Volume XLVII, No.1 Copyright 1975, The Louisville Cardinal Aug. 25, 26, 27, 1975
Various reasons cited
SGA President Price resigns
by Steve Wingfield
Greg Price resigned Aug. 4 as President
of the Student Government Association.
Joe Fowler Jr., Executive
Vice-President of the SGA, became
President on Price's resignation. Fowler
latter announced he WQuld not continue
as SGA President (see story page 3).
Price, the first U of L student body
president elected to two consecutive
terms said, in his letter of resignation he
was resigning due to per~nal health
considerations, academic pressures, and
his financial condition .
Price, a business student, is a diabetic.
Prior to the resignation, several people
connected with the SGA had been very
upset with Price's performance, especially
as concerns his handling of the vacancy in
the office of SGA Academic
Vice-President (see story page 2).
Several senators said Price was
dictating policy and expressing no other
viewpoint in his decisions other than his
own. Many expressed this belief and said
Price had lost all effective power in the
Student Senate.
(fhe Senate meeting of August 5, at
which Price's resignation was announced,
had been called to consider a motion
which called for an investigation of the
administration of the SGA.
(The motion was generally believed to
have been aimed at Price, and might have
led to his eventual impeachment.)
Several people connected with the
SGA said Price realized he has lost
effective power in the Senate and
resigned for this reason. Dean of Students
Dave Lawrence said "his (Price's)
downfall came from not allowing more
participation from the senators."
SGA Director of Public Relations Bob
Eilers said "he was tryhlg to dictate
policy and the senate wouldn't stand for
it." Referring to Price's personal
problems, Eilers added, "there were too
many problems and they were all
catching up to him."
SGA Acting President Fowler said
"with the combination of factors, it made
him think it was the most opportune time
to get out."
Contacted by the Cardinal at his home
in Uberty, Ky., Price said "the money
and the grades were the two big things"
in his decision to resign. About his
relationship with the Senate, Price said,:
"I don't know what happened, I don't
know what the Senate had in mind."
The sequence of events which led to
Price's resignation started when several
people connected with he SGA told
Associate Dean of Students Harold
Adams and Legal Affairs Officer Ed Paul
that Price had removed some stockroom
supplies from the SGA offices.
This led to a meeting of several high
Univeristy officials who determined the
amount of supplies taken was not enough
to justify prosecuting Price.
A~ociate Director of Public Relations
Jim McGovern called the amount of
supplies "piddling." "Nobody wanted to
put Price in jail, and they weren't sure the
incident was illegal," McGovern added.
"There was no reason to take him to jail;
it was only a mistake on his part."
Photograph by Carl Maupin
Joe Fowler, New Student Senate President
A decision was made at the meeting to
confront Price with the accusation.
The following day Dean lawrence,
Adams and Paul met with Price. At that
meeting Price sajd he was planning to
resign. Lawrence said Price already had
his letter of resignation drafted.
Price told the Cardinal he had decided
to resign two days earlier.
Dean Lawrence said, "only his timing
was affected by the stockroom supplies
situation."
lawrence added, "If we had crucified
Greg (over the stockroom supplies) we'd
have had to crucify several others."
Price also agreed to return the
stockroom supplies.
Fowler, when asked if the Price
resignation would hurt the SGA, said
"the biggest detriment is losing Greg. lfc
had super-potential." FowJer added he
just didn't discharge the functions properly ..
"It (the resignation) set the SGA back
in the area of academics. The Senate has
moved on m the area of service to
students. The Senate has looked ahead."
SGA Dire<.,tor of Public Relations Bob
Eilers said "the former presence of Greg
Price in the SGA will not be apparent this
year."
Former U of L President Woodrow M. Strickler dies
by Debby Graves
Former U of L President Woodrow M.
Strickler died Friday morning, August 21,
at Louisville's Baptist Hospital East.
Strickler, who was 62 years old had been
hospitalized for several days prior to his
death.
Dr. Woodrow Strickler
Strickler was president of the
University of Louisville from March
1968 to August 1972. He resigned the
position three years ago, citing health as a
primary reason for the decision. He had
been hospitalized twice during the year
prior to his resignation with a heart
ailment.
Word of Strickler's death reached
Belknap Campus as U of L President
James G. Miller was meeting with several
members of the Jefferson County
legislative delegation including Speaker of
the House Norbert Blume and minority
leader Eugene Stuart with whom Strickler
had worked closely to bring U of L into
the state higher education system.
Dr. Miller said: "Woodie Strickler's
passing has cast a shadow of sadness over
this institution which he served for 37
years and in which he had many friends.
He left the university firmly established
in the state system and in a position to
serve thousands· of young people who had
never before had access to higher
education. Those of us who remain here
must continue to realize the great
university which he envisioned for this
community."
Strickler, who received a Bachelors
degree from Bucknell University in 1934,
and a Masters of Business Administration
from Northwestern in 1935, came to U of
Lin 1938 as an instructor of economics.
Eight years later he was named director
of what was then the Division of Adult
Education. ;
Several major administrative jobs
followed Strickler's director of adult
education. He was vice-president 19 52 to
1958 when he was named executive
vice-president. He served in that post for
10 years before succeeding former
University President Phillip Grant
David~n, who resigned in 1963.
Strickler assumed the presidency when
soaring costs and general hard times for
higher education had forced U of L into
serious economic straits. He engineered U
of L's transition from a municipal t a
state university and re-established the
University on a solid financial base.
Campus sources recall Strickler as a
friendly, quiet man who ruffled few
persons and who seemed to have a knack
for reaching a goal with a minimum of
fuss. Acquaintances describe him as a
tireless worker who often ate lunch at his
desk and who frequently visited his office
on Saturday and Sum.lay.
During Strickler's term, U of L opened
a new I lealth Sciences Center replacing
dental and medica] facilities dating to the
early 1900's. Other buildings finished or
begun during Strickler's presidency
include the Life Sciences Building, the
Kentucky Lions Eye Institute and U of
L's first II~;Jmanities Building.
Bucknell honored Strickler 's acaoemac
and business accompJishments by
awarding him an honorary Doctor of
Pedagogy degree in 1956. U of L awarded
him an honorary degree at
commencement exercises this spring. In
May the university named a major
academic building after its former
president.
A private funeral ceremony wiJJ be
conducted for Strickler in Pennsylvania_
The body will be crem~ted. The family
requests that any expression of sympathy
take the form of contributions to the
Woodrow M. Struckler Fund of the
University of louisville Foundation.