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VOL. 60, NO. 28 LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY APRIL 13, 1989 14 PAGES AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Wigginton slate sweeps SGA voting by near 3-1 margin
By Ml HAI:L T CKER
tall Wnte1
Low \Iller turnout d1d not keep
Tara 'W1ggmton and her 'late from
'"'ecp1ng the Student Government
A'soctalu>n' excc utl~e office-. b a
ne,lr l I margm m Apnl 11 -12 hal ­lotmg
Wiggmton d.wned 127K ole'> .
"hlle her opponent. Gerald Wh11e .
nclled 50-l W1ggmton., Student
enate \late al\o "'on h1g . taking I X
ol ::!::! 'POl' dec1ded on the gener.ll
ballot.
Tot,ol 'otcr tumout regl'tered at
IX40. up WI Hlle' from la\1 year.
hut '''II Jc.,., than 9 percent of the
total \tudent population Fred
Rhode., , a\\1\lanl \icc prc\ldenl for
'tudcnt lite . .,;ud the 1Urnm11 wa'
clo\C to h" nhtectl' e
I wa' hopeful lor ::!0 percent
Th.ll "''" 111) go.tl. and "'e \\.ere
lalrl) clt>-c . he ""d
Rhode' ct tcd bad "eather ,,, a
fl<l\\lhle cau'e of the low turnout .
The cold "eat her may have
pla)cd ,, factor 111 the amount of
\Oil!\ . he 'a1d Rut low voter
turnout '' l)p•cal on college
campu..e,, .md that dl\apJX>Inl\ me
But Wiggmton "'" plca,cd \\>llh
l'l\>lh the total vote count ,md the
election' rc\llil
lm e'llled about 11. 'he \ald .
fhul' a reull) h1g marg1n and I m
proud that more people vmed thi'
) ear I hun la\1 year
W1gp 111hlll admllled \he wa'
worned for a while about the
mucume due to what ~he v1ewed a~
a.n antagonl\tlc campa ign by While .
I wa~ worried about ~orne of the
negative campaigning. but I'm glad
1he ' tuden t' saw through all of that."
'>he \aid .
White. however. expre~sed
di'>IIIU\IUnme nt w1th the election .
Thl'> JU'>t '>how\ that ~t u dents are
not tired of ge tting ~crewed. " he
-.a1d . "I t h m~ the electiOn came
down to mil how great Tara
(Wigginton) wa\. but how bad
Gerald (White) was, he ~aid .
Ho"'e~er. he ;,aid h i~ lo;,, will not
keep him from being involved.
Thi' " not g01ns to deter me . I'll
be hac~. he ~aid . By winning. ;,he
(Wigginton) will have to deal with
me and all my 504 voter; all year
long .
Other e~ecutive po>t race' fol ­lowed
\UII after the W1ggmton­Wh11e
conte;,t.
The Executive V1ce President spot
"'ent ca\lly to Tim Hagerty over
Sean McCarth) . 1260 to 488 .
I feel great. ' Hagerty \aid . We
really worked hard and approached
the campmgn a' 11 ;,hould be and got
together a-. a team . ow it;, time to
come together and do what we need
to do In make change;, for the
'>llldent body.
HI\ opponent. McCarthy . sa1d he
wa' d!'>appointed with the lack of
\tudent partiCipation .
I think 11;, \ad that \O many
'tudem, didn 1 care at all and felt it
STAFF PHOTO BY
Japanese instuctor Tetsuye Fujii (right) oversees his students' pro­gess.
Advanced night courses will not be offered in the fall.
.P.M. students of Japanese
may wind up semi-lingual
By JACKIE BROW
Stall Wnter
lack ot fund' ha\ created a
umque \IIUatlon for 'ome niver­"'
Y of Luuiwllle '>tudent> taking
Japane'e cour\e\
pper-level mght cla'>..e., in the
language will not be offered next
fall. forc1ng II e\enin~ \tudenh
1\l la~e a d.ly cia\\ or r•ck up an ­other
language to \ullsfy degree
reqUirement\.
While the Uni':'er\IIY never
planned for cvenmg Jupane;,e
cla.,,e, , the >tuden t'> and the1r
teacher are up>el about the \llua­tlon
ln.,.ructor Tel\uye FUJII \aid he
feel' the l:1ck of cour\e'> " unfa1r
Ill h" 'tudenl'> .
Mo\1 of In) '>ludenl\ 111 I 0 I
and 102 (cla"e') need another \IX
hour' of the 'ame language to
graduate. he \ald. Even the one~
who are not fulfilling degree re­qum:
menl\ have a rea'>on for
wanting w continue the language
At lea\1 one -. tud m .. aid the
lad. of advanced cour>e\ will hm­der
h" graduation plan'>
Don McMillen, a '>Cnior phy-.c'>
In this issue
Neighbor - Gr elc
e tabli hU ofLneighbor·
hood a. tation ... Page 3
Drunk - Columnt t
attack tho who dnnlc
and dnve ....... .. Page13
maJor. 'aid he lack., only language
credi t'> to graduate and th;H this i>
the 'ecund time the n1 versi ty ha\
not offered nigh1 course'> in h1>
t•ho,en language .
I -.tarted German and they dis­continued
German for evening
\ IUdenl\ , he \aid . ' Then I ~t arted
Japane;,e , ow. they are not of­fenng
Japane;,e.
' I only need 12 hours to gradu­<
lle. ><> thi' will be li ke a wasted
year to me. I' ll be half proficient
111 two la nguage;. I've been
"'orki ng on my degree for 26
year' and I thi nk thi' whole ;itua­tion
i-. unfair.'
Sophomore electrical e ngi neer­mg
rnaJ"r John ullen aho ex­pre\\
ed regret over the lack of
Japane.,e cour'e'.
I fed it ., unfort unate the
cla\\e'> aren 1 being offered be­cau'e
till' " the language I want .
he \aid I can t take ano ther lan­guage
co u r~e becau;e the time in ­terfere'
w11h my \Chedule .
Sydney Schult1e, chair of the
modem language departme nt . ;a1d
budgetary con ~ t r.ti nt ; and the un-
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Cardinal basket­ball
team retires
Ellison's num}?er
See 1tory, Ptge 9
didn 1 apply to them," he s:1id . "Our 1
campaign wa;, to get the ; tude nt;
mvolved and bring fresh ideas into
Studen t Government. and i t ' ~ really
\ad that not enough people cared ."
The mce for SGA Academic Vice
President saw the la rgest margin.
wi th Curtis Warfie ld taking 1326
votes to Gerina Whet he rs ' 416.
Warfie ld said he was proud of his
sweepi ng win and ex pres;ed his
devo11on 10 his slate.
' I m really thank ful that I had the
opportunity to run with such good
people and thankful to God we
won. he said . "The full effect won't
hi t me until next week when we're
movmg in."
Whethers. however. said she
hope; stude nts know what they got
themselve; into by elect ing
Wigginton's ticket.
' I hope Mude nts know what they
were domg.' she said. ' Gerald
(While). ean (McCarthy). James
(D. Lewi;,, Service; Vice President
candidate) and I had a lot going for
the !.tudents with the right behav­ior."
Holly Everett also enJoyed a wide
margin of victory. taking the Ser­vices
Vice President spot over
Lewi>. 1274 to 463 .
Everell said the time she and her
colleagues put into race proved to be
a plus on their side.
"All the hard work work paid
off. ;,he 'aid . I m real excited and
thrilled and feel a relief that\ finally
over."
STAFF PHOTO BY YOUNG
Voters cast their Student Government Association election ballots tn tt]e lobby of the Student Center April 11 .
For the second }'ear in a row, candidates from inside SGA soundly defeated a non-incumbent ticket
Airport's expansion project worries faculty
By KEN ETH H'ARDI
Staff Writer
The proposed expansion of Stan­diford
Field has fue led apprehension
by University of Louisville faculty
and administrators that increased air
traffic may translate into serious
noise pollut ion problems at Belknap
Campus.
Concern over the issue ha; mani­fested
itself in forums ranging from
The Courier-Jouma/, where a feller
from a Mu\ic School professor
blasted the project, to an April 15
Faculty Senate meeti ng where the
topic was discu>sed.
"I had phone calls from fac ulty on
the issue. and when it came up in
the Senate. several fac ulty were
concerned." said enate chair Robert
Stenger.
' From the looks of what we've
;een, we're going to be right the hell
in the middle of the thing ."
Afte r the proposed expan,mn "
completed. Be lknap will be in the
northe rn tip o f the noi;,e pollu tion
impact area of Standiford'• new
we!.tern runway.
Louisville Airpon Improvement
Program slatistic·s estimate maxi­mum
noise levels at Belknap will
mn~e between 88 decibel;, and 78
dec ibels during a nyover. depending
on the type of airc raft in que'>tion .
' It would be loud a> all get-out. ·
said Loui' o hn . chair of Speed
Scient ific Schools civil engineering
department and a national ly known
expert on aeronaut ic noise control.
"In effect. it wou1ld be like carrying
around your Weed-Eater on a Satur­day."
Cohn said an 88-decibel Oyovcr.
which is twice as loud a;, a 78 deci -
Argentinian writer to host
several lectures at lJ of L
By Ml HAEL T CKER
Staff Wri ter
Several University of Loui svi lle
Spanish classes will have the chance
to discu;,s lite rature with a best­sell
ing author.
Mcmpo Giard inell i, a Vis iting
Bingham Professor from Buenos
Aires. wi ll stay at U of L for one
month . teaching in two cla~ses and
givi ng four infonnal lectu res.
I try to give my students a pro­fou
nd sense of mixture of eth ical
and aesthetic values in literature,"
Giardine lli ~aid .
To me, literature only looking at
aeMhetic values is an empty litem-ture
and lite rature only looking to
eth ical val u e~ i~ political. The real
literature, in my opinion. i\ the ex­act
mixture of both values. That is
what I try 10 give my Mudent;. '
G iardine lli will teach clas;,e~ in
"The Spani sh-Ame rican Short Story'
and "Class ics in the Spanish-Amen­can
Theatre .·
He has publi shed nine literary
work!. and has one in the m ak m~ .
He h a~ been on the be 1-se ller li st m
Argentina for more than 40 week' in
the last few yean ..
( it.lldllll'llt' lnp "·'' ptlllllf'h . .'d h~
l<lhttlll.t Bud1.m.lfl. pn'h..''"'l nl
Continued on Page 4
FOCUL, PSL menrtbers
join feminist D.C. :march
By BARBARA BAUMA
taff Writer
Represent atives from the Univer-si
ty of Louisv ille' Feminist; on
ampu\ chapter and the Progres~ive
tude nt; League joined thousands
of partici pants in an April 9 march
for Women's Ri jlht; and Women's
Equality in Washmgton. D.C .
Su;an Dixon. chair of FOCUL
and co-chair o f the PSL, was one of
about a dozen members to join with
student; from colleges around the
country to funher women' issues,
in ludmg the Equal Right Amend-ment
and the Pro .. Cho ice movement.
What th is is .about , basically, i>
that we get together and we let the
med ia know that we are there and
we are the majority. Dixon said.
T he march 10 the Capitol la\led
about 20 minute; and has been
called the largem of its kmd th i.,
decad . s timates placed the number
of partici pants be tween 300.000 and
600.000.
' I wa., rea lly happy that people
;aw that there a re stude nt-. at the
Unive rsi ty of Loui;vi lle in Kentucky
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bel.,, would be the eqLuvalent ol a
heavily loaded die'>cl true!.. pa"mg
withm 50 feet of a listener
That ' very loud. particularly
when you con.,ider that we are
teachi ng here." he \aid .
However. LAIP project manager
Joseph Corradino 'aid that ohn;,
eMimates mi;,repre,ent the proJeCt.,
actu al impact.
That' an unfair repr scntatlon.
because it focu e., on a \Ingle .
maximum event and dne\nl rellcct
the average condition' we n: pro­jecting.
' Corradino 'aid
' Trucks may pa" by. hut planes
don t travel bumper to bumpc1 That
noi\e level is by no means con .. tam.
and the average noise level Jll'>l "n 1
that disturbmg.
LA IP projection' pl~tce lJ of L 111
a 65 LD 7one . the lowest nol\e
level ra ting regi,tered 111 the pro-
JCCI' noi'c k\d e\ltmatc' LON
rat1ng' average pea~ dl\turhance~
'"'h 1111ermediatc quiet lllllC' In C\­tahli'h
a mean mme level.
I rn told 65 LD \\on I Slgnili -
camly di;,turb your telephone con­ver,
a tton m;,1de your hou'c . Cor­radino
'aid.
lie e'>limated futuro.: noi\e at Belk­nap
will be ;,imilar to current condi­tion'
at the <.omer l Rar<kto n
Road and Grin.,tead Drive .
But a<,;,urance\ from proJect offi­Cial
... includmg Corradmo. have not
ca,ed the mi.,gh ing' of faculty
memhcr, like Mu,ic School profe;,­'
nr Jean hn,lethen In her March n lcller 10 The Courter, Chri\ICn\el1
'>aid the e'pan,iou ' cffecl\ on U of
I. have been veiled "'''h defective
'Hlll"til..·'
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S ide kicks
Greg Troutman breaks a pair of inch-thick pine boards held by
Louis Nicoulin (left) and Tom Keil at a Tae Kwon Do demonstration
at an April 8 international banquet, where the three also demon­strated
free-sparring techniques and forms. See story,_Page 6.
Spring opera
season opens with
two comedies
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