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VOL. 57, NO.7, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, OCTOBER 3, 1985 10 II)AGES AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Instructor charged
in prostitution case
ByM.NORMANJACOBSON
Cardinal Assistant News Editor
Howard Lee Miller, a part-time
faculty member at the University
of Louisville, was arrested Thurs­day,
Sept. 26, and charged withal­legedly
arranging a prostitution
date from his office at The Louis­ville
Times, where he is a staff
writer for Neighborhoods.
In spite of the charges, Miller
continues to teach his newswriting
class at U of L. According to Jo
Clark, assistant to the dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences, dis­ciplinary
action is handled by each
individual de partment.
Miller denies the charge.
"Once the trial is over, it will
prove that I am correct (innocent).
The charge has nothing to do with
the University, it has nothing to do
with my teaching at U of L and it
will not affect my work here," said
Miller.
On Friday, Miller resigned from
his U of L position as a newswrit­ing
instructor in the Communica­tion
Department, but withdrew
his resignation the same after­noon.
Dr. Charles Willard, chairman
of the Communication Depart­ment,
acknowledged it was a
mutual decision between the two
to withdraw Miller's resignation.
"Miller is under contract for one
semester, which is standard for
part-time terms of appointment. I
will honor that contract," Willard
said.
Dr. James Morrill, associate
dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, confirmed that Miller is
still under contract and continues
teaching a newswriting class.
Sgt. John Ansman of the Louis­ville
Police Department said an
anonymous source gave an under­cover
officer Miller's home phone
number to arrange a date. A
woman at Miller's home told the
officer to contact Miller at his of­fice.
Miller gave the undercover of­ficer
Debra Thomas' phone
number; Thomas was arrested for
prostitution after offering to have
sex with the officer for $50.
Thomas denied any· business as­sociation
with Miller, however.
She did say she had offered to
have sex with the officer for $50
"only because I needed the money
real bad." She said she had not
been arrested for prostitution
since 1979.
According to Thomas, Miller
had received phone calls for two
days before giving the officer her
phone number. Miller thought the
call was a practical joke, she said .
"He don't have no street-knowl­edge,"
said Thomas. "He ain't no
pimp."
Lt. Howard Tingle of the LPD
called this case an unusual situa­tion
and said he doubted it was
anything more than an isolated in­cident.
"His name has never come up
before," said Tingle.
Paul J anensch, executive editor
at The Courier-Journal and Louis­ville
Times, said Miller has been
suspended without pay pending
the outcome of the trial.
"That is our regular policy re­garding
any crime that is work­connected,"
said Janensch.
He stressed that the newspaper
was -"not attempting to cover-up
the story at all," having covered
the incident under the Crime and
Court Reports section of Friday's
Courier-Journal.
Neither Willard or Morrill had
any comment regarding an inves­tigation
of Miller's activities at U of
L.
Miller will be tried in mis­demeanor
court on charges of
third-degree promotion of pros­titution
.
Officials may begin
athlete drug tests
By ALAN ZUKOF
Cardinal Sports Editor
A local television station re­ported
last week that the Univer­sity
of Louisville is planning to in­stitute
some form of drug screen­ing
among its athletes.
But according to Dr. Edward H.
Hammond, U ofL's vice president
for student affairs, those plans
have been in the works for nearly
two years.
"There was4 feeling on the part
of a couple of our coaches - this
must have been a couple of years
ago - that there was a possibility
that some of our athletes were
using drugs," Hammond said. "In
the team situation they were in,
the use of drugs was not only detri­mental
to their own performance,
but could put other players in
jeopardy as well."
Hammond said his involvement
with athletics as an administrator
is relatively new and the subject of
drug testing predates his formal
involvement. He was part of the
board that discussed the issue
about a year ago, however.
Some other institutions dis­cussed
and implemented testing
programs of their own at that time,
structures along lines similar to
the screening used by the Interna­tional
Olympic Committee. "In
fact," Hammon~ said, "the whole
discussion started about the same
time all of that was being dis­cussed
a bout the Olympics."
U of L's administration decided
the University would begin some
type of screening program, ac­cording
to Hammond. Equipment
to do the testing was ordered and
actually purchased, but between
the time it was paid for and the
time it was delivered, two other
developments interve ned .
"The NCAA appointed a na­tional
committee to study the issue
of drug screening and make some
specific recommendations regard­ing
the subject and outline proper
procedures," said Hammond.
"Also, some legal questions were
raised in board discussions about
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the rights of the student-athletes
involved."
In light of those developments,
University officials decided to put
the drug screening program on
hold, pending the report of the
NCAA committee.
Hammond said the committee
report will be released soon and if
the committee is going to make
proposals to the NCAA conven­tion
in J anuary, the proposals
must be presented to the member
schools in the next four to six
weeks.
The issue of compulsory drug
screening gets complicated rather
quickly, Hammond said, because
there are questions of rights and
liabilities on both sides. "There's
the issue of self-incrimination," he
said. "The athlete has a right not
to be involved in a program of
forced self-incrimination.
"You also have the question of
tort liability. Tort is the un­privileged
interference with an in­dividual
in s1,1ch a way that you
cause harm. That means if a coach
of institution knowingly and wil­lingly
permitted athletes they sus­pected
were on drugs or alcohol or
something to play, and someone
else got injured as a result of that, ·
there's the tort liability issue."
Hammond said there is a prob­lem
of balance between the stu­dent-
athlete's rights and the rights
of the program. He also said the
University must find a middle
ground before it forms its policy.
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University of Louisville has se·t aside $100,000 to renovate Garden­court
Mansion. The mansion houses the Urban Studies Center.
Gardencourt slated
for exterior rep airs
By MARK CLARK
Cardinal StaffWriter
The University of Louisville has
initiated a major maintenance
project, with a projected budget of
$100,000, for the University's Gar­dencourt
Campus on Alta Vista
Road near Cherokee Park.
The repairs will include roofing
and exterior painting to the Geo­rgian-
style mansion which houses
the Urban Studies Center.
Further rejuvinatibn will be un­dertaken
on the driveway wind­ing
through the campus, a retain­ing
wall and a wooden shelter
over a pathway that surrounds a
floral garden.
Even in its present condition ,
the Gardencourt mansion which
dominates the campus is impres­sive.
However, the slate roofing is
badly cracked and discolored,
especially near the building's ten
dormers, and paint has begun to
peel from the stone trim. The re­taining
wall surrounding the gar­den
is crumbling rapidly and the
beams covering the garden walk­way
have completely rotted. Gar­dencourt's
driveway and parking
lot are both full of potholes and in
dire need of repavement.
The University had received at
least one phone call from a nearby
resident complaining about the
neglected appearance of the prop­erty.
It is hoped that the re-roofing
of the dormers, resurfacing of the
drive and other repairs will pre­vent
further deterioration of the
facilities until more comprehen­sive
renovations can be budgeted,
according to Larry Owsley, vice
president for administration.
"It's about time (something was
done)," said B. J . Norland, admin­istrative
coordinator for U of L's
College of Urban and Public Af­fairs,
part of which is currently
housed at the Gardencourt prop­erty.
"When you work here, you
get to like the place and want to
see it restored to its original
beauty. There are some leaks in
the ceiling and a few other things.
It's a nice place to work, but it
does need help."
"The repairs consist mainly of
standard maintenance items,"
Larry Owsley said. "It is not a de­teriorating
situation."
Owsley said the Gardencourt
repairs are part of an ongoing pro­cess
keeping the University's
buildings in acceptable condition.
This year, about $500,000 is pro­posed
for renovation. Repairs are
grouped according to necessity,
those categorized as involving
safety - such as asbestos removal
and housing code compliance -
are given the greatest priority.
The Gardencourt repairs are
part of a second group, intended
to prevent further deterioration.
There are two further classifica­tions
of descending importance.
Gardencourt, a three story Geo­rgian-
style mansion located on 14
acres overlooking Cherokee
Park, was originally the home of
Lucie Norton, Martha Norton and
Minnie Norton Caldwell, the
daughters of financier George
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Foreign students feel at home h ere
By GLENNDA TINGLE
Cardinal Features Editor
Mohamed Nofal, a 20-year-old
civil engineering student from
Jerusalem, came to the United
States on May 12, 1985. It was the
first time he had traveled to this
country.
Expecting to enroll at Rutger:;
University, Nofal landed in New
J ersey only to find his application
for admission had been denied.
Since he had also applied for ad­mission
to the University of Louis­ville,
he next traveled to Kentucky
where more bad news awaited
him.
"No one at the University told
me I h ad to pass an English profi­ciency
test first, and once again I
was denied admission," Nofal
said. "I was very upse t. I knew no
one here and did not know what I
should do."
Fortunately, someone directed
Nofal to the International Center
and the offices of Peter Li, U ofL's
liason with the 250 foreign stu­dents
on campus. In short order,
Li helped smooth out the prob­lems
and Nofal was enrolled for
classes in the Speed Scientific
School.
Li has worked with the Interna­tional
Center for two years and
said he enjoys the daily contact
with students. A native of Hong
Kong, Li ha ~ great empathy for
those students new to this coun­try.
"We try to help in any way
possible. We help them over the
rough spots and do what we can to
make their stay enjoyable," he
said.
Whatever the International
Center does, it is obviously work­ing.
Foreign students very rarely
leave U of L before completing
their degrees. Li said the reten­tion
rate for fs>reign students is 95
percent.
"The existing system at U of L,
along with community support
and self-motivation" are key fac­tors
in this laudable statistic, Li
said.
Nofal agreed with Li. He came
to the United States to study be­cause
of the opportunity for a bet­ter
education. Even though this
meant leaving his home in Gaza,
he believes the sacrifice is worth
it.
"Also, the political situation is
better here. America is a more
civilized country," he said, mak­ing
indirect reference to the politi­cal
unrest alon g the West Bank.
He said stude nts here are very
friendly and he is beginning to feel
more comfortable.
Syed Rashid Ali Anwar, a stu­dent
from Pakistan, also praised
the friendliness of students at U of
L. Anwar is a senior electrical en­gineering
student who transfer­red
to Speed School last year from
the University of Oklahoma.
A 29-year-old former sailor with
the Merchant Marine, Anwar has
been in this country for five years.
His entry into the University of
Oklahoma was less hectic than
that experienced by Nofal, but
Anwar was confronted with a dif­ferent
problem.
Anwar began his studies in Ok­lahoma
at the h eight of the Iranian
hostage crisis. "People were con­stantly
mistaking me for an Ira­nian,"
he said. " I remember once I
went into a McDonald's and the
people were very a ngry and rude .
They thought I was from Iran and
they wanted m e to leave."
Fortunately, the folks at U of L
have learned the difference and
he said he has found many friends
here.
Among those friends are resi­dents
of the Triangle fraternity
house, where Anwar lives. He is
in the process of joining that
fraternity and ~~ak~ very highly
of the group. "The people in
Triangle have been very nice to
me," he said, ''and they have
made me feel most welcome."
Anwar and Nofal both said they
enjoy their classes at Speed, but
they noted differences between
American educational practices
and those oftheir home countries.
Both men pointed out one major
difference involving the academic
testing process. In Israel and in
Pakistan, students sit for exami­nations
in each subject at the con­clusion
ofthe school year, just like
British students.
"One big advantage is that you
really learn the material," Nofal
remarked. He said that unlike
American schools, where fre­quent
quizzes and objective tests
are the norm, the British method
requires comprehensive essay
questions. "There is no g uessing,"
he said. "You must know the ma­terial."
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Hard Knocks Staff Photos by Tom Thompson
"Ivan the Nice" (Randy Webb) takes a blow to
the head from "Arthur" (Arthur Taylor) durinc
a full-contact sparring match. The two men are
members of the Society for Creative Anach­ronism,
a campus organization for devotees of
jousting and other medieval activities.