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Vol. 60, No.2 LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY August 28, 1989
Lack of qualified professors
hits campuses across USA
DE VER. Colo. - Student.. on half
the ampuses in the country will find
their schools suffering from a hortage
of profe, or\ th 1~ fall. the Amencan
ouncil n Edu atton predtct\.
Whtle e pert have been forecasting
colleges tn the 1990s wtll ,uffer dra,tic
faculty \hortages - perhaps up to
I OO,OOOcampu-.-level teachingjobs will
remam unfilled tor lack of qualified
people - the ACE report is the first to
indi ate the problems may have already
"tarted.
Half the campuse" surveyed in early
Augu\1 by the A E. a trade group for
college pre;tden ts based in Washington,
DC.. reponed their earches for quali ­fied
teachmg applicants take longerthan
111 previou' year'>.
And when they do find ·omeone they
want to hire. half the schools say they're
having trouble convincing the applicants
to take the JOb,.
"We've seen the proportion of cam­pm.
es reporting difficulty in this area
nearly double in the last two years, and
we expect this trend to continue into the
1990s.'' warned the ACE's Elaine El­Khawa
. author of the report.
El-Khawas found colleges are having
the most trouble fi nding computer c i­ence,
math, health and busi ness profes­sors.
Nationwide, 15 percent of all tenure­track
business professorships went un­fi
lled forthe entire 1988-89 school year,
estimates the American Assembly of
ollegiate Schools of Business. the St.
Louis-based group that accredits cam­pus
business curricul a.
To keep up. campuses will need to
STAFF PHOTO BY MARK VIERGUTZ
A Chinese student sits at a tab le In the Student Center while
selling T-shlrts marking the slaughter of students In Blejing.
Chinese students hawk
T-shirts, raise funds for
students in Beijing
By I HOLAS D. WALLER
Staff Writer
A group of hinesc tudents at the
University of Louis vi lie hope the sale
ofT- hirts commemoratjng the June
4 vio len e in Beij ing, China, will
hasten the cauM! of freedom in their
homeland.
The dea th ~ of an unknown number
of Mudcnt demonstrators at the hands
of government troops in Tiananmen
Square abruptl y ended a public call
for democra y in the world 's most
populated country.
The !ohirts, which are being sold in
the tudent enter lobby by the hi­nese
tudents Solidarity Union, cap­ture
some of the image• of the c lash
between hinese students and the
People\ Arrny.
Sale of the shirts, manufactured
by the Lexington-based company
lnkspot, havebeenbriskat IOeach.
of L Mudents !.Old 350 of the 400
shiru in a two-week period.
But just a<ogratifying to . omeofthe
umon member\ is the outpouring of
love and support ex pre. sed by their
American counterpart s.
" If they don 't have the money to
buy a shtrt. many tudents leave a do­nail
n." satd 44 year-old chemistry
tud nt Fan-Feng Ma. '1'hey offer to
help set up mee tin g~. and offer to
attend. They know what happened
and they upport democra y."
Mu hoftheprofil\ will be spent on
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a rally in Washington, D.C., where
students will lobby for ex te n sion ~ of
their one-year visas.
Many in the Union fear that a re­turn
to the ir homeland will lead to
seriou · repercussions from the Chi­nese
government.
"I've been here one year. and right
now I'm not ~ ure if I want to, or if I
can, ever go back home again." said
Yan Huang, a 22-year old math ma­jor.
"The situation there now i quite
scary."
The shocking violence used against
the pea eful demonstrators in the
quare wa.., a prime motivator for the
Chine~e students here.
"First I was very, very angry, then
very. very sad about what happened."
Huang said . "Perhaps I am kind of
naive but I did not expect such a thing
to happen. It was too cruel."
The vtolence also came as a sur­pri!
oe to a daughter of one of the union
members, 15-year-old Tao Shu.
"China was alway so peaceful,"
he satd. "I would never have be­lieved
the soldiers would shoot their
own people."
Th idea for the sale wa., borrowed
from a simtlar student group at the
Umver ity of Kentucky. which
brought th • hins to a freed m rally
on Belknap campu last June.
In addition to funding the student
organi7aiiOn, orne of the proceeds
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hire 37 percent more professors by the
year 2003. estimated Mike McGuire.
senior planning officer at Franklin and
Mar<ohall College in Pennsylvania.
M Guire recently fi nished a study of
fa ulty attrition at 29 institutions.
For \ tudents. 11 means more of thetr
classes will be taught by graduate assis­tant~
and. presumably. not as effectively
a.s they would have been with fully
trained professors at the head of the
room.
Louisiana State University, for ex­ample,
has lost o many professors in the
la~t eight months alone that some of its
administrators are worried some LSU
programs may lose their accreditation.
Ten of LSU's 18 accounting faculty
members have left since January, re-
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Study says
graduation
causes undo
stress, anxiety
By SUE MacDONALD
Gannett New, Service
College graduation may seem like a
time for celebration, but some students
fa e it wi th a twinge of dread.
Instead of pomp and circumstance,
they foresee loss and uncertainty. Rather
than viewing it as a beginning, they see
it as an end.
"What we · e quite often are people
who are ... realizing that what they tud­ied
for four years isn't what they want to
do for the rest of their lives;· said Dr.
Michael Arloski. counseling psycholo­gi!
olat Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
"We often ee that kind of difficulty
right at the end of their senior year."
Call it graduation phobia. Call it a
wish to avoid "real life."
Call it what you want, but the phe­nomenon
exi ts, and it often challenges
college counselors to help seniors and
other potential graduates understand their
a ademic years as just one step in their
lives.
College graduation, like marriage. the
birth of a child. or divorce, can be a
major life event that brings with it chal ­lenges
and stresses, Arlosld said.
Bittersweet feelings about graduation
don't M!em to occur as often among high
school students, "aid Cincinnati psy­chologist
Dr. Richard Gaynor.
"The pressure isn't there ... most
young people. I've found, don't look at
(high school ) graduation as a terminal
degree," Gaynor said.
But with college. "it's kind of like ' It
can't be this good' or ' It can't really be
over."' he ex plains. "What makes gradu­ation
magical is that one day you're a
student. busting a gut trying to pa s, and
then it's over."
Students who have a hard time ac·
cepting the finality of graduation should
talk to a coun ~e lor. a friend, a profe sor
or adviSer. Gavnor advised.
Arloski, ~ho presents graduation
work.shop> for senior>, says students need
to understand the importance of using
skills they developed in college -
making friend s, developing suppon net­work
~. learning how to cope - in the
new e periences that lie ahead.
Those who feel they picked the wrong
major need to understand that career
options aren't limited after graduation.
WoO. expenence and graduate school
an open up door.. that weren 't pursued
in college.
"A lot of folks think life begins the
day after graduation, and we help them
undemand that they have been living
life all along and that they can go on
from where they are," Arloski 'md.
A& graduation is one of life 's major
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STAFF PHOTO BY MARK VIERGUTZ
BAD MOON RISING: Louisville-area stargazers gathered on the University of louisville's
Shelby Campus Aug. 16 to observe a rare total lunar eclipse. Someone forgot to tell Mother
Nature that the event was rare, because overcast skies on the night of the stellar event prevented
much of Kentucky and Southern Indiana from seeing the long-awaited celestial light show.
Student Health Services initiates
new insurance policy for fall '89
By JOII HARRELL
Staff Writer
An overhaul in the student health in­surance
policy at the University of Lou­isvi
lle has resulted in a new. compre­hensive
policy for tudents beginning
this semester.
The health plan, which was added di­rectly
to students' tuition along with an
enrollment/waiver card, is designed to
help students while taking their finan­cial
restrictions into account.
The policy costs $265 and is auto­matically
added to tudents · stateme nt
at registration. The fee is only added to
the bills of full -time students.
'1'he insurance policy is a compre­hensive
major medical policy designed
to augment student needs.'' sa id Made­lyn
Jacobs, director of Student Health
Services. "We've had to balance the
benefi t ~ wtth what we thought students
could afford."
Under the old system. which was
phased out over the summer. par­ticipation
was voluntary. That program
was utilized by only about 10 percent of
the student population. Jacobs said.
which led to drastic price increases.
"When you ~ell a vol untary policy in
a school &ituation, you begin to ~elect it
for the people you know wi ll need it,"
such as grad uate and non-traditional
students, she said. "The number of people
who take the policy goes down, and the
premiums go up."
The enrollment/waiver card em:loscd
with students· statements allows those
who do not want the insurance to refuse
it and have the fee removed from their
bill.
Jacobs said the card was somethi ng
the Student Government Association had
lobbied for.
"The main concern m the \lurlent
center(where GA 'sofficc-.arc located)
was that it not be a mandatory policy ...
she \aid.
nder the new plan. \ludcnt-. whore­quire
ho-.pital tremmc111 can have 80
percent of the first I 0.000 m charges
paid for after a 200 deductible. After
the iniual 10.000. the policy pay' cve­rylhing
until a maximum of $50.000 is
reached. The policy abo ha-. 'pccial
benefits if the !.tudent receive' trc~ttment
at a Humana hospital.
Tho'e benefit, include a wavtcr of
half the deductible and rctmbur\emcnt
of 80 percent of emergency room and or
charge•.
A policy like th is i-. advantagcou\ for
\tudents becau'e of the wtdcr range of
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Like tuition, death and taxes, changes
in U of L's parking are inevitable
By NICHOLAS D. WALLER
Staff Writer
There are three givens in the lives
of University of Louisville students:
tuition, drop-add registration and
parking hassles.
But several changes and additions
have created 400 new student- park­ing
space;,, which may alleviate the
age-old problem of where to find a
parking pace.
Dromitory residents are the big­gest
winne , while faculty and staff
are the hardest htt by the changes.
Two lots, formerly designated for
Univer~ity faculty and staff, have been
rea. ~ig ned as re. ident parking area.\.
The lot!o. located outh of teven­sonl
lall and adjacent to the Bingham
Humanities Building will require a
yellow rest dent parking permit. which
osts $40. A mete red lot west of the
Houchens Buildmg has also been
changed to residential parking.
The new gains in residenr parking
were not made to slight faculty mem­bers,
according to Vice-President for
Administration Larry Owsley.
"We madea concertedeffon to tm­prove
parking for student!> liv ing on
campu ~." hesaid. "Any time we make
a change to accommodate a large
number of people there is a possibtl­ity
of another group losing space\."
Univer.ity faculty and staff also
lost parking lots near th Busines'>
School. the Houchen' Building and
Public Information Office. Those
areas now require a red pem11t , at a
COM of $150.
But the outlook is not entirely grim
for faculty and staff member\.
Parking meter. on Intramural Way,
as well as Brandch venue have
been removed. and destgnated fac­ulty
only. A blue facu lty 'tatf tag
requtred to park 111 the area., wtll co\1
$75.
Resident., and faculty members
aren't the only group~ that will find
new places to park their ca rs thi-. fall.
A new facility on Floyd Street 'oOuth
oft he wtern Parkway overpa$ll will
be made avai lable for stude nts living
off-campus. A green pennit to park
m the 200-spa e fa iluy co;,!\ $40.
All the campus-parkmg news IS
not posuive, however.
tudents planning to park thet r cars
n the Fourth-Street lot behmd
Ma\ler .. on\ Re-.taurant wi ll have to
dig deeper into their wallet!>.
1 he former brown lot. who~ per­mit-.
co'ot $20, i ~ now designated as a
green perrnit area.
Exhibit of "Fabulous
Fakery" opens at
Loui ville gallery
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