USA Going ''All Out''
for Basketball Festival
by ANNE CONKIN
This semester the Union for Student
Activities (USA) is going all out.
This year's basketball festival (Feb. 2 and
3) includes a pep rally, rock concert, and
homecoming dance accompanying the home­coming
game. One member of USA ex­plained
that this semester's festival is "more
suited to the students' demand."
Although "a concert is not the best way
to spend the budget," explained a USA
member, "as only about 1000 UL students
attend," USA acted on a general consensus
of students asking for a rock concert, add­ing
War, a rock group, to the list of activities.
Also, the Parliaments and Arrowsmith
will perform during the homecoming dance.
On Monday, Jan. 29, having had tickets
available to the students for one and a half
weeks, the Athletic Ticket Office reported
that 25% of the coupons for the War con­cert,
and only four homecoming dance
tickets had been sold.
Sales should soar
Still, the ticket people explained that
always in the past, the majority of tickets
were bought up the last two days before
the event.
By the end of the week prior to the fes­tiv~
l, ticket sales should soar, according to
an informal survey by this reporter.
Most students will take some part in the
festival according to their particular tastes.
On the whole, the two most popular events
seem to be the homecoming game and the
rock concert.
Residents on campus have fewer activities
to fill their hours and therefore should show
greater enthusiasm over the festival than
off-campus commuters.
As one resident on campus explained,
"There's not a lot of things for girls living on
campus to do. The guys can go to the gym
and play basketball, but for girls there are
limitations." She expressed great enthusiasm
about the festival, especially the rock con­cert.
Her dorm friends in Threlkeld Hall
are looking forward to this weekend, she
said.
Although most students are aware of the
activitie going on this weekend, the term
"festival" was unknown to many students.
Some responses to the question, " Are you
going to the basketball festival?" were:
"What's that?" and "I don't know - when
is it?" On the most part, these uninformed
students were commuters whose social life
was less dominated by the campus activi­ties
than campus residents.
The two student types least aware or
concerned with the basketball festival, and
all campus activities for that matter, seem
to be commuters and graduate students.
One student living in the graduate dorm,
Stevenson Hall, said that graduate students
"just go their own way" and are independ-.
ent of activities on campus - "They make
their own fun."
New and undergraduate students living
on campus, can not make their own fun for
transportation reasons, or, being new in
Louisville, are ignorant of the surrounding
area and happenings. For these students, the
festival means a break from the boredom of
dorm life.
Complete festival details are on
pages eight and nine. AU times,
places, faces and events are listed on
a special pullout section for your
convenience.
Louisville
Cardinal
Med Center Changing
by RIA BOSCO
The University's Health Science Center
is undergoing many rapid changes, both
physically and functionally. The Center
which will include a new teaching hospital
will expand to incorporate a new Nursing
and Allied Health School, and'a high rise
parking facility.
The hospital, under the administration of
UL will replace the now antiquated General
Hospital. The teaching hospital will tie in
A. Health Sciences Center
B. General Hospital
with a new concept UL is currently opera­ting
under.
Dr. Harold Boyer, vice-president of
Health.Science Affairs explained that,
'UL as a state university must look ... to a
regional concept of the western half of the
)tate." He added that the University as
·'Health Science Center West" and the Uni­versity
of Kentucky's Medical Center as
' Medical Center East' are joined together in
coordinating programs of health care for the
c. Health Sciences Paddna Lot
D. New Puking Facilities (east of Jackson)
''WAR''
Rock group "War" will perform Friday at Convention Center.
citizens of the Commonwealth."
Under this program the hospital will not
only be a great asset, but a definite necessity.
As Dr. Boyer points out, "With the new con-cept
of health care delivery it is significant
that our educational approaches change,
however, the obsolesence of General Hos-pital
doesn't permit the necessary expan­sion
program to implement these changes."
General to be demolished
Funds to begin construction are currently
being solicited and city-county bond issues
have provided $12 million. The remaining
funds are being requested through state
government. "Enrollment of the medical
and dental schools have increased substan­tially
to qualify for federal educational sup­_
port dollars," commented Boyer, who is
also coordinator of the Hospital Construc­tion
Program. He went on to say that he is
"extremely' optimistic that the needs will be
recognized as critical and funds will be
made available for construction."
General will probably be demolished
upon completion of the new hospital. How­ever,
a recent addition to General will be used
for research. Along with this the Center will
continue to utilize private hospitals, but
these alone are not satisfactory because they
lack teaching facilities, according to Boyer.
The new hospital will occupy the space
where the Health Science parking lot is now
located within the Center area. The replace-ment
lot will be constructed east of Jackson
Street and the design calls for a high rise
lot providing more space.
New parking lot
Since the new hospital will be constructed
in the area now used for parking, the new
high rise parking lot must be finished before
construction begins on the hospital. Should
the hospital be started before additional
parking is available, a shuttle bus will be
instituted to transport commuters to the
Health Sciences Center from peripheral
parking areas.
Obviously, a great many changes are to
occur within the Center, he said, but the
establishment of an Allied Health and Nur­sing
School is what Dr. Boyer feels would
make the Health Science Center complete.
"The beauty of the Center is that it is an
effort to blend the use of faculty and staff
... In reality it is shared facilities."
The function of the medical Center is
to coordinate all medical professions into a
health-care team and soon, hopefully, it
will be a place where all levels - doctors,
dentists, nurses, therapists, and technicians
-can work together.