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CARDINAL Page 2-"Pass-fail" grading system advocated
Page 4-Humorous song parodies
Page 5-The Cardinal Birds interviewed
Page 6-Feature on Urban Renewal
VOL. XXVIII, NO. 14 UNIVERSITY 01~ LOUISVILLE, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY 40208 JANUARY 13, 1967
Bye, bye
Bissmeyer
AI Bissmeyer ('67), president of
the Interfraternity Council, speaks
at a rush convocation earlier this
semester. He will leave UL this
month to work in Washingto~
D.C.
Bissmeyer leaving UL
to work with Cowger
By Sunny Struck
One of UL's most outstanding
leaders is going to Washington.
AI Bissmeyer, College of Arts
and Sciences Student Council
President, is leaving Jan. 28 to
accept a staff position with Louis­ville
Congressman William Cow­ger
at the nation's capitol.
The 21-year-old political science
major, when questioned about his
new job, said, "I don't know ex­actly
what my job will 00-I'll
probably be moved around, may­be
even into the Senate."
While in Washington, Biss­meyer
will continue his studies
at Georgetown University and
may later attend law school there.
The senior is considering govern­ment
work as a possible career.
To say that Bissmeyer has been
extremely active during his four
years on campus is somewhat of
an understatement. He leaves be­hind
him a long list of presi­dencies.
At the end of his fresh-
Leopolders lose
man year, Bissmeyer won the
presidency of the sophomore class.
As a sophomore he was elected
as the youngest president in the
history of Lambda Chi Alpha fra­ternity
at UL and later that year
gained the presidency of the In­ter-
Fraternity Council.
In the spring of his junior year,
Bissmeyer was elected president
of the A&S Student Council. Dur­ing
his senior year he served as
president for three organizations:
the Council, Lambda Chi Alpha,
and IFC.
Bissmeyer, recently chosen to
appear in 1966-67 edition of
Who's Who in American Colleges
and Universities, will graduate
from UL, as his credits earned at
Georgetown will be transferred
here. He stated that he received
his job as a result of his interest
and activity in the Young Re­publicans
Club, the GOP, and his
work with Cowger while the Con­gressman
served as Louisville
mayor.
40 hours on the road
SIU ends UL winning Streak
By Don Waddell
Playing on the road is no fun ,
even if you win, and especially if
you lose. Each trip away involves
too many tedious hours of riding
and, the worst part, waiting.
It is almost incidental that the
University of Louisville lost its
first game in 14 outings to South­ern
Illinois 53-50 at SIU. Inci­dental
because, while the game
took a mere two hours to play, the
Cardinal basketball players spent
38 additional hours riding and
waiting.
Preceding the game, matters are
more or less routine. Practice on
the opponents floor for an hour,
eat, and be in your room for bed
check at 11:00 p.m. The day of
the game is no less routine but,
as the players and coaches attempt
to surpress their anxiety about
the game, the hours begin to
wear away more slowly. For
some there are nervous jokes and
forced laughter while for others
just silence. Yet, studying must
be done in spite of tensing nerves­always
studying is done or at­tempted.
And then the game. Ten thou­sand
screaming, hostile fans met
the Cardinals in SIU's arena. The
crowd delighting in each error,
booing and hissing, attacked UL
at every opportunity. Once, dur­ing
the pre-game warmup, Unseld
missed a lay-up and 10,000
Saluki fans roared their ap­proval.
Wes smiled. No mercy
here.
But UL, facing the deliberate
SIU offense and tight defense,
lost. The locker room afterwards
was deathly quiet and lonely. No
one looked forward to the trip
home.
As usual, Louisville coach Peck
Hickman talked with Ed Kalley
on the Peck Hickman Show.
Hickman smiled and occasionally
laughed. When asked how he
maintained any resemblance of
good humor the coach said, "Well,
after so many years . . . And
you've got to be careful of what
you say." He was not happy.
But the team can't let a loss
eat away at them forever. Every­body
realizes this and soon after
they are on the bus, a snicker or
a laugh breaks the silence and the
team begins to sing. "Under the
Board Walk," "We Shall Over­come,"
etc. The boys, who will
probably win the MVC title but
couldn't win a boobey prize sing­ing,
ran out of songs about 2:00
(Continued page 5, col. 5)
Malraux exhibit opens
on campus next week
"Andre Malraux: Witness of
our Time," the largest and most
complete exhibit ever assembled
on the career of the French writ­er,
will open at the University
of Louisville Library Monday.
Dr. John L. Brown, Bingham
Professur, will open the exhibit
with a lecture on the "Presence
of Malraux" at 8 :00 p.m. Jan. 16
in Bigelow Hall. The exhibit
climaxes a one-semester seminar
on Malrauz by Dr. Brown who is
a personal friend of the French
author.
Films on the Spanish civil war,
an event in which Malraux fig­ured
prominently as the organ­izer
of the Spanish republican
air force, will be shown in Bige­low
Hall Tuesday and Wednes­day,
Jan. 17 and 18.
"L'Espoir" and "To Die in
Madrid," will be shown Tuesday
at 8:00 p.m.; "The Spanish Earth"
and "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
Winding up the week's events
will be a lecture by Madame
Jacqueline Bernard entitled "Mal­raux
and Camus" Friday, Jan. 20
at 8:00 p.m. in Bigelow Hall.
Madame Bernard, writer and
translator, was formerly on the
staffs of the Paris daily Com­bat
and the review Realities. She
coordinated the acquisition of
much of the exhibit material in
Europe.
10 lllake 'best-dressed' finals The exhibit itself will run
through Jan. 31 and will include
photographs, manuscripts, and
books. Many of the items in the
display will tour the United
States after the UL exhibit.
Ten finalists have been chosen
in the first "Best-dressed Girl on
Campus'' contest to be held at
the University of Louisville.
Named after a tea Wednesday
afternoon, they are Wanda Baker,
'69; Cathy Cayce, '68; Lani Daw­son,
'68; Susan Hill; Karen Mor­ris,
'70; Leah Rausch, '68; Velta
Smith, '67; Laura Von Roenn, '67;
Diane Wiggins, '68; and Carol­gene
Wise, '67.
The finalists were chosen by a
panel of student and faculty
judges including: Linda Soren­son,
Les Silverman, Mr. Don Bier­man,
Miss Kathleen Drummond,
and Miss Carol Townsend.
The coeds will be judged furth ­er
after the beginning of the
spring semester. Each one will
write a paper expressing her ideas
on fashion and will have inter­views
with the judges before the
winner is chosen.
Malraux is an author, archeol­ogist,
soldier, movie produc~r.
and diplomat. He is currently
France's Minister of Cultural
Affairs. He has been considered
a leader in the literary world
since 1933, when his novel
Man's Fate won the Concourt
Prize.
A men 's barracks is their castle
By John Junot
Leopold Hall looks the way you
wished your mother had let your
room look when you were a kid,
or the kind of place you'd like
to go to relax.
Fortunately for the foreign
students who live there, the UL
Administration has decided to
provide superior quarters. Be­ginning
this summer, they will
live in one of the newer men's
dorms, and University personnel
will sit behind the desks in Leo­pold
Hall. Already the Test Bu­reau
has taken over many of the
rooms there. The dorm's old rec­reation
room is now an empty
space adorned only by a portrait
of Ensign Robert Lawrence Leo­pold
(a casualty of the U.S.S.
Arizona) .
Like most soon-to-be-displaced
persons, the Leopold students are
not happy about the development
As UL student Andrei Vandoros
-the group's spokesman, and "the
only real Greek on campus"-put
it, "This place is our home. Most
of us have lived here several
years, and we've become a fami­ly."
Leopold Hall costs only half of
what the newer dorms charge,
but as Tom Taylor, an American
student (over half the Leopold
students are Americans), said,
"Even if the prices were higher,
I'd still want to live here at Leo­pold."
Most of the men at Leopold
have lived for short times in the
other dormitories and have found
them too big, impersonal, restric­tive,
and "lacking color."
While not o b j e c t i ng to
younger students, the men are
quick to point out that all
but one of the 20-odd resi­dents
are over 21, and are given
more or less complete freedom by
the Administration. Nevertheless
they attest that no Leopold resi­dent
has ever broken a major
rule, such as drinking, gambling,
or bringing women in the rooms.
In fact, the students claim, the
Administration has seemed to
have ignored Leopold Hall alto­gether.
According to the students,
the Administration has not paint­ed
or made repairs on Leopold
Hall for nearly eight years.
Upon moving in, some students
acquired some surplus paint and
materials from Building and
Grounds and went to work. Now
Leopold Hall looks like the origi­nal
army barracks it was. One
gets the feeling that that's the
real beauty of the place--a guy
can make some noticeable im­provement
with his own hands.
Interior decoration was a
jumping off point for other dorm
activities. The students print
their .own newspaper, The Leo­pold
Daily Worker, and organize
Leopold Hall UL student E I i as Abboud
studies in his room at Leopold
Hall.
athletic teams. The UL soccer
team is made up of Leopold stu­dents.
One happy note. Accord~ to
Don Adams, Dean of Men, a new
International House is being plan­ned.
Maybe they'll leave a little
cracked plaster and a few un­painted
walls ... r;nore like home,
you know.