Vol. 55 No.1 Louis.ule, Ky., Thursday, July 14, 1983
U of L Fact Book tells
who we are, what we do
By LAURA KELLEHER
Auiatant Newa Editor
I've become a walking home computer of
facts and figures about the University of
Louisville, nonchalantly amazing my friends
with such amazing facts as: "Only seven per­cent
of U of L students live in the dorms, 82
percent are from Jefferson County and 93
percent from Kentucky;" and informing my
relatives that "the average age of U of L stu­dents
is 26. Actually, for undergraduates it's
25, but the average age of graduate students
is 30."
Where do these statistics come from?
from a blue paperback publication titled the
University of Louisville Fact Book. Admit­tedly,
some of the information contained
therein is boring and useless to students,
though probably pertinent to some faculty
member somewhere. But a lot of the infor­mation
is interesting, surprising, even a bit
disturbing, and some of it may just come in
handy.
For instance, the top administrators of
the University. Most everyone knows that
Or. Donald C. Swain is president of U of L,
but how many people know about the rest of
the administration? Or. Herbert Garfinkel is
vice president for academic affa1rs, Or.
Larry Owsley is vice president for adminis
tration, Dr. Edward Hammond is vice presi
dent for student affdirs, and Steven Bing is
vice president of university relations.
It is comforting to know that 79 percent of
U of L's I ,3S5 faculty members hold docto­rate
degrees. The number of professors has
gone up in the past five years, so either
something is going right around here, or the
faculty is aging•.
Another 1~ ncouraging bit of information
- over 3,000 degrees were awarded in the
1981 -82 school year, 3,063 to be exact. For
some reason, almost twice as many women
as men earned associate degrees, and many
more wome111 (527) than men (331) earned
Master's de11rees. On the other hand, more
men (23) ttlan women (12) received docto­rates,
and males still dominate the profes­sional
schools, garnering 264 of 338 first pro­fessional
degrees. Nearly equal numbers of
men and women were awarded the 1,381
Bachelor's degrees.
Some 181 graduates were headed for the
big bucks Wlith degrees in applied sciences
(engineerin!!J~' The School of Business
proved its worth, churning out 138 manage­ment
majors and 113 degrees in acounting.
Bachelor's degrees were earned in a total of
5 I fields, ranging from English to
cytotech no logy.
Students toughed it out for Masters de­grees
in 54 melds. The highest number of de­grees,
115, were awarded in social work.
Education masters were next in line, as 87
received degrees in elementary education
and 79 in special education.
One-fifth of the 35 doctoral degrees were
in, imagine this, mircrobiology. One brave
soul obtained a doctorate in general and lib­eral
studies.
So much for degrees. Now for the good
part - the budget. The total income and ex­penditures
for the 1982-83 academic year
was budgeted at $151,230 ,900. Surprisingly,
only 10.5 percent of total income comes
from tuition and fees. The biggest chunk,
49.3 percent. comes from the state. Almost
18 percent is collected in gifts and grants,
but only 1.6 percent comes from intercol­legiate
athletic.
Almost 60 percent of the budget is spent
on what the University terms "primary pro­grams"
- instruction, research, public ser­vice,
academic support and libraries. A little
over 41 percent of the total budget is spent
on instruction, but only 2.4 percent on lib­raries.
The rest is spent on things like stu­dent
services, financial aid, maintenance
and operations, and auxiliary enterprises.
The statistics on some of the different
schools of the University, when broken
down, can be surprising. Several schools are
composed of nearly all part-time students.
The School of Business, for example, is 57.8
percent part-time, and the graduate school
has 84.2 percent part-time students. The
School of Nursing is not only 72.2 percent
part-time student, but 96.2 percent female.
The School of Education, however, tops this.
it is 79.7 percent female, 81.7 percent part­time,
and about 80 percent graduate stu­dents.
The Division of Allied Health is also
predominantly ft•male.
The Schools of Medicine, Law, Dentistry,
and Justice Administration, the Speed Scien­tific
School and the Kent School of Social
Work are 60 percent or more male. Most of
the students in the School of Law and the
School of Medicine are enrolled full-time.
The most typical school of the University
is the College of Arts and Science, which is
mostly undergraduate, 65 percent full-time
and has nearly equal male-female ratio. A&S
was the largest school in the University in
the fall of 1982, with more than 6,000 stu­dents.
Since the closing of Unviersity Col­lege
last winter, it has acquired nearly 3,000
of UC's 4,715 students. The rest of these
students went to the preparatory division,
the contmuing studies program and to the
other colleges of the University.
Not every item in the Fact Book is exactly
useful to the average student, but it never
hurts to be better informed about the Uni­versity
that is giving you the education you'll
be using for the rest of your life. If nothing
more, it might make for interesting cocktail
party conversation.
Brook Street will open soon,
but will be entirely different
By JOYCE SHULTZ
Staff W ritrr
Two-and-a-half years after the sewer ex­plosion
o February, 1981, lore up Arook
Street, reconstruction has begun. Brook is
expected to be accessible by car by the time
the fall semester starts, and landscaping for
a grassy mall in the area is expected to be
completed by late October.
Brook Street, which formerly ran straight
through campus, is being rerouted. It will
still pass in front of the Houchens Building,
but will then curve around the Health Ser­vices
Center. The rest of the street will run
parallel to the railroad tracks and re-emerge
at Brook and Brandeis.
The major concern in redesigning Brook
Street was to make it "no longer a through­street,
because there's so much pedestrian
traffic (between the dormitories and
Houchens)," said David Lee, director of Fa­cilities
Management at U of L.
Although vehicular access is being maiu­tained,
Brook is being narrowed to 24-feet to
"make it harder to zip through," said Lee.
Approximately fifty parking spaces will be
lost, and some existing spaces are being
narrowed to eight and nine feet for smaller
cars. New lights in the parking lots will also
be installed for increased safety.
In place of the part of Brook Street that
ran from the Health Services Center to the
Red Barn, there will be a landscaped mall,
with numerous types of trees and shrub­bery.
Adjacent to the mall and in front of the
Red Barn will be a patio, and the area to the
south of the Red Barn is being made into an
outdoor event area, with a grassy mound in
the middle for events to be staged on.
Another bonus offered by reconstruction
will be the elimination of the odor that fre­quently
emanates from the sewer. Ed
Dusch, director of Physical Plant, said that
new catch basins are being installed to cor­re~
the problem. These catch basins, unlike
the old ones, have traps that should prevent
the sewer gas from seeping out.
Progress on the reconstruction has been
going well. The only problem, said Dusch,
was that temporary pedestrian crosswalks
have not been built. That problem is being
corrected.
Traffic going to the parking lots at Physical
Plant and the Health Services Center is being
temporarily rerouted through the service
drive by the railroad off Warnock. The park­ing
lot between Threlkeld Hall and Crawford
Gym is not accessible at present.
Flynn. Contractors, which mad~ the suc­cessful
bid of $443,084 to rebuild Brook
Street, entered into a contract with the Uni­versity
on June 20 and began work shortly
thereafter.
There were several reasons for the delay
in beginning work on the project. There was
a year-long delay in receiving Federal Disas­ter
Assistance money. Once that became
available Ralston-Purina settled with the
University for $600,000.
While waiting for the funding situation to
become more certain, facilities Manage­ment
went tCt the State Division of Engineer­ing
on an emergency basis to begin designs
for street reconstruction. The state hired
James-Winstead & Associates, an engineer­ing
firm, to do the designs in April, 1982.
However, House Bill 622 took effect last
July, enabling the University to do the recon­struction
wo~k internally. The Board of Trus­tees
met in October 1982 to set up rules and
regulations lor their own business.
Facilities Management then requested
the transfer of the James-Winstead & As­sociates
contract. The actual transfer took
place last winter, and bids for the project
were opened in the spring, with Flynn Con­tractors
getting the nod.
The Board of Trustees had a special
meeting of the Executive Committee June 15
to expedite approval of the Flynn contract.
Inside ...
Advice to Freshmen
New U of L logo .. .
The Violent femmes
Photo show opens today
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P-5
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p. 6
Joey Smith, left, aacl Jerry Hadley edcecl tile freshly poured cement curb Moaday
while workinr on the renovation of Brook Street.
Student Center Building Fee is approved
By PAUL A. LONG
Staff Writer
A new student fee to help pay the cost of
the proposed student activities complex will
be added to tuition bills beginning m the fall
1983 semester.
The fee will be $7.50 for students taking
less than six hours per semester, and $15
for students enrolled for seven or more
hours. The added cost will push tuition for
full-time undergraduates over the $500
mark, to $514.50.
The fee was approved unanimously by the
Student Senate at its April 26, 1983 meeting.
It was subsequently approved unanimously
at the May 23 meeting of the Board of Trus-tees.
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The proposal for a new student activities
complex has been kicked around for some
time, and it's hoped that the money raised by
the fee Will encourage the Kentucky General
Assembly to approve additional funds for the
building of tlhe complex.
Student Government Association Presi­dent
Frank Jemley said that money raised
from students will amount to 40 percent of
the proposed $17 million cost, with the re­maining
funds coming from the state. Al­though
state fu"ds have not yet been ap
proved, Jemley is confident the General As­sembly
will do so when it meets in 1984.
"It's only a matter of time," said Jemley.
"I really believe it will come in this meeting
of the legi!:lature. . .. This building has
been embraced by just about everybody on
campus tha can embrace it. ...
"The un· 1ersity has made it the number­one
buildinB! priority. We hope that this fee
'hill demons;trate to the General Assembly
the importa1~ce of the facility to the institu­tion
and the desire of the student body ...
to get the bu1ilding. We weren't convinced we
would get it otherwise."
If the leuislature approves the funds in
1984, then Jlemley expects construction on
the building to begin at the end of the spring
1984 semester. If the funds are not ap­proved,
then the University will return in
1986 with another plea for funds. The money
collected from students will remain in a spe­cial
account and accrue interest until the
state funds are available.
The fee and the state funds will be used
to pay off the bonds sold to provide money
for the building of the complex. According to
the official SGA resolution, the fee will "re­main
in effect for the life of the bond issue,"
which is expected to be over 20 years.
The proposed complex is officially to be
called the Health, Physical Education, and
Recreation Complex and Student Activities
Center. In the lingo of bureaucracy, it will be
known as the HPERISAC complex.
Plans are for the complex to be built
northeast of the Red Barn. Jemley said that
in the HPER section, the complex will have
16 racquetball courts - "the demand is tre­mendous;"
he said - three tartan surface
playing courts lor basketball, tennis, etc,
and a banked running track.
The SAC section will have a bookstore,
cafeteria, a fast-food restaurant, a large
room that can be used for dances and con­certs,
a movie theater and a student lounge.
The SGA hopes to get a beer license for the
lounge, Jemley said, and he expects that the
complex will complement, rather than re­pla,
ce the Red Barn.
Jemley is a strong supporter of the ~om­plex.
"This facility is absolutely essential to
the University," he s"-id. "There 's no place
(on campus) for students to mingle and get
to know one another ... (and) to act like
they're in colleRe."
The present Student Center will remain
where it is, Jemley said. Preliminary plans
call for it to be userl as a "service center,"
where all registration needs - actual regis-con'!
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8 Pages
Trustees create
Provost position
to combine powers
By DAVID A. ANDERSON
Contributing Writer
The Board olf Trustees, during its meeting
of June 27, created the new office of Univer­sity
Provost, acting on a recommendation by
President Or. Donald C. Swain. The office
supercedes that of Vice President for
Academic Affairs and combines the powers
and responsibilities of that office, with the
administrative and public relations duties
formerly given lthe Executive Vice President.
The recommendation for the job description
of University Provost was developed by Or.
Swain in consu ltation with the Faculty Sen­ate,
deans, and Vice Presidents, in accor­dance
with procedures for developing job
descriptions as outlined in The Redbook, the
document containing the rules and regula­tions
for University governance and adminis­tration.
Or. Thomas H. Crawford, formerly As­sociate
Vice President for Academic Affairs,
has been appointed Acting Provost until a
search commitllee can prepare a list of can­didates
for the office. President Swain will
then make an appointment for the office
from among those candidates submitted.
The creation of this new office is part of
President Swain's program for reorganizing
university administration which he calls Mat­rix
Management. Crawford provided some
background on the developments that led to
the creation of this office.
"The feeling I get is that President Swain
felt there werf: too many layers of bureau­cracy,"
said Crawford. "He wanted to
streamline management and speed up deci­sion-
making. Therefore, six months after he
came into office, he did away with the Vice
President for Health Affairs (formerly in
charge of the sehools of Medicine, Dentistry
and Nursing), <md he had the deans of those
and all the other schools in the University re­port
directly to him. President Swain felt
that the deans should show a more active in­terest
in actual management matters as well
as academic affairs. He had the deans meet
with him once ~ week, every Wednesday at
noon. Lately that has been cut to the first
and third Wednesdays of the month, and he
will take over conducting these meetings as
part of my new duties as Provost."
Budgeting considerations also have
played a role in the reorganization of the ad­ministration.
"ll's no secret that the abolish­ing
of the Executive Vice President's office
last year was due to budgetary concerns,"
said Crawford. "Of cou rse, with all these re­sponsibilities
of the defunct ollices on Pres­ident
Swain's shoulders, it was felt he had
too much to do. There was a need for a new
second-in-command position to whom the
President could delegate some of these re­sponsibilities;
someone who could repre­sent
the President in his place arod be cheif
academic officer as well."
The functions of the University Provost
are essentially a combination of those of the
Executive Vice President and the Vice Presi­dent
for Academic Affairs. The Provost can
act for the president in his absence and rep­resent
him, if necessary, at Board of Trus­tees'
meetings. He can act as the Presi­dent's
designated representative at meet­ings
of the Council on Higher Education, the
Metroversity, or statewide or regional
academic groups. He wi ll carry out any spe­cial
high-level administrative assignments as
they arise, such as representing the Presi­dent
when scheduling problems come up.
These are duties which previously fell to the
Executive Vice President.
The responsibilities which the Provost
will fulfill include supervision of the deans
and overseeing all academic personnel poli­cies
and actions, including affirmative action
and faculty and student grievance matters.
According to the procedure outlined in The
Redbook, faculty grievance committee re­ports
are submitted to the dean of the
school, while those matters concerning the
deans themselves and all student grievances
go directly to the Vice President for
Academic Affairs. These will now be submit­ted
to the Provost.
The Provost will also be a liaison to the
Faculty Senate and the Commission for
Academic Excellence. He will oversee all
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SGA's Jemley
has high hopes
By PAUL A. LONG
Staff Writer
Student Government Association Presi­dent
Frank Jemley believes that the Univer­sity
of Louisville needs to rededicate itself
to its "primary constituency" - the student
body.
"We have a problem with service deliv­ery,"
said Jemley, a 21-year-old senior
majoring in political science. "The Univer­sity,
as an entity, tends to forget why it 's
here. It's here to educate the students. That
seems obvious on its face to me, but it's not
obvious on its face to many people. That's
one of the things that we're going to need to
change."
One of the ways Jemley hopes to change
things will be lthe perennial attempt to get
students more involved in activities on cam­pus.
To do th<1t, Jemley said that the SGA
needs to make itself heard and to be a bigger
force on campus.
"Our effect on student life is not nearly
what it can be," he said. "We hope to do
something about that this year."
Jemley's plans to get students more ac­tive
in campus life include the mentor pro­gram.
In this program, upperclassmen and
women sign u~l to help guide freshmen and
transfer students thro11gh the trials and
tribulations of their first few weeks of col­lege.
There are already 130 people signed up
to be mentors,, and Jemley said he hopes to
get nearly 200 applications before the fall
semester starts.
Jemley said that the mentor program will
help the SGA in "information dissemina­tion."
One major problem the SGA has, he
said, is that students are unaware of its
work, and in many cases, of its existence.
"We need to emphasize that we do repre­sent
the student body," he said. "We need to
increase our visibility."
One of the SGA's responsibilities is to
fund the various student councils and or­ganizations.
It receives $I 0 from the $32.50
student activity fee. which is built into the
tuition bill. The remaining $22.50 goes to the
student affairs office, where it is used to
fund various student services, such as the
Health and Counseling Center.
The largest portion ol the SGA budget,
which exceeds $300,000, goes to the Union
lor Student Activities, which runs the Red
Barn. The USA will receive nearly $120,000 in
the proposed 1983-84 budget.
The SGA also is responsible for compiling
and publishing course evaluations, a chore
that Jemley believes is extremely importan_t.
He is looking to make some ma1or changes m
the way the evaluations are handled, how­ever.
At the moment, the SGA compiles and
publishes the results of the course evalua-con
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SGA Prnideat Frank Jemley, aleadiar sapportrr of the Stadent Bailcliar Fee, met
witll muic schoollhlclent coucil Preaident Richard B•rchanl Monday momiar.