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Louisville
Vol. 54, No. 27
Houston teams
with Akeem to
crush the dream
By ROB VON BOKERN
Cardinal Assistant Sports Editor
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -The
hopes for the University of Louis­vilfe
basketball team's second na­tional
championship in four years
were shattered when the Cardi­nals
feU to top-ranked Houston 94-
81 in the National sernifmals
Saturday afternoon.
"I thought we played well," said
U of L head coach Denny Crum.
"Houston was kind of awesome
and they had a lot of great players.
They just kept running in fresh
people. At the end of the game
they were just stronger than we
were.
"The difference in the game
was their strength. They domi­nated
the boards on us. In the first
half we outrebounded them by
eight (actually 11). In the second
half they outrebounded us, (by
16)."
Another key to the game was
Houston's switch from a zone to a
man-to-mari defense in the second
half. In the opening period, Louis­ville's
guards scored 22 points,
most from long range, against a
Houston zone. The Cougs' man­to-
man forced the Cards into mak­ing
mistakes that lead to easy
Houston buckets, mostly dunks.
"Their man-to-man pressure is
what turned it around," said
freshman guard Jeff Hall. "I know
when I was in there and they were
playing man-to-man, I threw a
pass away. A couple of other
players threw some passes away
also, and they got six or eight real
quick points.
"I think ... it (the man-to-man)
got them moving offensively and
gave them an opportunity to let
them use their natural ability,"
said assistant coach Bob Dotson.
"I think it was more of what Hous-
Despite the blue mood of the fans
after the game, parties, both here
and in Albuquerque, continued
late into the evening. See stories,
page6.
ton did (in the second half) than
what we didn't do."
What did Houston do in the sec·
ond half? A quick glance at these
statistics show the Cougars' domi­nation.
* Houston outscored the Cards
58-40 in the second half, including
a 21-1 run that allowed UH to take
control of the game.
* The Cougars outrebounded U
of L 30-14 in the second half, with
seven-foot center Akeem Abdul
Olajuwon grabbing 15 of those
boards, one more than the entire
Louisville team.
+ Olajuwon probably had the
best game of his career, scoring 21
points, grabbing 22 rebounds,
blocking eight shots and throwing
in one steal.
"Coach (Guy Lewis) just told me
in the second half to go after more
rebounds," Olajuwon said. "He
(Lewis) said that we controlled
our own destiny. He told us not to
give up and just play our game."
With the Cougars stellar second
half, it might be hard to remember
·that they were in trouble at half-,
time. U of L was up 41-36 at the
half, and had run their offense to
'near perfection, gaining total con­trol
of the boards.
"When they were in the zone in
the first half we moved the ball
well," Crum said. "WheJl they
went man in the second half, they
overpowered us."
U ofL held its own with Houston
until 13 minutes remained in the
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D
n
Louisville, Ky., Thursday, April 7, 1983
Stall' Photo by Cindy Pinkston
Billy Thompson (55) battles with Houston's Clyde Drexler in
Saturday's NCAA semifinal at Albuquerque. Houston de­feated
Louisville 94-81 but was downed by N.C. State, 54-52.
An independent
student weekly
8 Pages
A western trip
brings U ofL
to Albuquerque
By BETTY LaRUE
Cardinal Contributor
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - ll
took the Cardinal players a season
of outstanding basketball to get to
here. It took dedicated fans 23
hours by car, 26 hours by bus or,
for the lucky ones, six hours by
plane.
Regardless of how long it took to
get there, though, it took longer to
get back. And the loss of two hours
through time zone changes was
only a minor factor.
On Thursday and Friday hope­ful
fans packed their Cardinal red
and braved the trip. Succeeding
against rain, 50 mph winds and
time, they made it to Albuquer­que.
The city welcomed the Final
four aspirants with signs on
billboards, storefronts, and hotel
and motel marquees. Store clerks
and motel employees wore Final
Four buttons, and newspaper
pages welcomed the players,
press, fans, cheerleaders, bands,
officials and coaches.
Hotel lobbies offered Final Four
souvenirs and spirit items for the
team they supported. Vendors
carne from every part of the coun­try
to sell Indian jewelry, shirts,
caps, and any assortment of other
trinkets, some legal, some not. Ev­eryone
wanted to cash in on the
estimated $10 million that the tour­nament
would bring into Al­buquerque.
As one native said,
"This is the biggest thing to hit Al­buquerque
in years.,.
Mother nature cooperated with
brilliant sunshine. The. backdrop
of snow-capped Sandia peak was
in the east, and dormant vol­canoes
dominated the western
sky.
Everything gleamed of promise.
The Albuquerque Tribune re-ported
that many restaurants
were offering special fare to
accomodate the more delicate
tastes 6f the southern visitors from
Raleigh, N.C., Athens, Geo.,
Houston and Louisville. Such
items as ham, barbeque, candied
yams and grits were tacked onto
menues. The Regent, the hotel
that lodged the Cardinals, offered
a special Easter buffet that in­cluded
Southern smothered chic­ken,
green beans creole, Florida
key lime pie, urban pecan pie and
Georgia peach mousse."
"But please don't ask for red­eye
gravy," reported the Tribune.
"Nobody seems to be that south­ern.
"
Despite the special efforts,
many of the visitors preferred to
try their tastes on the more stan­dard
Mexican cuisine.
It was impossible to identify al­legiances
by color. All sported red
and white, black or gray. This
made it easy on the vendors. They
sold articles that designated no
particular team affiliation , but
were of the sure-fire red and
white.
Eventually, fans learned to d is ­tinguish
the character of each
school's logo. Houston, for in­stance,
sported red and white
checks or stripes, and Georgia
toned down its crimson with gray.
Everyone became an expert on
the subtleties of various shades of
red and its possible combinations
with white.
At the University of New
Me xico arena on Saturday after­noon,
the time had come for the
battles to be fought. Cheermg sec­tions
separated mto blocks of red,
divided by the more ambiguous
colors of the New Mexican na­tives.
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Peace officers help keep the peace at h ospital
By L~RRY CROOM
Cardinal Assistant News Editor
As the ambulance wheeled up
to the emergency room door, sev­eral
police officers scampered to
meet it. The patient, an attempted
suicide, occasionally was going
out of control, and help was going
to be needed to restrain her.
Suddenly, as the stretcher was
being unloaded, the patient sat up
and began swinging at the offi­cers.
The struggle continued as
the patient was wheeled into the
emergency room, and leather re­straints
were put on her for safety.
The officers walked out of the
room, smiled at each other, and
went back to their routine duties,
waiting for another call.
Within the Department of Pub­lic
Safety there is a small unit of
peace officers known as Public
Service Officers. They patrol Uni­versity
Hospital and its surround­ings,
and they have a variety of
daily jobs. At any given time, they
may be found on foot patrol, help­in!(
to restrain a patient, or just
Registration proof
no longer may be
required for aid
College Press Service
WASHINGTON-The U.S. De­partment
of Education may re­lieve
male students of the need to
document registration for a possi­ble
draft in order to get federal fi ­nancial
aid.
J\t R congressional hearing last
week, Undersecretary of Educa­tion
Gary Jones said the depart­ment
may change the controver·
sial proposed regulation, and
~hange its effective date from July
1, 1983 to Feb. 1, 1984.
Under the new regulation, men
still would have to declare
whether or not they have regis­tered,
but they wouldn't have to
"verify" their registration in order
to get aid.
The changes, Jones told the
House postsecondary education
subcommittee, " will reduce sub­stantially
the administrative bur­den
that colleges and schools be­lieved
was inherent in our pro­posed
rule."
Congress passed a law last year
that required men to show proof of
military registration when they
applied for federal student aid.
The Department of Education has
been struggling to draw up regula­tions
to implement the law.
Protesters have argued the law
is unconstitutional because it dis·
criminates against men and would
force nonregistrants to incruru­nate
themselves. Financial aid of­ficers
around the country have
complained the law would bury
them in paperwork and force
them to serve as the Selective Ser­vice
System's police.
The aid officers seem heartened
by the proposed regulation
change.
"It sounds like a major
turnaround," said Dennis Martin
of the National Association of Stu­dent
Financial Aid Administrators
in Washington, D.C. "The Educa­tion
Department is changing very
radically its direction."
Under the proposed change,
schools wouldn't be involved in
he lping the government verify
registration for two years, at
which time verification proce·
dures would be phased in gradu­ally.
"It's a much more manageable
situation," Martin said. "The
schools would not be the police­men
in these matters."
But opponents of the law itself,
which links financial aid and the
draft, are unmollified.
"Forget about the regulations.
The important thing is that the law
is unconstitutional," said Gail
Sushman, a laWYer for the Min­nesota
Public Interest Group,
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he"lping out with a patient or acci­dent
victim. They receive exten­sive
training in these areas, and
their skills are put to the test daily.
Wondering just what a night in
an emergency room would be
like, this reporter spent 17 hours
over a two-day period with the
hospital officers, and got a real
education.
As the first night got underway,
I was assigned to patrol with of­ficer
Mike Smithers, the second
shift supervisor. We went on a foot
patrol to check the hospital and its
grounds. During this time,
Smithers explained that Univer­sity
Hospital handles a variety a
patients, ranging from indigent
and homeless to injured and psy­chiatric
patients. He finished the
grand tour, and the action began.
Two Jefferson County Correc­tional
Officers brought a prisoner
in for treatment, and the prisoner
hit one of the officers dead in the
face as he climbed out of the car.
Smithers ran outside to assist, and
the prisoner was brought inside,
acreaming the whole way.
Studies in the sun
Finally, Smithers and ofllcers
Dianna Beatty, Paul Crause, and
Danny Hay were able to success­fully
restrain the man, and he was
strapped with leather restraints to
a stretcher. He yelled and carried
on for the rest of the night, and he
called the officers every name he
could think of. He appeared to be
experiencing drug withdrawal
symptoms, and according to one
of the officers, he was brought in
for treatment because he tried to
dive into a toilet as if it were a
swimming pool. This man re-
Staff Photo by Jeff Ford
A&S sophomores Brian Bobbitt (left) and
Fred Harris take advantage of Monday's sun-shine
to study outside for a French quiz on a
balcony at the Humanities Building.
Inside ...... .
Huold Adams is hoping to
lease retreat space that stu­dents
and faculty can use to
get away from it all. The only
problem may be that the land
1s too remote . . . . . . . . pg. 2
In the SGA ekoc:tions, six can·
didates either have dropped
out or were disqualified, and
two presidential candidates
may be teaming up in order to
defeat a third . . . . . . . pg. 3
Afterclass .......... pg. 6
Afterclass Calendar . . pg. 7
Classifieds . . . . pg. 8
Editorials ..... P&'· 4
mained at the hospital, and possi­bly
may have to undergo psychia­tric
treatment.
But the nightly excitement was
far from over. Another man, ap­proximately
four-feet-eight-in­ches
tall, was in the emergency
room for treatment. He said he
was sick, but the doctors said he
was not. The man did not ap­preciate
this assessment, so he de­cided
to start trouble.
First, he threw down his medi-
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Crurn and
fans mourn
Cardinal's
defeat
By JACK BARRY
Cardinal Staff Writer
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. - The
last ten minutes of the contest
were rather ugly from a Univer­sity
of Louisville fan's standpoint.
At the two-minute mark, the visi­tors
from Kentucky began leaving
the University Arena, also known
as the Pit, and were seen walking
quite quickly, shaking their heads
and smiling ruefully. The season
was over, and the tired Cards had
been slammed out of the Final
Four by the Houston Cougars.
Shortly after the game's end,
the Louisville end of the arena
was empty of fans, except for a
couple dozen people who sat with
blank eyes and rigid faces. At the
Cougar end, the band played on.
Under the Louisville basket, the
CardinaJs' most-blonde cheer­leader,
Mary Jude Willinger, sat
on the floor with her knees up,
looking extremely dejected, while
as many as four photographers
snapped away at her from differ­ent
angles.
About a half hour after the clock
read 00:00, head coach Denny
Crum made his way along press
row to do his obligatory radio
show with Van Vance and Jack
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