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August 25, 1998
Crime Reports 8
Recess 10
Calendar 13
Classified/Comics/Crossword 15
Ever notice the Birds above
Belknap Campus throughout the day?
Not only are they not pretty to look
at, but they can cause a mess too!
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Nina Greipel Staff Photographer
Jason Brown (left), a freshman majoring in Criminal Justice,
prepares to move into his new dorm at Miller Hall. Jacob
McConnell (above), a freshman majoring in Biology and Josh
Toppass, a freshman majoring in Music, carry their refrigerator
into Miller Hall.
Mandatory Freshman meal plan brings
expanded foo~ service for all students
By Allen Heintzman
Managing Editor
Want some flexibility, campus
life and expanded food services
with your meal?
That is what University of Lou­isville
officials say they plan to give
students with the new mandatory
meal plan for freshmen. The plan
is based around a declining bal­ance
card that starts at $700. Sonny
Altman, director of conlract ad­ministration
and risk manage­ment,
said the dollar amount
equals approximately two meals a
da}j five days a week.
"It gives students one meal a day
that they can choose to eat at other
locations if they want to," Altman
said. "Then on the weekends, since
we do have a lot of students who do
different things like going home, it
doesn't tie them into a meal plan such
as the 19-meals per week plan that
some other schools use."
Frank Mianzo, director of hous­ing,
echoed that sentiment saying
that one of the major concerns for the
students was to give them options.
"It is not really an oppressive
p:1eal plan, like they have to eat
every meal over in the food ser- ·
Vice," he said.
According to Chip Cavallaro,
food service director, most incom­ing
freshman and their parents
liked the idea of the meal plan card.
"I can tell you from doing 15.ori­~
ntation sessions and speaking to
the parents, we had close to 98 per­,
cent approval from them," he said.
"They were glad that their child
:would be on a meal plan and knew
'that they would be fed. It eased
their minds somewhat."
The card, which offers a dis­count
on all purchases, is not lim­ited
to resident freshman, Altman
said. Any student, faculty or staff
member can get a card with a mini­mum
deposit of $50. Student us­ing
the card do not pay the six per­cent
Kentucky sales tax and receive
an additional five percent discount
at Chartwells operations.
"A student who is paying in
cash has to pay the six percent sales
tax, but using the card they do not
have to pay sales tax," he said.
"There are tremendous savings for
every purchase made as opposed
to paying cash."
Altman said faculty and staff
members are not eligible for the sales
tax discount, but they do receive the
five percent Chartwells discount.
Besides flexibility, Altman said
the $700 mandatory meal card will
allow U of L' s contracted food -ser­vice
provider, Chartwells, to offer
new services. Changes this year
include a new place to eat, Market
Cafe; a change in menu at what
was Carver's Corner; and an ex­panded
menu at Ritaza. Also, ac­cording
to Cavallaro the hours of
operation are being expanded.
Dinner hours at Wyndows are 5:30
to 8 PM, Monday through Thurs­day
and on Friday 5:30 to 7 PM.
This is an hour longer than last ·
year when dinner ended at 7 PM.
The Sub, located in the basement
of the Miller IT Center, has ex­tended
its hours, opening its doors
at 7:30AM and closing at 1:30PM.
· Cavallaro said that the Sub will be
offering a breakfast selection for
students on that side of campus.
"I think that is what students
were concerned about, that there
·weren't enough hours," Mianzo
said. "They didn't have time to eat.
Part of the negotiation was to ex­pand
those hours."
Market Cafe, located in the Stu­dent
Activities Center in the old
multipurpose room C, will be a
buffet-style operation that offers
carved meats, a salad bar and·
cooked vegetables. The Carver's
Corner, also in the SAC, is being
changed to a Chartwells concept
called Upper Crust, which will
serve gourmet-type sandwiches
on fresh baked breads and hot
soups.
Furthermore, the Ritaza coffee
bar in Ekstrom Library is being ex­panded
to include the Upper Crust
sandwiches and The Sub will of­fer
New York-style pizza by the
slice, hot sandwiches, pasta bar
and a tossed salad station.
Altman 'said students will be
able to use their cards at all of these
locations as well as at Wyndows
cafeteria in the SAC. Both
Wyndows and the SAC cafeteria
have expanded their seating to
better accommodate students.
According to Cavallaro, food ser­vices
worked closely with the Stu-
. dentGovernmentAssodation to find
out what students wanted to eat. He
said that hotdogs and hamburgers
have been replaced with a more
eclectic and healthy fare.
Coinciding with the spring '98
decision by the University's Board
of Trustees to approve the manda­tory
meal plan was a reorganiza­tion
of the Food Service Advising
Committee. Altman said the
change gives resident students more
representation on the committee.
Transitional Studies Program
discontinued from U of L
By Amy Grimes
Assistant News Editor
-Beginning this fall semester,
the Division of Transitional Stud­ies
will no longer advise stu delftS
in their program. In the past, this
program has been a division for
students requiring additional
help in the areas of English and
math. Students were required to
take certain courses in the pro­gram
if they did not meet distinct
requirements on standardized
tests and/ or grade point aver­ages.
Transitional Studies were "pre­paratory
classes for students that
needed developmental classes in
these areas (math and English),"
said David Howatth, Associate
Provost and Dean of Under­graduate
Studies.
After reviewing several fac­tors,
the university decided tore­construct
the program, so that
students would be more likely to
succeed toward their majors.
"About a year and a half ago
a report was done by 80 people,"
said Howarth. "They made a se­ries
of recommendations to sim­plify
the procedure."
Other problems interfered
with the program including com­plications
through the .transfer­ring
of students' general require-
See TRANSITIONAL, page 6
Building on the future ...
The University of Louisville
football team marches off the
brand new field at Papa John's
Cardinal Stadium. With the inau­gural
game Sept. 5 against the
Kentucky Wildcats less than two
. weeks away, construction work­ers
are busy putting the final
touches on the Cardinals' new
abode.
A capacity crowd is expected
in the 42,000 seat stadium, and
although it will not be one hun­dred
percent complete, the play-ers
don't seem to mind.
"They still have a lot of work
to do on it," sophomore line­backer
Rashad Harris said. "But
all we need is the grass and some
officials, and we can get it on."
New head football coach John
L. Smith is implementing swift
changes in both the Cardinals'
offense .and defense, and learning
these new schemes will take both
a lot of time and effort from the
coaching staff as well as from the
players.
"We're like the construction
crew at the stadium," Smith said.
"We need two more months, they
need two more months."
For an update on fall practice
and how the Cards are adjusting,
turn to The Cardinal's 1998 foot­ball
preview, page 16.
And make sure you pick up
next. wee.l<'s Cardinal for more in­depth
stories about the up-com­ing
Battle of the Bluegrass and the
.new stadium.
-J.J. Hysell, Sports Editor
:l.J of L Medical School faculty attempt hand transplant
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By J. Scott Jennings
Staff Writer
Medical history may be made in Lou­isville
later this year when a collabora­tion
of doctors from various sources
around the city converge to attempt the
first hand transplant in North America.
In 1964, doctor» in Ecuador unsuccess­fully
attempted to transplant a human
hand, but that is not deterring local ex­perts
from giving it another try.
Several doctors working on the
project say that advances in research and
technology will make this attempt more
viable than the previous attempt. Dr. Jon
Jones is an Assistant Professor of Surgery
at the U of L Medical school, and he said
the primary advancement has come in
the methods of immunosuppression, the
way of making a body accept a trans­planted
organ.
"They've changed from very crude
one or two drug regimens to multiple
choices of different types of drugs," Dr.
Jones said. "Everyday, we learn some­thing
new about how the body responds
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risks. Dr. Jones
said the immuno­suppression
drugs
carry three major
risks: Infection,
cancers and other
side effects, such
as a decrease in
kidney function
and the onset of
diabetes. But
Jones added that
these possibilities
are not the same
for all patients.
Dan Spaulding Photo Director
Physicians Jon W. Jones, a transplant surgeon, and
John H. Baker, a plastic surgeon have been conducting
research and will attempt to transplant a human hand.
"The incidents
of those things
happening ... is
very low ... [and]
. depending on the
patient's family
to foreign tissue."
Jones added that it's impossible for
doctors to identify patients with a high
tolerance for new tissue, and that factor
would not be weighed in the patient se­lection
process.
This surgery does not come without
history and their own medical history
as to how susceptible they are," Jones
said.
Doctors say that the donor hand will
come from Kentucky and be donated
through the same process as other or­gans.
The first recipient may actually get
two hands as opposed to just one.
As for the surgery, Dr. Jon Barker, Di­rector
of Plastic Surgery at U of L, said
this transplant will actually be easier the
first time than was the first heart or kid­ney
transplant.
"The technical aspects oftransplant­ing
a hand have been worked out over
the past 25 years in replant cases,"
Barker said. He adced that the function­ality
of the new hand would likely be
greater than that of a replant because "a
hand that's been amputated traumati­cally
is often damaged by the accident."
Provided that there are no immedi­ate,
unforeseen mishaps, doctors on the
transplant team say that within a week
to ten days, the recipient should be able
to wiggle his fingers. After a month, the
recipient will be capable of making a fist
and moving the hand, and full function­ality
should be regained within six
months to a year. .
The type of hand selected will be a
collaborative decision between the sur­gical
team and the patient. Criteria in­clude
both functional and cosmetic as­pects.
"We ask the recipient what type of
hand they are willing to accept in terms
of skin color, hair distribution and some
of the cosmetic parts of it," Barker said.
"Obviously, there are also some func­tional
aspects of that; we cannot trans­plant
a hand with a very large bone on
to a recipient with a very small bone."
Doctors are adamant that the surgery
is a known quantity as far as physical
medicine goes, but say they are uncer­tain
how a patient will deal with having
a visible transplanted organ as opposed
to one that is internal, and thus out of
sight.
"We plan to really pay close attention
to that area," Jones said. "You're notre­minded
[of an internal organ] everyday.
You don't shake someone's hand with
it."
Dr. Barker agrees with his colleague,
and said that "someone who really be­lieves
that their quality of life is just u~­bearable
to live using a prosthesis or
having no hand ... obviously when you
give them a hand their response to tha,t
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