VOL. 56, NO. 29, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, THURSDAY, APRIL 25,1985 12 PACES AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Students call for divestiture locally and nationwide
Partial divestitu1re is
passed despite p1rotests
ByT. L. STANLEY
Cardinal Managing Editor
Amid a student sit-in to protest
apartheid and the University of
Louisville's investments in corpo­rations
that operate in South Af­rica,
the U of L Foundation voted
unanimously to divest in some cor­porations
according to the Sulli­van
Principles.
The Sullivan Principles call for
fair e mployment standards and
desegregation in the workplace,
among other meaures. The Foun­dation's
decision to divest in cor­porations
that do not comply with
these principles will mean a dives­titure
of approximately $1 million
of the $9.2 million total invest­ments
in South Africa, according
to Dr. Donald C. Swain, U of L
president.
But many people close to the
issue claim this gesture is not good
enough.
"This is totally unacceptable to
us," said Chris Cutelis, a member
of the Students Against Apar­theid.
This group staged the Tues­day
rally at the Administration
Building, in which the Foundation
meeting was held, and organized
the sit-in a rt the Information Cen­ter
in front. of the Administration
Building. 1rhe group planned to
occupy thE~ Center until 3 p.m.
Wednesday because it was the na­tional
day· of student protest of
apartheid and of solidarity with
the people of South Africa.
"We are performing an act of
civil disobedience," Cute lis said.
Also, the students had been
marchirlg and chanting outside
the Administration Building be­cause
the Foundation meeting
was closed to the public as was the
entire buillding. Department of
Public. SafE!ly officials guarded all
Student Senate gives
unani01ous ap]proval
to its election tallies
By LARRY D. CROOM
and DON WOODRUM
Cardinal StaffWriters
After a lengthy discussion, the
Student Senate approved the
Elections Commission report
awarding the Student Govern­ment
Association presidency tc
Doug Kemper Tuesday night.
Kemper defeated Joe Viel in a
runoff election Aprill7.
The Senate voted to make the
decision unanimous despite an
earlier 22-14 approval. Some sen­ators
expressed the need for a
unanimous vote to show support
for the incoming president.
The election results were not
approved until after Election
Commission member Kenny King
leveled charges against the valid­ity
of the vote from the Medical
School. King asserted that illegal
campaigning took place within the
voting area at the Medical School.
He said poll worker Jim Thaler
told him that medical students
we re telling their cohorts who to
vote for if they did not have a
selection in mind.
Thaler, on the other hand, de­nied
the accusations. "I didn't
hear anybody telling anybody
who to vote fm . .. Thaler said.
"Anybody can ask a friend who to
vote for."
King, however, disagreed.
"One of the probl• ·•ns I had was
that it (Medical School) was an un­controlled
atmosphere, with the
polling taking place outside,"
King said. "There was no way reg­ulations
could be controlled."
King said he was under the im­pression
th;lthaving the ballot box
outside was a violation of Election
Commission rulE'!'. Harold Adams,
New signs
are now I• n
place after
'goof-ups'
ByT. A. PACK
Cardinal StaJTWriter
What measures approximately
5 feet high, 7 fee t wide and cost the
University of Louisville $108,000?
Answe r: The new information
signs, which appeared on campus
last month.
"It took about a week to put
them in," said David Lee, director
of Facilities Management at U of
L. "(Some of the signs) wet·e in the
wrong place," he said, "and we
had several little li!oof-ups."
assistant vice president for Stu­dent
Life, said he instructed John
Varga, Medical School Commis­sioner,
to put the poll anyplace
where they might get the most
votes. Adams noted that he didn't
know they would move it outside.
"I firmly believe next year I will
recommend there be two polling
places, one on the Belknap Cam­pus
and one at the Health Sci­ences
can}pus," Adams said. "I
will hire poll workers so we don't
have thesE! problems."
Harold Rittner, Music School
senator, a:sked the Senate to cer­tify
the elE!ction results excluding
the Medical School votes. This ac­tion
would have made Vie! the
President. "We keep making
these rules, but we don't follow
them," Rittlner said. "We have had
problems \r.rith the Medical School
before, and I want to know, are
we going to sit by as a Senate, like
we did lasa year, and not make a
decision?"
"There can be no doubt that
votes were coerced and that there
were irregJU!arities going on down
there (Medlical School)."
Frank .Temley, former SGA
president ~lnd chair of the election
discussion, ruled that Rittner's
motion was out of order because
there was already a motion on the
floor to ac•~ept the recommenda­tion
of the l~lections Commission.
Vie! said he thought the matter
needed to he examined. "I think a
decision not to investigate this
situation was highly irresponsi­ble,"
he s;~id. "This isn't some­thing
we should just shrug off."
A motiont was then made to in­troduce
a lt!tter written by a medi­cal
student that was solicited by
Vie!. Donna Elder, a Medical
entrances and questioned people
who entered the building.
Cutelis explained the group
supports the original proposal of
the Student Government Associa­tion
calling for total divestment
and that the Students Against
Apartheid have renamed their or­ganization
the Coalition for Total
Divestment. They also informally
renamed the Information Center
the Steven Biko Center, after a
slain South African dissident, and
the Oval "Divestment Lane."
The Foundation's action also
prompted an unfavorable re­sponse
from former SGA presi­dent
Frank Jemley, who spoke to
the group in favor of total divesti­ture.
"It's a good first step only if
there are steps to follow," Jemley
said. "But if this is the only action
the Foundation plans to take, then
it is inadequate."
Jemley said the Sullivan Princi­ples
"neither condemn nor caU for
an end to apartheid" and that the
Foundation used these principles
as goals instead of the minimum
standards they are.
Continued on Page 5
'Day of Action' hE~ld on
campuses across nation
College Press Service
New York, N.Y. - "I'm looking
out over about 250 students who
have chained the doors shut and
are blockading Hamilton Hall,
and we're all prepared to be ar­rested
if that's what it takes," re­ported
Josh Nessen, national stu­dent
coordinator of the American
Committee on Africa (ACA), by
phone from inside the beseiged
building.
Cloistered on the steps of Col­umbia
University's administration
building- in 1968 it was the site of
a bloody student occupation pro­testing
the Vietnam War - the
students beat drums and chanted,
"What do we want? Divestment.
When do we want it? Now. When
we gonna leave? Never. "
One day into the occupation,
which began as part of the annual
April 4th "Day of Action" on cam-puses
nationwide, Nessen prom­ised
the 200 j)r so students "won't
leave until the trustees guarantee
in writing that they'll divest all
South Africa·-tied stock holdings."
The occupation was still going
on four days later.
Nessen, who has been directing
campus protj~sts against South Af­rican
apartheid for the last several
years, thinks this spring's ac­tivities
were "definitely the
biggest in te·rms of participation
and militancy," he said.
Others, however, reported it
wasn't the same on their cam­puses.
Participation in this year's na­tional
South Africa Day of Action
was the same, or lower, than last
year's levels, they said.
In past years, Nessen has tried
to increase student interest in
apartheid by tying rallies and
workshops to activities of the anti-
Doug Kemper (right) takes the oath of office as
Student Government Association president
Tuesday night. Former SGA president Frank
Jemley (left) administers the! oath to Kemper.
School representative, stood up
and read the Jetter at Viel's re­quest.
The letter slated that an indi­vidual
at the Medical School pol­ling
place was instructing people
to vote for Kemper. The letter said
that the student voted for
Kemper, and he was praised by
fellow students at the voting box.
Wade Lewis, chairman of the
Finance Committee, said he did
not see any way to avoid friends
telling each other who to vote for.
"That type of control cannot be
used," Lewis said. "It is like a hus­band
and wife talking to each
other at the voting booth."
After sitting quietly through the
discussion, Kemper asked for the
floor.
"We have been hearing a lot
about violations tonight,'' he said
"The intent olf the election is to ap­point
a popular elected student
body president.
"Personally, I have finals com­ing
up and I am tired of the whole
thing. The question must be is a
solicited lette1r a preponderance of
evidence to disenfranchise 200
voters?
Shortly aflerwards, Kemper
was sworn in as SGA president by
Jemley.
nuclear power movement.
But with rising violence in
South Africa and a tremendous in­crease
in publicity in the United
States, Nessen predicted this
spring's annual campus anti-apar­theid
protests would draw record
numbers of student supporters.
"ll's hard to say this year is
twice as big, but it's close, and it's
much better coordinated and or­ganized,"
Nessen added.
Jesse Jackson, for example,
drew 7,200 students to an anti­apartheid
speech at Harva rd.
Many attended an all-night vigil
outside the administration build­ing
there.
University of Wisconsin-Madi­son
students marched on a nearby
Krugerrand (gold coins marketed
by the South African government)
dealer.
Over 600 University of Pennsyl­vania
students protested their
school's investments in firms that
do business in South Africa, while
an estimated 300 students
marched at Yale and an equal
number staged rallies at
Dartmouth and the University of
Iowa, the ACA reported.
Kent per
begins his
ternt ready
take action
By YVONNE D. COLEMAN
Cardinal Staff Writer
Doug Kemper, newly e lected
president of the Student Govern­ment
Association, is already
working to fulfill the promises he
made during his campaign.
In The Louisville Cardinal on
March 28, Kemper's plans were
outlined as: 1) opening SGA to stu­dents;
2) broadening the Mentor
program; 3) assigning each sena­tor
specific tasks; 4) opening a 24-
hour study area during exam
weeks; and 5) working with the
Department of Public Safety to ex­pand
the escort service.
Kemper said, "One important
issue, as promised in my cam­paign,
is that the SGA is going to
take a high visibility profile and
become a service organization."
He said plans are in the works to
get more students involved with
the SGA.
According to Kemper, his ad­ministration
would be putting
heavy emphasis on student or­ganizations.
On the issue of the 24-hour study
facility, Kemper said, "The Lin­coln
Room has been set up and
will be ready to open by Thurs­day.
It will be in full operation for
finals week."
The Lincoln Room is located
next to the SGA offices in the base­ment
ofthe Student Center.
Of the student directory,
Kemper said, "Norah
McDonough, services vice presi­dent,
has already got a company
that will print the directory next
year at no cr· -;t."
Colltinued on Page 4
Tuition and housing
costs to increase in fall
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Staff Photo by Tom Thompson
By T. L.. STANLEY
Cardinalllrlanaging Editor
In a brief meeting filled with re­minders
of inflation, the Univer­sity
of Louisville Board of Trus­tees
a pproved U of L President
Dr. Donald C. Swain's recommen­d
a tion to incrE~ase both tuition and
on-campus housing prices.
Tuition fo1r in-state under­graduate
stud•ents will rise by $109
for the 1985-86 academic year, a
9.6 percent inerease, while out-of­state
tuition will increase by $321
per year. Graduate school tuition
will increase by $121 for residents
and $353 for non-residents.
Tuition in the University's pro­fessional
scha<t>ls will also rise, th
biggest jump being in the Medical
School's tuitic,n, from $3,191 to
$3,638. Non-resident medical
school tuition will leap from $7,180
to $8,945, an increase of 24.6 per­cent.
The tuition rate will now be $622
per semester for an under­graduate,
up from the current
$564, making the rate for one
academic hour $58.50. The $622
figure includes the $35 per semes­ter
student activity fee and the $15
per semester building fee. Stu­dents
takmg six or fewer hours
pay a $7.50 student building fee
and a prorated activity fee.
The tUition at U of L was in­creased
"to help meet the impact
of inflation," said Swain in his
written proposal. He said the rates
were based on a study of tuition
rates in comparable states.
The trustees also voted to ap­prove
the increase of student
housing prices, effective in the fall
Lee said the U of L campus has CorJtinued on Page 3
new information signs because
"the president (of U of L, Dr.
Donald Swain) wanted them. I
think he was accosted on the cam­pus
by someone seeking direc­tions."
This sirn, near Davidson Hall, is one of the
many sips located around campus. These
sirns, which have a total cost of approximately
$108,000, should reduce confusion on campus. Cardinal stair takes time to offer
a sad farewell . . . . . . . P•Ke Z
Two Cardinal columnists say
their flnal good byes . . . Page 6
The signs, which Lee said cost
$108,000, were designed by Min­neapolis,
Minn. graphic artist
Robert Fleming. The State of
Kentucky hired Fleming "to do
sign age for the University hospi­tal."
said Lee, "and - when we
leased the hospital - Huma.na did
not want that particular signage.
They have their own signage stan­dards,
so we took the design and
substituted it for our campus.
They're probably a little sma ller
than he had! designed for the hos­pital."
Lee said the signs have generated
"nothing but positive comments
from the people on campus. (They
say) how nice the signs look and
how they do help. I think it does
he lp strangers to the campus and
new students. We have so many
'transient' visitors who come to
the campus. I think they (the
signs) do serve a purpose."
"They are helping people get
around a lot easier - even people
who have been on campus for a
long time," said Leigh Meers,
manager of the U ofLinformation
Center.
Greeks honoJr tl1elrown. Page3
Foundation :should have tltken
more action on the apartheid
issue . . . . . . . . . • . . • Page 6
Editorials • • . . • . . • . . P~JKe 6
New recruits Pervis Ellison and
A ver.r Marshall profiled . Page 6
Sports • . . • . . . . • . . . Page 6
Take a glimp.se into Walden
Theatre's new piiQ' ... Page 10
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