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www.louisvillecardinal.com August 30, 2005 I Vol. 79, Issue 3
Officials concerned about-recent break~ins
BY KELLY DouGLAS
StaffWriter
news@louisvillecardinal.com
On Aug. 21, between approximately 6 and
9 a.m., 23 automobiles were broken into. All
were parked in the Fourth Street and Cardinal
Boulevard parking lot near Bettie Johnson .
and Kurz Halls. The vehicles' windows were
smashed, and various items, including cash,
CDs, stereo equipment and musical instru­ments,
were stolen.
Maj. Kenny Brown, assistant chief of po"
lice for the university's Department of Public
Safety, said the break-ins have university of­ficials
worried.
"We don't want that type of criminal ele­ment
on our campus, so we're concerned,"
he said.
Jarrod Pennington, a junior Biology major
and resident of Bertie Johnson Hall, has parked
in the South Floyd Street garage for the past
two years and never experienced any problems.
He just recently began parking at the Fourth
Street and Cardinal Boulevard lot.
"I found it kind of ironic that the first week
See BREAK-INS, page 7.
U of L looks to bring back child care
Sev~ral options to
structure program
BY MALLORY BOWMAN
Project Coordinator
mbowman@louisvillecardinal.com
Providing quality child care on
campus can be complicated.
As University of Louisville
administrators develop plans for
on-campus child care, several fac­tors
must be taken into account,
including location, funding, af­fordability
and perhaps one of
the most complicated factors, the
definition of child care itself.
U of L Provost Shirley Wil­lihnganz
said that the work to
bring child care back to campus is
in such an early stage, no one can
say for sure how much it will cost,
where it will be located · or how
it will be funded. However, she
and others working with the issue
understand that not all child care
centers are alike.
"We say 'child care' as though
that were a unitary concept, but re­ally
there are a number of different
models to fit different needs with
very different costs," Willihnganz
said.
Types of child care offered at
universities around the nation
range from drop-in day care centers
to child development centers uti­lized
by academic departments for
research and observation.
U of L senior Trisha Metcalf is used to paying for child care for her eight-year ~ld daughter Deja while she attends classes during the day.
Students struggle to balance school with parenting
Michelle Clemons, chair of U
of Ls Commission on the Status
ofWomen, said that currently no
one is sure of what direction a child
See OPTIONS, page 7.
BY MALLORY BOWMAN
Project Coordinator
mbowman@louisvillecardinal.com
Trisha Metcalf is a full-time ·
pre-dental student at the Uni­versity
of Louisville. She is a ·
senior, and, like many other U
of L students, commutes between
school and her Louisville home
each day.
Twenty-nine-year-old Metcalf,
however, is different than many of
the students she sits in class with.
She doesn't have free time to invest
in campus clubs or extracurricular
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fun because she is also a single par­ent
to -her eight-year-old daughter
Deja.
Metcalf said parenting is her
number one responsibility, and that
finding quality child care for Deja
during her years at U. of L _has not
been easy. She said she wishes U
of L could give more assistance to
students, faculty and staff who are
parents, for example, in the form of
on-campus child care.
"If U of L offered _child care, it
would benefit my quality oflife, my
See CHILD CARE, page 4.
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