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the louisville ·cardinal
volume xli, number 8 university of louis-ville, louisville, kentucky 40208 octobe1' 24~ 1969
Clean Air Week, Oct. 19-2 5, ends tomorrow
Homecoming Court named;
festivities begin Nov. 6
By CASS HARRIS
Cardinal Campus Editor
Five coeds, the selected cream of UL's
crop, were named today to the 1969 Home­coming
Court.
They are Karen Koshewa (A&S '70), a
21 year-old Biology major sponsored by
Angel Flight; Pam Recktenwald (A&S
'70), a 21 year-old French major spon­sored
by Tau Kappa Epsilon; Betty Jo
Stocker (A&S '70), a 19 year-old Psycho­logy
major sponsored by Lambda Chi
Alpha; Kaye Moore (Music '71), a 21
year-old music major sponsored by Phi
Mu Alpha; and Bobby Lyddy (A&S '72),
a 19 year-old sophomore sponsored by
Delta Upsilon.
Selected in recent University-wide elec­tions,
the five girls will be judged by
members of the football team on Wednes­day,
Nov. 5.
The queen and her court will be an­nounced
Thursday night, Nov. 6, at the
bonfire and pep rally following the pa­rade
of floats which is scheduled to begin
at 6:30 p.m. A fireworks display will con­clude
the evening's activities.
Earlier in the day, the Quarterback­Tipoff
Luncheon will be held in Bigelow
Hall at noon. The featured speaker will
be Ernie Green, former UL football star
and all-pro player with the Cleveland
Browns.
The entertainment highlight of the
weekend will be Friday night's Bill Cos­by
show at 8 p.m. at Freedom Hall. Jun­ior
Walker and the All Stars will appear
with Cosby, who is sponsored by the Stu­dent
Activities Board. Tickets, now on
sale, are $3, $5, and $6, or to UL students,
$2, $4, and $5.
After a short band concert and float
parade during halftime ceremonies at
Saturday's UL-Cincinnati game, Student
Senate president Bob James (Speed '70)
will introduce President Strickler, who
will again present the court and crown
the queen.
Concluding 1969 Homecoming festivities
will be Saturday night's Homecoming
dance featuring music by the Drifters and
by the Chet Cline Orchestra. The queen
and her court will again be presented,
and the winners of the float competition
will also be announced at the dance.
Admission to the dance is $5 per couple,
or $3 with the purchase of tickets to the
Bill Cosby show.
UK trustees demand
draft of merger plans
By RICH JOHNSON
Cardinal Managing Editor
University of Kentucky President Otis
A. Singletary Tuesday was given 17 days
to draft a legislative proposal for merg­ing
UK with the University of Louisville.
The UK board of trustees directed
Singletary to meet with President Wood­row
Strickler, and have a plan ready for
a special board of trustees meeting on
Nov. 7.
Adopting a motion based on a prepared
statement by Gov. Louie B. Nunn, the UK
Board asked Singletary and Strickler "to
resolve matters not heretofore resolved,
and to put into final legislative form the
proposed merger ... . "
The motion called upon the two presi­dents
to use the necessary "staff and
legal assistance" in dealing with such is­sues
as "the name of the merged institu­tion,
structure of the board, duties and
responsibilities of the new administration,
funding, and other such matters that may
arise in the course of discussion."
After the recommendations are acted
upon by the trustees, the motion said, they
will be forwarded to the state Council on
Public Higher Education and to the state
legislature.
The Council, which needs to know the
merger plans in preparing its recommen­dations
for the state's 1970-1972 budget,
asked the two schools to disclose their
intentions by Nov. 7.
The state legislature specified at its
last session, in 1968, that UL would be­come
a state-supported university by
July 1, 1970. It asked that proposals for
"closer affiliation" be presented by UK
and UL at the 1970 legislative session be­ginning
in January.
The 1968 legislature expressed a favor­able
attitude toward a proposal that UK
and UL become separate but equal parts
of a merged system under a chancellor
responsible to a single board of trustees.
Under this proposal (the Baker report),
each university would retain its own
president.
This report had earlier received luke­warm
approval from the UK trustees.
They said they favored the merger, pro­vided
sufficient funds could be found
"without impairing the state's obligation
to maintain its existing system of higher
education."
In their action this week, the UK trus­tees
didn't specifically change this earlier
qualified endorsement of the merger idea.
The question of funding the merger has
brought comments from the governor dur­ing
the past weeks. Nunn has been quoted
as saying that he sees no way possible
during his term of office to provide
enough money for UL to become an equal
partner with UK in a merger of the two.
Observing this past week that the Coun­cil
of Public Higher Education will make
budget recommendations relating to the
merger, Nunn said, "Maybe at the same
time they can make some recommenda­tions
on sources of revenue."
Barber issues memorandum
urging critical evaluation
All organized units within the College
of Arts and Sciences have been requested
to conduct "searching examinations of all
matters within their respective areas of
jurisdiction and concern."
In a memorandum addressed to the
chairman of all divisions, departments,
and committees, and to the presidents of
student organizations, Dean Richard Bar-ber
has called for a comprehensive and
coordinated effort at "critical self-evalua­tion."
"High levels of controversy and tension
in the academic world sharply remind us
all of our continuing obligation to re­view
and justify, or improve, our policies
and practices," Barber said in his memo­randum.
Burke, Sawyer answer students' questions
"In my judgment, this College must ac­celerate
and intensify its processes of self­renewal,
to ensure that it is providing
solutions to current problems and pre­paring
to meet future needs," Barber
said.
Barber requested the "fullest possible
formal participation" of College students
By DIANNE APRILE and faculty members in the deliberations.
Cardinal Political Editor
Mayoral candidates of the two major
parties were on campus Monday and
Wednesday to address UL students and
answer their questions. Democrat Frank
Burke and Republican John Sawyer were
presented jointly by the United Campus
Ministry and the Newman Center.
These organizations are, to date, the
only campus groups actively sponsoring
a program geared toward introducing
local political candidates to the UL stu­dent
body.
Both candidates reiterated their basic
campaign platforms, hitting on several
key issues such as the proposed county
jail, city planning, and law enforcement.
Sawyer, as the candidate of the incum­bent
party, defended the past eight years
of Republican administration. However,
when asked to explain the apparent de­lays
surrounding municipal programs
such as the Riverfront Project and Village
West, Sawyer conceded that "there seems
to have been a problem of implementa­tion."
When asked what he would do as mayor
to eliminate "gross inefficiencies" in
city-county agencies, Sawyer stated that
he would "listen to those on the second
level of management, as in business,"
rather than relying entirely on his com­missioners.
According to Sawyer, priorities must be
established in the area of capital improve­ments.
He stressed the need for a new jail
and placed the burden of cost for a
museum or performing arts center on the
private sector of the community.
Burke prefaced his remarks Wednes­day
by stating that candidates in this
year's municipal elections "lack the reali­zation
that justice involves the execution
of programs as well as their planning."
Attacking the past Republican admin­istrations,
Burke claimed that Louisville
is "sliding toward mediocrity" despite
expanded economic growth.
Burke cited the present administration's
failure to implement plans for a new Gen­eral
Hospital, to keep streets Clean and
to provide adequate lighting as "the dis­ease
of non-performance."
When asked .how he would improve
''human relations" in the city, Burke
stated that the key to this problem in-volves
"taking black citizens into the de­cision-
making positions of government."
Burke emphasized the fact that several
black candidates are running on the
Democratic city-county ticket.
On the subject of crime and law en­forcement,
the two mayoral candidates
agreed that it is a major issue but dif­fered
on how to deal with it.
Sawyer stressed that, as mayor, he
would insist on strict enforcement of "any
law on the books." He also advocated a
return to the district station system for
"greater economy, efficiency, and closer
identification with the community."
Burke cited the need for "more ade­quate
facilities and tools" in the city
police department. He suggested data
processing as a possible solution to the
technical problems involved in law en­forcement.
Burke also advocated greater civilian
participation in law enforcem~nt in order
to allow police officers "greater freedom
to patrol the streets."
The Newman Center and United Cam­pus
Ministry will host county judge can­didates
W. Armin Willig and Todd Hollen­bach
at future meetings.
"Every student and faculty member is
urged to send questions and criticisms to
me for forwarding to the appropriate
units," Barber said.
Included in the memorandum was a
statement of guidelines and subjects to
be studied. "Each of the relevant sub­jects
should be studied carefully, to the
end that current policies and practices
either can be seen to be clearly justified,
or can be improved through constructive
criticism and r e c o m me n d a t i o n s for
change."
The topics included sections on pur­poses
and objectives, college organization,
faculty, curriculum, admissions, grading,
and counseling of students.
Validity of present standards of admis­sions;
standards for honors, probation, dis­missal;
and quality of instruction from the
faculty were cited as some specific areas
of evaluation.
Barber requested that each chairman in­form
him by Nov. 15 of that department's
plan and schedule for review. He also
requested that "every effort be made to
submit either recommended changes, or
statements of satisfaction with current
practices and policies by Feb. 15, 1970."