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Student jumped, robbed near campus
By Ray Dillon
The Louisville Cardinal
A University of Louisville stu­dent
was arracked and robbed
north of the Belknap Campus
Thursday at 1702 S. Brook St.,
according to the Louisville Meuo
Police Depanment's fourth divi­sion.
LMPD did not respond to The
Cardinal regarding the incident.
However, Major Kenny Brown
of U of Ls Department of Public
Safety, confirmed that last Thurs­day
at approximately 12:30 a.m.,
the student was approached by
what he described as four to six
African-American males for "a
light."
. The group began striking the
victim about his head and body,
robbed him of his wallet and
personal affects and then fled the
crime scene on foot, Brown said.
This is the second such inci­dent
this semester where a student
was approached by a group and
then robbed.
The other incident occurred
in the parking lot berween Third
and Fourth Sueers on Jan. 14.
Brown said the case is an open
investigation. Anyone with infor­mation
should contact the LMPD
at 574-7010.
AVOIDING ATTACK
~ Never walk alone after
dark. Walk in groups when­ever
possible.
~ look around before exit­ing
a vehicle or building.
~ Have car keys in hand
when walking to vehicle.
~ Use the campus escort
service by calling 852-6111.
Plan provides parking
HSC blueprint
may help meet
student needs
By Dennis O'Neil
The Louisville Cardinal
A master design plan for the
Health Sciences Campus was
approved by the University of
Louisville Board ofTrustees at
a Feb. 21 meeting.
U of L President Dr. James
R. Ramsey unveiled a plan that
mapped our the next 20 years
of progress on the HSC and
put forth enhanced accommo­dations
for patients, students
and researchers among others.
Much of the plan repre­sents
a series of very long-term
goals, but comes in an effort
to troubleshoot some of the
problems that Health Sciences
has been facing over the years.
For students, there are
hopes to construct a central
quadrangle where students can
meet and hang out. The plan
also entails other features that
are geared rewards students,
such as improving student
parking, constructing better
classrooms and adding student
lounge areas. There is also the
possibility for a new instruc­tional
building.
First year medical school
student Amanda Chism said
that she doesn't think the cur­rent
situation on the HSC is
that bad, but that there were
several encouraging things
about the plan.
"The food situation isn't
great. We only have a Mc­Donald's
and a few hospital
cafeterias, so more cheap food
would be good," Chism said.
"I also like that they plan to
give us a grass area for hanging
out instead of concrete, as long
as there are enough benches to
Construction is underway on the University of louisville's Health Sciences Campus. A master plan for the campus was recently
unveiled and includes proposals for additional parking, pedestrian walkways and shopping venues on the campus.
sir and eat lunch."
First year med school student
Jim Bell had a similar reaction to
the plan, citing the possibility for
better parking accommodations
as one of its encouraging aspects.
"Right now, it is considered
dangerous for anyone to walk ro
rheir cars late at night," Bell said.
"The parking situation is okay,
but it would be made a lot bet­ter
if there were a parking garage
closer to the med school. It would
also be nice to see some more
green on ca~pu:; Right now, it is
mostly concrete.
U of L Vice President of
Health Affairs Larry Cook said
that if a new instructional build­ing
is built, then there would be
greater possibility for more stu­dent
benefits, such as increased
options of food services.
"The master plan recognizes
that places for informal student
gatherings and food service are
in short supply," said Cook. "We
want to prioritize the creation of
these types of spaces wherever
possible."
To improve the experience for
patients, the plan calls for more
distinguished campus boundar­ies
to make the campus easier to
navigate. There are also hopes of
improving patient parking as well
as more accessible entrances for
patient drop off and pick up. Cre­ating
driving routes on campus
that will only be used for patient
transportation were also noted.
Effort towards beautifying the
HSC was also cited in the plan.
Many of the areas that are now
covered with concrete will be en­hanced
by trees and grass. There
is also a hope for the creation of
a pedestrian mall along Flexner
Way that is to include outdoor
HSC see page A2
Atheltic
fee
renewed
Trustees go
ahead without
student Senate
By Brad Atzinger
The Louisville Cardinal
The Board of Trustees of
the University of Louisville
voted Wednesday to re-au­thorize
a $50 fee to students
levied for the U of L Athletics
Department. The action, how­ever,
violated a clause in the
original athletic fee proposal,
passed by the Board in 2002,
which states that the fee can­not
be renewed until an evalu­ation
of the tuition increase
is brought before the Student
Government Association Sen­ate,
according to SGA Presi­dent
Darrell Messer.
At Wednesday's Board of
Trustees meeting, President
Dr. James Ramsey introduced
a recommendation regard­ing
the continuation of the
student athletics fee. Messer,
who sits on the Board, said
that he motioned to table the
subject until the next meeting
in order to discuss the fee with
students. The motion was sec­onded
by Board member Beth
Boehm, Faculty Senate vice
chair, but it was defeated and
the measure passed by a 10-2
vote. There were four absten­tions.
According ro a 2002 rec­ommendation
by former U of
L president John Shumaker,
tuition increases "will 'sun­set'
in July 2006," and will be
evaluated with the university's
budget. The proposal also stat­ed,
"The evaluation, and any
proposed action, will be pre­sented
to the Student Senate
prior to action by the Board
ofTrustees." By not tal<.ing the
renewal of the athletics fee be­fore
the Senate, the Board of
Trustees violated rheir agree­ment,
according to Messer, a
senior engineering major
"This is a violation of the
trust of the student body,"
Messer said. In an e-mail to
SGA Senators, Messer said
that if the President does not
offer a "favorable reply" by
Feb. 27, he will call an emer­gency
meeting of the Senate,
in what he described as "what
will likely be one of the most
FEE see page A3
Speaker sparks talk of diversity
Ward Connerly, an opponent of affirmative action, will speak on March 6.
By Kirk laughlin
The Louisville Cardinal
Some students are concerned
with how affirmative action poli­cies
and programs at the Univer­sity
of Louisville may be affected
by next week's public lecture by
Ward Connerly, a black man who
has opposed affirmative action
policies in states across the na­tion.
On March 6, at the Louis D.
Brandies Law School, the U of L
Federalist Society and the McCo­nnell
Center will host Connerly
to speak about his views on why
affirmative action should be re­considered.
"The [organizations have] the
right to bring him here to speak.
It's within their powers and an
educational standpoint," said
Marchello Cavitt, President of the
Society of Porters Scholars, which
is a merit-based scholarship pro­gram
for black U of L students.
"But as far as [Connerly's]
stance, we are completely against
it. I am against it." Cavitt said.
Cavitt thinks that Connerly's visit
may play a motivating force for
anti-Affirmative-Action leaders
and those opposed to race-based
scholarship programs."
The university currently holds
affirmative action policies that are
used to "eliminate or overcome
present discrimination or the pres­ent
effects of past discrimination
against women, minority group
members and military veterans,"
according to the U of L Office of
Human Resources.
Law School Professor Russell
Weaver, a staff sponsor of the Fed­eralist
Society, said that Connerly's
visit is "in response to a one-sided
legal panel hosted in the fall called
'Why Affirmative Action Remains
a Relevant Necessity."'
The McConnell Center is co­sponsoring
the event as a conrinu­ation
of their lecture series, "Va­riet)
r, Left and Right." Dr. Gary
Gregg, director of the McConnell
Center, said "Connerly offers a
different perspective on an issue
with a variety of perspectives." He
said that "Connerly is a major fig­ure
that is changing public policy
across the nation, for good or ill."
Connerly and his organiza­tion,
the American Civil Rights
Institute, have gained a level of
fame through his sponsoring of
court cases and ballot initiatives
that have restricted or banned af­firmative
action policies in several
states across the country.
The most recent of Conner­ly's
efforts have been the Jenni­fer
Gratz case at the University
CONNERLY see page A3
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