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Some said the publicity surrounding her run for homecoming queen tainted the
election, but Mona Cohn, pictured above after she was crowned, said she won fairly.
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Election of 48-year-old queen
rumes some younger feathers
By Paul Fultz
Staff Writer
The selection of 48-year-old Mona Cohn as U
ofL's 1994 homecoming queen may have sparked
a national media frenzy, but on campus Cohn 's
win has sharply divided the student body, with
some praising Cohn and some criticizing her
candidacy.
Many younger, more traditional students, in­cluding
many Greeks, said Cohn's candidacy­and
the all the media attention it commanded­unfairly
took allen! ion away from the other can­didates.
" It took away a lot of the focus from home­coming
and put it on her," said junior Mall
Gantner, a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity.
"Everything seemed to be centered around her.
There were nine other candidates for queen and
10 for king, and none of them got that kind of
allen tion."
Homecoming has traditionally been domi­nated
by members of fraternities and sororities;
this year 14 of the 20 semi-fi nalists were Greek.
But Cohn said she did everything by the book.
"I had no control over that (the media allen­lion),"
she said. "Everything went through U of
L."
Bucking tradition is not always easy, she said.
"When you break tradition you are to step on
some toes. But I got more people involved so I'll
take the good with the bad .. . . I know in my heart
I didn't do anything bad."
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Cohn astonished by media
attention; gets bite from Dave
By Michael A. Undenberger
Staff Writer
The Late Show with David Lellerman is
considering having her on the ai r. Monte!
Williams and John Stewart have already of­fered,
but they will have to wait in line behind
Connie Chung, who came to campus last
week to capture footage of U of L's new
Homecoming Queen.
Despite the fact that the ot her homecom­ing
candidates were younger than her son,
Mona Cohn, a junior justice administration
major, was elected by University of Louis­vi
lle students to be, at 48, the oldest home-coming
queen in the school's history.
Cohn said the vote astonished her.
''I had no idea," said Cohn of her feelings
as she stood on field at card inal Stadium
during half-time of the Oct. 8 Homecoming
football game. "When they started listing
(thequeenscmi-finalists')accomplishmenls,
I heard them say criminal justice major and
I thought thai narrowed itlo two . .. then they
said she (the winner) was a member of the
Golden Key Society and I thought, ' Is Tina
(theothercandidate who is a criminal justice
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Shake a tailfeather, baby
Officials wary as new state funding
scheme for Ky. colleges approaches
By Jodi Heintz
Staff Writer
As higher education approaches a crossroads,
dialogue- or debate- increases among faculty
and ad ministrators about issues such as funding,
enrollment and quality. Now the stale legislature
must add their two cents and U of Lis cautiously
examining the implications of possible new higher
education funding policy.
In 1993, Governor Brereton Jones appointed
a task force to find ways to streamline higher
education as a shortage of funds continue to
plague the state's economy.
One of the task force 's recommendations,
which may be implemented in the 1995-96school
year, is to base each university's budget on such
criteria as student and faculty performance and
graduation statistics.
The Kentucky Council on Higher Education
is currently holding forums at colleges and uni ­versities
across the state to hear the concerns of
administrators, faculty and students as they pre­pare
to make their final recommendations in
March.
The II Estopped at U of Llast Thursday and
listened to concerns, including those of U of L
President Donald Swain. Swain expressed skep­ticism
about performance-based funding, point-ing
out that if statis­tics
slip, schools
could be hurt finan­cially.
Ray ystrand,
dean of the College
of Education, said in
an interview that per­formance-
based
funding could be
prob lem atic si nce
some of the most im­portant
factors may
not be easily measur­able.
" I'm concerned
that the government
will seize upon things
that are rel ati vely
easy to measure and
take those as the indi ­cators
of performance," ystrand said. " In the
process of reifying those measures, or pulling a
halo on those measures, they' re going to force
institutions into inappropriate directions."
As an example ystrand poi nted to the idea of
standardized testing to measure knowledge.
Nystrand pointed out that such a test seriously
narrows faculty 's scope of material from which
to teach.
ystrand also pointed out that basing budgets
on graduat ion rates could be problematic for a
community-based university like U ofLbecause
many students go to school part-time. U of L's
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Staff Photo by Harry Sande<s
The Cardinal Bird gets down during last Saturday's tall-shaking, rump­stomping
win over No. 16 North Carolina State University football team.
Win over N.C. State has coach, teaiD dreaming of bowl possibilities
Coec:h Howerd Schnellenberger lind the four t•m c:aptlllna at the Oct. 7 pep relly. Staff Photo by Hwrv Sander~
COMMENTARY
By David Nagle
Staff Columnist
The University of Louisville Cardi­nals
are talking bowl game. Two weeks
ago, the idea was so preposterous that
Coach Howard Schnellenberger chas­tised
his players for considering it. But
thanks to Ia t week's 35-14 dismantling
of North Carolina Stale, the Cardinals
have a three-game winning streak and a
victory over a Top-20 program.
Is a return to a bowl game a real
po sibility?
Before this week, the answer would
have been a decidedly firm "no." Early­season
losses to Texas and Kentucky ­and
UK's subsequent lo ing streak ­had
made a repeat of last season 's per­formance
seem remote. The season ap­peared
to be a "rebuilding year."
But the Card have slowly built mo­mentum
ince loss number two. After
coming back to gain a hard-fought vic­tory
against Arizona State in Tempe,
Louisville returned to Cardinal Stadium
to extend their home winning streak to
nine with wins over Pillsburgh and N.C.
State.
In fact , following the big win last
week, Schnellenberger admined that the
thought of another post-season appear­ance
is gaining a lillie more momentum
in the mind of he and his players.
"I would expect that (the players)
would all talk about (post-season possi ­bilities)
a lot more trongly than they
were last week," Schnellenberger said.
"I'm allowing it to lip in and out of my
mind."
Three weeks ago, I optimistically
predicted a 7-4 season . Suddenly, this
seems more likely than not. The two
opponents who hould give the Cardi­nals
the m t difficulty are No. 24 Bos­ton
College and seventh-ranked Texas
A&M. FortunatelyfortheCard ,both of
these conte ts arc at home.
Louisville seems to have acquired a
genuine home field advantage in Cardi-nal
Stadium - off-handedly referred to
by Schnellenberger as "a snake pit."The
players simply seem more aggressive
and comfortable at home. It 's an altitude
that will be important to the Cardinals'
bowl hopes down the stretch.
If the Cardinals are competitive
against Texas A&M and especially in
the nationally -televised, Thursday night
game against Boston College (who up­set
Notre Dame Oct. 8), losses should
not greatly impact their stature among
national media - a prime consideration
when bowl bids are handed out.
Courier-Journal columnist and AP
voter Pat Forde believes that the Cardi­nals
have shown great improvement, but
that they are not yet Top-25 material.
"At this point, the Cardinals have
made one of the most radical and im­pressive
changes in the nation," Forde
id. "(After) a win on the road and
winning the two games at home, they
look 200 percent beller, but they are not
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