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Vol. LXXII, No. 15
© 1999 The Louisville Cardinal·
Graduate student council needs participation t~ survive
By Amy Grimes
News Editor
The University's Graduate
School student council is in
deep need of student involve­ment
and participation. Nearly
t~o weeks ago, the council's
second president of the year re­signed.
Helen Grace Correll, the ex­ecutive
vice president for the
Student Government Associa-tion,
has be!1n working closely
with the council's few remain­ing
mep1bers. She said the prob­lem
for the graduate students is
that it has been difficult for
them to keep up their duties in
the organization as well as
those academically. ·
"Annie Tarbox used to be the
vice president of services here
(SGA) and she is very familiar
with the way things work," said
Correll of the council's first
president of the year. "Because
of the paper (thesis) they have
to write, her time was'tight and
she resi~ed."
The council's next president
was Chris Carter who recently
resigned for the same reasons.
"Chris Carter and Sarah
O'Brian and some others
stepped up to the bat, but I re­ally
don' t think they knew what
they were getting into," said
CorrelL "They were really try­ing
to do a favor to the gradu­ate
students."
The student council has a
large responsibility in approv­ing
funds requested by gradu­ate
students for travel and re­search.
The members of the
council are required to make
sure those requesting the funds
meet certain criteria.
"They fund numerous
funds ... thousands of dollars,"
said Correll. "There are seven or
eight criteria individuals have
to meet to get the money and
the council members have to
make sure they meet this pro­cess.
It's very time consuming,
especially for the treasurer."
Correll said most graduate
students are very non- tradi­tional
and therefore have many
other responsibilities that
hinder their involvement.
"Ther have children and a lot
of the them are teaching us in
classes," she said.. The recent
resignings "is not a reflection on
the individuals or of SGA."
Chinese Ambassador visits University
By Michael A. Tynan
Editor-in-Chief
Chinese Ambassador Li
Zhaoxing has become a famil­iar
face over the last six
months, appearing on the Sun­day
weekend talk shows
"Meet the Press" and "CBS this
morning" to spar with hosts
Tim Russert and Bob Schefer
and other various guests. But
yes-terday Zhaoxing wasn't on
national television arguing
about nuclear espionage with
pundits, instead he spoke be­fore
a group of University of
Louisville students, faculty
and staff about American-Chi­nese
relations.
Zhaoxing spoke about a
various range of subjects, in­cluding
the controversial issue
of Tiwaneese independence,
the existence of an anti-Chi­nese
government cult in New
York and the expansion of the
Chinese economy over the la·st
few decades.
Zhaoxing was also able to lo­calize
his talk, speaking about
how Tobacco from Kentucky af­fects
the world economy.'
Zhaoxing estimated that the
number of smokers in mainland
China is 100 ,times the popula­tion
of Kentucky - approxi­mately
390 million people.
"That might not be good,"
he said "But I believe that the
tobacco farmers of Kentucky
will like that."
Overall Zhaoxing said
Americans and Chinese aren't
expected to agree on every­thing
eye-to-eye, but he said he
hopes we can continue to work
·together into the next century.
"We can say there will be
differences and set backs along
with can always come up with
a solution."
Zhaoxing was brought to
campus on behalf of the
McConnell Center for Political
Leadership by Senator Mitch
McConnell, a 1964 graduate
from U ofL.
Photos by Charlie Leffler
Above: Chinese Ambassador Li Zhaoxing spoke at in the Floyd Theatre on Monday.
Below: (left to right} Senator Mitch McConnell, and two McConnell Scholars posed
for a picture with Zhaoxing who answered questions from students at the event.
McConnell has also had a
hand in bringing politicalfigures
such as secretary of states James
Baker and Madeline Albright to
campus recently.
McConnell Scholar student
president and senior political sci­ence
major J. Scott Jennings said
when the Ambassador met with
the McConnell Scholars prior to
the lecture he candidly answered
all of the:ir questions, fully and in
detail --not really dancing
around any questions.
Unfortunately, some students
didn't f~el the same way after
coming away from the public lec­ture
in Flloyd theater.
"He did what a good ambas­sador
should do - skirt the
tory major said regarding
Zhaoxing's comments after a
question concerning a Chinese
take over of the Panama Canal ­an
issue that hasn't received
much media coverage.
"The way she (the woman
who asked the question) phrased
it, really made it a softball," he
said.
Roberts said that even
answer questions and sometiffies
evaded the politically controver­,
sial isslj.es- he still enjoyed the
lecture because that is exactly
what he was expected to happen.
"(Afterall) he wasn't Churchill
coming to announce the Iron
Wall," he said.
Political Science Professor
and McConnell Center Direc­tor
Paul Weber said McConnell
ber as the Chinese Ambass-a­dor,
so that U of L students
would be able to interact, is a
real coup for the-University.
Weber said when Zhaoxing
met with the scholars earlier
See STUDENTS, page 4
Since the student council has
been under the stress of having
few members, SGA staff mem­ber
Cheryl Meier who handles
the accounts payable and re­ceived
for the SGA, has been
helping them by acting as the
treasurer. However, the council
experienced. more complica­tions
because she was recently
out of the office due to illness.
In order to promote students
to run for the positions, the SGA
has assisted. by informing them
on the elections. Special Projects
· Chair, Pulac Khodad.adegan,
has been posting fl yers about
the elections in and around ar­eas
in which the graduate stu­dents
attend classes. Dave Wild­ing,
the SGA constituency rep­resentative
has been busy pro­moting
the elections at the
Health Sciences Campus.
Correll said she d oesn't think
the council will dissolve, but it
is a possibility.
"I don't think i t will
dissolve ... only if no students
show any interest," she said. "I
know two or three students
See MEMBERS, page 4
Sta1dium
nat:ional
gets .·-
award.·:
By Amy Grimes
News Editor
The University of Louisville
recently received a national en­vironmental
award for the strat­egy
it used to contruct Papa
John's Cardinal Stadium. Built
over an old train yard, the sta­dium
had to overcome many
obstabcles.
"This (award) shows we're
definately a leader and truely did
something that was precedent
setting," said Cheri Hildreth
Watts, U of L director of environ­mental
healU1 and safety.
The site of the stadium was
saturated with 90 years worth of
diesel fuel, lead and other dan­gerous
residues. Due· to the high
expenses of redeveloping such
land, it was tinusal that U of L
was able to do so. However, the
extra work was worth it because
the stadium. earned the 1999
Phoenix Award, the top award
presented at the fifth annual In­dustrial
Site Recycling Confer­ence
in Pittsburgh last month.
The award is presented annu­ally
for the most innovative
bwwnfield reconstruction
projects. Brownfields are a ban- ·
doned, idled or unused indus­trial
and commercial facilities in
which reconstruction is very dif­ficult.
Papa John's Cardinal Sta­dium
was chosen among 32
projects nationwide. Fifteen final­ists
were selected by judges to
make presentations at the confer­ence
and the winners were an­nounced
at a luncheon.
The winners were judged by
a five-member panel of nation­ally
selected environmental engi­neering
experts, banking officials
and redevelopment experts.
"We were certainly in un- .
charted. territory," said Hildreth
Watts. "We were breaking
ground in terms of what we did.
We didn't find. any projects like_
ours."
One of the judges claimed U
ofL's presentations was "the best
submittal we've ever had."
Hildreth Watts, along with
Nick Schmitt, a corporate con­sultant
with LawGibb Group, the
firm that worked with the plan­ning
of the site, and Denise
Chamberlain, founder of the
Phoenix Award, will present the
project in December at the Envi­ronmental
Protection Agency
Brownfields 1999 Conference in
Dallas.
One of the most innovative as-
SeeAWARD,page3
Photo by Dan Spaulding
Papa John's Cardinal Stadium opened in Sept. 1998 for its
first football game. The stadium was built over contaminated
land from an old train yard.
University Women's Center welcomes public, relocates to new home
I I
Photo by Jeff Hay
U of L's Women's Center held an open house last week in
honor of their new location located at the Administrative
Annex.
By Lindsay Wehr
Staff Writer
The Univeristy of
Louisville's Women's Center,
which was founded for the pur­pose
of promoting equality, in­creasing
women's self-reliance
and heightening the under­standing
of women's contribu­tions
to culture, welcomed tJ.:te
public to their new offices on
Nov. 17.
The open house, at their new
office in the Administrative An­n~
x, was from 4-6 p.m. Those
attending enjoyed
hor'devoures along with nu­merous
brochures about the
programs and services that are
offered at the Women's Center.
The first thing planned is the
Official Women Student Leader
Forum, which will cover what
students need, how to best
achieve these goals, and recent
happenings that every woman
on U of L's campus should
know, will be held on Dec. 1
from 4-6:00 p.m. in Ford Hall.
"Our goal is to organize stu­dent
activities on campus and
see what needs the campus has.
We are kind of hidden, but
things are going over well so
far," said Jessica Pendergrass,
the Center's Student Coordina­tor.
"It is wonderful because
there was no conference place
at the previous location and
they have more than enough
room here," quotes Sandra
want to help. Having programs
and meetings here will hope­fully
help people become famil­Fotner,
who
was present
at the Open
House.
"Things
turned out
very nice ."
Kathy
Kremer, the
administra­tive
assistant,
spoke on
their purpose
and concern:
"Our concern is to
get word out to
students, faculty
and staff because
these are the people
we want to help."
-Kathy Kremer
Administrative Assistant
iar with the lo­ca
tion." "We
want a safe
place for
people to be
able to cpme,
that is a main
goal," she said.
With all the
new found
space, money,
and resources,
the Women's
"Our concern is to get word out
to students, faculty and staff be­cause
these are the people we
Center is sure
to become a great helping place
on campus, not to mention a
learning place.