VOL 58, NO. 25, LOUISVILLE,
Trustees
approve
co:mposer
for prize
By JOHN GREGORY
Cardinal Afterclass Editor
A four-hour opera by British
composer Harrison Birtwistle
has been selected winner of the
1987 University of Louisville
Grawemeyer Award for Music
Composition. The honor was ap­proved
during the Board of Trus­tees
meeting last Monday.
"The Mask of Orpheus" was
chosen over 95 entries from 20
countries for the $150,000 annual
prize. The award was initiated in
1984 by University alumnus H.
Charles Grawemeyer to recognize
excellence in modern musical
composition.
KENTUCKY, MARCH 26,1987 12 PAGES
Play byplay
AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Planned club site
avoids parking lot
By JAMES D. HINES
Cardinal Staff Writer
University of Louisville Presi­dent
Donald C. Swain presented
the Board ofTrustees with a possi­ble
location for the facu lty, staff,
and alumni club at their monthly
meeting Monday night.
Swain proposed that the club be
buill on a site on F loyd street, near
the soon-to-be constructed Stu­dent
Activities Center , on land
which currently houses several
old physical plant storage build­ings.
Swain told the Boa rd that the
club would be financed in part
with a $4 million gift from Barry
Bingham Sr., and with proceeds
from the auction of the Garden­court
Campus in Cherokee Park.
The Board must approve both the
bid on and the sale of the Garden­court
property.
Larry Owsley, vice president of
administration, said Bingham
gave a total gift of$4 million to the
University, $2 million of which
was to be used on the actual con­struction
and $2 million to be used
for an endowment to help cover
the operating costs.
velopment a nd P lanning Colette
Murray.
"We surveyed a large number
of people and found a high level of
interest," she said. "We found
enough interest to warrant closer
investigation ."
Murray said the club would
probably operate by charging
people who use it a modest initia­tion
fee, and then regular mem­bership
dues. She also said that
she does not think students at U of
L will be members of the club.
"I doubt if students will be mem­bers,"
she said. "The (new) stu­dent
activities center will be big­ger
(than the club), and the stu­dent
center will be geared more
for the students."
According to Owsley, the Uni­versity
will accept bids on the Gar­dencourt
Campus, which will be
advertised from now until April 22
or 23. The Board will then vote on
whether to accept the price of the
highest bidder, and on the use of
the proceeds from the sale to fi­nance
the club at their April 27
meeting.
The opera uses recorded and
live music as well as puppets,
mimes and singers to relate the
Greek myth of Orpheus. The first
human musician, Orpheus used
his talents to win the freedom of
his lover Euridice from Hades.
The plan fails, however, and the
heartbroken Orpheus is killed by
the gods who are jealous of his tal­ents.
"In the theater, they say it'sre­ally
overwhelming, so I imagine it's
like going to a movie with a very
complex stot·y," said Nelson
Keyes, executivP secretary of the
award committee. "It's not sim­ple-
it's highly sophisticated
music."
Billy Troutman· (middle) and Chris Bostock
(right) discuss their game plan while Brad
Troutman tried to listen. The youths' fathers are
assistant CtJtaches with the U of L football team.
Construction of a University
Club was proposed last fall, ac­cording
to Vice President for De-
In addition to approving the sale
of Gardencourt, and the use of
funds from the sale, the Board
must also give final approval for
the site of the club.
Owsely said Swain "presented
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Some dorm residents object to forced removal
The work's only performances
occurred in May ,1986, when it pre­miered
at the London Coliseum.
According to Keyes, the 52-
year-old Birtwistle is the most
honored living composer in Great
Britain. "He is recognized widely
in England as the best British com­poser
of his generation," Keyes
said.
Entries for the award are
screened by School of Music com­poset
·s including Keyes, Paul
Brink and Claude Baker. The mu-
Continued on Page 3
By KENNETH HARDIN
Cardinal Assistant News Editor
A proposed dormitory floor for
students who excel in academics
has met with opposition from
U nive1·sity of Louisville male resi­dent
students who would be relo­cated
in order to accomodate the
new housing arrangement.
The eighty male and female re­sidents
of Miller Hall's third floor
r~ceived notices Feb. 11 that they
would b moved out of their cur­rent
rooms to make way for a
"scholars' floor".
Six students who received
notices met with U of L Director· of
Housing Denise Dickerson-Gif­ford
Feb. 12 to voice their opposi­tion
to being forced to move.
The male section of Mille·r's
third floor is one of the Univ•er­sity's
two quiet floors, where resi­dents
are expected to maintain a
peaceful e nvironment conducive
to studying at all times. Students
must request to be placed on a
quiet floor when they apply for
housing.
The representative student
group told Dickerson-Gifford they
Instructor is batty
over night flyers
By TAMMY FREDETTE
Cardinal Correspondent
Bats have been depicted as evil
creatures lurking in the night.
Most Friday night horror movies
show bats coming out of dark,
damp caves to prey on humans for
blood.
"Not so," said Dr. Kunwar
Bhatnagar, world-renowned bat
researcher, who has been a pro­fessor
of anatomy at the Univer­sity
of Louisville for 16 years.
"Bats are like your pets or like
any animal that lives in your back­yard,"
Bhatnaga r said. "They can
be identified with cardinals whom
you love to see, but you never see
them because they do not fly dur­ing
the day. That is why there are
all these horror s tories and Friday
night movies which portray bats
as bad creatures."
Bhatnagar's studies and inter­est
in bats can be traced back to
his earl) beginningsas a student.
Originally from India, Bhntnagar
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came to the United States to con­duct
his graduate studies at Estate
University ofNew York. There he
received his Ph.D. and was highly
influenced by one of his professors
who studied bats.
"Any person who selects any
study, somebody influences him
so much that he wants to be just
like them," Bhatnagar said. "I
wanted to be like my professor.
My professor worked on bats so
from him I decided to carry on the
study and tradition."
According to Bhatnagar he has
obtained this information from his
"academic ancestors." These an­cestors
are not biologically related
to Bhatnagar but are his academic
forefathers, who have passed in­formation
from professor to stu­dent.
"We all are composites of those
who teach us," Bhatnagar said.
Like his academic ancestors,
Bhatnagar has advanced the
study of bats. Many books and re­ference
manuals on bats cite his
Dr. KUNWAR BHATNAGAR
work. One such book is The De­veloping
Human in which Bhat­nagar's
work is c ited in seven dif­ferent
languages.
Bhatnagar is also the edito1· ol
an international periodical on bats
called "The Bat Research News. •·
According to Bhatnagar it is the
most respected periodical dealing
Continued on Page :1
Chernobyl ~octor and
Soviet poet visit U of L
The University of Louisville will
be the host for a renowned Rus­sian
poet-novelist-filmaker as he
makes a preliminary lecture tour
of the United States in the month
of April.
Yevgeni Yevtushenko, who
lives in the Soviet Union,will ar­rive
in Louisville Monday, April6.
He will arrive at U ofL Tuesday,
April 7, following his participation
in a local radio talk show.
Yevtushenko was displaced as a
child and grew up in Siberia. The
and 3:30 p.m. on Friday, April 3
and again on Monday April 6 at
the same times. A panel discus­sion
about Kindergarten sched­uled
for Tuesday, April 7, will fea­ture
severa l U of L professors, as
well as off-campus personalities.
Coinciding with Ycvtushenko's
lecture will be a visit bv Dr. Robert
Peter Gale, the Ame'rican physi­cian
who traveled to the Soviet
Union to assist victims of the Cher­nobyl
nuclear accident.
move was designed to protect him Gale will give two lectures, dur-and
other residents of Moscow as ing his visit sponsored by the U of
the city was being shelled during L Student Government Assoda-
World War 11. It was from these lion, a 12 p .m. talk in the Health
experiences that he took the idea Sciences Center Auditorium and a
for his film , Kindergarten, in 1:30 p .m. discussion in Middleton
which he makes a cameo appear- Auditorium. All events are free to
ance. the public. For more information
His film will be shown in Strick- about the schedule of events ~md
ler Hall, room 308, four times: at 1 times, call SGA at 588-6695.
Correction
A story in the Feb. 5 issue of The
Louisvill!! Cardinal incorrectly
slated that Trustee Dr. Karen
Bearden worked her way through
graduate school by bartending
fraternity parties. Actually, B~· ar­den
was a graduate :;tssistant at
Eastern Illinois Univ..:rsity and her
job was to supervise student
gatherings.
enjoyed living with people with
lifestyles similar to their own and
did not wish to lose that environ­ment.
"We have a relaxed atmosphere
and we enjoy what we have," said
Scottie Vish, a freshman business
major. "We have worked hard for
it and we don't want to give it up."
Criteria for housing on the pro­posed
floor will be a 3.0 grade
point average and the reception of
either a Governor's Scholars, Na­tional
Merit, or Woodford R. Por­ter
Trustees' Scholarship.
Howeve~ . students now living
on the third floor with a 3.0 will be
allowed to remain in their rooms if
they are not on scholarship. Stu­dents
leaving the floor will have
first priority in selecting a new
room.
Vish said many students living
on the third floor who meet the 3.0
requirement said they would
choose to leave if a scholars' floor
is established in order to remain
with their group.
The students presented Dicker­son-
Gifford a petition, with signa­tures
from 32 of the floor's 40 male
students, requesting a slow transi-lion
to the new floor instead of an
abrupt change. Prior to the meet­ing,
a 30-signature petition re­questing
the formation of another
quiet floor in Miller was given to
Dickerson-Gifford on Feb. 10.
Dickerson-Gifford said that al­though
she sympathized with the
students who are being forced to
move, Miller's third floor will most
likely be the home of the scholar's
floor next year. However, she did
say she will seriously consider op­tions
to move those students who
wish to stay together into a situa-
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Medical school prepares for
sesquicentennial celebration
By LISSA VANHOUTEN
Cardinal Features Editor
For 150 years the University of
Louisville School of Medicine ha!;
prided itself on its prestige in the
southeastern region of the United
States and its progress in the area
of medical research.
According to Tom Owen, as­sociate
archivist , the U of L medi­cal
school has played an important
leade rship role for the medical
profession. "The medical school
did earn a reputation as a place to
get a good, practical education,"
he said.
"In the 1840's, (the medical
school) attracted a number of im­portant
scholars and medical re­searchers,"
Owen added. "Many
students from out-of-state came to
U of L's medical school."
Owen, who has researched the
history of the medica l school, will
speak at an event commemorating
the school's 150th anniversary on
March 30. County Judge-Execu-live
Harvey Sloane and U of L
President Donald Swain will also
address the audience in the
Health Sciences Center Au­ditorium.
Mayor Jerry Abramson
anrl Governor Martha Layne Col­lins
are also invited to attend the
ceremony, but have not yet re­sponded.
According to Michele Kline, fi­nancial
aid adviser in the medical
school dean's office, the medical
school celebrated its centennial in
1937. "But to my knowledge noth·
ing has been done in celebrating
the anniversary since then."
"It's (the anniversary) more or
less a way for saying we've been
around for a long time," she
added.
Owen will emphasize the
longevity of the medical school in
his speech. "I will try to spend a
fai r amount of time on the colorful
beginning of the medical school in
1837, at the time Louisville was
feeling its oats and growing in
population," he said.
Spring fever
"There were efforts in the late
19th century to reform, modernize
curriculum, and improve on in­struction,"
said Owen. "The em­phasis
on research came very
slowly at U ofL because the medi­cal
school was cr·imped finan­cially."
Owen said after a "golden"
period in the 1840s, in which the
medical school was known region­ally
for its "nuts and bolts" ap­proach
to medical education, it
moved away from its emph<~ sis on
research. "But since the begm­ning
of World War II, the Univer­sity
has managed to emph asize its
1·esearch programs."
According to Owen, part of his
speech will be anecrlotal. F or e x­ample,
Owen said that at one time
there we re seven medical schools
in Louisville which helped crtate
a shortage of cadavers for study­ing
the human body. "The need
for cadavers led to (medical
school) conspiracies to rob
graves."
s ·taff l-hoto by Tom Thompson
Dawnice Dunlap (left), Sherry Payne and Todd
Stommel didn't let tl!eir studying keep them
from taking advantage of the warm weather. The
group got in some sunbathing near their dorm.
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