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Weber considering CSU position
Card coach
to fly coop?
By PHILLIPE RICH
Sports Editor
.Bob Weber, University of Louisville
head football coach is the leading can­didate
for the head football coaching
position at Colorado State University,
according to Cardinal sources.
The CSU coaching job is currently
held by interim coach Chester Caddes.
The Cardinal received the informa­tion
from an undisclosed source and
from The Rocky Mountain News in a
story that it ran several weeks ago.
The News named Weber and several
others as possible successors to the job.
When asked about Weber, CSU At­hletic
D1rector Thurman McGraw de­clined
to comment, saying that CSU
has mentioned no names.
When asked about the article in The
News, McGraw said, "I was not aware
of such an article."
When asked about the names in the
anicle, McGraw said, "As far as I'm
concerned, it is all speculation."
McGraw also said that a date fqr finding
Help on the way
a new football coach has not been set.
A spokesman for The News said that
Bob Weber had been mentioned as a
~andidate. When asked by the Cardinal
1fWeber was the leading candidate, the
spokesman said, "According to our
sources, he is."
Weber told The Cardinal that he was
aware of the articl!!, but that he had not
been contacted by CSU.
. ~hen asked if he would accept the
JOb 1f offered, Weber replied. " It (Fort
~ol~ins) is my home town, and my fam­Ily
1s there. I've been considering it.
I've been mulling it over in my mind
and I honestly have not decided."
Bill Olsen, U of L Athletic Director
said that in order for CSU to offer th~
job to Weber, they would first have to
go through him, and that as of yesterday
they had not.
Weber came to Louisville in 1977 as
Vince Gibson's offensive coordinator
and was named head coach in 1980.
Weber played at CSU from 1951-54.
He returned as a CSU assistant from
1964-65.
Photo by Neal Lauren
Is this Weber's last season at U of L?
Friday, Nov. 6, 1981, Vol. 53, No. 12
Performing Arts
Arts cramped
By CHARLES DANIEL YORK·
Student Writer
"We are ready to be outstanding
... This ~niversi ty is set to be the leading
performmg ans school in this region,"
said Dr. Ben Harris, chainnan of thea­tre
ans and speech department for the
University of Louisville.
Seated behind a desk covered with
books and papers, a half-filled ashtray
and an empty coffee cup, a typewriter
and a shrivelled pack of Kools, Dr.
Harris talked about the drama program
at U ofL.
"I wouldn 't trade this faculty for
any," he said. "The people in the de­panment
are the department's strength.
Our best people are as good as the best
people anywhere--they do their
damnedest to do well."
But people can carry the program
only so far, and Harris feels the depart­ment
is very much inhibited by a lack of
proper facilities . The Playhouse is too
small to handle some plays, and this
puts restrictions on the quality of the
theatre at the university.
To go along with the space problems
at the Payhouse is the lack of instruc­tional
space in the Theatre Annex.
There are only two small 20 by 30
rooms where the students have to study,
work and rehearse for performances.
"What we do is limited by our build-ings,"
Harris said . "We've done some
damn good work here in bad facilities
and this has been used as an excuse t~
give other programs priority over ours.
~· 1 am pleased with where we are now,
but we need resources, and if these
needs aren't met, then the potential of
the program could backslide."
Harris said he was worried about the
futureofthe program, but he wasn'tat a
state of despair. He feels the university
~as recruited good people to U ofL, but
1f present trends continue. they, and the
students, will say "enough of this" and
go somewhere else.
"The facts are," Harris said, "the ans
have been treated badly here and forced
to lag behind. And the anists' ability to
adjust to the situation has been seized
upon and used as an excuse to give
other programs higher priorities."
Harris said he realizes that the uni­versity
cannot give what it doesn't
have, and the school is having ~o make
priorities as to which programs will re­ceive
the most funding. Harris suggests
that one of the priorities be the fine and
performing arts, because of what they
can do for the school and the city of
Louisville.
Harris said the fine and performing
~s had been promised a new building
m 1977, soon after they had moved into
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Sloane can save
University Hospital
Pizza Eating
Contest
News Analysis
8)'-JOHNR.DAY
Staff Writer
had neg<lected to charge its patients.
Each patie'~t treated at th~ Ambulato­ry
CMe facil.it}l in the new hospita.J. was
supposed to have been charged $15 to
cover the dep~ent•s expenses in the
The election of Harvey Sloane this new building The management of the.
past Tuesday night must have offered hospital attempted to collect the stipend
some hope to the administrators of fi- fro~ the Internal Medicine Dept., but
nancially plagued University Hospital. obviously, the branch had not included
It was Sloane, you will remember, who money for such an expense in its
helped initiate the Emergency Medical budget.
Service program in the city during his The financial outlook so far this year
first tenure as mayor. has been less than encouraging. In the
Sloane has repeatedly demonstrated f~t three months of this year, the hos-
. his concern in the past for the poor and p1~l has lost nearly $1 million, for a
the quality of indigent care that they projected loss of $4.8 million for this
have received in Louisville. His first entire year if present trends continue.
administration was marked by frequent The facility h.as already been forced to
attempts to assist the less affluent cut back care.m many areas, jn addition
neighborhoods and citizens to take part • t~ increasi.ng its attempts to collect de-in
his revitalization of our citv. hnquent bills.
[t ~ust have come as welcome news Attempts were made this past sum-to
University Hospital officials that mer to shore up the economic quagmire
Sloane had been elected at a timt wt~en that has existed as long as Louisville
the hospital is in desperate financial GeneraVUniversity Hospital has served
straits. as the primary indigent care facility for
In the wake of a recent repon that the this community.
facility had lost $3.8 million last year, Hyatt Hospital Management Corpo­last
week the independent auditing firm ration was given a two-year contract in
of ~'?uche Ross & C~ .• unco~ered an August to attempt to rectify the eco­addltiOnal
$190.<g> tn unpatd debts nomic dilemma. This recent announce-partment
of Internal Medicine ment gf "more skeletons in the closet"
~ Nuzzolelc will trot '~ the field~ at Fairlf'OUIK!s Stadium
when lJ of L plays tN. V."UiiisiaJta:sto:rY oo page 7.
cannot be helpJUl
In defense of the instit~tion, Univer~
sity Hospital is caught in a multi-di­mensional
transitional period which ir
had no pan in creating or controlling.
The University itself is b~jng in a
new pre~>ident and his policies.
The hospital is in the process of mov­ing
down the street to a beautiful new
facility by next summer.
The top five executives in the finance
department have left the university for
one reason or another.
In addition, only one of the hospitals
six computer systems is fully operation­al.
The Intramural Sports
Dept. presented it's first
annual pizza eating con­tnt
ll't' Jim and Joe's
Restaurant. Aft~r teams
had compleated their
rerulation 9 minutes,
there was a tie for 1st be­tween
Unitas Tower, 3rd
floor and the Walnut
Ridge Boys. There was
an 'eat-off' and Unitas
Tower prevailed by eat­ing
2 pieces of pizza the
fastest.
Morale is low right now at the hospi­tal
, but most employees are merely en­during
the trying period, in hopes that
the situation will improve at the new fa­cility.
Unless funding for the remainder of t
this year is found, the Hospital faces the
serious pitfall of losing accredidation,
or, providing substandard care to the
poor.
Enter M~or Sloane.
Sloane possesses the unique combi­nation
of charisma and political influ­ence
that would enable him to bring to­gether
some kind of deal that could en­sure
the fin~ial fu~ of University
Hospital.
His medical background and proven
track record as far as helping the poor
(witness the Appalachian Housing
Commission), show that Sloane has
both the capabilities and the resources
to accomplish the mission,
Regardless, all sides agree that
something must be done before the hos­pital
is forced to go to desparate meas­ures
to continue operation .
. ·
Nolen Allen, an accountant who
heads the Hospital's Board of Gover­nors,
stated last week that the hospital
was headed for destruction unless alter­native
methods of financing could be
found. The hospital lost accreditation in Roben Lotz and Greg Gorman stuff their faces.
Photo 1 by Vicki Hopper
the early 1970's for a brief period of
time, but the community acted quickly
to get this school's teachins f~eility
backontherighttrack. 1UniversityHospital }{ranted loan
Louisville has enjoyed the luxury in
the past of being able to dump all of its
undesirable patients on University
Hopsit.al, because the government used
to give the Hospital a blank check to op­erate
in the red as far as it felt necessary.
Now, however, the city and county
are scrutinizin* every dollar that they
give to both the University and the Hos­pital,
so the institution must be more se­lective
with its quality of health .care
and atso with the relative availability of
that treatment.
University Hospital serves other
unique functions that are vital to the
community. It is the holpital of c:boice
for severe trauma cues in the city and
»urrounding counties, and it serves as
the primary treatment center for West­em
Kentucky. But the indigent care
alone is enough to warrant funding for
the hospital for the rest of this year, and
next year until the new facility opens.
Louisville will sorely suffer if the
quality of care or financial burdens at
University Hospital sag so low that they
force constraints' upon the hospital.
Staff Senate concerned
llyPBGGYHAYES
·s-.dent Writer
At a meednJ ()f the staff senate held
Moaday aftemooo, Dr. ~ Swain
~ 011 tbl! University Hospital and
ICIIIIIJDIY problem.
The Seullle was coocemed over the
&ctlhiiiUofLt.dmadea$3.8million
10M to tbe bolpltal, and the members
felt duit their budpta would be affected
beciUie of die !olD.
Swain aasuml tbe senate thai the
10M was a proper IIIXlOIIIItins mecha­ailm
aDd thlt there was no money com­ina
out of the University's pocket in
order to mKe the loa to ~ hospital.
If the bolpital doea go bankrupt, U of
L will have to write Off the loan, but
Swain doean't expect that to happen.
"'Ibis does not affect our operation
budpt. What we do have are raerves."
Swain said.
Swain also ';Ofd the senate that there . Swain responded by saying that the
was 80IJle evadence of management management problem had to be com­succ:
eas now that the Hyatt Manage- pletely solved first before going to
ment people have taken over. Frankfort about the fundinSt.
"Our ~ement problems are 01) · With the opening of the new hospital
the way to bema solved," said .Swain. I sometime in July, Swain feels there will
''The problem is the holpital's bud.,c." be more private-pay patients, thus
In order to keep the hospital goins, creating a vast amount of the hospital's
Swain told the senate stricter actions revenue.
will have to be taken. Swain said that there will be savings
~ of those actions wi~l Include of$740,000 in operating costs when the
reducms prosnrns and "'!nung away new computer is put in at the hospital.
more ~le from~ hospatal. Swain feels this saving will help the
According to Swam, these are some hospital in its operating revenue.
of the cboices that have to be made in
order to keep the hospital in existence.
Swain also stressed that until Oo1ns
changes are made regarding the patients ------.,---==-=~1:'::_.=..:..•. :..•:• . .--­who
can't pay their bills, there will al­ways
be problems at the hospital.
'The question was asked whether the
money problem of the hospital was be­ing
heard in Frankfort.
In our recent anicle concerning Uni­versity
College The Cardinal did not
mean to imply that the Interior Design
might be eliminated.