Next week ... • September 29, 1998
nme Reports
Calendar 6
Recess 8
Classifieds/Horoscopes/Comics 11
The University of Louisville football
team beat Boston College 52-28
for their second consecutive win
and first at Papa John's Cardinal
Stadium. See Sports, Page 12.
THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER FOR THE U NIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
Sports 12
Viewpoint 14
NCAA punishes U of L volleyball, basketball
By J.J. Hysell
Sports Editor
and 2000-2001 academic
periods, and will not play
in the N ABC preseason
tournament scheduled for
Nov. 8 at the RCA Dome.
The volleyball team lost
three scholarships over the
next two seasons and will
be limited to six expense­paid
recruiting visits for
the 1998-99 and 1999-2000
season. The team will be
allowed to participate in postseason
play.
"The NCAA's response has been
tough, but the sanctions are fair," U of
L President John Shumaker said. "Ire­spect
their conclusion."
U of L had already agreed with all
of the NCAA's charges except that
McCray had inquired about a dis­co'unted
hotel rate before Fred Johnson
arrived; McCray and U of L say he
asked about a special rate after
Johnson checked into the hotel.
The volleyball program was penal­ized
for yiolations of the extra-benefit
rule and recruiting regulations, includ­ing
providing lodging and financial as­sistance
to two recruits.
(Above) The NCAA penalties against the University of Louisville's Athletic
Department were announced via teleconference at a press conference on
Sept. 22. Bonnie Slitton, chair of the NCAA Committee on Infractions,
announced the final verdict from Iowa. (Upper right) Athletic Director Tom
Jurich (left) reacted to the NCAA's decision as President John Shumaker
looks on.
The NCAA Committee on Infrac­tions
penalized the University of Lou­isville
men's basketball and women's
volleyball teams for rules violations
committed in 1996. The penalties were
announced at a Sept. 22 teleconference.
The basketball team was banned
from postseason play following the
1998-99 season and placed on proba­tion
for three years. The Cards also lost
one scholarship for both the 1999-2000
The NCAA cited one violation in
basketball concerning former U of L as­sistant
coach Scooter McCray, who it
said obtained a discounted hotel rate
for the father of Nate Johnson, the
Cards' junior forward, and supplied
his personal credit card as guarantee
for the. room. The act violated the
· NCAA's "extra benefit" rule.
Because U of L was already serving
a two-year probation for violations
that resulted from a 1995 investigation
that centered around former basketball
star Samaki Walker's Ford Explorer,
the school was designated a "repeat
violator." In many cases, repeat viola­tor
status means the dreaded "death
penalty," which suspends the program
for a year.
As part of the university's self-im­posed
penalties against the volleyball
program, former volleyball assistant
See U OF L, page 16
Murray fire means Enrollment up for first time since '90
changes ·at U of L
• MSU dorm blaze
prompts U of L to
review fire safety
By Rachel Edwins
Contributing Writer
The fatal fire last week in a
Murray State University dor­mitory
has left Univ~rsity of
Louisville administrators with
the large job of looking at fire
safety precautions at U of L.
"The fires at Murray got
people thinking again about
fire safety," said U of L .Fire
Marshal Officer Kevin Jump . .
"There will be some changes
(at U of L) that come out of it."
A likely reaction to the MSU
fires will include new equip­ment
at U of L, Jump said.
"First we try to gather as
much information as possible
before administration looks at
our fire-safety program,"
Jump said. "Then we look for
areas that need improvement
and take action by strengthen­ing
policies."
MSU sophomore Michael
H. Minger died and five oth­ers
were injured in the Sept. 18
blaze. The fire started early in
the morning at Hester Hall, a
residential college at MSU. In­vestigators
are treating the fire
as arson, and a similar fire in
See MURRAY, page 3
• Admission says increase due to
Southern Indiana Reciprocity program
and UPS Metropolitan College
part-time package-handling job
at UPS.
The 'reciprocity agreement
allows students from certain
counties in Southern Indiana to ·
attend U of L at the in-state tu­ition
rate, and for students from
Jefferson and surrounding
cqunties in Kentucky to attend
IUS at in-state rates.
By Brian Kehl
Staff Writer
Despite an increase in tu­ition,
enrollment at the Univer­sity
of Louisville is up for the
first time since 1990.
Tuition for Kentucky resi­dents
increased to $1,460 a se­mester
this year from $1,315,
but enrollment for the' fall se­mester
is 20,821, up 32 stu­dents
from last year. Enroll­ment
for the 1990 fall semes­ter
was 23,610 but had since
declined.
Jenny Sawyer, executive
director of admissions, attrib­uted
the enrollment increase
to Metropolitan College and
the expansion of the reciproc-ity
agreement with Indiana Uni­versity
Southeast.
Metropolitan College is a
new, joint venture between U of
L, Jefferson Community Col­lege,
Jefferson Tech and United
Parcel Service that combines
tuition~paid class work with a
Metropolitan College has 272
U of L students, while 483 stu­dents
from Southern Indiana
"The Metropolitan College
and reciprocity agreement in
Southern Indiana has had a
definite effect on enrollment
this semester. "
-fenny Sawyer,
Executive Director of Admissions
are enrolled, up
from160 last year;
130 of the Southern
Indiana students are
new freshmen.
"Based on previ­ous
years,
we thought the tu­ition-
increase would
have a more signifi­cant
negative ef­fect,"
Sawyer said.
"The Metropolitan
College and reciprocity agree­ment
in southern Indiana have
had a definite effect on enroll-ment
this semester."
Associate Provost David
Howarth said he thinks U of L' s
enrollment will stay close to the
current numbers. U of Lis con­sidering.
raising its admissions
standards, Howarth said, be­cause
the Kentucky Department
of Education recently raised
minimum graduation require­ments
and toughened the pre­college
curriculum. The pre-col­~~~
ge curriculum is a group of
high school courses required by
most state schools for admis­sion.
"I think that quite frankly we
need to raise the standards,"
Howarth said.
In fact, Howarth said, U of L
may need to down size its en-
See HOWARTH, page 16
U of L receives $33 ,million of $110 million
awarded to Kentucky state higher education
Sing.,.i.n. g Senator
By Shannon ~udd
Staff Writer
The Kentucky Council on
Post Secondary Education
(CPE) recently passed "Bucks
for Brains," a program that of­fers
approximately $110 million
to state universities, community
colleges and technical schools
to enhance research.
The University of Louisville
was designated to receive $33
million and the University of
Kentucky $66 million. The re­maining
$10 million will be di­vided
among the other post sec­ondary
institutions in the state.
Former U of L Student Gov­ernment
President John Cary­who
was appointed the student
representative to the CPE at the
September meeting - said the
goal of the program is to
heighten the status of Kentucky
schools as research institutions.
The money will hopefully bring
more prominent professors and
department chairs to U of L to
study and perform research, he
said.
Cary said "Bucks for Brains"
is not a "donation" because
each university must match the
amount of money they were
designated before they can re­ceive
it. It was designed as a
dollar-for-dollar grant.
The program is the first of its
kind, according to Ronald
Greenburg, senior vice presi­dent
of Jewish Hospital and
Corrections
Due to editorial mistakes, last week's issue of The Louisville
Cardinal contained several errors, which we regret.
•University Librarian Hannelore Rader's name was spelled
incorrectly in the article "Student Government works with
Ekstrom Library to extend hours."
•Political science acting chair Charles Ziegler's name was
spelled incorrectly in the article "Poli-Sci to present a 'panel on
impeachment."'.
•The date of the Murray State University dorm fire was in­correct
in the story "Five hospitalized, one dead in Murray fire."
The fire occurred on Sept. 18.
•The piano recital by Valentina Lisitsa was incorrectly iden­tified
as a concerto and her name was spelled incorrectly.
chairman of the CPE financial
committee.
"No other state has ever done
this," he said.
Greenburg said the idea
came from a group of people,
including himself, who con­ferred
with Governor Paul
Patton. Greenburg then took the
idea forward to the CPE, where
it was discussed and passed.
"We wanted to know how to
jump-start research in Ken­tucky,"
Greenburg said. "We
plan on doing it by attracting
high-tech research business to
come here. We looked at other
big research institutions and cit­ies
and knew that we could do
it."
"The program is special,"
Cary said. "It allows (Ken­tucky's
universities) to be more
competitive in the world of re­search.
We can now afford to of­fer
prominent professors and
researchers grants to do (work)
here."
Cary said the program is es­pecially
rare because of the
large amount of money that
will be distributed in one bulk
sum.
"Universities receive grants
all the time, but for a school
to receive $33 million or $66
million is quite unique," he
said.
Greenburg said CPE decided
to offer the money at one time
" (so) we can enjoy the fruits of
our labor sooner."
Greenburg expects U of L
will raise the $33 million neces­sary
to receive the other $33 mil­lion.
"I think that it is realistic that
every school will match their
gift," Greenburg said. "I would
guess that U of L and the other
universities should be able to
have money by summer 1999."
Greer:tburg said with that
date so near, U of L will need to
begin thinking about how it will
spend the money. While re­search
experts an~ professors
will reap the benefits of the pro­gram,
students can also take ad­vantage.
"Part of the grant allows for
graduate assistants scholar­ships,"
he said. "(The CPE)
wanted to make sure that we
help the student body as well as
the researchers."
Cary said the CPE, which
meets at least four times per
year and is made up of repre-
. sentatives from each school,
serves two purposes: improve
the academic performance of
the s tate schools by imple­menting
programs su ch as
"Bucks for Brains," and re­viewing
the budgets and
studying the financial issues
of the institutions.
. ..
Photo by Dan Spaulding
U.S. Senate ~ajority Leader Trent Lott (R-~ississippi), along
with three other U.S. Senators, visited the Parish House
across from Papa John's Cardinal Stadium on Saturday,
Sept. 26, prior to U of L Boston College Game. The sena­tors,
who are part of a group known as the "Singing •
Senators," were in Louisville to support Representative Jim
Bunning's campaign for Senate. The Singing Senators have
traveled to over a dozen states to help raise support for
Republicans running for office. Bunning will face Democratic
opponent Scotty Baesler in the November general election.
Visit The Louisville Cardinal Online: <http://www.louisville.edu/org/the_cardinal>
'I