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Two issues highlight past Student Senate meeting
By DON WOODRUM
and LARRY D. CROOM
Cardinal StaffWriters
The guest of honor at Tuesday
night's Student Senate meeting,
University of Louisville PrE:sident
Dr. Donald C. Swain, came•.l?re­pared
to discuss the Strategic
Planning document with the Seri­ate.
He did so - briefly - but the
conversation quickly turned to de­bate
on a proposal before the Sen­ate
to increase the student activity
fee $2.50 per semester. The cur­rent
fee is $15 per semester.
Louisville
surgeons
bring hope
for the deaf
By MARIANN KURTZ
Cardinal Assistant News Editor
The hearing- impaired have
gained new hope thanks to a team
of surgeons from the University of
Louisville and a new hearing de­vice
called the INERAID artificial
ear.
Dr. Serge Martinez, a surgery
professor at U of L, and Dr.
Michael Nolph, an assistant pro­fessor,
are two of only four sur­geons
in the U.S. authorized by
the Food and Drug Administra­tion
to implant the new device.
INERAID, a multichannel, mul­tifrequency
implant, will enable
the deaf to recognize up to 80 per­cent
of two-syllable words. To
date, three operations to implant
the device have been performed
in Louisville at Humana Hospital­University.
The success of the im­Before
Swain arrived, the Sen­ate
discussed raising the fee.
"We have to decide on this by
the end of February," said Bill
Campbell, Student Government
Association academic vice presi­dent.
"We will either have to de­cide
today, or schedule a special
Senate meeting."
Dr. Edward Hammond, vice
president for student affairs, was
asked to address the senators'
questions about the fee hike.
Kenny King, a Speed School sen­ator,
opened the discussion by
asking Hammond exactly how
much money the increased fee
Hammond said the $2.50 in­crease
will amount to about
$76,000 per year. He said this was
based on the assumption that the
administration would not have to
increase the fee for two years.
"I came to the Senate seeking
advice," Hammond said, "and I
will give Dr. Swain whatever ad­vice
you recommend. The Senate
has looked at fee inoreases very
carefully, and I think you need to
do the same for this fee."
At this point, Frank J emley,
SGA president, recommended
that the Senate vote no on the pro­posed
increase.
"We need to ask ourselves what
is more important, cheerleaders
or an increased fee." J emley said.
Jemley said it would not be fair
to approve this fee after the Sen­ate
had approved a cut in course
fees in the past. Harold Rittner,
SGA mentor coordinator, made a
motion to reject the fee. Campbell
stopped the discussion to allow
Dr. Swain to speak on Strategic
Planning.
"I have always communicated
well with this group," Swain said,
as he stepped before the Senate.
"And I've always enjoyed it."
Swain said he hoped to have all
the comments on the planning
document in by March 13. "I want
to send this to the Board of Trus­tees
for approval on principle by
the end of March," Swain said.
Swain defended the Strategic
Planning document with three
points. He said the document was
not intended to reduce the com­mitment
to teaching. A second
point was access to handicapped
students.
For the third point, he defended
the document as a planning docu­ment
- not a budget proposal.
Swain then opened the floor for
questions from the senators.
Rittner asked for a commitment
in the document to fight all fee in­creases.
Swain said this was possi­ble,
but he himself would notfavor
it.
"I would not want to say, 'No,
we won't raise fees,"' Swain said.
"But I will say we will make every
effort to keep them as low as we
can.
"What is $2.50? That's the price
of a hamburger. You want tore­duce
programs for the price of a
hamburger?"
Campbell said the students feel
frustrated by all the fees. "The
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Abortion forum evolves into a
controversial panel discussion
By YVONNE D. COLEMAN
Cardinal Staff Writer
What was supposed to be a
panel discussion about the con­troversial
issue of abortion turned
into a heated discussion between
the audience and the panelists.
the case of rape," said a member
of the audience.
Montgomery was asked about
the anti-abortionists who stood
outside of abortion clinics haras­sing
women and calling them mur­derers.
After being asked by Montgom­ery
to give instances of where this
The panel consisted of Dr. was happening, the woman said,
Frank Simon, an officer of Ken- "Donna Wells could give you some
tucky Right to Life; Margie instances."
Montgomery, an executive for the Wells said, "Ask Dr. Simon; he
Kentucky Right to Life Education does it every day."
Foundation; Donna Wells, On the question of rape, Simon
Women's Surgical Center, Na- said a large number of abortions
'tiona! Organization of Women; are done because of rape. "Js kil-and
Dr. Richard Barber, profes- ling the baby going to correct the
sor of philosophy at the University situation?"
ofLouisville. The pro-choice group said the
Simon said, "Fifty percent of anti-abortionists were devoid of
the women are being dragged into concern for the mother.
abortion clinics by their boy- "All I hear is fetus, fetus. I never
friends and parents." hear about the mother. It is not
A member of the audience just the fetus involved," said an
shouted, "Dr. Simon, that is a lie." audience member.
As Simon tried to continue, other Marsha Wells, a member of
mem"b ers of the audience .c ut him "Women Exploited by Abortion"
is more of a trauma than abortion.
"The mother of the child always
wonders where the child is."
She took the view that life be­gins
at the time when the fetus can
live outside the womb indepen­dent
of the mother. The anti-abor­tionists
took the view that life be­gins
at conception.
Wells said, "What is in the
uterus is a human being, but the
woman is the existing human
being. The fetus cannot live inde­pendent
of the woman, therefore
it has no rights. The law cannot
demand that I put my life in
danger to save a fetus."
A man in the audience stood up
and told about his niece born at 23
weeks. "She is alive and well
today," he said.
Simon said, "Life begins from
the moment the genes of the
father and mother unite."
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'•-·--lltUilQI~-,.1et-IWB. ~~"· shouted ..a,_ ' RigHt wnre was concer'~ea about
Barber said that he, too, be­lieved
that life begins at concep­tion.
He talked about the Roe vs.
Wade decision in which the Su­preme
Court legalized abortion.
.. A:ccording to Barber, the Su­preme
Court decided that the
fetus was not a "person." The
term "person" referred to the
mother.
mined as doctors have just begun
to test the recovering patients.
The implant and its attempt to
assist the deaf will be featured in
this month's edition of"30 Minutes
. . . Health Beat," a cable televis­ion
program produced by U of L
and Humana Hospital-University.
Hosts Lydia Copeland and U of
L's John Yarmuth will discuss the
implant and its implications for the
deaf community.
Mary Julia Pace ofU ofL's Pub­lic
Information Office, a coordi­nator
of 'Health Beat,' said, "I am
pleased with the quality of the
show. We provide the public with
a lot of interesting information."
According to Pace, a group of
coordinators, including doctors
from Humana Hospital-Univer­sity,
get together and discuss up­to-
date happenings and decide on
features for the monthly program.
As for this month's feature, it will
generate additional attention for
the implant and the five additional
operations plan~ed for March and
April. Other features this month
include a discussion of sleep disor­ders
and how to avoid hypother­mia.
The show, whose pilot program
ran in the fall of 1984 is gaining vie­wer
interest. "We are getting the
word out," said Pace. "We're get­ting
times in the television listings
and hoping to increase viewer­ship.
Pace added, "I think it's a great
show. It's interesting and fast­Continued
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Job market improves for liberal
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B'nai B'rith Hlllel to sponsor.u·
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Can wonder drup save your col­'
eKe career? . . . . • . . . Pa~e 4
What is the Student Senate try­~
nK to accomplish?. . . . Pa6e 4
Cardinals use nnt-half scorin1
spree to hand Florida State an
fti:J-72 defeat. . . . . . . . . Pa~e 5
Fast Break - Is Seminole Cen­ter
Alton Lee Gipson a wrestler
~ra basketlHtll player?. PapS
Baseball teams pan up for s~
'pi season . . • . . . . • . . PapS
U of L opens the Ijth annual Lit·
~rature conference • . . Pap 1
Editorials . • . . . . . . . . Pap 4
Sports . . • • . • . • • • PapS
Allerclass . . • . . . . • . • Pap 7
Classlned• . . . . . . . . . Pap 8
Personals . • • • . • . • • • Pap 8
Cynthia Beilman speaks out in favor of pro-choice abortion
rights at the open forum sponsored by Alpha Epsilon Delta held
Monday in the Bingham Humanities Building •
"Women have the right to
choose through family planning,
but once the life begins, it needs to
be protected," said Montgomery.
"Women do not have a choice in
the mother. "Most of them that
have abortions suffer trauma."
"But do you do anything for
women exploited by adoption?"
asked a member of the audience.
Donna Wells said that adoption
The forum opened with the
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Search for new A&S dean may go quickly
ByT. L. STANLEY
Cardinal Managing Editor
The University of Louisville's
quest for a new dean of the Col­lege
of Arts and Sciences is going
to take a historic turn. Actually, it
is going to take two.
For the first time, officials at U
of L intend to name a permanent
I dean without going through a
stage where an interim dean acts
as the A&S leader.
Also, the faculty members who
will serve on the search committee
for the new dean will not be di­rectly
chosen by the faculty at
large, as is the custom. Instead,
the faculty will elect representa­tives
and from these representa­tives,
U of L Provost Dr. William
Dorrill will choose the search com­mittee
members.
The decision to begin the search
immediately for a permanent
dean was made by Dorrill, with
the approval of the faculty mem­bers
and U of L President Dr.
Donald Swain.
"We will search, not with haste,
but with all deliberate speed to
find a permanent dean," said Dr.
Thomas Crawford, assistant pro­vost
who will assist Dorrill and the
search committee.
Crawford explained that possi­bly
avoiding an interim dean
would be in the best interests of
the college.
the biennial budget request that of whom must be department
must be complete by next spring chairmen, one student, one staff
and take a leadership role in im- member and one dean.
plementing the Strategic Planning Traditionally, the faculty mem-process.
hers elect the six representatives
Although Dorrill and Crawford directly, but in this dean search,
are optimistic about finding a per- they will elect three chairpersons
manent dean by or shortly after and six other faculty members.
the departure of the present dean, From these nine people, Dorrill
Dr. Lois Cronholm, they said that will select two chairpersons and
"It is important to have some- they are willing to abort the search four faculty members.
body on board There was
who is commit- considerable
ted to the job "We Will search, not With haste, but With all de- debate back
and will be liberate speed to find a permanent dean. " and forth about
there for five this issue with
years or long- ---:.---------------------------- several faculty
er," said Crawford. "The college at any time that it appears the can- members opposing the Provost.
is probably better off. •: didates are not of high quality. Some faculty members said they
At an A&S Faculty Assembly "If, after we assemble a pool of were concerned that they are los-meeting
Tuesday, Dorrill reiter- candidates and we feel they are ing discretion and that the provost
ated this position. "The College of not the quality we need, then we is gaining it.
Arts and Sciences is too critically will stop the search," said Craw- "Thedindeplendel nceofthefacul-important
to leave it without ford. "We will not sacrifice excel- ty (to irect Y e ect representa-strong
advocacy and leadership," Ience." tives) is not something I think we
he said. should give up," said Dr. Charles
The frrst step in seeking a new McCarthy, a history professor.
Dorrill said that the new dean
would have to become adjusted to
the University in time to work on
dean is to form a search commit- Dorrill defended his power to
tee. This committee is to be com- select the committee members by
posed of six faculty members, two saying that he believes the job of
the University provost should be
strengthened and that it would
provide a great deal of symbolic
value for the provost and the fac­ulty
to work together.
"What is it symbolic of other
than bringing the faculty to heel?"
asked Dr. Mort Winger, a sociol­ogy
professor.
"If my intent was to bring the
faculty to heel, I would not be
here, I can assure you of that,"
Dorrill said.
"There is a need here for trust,"
he said. "There needs to be a time
when people start to trust each
other and I would hate to see this
whole process slowed down be­cause
of mechanics."
"While we're willing to take a
gamble with the provost, we're
not willing to take a dive," said
Winger
Regardless of the persistent
protests of several faculty mem­bers,
the provision for the provost
to have final selection rights
~ssed by a majority vote.
The student member of the
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Ca01pus groups show
support for divestiture
By SUZANNE ELSWICK
Cardinal StaffWriter
At noon Tuesday, 1,5 to 20 mem·
hers of a new campus coalition,
Students Against Apartheid
(SAA), carried signs, chanted,
and marched across campus to
protest the University of Louis·
' ville's involvement with corpora­tions
operating in the Republic ol
South Africa.
The rally began at the
Humanities Quadrangle, where
members of the coalition marched
and handed out leaflets explainin@
the picket. Soon a crowd had
gathered to watch the small group
circling the area. One man,
Luther Barney, joined the picket
when a member of the group told
of the reasons for the protest. Im­mediately,
Barney took a protest
sign for himself and joined the
marchers. "I don't really see how
we could support a racist govern­ment,"
he said.
After some 20 minutes of vocal
protest and marching, Chri!
Cutelis, a member of the Progres­sive
Students League, issued a
statement of intent for SAA.
He said SAA is calling for the
University to recall its investments
in corporations that have opera·
tions or interests in the Republic ol
South Africa, a country ruled by
apartheid. Apartheid is defmed ae
a strict policy of racial seperation
and discrimination. It is supported
by the white minority in South Af­rica,
where four million whites
control government and businese
in a country of 22 million native
blacks.
According to documents re­leased
by the University to mem­bers
of the SAA last week, the
University of Louisville has nearly
$9 million invested in corporatione
with ties to South Africa. These
companies include such 'biggies'
as Firestone, Xerox and IBM.
The members of organizationS
of SAA, who hope to see the Uni·
versity divest itself of its holdings
with these companies, are: Pro·
gressive Students League,
F.O.C. U.L., Student Government
Associi::i\ln, Phi Beta Sigma,
Alpha Kappa Alpha, Kappa
Alpha Psi and Delta Sigma Theta.
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The newly-formed croup, Students Alalnst
Apartheid, marched across Belknap Campus
Tueaday. The march, which started at Bin-
Staff Plaeto ltv Jell'rey L. Ford
rham Humanities BuUdiq and ended at Rob­bins
Hall, protested University investments in
corporation operatin1 in South Africa.