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Vol 65. No 7 Lou1sville. Kentucky October 1. 1992 16 Pages An lndf:lpendent Student Newspaper Free
Homecoming events conflict
with holiday Yom Kippur
Swain apologizes to Jewish professors
By Anita-Carol Money
S~aff Writer
The University of Louisville has sched­uled
Homecoming's Wacky Wednesday and
the Ball on the Belle for the same day as Yom
Kippur, the most holy and solemn Jewish
holiday of the year.
The controversy over the scheduling con­flict
prompted University President Donald
Swain to write letters of apology to two Jew­ish
professors who complained, History De­partment
chair Lee Shai Weissbach and An­thropology
professor Edwin Segal.
Dennis Golden, vice president for Student
Affairs, made a public apology at the Sept. 22
Student Government Senate meeting. Golden
said his oflicc received a significant number
of calls and messages from students, faculty
and staff. He said to prevent the scheduling
conflict from happening again, advanced cal­endars
listing all holidays have been sent out.
"It's a matter of being attentive to the
University population on a whole," Golden
said. "And it's also in the spirit of cultural
diversity to respect all faiths and persuasions.
That sometimes is not easy to do with 23,000
students, but we are doing the best that we
can."
Yom Kippur comes 10 days after Rosh
Hashana, the Jewish New Year. This year's
holiday marks year 5723 on the Jewish calen­dar.
With the start of Rosh Hashana, Jews are
given 10 days to repent their sins, and Yom
Kippur is the day of Atonement, a day spent
fasting and praying for forgiveness. While
Yom Kippurbeginsatsundown Oct. 6, it does
not end untilthree starsappcarin the sky Oct.
7. The Belle ride is scheduled to begin Oct. 7
at8 p.m., which is before sundown.
Rachel Podgurslcy, a Jewish senior history
major, said she was troubled by the schedul­ing
of the Belle ride.
"It' preuy sad that a University program
intended for all students didn't take a religious
holiday into consideration," Podgursky saiu. ''I
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Pagc2
U of L Board of Trustees approves
$35 million in campus development
By Loraine Lawson
S1aff Writer
Two parking garages and a new building are
definitely in U of L's future.
The Board of Trustees approved the f mancing
of the garages, along with over S35 million in
other University projects, when it voted to create
and sell bond Series H, Sept. 29.
When the University sells a bond series, it
essentially borrows the money from a company
and agrees to pay it back at a set interest rate.
The $35,685,000 gained from the bond series
will help finance two parking decks, two build­ings
and the purchase of land between Aoyd
Street and 1-65 for a new athletic park.
Parking decks will be built on both the Bellc:nap
and Health Sciences campuses. Together, their
estimated cost is $8.3 million; parlc:ing fees will
eventually repay the loan. Larry Owsley, vice
president for administration, said construction
should begin on the parking decks sometime next
year.
" We'll take bids for the foundation on the
Health Sciences campus in December or Janu­ary,
start work early in '93,andcompleteitby fall
'93," Owsley said. ''The one at Belknap will be
slightly behind, and completed in late '93 or
early '94."
Ne~t spring wiJI also see the beginning of the
construction on the Academic Building. The
building will be where the Ceramics Building
and the Belknap Gymnasium now stand, and will
provide additional office space and four to five
classrooms. The state will reimburse the S15
million loan for the building.
The state will also provide S4.1 million to
cover the Joan for land acquisitions. With this
money, and another S4.1 million provided by the
Athletic Association, the University will pur­chase
land for a new Athletic P.drk.
Finally,S1.22millionofSeries H will finance
a new Hazardous Waste Facility.
Scrie H is a Consolidated Educational Build­ings
Revenue bond series. U of L sold the series
to Goldman, Sachs & Co., and has 20 years to
repay the loan at 5.8592 percent net interest rate.
Goldman, Sachs & Co. is one of su groups
that competed for Series H. Morgan Stanley &
Co. ubmiued the second lowest bid with a net
intere t COSt of 5.8758.
The Board also authorized the review of nine
other bond series. Normally the Board must
approve aU bond decisions, but Monday's vote
made it possible for the executive committee of
the Board to approve any refinancing of the
bonds without consulting the full Board. Seven
of the bond series are Consolidated Ed tion
Building Revenue bonds, like Series H, and
amount to over $118.4 million in bonds, with
interest rates ranging from 4 to 7.38 percent. The
other two series are Housing System Revenue
bonds and total over$11.5 million. Interest rates
on these series range from 6.2 to 7.7 percent.
Some of the bonds from both series are set to
mature in 1993.
Owsley said the University will look at cur­rent
interest rates to see whether it should refi-
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Student presidents
plan Frankfort
demonstration
By Anita-Carol Money
Staff Wri~er
TheSludentBodyofPresidents,anorga­nization
of student government presidents
from Kentucky state colleges, is trying to
send a clear message to Governor Brereton
Jones: no more higher education budget
cuts. The organization will deliver themes­sage
at a rally in Frankfort OcL 14.
University of Louisville Student Gov­errunent
Association president Jim Howard
said the idea was born at the SBP meeting
held at Kentucky State University Sept. 27.
The eight members decided to organize a
rally against budget cuts that are expected to
issued by Jones in late October.
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U of L student appointed representative
to Kentucky (:ouncil of Higher Education
By Jonathan Baize
StalTWriter
While the Council of Higher
Education convenes to malce de­cisions
concerning Kentucky
higher education issues, such as
tuition rates and credit transfers,
students wonder if their opinions
are represented in the decisions
that affect their education.
In an effort to give students a
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undergraduate at the University of
Kentucky, and was selected after
enrolling at U ofL. Pete November,
the current UK SGA president, said
he nominated Edwards because of
his e~perience and personality.
"I worked with Clay on many
projects and I know that he is very
intelligent and dedicated," Novem­ber
said. "I thought that with the
budget cuts it was imponantto have
a good person representing the stu-
Kentucky," Edwards said. "My role is to com­municate
to the Council how the tudents feel
about the decisions that are being made."
The most debated topic that the Council con­siders
is tuition rates for state universities. Ed­wards
said that the 1991-1993 budget has already
been set, but tuition for 1994-1996 will be set in
November of 1993.
voice in the decision malc:ing process, the Coun­cil
places one student representative on its board
each year. The Council chooses from nominees
submiued by eight Kentucky universities. Clay
Edwards, a law student at the University of
Louisville, was appointed to the board this year.
dents. I think Clay is a good choice
for students from all of the universities."
"This year the Council will be discussing the
need to raise tuition, and they will be reviewing
aU of the different data they get and making a
decision on whether or not to raise tuition," he
said." As a student! am going to strongly enCOlJr­age
that tuition is not something they rely on.
Higher education has already been cut once, and
my big concern is to see that it is not cut again."
Edwards characterized his role on the Council
as an advisory position.
Edwards was originally nominated while an
"Obviously, in a very general sense my job is
to represent the issues, concerns and needs of all
the students at the eight public universities in
Sec U OF L
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Herb Henry tries experimental therapy program
~Courtesy of Sigmedicl, Inc.
By Mary Ann Ott
Coruribuling Writer
Herbert Henry is trying to walk again, one muscle strand at a
time. Auempting that feat is frustrating, ~hausting and, at times,
painful for the 19-year-old, former University of Louisville full­back,
who was para! yzcd from the waist down after a shooting at the
Red Bam in January. But a state-of-the-art experimental program at
the Shepherd Spinal Center in Atlanta has given him new hope.
Henry and his mother left Louisville Sept. 26 for Atlanta, where
he will spend four months learning to walk through the aid of a
microcomputer. Because the procedure ise~pcrimental, Henry only
has to pay for room and board, and U of L's "Help Herb" fund­raising
drive may help him cover those costs.
"My therapist at Frazier Rehab. told me about it," Henry said.
''Thefollowingweektheycamedownanddidademonstrationatthe
Rehab. They said it was one of the best programs in the nation, so
l decided to pursue it."
Normally ,the brain sends electrical signals down the spinal cord
to muscles in the legs. But Henry's spinal cord injury blocks those
signals, stopping his legs from moving because they never receive
the message.
Above Is a demonstration of how the experimental program that uses
a microcomputer could' help Herb Henry walk again. See HERB, Page 2
Presidential Election '92
Bill Clinton visits L,ouisville and presents plan to establish
national trust fund to address financial concerns of students
Pholo Counesy of More Tuman
Presidential candidate Bill Clinton spoke In
Louisville Sept. 29. Many U of l students turned
out to suppon and protest Clinton.
By Loraine Lawson
StalTWriter
If Bill Clinton's goal was to present him­self
as a man of the people, he succeeded. At
least, that's what Meredith Slearnaker, a se­nior
English major at the University of Louis­ville,
thoughtafterCiinton 's downtown speech
Sept. 29.
''The big thing that impressed me about
Clinton was his accessibility to all types of
people," Sleamaker said. "George Bush is too
old, too conservative. He only appeals to one
group of people: the upper class."
Though Clinton talked of enforcing ~es
on foreign businesses and bringing more jobs
into the nation, he also presented his plans to
address the financial concerns of students
during his 23-minute speech.
Clinton said he intends to establish a na­tional
trust fund to finance a college education
for anyone who desired one. Students would
then pay back the money after college or serve
two years in domestic service.
"Why don't we take every dollar reduced
from defense and invest it here at home?''
Clinton said. "If every person in Kentucky
could get the money to go to college and pay
it back by working in schools, or against
drugs, we could solve the problems of our
country and educate a whole new generation
of Americans."
Clinton said it was time to "open the doors
of college education to aU Americans," but
that he would start an apprenticeship program
for high school graduates who do not plan to
auend college.
Nic Kessler, a senior theatre arts major at
U ofL, was particularly enthusiastic about the
national trust fund. Though Kessler has a
Stafford loan, he said he is currently being
"dropped out" of U of L because he cannot
raise another $1,000 for tuition.
"I really want to finish college. I was
suppose to graduate this year but I can't
because I don't have the money," Kessler
said. "Everything he said, I could lind agree­able.
I'm an actor. I could use my training to
go to schools and get kids off drugs."
The crowd packed between the Humana
Building and the Kentucky Center for the Arts
applauded and waved signs showing support
for the Democratic ticket.
There were specks of dissent among the
crowd, however. Brian Schenkenfelder,ajun­ior
mechanical engineering major and chair
of the U of L College Republicans, waved a
Bush sign.
"I'm prOtesting this because this is stupid,"
Schenkenfelder said.
Schenkcnfclder was not disappointed that
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SGA sponsors left versus right wing
debate to address political issues
BODY ART:
By Betb Chacey
Contributing Writer
They weren' tBill Clinton and George Bwm,but,
profe ional political analysts Pat Korten and Barry
Lynn debated their theories about Bush, Clinton
and left-wing versus right-wing politics Sept. 28 in
the Student Aclivitie Center's Floyd TheaJ!el.
The debate, ponsorcd by the Student Govern­ment
Association as part of a year-long speaker
series, raised some heckles in the crowd of about 50.
The speakers focused on predictably popular but hot
issues, including abortion, the environment arid draft
records. They also spoke brieOy on foreign policy,
economic plans and government regulations.
Korten's stance was conservative Republican.
to e~press his pro-life position and prompted sev­eral
heckles from the crowd.
"I have nightmares," Konen said, "of babies
being tom limb from limb, their arms and legs
being tom off violently. That's what happens in
abortions."
Lynn, on the other hand, is a liberal Democrat
who has worked with the ACLU for seven years.
He does not like Bush's polities, he said,and he will
certainly tell you why.
"He (Bu h) is not good at protecting owls and
he' snottoo good at protocting the American poople.
His idea of the American family is a Beaver Cleaver
family," Lynn said, adding that family value are
the I t thing the federal government should inter­fere
with.
Students bare their
tattoos, see story
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INDEX
Newa Briefs 4
Artl 8
Sportl 12
Editorials 14
ComicS 15
611111 Pho10e bit Hilty s.ndlla
AI part of the SGA apeakar Mrl", l'at Kortan (right) end Barry Lynn gave oppoalng
views on polltlcalluuea at their debate at U of L Sept. 22.
On the abonion issue for instance, Korten, a former
Justice Department pokesperson and senior e~­ecutive
under Ronald Reagan, poke drarrl21tically
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