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Vol. 68, No. 20 Louisville, Kentucky March 21, 1996 14 Pages An Independent Student Newspaper Free
Clark defeats Schenkenfelder for SGA presidency
Clark vows to focus oD
campaign goals, ideas·
By Dug Begley
Staff Writer
Though rain and sleet may have kept some
voters from trekking to the polls, more than
1,100 students cast their ballots for SGA presi­dent,
dcci<;lingtbat Steve Clark was the majority
choice for the 1996-97 SGA presidency.
Clark won by 106 votes (658 to 552) over
Speed School candidate Brian Schenkenfelder
ina race that was generally viewed by most to be
very close.
"It's so unpredictable," Heidi Mue11er, win­ner
of the executive vice-president nomination
said.
Mueller joins Clark, Anne Brush (academic
vp) and Shauna Cole (services vp) as the four
executive SGA leaders.
Mueller was the only
An important variable in past
elections bas been the Greek sys­tem
and the large amount of votes
fra temi ties and sororities represent.
In an election where neither presi­dential
candidate was an active
Greek member, what role. did the
Greeks play?
According to Clark, you cannot
ignore any group or person when it
comes down to campaigning.
"One vote matters," Clark said.
Clark added that Cole and
Mueller are involved in Greek life
and bring a lot of the Greek per­spective
to SGA.
As nerves began to settle from
the results,
Clark, after
"I have to get out to
every nook and
cranny of this cam­pus
I can."
claiming he
was going to
go to
Disneyland,
said he was
pleased with
the elections
member of
Schenkenfelder's ex­ecutive
slate to win a
spot in SGA, though
three ofthe nine elected
Arts and Sciences sena­tors
ran on the ~C'!len­kenfel<
it:i· slat.!.
Clark emphasized
that Mueller needs to
be a part of ·the new
administration and will
-SGA president-elect,
Stephen Clark
but not en­tirely
satis­fied.
Staff Photo by Tony Matkey
Student Government Association President-elect, Stephen Clark (left) hugged slate member Andy Avenido (right), who didn't win the
nomination as executive vice-president. Result$ were announced Tuesday night in the Student Activities Center.
"I can't
be welcomed with open arms because Executive
Vice-president is a pivotal role in SGA.
say I'm totally elated,"Clark
said, "Andy worked his butt off."
"I don't want any of the ideas to exclude her
in any way," Clark said.
Andy Avenido, Executive VP candidate on
Clark's slate, did not win his election. Avenido
however, was not discouraged.
A reported 270 students voted on the Speed
School side of campus, so as the candidates
waited on the third floor of the SAC for the
results to be announced, many began to specu­late
that Schenkenfelder already had a large
portion of the votes.
"I still plan to get involved," Avenido said.
Avenido will find no obstacles to getting
involved in the proposed Clark administration
because Clark is sticking to what he always
planned to do, get out and listen to the stu­dents.
Schenkenfelder, admitting he was weary,
said he was confident and was emphasizing the
importance of the Speed votes.
"I have to get out to every nook and cranny of
this campus I can," Clark said.
Cfark, after the results were announced, said
that his slate campaigned heavily on the Speed
campus, as well as all the other parts of the
University.
Like he said in his campaign, Clark wants
to bring a more focused and open SGA plat­form
to the senate tloor by getting out and
addressing student concerns on the student
level. This will be accomplished, Clark said,
"There is not a portion of this campus we
· were not on," Clark said.
How sweet it is
Cards look to
exoreise demo-ns
By Michael Cunningham
Staff Writer
Thr llniwr.:;itv ofl.ouisville hasket­ball
team heads to Milwaukee with the
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!!ional, and thus sporting a tag it is has
\H•rn in 'nTr~l hig gnmes this season:
underdog.
Battling in a region that features the
Cardinals' semifinal opponent, No. 2
seed Wake Forest, as well as No. 1
Kentucky and No. 4 Utah, U ofL must
play giant-killer if it hopes to advance
to the Final Four for the first time since
its 1986 championship season.
Playing David to the rest of the
region's Goliaths is just fine with the
Cards.
Wake Forest is
led by confer­ence
Player of
the Year and
top ~BA pros­:'
P··• Tin1
Duncan. The 6-
foot-lO junior
finished the
regular season
as ACC leader
in rebounding
(12.3 per
game), blocks
(3.7 per game)
and was second
inscoring(19.6
points per
game) and
See CLARK, Back Page
Schenkenfelder turns attention back to school
By Becky Staack
Staff Writer
Brian Schenkenfelder st~d outside the Stu­dent
Activities Center in tbe <11Ji.p.g ~now search· .
ing~ for how to feel as a tra n rolled by in the
background. By a margin of 106 votes, Schen­kenfelder
lost the Student Government Presi­dency
to Steve Clark in this week's elections.
"First I would like to congratulate the win­ners,
especially Heidi (Mueller, who won the
executive vice president nomination)," Schen­kenfelder
said.
Schenkenfelder also said he was thankful for
the help he had in the race.
"I would also like to especially thank Wendy
Berg for giving us an excellent campaign.
Other people who did an outstanding job­Mona
Cohn, Mobsin Ali, Alene Isaac- they
were wonderful," Schenkenfelder said.
With 552 votes, Schenkenfelder said Speed .
School was a big part of his campaign.
"Speed School is the greatest school on the
face of the earth. I don't care what anyone says,
they were there for us, just not as much as we
counted. on. They pulled together and I am happy
to be a part of the family," Scbenkenfelder sa:id.
"I would also like to thank everyone who
voted for us and shared our dream of a better
student government.
"Hopefully, the Clark administration will re­alize
that there were a lot of people on this
campus who liked what we stood for in this race.
I hope they pursue these ideas of ours because
they are important," Schenkenfelder said.
Scbenkenfelder said he would not contest
the vote count, however he said he had a few
questions.
"I would like to see how much they spent on
this campaign. All the flyers, candy bars, the ad,
not to mention the stickers; I wonder how much
they spent on their camp·aign," Schenkenf~lder
said.
"I don't want to seem an ungracious loser,
but they had the inside track. It is hard to
overcome the deep entrenchment in Student
Govenunent. As an outsider, it is almost virtu­ally
impossible to win," Schenkenfcldcr said.
"There are things about the campaign that I
See SCHENKENFELDER, Back Page
])orin fire dampens spirits, not showers
• Unitas Tow­ers
fire leaves
resiaents with­out
hot water
By Dug Begley
Staff Writer
A March 18 fire in the boiler
room ofUnitas Tower left many
residents wondering when th•!y
would be able to lake a hot
shower, and fire fighters and En­vironmental
Health and Safety
representatives scrambling to
clear up a room infected with
toxic asbestos.
The fire began when the boiler
overheated and the insulation
around a pipe leading from the
boiler to the flue ignited, setting
off sensors alerting the Depart­Staff
Photo By Nina Greipel
Fire fig~ters cleaned their equipment! after fighting a fire in Unitas Towers.
ment of Public Safety and Louisville
Fire Department. '
According to Tom Fitzgerald ofDPS,
officers arrived around 2:40 and
firefighters had the fire out in a short
time.
connected air wi~e to any other room,"
Kathy Strucker of EHS said. /
Because the pipe was chopped to
extinguish the fire, the boiler no longer
operated, leaving the entire buildingwith
no hot water.
A contractor was contacted to come
in and repair the room and boiler, but
were unable to.
"Being the underdog, 1 think the
chances are better for us," junior guard
B.J. Flynn said. "The pressure is on
Wake Forest and the rest ofthr teams in
the region ... There's no pressure on the
underdog."
"1 think our chances arc pretty good,"
sophomore center Samaki Walker said.
"I think we have matched up with some
teams that were expected to beat us
throughout the season."
field-goal per­centage
(55. 9
perce nt). He
was slowed by
a stomach virus
in the Deacons'
previous
Photo Courtesy Jim Gilbert, Sports Information
Senior Brian Kiser hugged teammate Samakl Walker
during U of L's upset of Villanova last Sunday.
As students were waiting to reenter
the building, the concern turned towards
the insulation that had burned and had to
be chopped away.
After District Fire Chief, Major Mike
Gramig, and EHS officials discussed the
asbestos problem, Gramig and three EHS
representatives returned to the building
and decided that is was best to seal off
the entire basement floor, which includes
custodial offices and laundry facilities
for residents.
Physical plant then suggested that
since it would take them some time to
repair the boiler that they focus on in­stalling
a temporary boiler so the build-
"Hopefully it will help us," senior
guard Tick Rogers said. "Maybe some
trams will overlook us."
"I love being the underdog," said
junior guard DeJuan Wheat, who was
Louisville's top dog in early-round vic­tories
over Tulsa and Villanova, aver­aging
26 points.
Atlanti(· Coast Conference champ
NCAA g:unes but still managed a com­bined
total of23 points and 23 rebounds
against Northeast Louisiana and Texas.
Walker, who along with starting cen­ter
Beau Zach Smith will have the pri­mary
task of defending Du.ncan, said the
assignment will be tough, but that the
Cards must make it hard on DuiKan.
"He has agility, and be has a nice soft
jump shot," Walker said. "He's goi ng to
be hard to stop. But the main thing is to
make him play defense also ... You
can't stop a player like that but you can
II
contain him."
"He does everything well," .Rogers
said. "He rebounds, be passes, and he
shoots."
"He's just so tall and long," Flynn
said. "He's so active in the middle.
Samaki is going to have a hard job
guarding him so we are all going to have
to help."
If the Cardinals help Walker out de­fensively
on Duncan, Wake F~Jrest bas
See CARDS, Back Page
Since the building was built in the
early 1970's, before contractors knew
the lethal dangers of asbestos, rhe insu­lation
around the pipe contained the
material.
Environmental Health and Safety of­ficials
sealed all the "critical barriers" in
the room and sealed off the boiler room
until an airexaminationeould take place.
The asbestos only conraminated the
mechanical room, so no other rooms in
the building are undencrutiny.
"The mechanical room is not directly
"We 'II barricade the doors as best we
can," Shannon Staten, assistant director
of facilities, said.
The doors were sealed so students
and staff knew not to enter the basement.
The elevator however, could not be set
to not stop at the basement so the doors
on the basement level were also sealed
to deny access.
While the asbestos problem was be­ing
addressed, the lack of hot water to
the building was a big concern among
residents.
See FIRE, Back Page
Correction
Due to an editor's error in last
last week's issue of The
Cardinal, Heidi Mueller was
misidentified as Holly Mueller
in a picture of SGA
presidential candidate,Brian
Schenkenfelder's slate.