Louisville football: Cards prepare for USF
With its first loss of the ·season behind it,
the louisville squad prepares for Saturday's home bull fight against USF.
The Louisville Cardinal
NOVEMBER 14, 2006
WHAT'S INSIDE
NEWS
Elevator accident
kills OSU student
The Cardinal looks at concern
for elevator safety on college
campuses around the country.
See what officials said about
the issue on U of L's campuses.
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What's happening
this week at U of L
Check out 'News Briefs' on
page two for a quick look at
what's happening on campus
this week.
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SPORTS
'The Oven' set to get
a little bit hotter
Plans for renovations at Papa .
John's Cardinal stadium
include adding about 21,000
seats to the existing 42,000.
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Football managers
lead intramural race
Student managers for U of L's
NCAA football team give other
intramural squads a run for
their money this year.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Film festival shows
Jewish-Latino culture
The Department of Classical
and Mode rn Languages
shows films with ties to Latin
Ame rican/Jewish he ritage.
See page 84
French students roll
out production
Play puts mode rn spin on
motto of Fre nch Revolut ion
1he independent weekly student newspaper at the University of Louisville since 1926
www.louisvillecardinal.com VoLUME 80, ISSUE 12 • 14 PAGES, 2 SECTIONS
Louisville lags in minority enrollment
University officials say school
still meeting diversity goals
overall college enrollment among
black students increased by 42.7
percent, totaling more than 1.9
million. Hispanic enrollment rose
by 68.8 percent to 1.6 million
students; Asian enrollment went
up by 43.5 percent to 987,000
students; and American Indian
enrollment grew by 38.7 percent
to nearly 163,000 students.
By Deanna Tran
The Louisville Cardinal
An annual .status repon re­leased
by the American Council
on Education shows total mi­nority
enrollment at U.S. col­leges
and universities is up by
50.7 percent, an increase of 4.7
million students nationwide be­tween
1993 and 2003.
by the Office of lnstitucional
Research and Planning shows
rhat while the school is meeting
its diversity goals, overall mi­nority
enrollment is down. Despite growing minority en­rollment
rates, the status report
maintains that racial and gender
gaps in higher education still ex­ist.
Report findings show that
black and Hispanic students trail
behind their white and Asian
counterparts, especially when it
comes to enrollment and gradu­ation
rates.
The trend isn't exactly the
same at rhe University of Lou­isville,
however. Data collected
The Minorities in Higher
Education 22nd Annual Stacus
Report analyzes 10 years' worth
of U.S. government and pri­vately
collected data concern­ing
students of color and their
college enrollment rates and the
degrees rhey earned. Within the
decade covered in the report,
-OF BUGS-Microscopic
views of the agents which cause tuberculosis, left, and mumps show two diseases which
experts say could affect college students. Last month, for example, 12 students at Missouri Southern ,
State University tested positive for the bacteria that causes tuberculosis.
Studies show some diseases may be
on the rebound on college campuses.
By Deanna Tran
The Louisville Cardinal
Recent studies conducted by rhe Cen­ter
for Disease Control reveal that widely
known dormant diseases such as mumps,
whooping cough and tuberculosis, are now
re-emerging on college and university cam­puses
nationwide.
According to the Oct. 27 Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report issued by CDC,
universities in Illinois, Kansas and Virginia
have all repon ed mump outbreaks this fall.
With Illinois alone reporting 84 cases, col­lege
students affected by the disease this year
has already exceeded the number of cases in
recent years.
A tuberculosis scare struck Missouri
Southern State University in October
when 12 students tested positive for the
bacteria that causes tuberculosis. Cases of
pertussis, commonly known as whooping
cough, were reported at Cornell University
and the State University of New York at
Binghamton earlier rhis year as well.
Dr. Phillip Bressoud, director of i;he
Health Service Office at the University of
Louisville, said rhe re[Urn of rhese not-so­prevalent
diseases may be due to the irl'cbm­ing
international populations that arrive at
college campuses in the United States each
year.
According to Bressoud, typical . college
students are not as vulnerable to mumps
or pertussis as older people in the
U.S. But if these 18 to 20~some-
DISEASES see page A3
Asian students also led the way
when it came to the number of
degrees earned. The report shows
62.3 percent of Asians enrolled
in four-year institutions earned
a bachelor's degree within .six
years, followed by 58 percent of
Caucasian students, 42 percent
of Hispanics and 36.4 percent of
blacks.
And although high school
completion rates of both black
and Hispanic students increased
within the last decade, the status
report reveals significant differ­ences
in the number of students
of different races who continue
on to college after high school.
MINORITIES see page A2
OTHER FINDINGS
• The number of students
who chose not to d isclose
their race or ethnicity on
college appl ications rose
114 percent from 1993 to
2003.
• Presidential positions at
both two and four year
institutions continue to be
held by caucasian men in
2005. But within the last five
years, women of different
races have taken several
university president jobs.
Source: ACE Annuaf Report
AU of L student shops for textbooks last week at Gray's College Bookstore, located
in the shopping center between Third and Fourth streets near the Belknap campus.
Campaign seeks to drive
down cost of textbooks
Sara Picklesimer
The Louisville Card inal
Student Public Interest Re­search
Groups are running a cam­paign
against rhe college textbook
industry in an effort to make pric­es
more fair and affordable. The
campaign calls out the publish­ers
and accuses rhem of inflating
prices beyond necessity.
According to a recent report
from lnsideHigherEd.com, text­book
prices have risen faster than
the rate of inflation according to
previous studies. The main prob­lem
wirh this is rhe decreasing
buy-back potential in the used
book market due to updated edi­tions
of texts.
Textbooks are now updated
nearly every two to th ree years,
according to Jon Peters, opera­tions
manager at Gray's Bookstore
in Louisville. He said a common
misconception with students is
bookstores like Gray's are selling
these newer editions because they
want to.
Michelle Funk, a senior Eng­lish
major at rhe University of
Louisville, buys most of her books
from Gray's, but she does try to
look online and in other book­stores
to compare prices.
"If bookstores sell a textbook,
they should buy it back," Funk
said. Though she realizes that
Gray's and other stores would not
be able to sell these older editions
to students at U of L, she thinks
there is something that can be
done with them.
"Maybe they can find another
purpose or venue for selling the
books," she said.
TEXTBOOKS see page A2
Western Kentucky student leaps
to death from dorm room window
Staff Report
The Louisville Cardinal
are conducted monthly, and the
check on Nov. 7 showed the win­dow
safery bar in place.
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A Western Kentucky Univer­sity
student was found dead early
last Thursday morning outside
of his dormatory building on
the school's campus in Bowling
Green, Ky.
University officals said last
week Dylan C. Prott reportedly
leapt from his 20rh-Boor window
in Pearce-Ford Tower, the tallest
dorm building at the school.
Blood and toxicology tesrs
will be performed by the War­ren
Counry Coroner's Office who
will determine the official cause
of death. Results of the toxicology
test are expected to take 30 to 45
days .
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While it's unlikely that students will
see bugs like this one lurking around
campus, experts recommend thorough
hand washing and distancing oneself
from sick friends and classmates to help
prevent the spread of common - and
not·so-common - diseases.
The 18-year-old freshman
graduated from Atherton H igh
School in Louisville in 2005.
Officials at the university be­lieve
Prott had disabled a safery
device designed to keep his dorm
room window from opening more
than three or four inches.
According to a report re­leased
last week, safery checks of
the rooms in Pearce-Ford Tower
The College Heights Herald,
the WKU campus newspaper, re­ported
rhat about 200 students,
staff and emergency personnel
were on the scene just after mid­night
Thursday morning.
Since Pratt's death, students at
rhe school have created an "R.I.P.
Dylan Pratt" group on Facebook
as a memorial to rheir friend and
classmate.
A memorial service for Prott
was held yesterday at rhe First
Unitarian Church in downtown
Louisville.
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