The real realities:
~ OH MY GOO\ YO; ~\
MEF\N ONE OF OUR
''PASS- f\ROOND- PAC~''
GAVE iHE C.LAP "TO
MO~i OF CUR f\~C(\1.)11'S?
getting a
feel for
college
football
Kick the spheral habit:
frisbee is here to play
and a new campus club
is aiming for casual
first encounters
/ By MIKE RA Y-6
I s I L •
Vol. 50, No.6 Copyright 1978 The Louisville Cardinal
Red Rage cinches Cincy 28-14
- A personal view -
'Nippert Stadium ... the place is old enough to make one imagine that
Knute Rockne once led the Four Horsemen through th<~re, but of course it
never happened. Cincinnati, like Louisville, has spent years trying to c~awl
out from the shadow of bigger state schools ... '
/LESA COMBS-2
L E
What
weighs more
than a ton,
expands at the
speed of light
and looks like
a bagel?
U of L's adminis­trative
growth has out
stripped-faculty five to one
over the last six years. According to
a Faculty Senate Allocation report the percent­age
of non-faculty personnel has increased 168
percent since 1972, while the increase in full-time proM
fessional teaching employees has been held to about
29 percent over the same period. In short: who's teach­ing
class?
Recent evidence gathered from two galaxies supports the theory that a primal
"big ba ng" started the universe, and that someday the whole thing will fall in and
crush everything into a speck of dust. But what's it all mean?
The Faculty
Allocations
- food for thought. Report
/ By TOM MURRA Y-4
Sound familiar?
Parents Association will bring
students closer to home-
By STEVE LUCKETT
When students enter college, parents have little know a name or a face they can call,'' Hammond
or no control over their academic life. said, "and if a student gets hurt and we have to
To deal with this problem, U of L's Vice Presi- call them, they'll know us."
dent for Student Affairs, Dr. Ed Hammond, has The Association, Hammond says, trys to help
organized a Parents' Association. parents understand some of the problems and
The Association is beginning its second year changes that take place during a student's first
and is geared mainly for parents of freshmen and years of college. Many parents, he said, try to
sophomores. treat students at home the same way they did in
The Parents' Association was started by in- high school.
eluding parents in the orientation program. "The student perceives a big difference,"
Hammond said parents are invited to the last day Hammond said, "and they are being treated a lot
of orientation to find out about the university differently than they were in high school, so we
and its services. Parents are introduced to "key" help the parents to adjust."
people at U of L such as advi ors and health er- After orientation, there is a series of "parent '
vices personnel. day" meetings to further familiari ze parent. with
"In case a problem comes up, at least they Continued to page 3
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/ By D. FLOYD- S
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