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Vol 65 No 20 Lou1svllle. Kentucky February 11. 1993 12 Pages An ndependent Student Newspaper Free
Photo by HarT'( Sanders
Professors John Morrison, far right, and Thomas Byers competed for recognition
from the governance committee while Rober Mills listened patiently between them.
Faculty cools down about
proposal after meeting
For rela1ed editorial, see page 10
By Loraine Lawson
S1a1T Writer
The faculty started out ex treme ly angry. Presi­dent
Donald Swain and a Board of Trustees
committee had issued a concept statement that
proposed to take away faculty member's rig hiS to
choose the chair of their department and perhaps
the requirement that the faculty search commit­tee
okay a dean candidale before an appointment
is made. But by Wednesday morning, Feb. 8,
they had calmed down - <m a promise from the
commiuee that dialogue would start between
Swain and the faculty immediately.
Though faculty talked of severe actions -
including a vole of no-confidence in Swain ­Billingsley
warned them that the concept state­ment
was just a proposal and harsh reactions
should not be used yet.
"We must rely on them only as an act of last
resort," he said. "If we use them too early, it may
weaken their strength."
The assembly opled to form a three-person
committee to wrile a letlerprotesting the concept
statement and requesting that Swain speak with
them.
Monday, Feb. 8: The committee sent their
letler to Swain by 9:00a.m. Swa in, however, was
auending a Counc il on Higher Education meet­ing
in Frankfort, Ky.
The letter crystallized argumeniS expressed in
the Faculty Assembly.
"The stalement attacks the ~ilion of coop-
SeeS WAIN
Page 7
Council raises tuition rates
New policy requires yearly review of rates and other changes
By Loraine Lawson
S1aff Wri1er
Like a shaman bringing waler to dry land,
the Council on Higher Education danced its
way into the budget cuts wasteland endured for
the last two years by universities and colleges
across the Bluegrass state. But the water must
come from somewhere, and so, this August, U
ofL students may find their waler pails emptied
by $140 to $950.
The Council took the middle road. There
were three generally acknowledged options for
setting tuition: the first maintained the current
system of evaluating tuition levels every two
years; the third called for tuition evaluations
every year, but disregarded Kentucky's p~:r
capita income, setting tuition rales by the ralf~
of other states; and the second, the one the
Council and all but one of the university presi­deniS
supported, called for yearly evaluations
and continued to figure the per capita income
into tuition rales.
The new method is expected to generate
$20.2 million for higher education in the ne1tt
year. The tuition rales vary by the school 's
classification as a community college, a masU!r
institution (e.g. Easlem Kentucky Universil!y
and Kentucky Stale University) or a docto~al
institution ( U of Land UK only).
At U of L, the hike will mean residClflt
undergraduates will pay $980 next year, as
compared to $840 this year; graduales will pay
$1 ,080, a $160 increase over this year; artd
Medical School students will pay $6,480, a
$950 increase over this year.
For nonresidents, the increases get evcm
larger. Undergraduate nonresidents will pay
$420 more than this year; graduales will puy
$480 over the current rate of $3,240; and non­resident
law students will pay $1 ,330 over thc:ir
current rates.
However, medical and dental school non-resideniS
will pay $80 and $1,940 less than
this year.
Norm Snyder, spokesperson for the Coun­cil,
said the nonresideniS of those schools will
pay less because the formula used to deler­mine
those tuition rales is different.
"There's been a change indelermining the
tuition of the medical and dental schools,"
Snyder said. "It's based on the median for
benchmark institutions and doesn't take into
account the per capita income."
Benchmark institutions are schools in other
states designaled by the Council as similar to
Kentucky schools.
The vote for option two was precisely what
administrators at a CHE forum anticipated.
But after the deal was sealed, some surprises
did come to light.
First, the Council had a fourth option. The
fourth option allowed tuition rates to be based
on the income levels of studeniS or their
pareniS. University pres id c nL~. in leuers writ­ten
to the Council addressing the options, re­jecled
this option on the basis that there were no
models to draw upon and, as U of L president
Donald Swain said, it would be "an administra­tive
nightmare."
Second, the Council had to change the ap­propriations
formula for the tuition hikes to
have any effccL
In a letler wriucn by Swain to the Council, at
the request of David Porter, executive director
of CHE, Swain wrote that, in order for option
two to be acceptable to the public and studeniS,
the formula used by the state must be changed.
"As it currently opcrates, the formula makes
tuition re venues a deduction against stale ap­propriations,"
Swain wrote. "In other words,
increased tu ition revenue is a direct substitu-
See CHE
Page2
Council votes to keep two dental schools
For related editorial, see page 10
By Loraine Lawson
Staff Writer
FRANKR)RT, Ky. - The Council on
Higher Education voled to maintain both the
University of Louisville and the University of
Kentucky dental schools Feb. 8.
The Council had considered closing one of
the schools when it discovered that there is
currently and would be in the year 2,000, a
surplus of dentists in the state. The Kentucky
Dental Association and other privaU! practice
organizations petitioned the Council to close
one of the schools.
Instead, the Council opled to reduce total
dental school enrolhnent from 90 to 80. Larry
Fowler, director for special programs for the
Council,said the 10-person reduction will stop
the surplus, but not immediately.
''There is an oversupply today," Fowler
said. "We cannot do anything about this. At a
minimum, the year 1997 is the soonest we' ll
see resuliS."
Fowler and Ken Walker,the Council's ex­ecutive
din!ctor for finance, could not pinpoint
how much would be saved by closing a school,
but said the amount would not result in a
savings of $7 to $ 10 million.
See DESPITE
Page 3
Wednesday, Feb. 3: By the time of the Fac­ultySenaU!
meetingat3:00p.m.,DaleBillingsley,
chair of the Senate and faculty representative to
the Board, had received considernble response
about the concept stalemenL "I've received more
than I 00 responses from 25 departments indicat­ing
these are not appropriate or acceptable
changes," Billingsley told the Senate.
At the meeting, Swain received his first chance
to publicly express his views of the stalement
since the upheaval began. Swain connecled the
statement to another concept statement that "re­defines"
faculty, allowing them more freedom to
concentrate on either research or teaching. 'The
Trustees would like to empower the faculty to
workinmuchdifferentways,"Swainsaid. "Some
faculty wouldliketoteach much moreandnotdo
research for awhile.
Scholars are rediscovering roles (>f African-Americans in history
"To loosen the definition requires more ac­countability."
Swain explained that the committee had been
fonned by the Trustees aflerthe grievances cases
of two Speed School professors, Ibrahim Imam
and Ahmed Desoky, came to a head before the
Board.
When the Senators began to grumble beneath
their breaths, Swain told them to take action.
"Don't bitch," Swain said. "Make proposals."
"We already have a proposal," someone called
out refemng to the present system.
" Well, I'm not going to debaU! about it,"
Swain said, asserting that his stalement reflect
the feelings of the commiuee.
Thursday, Feb. 4: Over !50 members of the
College of Arts and Sciences faculty turned up at
a session of the college's Faculty Assembly,
calledespeciallytodiscussSwain'sco:nceptstale­rnenL
Their remarks expressed their passionate
feelings about Swain 'sactions and reflecled their
academic backgrounds.
"On what meat does this our Caesar feed to
show so much contempt for the University?" Joe
Slavin, chair of the Humanities Department, asked
his colleagues. "I think the president has outlived
his usefulness in this University if he pursues this
concept statement."
Committee picks location
for new football stadium.
See story
pageS
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Editorials 1 0
Comics 11
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By Jonathan Baize
Staff Writer
In the past I 0 years, anthro­pologists
and historians have
changed the face of African­American
history. Where once
history noled African-Americans
only incidentally in the Civil War, now the ac­complishments
of African-Americans are being
unearthed and given their due.
Specialists in the area at U ofL generally view
the change as positive, saying that revision of the
historical views on African culture gives people
a realistic look at how black history has unfolded.
Blaine Hudson, professor for the Pan-Africart
Studies department, atlribuled a large part of the:
recognition of black achievemeniS to changes irt
how researchers conducted studies and in th!:
interrelation of different fields.
"For a great many years we had people who
specialized in African-Americans and Caribbeart
cultures and then a group specializing in cultures
of West Africa," Hudson said. "A closer look
allows us to see more connections between blacks
in West Africa and the Caribbean, but for that
you need people who are familiar with both areas
and that was not very typical."
Hudson said that in the past some practical
reasons prohibiled a closer look into black his­tory.
Particularly during the 19th century, ex­plorers
were unable to venture any deeper into
the African continent than the Nile valley.
"For a long time, explorers were unable to
research outside of the Nile valley because they
weren 't immune to the continent's diseases," he
said. "This is one of the reasons 19th-century
explorers referred to Africa as the 'Dark Conti­nent,'
but it was dark to them, not the people who
lived there.
"Disease and fear kept them from exploring
the inner continent. That meant many of the
accounts of Africans wcre speculativeand wrong.
Frankly theseaccouniS were~i stand were used
to justify slavery."
Hudson added that much of the new work
being done on black history is more inclusion
than revi sion. He said that partic ularly in this
country researchers studying African-Americans
Sec RESEARCH
Page 7
DANCING DIVERSITY
Staff photos
byCMraGail
On Feb.6 the American International Relations Club and the
International Center co-sponsored a Multi-Cultural Banquet
that had about 800 people In attendance. Forty different foods
were prepared by the International students, followed by an
hour of International entertainment. At left are the Central
American Dancers performing folk dances. The louisville
Ethnic Dancers were also on hand to perform dances from
Argentina, France, Greece, Israel, Macedonia and Sweden.