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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSilY OF LOUISVILLE PAGE 11
' Published Weekly Tuesday, September 14, 1999
Students to lose .parking
Contaminated soil forces University to close 300 space lot
By Michael A. Tynan
Editor-in-Chief ·
The University of Louisville
will be closing another parking
lot this Wednesday, only this time
instead of being closed due to
Cardinal Park construction, the
lot will be closed because of a
need to clean up fuel contami­nated
soil in the area.
The lot that needs to be closed
is between the BP Station and
McDonalds on Warnock, it con­tains
approximately 300 spaces.
"The soil, most likely, was con­taminated
by a gas station that was
once located adjacent to the site of
the lot," said U of L Parking Ad-ministration
Official Doreen
Wood.
The property was owned by a
Shell gas station before U of L pur­chased
it - Shell has agreed to
clear:t the contamination, she said.
"While tl).e contamination is
not health-threatening, we have
an environmental responsibility
to ensure that the company has
access to the lot to clean up the
soil underneath," Wood said.
Larry Owsley, vice president
for Finance and Administration,
said the lot must be closed so the
cleaning crews will have easy ac­cess
to the contamination site,
and for space to stockpile the soil
that has the fuel damage.
Owsley said U of L' s water sup­ply
faces no.risk of contamination.
Wood said the University learned
. of the soil-contamination on Wednes­day
and worked to inform students
as quickly as possible.
"As an alternative to parking
in the lot, we highly recommend
parking at Papa John's Cardinal
Stadium , and using the new
shuttle bus service provided by
U of L," she said.
Anyone with a valid U of L
permit may park at the stadium,
and the shuttle is free to U of L
students who present a bus pass.
Bus passes may be obtained for
free at the U of L parking office.
Riders who do not have a pass
will be charged 10 cents per ride.
The shuttle runs every eight to
10 minutes from 7:30a.m. to 9:30
p.m. from the stadium to the Stu­dent
Activities Center. There are
stops on the runinfrontofThrust
Theater, between the Bass-Rudd
Tennis Center, and Warnock
Street northbound.
Owsley said that there are
plans for next fall to expand the
shuttle to circulate around the
entire campus'.
The only other planned loss of
parking this school year is the·
blue faculty lot adjacent to
Strickler Hall that will be lost for
the construction of the new plan­etarium.
Night game successful for Cards
By Steve Wilson
Staff Writer
"The stadium looks beautiful
at night," said U of L fan Cindy
Parker, following the Cardinals
first-ever night game in Papa
John's Cardinal Stadium. The
scorel;>oard was also looking
rather beautiful to the 38,000 Car­dinal
fans who showed up Satur­day
night to watch the Cards 58-
30 drubbing of UT-Chattanooga
in the 1999 home opener.
It was a significantly different
story altogether from last season's
home and stadium opener fn
which the Cardinals were
trounced 68-34 by Kentucky. It
was scorching hot temperatures
on that day, which sent many of
the U of L fans home early. How­ever,
that was not the case this
year as most of the U of L fans
stayed around late to see the
Cards light up the scoreboar~ in
the much cooler nighttime skies.
U of L medical staff employees
Stephanie Nally and Kelly Melton
.had no trouble pointing out the
advantages of night games at this
time of year.
"We didn't have to deal with
all the heat-related injuries that
we had last year," said Melton.
"It was not nearly as chaotic as
last year. We also had more time
to get ready for the game, being
that it was later in the day," con­curred
Nally.
Also, getting more time to get
ready for the game, were the
many U of L tailgaters who
turned out in the early afternoon
for a little pregame partying.
"We got out here at two o'clock
," said lifelong U of L
fan Barry Reynolds.
"We tailgated all after­noon
and then g~t to
watch the Cards in the
evening. It is a great
way to spend a Satur­day."
The late starting time
was also convenient for
people like Doug
Temple and Jane
Sutherland, who made
the trip to Lexington for
UK's game and then
back to Louisville in
time for the nightcap at
Papa John's Stadium.
Both Temple and
Sutherland have season
tickets for both schools.
"I root for both
schools," said Temple,
who had changed out
of his UK top and into
his Cards T-shirt, but
Photo by Charlie Leffler
The Cards celebrated their win last Saturday night. It was the first
time a night game has been played at Papa John's Cardinai Stadium
as well as the first home game of the season for the Cards.
was audacious
enough to wear his Wildcats
socks onto the sacred grounds
of Papa John's Cardinal Sta­dium.
At least, it is sacred to
Sutherland who graduated
from Louisville in 1984 and
makes no bones about the fact
that her allegiance is to the Car­dinals.
"I think we have a great chance
to go undefeated," said
Sutherland who really enjoyed
her first night game in the new
stadium. "It was a. really neat at­mosphere
and the fans were re­ally
excited."
It was certainly a raucous Car­dinal
crowd that started the wave
in the third quarter with the
Cards enjoying a 42-9lead.
"It was really fun when ~hey
started the wave,'~ said Joe
Shane who was attending his
first U of L game. "It felt like
we were a community out
there."
Also attending her first U of
L game, was Robin Ragland,
who was simply enamored with
Papa John's Cardinal Stadium.
"This is a tremendous sta­dium
and the atmosphere is
simply fabulous out there under
the lights;" said Ragland . :'I
think the fans enthusiasm really
contributes to the team."
An obvious hit with the fans
were the 15,000 U of L sports
calendars featuring Heisman
hopeful QB Chris Redman on
the cover that were given out.
"The calendars were a great
idea," said Joe McCollough who
proudly wore his #7 jersey
(Redman's number). "I have al­ready
voted for Chris like a
dozen times on the internet in
Heisman polls."
Sports Marketing Dept.
plans to give out 5,000
Redman Posters for this
week's game against Illinois
which will kick off at 7 p.m.
on Saturday night also.
Vol. LXXII, No.V
© 1999 The Louisville Cardinal
Northup shares
surplus views
with students
• Congresswoman Anne
Northup says it's time to .think
about the ~ext generation
By Amy Grimes
News Editor
U.S. Representative Anne
Northup told students at the
University of Louisville
yestersay that it's time for a tax
cut. She defeated Mike Ward
for Congress in 1996 after she
served nine years in the Ken­tucky
legislature. She currently
represents the 3rd district com­prised
of greater Louisville
and Jefferson County.
Northup was invited to the
University by the McConnell
Center for Political Leadership
and the Political Science de­partment.
"You reflect a lot of who I
was thirty years ago," she tol'd
participatihg students who lis­tened
to her in the Floyd The-
. ater. "I always had a lot of in­terest
in politics."
Northup began by explain­ing
the deficit and the prob­lems
it holds for future genera­tions.
"When you accept the defi­cit
is part of public policy, it's
very easy to make it bigger,"
she said. "The first thing we
have to do is not to spend. If
we had started with no debt
we could have funded every­thing
in the previous years and
still had money left over."
She feels the deeper the
deficit becomes, the worse it
will affect the next generation.
"When we build the deficit,
what we steal away is the next
generations' emerging needs.
They have to pay the debt we
came up with in the past," said
Northup.
The United States govern­ment
expects a large surplus
over the next 10 years. The
question·currently at hand in
Congress is how to use, these
funds most appropriately.
"We walled off $2.8 trillion
for Social Security and Medi­care,"
said Northup. Next,
"what do we do with every­thing
left over? We can save it
and pay the
deficit,
spend it, or
have ' tax
cuts."
Northup
says her
views of
how to
spend the Anne Northup
surplus
h a v e
changed since she WilS elected
three years ago.
"When I was first elected I
argued saving," she said. In the
Kentucky legislature, "the
sense of money was finite. That
sense doesn't exist in Washing­ton."
Northup says organizations
. often expect to get funds from
the government, yet they don't
worry about where the funds.
come from. "We had a huge in­crease
in funds last year and
this year the demands have be­come
outlandish rather than
less," she said.
Northup says it's time to
. start thinking about how the
government can mend the cur­rent
problems in the deficit be­fore
it creates more.
"My feeling is that at some
point we have to put the breaks
on," she said. "It's not my gen­eration,
but my children's that
are going to have to fund all the
programs we start. To allow
new programs to start without
Worrying seems to be irrespon­sible."
Students in attendance en­joyed
hearing Northup's
views.
"I wanted to hear what she
had to say," said Jeff
Klusmeier, a junior communi­cation
major. "AnneN orthup
is everyone's representative­-
not just Democrats or repub­licans.
She is our public ser­vant.
We should be able to ask
her questions." Klusmeier is
chairman of the Young Re­publicans
in the River City
area.
Crum· signs book at
Wallace's Bookstore
LEAD members chosen from Freshmen class
By Lindsay Wehr
Contributing Writer
The University of Louisville
Wallace's Bookstore welcomed the
men's basketball coach Denny
Crum last Wednesday for a book
·signing. Many fans showed up for
the event, confessing to the coach
that they were his mi.q1ber one fan.
Coach Crum greeted everyone
with a smile and signed each book
with his autograph and the com­ment
"Thanks for caring!" in­scribed
on the inside cover of his
book, The State of the Game, prov­ing
just how much team support
means to him.
"The student and community
support here is tremendous," said
Crum. "And it definitely has a
huge effect on the team."
Crwn' s book was released a few
months ago. All of the money
raised is going directly to the Fel­lowship
of Christian Athletes.
. There are chapters on all levels
of schooling, not just collegiate,
and it is still expanding. "I would
have never agreed to do the book
for my own profit, but for this or­ganization,
it is worth it," said
Crwn.
The book is on sale for $19.95 at
the bookstore, and a limited sup­ply
of autographed books and bas­ketballs
are still.available.
Crum started his career as the
graduate assistant to John Wooden
at UCLA. He received his first
head coaching job at Pjerce in 1964,
but later returned to UCLA to be
an assistant to Wooden once again.
He began his Cardinal coaching
career in 1971 and has continued
since.
"As long as I am healthy, I am
going to be coaching here," said
Crum.
Crum says that his father has
See COACH page 14
By Amy Grimes
. News Editor
The students for a newly
initiated freshman leadership
program have been'selected by
the Student Government Asso­ciation.
The program, Leader­ship
Enrichment and Develop-
Jason French
ment, is a
miniature
student
council ex­clusively
aimed at
getting
freshmen
involved in
SGA ear­lier,
and
having
them act as
a voice for their classmates.
Freshmen were introduced
to the idea of LEAD this past
summer through orientation
and the over the course of the
first fev.: weeks of the semes­ter.
More than 100 applicants
submitted applications andes-says
to SGA explaining their lead­ership
qualifications .
. "We looked at the people who
were really well rounded in high
school," said Jason French, SGA
president. French, along with sev­eral
other members of SGA, re­viewed
the information submit­ted
by the applicants.
Thirty students were selected
to participate as leaders repre­senting
their classmates for the
new program.
"Often times we looked for
leadership in several areas," said
French. "That includes academ­ic's,
athletics, and diversity."
Many of the students selected
demonstrated high achievements
in leadership in the past.
"In my essay I wrote about a
group of girls I started in my high
school," said Margot Holmes,
: LEAD member and biology ma­jor.
"It was called Senior Sisters
with Visions, and it was a men­tor
group for African Americans.
It was a way to encourage a lot of
students not to drop out of
school."
Holmes feels being able to par­ticipate
in the program will be
beneficial for both her and the
freshman class.
"I plan to go into Denis try," she
said. "Hopefully by doing this I'll
be able to form a lot of connec­tions
that will help me. I want to
be able to meet a lot of people to
help me throughout my college
career. And if there's something
my classmates want or need they
can comelo me and I'll take what
they want to the SGA to see what
can be done for them. I'm nervous
since it is new, but at the same
tiine I'm really excited."
Diversity was the main goal
for those selecting the student!' to
become LEAD members.
"We did not make decisions
based on Greek and non-Greek
status," said French. "We were
looking for a diverse group from
the Freshman class."
Jordan Osborne, also a LEAD
member, is excited to be a part of
a new organization on campus.
"I applied because I thought it
would be a great opportunity to
let freshmen in on student gov­ernment,"
said Osborne. "To let
o~r voices be heard and to get the
proper training to be in SGA as
the time comes. I'm really excited.
I don't know what to expect, but
I'm anxious to dive in and get
started."
Members of LEAD will be ex- ·
pected to not only encourage
campus involvement among their
classmates, but also assist the ex­ecutive
officers. LEAD also con­sist
of committees with specific
duties including executive, pub­lic
relations, programming, and
service.
"Their responsibilities
strongly depend on them,"
said French. "It will depend
on how much they assist to
reach out to the freshmen.
These students will have a
high level of interaction." .
The officers of LEAD will
be given their own office
space in the Student Involve­ment
Center of the Houchens
Building within the next three
weeks.