the louisville cardinal·
vol. xxx no. 15 university of louisville, louisville, kentucky 40208 febrttary 7, 1969
Miller by-passed for out-of-town coach
By TOM LYONS
Cardinal Managing Editor
The next head football coach of the
University of Louisville will not be from
Louisville, say official sources.
UL assistant football coach Paulie
Miller, around whom initial speculation
had centered, was not chosen when the
UL Athletic Council met in closed session
Wednesday night in the Jefferson Room
to make its recommendation. They did not
announce the results. Final action will
come by the Board of Trustees some time
after President Woodrow Strickler returns
to town Monday. The new coach succeeds
Frank Camp who resigned Jan. 2 after 23
years at UL.
A screening committee had previously
narrowed 30 applicants to six, including
Paulie Miller and William Knuckles­both
members of the current UL coach­ing
staff.
The four out-of-town candidates are
Lee Corso of Navy, Robert Bowden of
West Virginia, William Shalosky of South
Carolina, and Stanley Sheriff of Northern
Iowa.
Former coach Camp and Athletic Di­rector
Bernard Hickman presented their
-Photo by Bill Renda
A new angle
Students were back in the bookstore en
masse this past week to buy new books for
the Spring semester. A rearrangement had
taken place, perhaps in competition with
the revived student book exchange.
evaluations of the situation to the coun­cil
and left the meeting. However, Hick­man,
interviewed early the next morn­ing,
confirmed speculation of an out-of­town
coach, which had been growing since
the decision to search elsewhere had been
made three weeks ago.
When asked if he thought the outside
coach would add greater impetus to the
UL football program, Hickman responded,
"I can't answer that for certain, because
I'm not sure what it will do."
However, student board member Ben
Taylor, when asked the same question,
stated, "This (the impetus) has been a
primary concern of the board in all of its
previous meetings."
This posture of the board marks a sharp
about-face from the general feeling that
Miller. was the certain choice, a feeling
that prevailed immediately after Camp's
resignation.
Council members declined all comment
on the exact recommendation, though
Hickman did say further action would
await Strickler's return and formal pres­entation
of the recommendation to the
Board of Trustees.
Coed 's body found Monday
behind Reynolds Building
By RICK NORTHERN
Cardinal Associate Editor
The body of 20-year-old Laura Eliza­beth
Hefley, a School of Music coed from
Fulton, Ky., was found Monday afternoon
under an overturned rowboat behind the
Reynolds Building, at Third and East­ern
Parkway. She had apparently been
raped and strangled.
Police found the body on the edge of
a parking lot driveway, a few feet from
the northwest corner of the five-story
building, long a sore spot on campus se­curity.
The girl was last seen between 3:30 and
4 p.m. Saturday in Miller Hall, the dormi­tory
where she lived.
Dean of Women Doris Stokes, said that
the girl did not sign out of the dorm
Saturday. Dormitory residents do not
have to sign out if they leave before 7 :30
p.m.
When Miss Hefley's roommate, Norma
DeMott, returned Sunday afternoon to
find her missing, an investigation began.
Campus security chief Captain Edward
Rew did not report her missing to the
Louisville Police Youth Bureau until 2
a.m. Monday.
Thus far police have failed to find a
purse and several items of Miss Hefley's
apparel. Her briefcase and music books
were found on a girder atop a Southern
Railway trestle about 90 feet from where
the body was found.
Robert Whitney, dean of the School of
Music, had requested more lighting for
the Reynolds' parking lot on several oc­casions.
No explanations were offered by
the University as to why they were not
installed.
Whitney remarked that there always
seemed to be a need for "general clean­ing-
up" on the first floor and in the
parking lot. "The University did do quite
a lot, but not all they could have."
The slaying, however, has prompted the
University to take action designed to
tighten security around the Reynolds
Building.
University officials announced Tuesday
the following changes:
Student graders flunk some faculty • • •
II"' Female students will be prohibited
from walking to or from the Reynolds
Building after dark except in groups.
A faculty evaluation, containing grades
for about 150 Arts and Sciences profes­sors,
was distributed during registration
this week.
About 2,000 copies of the leaflet, which
also contained an editorial against the
present grading system, were prepared
and distributed by some members of Stu­dents
for Social Action.
"The purpose of the evaluation, at first,
was to give the students a chance to rate
their teachers, so that other students
would have some way of knowing who
was good and who wasn't," according
to Paul Bergner, organizer of the project.
Bergner and several friends distributed
1,000 questionnaires at the end of last
semester, asking students to rate their
teachers on a scale of A, B, C, D, and F.
They then compiled the results and had
them printed.
"The results showed how inadequate
that grading system really is,'' claimed
Bergner. "Some good teachers got bad
grades because they just happened to
be hard graders,'' he said. "Others who
were easy graders or just good comedians
got good grades when they probably
didn't deserve them."
The average grade for the teachers was
1. 7 on a 3.0 scale.
Another problem, according to Bergner
is that there weren't enough grades to
make a statistically valid average.
"All these problems, which tend to in­validate
the questionnaire, also work
~gainst the student when the teacher
grades him," Bergner claimed.
The following table gives a synopsis
of the grades received by various depart­ments.
The first column gives the de­partment's
cumulative average (based on
a three point maximum). The columns
following the department's name give the
total number of letter grades.
3.0
2.5
2.3
2.1
2.0
Russian
French
Anthropology
Philosophy
English
ABC D F
2----
1 1---
1 2---
2 2 1--
9 12 7 1 -
2.0
2.0
1.9
1.8
1.8
1.7
1.7
1.6
1.4
1.2
1.0
1.0
1.0
Physical Education
Biology
History
Political Science
Humanities
Physics
German
Chemistry
Math
Spanish
Sociology
Nat ural Sciences
Psychology
A B C D F
4 3 2 1-
3 --- 1
2 3 5--
2 1 3--
4 7 1 3-
1 1 2--
1 3 3--
3 1 4 1-
1 3 4 1-
2 1 1-
4 1 3-
1-- 2-
1 3 3- 3
II"' A shuttle car will operate on the
hour and on request. (In the past, coeds
often walked to the Reynolds Building in
the evening to practice.)
Y' Locks on all doors will be changed.
Y' At least three burned-out lights out­side
the building will be replaced. Addi­tional
lights will be installed if necessary.
Y' A partition will be erected on the
first floor of the building to separate the
portion used by the music department
from a section used for geology work and
storage. The geology section is a dimly-
(Continued p. 14, cot. 1)
• • • and faculty is shocked by results
Faculty reaction to. the results of a re­cent
questionnaire involving the grading
of teachers by their students has been
critical of the particular poll in question,
but not of the overall idea.
Although some faculty members favor
the concept of students grading teachers,
all of those contacted agreed that the
poll was inherently inaccurate. According
to Prof. Charles Breslin of the Humanities
Department, the poll was "nearly incon­clusive,''
due to the manner in which
it was conducted and the complexity of
assigning letter grades.
Dr. W. Landis Jones of the Political
Science Department pointed out one bene­fit
of the project. Referring to grading
teachers, Dr. Jones noted that it "makes
the students more aware of the many
factors involved in the grading process."
At the same time, Jones was particularly
critical of the small, unscientific sample
that was used. In such an undertaking, it
is necessary "to have a high percentage
of students in the sample," in order to
make the poll as "universal and as repre­sentative
as possible."
On the other hand, Dr.t Bixler of the
Psychology Department, said that he
"feels very, very strongly that students
are ·n-qualified to evaluate teachers be­cause,
in general, students are not good
judges of the content of courses."
Mentioned in connection with the poll
was the question of a pass-fail system
to replace the present system of grading
students. Dr. Badessa of the English de­partment
agrees with the present use of
the pass-fail in one course per semester,
but notes that "ideally, there should be
a complete pass-fail system in use, but
only when accompanied by a commentary
submitted by the teacher on the per­formance
of each student."
Bixler took a different attitude. While
declining to voice opposition to the present
pass-fail use, he insisted that "grades are,
historically, our best 'predictor' and lead­ing
information source as to student per­formance
and potential." Bixler also in­dicated
that the P sychology Department
should conduct such evaluations in the
future.