Gays fight for rights at U of L
STAFF PHOTO BV HARRY SANDERS
FALSE ALARM: Department of Public Safety officers rolled up pollee barricade
warnings following an erroneous bomb threat to the business school Nov. 20.
INDEX
News Briefs 3
Crime Report --- 4
Arts 6
Sports 8
Editorial 10
COmics 11
Classified Ads-- 12
By THOMAS PACE
Staff Writer
"I don't feel welcome in the sense that all the
literature that goes out on the University do not
include gays. We need to swt changing and
include sexual orientation."
Vice-president of the University of
Louisville's Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual Alliance
(GLOBAL) David Ritner said the group wants to
spark change in U of L • s attitude toward gays.
The group may find help in a motion brought
forward at a Nov. 12 Louisville Board of Alder­man
meeting which stateS that a person should
not be discriminated against because of sexual
orienmtion in public accommodations, housing
or when applying for a job.
The motion will go before a series of commit­tees,
and a public hearing on the matler will be
held Dec. 5. The final vote will be taken before
the end of the year according to GLOBAL mem­ber
1ohn Man ire.
If passed, the ordinance will affect U of Las
well as the city of Louisville. Ritner said the bill
would give gays more power on campus.
"In one sense, gays will have protection,"
Ritner said. ''They can't be discriminated against
Smithereens
invade U ofL's
student center
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in hiring and firing situations because of sexual
orientation. Right now, a student can go to class
and the professor ... can teach anti -gay smnces,
and tJ1c only thing the student can challenge him
on is a grievance."
GLOBAL faculty advisor Ken Terrill agreed.
"We supposedly have some protection at the
University in terms of equal opportunity in job
protection which was passed a few years ago,"
Terrill said. " I have not heard of job discrimina­tion.
I have heard of some discrimination in the
dorms."
Terrill said he is pleased with the proposal,
adding he is glad to see the city taking a step in the
right direction.
"It's a very important ordinance," he said.
"It's very important the city ofl..ouisvillcjoin the
rest of the major cities by taking this position."
In a ICllCr to GLOBAL, the University's Stu­dent
Government Association endorsed the pro­posal.
"The letter was written on behalf of the Stu­dent
Senate," said SGA executive vice-president
Kelly Davcnpon. "We feel everybody should be
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Columnist gives
Super Bowl
predictions
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