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• • • WSVI ar 1 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 News brief 5 Ana & Spona a Editorials 1 0 Comics 11 Classified Ada -----1 2 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.
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Title | The Louisville Cardinal, February 11, 1993. |
Volume | 65 |
Issue | 20 |
Description | The University of Louisville’s undergraduate newspaper. The title of this publication has varied over the years, but with the exception of the period 1928-1930, when it was known as the U. of L. News, the title has always been a variation of The Cardinal. |
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Date Original | 1993-02-11 |
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• • • WSVI ar 1
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 - |
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