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Vol 65 No 23 LouiSville Kentucky March 4 1993 12 P.19PS An Independent Student Newsp<Jper F-ree
ENGINEERING 099: BREAKING EGGS Panel explains post-tenure review
By Henry Hoenig
Staff Writer
The issue of post-tenure review continues 10
be a hot topic at the University of Louisville and
ata growing number of colleges and universities
across the country.
About 100 U of L faculty members gathered
Feb. 24 at a forum to discuss post-tcnure review
and proposals made by the Faculty Senatc last
fall concerning the type of post-tenure review
system that U of L should adopt The forum was
sponsored by the U ofL chapter of the American
Association of University Professors. TheAAUP
is a national organization aimed at representing
the concerns of professors.
The Faculty Senatc drafted the proposals in
response to the U of L administration and the
Kentucky General Assembly. A Strategy for the
1990s, aU ofL document oullining future policy
goals, stated that U ofL should adopt post-tenure
review because of the elimination of mandatory
retirement in 1994. The need to install a post­tenure
review plan became more urgent in 1992,
when the legislature passed legislation requiring
it as a means of obtaining financial accountabil­ity
from educators.
But Dale Billingsley, chair of the Faculty
Senate and a member of the U of L Board of
Trustees, said at the forum that additional infor­mation
about retirement practices led the admin­istration
to recognize that the elimination of
mandatory retirement docs not make post-tenure
review necessary.
Neverthele s, the state law remains and
Billingsley said university faculty in Kentucky
must now prove that they are worthy of state
funding, a justification for post-tenure review
that the U of L adminisualion agrees with.
"As far as the president and the Board are
concemed,this is a means to show the stale that we
are being good stcwards of all of our resources,"
Billingsley said. "It appears to people outside the
University that after tcnure, the faculty arc not
reviewed. People in the University know that's not
the case, but the state legislature and the general
public think of tenure as a lifetime free ride."
But despitc the seemingly sober reasons for
establishing post-tenure review, some educators
feel that such a review might set dangerous
precedents and could endanger academic free­dom
in the future.
James Perley, a guest speaker representing
the AAUP and a tenured professor at the College
of Woostcr, said post-tenure review inevitably
lhreateng tcnure itself.
'"Post-tcnure review' is a term that offends
me deeply because there is a connection with
tenure that is inherent with the term 'post-tenure
review,"' Perley said. "I am bothered by the
connection between post-tenure review and get­ling
rid of tcnure. The AAUP recognizes the
ability of institutions to bring charges against indi­viduals
who are derelict in their duties. Those
procedures protcct the due-process rights of indi­viduals."
But the law is the law. U ofL Provost Wallace
Mann suggested that the University should Lake
the bull by the horns, so 10 speak.
"The faculty and the adminisualion ought to
work together to control our own destiny,"
Mann said. "I think we ought to start talking
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Grawemeyer winners redefine economics
By Loraine Lawson
Staff Writer
Talk about suange bedfellows: economics and environmen­talism
arc concepts more apt to be enemies than lovers. But
Herman Daly and John Cobb told a University of Louisville
audience March I that economics must engage itself with the
environment and redefine its goals by a criteria other than
individualism.
Daly and Cobb won the 1992 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas
Improving World Order for their 1989 book, For the Common
Good, Redirecting the Economy toward Community, Environ­ment
and a Sustainable Future. The award is given annually for
a significant contribution to the field of political science.
The book presents traditional economics as a field that
considers the environment, people and moral issues as some­thing
irrelevant to economic goals. They say that Homo
economicus,the human animal concerned with economics, must
see economics as a sub-system within a bigger community.
"Standard economics considers this animal to be entirely an
1ndividual.lt is defined entire! y independent of everyOling else,"
Daly said. "We propose a somewhat new concept of Homo
economicus as a person in community. This individual is af­fected
by and partly defined in relation with other individuals
and the external world."
Daly said the shift in definition will mean an end 10 the focus
Photo by Harry Sanders
Gary Grieshaber, a senior Industrial engineering major at Speed School, waited
for egg Impact March 1. Local high school students watched to see which of their
carefully constructed, hlgh·tech egg cartons would out-survive the rest. The
winners were Randall Million and Luan Nguyen, both of Central High School. See SPEAKER
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Photo by Harry Sanders
President Donald Swain presented John Cobb with the Grawemeyer
Award for Ideas Improving World Order, March 1.
REBUILDING THE BLACK FAMILY
U of L sponsors national black family conference
By Renita Edwards
Staff Writer
Distinguished educators and scholars from
across the country will soon converge in Louis­ville
to address the state of the contemporary
African-American family and the problems it
faces. The 20th annual National Conference on
the Black Family in America, sponsored by the
University of Louisville, will be held March 11 -
13 at the Commonwealth Convention Center.
middle childhood education and coordinator of
the conference for the last 15 years, said that
many of those registered for the conference are
from out of state.
"I hope that more people from Kentucky
participate in the conference," McMillan said.
"The message that it is trying to get across is very
important"
McMillan said that many people who allend
these conferences are involved with head start
programs, community action agencies, young
children, social work and housing.
Other principal speakers include Haki
Madhubuli, author, publisher and professor of
English at Chicago University; Alyce Gullallee,
professor of psychology at Howard University;
Thomas Green, founder of the Black Family
conference and vice president of Talladega Uni­versity;
and Vivian Gordon, professor of sociol­ogy
and African-American studies at State Uni­versity
of New York-Albany.
The theme of the conference is "The Black
Family: Rebuilding the African Community."
Lee Jones, assistant coordinator of the program,
said a variety of professionals will participate.
McMillan said he hopes that participants leave
the conference with a feeling that they can help
change things.
"The conference is designed to bring together
educators, entrepreneur , community profession­als
and scholar to discuss problems that are
unique to the African-American community,"
Jones said. "We expect about 600 participants
this year."
Maulana Karenga, a professor and chair of the
African-American studies program at California
State University at Long Beach, is the keynote
speaker. Karenga creatcd the African-American
holiday kwanzaa, which is celebrated by more
than 20 million people world-wide. Karenga will
deliver a speech entilled "Reconstructing the
Family,Community and Culture: An Afrocentric
Model of Grounding and Practice," March 12 at
7:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
"It is my hope that people leave the confer­ence
with the goal of implementing programs in
their communities," he said. "So many ideas will
be presented and I think it is important that
people Lake with them the feeling of wanting to
do something for their community."
McMillan said that one group from Ohio
Joseph McMillan, professor of early and
U of L cancels classes due to snow;
students use free time to study, relaX
By Renita Edwards and
Lor11ine Lawson
Staff Wnters
Sure, one whitccryslal hadn 'ttouched
the ground by 8:00a.m. Sure, eight inches
of snow may fall all the lime in states like
Mich1gan and llltnois. ure, people could
have put m almost a full day before talung
heltcr from the snow "bha.ard" that hit
the Louisville area Feb. 25.
But who cared about these uny de­tails
when rad1oand tclevtslon announc·
ers said, "Classes are cancelled at the
University of Louisville"?
Jes ica Newton, a freshman physical
therapy major, said she was urpriscd
when hefoundoutthatcla sc hadbeen
cancelled.
second day of cancelled classes was just
too good to be true."
Though classes were cancelled, the
campus was far from abandoned.
For instance, HarrietSeiller ,a French
lecturer, battled the weather and a begin·
ning nu to make sure the show went on
at the 20th Century Literature Confer­ence.
The event normally attracts over
600 literary connoi seurs from all over
the nation, but the weather caused 82
cancellations and closed one se ion.
"The fun thing has been that there's
thi esprit de corps that comes from
people who arc going through an adven­ture
together," Seiller said. 'ihe people
from up North just laugh at u . They
were laughing and joking about people
lining up m the groceries."
to expect from the snow because they'd
never seen it.
"I was born and raised in Southern
Aorida in Tampa and Miami. I studied
in Louisiana and worked in southern
California," Arturo Mingo said. "None
of these places I've been have snow."
When they heard it was snowing in
Louisville, images of blizzards popped
into their heads.
"!thought it would be freezing cold, 1
and chap your skin right away," he said.
"!thought it would whip you like in the
Yukon movies."
They spent over $200 preparing for
their first brush with snow. The reality,
they aid, was much more pleasant, but
still somewhat depressing.
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Construction on new
tennis facility to begin
this year.
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Arts 6
Sports 8
Editorials 1 0
Comics 11
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Dentist used
sound practices
By Jonathan Baize
Staff Writer
On Feb. 26, the Jefferson County Health De­partment
released the findings from its review of
the latc Jeffrey Johnson, who was an associatc
professor of dentistry at U of L. Johnson was
infected with the HIV virus, which attacks cer­tain
white blood cells and weakens the immune
systcm. He died aftcr a bout with pneumonia.
County health officials conducted a study of
Johnson's practice pallems to evaluate the possi­bility
that he may have transmitted the virus. The
study was conducted by county health director,
David Cundiff. In a news release, Cundiff said
the results showed no evidence of transmission
risk. He said the examination was conducted
under the federal guidelines for practice reviews.
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"!thought there w no way cia sc
would get cancelled becau there wa
hardly any now on the ground when
they were called off," Newton said. "The
Some Southerners, however, found
the snow di concening. Anuro and
Marlcny Barb Mingo, from southern
Califomta, said they didn't know what
"It's not as bad as one would think,"
he said.
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Photo by Harry Sanders
WHERE'S THE TEAM? U of L's baseball team was scheduled to play Feb. 27 and 28, Parkway Field was
covered In snow and the boys couldn't come out to play.