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Jackson accepts a
job with St. Louis
based corporation
By LARRY D. CROOM
Cardinal Editor
Making what he has called a
"difficult decision," Harold
Jackson, director of university
communications at the University
of Louisville, has officially res­igned
effective Feb. 8.
Jackson, who has been con­nected
with promoting the cause
of higher education for the past 13
years, has taken a position with
the Monsanto Company in St.
Louis, Mo., where he will be re­sponsible
for internal communica­tions
to the company's 53,000 em­ployees
worldwide.
"It is a11 opportunity to do some­thing
I have always wanted to do,"
Jackson said of his new job. "I
have managed programs at four
institutions of higher education,
and it is just an opportunity to put
all the practice I have had into re­ality."
But Jackson said he was not in
the job market when he was of­fered
the position with Monsanto,
and he was surprised to hear of
the offer.
"I have had several offers this
semester, but this is the only one
from the corporate world,"
Jackson said. "It was an executive
search frrm out of New York that
located me and tried to convince
me to take the position.
"Once I met the people at Mon­santo
and I found that my aspira­tions
for myself were clearly inter­twined
with theirs for the position
that they wanted, I felt that I
would be a fool not to take this op­portunity."
Jackson said that one of the
things he will miss most about U of
Lis the people that he has been as­sociated
with through his job, and
the Cardinal basketball team.
"I am going to miss it," he said.
"I never thought about basketball
before I got to U of L and I guess I
am thinking about it as I leave."
AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Grade
inflation
rai• ses
questions
By T. L. STANLEY
Cardinal Managing Editor
Does the University of Louis­ville
suffer from the phenomenon
called grade inflation?
What seems to be a straightfor­ward
question has received many
varied and directly conflicting re­sponses
from U of L officials.
Some say definitely yes, some
adamantly no and some simply
perhaps.
Grade inflation is a recently dis­covered
phenomenon, or at least,
the discussion of the subject is re­cent.
Grade inflation is character­ized
by the issuing of a large
number of A's and B's and a dis­proportionately
low number of
C's, D's and F's.
Jackson, who has held his posi­tion
at U of L since September
1983, said it is very difficult for him
to leave U of L because he sees it
as a university moving up in the
world.
Steve Bing, vice president for
university relations, said he is
sorry to see Jackson leave.
Harold Jackson wiD resign his position as direc­tor
of university communications Feb. 8 to take
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a position as director of internal communica­tions
with the Monsanto Corporation.
Under the traditional grading
system, the bell-shaped normal
distribution curve, the most pre­valent
grade students should re­ceive
is c, while there are fewer
B's and D's, approximately equal
numbers of each, and very few A's
and F's, approximately equal
numbers of these also.
"I have been perfectly content
at U ofL," Jackson said. "I like the
people and I particularly like the
staff and where the University is
situated. It is on the verge of great­ness,
but it is at a point in its career
where it is trying to get its identity
in this community and in the
state."
"Harold is an outstanding man
of dynamic and aggressive leader­ship,"
he said. "I am happy for him
to have received such a well-des­erved
opportunity."
Dr. Donald Swain, University
president, also said U of L will
miss Jackson's leadership.
"He often worked with me on
media matters, and I've admired
his professionalism," Swain said
"I'll miss him at U of L.
As Jackson departs from U of L
next month, he said he has mixed
emotions about where ~e public
relations program at U ofL stands
at this point.
"I think the office is right on
course, and it nt.eds some re-sources
to do a much better job,"
Jackson said. "It is at a point now
where it is getting penalized for
doing a good job. We have too few
many people chasing too many re­sponsibilities,
and I think in the fu­ture
some interests need to be laid
and resources need to be placed in
the Public Information Office."
Jackson said he would also like
to see U of L spend a lot of time
and energy recruiting black ad­ministrators
and faculty.
"Colleges and universities are
living inconsistencies," Jackson
said. "We praise coaches for out­standing
recruitment, and yet on
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According to U of L Office of In­stitutional
Research, U of L stu­dents
steadily have received more
A's and B's at the expense of C's,
D's and F 's. The figures have re­mained
fairly constant over the
past five years.
King's nephew to speak at holiday celebration
The latest figures, for Spring
1984, reflect the five-year pattern. ·
Students at U of L received over
62 percent A's and B's, 22 percent
C's, 7 percent D's and 9 percent
F's. What this means, to some offi­cials,
is that grades at U ofL are in­ByYVONNECOLEMAN
flated.
Cardinal Staff Writer
A birthday celebration will be
held at the University ofLousiville
in honor of the late Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
The Rev. Derek King, nephew
of the civil rights leader, will visit
Belknap Campus on Sunday, Jan.
27, to take part in the birthday tri­bute.
King will deliver a speech titled
"Keeping the Dream Alive" in
Middleton Auditorium, Strickler
Hall, at 7 p.m. Other speakers
from the U of L community will
share their thoughts on King's
contribution to the civil rights
movement.
"It's not going to be just a group
of speakers coming out to try to in­spire
us; it's going to be a special
birthday celebration," said Paul
Gray, program chairman of the
Minority Project Committee.
Securing King as a speaker de­veloped
from the efforts of Rev.
Richard Wilson, Pastor of Watson
M~morial Baptist Church and
state chairman of Operation Push.
According to Gray, Wilson
suggested King as the speaker.
"We went to him and asked about
a speaker and he suggested
King," said Gray. "He called King
on the telephone and he agreed to
come out and speak."
Curtis Bradley, program coor­dinator,
said he is excited about
the birthday tribute and is hoping
for a large turnout.
A lot of people have forgotten
about the struggle that has been
going on since we arrived here on
the slave ships," said Bradley.
"We must continue to raise the
consciousness of America through
programs such as the Martin
Luther King Day celebration and
pay tribute and give homage to all
of those who have their lives in the
struggle for justice, equality and
Since 1979, the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity
has been located in this building on Floyd
Staff Pilote bJ Tlmoth,. Easley
Street. The fraternity is raisin1 money to build
a new house on Conrederate Place.
New house is in the planning
stages for the Lambda Chi frat
By DON WOODRUM
Cardinal News Editor
Members of the University of
Louisville chapter of Lambda Chi
Alpha freternity may have to file a
change of address card with the
post office within the next year.
After more than a year of plan­ning
and preparation, the frater­nity
has announced a fund-raising
drive to raise between $150,000
and $200,000 for a new house, said
Shane Cannady, president of
Lambda Chi. "We have set up a
steering committee what will be
responsible for raising funds for
the house," he said.
Lambda Chi ,alumnus Dale
Whittaker is in charge of the fun­draising.
Whittaker is also respon­sible
for raising funds for the
Louisville Kidney Foundation.
Cannady said the fraternity has
established a foundation for the
funds that are raised for the
house. "Once we get a ll the money
raised, we will turn it over to the
University Foundation. From that
money, the University will build
the house for us."
This was done for tax purposes,
Cannady said. He said the dona­tions
made this way would enable
the contributors to take a tax de­duction.
"We considered having the
money go straight to the Univer­sity
Foundation, but we thought it
would work better this way. For
one thing we'll be able to keep bet.­ter
track of who donated so we
would be able to thank them prop­erly."
Most of the money raised for the
house will be from Lambda Chi
alumni. However, Cannady said
there is a chance that corporate
help will be asked for. He said
there is a possibility the fraternity
can generate some matching
funds.
"The way this will work is the
company will match funds for
money donated by their employ­ees,"
Cannady said. However, he
pointed out this is iu the planning
stage, and the chapter is not sure if
this can be done.
This will be the third house on
campus for Lambda Chi. They
were evicted from their first house
at 2130 Confederate Place in late
1978 for disciplinary reasons.
Since the fall semester of 1979 they
have been residing at a house on
Floyd Street in the parking lot east
of the Red Bam.
The new house will be back on
Confederate Place between the
Kappa Delta and Delta Zeta
sororities, Cannady said. He
added that there is a double lot
there and the fraternity will rent it
for a $1 a year.
An architect has drawn up plans
for the house that will feature
some of the basic designs of the
original house on Confederate
Place, Cannady said. "Some of
the general features from that
house, such u the turret, the front
door and the wrap-around will be
included in the new house. We did
this so that when we approach
some of the local alumni, they wiU
have rememberances of the house
they used tO Jive in."
Ground-breaking ceremonies
for the house are scheduled tor
this summer, according to
Lambda Chi member Mike Wat­son.
freedom," he said.
Gray said he was honored to be
part of the celebration and he, too,
hopes for a large turnout.
"It's part of my contribution for
what Malcolm X and Medgar
Evers did for black America," said
Gray. "It's a tribute to the many
people who died so that blacks
could do what we are doing
today."
The Black Diamond Choir will
perform during the program and a
reception will follow.
The birthday celebration will
continue on Saturday, Feb. 2, at 4
p.m. in Room 100 of the Bingham
Humanities Building, with Dennis
Rahiim Watson presenting a spe­cial
one-man show, "The First
Black Presick!nt."
In the performance, Watson
portrays the first black president
giving a press conference answer­ing
questions about social, foreign
and domestic policies of the 1980s.
Watson is an educator, lecturer
and author who was named Out­standing
Young Man of America
in 1982.
Both events, sponsored by the
Office of Minority Affairs, Student
Government, the Office of Stu­dent
Life, and Student Activites,
are free and open to the public.
"Even an untrained observer
can look at the raw data and see
that there is a problem," said
Frank J emley, president of the
Student government Association.
"Any way you cut it, there are just
too many A's and B's."
J emley cited the fact that incom­ing
freshmen at U of L have
scored below the national average
on the American College Test
(ACT) since 1977.
"The point is, that we're doing
less-than-average work coming in
to the University and then doing
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National title brings nulllerous
cheers frolll U of L cheerleaders .I
By T. ANTHONY HALL
Cardinal Staff Writer
The University of Louisville's
cheerleading squad started the
new year off right by winning the
National Cheerleaders Associa- ·
tion's Collegiate Cheerleader
Championship last weekend in
Dallas, Texas.
In only their second year of na­tional
competition, the U of L
squad beat out two-time champi­on
Memphis Stat~ and 18 other Di­vision
I schools en route to a $5,000
first prize and bragging rights for
1985.
"It was an unbelievable feel­ing,"
said senior Scott Hornung.
"We had anticipated doing well,
but we tried to keep from getting
overconfident. We went out and
did the routine, and afterward, we
knew we had done the best we
could."
Even head coach Sherrill Travis
saw promise in this year's squad.
"I really think we knew that, going
into this competition, something
special was going to happen," she
said. "The chemistry was there
and everything fell into place."
Although this year's squad has
been together since September, it
took a long time for that chemistry
to develop.
"We started getting ready for
this championship back in Sep­tember
by practicing three times a
week for about four hours a day,"
said Travis. "As it got close to the
time for submitting a videotape of
our routine, we were going almost
every day. The last two weeks
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A.CT coaching clinics may be
helping students raise scores
By MARIANN KURTZ
Cardinal Assistant News Editor
Louisville area high school
seniors may be earning higher
scores on the ACT college en­trance
exams. Thanks to a con­certed
effort by Dr. Joseph H.
Mc Millan, University of Louisville
assistant vice president for minor­ity
affairs and County Commis­sioner
Daryl Owens, high school
seniors can now attend ACT
coaching clinics.
McMillan and former class­mates
Thomas Blue developed
the pilot program in the fall of
1983. "It was kind of my brain­child,"
McMillan said. The pilot
Inside
program, which ran for one year,
was started at Park DuValle, an
area neighborhood center.
McMillan said 100 students began
the eight-week fall term and 70 to
75 students completed the course.
McMillan then brought his ideas
to the U of L Minority Affairs Of­fice,
where he received funding
through Dr. Ed Hammond's Office
of Student Affairs to extend his
program. The University monies,
a long with funds fromn Owens' of­fice,
enabled McMillan to set up
four area coaching clinic sites.
Mitchell B. Payne, director of
the U ofLMinority Affairs Office,
said, "It's a two-way thing. We
have data supporting the need for
such an outreach program (high
school) students did contact us
concerning this type or program."
Payne notes his office has
changed its direction somewhat
and is now expanding to reach out
beyond U of L. "It's natural," he
said, concerning the effort to help
prospective students as well as
current students.
The program was enacted with
the funding support in the fall of
1984. Paid tutors from the commu­nity,
under the direction of Blue,
instruct students in all areas of the
ACT exam (math, language, social
studies and natural science),said
McMillan. The program also_en-
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