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1 VOL. 56, NO. 28, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1985 12 PAGES AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
JOEVIEL
Kemp·er tallies 993 votes to
take SGA presidential spot
By LARRY D. CROOM,
T. L. STANLEY
and ALAN ZUKOF
Cardinal StaffWriters
Doug Kemper was elected Stu­dent
Government A'ssociation
president last night, defeating Joe
Viel in a runoff. Kemper tallied
993 votes to Viel's 850.
The vote tally could have been
different, however, if the Medical
School vote was invalidated as
had been proposed by two SGA
Elections Commission members.
In fact, the vote count would
have been in Viel's favor if the
Medical School ballots had been
thrown out. He would have won
the election by a slim 834-813 mar­gin.
"I am disappointed that the
commission wouldn't throw out
the votes, much less even have a
hearing to try to find out exactly
what happened," said Elections
Commission member Kenny
King. "I don't know why we
should have a commission if it
won't even investigate an allega­tion."
The allegation levied against
the Medical School involved poll
worker Jim Thaler. King said
Thaler told him that there were
election workers seated within 10
feet of the polling place who were
coming to the voting table and in­structing
undecided voters. King
said he later saw Thaler leave the
polling place with the ballot box
under his arm, ostensibly to round
up more voters.
"We didn't have anybody heckl­ing
our voters," said Thaler. "I
was working the polls myself, so I
couldn't tell anyone who to vote
for."
Thaler said that when King saw
him leaving the table with the bal­lot
box under his arm, he was in
the process of moving the voting
table inside where the traffic was.
"When he saw me leave, I guess
he saw me carrying the box inside
the doors," Thaler said. "We only
had the table outside during the
lunch hour."
The Elections Commission con­sidered
a motion not to certify the
election results and to call Thaler
in for a hearing about possibile ir­regularities
with the Medical
School ballot box. The motion
failed when the vote was split 3-3,
but was reconsidered later when
another commissioner arrived at
the meeting.
Continued on Page 3 DOUG KEMPER
J emley is stifled twice by I imitations of office
By T. L. STANLEY
Cardinal Managing Editor
The writer has covered the Stu­dent
Government Association for
the past two years and this article
contains her own observations and
conclusions.
In two terms as president of the
Student Government Association
at the University of Louisville,
Frank J emley has heard both
praise and criticism of his office.
J emley has enjoyed some sue-
Celebration
to be hosted
at U ofL
ByT.A.PACK
Cardinal Staff Writer
He was horn and buried on the
same date 52 years apart- April
23. He wrote at least 36 plays and
154 sonnets, and was one of Eng­land's
most famous and revered
~ playwrights and poets. He was
William Shakespeare.
On Tuesday, April23, a group of
his "friends" will gather to read all
of his sonnets in a marathon cele­bration
of his 421st birthday.
"Shakespeare's Sugared Son­nets:
A Round-robin Reading"
will take place in Schneider HaU
on the University of Louisville's
Belknap Campus from 2 p.m. to 5
p.m.
Thirty people, including U of L
faculty, staff and students, will
read the sonnets at the informal
"birthday party." Observers are
welcome to attend part or all of the
event. ,
"I think it's an appropriate way
to celebrate Shakespeare's birth­day,"
said Department of English
Chairman Dr. Robert Miller.
"(He) has written some of the best
lyric poetry in the English lan­guage."
Miller said the reading, which is
in its third year, usually draws an
audience of from 50 to 100 people
and gains significant media atten­tion.
"We usually get our pictu~;"e
in the paper," he said.
For more information, or to sign
up as a reader, call Dr. Robert Mil­ler
in U ofL's English department
at 588-6801.
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cessful ventures in his two years in
office, along with sustaining sev­eral
failures.
"SGA wasn't in very good shape
when we got there, and it's not in
much better shape now," Jemley
said. "We still command very little
respect among the student body
and among the key players at U of
L, the powers that be."
This dismal statement is not
unique. Jemley said the limita­tions
and restrictions on the SGA
have severely inhibited the of­fice's
effectiveness and have
played a major role in his inability
to fulfill many of the goals he set
for himself and his officers from
his first administration.
"We had wanted to change SGA
from an operation that did mostly
trite things to an operation that
took up important matters," Jem­ley
said. "We finally achieved this
with the South Africa (anti-apar­theid)
proposal. .. it's just a
shame it took us two years to get
there."
Between those two years lies a
string of SGA events, including
Spring Painting
disagreements between members
of his cabinet, an uncooperative
and often unruly Student Senate,
and inaction on key issues.
The SGA, specifically Jemley
and Bill Campbell, academic vice
president last term under J emley,
researched and wrote documents
on subjects such as the tuition pol­icy,
the Strategic Planning docu­ment
and grade inflation. Jemley
said they "cranked out" over 100
pages on these topics.
"No one in SGA had done this
before," said Jemley. "But there's
U of L Painter Dewey Armbruster finishes
painting a column on the facade of the Admin-istration
Building Tuesday. The facade was
last painted two years ago.
Students see life differently
after Handicap A "Wareness Day
By KRISSIE KRUER
Cardinal StaffWritel'
On Friday, April 12, able­bodied
students on campus were
given the opportunity to experi­ence
life on campus from a differ­ent
perspective.
As a part of Handicap Aware­ness
Day, able-bodied students
pac;sing through the Humanities
Quadrangle at about lunchtime
were invited to climb into a wheel­chair
and maneuver it through an
obstacle course designed by U of
L students who cross the campus
every day in wheelchairs.
A & S student John Ceralde
didn't need much urging to join
the first group of participants. "I
just want to see what it's like," he
said. "That's what today is all
about, isn't it?"
Chuck Rogers, chairman of the
SGA Minority Affairs Committee
and organizer of Handicap
Awareness Day, explained to par­ticipants
struggling to open wheel­chairs
(most of which were spare
chairs lent by handicapped stu­dents)
that the course was not a
race against time, but a chance to
experience life on campus as han­dicapped
students experience it.
"These are just some of the prob­lems
you might run into (as a han­dicapped
student)," he told them
as he led the group of about seven
up a ramp into the Bingham
Humanities Building.
About half the students in the
group managed to traverse the
ramp successfully. Then the line
of chairs suddenly stopped, leav­ing
three students stranded on the
ramp with the prospect of sliding
backwards into one another.
The first student in line had
reached the first obstacle - the
reason for the halt. Students who
could fling open one of the heavy
metal doors of Bingham, "pop a
wheelie" over the door jamb and
race through the doorway before
the door slammed back on them
had passed the first obstacle suc­cessfully.
Most of the students
needed extra coaching from Ro­gers.
"No, you're doing it all wrong,"
Rogers told Ceralde. "Grab the
door and throw it open."
Steve Davis, a student develop­ment
specialist at the Life Plan­ning
Center, was on hand to give
moral support to students as they
wheeled their way around "obsta­cles"
inside the building. "My best
friend is in a chair," said Davis.
"He taught me how."
Davis warned students tlut their
walking peers could become their
biggest obstacles. '"{ou have to
ask people to move," he said.
"They may not ::.t!e you coming, or
they may not care."
On Friday, however, most stu­dents
seemed kl he aware of the
parade of wheelchairs as they
rounded the Pit area. Shouts of
"What are you doing?" and "Why
are you in a wheelchair?" came
from the Pit as people saw re­cently
able-bodied classmates in
wheelchairs. Both Rogers and
Davis urged curious students to
try out the wheelchair obstacle
course for themselves.
As students struggled to dodge
other students, empty soft drink
cans, and other wheelchairs,
Davis pointed out that mobility is
one of the biggest challenges han­dicapped
students at U of L face.
Davis knows well the problems
faced by handicapped students at
U of L because he provides career
counseling for the handicapped at
the Life Planning Center.
According to Davis, lack of
awareness of services available to
handicapped students are also a
problem. "There are two electric
(wheel) chairs in Ekstrom Library
that no one has ever used," he
said.
About halfway through the
course, several students began to
wish for electric wheelchairs. "My
arms are getting tired," said Larry
Pusateri.
Students confronted the last ob­stacle
upon leaving the building.
From the top of the ramp, the in­cline
looked steep enough to send
inexperienced wheelchair
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no otherway to do the job respon­sibly
unless you roll up your
sleeves and get into it."
Tuition was raised by almost 10
percent last year, over SGA's
strenuous objection. Jemley and
Campbell's proposed revisions in
the Strategic Planning document
went largely unheeded in sub­stance
and Dr. Donald C. Swain,
U of L president, refused to admit
the University has a problem with
inflated grades.
One of Jemley's goals for the
second term was to have cour·se
evaluations published. After r~­peated
attempts to have the infor­mation
published, Jemley pro­posed
to sue the University to
have the evaluations made public.
The Senate refused to allot the
money necessary for the legal pro­ceedings.
The Senate remained ineffec­tive
and, for the most part, unin­tereste.
d in some of the weightier
issues that faced it.
"For the most part, they don't
want to do their homework," said
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Breakfast to feature
Nobel Prize.-winner
By YVONNE D. COLEMAN
Cardinal Staff Writer
The University of Louisville's
third ABC Breakfast to be held
April18 at the Galt House will fea­ture
Betty Williams, winner of the
1977 Nobel Peace Prize.
Bill Kolodey, student writet at
the Public Information Office said,
"Betty Williams was chosen be­cause
of the hope to integrate with
business and the community."
Koloday said, "She Jed a march
of 10,000 through the streets of
Northern Ireland in 1976 in an at­tempt
to put an end to the violence
that has claimed the lives of htm­dreds
of innocent people there.
Since then, the peace movement
has continued to grow, and as she
put it, 'We're running to catch up
with it."
In her speech, Williams will
focus on the theme, "Peace is Ev­eryone's
Business." According to
Kolodey, Williams said at this
point in her career she is burned
out as a leader and wants to get
away from the leadership role by
taking a less active part in the fu­ture.
Williams has a third generation
mixed marriage. Her grandfather
is a Polish Jew, her mother is
Catholic and her father and hus­band
are Protestant.
U of L began the breakfast
series last fall to bring prominent
speakers to Louisville in a setting
that would involve University per­sonnel,
business leaders and in­terested
people from the commu­nity.
The first sessi•••• on October 11
featured Dav1d Halberstam,
former New York Times repor·ter
and author of "The Power That
Be."
Jeff Greenfield, political analyst
for ABC News, spoke on "The
Media and American Business" at
the second session on January 24.
The program will begin at 7:30
a.m. in the Galt House Fountain
Room. Tickets are $10 per person
and group tables are available.
College students get
more state funding
College Press Service
State grant funding for college
students increased in 47 states this
year, a new survey shows, herald­ing
a "banner year" for state-sup­ported
grant programs.
Much of the inctease,
moreover, reflects student pres­sure
on state governments to im­prove
higher ed funding, aid ex­perts
reported.
"This year is exceptional in the
fact that all but three states in­creased
their grant awards to stu­dents,"
said Jerry Davis, co-direc­tor
of the National Association of
State Scholarship and Grant Pro­grams
(NASSGP) annual survey
of state student aid funding.
This year, $1.4 billion in state
grant money was awarded to over
1.5 million students, the survey
showed, a 17.4 percent increase
over last year's level.
Most of that money - 84 per­cent
- will fund so-called ne d ­based
grant programs, which
award funds on the basis of stu­dent
financial need.
Overall, the survey said, states
will fund $1.2billion in nE"ed-based
grants, up 15 percent from last
year's $1.03 billion.
Since 1980, Davis said, state
funding of need-based grant pro­gramshas
shot up over 42 percent,
Such dramatic increases "cer­tainly
help a lot of students an~
provide greatly needed support
in the wake of declining federal
grant money, said Dallas Martin,
executive director of the National
Association of Student Financial
Aid Administrators (N ASF AA).
Martin and other aid experts ex­pressed
concern that the in­creased
federal emphasis on loans
over grants is forcing many stu­dents
to incur educational debts
they can't repay.
"The state grant increases in no
way make up for the losses we've
had at the federal level," Marlin
pointed out, "but they are en­couraging."
Indeed, several years ago many
states cut back or froze all educa­tion
funding to cope with lhe re­cession
and dwindling tax reve­nues.
But this year's increases in state
grant funding have comt> about
more from student pressure on
state governments than frnm an
improved economy, Davi::. .. il id.
"But two years (of state gr·ant in­creases)
doesn't make a trend,"
warned Davis.
"Even now," he said, "what
we're seeing is not a whole bunch
of money coming in from every
slate, but a lot of money coming
from a handful of states. Eighty­eight
percent of this year's grant
funds are coming from 16 states,
while the other 34 states had less
substantial increases."
Two states - Hawaii and
Wyoming - held their grant fund­ing
level, the survey shows.
Washington was the only state to
decrease grant money, cutting its
grant budget from $7.5 million to
$7.2 million. Still, Davis said he ex­pects
the increase in state grant
funding to continue, "especially if
the federal aid budget is cut
some."