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February 3, 2004
VOLUME 76, ISSUE 18 STREAK SNAPPED ~
Cards win with Willard, but fall
in Pitino's return to Marquette.
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March to Franl<fort U of L freshmen slain
Students rally
against governor's
budget cuts
By KIMBERLY POWERS
Assistant News Editor
Students from across Kentucky
will gather in the rotunda of the state
Capitol in Frankfort on Thursday,
Feb. 5 to declare their discontent
with current state budget proposals
that call for a $41 million cut from
higher education.
Organized by the Kentucky
Board of Student Body Presidents,
the theme of the rally is "Don't Bal­ance
the Budget on Our Backs."
Students and faculty who attend are
asked to wear empty backpacks so
they can place slogan stickers 6n
them.
"In the past few years, Kentucky
has made great strides in improving
higher education," said Sean
Deskins, Chief of Staff of the Uni­versity
of Louisville Student Gov­ernment
Association. "With the
dramatic cuts that the governor is
proposing, the state institutions of
higher learning will be unable to
meet the lofty goals that have been
set for them. In one year we could
take back all of the progress that we
have made over several years."
With this in mind, Deskins has
worked with other members of the
SGA to promote U of L students'
and facultys' participation in the
state-wide event. Event promotion
included providing transportation
to the event as well as the opportu­nity
for students to meet en masse
with their legislators.
Individuals could sign up for free
transportation to the 2:30 p.m. rally
until Monday, Feb. 2. Buses to the
rally will leave U ofi.:s Belknap cam­pus
at .1 0:45 a.m. and return at
around 5 p.m on Feb. 5.
Junior finance major and Busi­ness
School Senator Becky
Schneider is among the many stu-
Rally Details
Buses will leave for Frankfort at 11 a.m. Thurs­day
from Papa Johns Cardinal Stadium. The
rally will start at 2:30 p.m. in the Capitol Ro­tunda.
Students who have previously signed up
for the event will have individual meetings with
their respective representatives and senators. For
more information, contact SGA Chief of Staff
Sean Deskiris at 852-8324.
dents who have signed up for trans­portation
to the rally.
When asked why she decided to
attend the rally, Schneider said,
"Governor Fletcher's proposed bud­get
was absurd and this is the stu­dents'
way of letting our legislators
know that we are not willing to be
responsible for the budget curs."
Schneider also mentioned how
this round of curs will be far more
noticeable than the ones U ofL has
taken in the past.
All students at U of L will most
likely notice the cut when tuition
could be raised by as much as 14
percent, as sophomore economics
major Aaron Price pointed our when
interviewed. Price also discussed
how higher education has experi­enced
increasing amounts of cuts
while more people than ever are at­tending
college. "It's unfair that we
are supposed to attend college to
better ourselves while each year col­lege
becomes more and more
unaffordable," he stared.
Price is an example of how stu­dents
throughout Kentucky are
placing their personal political be­liefs
aside to universally fight against
the higher education cuts: though
Fletcher was Price's choice for gov­ernor,
his support of Fletcher has
decreased some because of Fletcher's
proposed curs.
According to Deskins, large cuts
from higher education have long­term
economic results opposite the
ones Fletcher intends with his cur­rent
budget proposal. Deskins said,
"Higher education is economic de­velopment
in irs most basic form.
While the sate may be able to bal­ance
the budget and meet short­term
financial needs by cutting
higher education, the lo~g-term re­sult
will be devastating. Without
quality higher education that is ad­eq
·uately funded, the state's ability
to attract and create new jobs will
be hindered."
A philosophy department faculty
member who intends to attend the
Feb. 5 rally implies that the Ken­tucky
state government is currently
incorrec·t in their judgment of the
relationship between higher educa­tion
and the economy. By drastically
cutting higher education funding,
Fletcher is asserting state property
right in grants and other university
funds that don't come from the state,
the faculty member said.
"This is a very serious precedent
because it essentially makes the uni­versity
analogous to the lottery - a
revenue-generating arm of state gov­ernment,"
he stated. "The state sees
students the way coal companies see
mountaintops. Unfortunately the
university presidents seem to have
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By MALLORY BOWMAN
News Editor
Two University of Louisville
freshmen were found dead in the
parking lot of a downtown Louis­ville
hotel last Monday. night.
Eric Ray, 19, of Louisville, and
Robert Robbins, 18, of Oldham
County, were found in the parking
lot of the Clarion Hotel at First and
Jefferson Streets just after 11 p.m.,
with multiple gun shot wounds,
Louisville Metro Police Office
Dwight Mitchell said.
Police said with the help of in­formation
from family and friends,
Twenty-two-year-ole! Isia"h T.
Fugett, of Louisville, was arrested at
6 a.m. Wednesday morning and is
charged with two counts of murder
and one count of tampering with
physical evidence.
"According to family and friends,
they were acquaintances," Mitchell
said.
Fugett plead innocent at his ar­raignment
on Jan. 29, and is sched­uled
to attend a pretrial conference
on Feb. 9.
Bond has been set at $500,00.
Fugett has made an official state­ment,
but police declined to com­ment
on it.
What the two victims were do­ing
in the parking lot is still under
investigation, although drug in
see MURDER, page 4
National Security
Advisor to speak March 8
By JOSH ABNER
Editor in Chief
President Bush's top national se­curity
advisor will speak on cam­pus
March 8 at the Brown and
Williamson Club.
Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Assistant
to the President for National Secu­rity
Affairs, headlines the
McConnell Center for Political
Leadership's spring schedule of
speakers. Tickets are available
through the McConnell Center
website, www.mcconnellcenter.org.
The time of the speech has not been
set.
Dr. Gary L. Gregg II, director
of the McConnell, said it is hard to
overestimate the impact of Rice's
visit in light of instability in Iraq
and Afghanistan and the ongoing
war on terrorism.
"There's realfy no question that
Dr. Rice is really one of President
Bush's closest advisers. In some
ways, this is bigger than Colin
Powell."
Secretary of State Colin Powell
delivered his first foreign policy ad-
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Condoleezza Rice, President
Bush's National Security Advisor
dress as secretary of state on cam­pus
in Ocr. 2001, garnering the
university worldwide news cover­age.
"This is just another opportu­nity
provided by the McConnell
Center for students to interact with
world leaders in a very intimate
way," said sophomore McConnell
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