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Shumaker leaves UT
with tarnished legacy
Fonner U of L president reisgns under controversy
Ben Chroncos I The Louisville Cardinal
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By EUGENE VILENSKY
Assistant News Editor
Mter leaving the University of Louisville
at the end of spring 2002, Dr. John Shumaker
became the second-highest-paid president of
a public university at the University ofTen­nessee.
Less than a year and a half later, he
resigned amid a scandal that included unau­thorized
travel expenses, questionable business
dealings, and accusations that he was fraudu­lently
selected for the top job.
Although the UniversityofTennessee pro­vided
a personal airplane for Shumaker and
paid for flights on commercial airlines, his fre­quent
personal trips to the Birmingham, Ala.,
where former U ofL Provost Carol Garrison
is president of the University of Alabama at
Birmingham, and frequent trips to Louisville
related to his divorce trial were billed to UT
at taxpayers' expense.
Shortly before his resignation on August
8, Shumaker reimbursed UT $34,747.51 in
personal expenses, hoping to stem the criti­cism
that endured since the story broke in
early July. The gesture did not forestall an
exhaustive audit of his personal expenses.
An audit ordered on July 15 by the vice­chairman
of the UT Board ofTrustees revealed
that Shumaker's personal trips totaled
$23,029.08. The auditors identified four trips
berweenJune 1, 2002 and June 30,2003 that
were "e~tirely or primarily personal" and 14
trips that combined personal and university
business in a way that forced additional ex­penses
on UT. Seven other trips were identi­fied
as "partly personal in nature" but did not
incur any additional costs toUT.
see SHUMAKER, page 6
Student returns from battlefield to the classroom
By MALLORY BOWMAN
Cardinal Staff Writer
Thirty-five-year-old Karen Bishop hasn't
been putting her studies number one lately,
but she has a good reason.
Just four weeks ago she returned home to
her husband, Jeff, and three children from war
in the Middle East. While she was there, her
work as a University of Louisville sruden twas
far from her mind.
Bishop is a full-time employee of the Air
National Guard. She is a D4 senior airman
and is head of intelligence for the special
tactics squadron in her unit. While balancing
a family life, she has somehow managed to
continue her studies as aU ofL student, where
she and a few others have created a liberal
studies program.
In April, her busy life was halted when she
received a call. Her
unit was activated and
she was being shipped
to Mghanistan. Leav­ing
her family, fr iends
and schoolwork be­hind,
she answered her
call to war, honoring
the sacred oath of
"The worst thing for a student
in the military is what's been
going on this year. Not ever
knowing if or when you're going
about the war in the
Middle East. This
time, it seemed as if the
stakes were a bit
higher. The toughest
task for her was
to be called up is tough." leaving her family.
serv1ce that she had
taken many years
before.
"I didn't know what
to expect," she said. "I was very nervous about
going over there. I got there and living
conditions were better than I had expected,
and some of the people were happy to see
American and coalition forces."
Bishop said that although she's served
overseas numerous times, she felt very uneasy
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"I have three
-Karen Bishop, on children and a
being a student and husband," she said.
serving in the military
"It's hard not knowing
when you're going to
get to talk to them
again. Honestly, we [soldiers] live for mail call.
I was able to e-mail and that alone was one of
the things that kept me sane."
While in Mghanistan, Bishop coordinated
the dissemination ofinrelligence, did mission
planning, gave briefings and did debriefings
to track individ uals that her unit was
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hunting. While she was there she did have
some contact with her fami ly, however, she
worried often about the life she'd left behind
in Louisville.
'Tm trying to finish my degree," she said.
"It's difficult when you get sent away for an
extended period. of time because there can be
long breaks in education. The worsr thing for
a student in the military is what's been going
on this year. Not ever knowing if or when
you're going to be called up is tough."
Mter four months of being surrounded by
war, Bishop returned home in July. When she
arrived, she was able to share her stories with
her family and friends. Most importantly, she
was able to share similar experiences with her
husband, Jeff, who also serves full time in the
military. Jeff was stationed in Afghanistan last
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