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1 www.louisvillecardinal.com March 28, 2006 I Vol. 78, Issue ~6
Burlesque goes ~grotesque'
in campus performance
Look inside for photos of Louisville's first
and only goth burlesque troupe.
See page 10 for details.
Athletic fee may stay
Mohammad Ghifardi, who studied in the library
last weekend, is one of many students on
campus who is nervious about being able to pay
for school because of rising tuition costs.
Tuition jumps 13%
BY CHRIS BROWN I Editor in Chief I cbrown@louisvillecardinal.com
Freshman Taylor Stamper
foots his own bills for tuition,
room and board at the Uni­versity
of Louisville. Paying
for school is a struggle, he said.
And that struggle is about to
get worse.
The executive committee of
the university Board of Trustees
approved a measure last Friday to
increase tuition nearly 13 percent
for Kentucky residents next school
year.
The measure, which comes on
the heels of a 15-percenr increase
approved by rhe Universi ry of Ken­tucky's
Board ofTrusrees several weeks
ago, also includes hikes in tuition rates
for non-resident undergraduate and
graduate students, as well as students
in the university's MBA program, day
and evening law programs and schools
of medicine and dentistry.
"We do nor rake any joy in this," said
Dr. James Ramsey, U of.I.:s president, at
the board's meeting. "We wish it could
be considerably less."
Ramsey said the university tuition
committee, which recommended to the
board of trustees the 13-percent increase
instead of the maximum 15-percent in­crease
approved by the Council on Postsec-ondary
Education, had "no choice" but to recommend
the increase.
Senior Bill Brammell, the current Student Gov­ernment
Association president, also said the increase
was necessary. "I think everyone at the university has
worked diligently to keep our tuition low, but there
has to be money for a place like this to keep irs doors'
open," he said.
The doors may be open, but for students like Stamp­er,
they wiLl now be even harder to walk through.
"This really, really sucks," Stamper said. "That's just
13 percent more a semester that has to come out of my
pocker. My savings account is already drained."
Stamper lives on campus, but some worry that
rising cost of tuition might leave students looking
elsewhere for housing.
"I mean, people can't buy books anymore, people
can't live on campus
anymore, people have
to go live in Old Lou­isville
where it's not
safe," said senior Tyra
Blasher. ''I'm glad to be
graduating and getting
out of here."
Though non-resi­dent
tuition is not be­ing
raised by as large a
percentage as resident
tuition, students like
See TUITION, page 2.
BY CURTIS CREEKMORE
StaffWriter
news@louisvillecardinal.com
Whether they realize it or not,
students at the University of Lou­isville
pay a $50 athletic fee each
semester.
The fee, which is lumped with
students' regular tuition bills, was
originally supposed to expire with
the end of this school year; but the
fee was extended through 2016
as parr of Athletic Director Tom
Jurich's 2004 contract renewal.
"Technically, there is no athletic
fee since the university bundled
all irs fees into rui rion in 2001.
Currently, $50 from each student's
tuition does go toward athletics,"
said university spokesman John
Drees.
"The funding was established
to help the Athletic Department
balance its budget at a time when
it was undergoing massive change.
Then-President John Shumaker
determined that these changes,
including costs associated with
Papa John's Cardinal Stadium, rep­resented
a substantial improvement
to rhe campus experience and that
students should bear some share of
the cost," Drees said.
The fee means students have
better chances of getting tickets to
Fee assessment
Many other Big East schools assess
student activity fees, but few have
athletic fees similar to that which U
of L students pay.
louisville
Athletic fee of $50
Connecticut
No fee; "The athletic department is pretty self­sufficient,"
a school spokesman said.
Georgetown
No athletic fee; activity fee
Marquette
No fee
Notre Dame
No athletic fee; activity fee
Providence
No athletic fee; activity fee
Rutgers
$25 per quarter; athletic fee used for free student
tickets, free shirts for students
St.John's
No athletic fee
Seton Hall
No athletic fee
USF
$20 athletic fee
Several remaining Big East schools could not be
reached for information regarding their fees.
sporting events, including 100 free
volleyball tickets at each home game
and increased student reservation
opportunities for men's basketball
and football games. Students are
now offered 2,300 basketball tickets
See ATHLETIC, page 4.
Students seek to stop
genocide in Sudan
BY MATTTHACKER
News Editor
mthacker@louisvillecardinal.com
Students often hear about trag­edies
taking place around the world
and wonder if or how they can help.
Now, a national group of college
students is leading a movement
that the group's organizers hope
will eventually lead to the end of
genocide in Sudan.
The Sudan Divestment Task
Force, made up of college students
from across the United States, says
its mission is to convince universi­ties
and states w.ith public pension
funds to stop investing in companies
that do business with Sudan until
the genocide ends . So far, eight
universities have passed divestment
legislation.
"If college students today are
interested in combating serious ills
in the world, this should be their
number one top priority. No crime
is more hideous than genocide," said
Daniel Millenson, national politi­cal
director of the Task Force and
a student at Brandeis University in
Waltham, Mass.
See SUDAN, page 6.
University-wide Open Forum on the Quality Enhancement
The Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) is a critical component of the university's reaffirmation of accreditation with the Southern Association ofColleges & Schools (SACS).
All avai lable faculty, staff and students are invited to attend a meeting April3 at 3:00p.m. in the Allen Courtroom at the Brandeis School of Law to discuss the university's proposed QEP.
Your input can help develop this plan more full and to create the vision for the future of education at our university.