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Vol. 65, No. 19 LouiSVille. Kentucky February 4. 1993 12 Pages An I dependent Student Newspaper Free
Angry faculty say they will stop Swain from making U ofL an 'autocracy'
Dy Loraine Lawson
Staff Wrilcr
Some Universuy faculty arc angry at
President Donald wain over recent
moves they say will decrease the
faculty's mput and increase the "autoc­racy"
at U of L. And 1f Swain per isL~.
some have suggested they may return a
stronger response than Swain anticipates.
Faculty in all schools were recently
alencd by Dale Billingsley, faculty rep­resentative
to the Board of Trustees,
about a "concept statement" Swain
brought before the Trustees' governance
commiUcc Jan. 19. The statement says
that depanmental cha1rs should be ap­pointed
by the dean of the school, rather
than nominated by the faculty and ap­proved
by the dean, which is the current
procedure.
Bccauscdepanmcnt chairsoflcn rep-resent
faculty concerns when adminis­trative
decisions arise, such as where
budget cuts should or should not be
made, it would sub tantially decrease
the faculty's power if deans appointed
chairs.
Though the concept statement is still
in committee and must go before the
Board of Trustees for approval,
Billingsley asked faculty members to
send him their reactions to the state­mcnL
And they did. The College of Arts
and Sciences faculty called a special
assembly for Feb.4 to discuss the impli­cations
of the concept statement and
Swain's appointment last week of act­ing
dean Tim Hynes to the position of
interim dean without frrst consulting
faculty .
Joe Slavin, current chair of the Hu­manities
department and one-time dean
of A & S, said the issue is th is: Should
decisions at U of L be centralized, i.e.
madebythetopadministration,orshould
decisions be deccntrali 7..ed, involving
faculty in the process. He said Swain is
acting contrary to current management
ideas, which "natten the hierarchy."
"When any one person, a leader, a
prince, feels he has a monopoly of wis­dom
and that the sum of all other legiti­mate
opinions cannot possibly be equal
to his or hers, that person is no longer a
leader," Slavin said. "A leader requires
followers. A leader without followers is
a contradiction in terms."
For the concept statement to be put
into effect, the Red book, the University's
governance book, must be changed.
Slavin fears it may happen.
"It's a recipe for disaster," Slavin
called the statemenL "A dean or chair
that doesn't command the respect of the
"It's a recipe for disaster. A dean or chair that
doesn't command the respect of the faculty he or she
serves will be a failed dean or a failed chair."
-Joe Slavin
Humanities department chair
faculty he or she serves will be a failed
dean or a failed chair. And eventually,
what Swain's changes will produce, if
adopted, is what I lik<: to call the game
'kill the king ' or 'kill the queen."'
The concept statement begins by as­serting
that "the University needs strong,
effective leadership at every organiza­tional
level in the 1990s" and it is there­fore
necessary that "tlhe president, uni-versity
provost, vice presidents, deans
and depanmentchairs function as a col­laborative
team."
From these two premises, Swain con­tinues.
"It ought not to be acceptable prac­tice,
for example, for a department chair
to obstruct the dean's leadership," Swain
wrote. ''The one aspect of U of L's
appointment process that needs to be
revised is the dean's role in the selection
and appointment of department chairs.
In every school or college, the dean (not
the faculty) should decide who wilt be
recommended as department chair. The
faculty should be thoroughly consulted,
but the chair must understand that they
report to the dean (and through channels
to the President), not to their faculty
colleagues."
According to the Redbook, chairs are
nominated by department faculty and
those nominations are reviewed by the
dean of the school, who has veto rights.
Slavin contends that the way Swain
worded the concept docs not accumtely
reneet the way the current system works.
He said Swain's statement implies that
the faculty have complete control over
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TRAINING FUTURE CARDINAL FANS
HEALTH SCIENCE
Council may cut a
Ky. dental school
Photo by Harry Sanders
RECRUITING, RED? The Cardinal bird watched over a troop of girl scouts at the U of L vs. North Carolina-Charlotte women's basketball game Jan.
30. Approximately 10 different troops turned out to watch the Lady Cards triumph.
New requirements for graduation will give students in
Medical School more exposure to different medical fit~lds
Dy J onathan DaiLe
Staff Writer
With little notice, fourth year stu­dents
at the University of Louisville
School of Medicine will see a change in
their graduation requirements beginning
thisJ uly. The new plan abandons the old
requirements of eight weeks of surgery,
eight weeks of internal medicine and 16
weeks of clecti ves.
"Our changes are reflecting a national trend
emphasizing primary care."
-David Wiegman
Vice dean for academic affairs
According to med1cal school admin­istrators,
they restructured the requi re­ments
to give tudenL~ more exposure to
different medical fields. Larry Carr,
medical school associate dean for cur­riculum
, sa1d the change wilt give stu-dents
a better overview of the medical
profession.
able to relate to generdl practitioners as
well as specialists."
"We think the new program will give
them a better idea of how primary medi­cine
is practiced today," Carr said. "The
idea is to expose them to more ambula­tory
(out-patient) care so they will be
Under the new plan eight weeks will
be divided between surgery and internal
medicine on an in-patient basis in hospi­tals.
Four weeks will be spent in family
practices and general practitioners' of-
Doctor eases Med School blues
By Renita Edwards
StaffWnter
When Dr. Leah Dick~tcm first arrived at the
Univers1ty ofLouisv1llc Sch< I of Medicine, she
believed that tudents and faculty hould work
together to create a better learning environment
and to achieve common goals. S1nce her arrival in
1975, D1ckstein, a professor of psychiatry and
behaviordl sci en es, has helped start or run many
programs aimed at funhering those goal .
Dick tcin has held the posiuon of associate
dean for student affairs, associate dean for faculty
and student advocacy, served on the Medical
School admissionscommmee; and presently, she
i pre 1dent of the Amcncan Medical Women's
A moon (AMWA), an office he w1ll hold
until Nov. 1993.
Another concern of Dickstein's was the men­tal
and physical well-being of frrst year medical
students. By working with med students on a day
to day basis, Dickstein became aware of the
endless stress and problems they face; so she
developed several programs that teach students
ways to cope with various problems before they
begin Medical School.
"In 1981 I, along with Dr. Joel Elkes co­founded
the Health Awareness Workshop, which
is a four-day program run with the help of about
30 sophomore Medical School students,"
Dickstein said. "The program is designed for
beginning med students and their significant oth­ers
or family."
fices dealing with primary or out-patient
care. This requirement includes an addi­tional
four weeks working in rural areas
of the state; students also will be re­quired
to spend four weeks working
withaspccialistinout-patientcare. These
requirements leave students with only
12 weeks of electives instead of 16as in
the pasL
David Wiegman, Medical School vice
dean for academic afifairs, said that this
new curriculum is keeping pace with
national movements in medical prac­tice.
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Dy Shannon Dennett
Contributing Writer
University of Louisville President
Donald Swain and University of Ken­tucky
President Charles Wethington
have vowed to cut back erU"OIImcnt at the
U of Land UK dental schools in the hope
of stopping the Kentucky Council on
Higher Education (CHE) from possibly
eliminating undergraduate and graduate
programs in one of the schools.
Dan Hall, assistant to Swain, said the
presidents' proposal will go before CHE
Feb. 8, when the Council will decide the
fate of both schools.
"The two presidents have been dis­cussing
what would be the minimum
number of students required to maintain
a first class facility," Hall said. "They
agreed reducing the combined number
to 80 would not impact the quality of the
schools."
U of L presently enrolls 50 students
every year and UK enrolls 40 students
every year.
Kentucky'sDentaJEducationReview
was initiated at a CHE meeting held in
1990. In fall of 1992, it reported that
Kentucky presently has an oversupply
of dentists, but the need and supply will
be balanced by the year 2000. An emoll­ment
reduction would mean there will
be a shonage of dentists in the year
2000.
However, the Council has decided to
reduce enrollment so that some of the
state money used for dental education
can be used in other areas.
Clay Edwards, a U of L law student
and student representative to CHE, said
the Council has developed three options
for reducing the money given to the
dental schools.
"One option is to terminate both un­dergraduate
and post-doctoral progmms
at either UK or U of L and concentrate
the program at the selected school with
an enrollment of 70," Edwards said.
As associate dean for faculty and tudent ad­vocacy,
Di k ·tein used hcrpos1Uon to implement
many bcncfi wl program .
"I wanted to develop m re programs for tu­dcnts
in pro-active ways," D1 kstein id. " I also
wanted to help faculty With profe ional issues,
so I organited mu.ars on how to become more
mvolved in rc. arch, publish m journals, and
receive gmnts. I felt that by helping faculty, they
in tum would more read1ly be able to help stu­dents."
Thi program, in which over 98 percent of the
entering classes voluntarily panicipates, help
incoming med students develop a sense of com­munity
by emphasizing caring for themselves and
each other, as well as panicipation in the arts as a
form of relaxation-as opposed to the use of
alcohol, which Dickst.ein says can be de tructive
in many ways.
Photo by Harry s.ndera
Dr. Leah Dickstein, extreme rllght, lectures, from left to right, Drs. Lounette
Humphrey, Dan Howerton and ThereM KMIIng on hypnosis.
"The arts can become an integral part of their
lives," Dickstein said. "It is something that they
can share with their ignificant others who may
have no primary connection to the field of medi­cine."
There are also several on-going programs which
continue throughout the year.
The Student Hour program, which Dickstein
began in 1977, is used as a means of helping
students with imple daily living. They arc taught
constructive ways to relieve tres and COI)C with
problem that may arise during the school year.
SOUL, or Student Outreach at U of L, was
started two month ago by Dickstein and two
sophomore med students, Amy McNeal and Luis
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"Another option is to tenninate one un­dergraduate
program, establish a con­centrated
program at one school with an
emollment of 70 and then transfer all
post-doctoral programs to the school
that lost its undergraduate program.
"The third option is to maintain two
dental schools at reduced enrollment
levels."
LarryFowler,CHE's dircctorforspe­cial
programs, said the Council will look
a tall the options, but that the third option
is no option at all - some son of change
is inevitable.
"Maintaining the present enrollment
isn't an option," Fowler said. "If one of
the schools is tenninated, the student~
presently erU"Oiled will probably be able
to finish at their home school. Some
faculty may have the option to transfer
to the other insti tution."
If one school is closed, the Council
plans to maintain a dental presence at
that institution. Fowler said this would
take one of two fonns: one or two fac­ulty
to support the Health Sciences Cam­pus
or a larger presence that would meet
some indigent care needs in the commu­nity.
CHE asked the Kentucky Dental As­sociation
to assess the dental care situa­tion
in Kentucky. In a Dec. 29 leuer to
CHE, the Association said the "output
of new dentists by the two dental schools
is greater than needed to meet the cur­rent
demand for dentists."
In the letter, Morris Yates, interim
executive director of the Association,
wrote that "KDA also believes that the
most efficient means of addressing this
situation is to operate a single dental
school in Kentucky," but maintain a
"dental school presence in both Louis­ville
and Lexington."
Dr. John Williams, associate dean for
academic affairs at U of L's Dental
School, said individual members of the
KDA wrote over 170 letters to CHE.
"They were very vocal about the fact
that there are too many dentists," Wil­liams
said. '"fhere arc cenain members
of the Association that have a really
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