11Better living through chemistry"
Vol. 55 No. 23 Louisville, Kentucky Thursday, March 1, 1984 14 pages
Construction works halted,
Swain readies program cuts
Photo by David Wetmore, Jr.
Snow Fun
Terry Oskin draws back to throw a snowball at
friend Sherry Wilkerson during one of the
many snow ball fights that took place on cam­pus
during the snowfall.
By JACK BARRY
Editor
Actions by ' Governor Collins'
administration are already slow­ing
some developments at the
University of Louisville, and if
Collins' proposed tax increase
fails to be passed by the General
Assembly, extensive reductions
in programs and services will
have to be made at U of L, accord­ing
to University President Dr.
Don Swain.
A freeze imposed last week by
the state on U of L construction
projects has put on hold the
planned $X million renovation at
Speed Scient ific School and
threatened the start of work on re­novating
Freedom Hall, Swain
told U of L' s Board of Trustees at
the board's monthly meeting
Monday afternoon. "Indeed,"
Swain said. "Speed may be the
one hurt most."
Although all the effects of the
construction freeze are not yet
clear. Swain said, noting ~hat he
had received the letter notifying
him of it only last Friday, "The
Freedom Hall renovation could be
affected. If a major delay
emerges, it could have serious im­plications."
Time is an important factor in
the planned facelift on the arena
because the work is sch_pduled to
be completed by late August of
this year. That the bask.etball sea­son
doesn't start till around De­cember
1st "gives us a little lee­way,"
said Swain, "but the (State
Fair) horse show folks could be in
trouble. Freedom Hall could be
caught in the middle" of the
state's difficulties.
All ofU of L's construction pro­jects,
excepting the work on the
new School of Business building,
"are now on hold." Swain said.
.All planned equipment purch­ases
over $50,000 - most espe­cially
the ones slated for Speed
School - also have become inde­finite.
The worst is yet to come, the U
of L president said, if Martha
Layne Collins' proposed $326
million tax mcrease is turned
down by the legislature. Swain
outlined a long list of actions de-leterious
to the University that
may have to be made.
There would be no salary in­creases,
he said, "for a faculty
that already is not over-paid ."
There would be no money for
desegregation programs.
No new money would be forth- '
coming from the Commonwealth
to pay for its share of the Humana
Hospital-University contract.
That, Swain said, "may well
throw into confusion ... the
agreement providing for indigent
care" at the hospital.
While fixed costs, most specif­ically
those involving phones,
utilities, and increases in Social
Security taxes pakl on U of L em­ployees.
will be going up, the
money U of L receives to pay those
expenses would stay the same.
Some staff positions would
have to be terminated. ''I'm not
sure of the number of positions,"
he said, "but some would surely
have to go."
Scientific purchases would
have to be curtailed. the president
said, again citing the negative ef­see
'Construction,' page 4
New Grawemeyer music award will rival Nobel Prize in stature
By LARRY CROOM
News Editor
Charles Grawemeyer, a 1934
Speed School graduate of the Uni­versity
of Louisville, and former
board Chairman of Reliance Uni­versial
Inc., has established what
is currently the world's largest
award designed solely for the mu­sical
field.
The award. a $150,000 prize,
was approved by the U of L Board
of Trustees Monday, and will at­filiate
Grawemeyer with the Uni­versity
name permanently. The
award is to be presented annu­~
ll y, and payments will be in five
annual $30,000 installments.
Grawemeye • thinks that an
award this s1ze will rival the
Nobel Peace Prize, and he said
that he is vel!' happy the award
will be used to recognize exce l­lence
and outstanding achieve­ments
in the arts fields.
"It seemed to me that Noble
Prizes were the highest awards in
the world," he said. "I wondered
if we could come up with some­thing
of that status. I hope that it
will be recognized internation­ally."
According to Jerry Ball, dean of
the school of music, the
Grawemeyer award will have
vast, far reaching effects on the
music world.
"There is no doubt in my mind
that the names of the University of
Blacks sought through
new Porter Scholarship
By SUZANNE ELSWICK
Assistant News Editor
The University of Louisville is
at last taking action against a
problem that has plagued it for a
long, long time. The proQiem is
the outrageously high attrition
· rate of black students at U of L,
and the decreasing numbers of
blacks enrolling in the University.
Over half of U of L's black
freshmen do not return for their
second year and of those who do,
only 20.7 percent return academi­cally
qualified as sophomores.
The figures for white students
show that 26.1 percent of whites
did not return after their
freshman year and 29 perce11t
came back as full sophomores.
Now the University has created
the Woodford R. Porter, Sr. schol-arships
in response to th is prob­lem.
U of L will provide 50 full­time
scholarships for Kentucky's
finest minority students. The
scholarships can be renewed each
year the student achieves a grade
point average of at least 3 .0. The
first Porter scholarships will be
awarded this May.
Woodford R. Porter was U of L's
first black trustee and still is a
member. He is the owner of Porter
Funeral Home, a past chairman of
the Louisville Board of Education ,
and a life member of the NAACP.
"I think it's a step in the right
direction" said Made line Maupin
Hicks.' a U of L trustee.
"I can't think of a better name
to have on it (than Woody's)," said
U of L President Dr. Donald C.
Swain.
The University has im-
Louisville and Louisville, Ky., will
be carried to every part of the
world as we endeavor to notify
composers that there is a music
composition contest of this mag­nitude,"
said Ball. "It is gratifying
to me that a businessman with an
engineering degree should fund a
music composition contest, espe­cially
a contest that will have such
a far reaching effect on the world
of music."
Dr. Donald Swain, U of L presi­dent,
echoed Ball's sentiments
about the prize.
"There is no other award like it
in the world," he said. "(It is) a
magnificent gesture, stunning in
its magnitude and scope."
"I can't think of any award that
plemented a Student Affirmative
Action Group which is chaired by
Dr. Edward Hammond, assistant.
vice president for student affairs.
The group has completed an ex­tensive
survey of students who at­tended
U of Lin the fall of '82 but
did not return in '83. They were
questioned about their feelings
about the University and why they
chose not to return. The task force
has established two advisory
committees, p lans an ACT inter­vention
program at predomin­antly
black high schools, and will
increase scheduled hours of tutor­ing.
As a result of that survey, the
Community Advisory Committee
will be divided into two subcom­mittees;
one to deal specifically
with ·retention, the other recruit­ing.
The Black Ministers Advisory
Committee comprises 87 minis­ters
from around Kentucky. Their
task is to identify students qual­ified
for the Porter Scholarships.
According to a report Ham­mond
delivered at Monday's trus­see
'Porter, ' page I 4
satisfies the Quest for Excellence
(disposition) better than this
one," said Dan Ulmer, chairman
of the U of L Board ofTrustees.
The Grawemeyer award will be
granted on the results of a compe­tition
administered by the school
of music. Swain, a six-member
advisory committee, and a jury of
three internationally recognized
music professionals will aid in
overseeing the competition.
The six-member advisory com­mittee
includes Ball,
Grawemeyer, Barry Bingham Sr.,
chairman of the board of the
Couner Journal and Louisville
Times, Moritz von Barnhard ofthe
Kentucky Opera Society, Nash
Cox, director of the Kentucky Arts
Council and chair of the Kentucky
Arts Commission, and Nelson
Keyes, composer-in-residence of
the U of L School of Music.
As of now, the deadine for en­tries
in the contest is January 10,
1985. Entries must be sponsored
by a professional musical organi­zation,
and composers may not
submit their own works.
The winner of the first
Grawemeyer award will be an­nounced
sometime in the Spring
of 1985, with the award presenta­tion
to be held in Louisville shortly
afterward.
Grawemeyer said that he
wasn't sure the composition
would be performed in the Louis­see
'Grawemeyer,' page 2
St~dent Senate finally
decides to oppose fee
By LARRY CROOM
News Editor
It has been said by many a
scholar that the third time is al­ways
a charm. Two days ago, at a
special meeting of the student
senate, this charm became reality
as the senate voted to call upon
the University of Louisville Board
of Trustees to rescind the $15 per
semester building fee charged to
each U of L student. It was also de­cided
that the board should keep
the approximate $500,000 al­ready
collected to be put toward
the student center whenever it
may be built.
The meeting, the third of its
kind, was riddled with absent
senators, as many of them could
not make it because of the wea­ther.
Nevertheless. the vote tore­scind
the fee passed with only one
opposing vote.
''I've decided it isn't equitable
to ask students to pay for a facility
with tuition going up," said Frank
Jemley, Stude}lt Government
president.
Jemley explained that he saw
the fee as unfair for a multitude of
reasons. He said no student at U of
L would be in school by the time
the building was built, and would
never be able to enjoy the facility .
Also, he added that administra­tors
as well as students would use
the new facility, and it would only
be fair to expect them to foot part
of the bill.
"It should be a fee of means. an
equitable fee for a building used
Charles Grawemeyer
by all," said Jemley.
"I am definately pleased that
the senate decided to ki ll the fee,"
said Anne Ford, SGA executive
vice president.
Ford explained that the senate
was "quaranteed that we could
get funding, and that construction
would start in the fall". She added
that after taking office, the cur­rent
SGA officers saw how a
number of fees were increasing,
and they decided that because the
student center building was left
out of Gov. Collins budget, the fee
was no longer needed.
Lee Gentry, student bar associ­ation
president, cast the only op­posing
vote against rescinding
the fee.
"l would have liked to have
seen it (the fee) on the student
ballot in the Spring," he said.
Ed Hammond, vice president
for student life. said that he had
mixed feelings about the student
senate action.
see 'Senate,' page 3
SGA president squares off against administration over fee
SGA president Frank Jemley
By JOYCE SHULTZ
Staff Writer
The University of Louisville ad­ministration
and the president of
the Student Government Associa­tion
are at odds over the $15-per­semester
student building fee and
its authorization by the Student
Senate last spring.
SGA president Frank Jemley no
longer thinks the fee is justified.
He believes he was misled by the
administration . "We authorized
the fee with the expressed hope
that we'd get it (the new student
center) this year and that this
year's freshman would see it
(completed) IJefore thuy
graduate," said Jemley.
Jemley said the administration
said 'that the state always okays U
of L's number one building prior­ity.
U of L president Dr. Don
Swain, however, said "no com­mitments
were made," that the
building would be funded in the
84-86 biennium.
"The University did not do a
proper job in portraying the need
for the facility," Jemley said.
"Their commitment is not as high
as it could be."
Jemley thinks that to ease stu-dent
discontent over paying for
the building fee the administra­tion
is cnly saying it is looking for
alternative ways to fund the pro­ject.
"They knew there would be
trouble if they didn't fix the im­pre~
sion that they weren't going
to get the building," said Jemley.
Jemley said that at the Faculty
Senate meeting Feb. 1, Swain told
him U of L would not seek authori­zation
for construction because
thel'e was no way it could raise the
money itself. Five days later, in a
telephone conversation with
Swain. Jemley said he was told
that U of L would seek authoriza­tion
for construction.
Jemley said there is a crisis of
confidence in the administration.
"It was misleading to say it (fund­ing)
was practically assured with
the fee," he said.
When asked if the turnaround
on the fee issue was a re e lection
gimmick, Jemley said it wasn't.
"People have to take me at my
word. I would do this regardless
of whether I was a candidate or an
officer finishing his term in
April," said Jemley, who is run­ning
for re-election. He said reali­zations
about the administration
had been guiding his actions re-cently,
and that he would con­tinue
to act in the same way if re­elected.
Jemley said that last December
Swain had accused him of run­ning
for re-election on the athletic
fee issue. "Why is he worrying
about such a trivial matter?" said
Jemley. "This demonstrates that
we have hit a nerve."
Jemley expects the student
center to be funded eventually
with or without the fee. But Ham­mond
sees the fee as a critical part
ofthe overall plan to get funding.
Jemley and Dr. Edward H.
Hammond, vice president for stu­dent
affairs, disagree on whether
it is the student's responsibility to
help pay for the student center.
"Students don't have the onJy re­sponsibility
for institutional com­mitment
to the building,'' said
Jemley. He believes staff and fac­ulty,
who wiU use the building.
should also help pay for it.
"Yes, it is the responsibility of
st"udents to help pay for the stu­dent
center because they have at
most other state universities.''
said Hammond.
While Swain encouraged stu­dents
at the forum Tuesday not to
see 'Jemley, ' page 2
Dr. Edward H. Hammond
vice president for student affairs