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www.louisvillecardinal.com November 15, 2005 I Vol. 79, Issue 12
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Student health plan in the works Several details being
discussed for student
health plan proposal:
BY CURTIS CREEKMORE
StaffWriter
news@louisvillecardinal.com
A committee of leaders from
the University of Louisville and the
city of Louisville has mulled over
a proposal for four months that
would provide for a new, state-of­the-
art health care facility on U of
:Ls Belknap campus and top-notch
Is anybody
listening?
-After a year hiatus,
WLCV looks to
restart webcasting
Sometimes even radio stations
lack communication skills. For
the past year broadcasts ofWLCV
radio, U of :Ls campus radio sta­tion,
have gone mostly unheard
by all except for people who
frequent the Student Activities
'Center while a DJ is in, or that
small handful who tune in to 570
AM/1590 AM in their dorms.
A year ago, the station's Web
site was 'hacked into and Infor­mation
Technology removed the
site so that hackers couldn't ac­cess
the University of Louisville
mainframe, said Joey Wilkerson,
former WLCV general ~anager.
As a result, WLCV lost most of
its listeners.
"The webcast has always been
the number one source of broad­casting,"
Wilkerson said. "That's
what we've always used."
WLCV's broadcast range cov­ers
the Belknap campus but can
sometimes be heard as far out
as Eastern Parkway and Manual
High School on a clear day, Wilk­erson
said.
Wilkerson said he contacted
LT. several times ;tbout fixing the
problem but that l.T. was unable
to find someone with the right
experience for the job. He said
the problem could likely be fixed
See WEBCAST, page 4.
care to its students.
The facility and health care pro­gram
would bring along with them,
though, a tuition increase to help
cover costs associated with the plan,
but committee leaders say no plan
has been finalized yet.
The Student Health Fee Pro­posal,
which the committee origi­nally
hoped to finish by Oct. 1, has
been revised several times due to
discrepancies found by committee
members.
"We're working toward a health
center on campus that provides stu­dents
with necessary health services
and education," Student Govern­ment
Association President Bill
Brammell said. "I want it to be some­thing
students can be proud o£"
According to Brammell, some
major issues of contention have been
how many hours the facility will
be open each day, whether services
will include more expensive options
such as x-rays, and how or if medical
insurance will be incorporated into
the plan. Under the current proposal,
See HEALTH, page 4.
• Hours of operation
·Insurance: how or
if coverage will be
accepted
• Availability of costly
services like x-rays
Source: SGA President Bill Bramme/1
Ripples in
the airwaves
WLCV general manager
resigns following station,
student government squabble
BY CHARLES "L. WESTMORELAND
, -' li.ditqi; in Chief
edi~or@l0uisvillecardinal.com
The Universi"o/ of Louisville's own WLCV 570 AM/1590
AM radio was literally caught with its pants down, sparking
a controversy between the station and the Student Govern­ment
Association and ultimately leading to the resignation
of station General Manager Joey Wilkerson.
The controversy between the two organizations began
a few weeks ago when Blanchard decided to borrow a few
tricks from shock-jock Howard Stern by broadcasting in the
nude during her 9-11 p.m. show as a ploy to hook listeners.
The SGA told Wilkerson to discontinue the broadcasts, and
later, current General Manager T.J. Nelson slammed the
SGA and SGA President Bill Brammell on the airwaves for
what he called an attempt at censorship.
The two acts attracted the listeners the station was hop­ing
for, but last week, the SGA began an audit of the station.
The audit of equipment purchased with SGA funds, along
with an ~ngoing investigation of missing equipment, has
some radio station members questioning whether the audit
was in r-etaliation for the previous acts.
"It was a gag to draw attention," Blanchard said of her
semi-nude broadcasts. "The SGA hasn't cared about our
radio station and now that we draw attention they audit
us. "
Chuck Stinson I Louisville CardjnaJ
WLCV's new general manager, T.J. Nelson, known over the airwaves as the"Vanilla
Gorilla" conducts his morning show from 9-11 a.m. Following controversy with the
Student Government Association over a DJ's semi-nude broadcast, former general
manager Joey Wilkerson resigned from the position.
Blanchard said the station's windows were covered with
posters so no one could_peer inside, but according to David
Shaw, assistant director for Student Activities, the glass of
the bottom half of the door was left uncovered and several
SAC staff members saw Blanchard broadcasting in her
underwear. Shaw brought tl1e stunt to the attention of the
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