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L • The. II OUlSVl e Cardinal
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October 16, 2001
News
Focus
RSOs play an integral role in
campus life, page 8
Sports
Volleyball' team ends two­game
skid against C-USA
rival DePaul, page 12
Opinion
Taking advantage of your
first amendment rights,
page 15.
Inside
NEWS ......................... Page 1
FOCUS ........................ Page 6
SPORTS ...................... Page i2
OPINION ................... Page 14
CAMPUS BRIEFS ..... ·Page 3
HOROSCOPES .......... Page 12
COMICS ..................... Page 12
www.louisvillecardinal.com The Independent Student Newspaper
Board okays
Shelby
Campus
business park
By Jon Gray
Assistant News Editor
· Over the next several years, the
University of Louisville's Shelby
Campus will be converted into a busi­ness
park. After approval at a Sep­tember
24th meeting of the Board of
Trustees, U of L President,· John
Schumaker is now moving ahead on
plans to convert the 236-acre facility
into several clusters of business de­velopment.
All fourteen buildings on the east­em
Jefferson County campus will be
demolished over the
next few years,
making way for of­fice,
service and re­search
and develop­ment
firms. Ac­cording
to the a pre­liminary
concept
plan, almost half of
the land will be left
undeveloped, in­cluding
tree-lined
buffer zones be­tween
the commu­nity
and the busi­nesses.
Another
"gree.n" measure
will be the retention
of a front lawn.
One of the ob-jectives
of the con­Shelby
campus is soon to b{' converted into a business park. (Above) The sun sets on another day of
classes at Shelby Campus. (Below) The concept plan approved by the Board of Trustees.
version is to aid in the Challenge
for Excellence vision, whose goal
is to make U ofL a nationally rec-ognized
metropolitan research uni­versity.
According to Larry
Owsley, vice president for finance
r' ' ' +-..s: !
/
and administra­tion,
the project
will be judged
by three criteria
that will make
sure it is staying
in line with the
VISIOn: each
project will help
advance the re­search
and de­velopment
projects of the
University, en- ·
gage university
faculty either
academically or
professionally,
or provide stu­dents
or alumni
the opportunity
Photo courtesy of Inside Uof L
to participate in its activities.
Currently, the campus is used as
a conference center for local and na­tional
business and provides both·
credit and noncredit courses, used
predominantly by nontraditional stu­dents.
There are currently research
centers for telecommunications and
a state funded Child Welfare Train­ing
Program. The front lawn is also
a popular place for community jun-·
ior sports, such as soccer.
The initial concept plan calls for
3 main clusters of buildings. On the
west side of the campus there will
be small-scale office buildings, no
higher than 2 stories; closer to the
front and middle there will be me­dium
sized buildings, ranging from 3
to 4 stories high. The rear of the prop­erty
will hold full scale office buildings,
with 100 feet of landscaping to serve
as a buffer zone. These business would
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Anthrax scare reaches Belknap campus
Sarah V. Dailey
Editor-in-Chief
The Anthrax scare is sweeping the
nation and possibly the University of
Louisville's campus. To date, there have
been a total of four reported cases, two
in New York, one in Ohio and one in
the State Department in Washington.
The latest report, by CNN, of a possible
AI!thrax ~ituation was reported yester­day
when a suspicious envelope was de­livered
to the White House and inside
was a white powder substance identi-.
fied as the Anthrax spores. All four inci­dents
were pieces of mail that contained
a white powder substance believed to
be Anthrax. Last Thursday a university
student reported receiving a suspicious
envelope in Jouett Hall. Although the
Safety & Health Office believed there
is no need for wide spread concern, the
building was closed and later re­opened
tliis past Saturday.
"My understanding is that it
is not a harmful substance," said
Lt. Thomas Fitzgerald.
Because of this latest incident
the Departments of Environmental
Health and Safety along with the
Department of Public Safety advise
students who feel threatened with
bioterrorism to call DPS.
Anthrax, an acute infectious dis­ease
that.is caused by spore-form­ing
bacterium, stated the Division
of Bacterial and Mycotic Disease.
Though it most commonly occurs
in wild and domestic lower verte­brates,
it cap occur in humans in
three separate forms: Gastrointesti­nal,
cutaneous and inhalation. Ac­cording
to the Center for Disease
Control and Prevention, the anthrax
is spores, which cause the disease can
live in the soil for many years and hu­mans
can become infected simply by
eating undercooked meat from in­fected
animals, by breathing in the
spores and by handling infected ani­Jmal
products. The most deadly of the
1three is inhalation. The symptoms that
occur with inhalation of anthracis
spores are that of a common cold.
:Several days after the symptoms may .
progress to having difficulty breath­ing
and even going into shock. Cuta­neous
infection, when a bacteria en­Jters
an open cut on the skin. Soon af-
. 1ter being expased the area of skin will
!begin to swell and become itchy and
will resemble a bug bite that will af­ter
1-2 days become a vesicle and later
a painless ulcer. Five percent of cuta­neous
anthrax infection results in
death. The last form of Anthrax in-fection
is gastrointestinal, which results
from eating contaminated meat. The
symptoms are nausea, loss of appetite,
vomiting, fever followed by abdomi­nal
pain, vomiting of blood and diar­rhea
Anywhere from 25 - 60 percent
of the cases will result in death.
In Louisville, as well as around the
country, media outlets are on alert.
WLKY32 has reported to stepping up
their security measures as well as
WHAS -11 who fights the Anthrax
battle with education on the disease
along with prevention and control.
The U of L has encouraged stu­dents,
faculty and staff who come across
suspicious material to contact DPS
immediately. For more information on
safety precautions to take, check out U
of L's newsbreak for advice from the
Louisville/Jefferson County Emer­gency
Management Agency.