THE CARDINAL UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE'S OFFICIAL WEEKLY PUBLICATION
VOL. XXV
Oppenheimer, A & S Leaders,
Discuss Collt~ge ProbleiDs
"Students know what is happening to them and can give in­sight"
to the administration, according to Arts and Sciences Dean
J. J. Oppenheimer. Meeting last Friday with a group of students
from the college, he explained still being done, it was decided to
that he thought students could al- go ahead and finish the job all at
ways be valuable in making sug- once. Now the building is to be
gestions and finding answers to ready for use by June.
existing prohlems. The meeting On the first floor of the building
which was called for the purpose there is to be a lounge. Oppenhei­of
discussing these problems, was, mer said that he hoped that if stu­he
said, "not an empty gesture." dents had any ideas about what
The Dean first explained the they wanted in the lounge-or in
rehabilitation program in stor~e for other projects--they would let
the campus. Originally Gardiner him know.
Hall was to be air conditioned and Other old buildings on campus
partly remodeled by January. will be remodeled when Gardiner
When bonds, part of which are to Hall is finished, he continued, ex­be
used for rehabilitation, were pressing the hope that new £urn­sold
last fall while the work was ishing could be gotten for them,
School Directory·
Is Now Availahl~e
The Student-Faculty Directory
of the University of Louisville is
now available at the Bookstore,
according to Dick Guenther and
Connie Darms, co-chairman o:f the
Progress Comission of the Univer­sity
Student Council.
and that scientific
could be bought for the N a
Science Building.
In the near future, a
will be built across campus.
will contain conduits for the
ned central air ·
tern, as well as other pip
electrical wiring. This is
done "so they won't have
up the campus every two or
weeks."
The group discussed the pro­posed
Student Union Building, and
all agreed that it was very neces­<
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1953
Grlfristmas
Q!nnun ~et
1Jior mnllay
A Christmas Convocation is
being held this morning in the
Playhouse at 11 a.m. President
Phillip Davidson presents the wel­come
address.
The U of L chorus directed by
Mr. George Perle will sing first
next the Nazareth A Cappella
Choir will present its program
under the direction of Sister Clara
.N.
The directory includes students
from all University schools plus a
complete faculty and administra­tion
directory. This is the first
time that the two directories have
been combined. The 130 page book
will sell for ten cents, due to the
high cost of printing.
Wolfe's Polit..,·'""' ...­The
cover design by Alfred Zal­on
is an old-fashioned European
telephone. Mr. Zalon explained
that, "Since the University Dir­ectory
is used primarily as a
phoning reference we felt a llarge
phone was a suitable decorative
symbol for our cover. This 'com­bination
of a Cellini salt-c:ellar
and the sort of ornate hand-set
one imagines still is found in tired
old hotels on the Riviera, was
evolved because ordinary tele­phones
have become visually so
familiar to us as to be practically
invisible, and something a litte
more amusing seemed called for."
Features Ike
A letter and petition
signatures were sent to Pr<es1<1er:w
the foreign aid and trade J.::.::.uc::. •
• Senator McCarthy
tacked the President for coiltix•­ing
aid to nations which
with red Communistic con
countries and asked that a
ban be applied by the U.S. to
countries. McCarthy also
that wires and letters be
the President expressing
ers' views on the issue.
Julie Wolfe, a political
STUDENTS Charles Mac:G,regor, Maurice Trautwein, Bob Cuter,
aDd Mr. Ralph Petrilli en..~ the National Moot CoUI"t Conven­tion
held last month in fSt. : Louis. MacGregor, Trautwein, and
Carter represented U of L at the conclave. Mr. Petrilli is advisor
to the U of L Moot CoUI"t Club.
fear to speak
on controversial issueY,~c~~:'iJ!~f
the ominous threats of reJJri;sal
those who espouse ideas. Many
Americans are fearful of joining
liberal, but unquestionably non­Communist,
causes knowing that
unfounded but thoroughly vici­ous
allegations will be made
against them and their families.
American colleges and univer­sities
are losing their academic
vitality in many instances. Free
inquiry has becc;>me largely limit­ed
to those disciplines where cri­ticism
cannot possibly raise ques­tions
of loyalty or conformity.
Mere knowledge of unpopular
concepts is all too frequently
equated with agreement, which
results in the glorification of ig­norance.
Your leadership in refusing to
concede to the degrading tirades
of McCarthy and his sympathizers
is a forceful statement for the pre­servations
of our civil liberties. It
is equally important in assuring
that our foreign policy will be
conducted with maturity, rather
than with super-patriotic expedi­ency."
NO. 12
U-L Officials Discuss
Inefficiency Charges
Miss Schneider Says Puptils Fortunate;
More Helpers Needed, Houchens States
By BILL HAGAN
In last week's Cardinal, the editorials "Inefficiency Plagues
U of L" and "Parking Space Shortcomings Still Remain" caused
considerable comment among both the students and faculty of
The University.
In order to obtain the adminis­tration's
viewpoint of the edi­torials,
three administrative of­ficials
of The University, Presi­dent
Philip Davidson, Registrar
John M. Houchens, and Head Li­brarian
Miss Evelyn Schneider,
were asked to express their opin­ions
to The CBI"dinal.
Commenting generally on the
editorials, President Philip David­son
said he was not able to say
whether they represented student
opinion as a whole.
"I do not question the right of
the Editors (of The CBI"dinal) to
criticize, complain, or question
any matters in The University
which affect them in any way.
Student opinion is always wel­comed
by The University and my­self.
Staff Size Cut
the last few years,
in the number
stu.ents attending school here,
necessary to cut the
our staff to its present
e said.
v·~~i~~nt Davidson was most
over the charges in
of the shortage, i.e.
When questioned about the refe-rence in
the editorial to the cafeteria deficit, Co­Editor-
in-Chief Jon Whitfield said that
it ref•~ITTed to an investigation conducted
by a Unive-rsity Student Council com­mittee,
and reported iTV the March 26,
1953 Cardinal as folLows:
"No explanation was given to the fac­tors
which cause the 5% deficit .•. Mr.
George Funk, manager of the Cafeteria,
refused to comment on the situation ...
Therefore the students reached the con'­clusion
that the financial report is false
OT the management is inefficient."
Oldman Addresses
Police Institute
Graduating Class
Twenty-two p o 1 ice officers
were graduated from the Southern
Police Institute on December 11.
The graduation address was de­livered
by State Police Commis­sioner
Charles Oldham.
The Institute graduated its first
foreign student, Fingerprint Tech­nician
Nikul Naik, who is from
Bombay, India.
The graduating class officers
were Sergeant William R. Jones,
president; Captain W i 11 is D.
Booth Jr., vice-president; Ser­geant
C. J. Hyde, orator; and Ser­geant
Emery B. Morel, secretary.
Lieutenant Elza L. Brantley,
Sergeant William H. Campbell,
Sergeant Stanley M. Carle, Lieu­tenant
Odas L. Cole, Lieutenant
J. W. Garrison, Sergeant Roy W.
Greathouse, C a p rt a in Roy C.
Hamm, Lieutenant M. Dean Hen­derson,
Sergeant Howard B. J.ohn­son,
Sergeant John Frank Kil­lough,
Lieutenant William M.
Moss, Detective Joseph Randazzo
Jr., Detective Alvin Leo Schem,
Patrolman James E. Street, Cap­tain
W. N. Taylor, Patrolman
Lampton C. Terrell, and Lieuten­ant
Joie W. Trulove were also
members of the graduating class.
"a largE! sum of money in the
budget" of the cafeteria. Unless
substantiated by facts, a state­ment
sueh as this should not have
been made, the U of L President
said.
He added, "I plan to get with
the Deans in order to speed up
any solutions we may have to the
problems causing dissatisfaction
among the students."
In ref:erence to the li'brary sit­uation,
Miss Schneider believes
that the best that can be done
under the circumstances is being
done. "It is not physically pos­sible
he1re to speed up delivery of
books to students who call for
them," said Miss Schneider.
~rwelve Book Clubs
"Because of lack of funds there
is no attempt to keep up with books
of current fiction at this time. We
have, however, this year sub­scribed
for books to twelve dif­ferent
book of the month clubs,
and this is the best we can do
with our limited budget," added
Miss &:hneider. "Students don't
realize lh.ow fortunate they are in
waiting only a few minutes for a
books to be gotten for them. In the
larger s1r::hools around the country,
it is not infrequent for students to
wait fifteen to twenty minutes in
line to get their books."
Miss Schneider stated that an
average of about four minutes is
required to get a book from the
stacks here because getting to the
stackrooms requires the utilization
of the elevator and the elevator is
not always available for use,
since other persons than the li­brarians
use the elevator.
Recently the catalogue depart­ment
was moved to the top floor
-"a move that is unheard of in
the big libraries," said Miss Sch­neider.
On the statement of the edi­torial,
"·We wonder how often fac­ulty
members requisition new
books for the Library," Miss Sch­neider
says that there is no uni­form
method in the school by
which faculty members requisi­tion
on books.
Some Requisitions
Some department heads approve
all book requests before submit­ting
a requisition to the librarian.
Other departments allow their in­dividual
faculty members to order
books if and when they see fit.
"Eventually 100 per cent of all
book requisitions are filled. It
takes tvlw weeks to get the books
ordered and two more weeks to
catalogue them and make them
available for circulation," she
stated.
References were made to the
editoriaJl concerning the late pub­lishing
of the student-faculty di­rectory,
the late mailing of grades
to students, and the possibility of
getting longer hours for the post­office.
lMr. Houchens was of the
opinion that the problem in all
three of these complaints rested in
a large part in insufficient per­sonnel
in which to carry out these
services ..
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