VOL.-56, N0.17, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, THURSDAY, JAN. 24, 1985 10 PAGES AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Student Senate ·is faced wit1lt
possible hike in activities fee
Senate is
obligated
By DON WOODRUM to act soon
Cardinal News Editor
Citing inflationary trends and
m increase in the cost of services,
Dr. Edward Hammond, vice pres­ident
for student affairs, asked the
Student Senate to consider an in­crease
in the student activity fee.
"I think the statistics speak to
the need," Hammond said.
"Something has to be done. We've
held the fee constant for three
years."
The 1983-84 budget for student
activities was $1.02 million. The
proposed budget for these ac­tivities
for this academic year is
.$1.06 million.
Based on this projection, Ham­mond
proposed a $2.50 per semes­ter
increase to the senators. This
will raise the fee to $35 per semes­ter.
Proceeds from the student ac­tivities
fee fund a wide range of
programs at the University. Some
of these programs include the
intramurals program, marching
band, cheerleaders and debate
team.
Other activities covered under
this fee are the student councils,
SGA, counseling services,
Humana Gym and orientation.
In introdudng Hammond, Bill
Campbell, SGA academic vice
president, said he thought this fee
was a little more difficult than the
fees proposed in the past. He said
that in looking at the fee, there
were a couple of things that had to
be considered.
"For two years now, I've op·
posed tuition increases and fee in
creases unless they're absolute):
proved," Campbell said. "I thinlt
we have to take that into consid­eration
when thinking about this
fee."
Campbell said there are basi­cally
three things that could be
done. He said to keep the fee sta­ble
with costs increasing simply
doesn't work budgetarily. There­fore,
Campbell suggested either
increasing the fee, establishing
some user fee for large ticket
items, such as the Counseling
Center, or come up with little cuts
here and there with some addi­tional
user fees.
Hammond then took the floor
and explained his pos.ition on the
fee. He said when he proposed the
fee that he would hold it steady for
a minimum of three years and pro­pose
an increase only when abso­lutely
necessary. Due to inflation,
Hammond said, he thought a raise
in the fee was necessary.
"Therefore, I felt it was only ap-propriate
that we initiated a dis­cussion
prior to any recommenda­tion
or discussion that I had with
(U of L President) Dr. Swain or
the budget office regarding the
fee," he said.
The floor was then opened to
the senators for questions. Most of
the senators seemed to be c:on­cemed
why some of the programs
were under the purview of the ac­tivity
fee, in particular the Coun­seling
Center and testing servkes.
Hammond defended these pro­grams
saying they were under­staffed.
He also pointed out 1lhat
the budget for these services lhad
not increased significantly o•ver
the past couple of years. Ham­mond
attributed the avoidanc•e of
a fee increase to this budget stabil­ity.
Harold Rittner, coordinato1r of
the Mentor program and a sE:na­tor,
raised a question about fa,cul­ty
use of programs covered under
the student activity fees. He
wanted to know if the faculty :and
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Ed Hammond, vice presi­dent
for student affairs, :pro­poses
a hike in the activilties
fee at the last SGA meetling.
Staff Photo by Timothy Ensley
By LARRY D. CROOM
Cardinal Editor
The writer has covered Student
Government and the Student Sen­ate
for the past two years. This ar­ticle
contains his opinions and con­clusions.
Tuesday night, the Student
Senate was asked to consider the
possibilty of a hike in the activities
fee for the Fall semester. The cur­rent
fee costs students $15 per
semester.
News Analysis
Bill Campbell, Student Govern­ment
academic vice president, ad­dressed
thP idea with mixed emo­tions.
"For two years now I've op­posed
tuition increases and fee in­creases
unless they're absolutely
proved," Campbell said. "I think
we have to take that into consid­eration
when thinking about this
fee."
Dr. Ed Hammond, vice presi­dent
for student life, introduced
the idea to the Senate.
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Black faculty recruitment may be faltering. at U ofL
By T. L. STANLEY
Cardinal Managing Editc.r
In past years, the University of
Louisville has had a good reputa­tion
for recruiting blacks in faculty
and administration positions.
Now, however, U of L seems to
>e "faltering" and in a "contradic­tory
situation" with regard to re­•-
ruitmg and retaining black per­sonnel,
aecording to several Uni­'
ersily officials.
"We need to take a good hard
look at our recruiting process and
put more emphasis on it," said
Harvey Johnson, U ofL's affirma­tive
action director. "I know the
University is interested in recruit­ir::
',Jack faculty and administra­tors.
but the results have·been dis­appointing."
The results of the University's
recruitment and retention policies
have been small, but measurable.
The levet of black employment
has risen slightly since 1981. Last
Bad drean1s may find
library sleepers soon
ByT. A. PACK
Cardinal StaffWriter
You can't sleep in the library?
There was a time, not long ago,
when students, each regaining
sleep lost to a part-time job, a
party, study or a long commute to
campus, would line the cpuches
on the third and fourth floors of
the University of Louisville's
Ekstrom Library - but no more.
A new policy has gone into ef­fect;
patrols have been sent out:
signs have been posted.
You can't sleep in the libtary.
A memo issued to the public
Service Department Heads of
Ekstrom Library by David Reed,
director of the Division of Central
Libraries, called sleeping in the li­brary
"i,nappropriate behavior"
and outlined a monitoring pro­gram
that will "inform (library)
users of our policy with respect to
loud conversation and sleeping."
The memo says sleeping stu­dents
will be reprimanded in the
same manner as students engaged
in loud conversation.
"I don't know where this policy
is written down," said a library
employee who wished to remain
anonymous because of possible
employment-related repercus­sions.
"If it is a written-down pol­icy,
then students have a right to
object to it. A sleeping person is
not making any noise; I don't think
they're bothering anybody."
In his memo, Reed said he had
received "an increasing amount of
input from the University adminis­tration,
the Library administra­tion,
faculty, and students" that
said there is something wrong
with people sleeping in the li­brary.
"The whole thing started," said
the employee, "because of some
complaints that were directed to
the Library administration about
students sleeping in the library,
and people were upset by how
that looked. The solution (arrived
at by Reed and the Public Service
Advisory Committee) is teams of
library faculty members and li­brary
full-time staff going. around
on patrol on a regular schedule to
wake people and tell them there .
shall be no sleeping or lying down
in the library.
"There is a tendency for people
to make some parts of the library a
regular gathering place, where
they talk loudly and disturb other
people; and that is something that
should be legitimately dealt with.
"But whethel' the faculty mem­bers
should be the ones to do that
is part of this whole question.
"For me, it seems like it's a com­plicated
issue because it is a stu­dent-
related issue - whether or
New ticket distribution
plan to start Saturday
By MIKE GREISSEL
Cardinal Staff Writer ·
The University of Louisville
Athletic Ticket Office will ample­r'nent
a new ticket distribution sys­tem,
designed t~ eliminate the
long lines and other problems as­sociated
with key basketball
games, beginning with this Satur­day's
game against North
Carolina State.
Under the new plan, students
wishing to buy tickets will sign a
list in the Student Life Office for
each game they want to attend. If
there are more tickets available
than were requested, everyone
will get a limit of two. But if there
are more requests than available
tickets, a raffle will be held, and
students whose names are drawn
can claim their tickets without
waiting in line. ·
"Our main goal in changing the
distribution system," said athletic
business manager Don Belcher,
"is to keep students from standing
out there in cold, inclement wea­ther
... freezing to death to get
tickets."
The former distribution method
forced students and the general
public to form long lines outside
the ticket office on mornings tick­ets
went on sale. Belcher said
there was no problem with the old
way for most games, because the
approximately 350 tickets usually
set aside for individual student
sales met or exceeded the de­mand.
However, for more popular
games like the one with the Uni­Continued
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semester, 24 of the 964 full-titme
faculty members and 13 of the 161
administrators were black.
Several University officials re­ported
that there was a time il!l U
of L's history when the institution
led the area in hiring black per­sonnel.
"We're not repeating history,"
said Dr. Harold Jackson, director
of university communications,
who recently resigned to takoe a
position with a private eorpora­tion.
Jackson explained that U of L
was the first major university in
the south to integrate· and also to
hire the first black faculty mem­ber.
"U of L did it before. They did it
when it wasn't expected, it wasn't
required and they did it at a time
when other schools in this state re­jected
it."
But Jackson said that the com­mitment
must come from the cur­rent
administration to hire blacks.
"I think the opportunity is
there," Jackson said, "you just
hove to want to do it."
Dr. Blaine Hudson, assistant to
the director of the Preperatory Di­vision,
agreed. "There have been
times when the University has
been more actively involved in re­cruiting
blacks than at present."
"But the crucial measure is the
..-esults and they just haven't been
what a lot of blacks would be satis­"
ied with," Hudson said.
Hudson explained that there is a
high concentration of blacks in the
lower echelon positions at U of L
such as maintenance, building
and grounds and clerical jobs. He
said that the percentage of blacks
"thins out considerably" as one
looks to the higher level positions.
There are several explanations
that could account for the small
number of blacks in high level jobs
at U of L. The process by which
faculty members are selected in­volves
a search committee that
makes its recommendations to the
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File Photo
After being declared as "hnappropriate behavior," students are now forbidden to sleep in the lounge areas of the t:kstrom Llbraey.
not sleeping in the library is an un- furniture and stop smoking and body is being highlighted." couch in the ~:kstrom Library the
acceptable behavior. I don't think quit throwing candy wrappers on day the policy was implemented.
that behavior infringes on any the floor. It will make librarians The employee said it is hard tn "I don't see why they're doing it,"
other students' ability to use the li- look unprofessional and keep predict how students will react to she said. "You're quietest when
brary, and it doesn't cause a !lack themfromdoingothermore schol- this policy. "Even 1f we get what you're sleepmg."
of space because there is plenty of arly things," the employee said. appears to us to be a cooperative
space in the library." "The feeling I get from my co!- reaction, I don't think it's going to
leagues is that they think it (the make anyone feel good," said the
Hassen Hadjkacen, a senior
mechanical engineering major,
said he thinks students need a
place to rest. "In the morning," he
said , "just to keep them going. ·
they need 15 minutes sleep or
something. If I can't s leep on the
couch, maybe I can put my head
on a table and get somt! rest."
The employee said he/:she policy) is ridiculous. employee.
thought library faculty and staff
should not be made to patrol. "It
would be hlte asking the prolfes­sors
in the Humanities Buildin1~ to
go down in the lounge there and
tell people to get their feet off the·
Inside
College enrollments beginnJin1
to det:line as baby boom bottolrns
out ....•.•.••.•..• P116e3
Two side~ to grade innation. lllut
which is accurate? . . . Pa1e 4
Fast Break - Sports Editor •rle­fends
the Cheerleaders . Pq•e 6
Eye of the Needle - Local Ji'M
st.tions pla.yln, cruel joke on Jlis­tenen
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Classineds ......•.. Pa,el10
"It's tnhlly r::::~="' tl:::t it has got­ten
to the point where "-"'ale is
being affected and students' rights
are being infringed upon, and a
behavior that doesn't hurt any-
"l don't think they have a right
to come over and wake me up,"
said Dana Sutherland, a junior in
the college of Arts and Sciences
who was sleeping on a third-floor
Brown Foundation gt·a11t allows for
four new endowed chairs at U of L
By MARIANN KURTZ
Cardinal Assistant News Editor
Two additional chairs have
been established with funds from
the James Graham Brown Foun­dation's
$3 million contribution to
the Quest for Excellence cam­paign.
The grant established four
endowed chairs, receiving
$750,000.
According to University of
Louisville President Dr. Donald
C. Swain, the University con­ducted
long discussions with the
Brown Foundation about the Uni­versity's
needs and the founda­tion's
areas of support. "The
Brown Foundation have never
made a commitment previously to
any publicly supported univer­sity,"
Swain said. "They were
eager to support us, but did not
want to open doors to other public
institutions."
After long discussions, the
Brown Foundation proposed four
, areas that they would like to sup­port,
Swain said. "Those were the
four areas that evolved through
mutual negotiations. These are all
in areas that only the University of
Louisville or the UK offer instruc­tion
in."
The four areas receiving en­dowments
were the Agnes Brown
Duggan Endowed Chair of On­cological
Research (cancer re­search),
the Edward Reep Clark
Edowed Chair of Computer­Aided
Engineering, the Harold
Edward Harter Endowed Chair of
Commercial Law and the Preston
Polk Joyes Chair of Biochemical
Research.
"The money for these endowed
chairs will be used for two pur­~
oses," said Swain. "One will be
tor salary supplement, but the rest
of it will be earmarked for the sup­port
of the people coming into the
e ndowed professorships.
"I certainly expect that they will
co'ntribute greatly to all those pro­grams,"
Swain added. "We ought
to be able to attract some out­standing
people into those posi­tions,
or if we are about to lose
some outstanding people (alluding
to Harold Jackson, director of
University communications), we
can offer that as an attraction to
keep them here . The quality of
faculty is the most important
thing."
The University of Louisville has
a research assignment in the mis­Continued
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