VOL. 58, N0. 11 . LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, OCTOBER 30, 1986
Trustees discuss
~ttrition figures
ByM.NORMANJACOBSON
Cardinal Managing Editor
The number of undergraduate
students leaving the University of
Louisville has declined by 2 per­cent
compared to last year's fig­ures.
This statistic is part of a stu­dent
attrition and retention study
presented at Monday's Board of
Trustees meeting.
Nearly 31 percent of the under­graduates
enrolled in the fall of
1984 did not return for the fall of
1985. The report showed the high­est
attrition rates among part-time
students. According to Dr. Ed­ward
H. Hammond, vice presi­dent
for student affairs, this statis­tic
is typical of an urban univer­sity.
Both Hammond and Dr.
Donald C. Swain, president of U
of L, pointed out that students at
urban institutions a re more likely
to pursue interrupted programs
for undergraduate degrees.
this explanation disappointing.
"Is that a cop-out on our part? It
seems to me that any student who
wants a degree ought to be able to
get financial assistance," Fischer
said. "Are we not doing enough?"
Swain cautioned against "read­ing
too much into the figures," be­cause
many factors contribute to
the financial situation of students
at an urban university. "What may
be financial difficulty to one
means something else to
another," Swain said.
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8 PAGES AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Noise and
activity are
limited in
the Quad
By KENNETH HARDIN
Cardinal Assistant News Editor
A new policy which limits use by
students of the Humanities Quad­rangle
has been drawn up by Uni­versity
of Louisville Vice Presi­dent
for Student Affairs Dr. Ed­ward
H. Hammond at the request
of faculty in the Bingham
Humanities Building.
In a Oct. 6 memorandum to
Hammond's office Melvin E.
Greer, chairman of the Division of
Humanities, complained of a s{u­dent
activity that day in the Quad­rangle
area which "caused a
major disruption of classes during
the noon hour with extremely loud
music and talking ... blasting
The most common reason for from enormous loudspeakers."
leaving cited by both part- and
full-time students was fmancial
difficulties. George Fischer, chair­man
of the Board, said he found
While U of L has increased
funding for its financial aid pack­age
by a greater percentage than
the Council on Higher Education
increased tuition, nationwide
trends to reduce funding pro­grams
have made many middle­income
students ineligible for aid.
Dr. Edward H. Hammond, vice
president for student affairs, rec­ommended
that U of L become
less dependent on student loans as
a means of financial assistance
and rely more on scholarships,
grants, work study and part-time
student employment.
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Steve Aldridge won first pllace in The Cardinal
photo contest with this feature picture. Aldridge
also captured second place in the feature cate
gory, the only category in which awards were
given. See his second place photo on page 5.
His photos are on display in the student center.
According to the memorandum
Greer approached student qp­perating
the P.A. system and "re­peatedly
asked him to lower the
sound, with no success." Greer
noted that in the past "students
have always been responsive to
my requeo;ts to lower the sound
level", but that in th is instance he
received no cooperation.
Single students face campus dating problems
By LISSA VANHOUTEN
Cardinal Features Editor
First of Three Parts
Do you have a hard lime getting
to know people of the opposite sex
on campus? Some students may
have an easier time learning how
to meet other students. Campus
opinions differ on the inheren l d if­ficulties
in the dating situation.
The Courier.Journal write•·
Elinor Hrechet; who wrote the ar·­ticle
"The Dateless Pits," said cui­lege
students have an easier time
meeting and dating people than
do people outside of college, espe­cially
older people. "The campus
provides a relaxed setting; a stu-
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Runt" takes direction of U of L 's
ROTC program. . . . . . Page 2
Space cadets. Would you use
TARC discounts to ease your
parking problems. . . . . Page 4
Ghouls night out. Life (and
death) awaits at Louisville area
haunted houses. . . . . . Page 7
Hook, line and sinker. Local
swell holes for landing fish the
size of a Buick. . . . . . . Page 8
News Updates . . . . . . Page 2
Editorials . . . . . . . . . . Page 4
Letters to the Editor . . Page 5
Sporls ... ......... Page6
dent has a better chance to get to
know people," she said.
"The normal American thing to
do is to grow up, get married, and
have children," said Brecher.
"Those Lhat don't follow the nor­mal
way, have a really tough
time."
According to Brecher, the dat­ing
situation is particularly hard
for women in their 30's who have
been working on their careers.
"I'm not advocating that young
women give up their career goals,
but when a woman gets older,
personal relations become just as
important as professional achieve­ment,"
she said.
Many students at U of L take a
diffet·ent view on the difficulties in
meeting people. "The dating situ­ation
at U of Lis pretty bad," said
Mark Mudd, 27, a theatre aJ"ts
major. "Girls seem to have a pre­conceived
notion of the type of
person they want to go out with. If
J .:>u don't fit into their groove, the n
forget it.''
".l\ls.,, every single, cute
freshman girl has air ady ac­quired
a boyfriend within their
first two months of school," add•ed
Mudd.
Tommy Pearce, 25, a theatre
arts major, cut in, "You just
weren't in their first round dra ft
choice."
In a more serious vein, Pear·ce
said, "People are not concerned
with getting to know other people;
photo by Mark Lynch
Afterclass . . . . . . . . . . Page 7
Holy Roller
Classilieds and personals
Rabbi A vrohom Litvin (right) stands with his colleague and a Uni­versity
student in front of the Bellcnap Campus Student Cente1r
and his Su/ckah Mobile-a travelling Jewish temple.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 8
Void ID cards being abused
t.o obtain student services
8 TIM SAN·FORD intra'mural progra1.1s and use se~- murals are now checked to insure
cy rd' 1 N ff Ed't vices to which they are not ent1- they are actually enrolled. If a stu-a
ana ews 1 or tied. dents name is on the list, R;amsay
Many people who have To alleviate the J:>robl~mORffiam- sRaid_ hte ~ou0blffi chetek~ wath t1
.hhe
dropped out of school after regis- say asked the Regastrar s tce egts rar s ace o. msure . e
tering for classes at the University f?r a list of students who could pos- person has actually Withdrawn ..
of Louisville this semester have stbly ~ave dropp~d out of s<;hool Eight students in the W eii~ht
kept there college IDs. Some of and ~till hold ~ vahd.ID. He srud he Club showed up on the list, ac-these
people are using the cards ~o receaved ~ l!~t wath ov~r 1300 cording to Ramsay, and he said
play in in tram urals, buy athl~tlc names on It. I th~mght I d get a after double-checking six of them
tickets and obtain other servtces one or two page hst so we could were found to be ineligible be-reserved
for enrolled studen_ts. check pe~ple." . cause they were not actually Em-
Dale Ramsay, director of mtra- Accor.dmg to Kathy Qtto, ~siS- rolled. "There are a lot of people
murals, said the issue of whether ~ tan regts~rar • the hst se11t.~o J.t~ttn- stealing services that tuition pay-student
was enrolled at the Um- say con tamed .the names of~all stu- ing students aren't getting," said
versity arose at an intramural flag dents w~~ registered for classes at Ramsay.
football tournament •his fall. AI- the begtnmg of the semester, but
though the student had a valid ID who were no longer enrolled. Sh;e
Ramsay contacted the Registrar's said students are a.sked for therr
office and found out, in fact, that ID when they Wt~hdraw from
the student had dropped out of school, but many clatm to he:ve .lost
school them. She added that at this tlme
"So~e students come to school. the Registrar's Office does not
get their ID validated and then keep track of the nam~s of stu-drop
out of school," said Ramsay. dents who do. return thetr IDs.
He said many of these indiviuals Ramsay sat~ t_he ~ame.s of. most
are continuin~ to participate in students partactpatmg m mtra-oome
students are also register­ing
for classes, buying student ath­letic
tickets and then withdrawing
from the University. Rob
Brawner, assistant athletic diro~c­tor
for finance and ticket opel!'a­tions,
received an updated list of
approximately 2000 students who
have withdrawn from school.
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they're concerned with getting
lonely."
·In an academic situa tion ,
people act differently," said
Mt•rld. "You can get to know a per­son
beLter when you take that per­son
out (on a date) than trying to
get to know them on campus."
Some students think that find­ing
dates depends on having
friendly, self-confident per­sonalities.
"It's easier for an out­going
person to find a date," said
Kathleen Curlovic, 25, a psycholo­gy
major. "It's not hard for a girl
when she does the asking, but it's
pretty hard if a girl waits for a guy
to ask her out."
Another student that agrees
with Curlovic is T ony Graves, 25, a
communications major. "As long
as your not intimidated by any­one,
it's easy to meet people," he
said.
Graves also advised, "If your
seriously looking to date someone,
don't look in the bars, that's the
one-night stand scene."
Sometimes making friends in
class can develop into a serious re­lationship,
according to Tina
Whitworth, 19, an elementary
education major. "I meet a lot of
guys in class, probably ifl was dat­ing
(right now), the guys I meet
co ld develop into a dating situa­Li"
n."
·' '3ut, it can be hard when you
gd •111.0 a class with people of dif­ferent
ages," added Whitworth.
Greer said in a telephone inter­view
Monday he does not deny the
right of students to utilize the
Quadrangle but that "their actions
should not be inconsistent to tli'e
other functions going on in the
building."
To clarify the measures which
may be taken in dealing with simi­lar
situations in the future Greer
proposed the following policies be
enacted:
1. That large group activities not
be held at the front of the Bingham
Humanities Building when classes
are meeting.
2. That no loudspeaker be used
in front of the building when class­es
are in session.
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University fills first endowed
chair in venture with Lions
By MARIANN KURTZ
Cardinal Editor
Working in conjunction with the
Kentucky Lions Club, the Univer­sity
of Louisvill has filled its first
endowed chair through the Quest
for Excellence campaign. Dr.
Ch1·istopher A. Paterson was cho­sen
after a two and a half year
search to fill the endowed re­search
chair in the Department of
Ophthalmology.
Following an 18-year term as a
professor of ophthalmology and
physiology at the University of
Colorado Medical School in De­nver,
Paterson accepted his new
post in June as the director of re­search
in the Ophthalmology De­partment.
His main duly, accord­ing
to Paterson, is to " instigate and
manage the growth of the re­search
aspect of the Department
of Ophthalmology."
"I also have to be attendant to
other problems such as parking,
plumbing and general building
concerns,., said Paterson. "I'm not
sure I take kindly to it all, but you
i~::~ve to get things done. "
Paterson admitted that his deci­sion
to come to Louisville was not
made wtthout d oubt. When first
approached about the position by
department chair, Dr. Tom Zim-
Corrections &
Clarifications
Copy Shop Does
Offer Publishing
AssistaJJ<'e
Due to incorrect information,
The Louisville Cardinal reported
in the Oct. 23 issue that Laser­graphics
did not offer full copy,
publishing and copyright assist­ance
programs. Such programs
have b en available at Laser­graphics
sine it opened for busi­ness.
Lasergraphics offers s If serve
and full service copying. They
have two Macintosh desktop pub­lishing
systems available for cus­tomer
use and offer assistance
with self-publishing of texts, thesis
and resum s. Lasergraphics also
offers assistance in obtaining
copyright waivers for the republi­cation
of any material.
merman, Paterson said his an­swer
was an emphatic "no".
Pursued by Zimmerman, Pater­son
was persuaded to come to
Louisville and get a feel for the en­vironment.
"I came down and had
a look around," said Paterson. "I
was still not very enthusiastic."
Paterson, however, came to
view the position as an opportu­nity
for change which a lso pre­sented
a challenge. "The depart­ment
has a nice building and con­siderable
support from the admin­istration
and community," he said.
"The position gave me an oppor­tnnity
to do something different
with a base on which to build a
good program."
"It had to be a unique opportu­nity
to get me away from Den\:(!r,"
said P aterson, who expressed a
great fondness for Colorado and
its mountains. "My biggest prob­lem
when I first came to Louisville
was that I couldn't get directions
straight," he said with a laugh.
"When you look toward the sun
and at the mountains in Denver,
you know you are facing west.
You can't do that in Louisville."
Paterson's biggest adjustment
in moving to Louisville came when
his daughter decided to stay in De­nver
and finish h igh school. " Liv­ing
without my children has been
my biggest adjustment," said
DR. CHRISTOPHER
PATERSON
P aterson who had grown accous­tomed
to a family situation with his
children and their fri nds always
in the house.
Paterson has also had to adjust
to the slower midwestern
pace. "Louisville is a quiet, com­fortable
place to live and brin~ up
children. Although I'm not sure
it's good," he said. Louisville has a
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Center welcomes
foreign students
...::
By KENNETH HARDIN
Cardinal Assistant News Editor
The International Center is
sponsoring a series of informal re­ceptions
designed to bring local
students into contact with their
counterparts from other coun­tries.
The receptions are part of an
effort to promote an awareness of
the foreign cultural element at the
University of Louisville.
About 60 people attended the
most recent International Tea
comm<:rr.,• rating United Nations
Day on Oct. 23. Refreshments
were provided by French herit­age
organizations from the Uni­versity
and the community.
According to Dr. David Her­shberg,
who assumed the center's
directorship this fall after serving
as chairman of the Department of
Modern and Classical Languages
for 10 years, the three lnterna-tiona!
Teas hosted each semester
"are in hopes of establishing a r~­port
between the native and fqr­eign
cultural factors her a t U o;L
which will be beneficial to botli"
Peter Li, international stuueit
coordinator for the center,said
another goal of the functions ai:e
"to introduce fon• •gn studeri{s
here at U ofL to the many s rvic•s
the International Cent r off - s
them." :
According to L i, th center a!­fers
· about 300 foreign studeti\s
enrolled at U ofL aid in class re~­tration,
and counseling on eQl­ployment
and im111igration mat . rs.
"The shock of adapting to a n4W
environment leaves many inter­national
students in need of ass . l­ance
in dealing with the details;. f
college life," said Li. "We try to
make the transistion easier ~r
them."
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