VOL. 56, N0.14, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, THURSDAY, DEC. 6,1984 12 PAGES
Schnellenberger is named
as new head football coach
By JEFFREY LEE PUCKETT
And LARRY D. CROOM
Cardinal StaffWriters
Two of Howard Schne llen­berger
's former assistants appear
011 the verge of joining the football
.r;tafT at the University of' Louis­ville.
See story on Page 6.
In what many people consid­ered
a surp. i-;e move, Howard
Schnellenberger officially an­nounced
his acceptance of the
head football coaching position at
the University of Louisville last
Saturday. Schnellenberger, the
coach that took the University of
Miami to the national title last
year, fills the void left when
former coach Bob Weber res­igned
a t the end of this football
season.
''The people that I ha ve met in
the last fe w week s, both he re and
the University of Louis ville ad ­minis
tra tion, faculty and staff lead
me to be lie ve this is the place des­tine
d to be exce llent in a ll fields,"
Schne llenbe rger said at a press
confe re nce held in his honor last
Saturda y. "It is excellent in
acade mics already, excellent in
baske tba ll a lrea dy and hopefully
and confidently will be e xcellent
in footba ll very, very quickly."
The hiring of Schnellt'nbe rget
caps a search by the U of L Athle­tic
Association that has been U ti
d erway for appt·oxin1ate ly .four
weeks. Former Gov. John Y.
Brown, as we ll :\S U of L Athl€' tk
Director Bill Olsen , made sevNal
trips to Miami to talk with Schne l
lenbe rge r about the position Jn
the end, many people considered
Brown the catalyst in the hirmg
deal.
"Louisville is in the big leagues
now," Brown said to Schnel­leberger
at the press confere uce.
"I know this community will me~ k e
that commitment to give you an all
out effort, to bring you the ver·y
best as we know you'll bring to this
community."
U of L President Dr. Donald C.
Swain agreed with Brown, and he
said he thought Schne llenbe rger
would benefit the University as a
whole as well as the e ntire L olliS
ville community.
"He is an ou tstanding coach, a
warm and wonde rful wam1-
hearte d honest human being,"
Swain said. ·'We are delight d
that he is coming to the Univt>J'sity
of Louisville."
Martha Bowma n, a membe r of
the Athle tic Association search
committee, satd she thought
Schnelleberge r wou ld be both a
good coach and acadPmic
taskrnastf>r for h i!> players. She
l;atd he had indicated to the com­mittee
that he conside red a solid
eclucatro11 a must for hts players.
"He is concer ned with
acHdemiC"s and he wants his slu­derlts
tu be well b haved you11g
men," Bowman said. "He is some­one
that will fit into the Unrve rsity
very well.
"When we inte rviewed How­ard,
hi:' said he wa nted to go some­where
where the community
would back a football program.
This is the kind of approach f a p­preciate."
"I thought it was outstanding,"
Schnellenberger said of the sup­port
he found in Louisville. "It was
really a great feeling to have that
kind of reception . I am here to
bring together the forces in this
grea t community that appear to be
exactly r ight to b•·eak forward
onto the na tional scene in football.
"Ve r·y few coaches in their
lifetime have a chance to take Cin­dera
lla to the ba ll twice, •· S chnel­le
nberger said in re fe re nce to tak­ing
Miami to a n ational champion­sh
ip. "When we take the fie ld next
year it will be with the purpose of
win ning every s ingle football
game and our goal is to be a na­tiona
lly ranked n ationally promi­nent
football pmgram. And, in
time, we will challenge fm· the
Co11tinued on Page 12
AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Sfaff Photo b~· J eff F urd
Coach Denny Crum greeted new U of L football coach Howard S chnelle nberger last Saturday.
Clayton sees new cheating policy as questionable
By T. L. STANLEY
Cardinal Managing Editor
Stude nts at the University of
Louisville cheat.
At least, some of them do. It is a
cold, hard fact, and a committee
was formed last spring to deal with
the problem. The intent of the ad
hoc committee on cheating was to
form a consistent policy to deal
with students who are caught
being "academically dishonest. ,.
The policy on cheating is now in
draft form. It was supposed to
clear up any inconsistencies in
policy and be in use by this fall
semester.
Instead, the policy is too ques­tionable,"
said Denise Clayto n . di­rector
of student le gal ser·vices. "lf
it purports to give stude nts
academic protections, that's fin e.
But if it purports to reach to non­academic
areas, then that's where
I have a problem with it."
Some of the punishments for
academic dishonesty outlined in
the policy are the de nial of em­ployment
by the University or any
affiliated corporation and of pa r­ticipation
in any U of L activity.
In the cheating policy, the dean
of the appropriate academiC' unit
has a number of powers. In
Clayton's view, the dean has too
Holiday Mall
muc h la titude. For e xample, the
dean is the pe r son who may de­c
ide to deny employme nt and par­ticipation
in University activities
to the stude n t found guilty of
acad emic dishonesty.
"My major beef (with the policy)
is that the deans have too much
d 1 SI'T'<.'t1on." Clayton said .
In a re cent memo, Clayton said,
"The dean should not have control
over items that are not within his
j urisdiction." Clayton a rgued that
the "pena lt;y sh ould be compara­ble
to the offense" and that denial
of employment is excessive
punishme nt.
A second problem Clayton cited
Starr Photo b) Timoth~ Easley
Pam Stilwell of Stilwell Originals shows John
I'" ink how baskets are made and invites him to a
weaving class during the ' Christmas Shoppe
Mall' last Tuesday in Bigelow Hall.
is that the dean also has excessive
leeway in the proceedings of judg­ing
and punishing a stude nt ac­cused
or found g u ilty of cheating.
According to the policy, the
dean has the discretion to r e com­mend
that academic credit be
withheld for the specific course in
which the cheating occurred or for
any courses taken d u ring that
semester.
Clayton said , "To disallow cred­it
and to punish a s tudent for
something he/she didn't do in
another couse is ve ry severe."
Under the heading "Determin-ing
the pe n a lty," the policy states
that the dean mu st take several
fa ctors in to account when dete r ­mining
a pena lty for a violation.
One of lhe factors is tha t "a low­e
red or failing course gra de is
often not sufficie nt p enalty" to
deter acade mic dishone sty by stu­dents
who may cheat because
they risk fa iling a course due to
poor academics.
Clayton sa id that cheaters may
not necessarily bE> failing.
A third major complaint Clayton
has with the policy is that it con-·
tain s a provision to have an anno-tation
add d to the student's per­manent
academic transcript stal­ing
that the student was found
guilty, 1f this is the case, of
academic dishonesty.
Clayton said that this annotation
could mark someone forever. "A
University policy does not have
the force or effect of law and there
are instances where the law either
demands removal of past legal
problems or allows the record to
be expunged or sealed," Clayton
said. "Therefore, · this policy
should not be more stringent than
Continued on Page 3
SGA refuses to approve new
future A&S course fee hikes
By MARIANN KURTZ
Cardinal Assistant News Editor
The University of Louisville
Student Government Association
has refused to approve proposed
course fee increases from the Col­lege
of Arts and Sciences. Accord­ing
to Frank Jemley, SGA presi­dent,
"One of the reasons that we
(SGA) weren't in favor of them is
because the supporting data was
just horrible."
Jemley believes there was a
"tremendous distillation" of infor­mation
from the time the proposal
first left the University provost's
office to the time it reached SGA.
"We thought the supporting data
was completely inadequate. They
just did a very poor job of provid­ing
the supporting data to us, and
that's one of the reasons we
couldn't support the fees , beca use
we didn't know whether they
were accurate e,:;timales of need
or not," he said.
The path which led the fee pro­posals
to SGA was a long su cce s­sion
of reviews starting with the
academic unit itself. "The
academic unit, college or school
has to propose the fees to the pro­vost,
then the provost has to re­view
it," Jemley said. "It then goes
to the Senate. And then after the
Student Senate deals with it, they
go to the Board of T rustees."
The Arts and Sciences S tudent
Council has approved the pro­posed
fee in creases. As recorded
in the minutes of the Nov. 20 Stu ­dent
Senate meeting, J oseph
Deck , a ssociate d ean of the Col­lege
of Arts and Sciences, re­ported
that the A & S council sup­ported
the fees a lmost unan imou s­ly.
Deck explained that the fees a re
for courses that ha ve a lab as­sociated
with them o r other spe­cial
needs. "We just don 't have
enough in our A & S budget to
cover the costs," Deck said. "ThP
increase in fees r e n e cls the liJ
crease of costs due to inflation .. ,
Inside
Accou11tillg club is officially in­ducted
into natimml­busiiJe.
r; fraternity . . . Pag•• :1
Faculty delays actiotJ on Strate·
gic Pla11ning document . Page 4
Why was John Y . Brown helip­ing
tb recruit Howard SchllellelJ­berger?
. . . . . . . . . . . Page 4
J em ley reported that a program
was esta b lished in 1978 to oversee
fee slandar·ds and their sub­sequent
review every live years.
This program was not carried
through, r esulting in the major fee
mer eases presently proposed.
According to Deck, "There are
a hand ful of courses that now have
prop osed fees that had no fees at­tachl:!
d to them in the past. How­ever,
the vast majority (of the
cour ses) already had approved
fees .. ,
While A & S cries for· an in­cre
ase in course fees, SGA
Academic Vice Predient B ill
Campbell points out that the A & S
Continued on Page 3
Chri.stmas li.'>t of activities prom­ises
a busy vacation . . . Page 8
Letters to the Editor . . Page 4
Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 6
Afterclass . . . . . . . . . . Page 8
Classifleds ......... Page 12
Aid money is increased and easier to get for some
Increases :may not offer
U of L students a lot
By SUZANNE ELSWICK
Cardinal Staff Writer
In a move predicted by experts,
President Ronald Reagan has re­versed
the trends of his first ad­ministration
and approve~ a fed­eral
education spending bill that
includes a $1.7 billion increase in
student financial aid funding.
Last February, Reagan had
proposed cuts in national direct
student loans and stale incentive
grants. He asked only for in­creases
in the college work-study
programs and the guaranteed stu-dent
loan allocations. Work-study
programs are funded 80 percent
by the federal government and
the other 20 percent by institution.
But Congress, in a push against
Reagan's previous cuts in finan­cial
aid, approved increases in
every aid program for the 1985-
1986 academic year.
Although the increases sound
promising, many financial aid offi­cers
around the country note the
funding may not be as substantial
as it seems. They not that the in­creases
will be enough to cover in­flation's
effect on college costs,
and not much more.
Connie Williams, assistant di­rector
of financial aid at the Uni­versity
of Louisville, said the na­tional
increases "are not going to
mean a whole lot to us." Williams
said she is hoping the bill will
mean a substantial increase in
funds allocated for the popular
work-study program at U of L .
Last year U ofL's work-study pro­gram
was cut by $50,000, leaving
many students without the finan ­cial
aid tlwy wanted. This y ar,
nearly 3• I U of L students hold
work-st y positions. And Wil­liams
sard there are at least that
many more jobs available to eligi­ble
students.
"This is the first time for any op­timism
in this (Reagan's) adminis­tration,
but it's cautious optimism.
He could still cut it at any time,"
Continued on Page 12
Computers may offer
relief in long waits
Collere Press Service
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.
Guaranteed Student Loan applic­ants
may soon get some relief in
their long wait for aid money, if
the state goes ahead with plans to
install a new computer database
to speed up GSL processing.
The system represents "the
wave of the future" for student
loan processing, observers said,
and will be closely examined by
aid expe rts nationwide who are
similarly interes te c! in streamlin -
ing their loan processing p roce­dures.
Florida !<lude nts-indicative of
those in many other stales- must
often wait up to three months to
have their GSL applications pro­cessed
and approved.
But that lag time could "easily
be cut in hair' with the he lp of a
new computerized processing sys­tem
officials plan to impleme n t
soon.
"Th sys tem w ill link the state
GSL offi e, state universiti .. . and
banking mstitutions into one
database," said J e m.en Audioun,
supe r visor· of the Flor·ida GSL Of­lice.
GSLs allow students to borr-ow
money - bncked by the slate -
from banks and savings and loan
institulions at reduced interest
rates. All 50 states operate GSL
programs, and nationwide, mil­lions
of students receive GSL
money each year .
The computer· system will es­s
ntially a llow campus aid offices
to create an "electronic applica­tion
form" for a student loan
a pplicant, and then electronically
send the completed application to
the s ta te loan office a nd to p oten­tial
lending institutions, Audioun
said .
"Th erefm·e, you don't have to
have the student fill out an appli­cntion,
have the school e nter the
data for their files, then mail it to a
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