Vol. 67 No. 30 April 27, 1995 24 Pages
Board dillutes provost's power
By Dug Begley
Staff Writer
Angering faculty, the Board of
Trustees again handed the administra­tion
more power over governance is­sues
which faculty say directly affect
them. The Board app,roved changes in
the Redbook proposed by outgoing
President Donald Swain.
The changes place deans who are
also vice presidents under the direct
supervision of the president.
That's a part of the controversy,"
said Rick Stremel, faculty senate chair­man.
Stremel said he worries the
provost's authority as a chief academic
officer is being undermined by this ac­tion.
"Essentially what they've (the board)
done is diminished the role of the pro­vost,"
Stremel said.
In a letter Stremel gave to all board
For the complete
text of Stremel's
letter to the
Board of Trustees,
see Page 23.
members addressed to Board of Trust­ees
chair Harry Jones, he said, "the
provost, as chief academic officer, is in
a position to function as an honest bro­ker
between the faculty and the admin­istration.
Why transfer this authority to
someone who already has unrestricted
freedom of action to recommend to the
board?"
Currently, there are only two deans
who also hold positions as vice-presi­dents,
School ofMedicine dean Donald
Kmetz, who is vice-president for Health
Affairs and Dean Patrick Flanagan who
serves as vice-president for research.
Kmetz and Flanagan were present
for Monday's meeting.
"Why is it necessary to offer special
treatment to deans who are also vice
presidents?" asked Stremel in his letter.
"This will result in U of L having two
classes of deans, those reviewed on
total job performance and those prima­rily
reviewed as vice presidents."
The debate began previous to the
April4emergency meetingofthe Board
to announce the selection of (John)
Shumaker as the 16th president of U of
L. The Redbook changes were on the
agenda for that day, so trustees were
given the information beforehand to
study it.
"The major sticking point," said
Stremel, "is (Swain) sent me a copy of
See PROVOST, Page 2
Dean's offer to Parisi sparks
vehement rebuttal from faculty
By Dug Begley
Staff Writer
A vocal -and apparently nu­merous-
group of faculty have ac­cused
Provost Wallace Mann of vio­lating
university governance rules
in his handling of the Susan Parisi
case.
Though Mann said he has not
violated the Redbook, the written
contract between faculty and the
administration at U of L, many fac­ulty
have voiced outrage at the man­ner
in which Parisi's appeal process
has been handled . .
(Music history professor Susan
Parisi's contract was terminated a
year ago by her dean; a grievance
committee recommended to Provost
Wallace Mann that he ask Music
Dean Herbert Ko,;:rselman to recon­sider.
Mann sided with the commit­tee,
and told the dean to reconsider
since his procedure for terminating
Parisi had been wrong. Koerselman
recently offered Parisi a non-tenure
track, two-year tem1inal appointment,
a lesser position than she originally
had.)
However, faculty have loudly ques­tioned
the procedures used by Mann,
saying that the Redbook requires Mann
to have either affirmed or reversed the
dean's decision, rather than asking him
to reconsider.
With the use ofF ACVOICE, an elec­tronic
mail distribution list subscribed
to by more than 200 faculty members,
an avalanche of protest has been regis­tered
among faculty.
The door was opened on F ACVOICE
by Profs. Dale Billingsley, A. J. Slavin
and Nancy Theriot on Monday when
Billingsley posted a note, co-signed by
Slavin and Theriot, outlining the "con­tinuing
violation of our University's
written policies." (See related sidebar
for complete text of the note.)
According to the letter, these actions
"have no warrant in the Redbook and
constitute a violation of due process."
"Fundamentally," said neurology
See FACVOICE, Page 6
Letter on FACVOICE
prompts campuswide
protest of process • Editor's note: The following is the
text of a letter posted onFACVOJCE, an
electronic faculty-oriented distribution
list. Professors Dale Billingsley, Nancy
Theriot and Joe Slavin signed the letter,
though numerous subsequent requests
from faculty wanting to co-sign the let­ter
were sent to the FACVOICE. The
Cardinal sought and received permis­sion
to publish the letter.
''The signers post this appeal
for your action and vigilance
about the continuing violation of
our University's written policies
to protect due process in the
case of our colleague Professor
Susan Parisi. Although this case
affects the career of only one
individual, the principles under­lying
administrative action
against Parisi are ultimately as
threatening to institutional aca-
See LETTER, Page 13
Staff Photo by Ron Johnson
Last Saturday's 1995 Thunder Over Louisville fireworks display wowed more than half a million people.
Derby offers more than chance to gamble legally
Michele Reinach
Staff Writer
As the semester comes to a close,
many U of L students will be checking
out the 1995 Kentucky Derby Festival
and the Kentucky Derby.
"I love this time of year," said Kim
Wilkins, a junior communication major.
"My sister and I like to go to all the
events. We went to Thunder Over Lou­isville
last week. We stood right on the
river. It was awesome!"
Along with Thunder Over Louisville,
there are countless Derby Festival events
students might be interested in attend­ing,
such as the Derby Festival U of L
Spring Scrimmage on Saturday, April
29, at 10 a.m. at the practice field ofthe
Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center.
Football fans can come out and see what
U ofL head football Coach Ron Cooper
has in store for the Cardinals' 1995-96
season.
For families and children - and stu­dents
- there is the Festival in the Park,
Sunday, April30 from 12:30 to 5 p.m. in
Cherokee Park. There will be a variety
of entertainment for all ages, such as a
"classy car" exhibition with vintage cars
on display. Children will be able to see
puppetry pageants or participate in games
and contests. In addition, exhibits, festi­val
food plus live entertainment will be
available. Radio stations WQMF-FM
and QMF2-FM are bringing alternative
music acts Bush, Throwing Muses and
the Ass Ponys.
As the week winds down, the Derby
Festival Great Steamboat Race is on
May 3; there will be free viewing along
the banks of the Ohio River.
"I plan to go to the Steamboat race",
said Laura Holden, a sophomore psy­chology
major. "Being a transfer stu­dent
from Lindsey Wilson College and
now living here, I want to go to as many
events as I can."
The steamboat race begins at 5 p.m.
See DERBY, Page 2
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Photo courtesy of U of L Photographic Archives
American WWII soldiers landing on Japanese soil in 1945. 1995 is the 50th anniversary oft he end of the war.
World War II exhibit at Ekstrom
explores one man's combat experience
By Travis Kircher
Staff Writer
Erwin McKulik is a World War II
veteran with plenty of stories to tell.
During the 1940s, McKulik spent
time in the U.S. Coast Guard, serving in
both New York and on board the cutter
U.S.S. Bibb as Photographer's Mate 2nd
Class. His mission entailed taking war
pictures for both intelligence purposes
and to keep the general public informed
of the conditions out on the high seas.
From April 17-September 15, t.he
Elkstrom Library will be featuring an
exhibit entitled "Released For Publica­tion".
This exhibit consists of a 51 pho­tograph
collection, including some taken
by McKulik, of various events and com­bat
scenes that took place during World
War II.
Donated by Robert Steinau, Bill
Campbell, Tom Maloney and McKulik,
"Released For Publication" highlights
Pacific naval battles, the air war and the
U.S. Coast Guard. It also features pic­tures
depicting wartime events such as
the D-Day Invasion, lwo Jima and a
scene in which Bob Hope and Betty
Grable entertain troops.
McKulik recal1ed his experiences tak­ing
his photographs aboard the U.S.S.
Bibb.
"The weather was rough an awful
lot," McKulik said. "The dark room that
I had was about the size of a telephone
booth. It was very unstable, and if you're
prone to seasickness, it could be real,
real bad. But fortunately I was able to
cope with it."
The photographing involved process­ing
negatives, making prints, identify­ing
the objects in his pictures and then
sending them off the the Coast Guard
Headquarters in Washington. It was not
uncommon for him to take two hundred
photographs during the span of one day.
Although all of the pictures went
straight to Washington, McKulik noted
that most of the photographs were not
classified material.
"You covered just about everything
that was necessary that requited photo­graphs,"
McKulik said. "Even to the
point of taking pictures of sports events,
basketball games and the like. Most of
the collection that I had was not sensi­tive
material because most of it was
made for public relations use.
McKulik's admits that his job put
him in some dangerous positions.
"There was always something hap­pening,"
McKulik said. "There was one
incident just as we were approaching
Gibralter. I guess it was dose to mid­night.
Suddenly the alarm sounded, and
a German submarine surfaced and went
by us. We were sort of a weak ship.
There were scouts out ahead. The sub
See EKSTROM, Page 5
Gottschalk Lectures conclude withAndrea
By Michael T. Alexander
Staff Writer
The University of Louisville His­tory
Department presented its final ren­dition
of Gottschalk Lectures in His­tory
on April 20. The series of lectures
presented throughout the year explore
various dimensions of history through
presentations given by expert histori­ans.
Professor Alfred J. Andrea of the
University ofVermontdiscussed medi­eval
history before a small crowd in
Gottschalk Hall.
Andrea's lecture, "GuntherofPairis:
The Historian as Divine Comedian,"
focused on a history of the fourth cru­sade.
Gunther of Pairis, a thirteenth
century historian, author and Seturtian
monk, wrote the Historia
· Constantinopolitana Comedia - liter­ally
translated a history of
Constantinople, a byzantine history.
The Seturtians - a christian, monastic
group and reformed order of
Benedictine monks - sought to reform
the rule of St. Benedict and lived in
Pairis, a city in the Vogue mountains of
Alsace, France. Andrea describes the
Seturtians as the "self righteous right"
and "moral minority" of the Roman
Catholic church.
Islam, under the direction of the
Egyptian vizier, Sai-A-Dine, seized
control of Jerusalem in 1187. Chris­tians
from western Europe, conse­quently,
set out to liberate the Holy
Land from muslim control and battle
· Sal-A-Dine in Alexandria, a city in
northern Egypt. The crusaders detoured ,
however, and ended up in Zada, a latin,
christian city in what is now Croatia.
The crusading army captured and as­saulted
its fellow christian city and was
temporarily excommunicated by Pope
Innocent III.
The crusaders actually never reached
Alexandria and after other subsequent
stops reached Constantinople, another
christian city. Ironically, they captured
Constantinople twice, once in July of
1203 and again in April of 1204. The
army burned down one third of the city,
destroyed churches, and murdered num­bers
of christians.
Abbott Martin, a crusader and fel­low
monk to Gunther of Pairis, along
with the army commited sacrum
sacrilegium - sacred sacrilege - by not
only destroying churches but looting
them as well. One of the churches they
ravaged contained sacred, religious rel­ics
of which Martin took back to Pairis
in 1205. Supposedly among the booty
was a trace of the blood of Jesus; the
arm of St. James, a piece of wood from
the true cross, and the head of John the
Baptist.
Upon returning to Pairis, Martin
beckoned Gunther to document the "tri­umphant"
crusade, his "victorious" find­ings,
and the events surrounding
Constantinople.
The Historia Constantinopolitana
Comedia chronicles the journies of the
army to Constantinople, the events at
See EXPERTS, Page 6