VOL. 58, NO. 17, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, JANUARY 22, 1987 8 PAGES
Cerentony
rekindles
spirit of
Dr. King
By TIM SANFORD
Cardinal News Editor
Rece nt racial violenct! in the
Uuiled States could re new inter­est
in the civil rights movement
and regenerate a"' areness for the
need to promote Dr. Martin
Luther King's dt·eam of bt·other­l\
Oorl b1 ·fween blacks and whites,
dccurding to the Rev. Derrick
Span.
Span, from the United Mission­a
t·y Church of Middletown, Ohio,
spoke Monday at a University of
Louisville ceremony com­memorating
the birth of King, the
most prominent black civil rights
activist of the 1960s. He cited re­cent
incidents of violence in this
c~>U ntry as a signal of racial ten­Sion.
Span said the Reagan adminis­tration's
refusal to end diplomatic
and economic ties with the South
African government is fostering
racial tensions here. "This admin­istration
has put civil rights on the
back burner," he said.
Rev. Derrick Span stressed a point in a speech he delivered at the
Martin Luther King ceremony held Monday at the Red Barn.
Three black men were beaten
last month by a gang of while
youths in the New York City sub­urb
of Howard Beach. One of the
men was struck and killed by a car
as he ran from the scene. And
marchers celebrating the memory
of King in all-white Forsyth
County, Georgia, were attacked
by Ku Klux Klan members last
weekend.
Span cited other cases similar to
the Howard Beach incident and
the black retaliation it sparked as
evidence that racism still exists in
the U.S.: a black student being
awakened by KKK clothed men
at The Citadel in South Carolina,
segregation at Bob Jones Univer-sity
and the federal government's
refusal to sever ties with the South
African regime which promotes
apartheid.
Span, who a lso spoke at last
year's ceremony, then told the au­dience
he was glad to be in Louis­ville
"not only because it's the
school I graduated from in 1980,
but also because it's the home of
the NCAA basketball champions.
It is a lso on the other hand, one of
the few universities that decided it
was not morally right to be in
South Africa."
He then delivered a speech in
the form of an imaginary letter
from King to America.
"Black men and white men are
still finding iL hard to be brothers, 11
Span said. "America can put Cl
man on the moon, but can't fmd
away for men to live peaceably on
earth.
"I'm sad, America, that the fed­eral
government has decided
bombs are more important than
bread. I'm sad , America, that a
nuclear build-up is more impor­tant
than houses. I'm sad America
spends more money on defense,
then what it has to defend."
"Despite how desolate it ap­pears,
truth, crushed to the dirt
will rise again", Spa n said. "I still
have a d ream that the United
States will live up to it's democra­tic
principles. I still have a dream
of an America where more money
will be spent on things that save
lives then take lives."
After the ceremony Span said
that King was a man who could
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Scheduling difficulties stall
student cent«~r construction
· By JAMES HINES
Cardinal StaffWriter
The ground breaking ceremony
for the Unive r sity of Louisville's
new Student Activities Ce nter has
once again been delayed .
"The (ground breaking) cere­mony
was tentatively set for Feb.
23, because that date was a Board
of Trustees meeting day, and it
was convenient, but the Presi­dent's
office suggested that it be
delayed because of conflicts (with
schedules)," said Vice President
of Administration Larry Owsley.
According to Kathleen Smith,
Manager of Support Services with
the Office of the Preside nt, the
date was delayed to better accom­modate
the schedules of dig­nitaries,
e pecially Governor
Martha Layne Collins. "We would
like to have Governor Collins at­tend,
but the February date
wasn 't conve nient for her," said
Smith.
"We have now set early March
as a dale , but we are trying to
keep it !lexible to accommodate
Governor Collins' schedule ,"
Smith added. "But at this time no
dale has been finalized."
Smith said the University " re­ally
wanted" Collins to attend the
ceremony since "she was so in­strumental
in arranging the funds,
and would not be Governor when
it (the Stude111t Center) is opened."
Owsley said when construction
actually does begin on the student
cente r , 614 green parking spaces
located on both the east and west
side of the railroad tracks will be
lost, but will be replaced by add­ing
new parking places to other
existing lots.
"We're looking at expanding
the (gravel) Fourth Street lot and
making the parking run parallel to
the entire Belknap campus,"
Owsley said. "We're also looking
at developing land on the east side
of campus, over by Frisch's-this
will more than make up for the
spaces tha t atre lost."
According to J ohn Nolte, the
Department of Public Safety's as-
Renovation of Annex
gives rise to prolblerns
By LISSA VANHOUTEN
Cardinal Features Editor
Department of Theate r Arts
graduate student assistants have
expressed concern about the re­moval
of office furniture and
supplies and the disconnetion of
fire alarms during the recent reno­vation
of the Theater Arts Annex.
The students were told in early
January, when construction
began, by the theater department
that it was necessary for them to
move out of their offices into a
large classroom that would b
converted into a new, joint office
for their use.
According to Virgil Gibson, a
graduate teaching assistant, a pile
of discarded office furniture,
supplies and equipment, which
the physical plant assured them
would be placed in storage, has
accumulated in the middle of their
new office. "We have told the De­partment
that we want this pile of
trash moved," he said. "They
have told us that they contacted
the physical plant to get the stuff
moved."
David Palmer, chairman of the­ater
arts, said "It i)il has to be listed
on inventory sheets, and that
takes time. It will be moved out as
soon as possible."
After the discarded office furni­ture
and supplies goes through an
inventory control process by the
physical plant, it will either be dis­posed
of, audioned off or redistri­buted
to a nother department ac­cording
to E:dward Dusch, assis­tant
vice president of the physical
pla nt.
Another c•~:mcern raised by Gib­son
is the disconnection of fire
alarms in the Theater Annex
which he said may create a safety
hazard . "In every room in the
building, there are no fire
alarms," he said.
"They've (physical plant con­struction
wo•rkers) roped off one
of the door:s into the classroom
wher the graduate students are
situated," added Gibson. "There
would only be one exit from the
room in cas1~ there is a fire (and)
there are no windows in the class­room."
Jean Milil~ r. another graduate
assistant, confirmed that "fire
a larms have· been disconnected"
1 and that th1~y had only one exit
from their office. "We're trying to
cope with it (the disruption)," she
said.
According: to Dusch, physical
plant workers sometimes have to
remove fire alarms in their work
tContinued on Pace 2
sistant director for parking, "there
should not be any real disruption
in parking until after the e nd of the
Spring semester. A lot of the con­struction
depends on a time table
that is not yet definite. II
The new student center will be
built on the site of the Floyd Street
parking lot, near the vacated
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity
lodge.
Owsley said the members of the
fraternity had been told their
lease would be terminated in
order to build the student cen­ter,
and they would have to find
other living qua rters.
"They are raising funds for a
new house over on Confederate
Place," said Owsley. "B ut at this
time I'm not really sure of how far
along they are."
Owsley said construction of the
center, which is estimated to cost
$21.7 million, will probably start in
early March and end in S ep­tember
of 1989. The official open­ing
has been set for the b eginning
of the falll989 semester.
INSIDE
And then there were four.
Search committee narrows the
list of candidates for the vacant
Assistant Vice President for
Student Life post to four
semifinalists. . . . . . . . Page 2
Baby, it 's cold outside. Univer­sity
students turn to Child Care
Center for help i11 managing
parenthood and the l1ectic pace
of college life. . . . . . . . Page 3
Publish or perish. Editorial
board .still sees SGA publication
of faculty evaluations as a valu·
able student .service. . . Page 4
Follow the bouncing ball. Metro
Confere11ce official Dale K elley
expounds on the trials of life as
the most unpopular ma11 at any
basketball game. Page 6
News Updates . . . . . . Page 2
Editorials . . . . . . . . . . Page 4
Letters to the Editor . . Page 5
Sporls . ........... Page6
Altere/ass . . . . . . . . . . Page 7
Classifieds and personals
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ar AN INDEPENDENT STUD~NT NEWSPAPER
Students stunned, injured
in three mugging instances
By GREGORY HARRIS and
JAMES HINES
Cardinal StaffWriters
Three assaults last Wednesday
and Thursday left one Univer sity
of Louisville student with 19
stitches in his head, another rob­bed
and two more frightened after
running from their assailants.
Robert Stewart, a business
school senior, was robbed of $40
and struck on the head with a bot­tle
at about 8 :40p.m. Wednesday
in the parking lot of the J.B.
Speed Art Museum. He was taken
by ambulance to Norton Chil­drens'
Hospital, where he was
treated in the emergency room
and re leased.
"I was tack lecl from behind by a
black man who demanded my
money," Stewart said. "I gave him
my money and another (black)
man hit me in the head with a bot­tle.
They ran away and I came to
the (Ekstrom) library for help."
According to Maureen Sullivan,
a graduate of U of L ,who was in
the li!:>rary Wednesday night,
Stewart entered the library and
told the staff he had been mugged.
"There was already blood on his
sweater," Sullivan said. "He left a
trail of blood, in dime-sized drops,
from the circulation desk to there­stroom."
Sullivan lent Stewart a
towel from he•r gym bag to stop the
bleeding, and officers from the
Department of Public Safety ar­r
ived shortly afterward.
Another incident occurred
Thursday evening between the
sororityhouses of Sigma Kappa
and Pi Beta Phi which involved
Scott Gerstener, a U of L student,
and his brother Anthony. They
were walking: between the houses
when they were approached by
two men who demanded money.
The brothers ran in different di­rections.
Scott called DPS from
the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity
house because he was concerned
about his brother, who had run in
the direction of the Sav-A-Step
food mart on Fourth Street. An­thony
eluded his assailants and
was unharmed.
The last incident occured at ap­proximately
the same time and in-volved
Richard McKewen, a
junior math major. McKewen sa ad
he was walking back from an vc­ning
class to his car when he was
approached by a ''l"rge black
man" who asked him for direc­tions
. "I started to tell him the di­rections
he asked for, then four
more men appeared and sur­rounded
me," McKewen said.
"Then the man who asked for di­rections
pushed me against the
wall (of the Speed museum) and
demanded my money.
"He pushed me against the wall
and said, 'If you scream. ta·y to
swing, or try to run, I'll kill you.
I've got a gun,'" McKewen said.
McKewen said he never saw a
gun because the man was wearing
a large sweatsuit style jacket. "But
I never doubted that he had one."
McKewen's attackers stole his
· wallet, watch, and book bag, but
uot the books inside. The value ol
the items was placed at $68 in the
police report of the event.
Police reports taken of all three
incidents described the assailants
as two or more black men; O'ne be­Continued
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Women's statz1s at University
behind men 's~, parity sought
ByM.NORMANJACOBSON
Cardinal Managing Editor
This article is the first in a three
part series on women's r oles on
campus and examines the profes­sional
status of female faculty and
staff members. N ext week will ad­ress
how women farulty and ad­ministrators
feel about the climate
at UofL.
Nearly 70 years after women
gained the right to vote in the
United S tates and five years after
the failure of the Equal Rights
Amendment in Congress, the
status of female employees at the
University of Louisville is similar
to those at' other benchmark in­stitutions,
but is still far behind
their male counterparts.
"Just because women are there
(in percentages) doesn't mean
they're in the right areas," said
Michelle Banks, equal opportu­nity
and affirmative action com­pliance
officer at Memphis State
University.
According to some university of­ficials,
institutions of higher learn­ing
are more conservative and re­luctant
than other career institu­tions
to hire women into positions
of authority. "The women's move­ment
is now sort of waning," said
Fake IDs
used by
students
a problent
~y SUSAN FITZGERALD
and KENNETH HARDIN
Cardinal Staff Writers
While many people ponder the
fleeting nature of their youth, a
large numbe r of minors are rush­ing
to take their place on the
bars tools of adult society through
the use of false identification.
Lloyd Fetzer, who has checked
IDs at the door of the Phoenix Hill
Tavern on Bardstown Road for
the past ten y a rs, said he sees
"high school and college-age kids
trying to break the door h ere with
fake IDs all the time."
According to Fetzer, individu­als
as young as 16 years-of-age
regularly attempt to enter the
adult establishment under the
guise of fa lse identification. "I feel
a lot of these kids are just trying to
grow up at an accelerated pace,"
said Fetzer. "I see a lot of younger
girls who are looking to become
involved with older men and
things of that nature. "
Beverly Streander, faculty staff
supervisor for the University of
Louisville's Red Barn, said two or
three fake IDs are confiscated
nightly from under age individuals
attempting to purchase beer. St­reander
emphasized that the
Barn is in "good standing" withal­cohol
b everage control authorities
and intends to maintain its carding
policies.
Barn staff members confiscated
40 false IDs during a two day
period at the beginning of last
semester, according to Martin
Pratt, Red Barn supervisor of al­cholic
beverage distribution .
First of Three Parts
Dr. Rose Dagirmanjian, interim
pa·esident of tlhe U of L American
Association olf University Profes­sors.
"But I don't believe the uni­versities
have ever achieved the
kind of progn!ss going on outside
the universities. "
Women comprise 47 percent of
the nationa l workforce. Two­thirds
of all wives with school age
childrer. and over 75 percent of
single mother·s with school age
children are in the labor force. As
indicated by 'latistics at u niver­sities,
these figures can be mis­lead
ing-the majority of positions
held by wome111 are still secretarial
and clerical rather than positions
of decision-ma.king auth ority. This
perspective points to a significant
consideration in affirmative action
efforts, according to officials.
Although 53 percent of all fu ll­lime
employees at the University
of Louisville are women, only 22
percent of all full-time faculty posi­tions
are held by women. And
while 66 percent of all staff posi­tions
are held by women, only 25
percent of the executive/adminis­trative/
managerial postions are
filled by females. By contrast, of
the 851 secreta rial and clerical
p ositions ·at the University of
Louisville, 815 are held by
women.
U ofL employment statistics for
women compare similarly with
figures from other benchmark in­stitutions,
according to those
schools' affirmative action offices.
Banks said that 29 percent of full­time
faculty positions at Memphis
State are occupied by women.
Only 20 percent of the full-time
faculty at Cleveland State Univer­sity
are women, however, at
Northern Illinois University, 28
percent of the full-time faculty
members are women. Affirmative
action officers at these schools
complained of t he difficulty in
bringing women into th conser­vative
university community.
Continued on P age 3
Among the ({uties of Lloyd Allen Fetzer (left), the doorman at
Phoenix Hill Tavern, is thejob of checking patron identification
cards. Fetzet· must determine if customers' IDs are valid.
Pratt said students found using
fake IDs wer•e granted the option
of turning in their IDs to Barn offi­cials
and conf•erring with P atTer­r
ell, acting assistant vice president
for student life, or keeping their
IDs and dealing d irectly with De­partment
of Public Safety offi­cials.
"Most students chos to give
up th ir fake IDs and talk to Ter­rell,"
said Pratt.
Terrell said she has no standard
policy in situations concern ing stu­dents
using fals identification,
but uses her "best discretion in
d aling with each individua l
case." According to T e rrell, dis­cip
linary measures may range
from probatio•n to dismissal from
the University. However, she did
say many firs•l time offenders are
iJiSued a warning without any sort
of penalty.
Dirk Young, a doorman at The
Fat Cats deli and pub on
Bardstown Road, claims a com-mon
tip-off to him of a minor at­tempting
to enter the estabhsh­ment
with a fake ID, is abn rmally
nervo~o~5 or anxious behavior. "Of
course, many of the kids just don't
look like they're 21," said Young,
"but if they are really uptight it's a
dead give away that something is
going on."
In instances where h believes
there is sufficient reason to sus­pect
a fake 10, Young said the first
and usually most successful step is
to cross refer nee with another
form of identification. "When they
are asked for a second form of ID,
a lot of minors will tell you they
don't have one, although they just
pulled a wallet out of their pocket
that is several inches thick, so you
know they are hiding something"
he said.
According to Fetzer, many
minors now utilize advanced tech­Continued
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