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VOL. XXXII NO. 15 UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
Curriculnm Study Committee
Begins Evaluation Of Schooh
By Josie Zeman
The plans of the Curriculum Study Committee of the Kentucky
Commiss ion on Public Education will include visits to public and
parochial s chools throughout the state, inte rviews with parents and
teache r s , and evaluation of present curriculum s tandards, said Pro­fesso
r Carl Abner of the Bus iness School of tht! Univers ity of Louis ­vil
le . Abner, who is Chairman of the Committee, spoke to a meeting
of the Speed Scientific School
Alumni on Tuesday, February 7
in the Hideaway.
ln discuss ing some of the prob­lems
which the CurriculumStudy
Committee faced at its meetings
recently held at the Univers ity
of Louisville , Professo r Abne r
cited the fact that me mbe rs of
the Committee could not agree
whether or not to give advance
notice to teachers whose classes
will be observed by Committee
members. "I l ean to the view of
not giving advance notice," said
Abner, "but since there is s uch
a diversity of opinion, the ques ­tion
will have to be s ubmitted to
a Committee vote at the next
meeting."
Abner s tressed the fact that
the s chools which will be visited
by teams of four committee mem­bers
each were selected a t ran­dom.
,.I think we have a good
cross- section of Kentucky's ele­me
ntary and secondary school s ,
some good and some bad ,'' s aid
Abner.
Abner believes that the great­est
opposition to th e committee's
progress in this experiment will
be the diffe rences in educational
philosophy. Al so, since education
is a vested interest, powe rful
political force s may r esis t the
s tudy, Abne r believes .
He hopes, however, that teach­e
rs and superintendents will con­tinue
to be co-ope rative. ••I em­phasize
that this s tudy is not a
witch hunt, and that we are not
seeking to make an example of
any parti c ular sc h oo l or
te ache r," asserted Abne r .
Kentucky is one of a dozen
s tates , s aid Abne r, which are
concerned with the standards and
pro g r ess of education.. " Our
study is one of many similiar
attempts to evaluate education on
a s tate le vel,' ' s aid Abner. He
fe els that although Kentucky has
been ranked low on the national
scale of s tate expenditure per
pupil, "we have a high r a ting in
terms of cu rriculum requi re­ments
in Kentucky."
Due to lack of response,
the $25 Cardinal journalism
prize was divided among
four regular non-salaried
contributors.
The money was awarded
as follows: Allan Goldberg,
$10; Lynne Craig, $5 for
Kent School coverage; Bar•
bara Rosenthal, $5, Tax
Institute Story; Mary Ann
Smith, $5, stories on the
International Relations.
Larry Spence, editor of
the Cardinal, said, concern·
ing the conte·st, 111 was
disappointed with the re-sponse
" •
In view of the fact that
no single story was sub­mitted
that did not neces•
sitate rewriting, the award
was divided.
Coaches And Sports Writers Agree
LOUISVILLE 8, KENTUCKY FEBRUARY 10, 1961
University Of Louisville Enrollment
Drops 8.6 Per Cent To 2933
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SEMPER REG.ISTRA: Students make a day of registration,
them face the new semester exhausted and worn from the
ordeal of this age-old custom.
Cards Face Ohio Ue
At Home Wednesday
B~obcats leading
Nlid-America
Conference
Louisville ' s Cardina ls return
home to the frie ndly confines of
mammoth Freedom Hall next
Wedn1esday night, February 15,
to face a pesky bunch of Bobcats
from Ohio Univers ity.
The Redbirds of Coach Peck
Hickman, away since J anuary 25,
when they turned back Ke ntucky
Wesleyan, will be facing the de­fe
nding champions and current
leade rs of the Mid-America Con­fe
rence. The Bobcats of Coach
Jim Synde r from Athens and the
Cardinals last met during the
1958-1959 season withLouisville
pulling out a hair-raising 72-70
win in the season finale .
Ohio Univers ity is paced by
Bunk Adams , a 6' 2" senior for­ward
from Toledo. Adams, by
the time he faces the Cards, will
have broken the school's all­time
scoring mark of 1096 points.
The University o, Lou·
isville 's basketball team
received a bid to t he NCAA
t ournament Wednesday.
Their first tournament
game will be in Le xington
or Lou i s v il 1 e on March
13th.
Teaming with Adams at the
forwards is the only other senior
on the team, 6'4 ' ' Larry Kruger.
At center, Coach Synder starts
Stacy Bunton, a 6'8" sophomore
from Cincinnati.
A.&S. Dismisses
132 For Failures
Total enrollment at the Uni­versity
of Louisville day school
classes decreased 8.6% spring
semester from the fa ll e nroll ­ment.
2,933 students were en­r
olled in the University as of
Wednesday, Februa r y 8, as com­pared
to 3,209 fo r the fall se­mester,
Enrollment at the College of
Arts and Sciences for the spring
semester 1960-61 has dropped
16% f rom the fall semester. As
of Wednesday, Feb ruary 8, 1361
s tudents were enrolled in Arts
and Sciences as compared with
1621 fo r the fall semester.
Last yea r , spring semester,
the re were 1260 students enrolled
in the College.
132 students were dismiss ed
f rom the College due to academic
failures , 7% of the fall semes ­ter's
enrollment. 6% of the stu­dents
enrolled in Arts and Sci­e
nces were placed on probation
for the spring semester; 127
students, or 7% were continued
on probation; 60 were removed
from probation this semester.
Law School admitted 113 s tu­dents
in day school spring s e­mester,
as compared to 100 stu­dents
fall semester.
Kent Scnool en r o 11m en t de­creased
from 79 for the fall
semester to 65 for the spring
semester.
B usiness School increased
from 102 to 103.
Music School has 73 students. , .•..........................•
: Attention Rushees! All:
• mole students interested :
in Fraternity R u s h a r e :
required to attend rush :
orientation to be he I d :
Polls Rate Carclinals;
Consistently In Top Ten
The starting guards for the
Bobcats are Bill Whaley and
Dave Katz.
Louisville Coach Peck Hick­man
noted earlier in the week ,
"It will be good to be able to play
before the home crowd afterfour
straight games on the road . We 're
certainly not taking Ohio Univer­sity
lightly , though!'
Friday, February 10, 12 :
noon to J :00 at the Uni· •
versify Playhouse. . Compulsory rush cards :
wi II be given out at this :
meeting. Rush rules and
procedures wi II be ex·
plained at this meeting.
By Bob Kohn
For the first time since 1956,
the Cardinals of the University
of Louisville rank among the na­tion's
society of basketball pow­ers.
Throughout the entire sea­son,
Louis ville has been ranked
among the top ten teams in the
United States by the UnitedPress
International, the Associated
P r ess, and the Dunkel Ratings.
This week, the Cards are tied for
9th place in the U.P .I. Poll, lOth
in the A.P. rating, and among
the top twenty by Dunkel.
The Associated Press Poll was
fi rst started during the 1947-48
basketball season. This poll is
made of 36 sports writers and
sportscasters, who are divided
into geographical sections, based
on the districts set up by the
N.C.A.A. The state of Kentucky
is in the Southern Region.
Each state has one vote or a
fra ction thereof, depending on
the number of participating
schools in that state.
On each Sunday, during the
basketball season, the represen­tatives
of the different states
select who, in their opinion,
should be the top ten teams in
the country. This selection is
then telegraphed to the New York
headquarters of the Associated
Press, where the results are
tabulated.
The results are then made
known late Monday afternoon for
Tuesday morning papers . and on
alternate weeks, on Tuesday
morning for Tuesday afternoon
editions . The results are re­leased
both nationally and inter­nationally
to all papers, radio
and T.V. stations using the A.P.
service. At the end of the year,
a trophy is awarded the national
champion.
The United Pres s International
Poll, on the other hand, was fi rst
in the 1950-51 basketball season,
and is made of 35 coaches . These
coaches, who represent the seven
sections that the U.P .I. devides
the country into, are selected by
Leo Peterson, the sports editor
for the U.P .I.
The state of Kentucky, a s in
the A.P. Poll, is in the Southern
region. The coaches in this s ec­tion
are Adolph RuppofKentucky,
Cliff Wells or Tulane, Everett
Case of North Carolina State,
George King of West Virginia.
and Frank McGuire of North
Carolina.
On Sunoay of each week, the
bureau nearest one of the coac hes
(for example, the Louisville is
the closest to Coach Rupp) calls
the coach and asks for his weekly
selection of what he feels are the
ten best teams in the country. The
bureau then telegraphs these re­sults
to New York rather than
using its own wires, so that the
results of each coach will be
kept secret. At U.P .I. headquar­ters
in New York, these results
are tabulated in the same man­ner
used by the A.P.
The U .P .I. results, like those
of the A,P •• are releas ed t o the
public on either Monday nights
or Tues day mornings. At the end
of the year, the U,F .I. also give
the mythical champion a la rge
trophy. s ymbolic of this honor .
Highest rating ever attained by
Louisville was in 1956 when the
Cards were ranked third i n the
nation for part of the season.
This year' s group of Redbirds
wer€~ ranked fourth earlier this
year.
The Dunkel Ratings , carried
local.ly by the Louis ville Times,
were started in 1929 by Dick
Dunkel. Presently, Dunkel makes
his weekly fore ca s ts from Or­mand
Beach, Florida. The ratings
come to the Times on Wednesday
and are released to their r eaders
every Friday afternoon.
Dunkel bases his s ystem on a
comJParative strength rating on
the games played by a team, on
the strength of its opposition,
and the home court advantage.
He claims, so far this year, to
be correct on 77.4% of the more
than 2000 games, which he pre­dicts.
TI1e two national ratings are,
of course, looked upon with close
scru.tiny by both the N,C.A.A.
and National Invitational Tourna­menlt
when they get ready to
mak1e the selections for their
post·-season tournaments.
Following the Ohio University
game, the Cardinals hit the road
again when they travel to Dayton.
: The rush schedule is in •
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PARDON ME, BIG BOY ••• sHms to say 4-feet, 6-inch
"Cowboy Bradley," a midget wrestler, as he confronts
forward Freel Sawyer in front of their hotel in Tampa.
C auri•·Joumal photographer Larry Spitzet saw the small
man and a 1 ked if he'd pose with 6-feet-11 Sawyer. A
complete story C1ft the Cardinals' recent trek south will
be in this Sunday's Courier-Jownal Magazine.