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Vol. 53 No. J7, An independent F-tudent weekly Friday, January 22, 1982
Repah:s stop on sewers
Restraining order is issued . ,
By BILL (' AlliPBELL
Managing Editor
The University of Louisville, the
Metropolitan Sewer District and the
Jefferson Piping Co. reached an
agree ment yesterday, temporarily halt­ing
controversial repairs that have dam­aged
U of L property.
The agreement ends sewer repair in
an area from "Avery and beneath the
west edge of the right of way of Fourth
Street and the east boundary of the Che­veron
Oil Co." until April I. 1982.
This agreement allows MSD and the
Jefferson Piping Co. to transport equip­ment
on Avery Str~et. unless U of·L de­termines
that this movement damages
U of L property.
The only mentiOn m the agreement of
monetary damages states that "the
MSD and the Jefferson Piping Co. hall
immediately consult with U of L."
lt goes on to state that "this
agreement order does not constitute
waiver by any of the parties hereto to
any claim they may have again t otj't­crs,"
which means that U of L can go
ahead and sue MSD and the Jefferson
Piping Co. for damages. ·
The agreement also says that the
agreement will have no effect on other
sewer repairs in Louisville.
This agreement is the follow-up to a
restraining order issued by Jefferson
Curcuit Judge Curtis Witten last Fri­day.
Jan 15. This order stopped sewer
Avery Stn!et mentioned in the new
agreement.
U of L re~uested the restaini.ng order
when it bec:ame apparent that sewer re­pairs
were destroying U of L property.
David Lt·e, the university's director
of facilities management, filed an affi­davit
last Friday stating that the Jeffer­son
Piping Co. and the MSD were neg­ligent
in their repairs and that these re­pairs
damatged two building , a side­walk,
seve1ral curb , and a parking lot.
In an int•erview, Lee said that Jeffer­son
Piping Co.'s action was unneces­sary
and careless. Lee pointed 10 the
subcontrador on the property adjacent
to the Jeffe·rson Piping Co. ·s territory.
That subcontracter used equipment to
check the g:round before he started .
"They were like Sherman going to
sea," Lee said of the Jefferson Piping
Co.
The affidavit a lso stated that employ­ees
had been disturbed by continuous
noise. David Baker, a U of L attorney.
conceeded, however. that there was
probably nothing that could be done
about this. ''You can't really sue some
one for giving you a headache but you· d
like to fight it," he said.
Hairline cracks were discovered .In
the 80-year-old Facilities Management
Building on 451 W. Avery Ave. Mon­day.
Jan. II. According to Lee. the
cracks grew throughout the week,
spreading to one-quarter inches wide at
the top of tlhe bui lding.
beating a mouse into the ground, .. Lee
said .
Since the ground was frozen, "no­thing
absorbed the shock until it got to
the buildin·g."
John Tierney, MSD po ke~rnan,
said , "We where s urprised at the tim­ing.
The pipe was completed ."Tht> un­ly
thing left to be done was to put in an
eight-inch sewer line that would ~ervice
the immediate area.
Tierney said that MSD was just do­ing
its job and that the damage was un­avoidable.
"We wouldn't be out there if it
wasn 't for the explosion," he said.
"We're in there because we have to be."
MSD is presently sueing the Ralston
Purina Co., seeking $16 million in pun­ative
damages and $10 million in com·
pensatory damage .
Tierney said that if MSD hru. tu com­pensate
U of L, the co t will be pas~ed
onto the tax payers.
Officials from the Jefferson Piping
Co. were unavailable for comment and
failed to return several calls.
Council votes
to fund only
top schools
What sts:arted out as a hairline crack in tlite wall turned into this. Photo by Terry Boyd repairs on U of L property adjacent to Lee expt!cts repairs to the Facilities
Management Building to be expensive.
The foundation will have to be dug up
and plaster will have to be stripped from
the walls to determine the extent of the
By CYNTHIA BAILEY
News Editor
Registration J()rocedure will be changing damage. he said. ·
The Council on Higher Education
voted Wednesday to support the Mis­sion
Model plan which would allocate
most of the state's new money for
higher education budget to three
schools: the University of Louisville ,
Univ'ersity of Kentucky and Northern
Kentucky University.
By PAUL A. LONG
Staff Writer
Additional information for this story
was gathered by staff writer John Day.
Students registering for the fall se­mester
will be required to ''make pay­ment
or make arrangments for pay­ment"
of their tuition before they will
be officially enrolled, according to Dr.
Edward Hammond, the vice president
for student affairs.
The process is part of the Student In­formation
System, which will be imple­mented
to facilitate fall registration.
According to Hammond, the new
system ~ill all but eliminate the prob­lem
of closed classes, give students
more control over their schedule and
make it unnecessary to stand in lines .
Sometime this spring, students now
enrolled at the University of Louisville
will receive a schedule of fall classes in
the mail . They will be able to get an
"advance registration" form from either
their advi~or or their department. They
will then be able to send in their sche­dule
choices sometime in May or June .
In latoe July, they will get a confirma­tion
of tlhose class choices. The students
wiJI accoept the schedule by making pay­ment
of their tuition for those classes
and ~ill then be officially enrolled.
Studc:n~ whQ receive financial . .aid .
will rec:eive confirmation of it along
with their tuition bill. All these students
need to do is sign the statement of aid
and return it along with their class sche­dule.
"(All) students will be required to
make some kind of arrangements for
paying ilheir bills at the time of registra­tion,"
said Hammond.
Hammond explained that most
closed classes will be eliminated be­cause
tlhe schedule will be modified if a
certain class period is deemed very pop­ular.
For instance, if200 students regis­ter
for a History 201 class at 9 a.m. ,
then the history department will add on
two or three more sections at that time,
to fit the need. In the same example, if
only 20 students signed up for that
course, then the department would
eliminate two or three sections, and as­sign
those teachers to other classes add-ed
where necessary.
All of the registration process for
these students will be handled by mail,
therfore e liminating the need to stand in
line .
-"There will be no reason· for (these
students) to stand in any line .'' said
Hammond.
Incoming freshman and transfer stu­dents
will sti II register as in the past: in a
system that will include orientation.
However, students who do not pay their
tuition. or those who do not follow the
pre-registration process will also have
to register the old way.
But Hammond does not foresee any
problems. "Our hope is that 90 percent
of the requests will be met ," he said.
The main reason the new process was
put into effect was because four years
ago the Board of Trustees mandated
that the University move to a process
where students would pay at the time of
registration . Last year, the Board reaf­firmed
that position.
Another reason was because of the
number of students who were not pay­ing
their tuition; students who had no
Two U of L families go
tO 'Famil)'- Feud' finals
By MARY L. BARNES
Cardinal Television Critic
The University of Louisville, past
and present , is prominently represented
among two of the 25 families who were
tabbed for final auditions for ABC's
"Family Feud" game show, held re­cently
in Louisville.
The Wallace family (Kathryn, Lula,
Lavita, Dorothy and Nanette) "jumped
for joy" when told, by phone, that they
o..JUalified for last Friday's meeting with
producer Howard Felsher. Kathryn's
husband, a professor at U ofL's School
of Medicine, is chairman of microbio­logy
and unmunology at the school. Her
daughter, Pam MacElvaney is a sopho­more
at University College who is plan­ning
to major in business administra­tion.
Kathryn herself works at the
School of Medicine and hopes to get her
degree 'n political science. Her ne­phew,
Vincent Howard, is a freshman
at UC, planning to major in political
'science a!S well.
Asked how they felt going into that
final step before appearing on ABC's
number one game show, Kathryn rep­lied,
"Woe have to feel confident; other­wise,
we wouldn't be there.''
The U ofL Law School was also well
representled in last Friday's final tryouts
hecause·or ·~·· Hartley fami ly (Marilyn,
Don, Luc:i, hn and Frank) . Marilyn
obtained her degree from the Law
School in 1979 as did her brother John
in 1970 and her late father in 1941 . Her
husband Don graduated from U of L in
1979 with a major in business finance.
The Hartleys, the first of the families
to meet Felsher, presented him with a
notice making him an official Kentucky
Colonel. In a telephone interview Mon­day
morning, Marilyn said that while
she felt good about the producer receiv­ing
the proclamation, she wondered if
her father-in-Jaw's long conversation
with him might influence their chances
of appearing on the show.
The families will know in the next
week or two whether they have been
chosen to appear on the game show.
intention of paying their tuition, yet
were taking up a seat in class that could
be used by a paying student.
" It's unfair to the students who really
want to attend school to be squeezed out
of school by .sorneone..wlm doesn't pay
hi bill ,'' said Hammond.
Also, many students tried to avoid
paying their tuition until they could tell
what kind of grades they would receive,
but then they lost all their credits be­cause
by that time it was too late to pay
"You can't wait to see what ki,..-.:; of
grades you're going to get and then de­cide
whether to pay or not so the grades
will show up on your transcript," said
Dr. Stanley R. Frager, the student grie­vance
officer at U of L. "A lot of stu­dents
try that."
Another change in registration, for
those students who need to go through
the old way for one reason or another,
will be the location. Although it is not
yet confirmed, the entire. process will .
be moved to Bigelow Hall, on the first
floor of the Student tenter.
Hammond said that the reason for
this is to try and get the entire process
in the same place.
A second building was damaged by
the sewer n!pairs. An old storage build­ing
which had received a small crack
from the sewer explo ion of Feb. 13
was damaged beyond repair, according
t.oLee •• _ ·- . _
"We warned them that it was
cracked ," said Lee. "But they went
right ahead."
'The affidavit also complains of the
Jefferson Piping Co.'s destruction of a
U of L parking lot near the two dam­aged
buildings.
Piles of dirt, steel and junk are still
scattered across the parking lot. Lee
said , "They've been spilling gas and oil
a ll over." This. he maintains , is de­stroying
the! asphalt.
Further, the Jefferson Piping Co.
used the parking lot withou~ U of L per­mission,
according to Lee.
The troulble all started when the wea­ther
got cold. Lee said that the Jefferson
Piping Co. used a backhoe with an extra
large shovel to pound the ground which
Lee said was frozen about I 8 inches
deep . .
"They dt~c ided to beat it apart with a
giant diggc:r. It was like an ele!>hant
• The t;:egional s.c;hools submitted an 1!1-
ternate plan giving them more money.
but this was rejectedby the Council.
The issue will eventual ly be fought out
in the General Assembly.
Swain said that the Mission Model
plan reflects the more costly instruc­tional
programs offered at UK and U of
L and puts the money where the student
enrollment is.
"If they (the Council on Higher Edu­cation)
hadn 't voted for it, I think it
would be much mo~e difficult to get the
support of the legi lature ," aid Steven
Bing, vice president of univer ity rela- ­tions.
"The critical thing now is what
the governor c hooses to do.
" I think they're (the Council) saying
that this is the right thing to happen in
Kentucky. I hope the legislature and the
governor will pay attention to that."
Bing noted that the regional colleges
are making a "strong effort" to defeat
the proposal.
The Wallace family sean:hes for an answer in the "Family Feud" tryouts.
'Family Feud' brings jovial ·chaos to city
By MARY L. BARNES.
Cardinal Television Critic
What could cause a family to change
the funeral plans of a dearly beloved,
recently departed family member? A
Family Feud tryout, of cour e.
For five days in January the usually
quiet Hyatt Regency Hotel became the
scene .for jovial chaos as masses o~ hu­manity
with sweaty palms and anxiety­ridden
nerves clamored for that once­in-
a-lifetime opportunity to appear on
ABC-TV's hit game show.
From over 750 families of five, the
top four reasons for contestant coordi­nator
Jerry Modine's modest assump­tion
that "somebody wants to go to Ca­lifornia"
were: exposure on national
television, a chance to win as much as
~30,000, the trip to Los Angele with
all expe~1ses paid and a dream come true
for the ladies - a smooch from host Ri­chard
Dilwson.
The first four days brought morning
and afternoon tryouts which were held
every 90 minutes and involved nearly
36 famillies at a time.
Presid'ing over the tryouts were con­testantcoordinators
Modine, Karen Lu­cas
and~!everly Morrison. Modine is a
particul Iy charming and likeable man
who wo aid make an excellent "guest
host" for Dawson. His first priority was
to make each family feel comfortable,
doing so by introducing himself and ex­plaining
his job with the show.
And mhen to deafening hoops and
hollers, Modine called two families at a
time to stand opposite sides. Each fami­ly
head i1ntroduced his family members
and they told the story of their lives.
The tales were endlessly told. Hy
homemakers, bu inessmen, nurses, se­cretaries,
college students, school­children
as young as 12 years old , city
and county police officers, General
Electric employees, a tree trimmer, a
hair stylist, an auctioneer, a priest and
a lot of attorneys.
"The legal profes ion is well repre­sented
here," joked Modine.
All conversations over, it was time to
play the game, to everyone's delight. ·
Except for the absence of Dawson, the
money and a buzzer, the tryouts were
exactly like the show. The questions
asked had been used, orne going back
five years. It was interesting to witness
grown people going into ci:lirium upon
getting the number one answer to the
question, "Name a kind of net''; the
wild shouts of "Play!"; the dread in
many faces on hearing "Strike one,"
"Strike two" and especially "Stri~e
three ."
Intense as it was, there were also
humorous moments. Modine noticed a
number of women expecting a visit
from the stork. So came another que -
tion: "Name a way you can get preg­nant."
I have a hunch, though, that hi
favorite was "Name something
padded." He asked that question in
nearly every tryout. Naturally the top
answer was bra - to the women's em-·
barrassment and the men's deliberate
naiveness since they had to say it in
front of an audience. '
For 25 of those 750 families, the big
event happened the night of Jan . 14
when they received a phone call a kmg
them to come back for a final interview
the following morning. Not with Mo-dine,
Lucas or Morrison, but with the
big man himself, Family Feud producer
Howard Fel:sher. From now on, they'd
be playing for all the marbles.
What would it take .for any group to
have a shot nt becoming participants on
the show? "Intelligence, presence and
passion," fie lsher replied. But then
again, the re have been families who did
uperbly off-stage but only o-so on the
show and vice versa. You just never
know.
A case of the jitters may have been
more legitimate in meeting with
Felsher, but he proved to be just a ami­able
as Modline if not a tad more fun­loving,
especially in dealing with non­married
females. He made up such
questions a!i: "Name rea~on~ young
women shouldn' t marry until they're
25," and "N11me a way the Tobacco In-stitute
bribe a scientist." A policeman
thought that religion was a suitable mo­tive
for rearing a child. Ht: got strike
two .
"Not if you' re an atheist," Felsher
said with a grin.
The producer got a taste vf this area'
tried-and-true conservatism. A ques­tion
asked in every interview was,
"Name the most important factor in a
happy marriage." Love was mentioned
as was trust, affection, money, compat­abilt
ty - and sex . But 22 of the 25 fami­lies
opted for strike three rather than
saying that dirty three-letter word .
Who will end up flying to L.A.'! One
or two of the families, or all 25? When
will they be notified?
Well , let Felsher put it tht~ way: "If
you don't hear from u~ in the next two
weeks. you'll never hear from u
again ."