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I, An independent student weekly Friday, August 28, 1981 Vol. 53 No.2 No leisurely summer New President administers major changes at U of L By MELISSA MCCONNELL Staff Writer The summer hasn't been leisurely for Dr. Donald C. Swain. who became the University of Louisville's new president on April I, 1981. Besides facing the unavoidable task of cutting the budget. Swain has made changes in the administration's chain-of-command, made peeches. attended numerous luncheons. dinners and receptions. and moved into ~ newly renovated house in the Cherokee Triangle area. "I think in the first three months we were here. my wife and I had dinner at home maybe a half a dozen times," said Swain. Much of Swain's time. however has been spent devising a plan for U of l to save $3.7 million, a budget cutback requested by the state. To do that. the administration has adopted a two-phase plan. In the first phase, now under way. U of l plans to save the $3.7 million this year by temporarily leaving vacant faculty and staff positions unfilled . Though this is only a shortterm savings, Swain said that "we are assured at the end of that process of being able to save as much as we need to during the current year." Phase two of the plan begins this fall, when the decision will be made as to which programs should be eliminated and which should be increased to malce the $3.7 million a permanent savings. Swain said it is possible that "" In the next few weeks you will notice a change in The Louisville Cardinal. We are in the process of switching from Bargain Mart typesetting to our own. Recently we purchased he will chair a group of selected individuals to make those decisions. In addition. a series of task forces may be formed to aid in the program cutting and building process. By not filling vacant faculty positions "we will probably see that there will be fewer classes to choose from," Swain said. "Class size will probably be a little large. But we will try very hard to make certain that we man the introductory courses that are offered ." Although orne programs at U ofl will have to be cut, others will get top priority for funding, Swain wants more money to go into U of L libraries. faculty and staff salaries. research, computing. tutoring and special counseling and remedial programs. "You've got to protect quality and build quality even while you're cutting the budget, "he said. To speed up the decision making process. Swain has made some fundamental changes in the administration. "I wanted to reduce some of the layering in the organization." he said. "I think we had too much bureaucracy. We didn't 11eed deans having to go to vice presidents and going through the intermediary steps." An example of this change is the elimination of the office of vice president for health affairs. The deans at the Health Sciences Center now report directly to Swain. This he hopes will help unify that campus with Belknap Campus. Editor's Note a machine for this sole ptUpO!le. Our staffers are being trained this week. This means that some of our publication was typeset by Bargain Mart this week and some was done at The "I really like to be part of the action," said Swain. "I don't want to be insulated from the deans and students. I don't want to be buffered." The self-described "peopleoriented person" said that he wants to be as accessible to students as possible. He is considering opening his office to students every few weeks in the afternoon for discussions. Swain also said that he will support a "stop-out" program for students at U of l. Formally called the Planned Educational leave Program at the University ofCahfo'rma, wnere Swain was academic vice president, "stop-out" simply means "allowing students to take off for a year or ' semester and not have to go through the hassle of reapplying." "Just putting this program in a catalog helps a lot because first, students can realize that quitting for awhile is ok, and second, it legitimizes it for parents." said Swain. The new president has also been considering various uses for the Shelby Campus. At the present, he said it is heavily used for afternoon and evening classes. "But there's a lot of empty space out there," he added. So Swain is considering a future joint venture with developers that might change Shelby Campus into an industrial park for high technology. Working there could be a "think tank" of U of L faculty members and graduate students, according to Swain. "Electronics, computers... that's Cardiaal.· A difference in overall aPpearance will be seen over the next few weeks u we begin to take on the full responsibility for typesetting ourselves. We hope you like our "New Look." the kind of industry that any city loves to attract." he said. Swain would al~o like to ee the state allocate money for construction and renovation on Belknap Campus, especially for recreational purposes. "I've been on a lot of university campuses in my life and our recreational and P. E. facilities are the most inadequate I've ever seen. It's really dismal." he said. Even if the state doesn't grant U of L the money needed for construction and renovation. Swain hopes that it will at least recognize the need by granting some money for planning. "I'm optimistic about U of L. I think the spirit is good. But I'd like to convey to students and faculty that the world isn't out of control. The budget is being cut. but I think if we're skillful and open in our discussions and make the tough decisions promptly. We can get through this process reasonably well." Before taking his post at U of L, Dr. Swain was academic vice president of the nine campuses at the U niversity of California. He also served as academic assistant to the chancellor, assistant vice chancellor for academic and student affairs. and vice chancellor for academic affairs. From 1963-1970, he was an assistant and associate professor of history at the Davis Campus. Dr. Swain and his wife Lavinia have two children. Their daughter, Cynthia, is a student at Mills College. Their son, Chris,is a recent graduate of the University of California. Staff photo by Donna Sheets Dr Donald Swain "I think In the first three months we were here, my wife and I had dinner at homemaybea half a dozen times" {j F anfarefor New Library ~pening ; By MARY L. BARNES Staff Writer After seven years of planning, development, construction, delays, completion and transition, the William F. Ekstrom Library will officially open its doors to the public August 28, 1981. Dedication ceremonies will be held at 3:30p.m. on the Bellrnap Campus, across from the Bingham Humanities Building. Estimated to have cost nearly $15 million, the Ekstrom Library will hold about 1.2 million volumes, and has an area of approximately 250,000 square feet - o~er three times that of the 24- year-old University Library . The mastermind behind the foundation is Ralze W. Dorr, director of the Office of Planning and Administrative Services, University Libraries. In addition to supporting the new library's initial development in 1974, Dorr was actively involved in a 23-member advisory planning committee. This committee, as early as 1971 , heard and made recommendations to replace the already-overcrowded University Library. University Libraries Dean John T. Demos, another committee member, noted that by 1973 then-president James G. Miller had ascertained that "the university had capital construction potential." Demos said that the committee (campus faculty, staff and students) had come up with a new library as one of its top priorities. With rosts for construction in mind, several reviews were made before plans for the library came to light in 1974. By 1978, construction on the Ekstrom Library had begun under Dorr' s guidance. Oprr said that it might have been completed as early as December of last year had it not been for, among other factors, a six-week strike by electrical workers and a three-week walkout by trade workers. The foundation is divided into five levels. The ground level contains technical services, working and lounging areas for the library's staff, the Photographic Archives and a 100-seat auditorium for library and other formal classroom instruction. A distinction of the first floor level is a student lounge and the adjoining Raben Worth Bingham Poetry Room. Demos is confident that these study areas, complete with vending rna-chines, will be available 24 hours a aay. Also on level one is the main lobby, including exhibit and browsing areas, information, circulation and reference desks, the Public-Catalogue and Reference- Bibliography departments, the Fred C. Koster Reading Room, and student lounge. The second floor contains administrative offices, Interlibrary Loan, Special Services Area for the physically disabled, additional Special Services rooms, government documents, microforms, periodicals and conference rooms. The Ekstrom library's general collection of books, periodicals and the University Archives is on the third and fourth floors. Prominent on both floors are studying and reading lounges including carrels. There are open carrels for undergraduate students, semienclosed models for advanced students, and about 100 closed, hexagonalshaped carrels assigned to graduate students and faculty researchers on a semester basis. The fourth level leads to a roof skylight, which provides light and an openness to the third and fourth levels. Demos termed it "the penthouse," and Continued on page 3 Swain faces Unavoidable task of cutting budget I By JOE E. HERNDON Student Writer He said that Phase two will start after the fall term begins. This phase is to generate decisions after consultation with students. faculty and administration and then it will put into effect permanent program reductions. The cuts were not made across the board, University College and Arts and Sciences do not have the flexibility for cuts as do the School of Medicine or the School of Dentistry. Twenty-five university units were told to make reductions affecting personnel positions, travel, supplies and equipment funds. Today's cuts will mean that some classes will have larger enrollments than had been anticipated, that suppon functions will have to be curtailed, that less money will be available for faculty to attend professional and scientific meetings and that a number of visiting lectures will not be held. The College of Arts and Sciences made $300,000 in cuts, Two-thirds of the money cuts come from freezing open faculty positions. One-third comes primarily from part-time lecturers and graduate teaching assistants. Money that would have been used to improve the quality of existing courses, for example new equipment, must now be used to aet as many classes as possible open. Lois Cronholm, dean of Arts and Sciences, said, "Every unit of the university is important. We like to think that the College of Arts and Sciences is central to what the university is about, concerning the education of students. We have reached a level of resources which is putting us in a precarious position in terms of quality education for students." According to Louisville Times Cronholm, the college does not have the money to open up new sections for both upper and lower classmen. The choice this year is to spend any extra money on the lower level students. "I'm very worried about this concentration of resources on the incoming students, n she said 0 "It means that we are decreasing the available options for upper classmen." "One example of many," Cronholm said, "is public school art, with only two sections open. Only 40 students aiming for teaching degrees, who must have the course, could gain a place in the two sections. All the others will have to hope they can get it later," she said. She cannot open another section of the course, no matter how many need it, she said. The School of Medicine had the largest cuts, in losing $700,000 or Continued on back page
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Title | The Louisville Cardinal, August 28, 1981. |
Volume | 53 |
Issue | 2 |
Description | The University of Louisville’s undergraduate newspaper. The title of this publication has varied over the years, but with the exception of the period 1928-1930, when it was known as the U. of L. News, the title has always been a variation of The Cardinal. |
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Newspapers College student newspapers and periodicals University of Louisville--Students--Periodicals |
Date Original | 1981-08-28 |
Object Type | Newspapers |
Source | Scanned from microfilm in the Louisville Cardinal newspapers collection. Item Number ULUA Cardinal 19810828 |
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Full Text | I, An independent student weekly Friday, August 28, 1981 Vol. 53 No.2 No leisurely summer New President administers major changes at U of L By MELISSA MCCONNELL Staff Writer The summer hasn't been leisurely for Dr. Donald C. Swain. who became the University of Louisville's new president on April I, 1981. Besides facing the unavoidable task of cutting the budget. Swain has made changes in the administration's chain-of-command, made peeches. attended numerous luncheons. dinners and receptions. and moved into ~ newly renovated house in the Cherokee Triangle area. "I think in the first three months we were here. my wife and I had dinner at home maybe a half a dozen times," said Swain. Much of Swain's time. however has been spent devising a plan for U of l to save $3.7 million, a budget cutback requested by the state. To do that. the administration has adopted a two-phase plan. In the first phase, now under way. U of l plans to save the $3.7 million this year by temporarily leaving vacant faculty and staff positions unfilled . Though this is only a shortterm savings, Swain said that "we are assured at the end of that process of being able to save as much as we need to during the current year." Phase two of the plan begins this fall, when the decision will be made as to which programs should be eliminated and which should be increased to malce the $3.7 million a permanent savings. Swain said it is possible that "" In the next few weeks you will notice a change in The Louisville Cardinal. We are in the process of switching from Bargain Mart typesetting to our own. Recently we purchased he will chair a group of selected individuals to make those decisions. In addition. a series of task forces may be formed to aid in the program cutting and building process. By not filling vacant faculty positions "we will probably see that there will be fewer classes to choose from," Swain said. "Class size will probably be a little large. But we will try very hard to make certain that we man the introductory courses that are offered ." Although orne programs at U ofl will have to be cut, others will get top priority for funding, Swain wants more money to go into U of L libraries. faculty and staff salaries. research, computing. tutoring and special counseling and remedial programs. "You've got to protect quality and build quality even while you're cutting the budget, "he said. To speed up the decision making process. Swain has made some fundamental changes in the administration. "I wanted to reduce some of the layering in the organization." he said. "I think we had too much bureaucracy. We didn't 11eed deans having to go to vice presidents and going through the intermediary steps." An example of this change is the elimination of the office of vice president for health affairs. The deans at the Health Sciences Center now report directly to Swain. This he hopes will help unify that campus with Belknap Campus. Editor's Note a machine for this sole ptUpO!le. Our staffers are being trained this week. This means that some of our publication was typeset by Bargain Mart this week and some was done at The "I really like to be part of the action," said Swain. "I don't want to be insulated from the deans and students. I don't want to be buffered." The self-described "peopleoriented person" said that he wants to be as accessible to students as possible. He is considering opening his office to students every few weeks in the afternoon for discussions. Swain also said that he will support a "stop-out" program for students at U of l. Formally called the Planned Educational leave Program at the University ofCahfo'rma, wnere Swain was academic vice president, "stop-out" simply means "allowing students to take off for a year or ' semester and not have to go through the hassle of reapplying." "Just putting this program in a catalog helps a lot because first, students can realize that quitting for awhile is ok, and second, it legitimizes it for parents." said Swain. The new president has also been considering various uses for the Shelby Campus. At the present, he said it is heavily used for afternoon and evening classes. "But there's a lot of empty space out there," he added. So Swain is considering a future joint venture with developers that might change Shelby Campus into an industrial park for high technology. Working there could be a "think tank" of U of L faculty members and graduate students, according to Swain. "Electronics, computers... that's Cardiaal.· A difference in overall aPpearance will be seen over the next few weeks u we begin to take on the full responsibility for typesetting ourselves. We hope you like our "New Look." the kind of industry that any city loves to attract." he said. Swain would al~o like to ee the state allocate money for construction and renovation on Belknap Campus, especially for recreational purposes. "I've been on a lot of university campuses in my life and our recreational and P. E. facilities are the most inadequate I've ever seen. It's really dismal." he said. Even if the state doesn't grant U of L the money needed for construction and renovation. Swain hopes that it will at least recognize the need by granting some money for planning. "I'm optimistic about U of L. I think the spirit is good. But I'd like to convey to students and faculty that the world isn't out of control. The budget is being cut. but I think if we're skillful and open in our discussions and make the tough decisions promptly. We can get through this process reasonably well." Before taking his post at U of L, Dr. Swain was academic vice president of the nine campuses at the U niversity of California. He also served as academic assistant to the chancellor, assistant vice chancellor for academic and student affairs. and vice chancellor for academic affairs. From 1963-1970, he was an assistant and associate professor of history at the Davis Campus. Dr. Swain and his wife Lavinia have two children. Their daughter, Cynthia, is a student at Mills College. Their son, Chris,is a recent graduate of the University of California. Staff photo by Donna Sheets Dr Donald Swain "I think In the first three months we were here, my wife and I had dinner at homemaybea half a dozen times" {j F anfarefor New Library ~pening ; By MARY L. BARNES Staff Writer After seven years of planning, development, construction, delays, completion and transition, the William F. Ekstrom Library will officially open its doors to the public August 28, 1981. Dedication ceremonies will be held at 3:30p.m. on the Bellrnap Campus, across from the Bingham Humanities Building. Estimated to have cost nearly $15 million, the Ekstrom Library will hold about 1.2 million volumes, and has an area of approximately 250,000 square feet - o~er three times that of the 24- year-old University Library . The mastermind behind the foundation is Ralze W. Dorr, director of the Office of Planning and Administrative Services, University Libraries. In addition to supporting the new library's initial development in 1974, Dorr was actively involved in a 23-member advisory planning committee. This committee, as early as 1971 , heard and made recommendations to replace the already-overcrowded University Library. University Libraries Dean John T. Demos, another committee member, noted that by 1973 then-president James G. Miller had ascertained that "the university had capital construction potential." Demos said that the committee (campus faculty, staff and students) had come up with a new library as one of its top priorities. With rosts for construction in mind, several reviews were made before plans for the library came to light in 1974. By 1978, construction on the Ekstrom Library had begun under Dorr' s guidance. Oprr said that it might have been completed as early as December of last year had it not been for, among other factors, a six-week strike by electrical workers and a three-week walkout by trade workers. The foundation is divided into five levels. The ground level contains technical services, working and lounging areas for the library's staff, the Photographic Archives and a 100-seat auditorium for library and other formal classroom instruction. A distinction of the first floor level is a student lounge and the adjoining Raben Worth Bingham Poetry Room. Demos is confident that these study areas, complete with vending rna-chines, will be available 24 hours a aay. Also on level one is the main lobby, including exhibit and browsing areas, information, circulation and reference desks, the Public-Catalogue and Reference- Bibliography departments, the Fred C. Koster Reading Room, and student lounge. The second floor contains administrative offices, Interlibrary Loan, Special Services Area for the physically disabled, additional Special Services rooms, government documents, microforms, periodicals and conference rooms. The Ekstrom library's general collection of books, periodicals and the University Archives is on the third and fourth floors. Prominent on both floors are studying and reading lounges including carrels. There are open carrels for undergraduate students, semienclosed models for advanced students, and about 100 closed, hexagonalshaped carrels assigned to graduate students and faculty researchers on a semester basis. The fourth level leads to a roof skylight, which provides light and an openness to the third and fourth levels. Demos termed it "the penthouse," and Continued on page 3 Swain faces Unavoidable task of cutting budget I By JOE E. HERNDON Student Writer He said that Phase two will start after the fall term begins. This phase is to generate decisions after consultation with students. faculty and administration and then it will put into effect permanent program reductions. The cuts were not made across the board, University College and Arts and Sciences do not have the flexibility for cuts as do the School of Medicine or the School of Dentistry. Twenty-five university units were told to make reductions affecting personnel positions, travel, supplies and equipment funds. Today's cuts will mean that some classes will have larger enrollments than had been anticipated, that suppon functions will have to be curtailed, that less money will be available for faculty to attend professional and scientific meetings and that a number of visiting lectures will not be held. The College of Arts and Sciences made $300,000 in cuts, Two-thirds of the money cuts come from freezing open faculty positions. One-third comes primarily from part-time lecturers and graduate teaching assistants. Money that would have been used to improve the quality of existing courses, for example new equipment, must now be used to aet as many classes as possible open. Lois Cronholm, dean of Arts and Sciences, said, "Every unit of the university is important. We like to think that the College of Arts and Sciences is central to what the university is about, concerning the education of students. We have reached a level of resources which is putting us in a precarious position in terms of quality education for students." According to Louisville Times Cronholm, the college does not have the money to open up new sections for both upper and lower classmen. The choice this year is to spend any extra money on the lower level students. "I'm very worried about this concentration of resources on the incoming students, n she said 0 "It means that we are decreasing the available options for upper classmen." "One example of many," Cronholm said, "is public school art, with only two sections open. Only 40 students aiming for teaching degrees, who must have the course, could gain a place in the two sections. All the others will have to hope they can get it later," she said. She cannot open another section of the course, no matter how many need it, she said. The School of Medicine had the largest cuts, in losing $700,000 or Continued on back page |
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