Inside ... October 27, 1998
Crime Reports 4
Recess 6
Classifieds and Calendar 9
Comics 11
, In the spirit of the season, turn to
Recess, pages 7 and 8, for a scary
ghost ·story and a list of the top six
horror movies. Happy Halloween! THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
Sports 12
Viewpoint 14
Cardinal Park dream soon will be realized
U of L's 'front lawn' soon
to feature new sports park
CARDINAL- PARK -Belknap will
~- lose over 2,000
;- parking spots - By J.J. Hysell
Sports Editor
Right now a huge red­and-
black sign greeting
passers-by on Interstate 65 is
the only indication of future
changes at the University of
Louisville.
But starting with a Dec. 9
groundbreaking, travelers
will glimpse many signs of
what will soon be a $45 mil­lion
sports complex called
Cardinal Park.
The outdoor facility will
feature a softball, soccer and
intramural field, a track, bas­ketball
and sand volleyball
Dan Spaulding
SGA President Jon Jageman (center) said he
suppports Cardinal Park at last week's
Student Senate meeting.
courts, a playground, a CardioWalk, and
a natatorium.
The sports park has been a dream of
the U of L Athletic Department for over
10 years. Now, after extensive fundraising
efforts and the clearing of several road­blocks,
the dream will become a reality.
The park will be constructed in the area
between Arthur Street and Floyd Street
and extending from Brandeis Avenue to
Warnock Street, on land that is now used
for II green" lost parking.
The natatorium will be built on the cor­ner
of Floyd and Warnock, across from the
Thrust Theatre where there now is a
McDonald's restaurant. The McDonald's
will be relocated to an area adjacent to the
parking garage.
The facility will be available for athletic
teams, intramurals, students and the pub­lic.
"There is a lot of interest in the park
for this community, because I think the
community is going to benefit as well,"
Athletic Director Tom Jurich said. III
would like to integrate the athletic depart­ment
with the university, so I would like
to have a facility that the university can
use as well as we can use. In tram urals can
use it. The (University) president and
alumni can use it for functions. The com­munity
uses it. I think it is a 'win-win.'
There's a lot of different benefits that go
along with it."
The park, which is scheduled to be fin­ished
by 2001, is funded entirely from pri­vate
funds. Plans for the park were
eclipsed by fundraising for and construc­tion
of Papa John's Cardinal Stadium,
which opened Sept. 5.
"Now that we have the stadium done,
which has taken a lot of energy and com­mitment
from the community, I think it's
time to move on to this project if we're
going to move this athletic department
ahead," Jurich said.
The park will aid U of Lin its efforts to
comply with Title IX, a federal regulation
requiring gender equity in schools. Cur­rently,
U of L does not have an equal ratio
of men and women in its sports programs
to satisfy part of the law.
In April, the University Board of Ath­letics
voted to add women's rowing, golf
See CONSTRUCTION, page 16
Basketball's Nate Johnson
suspended for alcohol arrest
By J.J. Hysell
Sports Editor
The University of Louisville
basketball program received yet
another blow Monday when it
was announced that junior for­ward
Nate Johnson has been
suspended by coach Denny
Crum for the first two games of
the 1998-99 basketball season
following an alcohol arrest
early Sunday morning.
Police charged Johnson with
disorderly conduct and alcohol
intoxication after an incident
Corrections
Due to reporter error, the
article "Common Ground helps
remember slain homosexual stu­dent
with rally in Quad" con­tained
several mistakes:
• Robin White, Meredith
Dooley and the Religious
Leaders for Fairness were in­correctly
identified.
•"Hell House," the contro­versial
Bowling Green haunted
house, is sponsored by Victory
Hill Ministries and NOT the
Unitarian Universalists.
•The Unitarian Universal­ists
were incorrectly called a
"fundamental Christian
group." Instead, they iden­tify
themselves as a liberal
denomination which sup­ports
gay rights· and ordains
gay ministers.
We apologize for the errors.
outside the
Taylor Made
Lounge at
26th and
Broadway in
Louisville.
According
, to a police re­f/
port, Johnson
1 "--.::..;.;....o.-.~ was among a
Johnson group of
people out­side
the business when police
responded to a disorderly
crowd call. Police say Johnson
shouted obscenities at police for
"breaking up our party" while
looking at the officers and, be­came
verbally abusive when ·
asked for his identification.
The report says Johnson
"caused alarm to pedestrians
in the area and passing motor­ists"
and "made it difficult for
(the officer) to conduct his
ciuty." According to police,
Johnson smelled strongly of
alcoholic beverages and had
red bloodshot eyes and his
See JOHNSON, page 4
Event to motivate women to
fight for -freedoms, equality
By Loren Reni Beard
Editor In Chief
Local musicians and organiza­tions
will join University of Louis­.
ville students and campus groups
for National Young Women's Day
of Action on Thursday, Oct. 29.
The event is in it's sixth year
nationally, but this is the first year
U of L students have participated.
Organizers have planned an event
to not only educate young women
about reprodup:ive freedom, but
also to address racial and economic
injustice, domestic violence, gen­der
equity in employment and
other issues which affect women
on campus.
NYWD A began at Hampshire
. College, but events are now held
at over 3,000 colleges, universi­ties
and high schools across the
nation. The event encourages
women to speak out, said Aimee
McFerren, a U of L senior who
helped organize the event.
"People are afraid to say what
they believe, or they just don't
care," McFerren said. "There are
people out there who cate and
want to help. We have to try to
let people know that we'll be
their support."
The event is being cospon­sored
by the Women's Center
See GRANT, page 16
'
By Michael A. Tynan
News Editor
Commuter students at the University
of Louisville's Belknap Campus will soon
lose more than 2,000 "green" lot parking
spots across from the Student Activities
Center to make way for a new sports park.
Larry Owsley, U of L' s vice president
for finance and administration, said con­struction
on Cardinal Park will start on the
park next February.
Groundbreaking on the park is sched­uled
for December, but Owsley said that
between now and February only prelimi­nary
construction will talk place, such as
setting up fences around the area and
other preparations.
He said the lots will be closed in thirds,
beginning with the lot that borders Cardi­nal
Blvd.
"Five to six hundred will be lost by Feb­ruary,
then (an additional) 1,400 will be lost
by the fall of next year," he said.
According to Owsley, there are 5,900 ·
green parking lots currently on campus,
with about 10,800 green passes sold for
this parking.
Owsley said the lots at Papa John's
Cardinal Stadium, located on Floyd Street,
will be used to make up for the loss spaces.
Using those lots, Owsley said, will ensure
that there are enough parking spaces.
"We're working with TARC on creat­ing
a first-rate shuttle system," he said.
Owsley said the shuttle would run from
the stadium lots to various spots on cam­pus
throughout the day.
"The alternative is to build a parking
garage," he said. "(But an 8 to 9,000 space)
garage would cost $8 to 9 million dollars."
Student Government Association Presi­dent
Jon Jageman said at last Tuesday's
See JAGEMAN, page 16
Students fill Floyd Theatre to hear
Baker talk about U.S. foreign policy
By Brian Kehl
Staff Writer
Former U.S. Secretary of State
and of the Treasury James Baker
spoke to a capactity crowd in the
Floyd Th'eatre Monday.
Baker, who served in the
Ronald Reagan and George Bush
administrations, expanded on
present issues, as well as expla­nations
of actions taken during
his tenure for about half an hour
and then took questions from the
audience.
Baker began with what he
called' a "generic view of foreign
policy, specifically how foreign
policy is implemented and gen­erated."
He specified two areas of
thought, that of idealism as op­posed
to realism and their effects
on foreign and domestic policy.
Baker, in defining the two
viewpoints, said :" ... at their most
extreme, idealists have urged
abolition of individual states, and
their replacement with global
government," and that realists
" ... tend to scoff at i~temational
organizations and interna-tional
law alike, and they put their faith
instead on the maintenance of an
international balance of power."
Baker stated that he believed
a combination of the two theories
is best, " .. .foreign policy is most
successfull (by using) both real­ism
and idealism " he said.
Baker said that we used both
in the Gulf War, and that one of
'the major debates that arose from
. Dan Spaulding
Former Secretary of State James Baker, who served under
President George Bush, spoke before a capacity crowd in the
Floyd Theater on Monday, .
the actions taken were that of the
conflicts that exists between for­eign
and domestic policy.
· According to Baker, "I think
that the Gulf War demonstrates,
the conflicts between realism and
idealism .... are often more appar­ent
than they are real." As an ex­ample
of both, he mentions that
in the Gulf, not only was Iraq in­vading
a country and dominat­ing
a people, thus affecting for­eign
policy, but also thtreatening
the world and country's energy
supply, and affecting domestic
policy.
He also si;lid that the ability of
the U.S. to gain United Nations
approval and support "probably
proved tritic'al" to gaining the
support of our own government
in taking actions against Iraq . .
Then President ,Bush,· after gar-
. nering the international go­ahead,
put a vote to the Senate,
although legally not required,
and passed 52-47. The vote in the
House passed overwhelmingly.
Overall, Baker considered the
actions in the Gulf a success, but
See FORMER, page 16
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