The
Louisville
Vol. 54, No. 15
Money reduced,
enrollment low
for minorities
By NAYDA TERKILDSEN
Cardinal Contributor
Following a nationwide trend,
the University of Louisville is ex­periencing
a drop in minority en­rollment,
particularly among
black students.
The enrollment drop has been
attributed to both a fear that finan­cial
aid would not be available and
the fact that financial aid funds
have been reduced.
Some officials fear that the drop
may have far-reaching effects on
the future of blacks in higher edu­cation
by lessening the affirmative
action advances of the past two
decades.
Harvey Johnson, U of L's
minority recruitment officer, says
that there is a shortage of money
for minorities at U of L, especially
at the graduate and professional
level. "It seems as if a few years
ago specific financial slots for
minorities existed," he said.
"That's no longer so. There is less
emphasis to segregate the finan­cial
dollar. There just isn't any
money for minority students."
U ofL is not alone. Most officials
at universities across the country
cite economics as a crucial factor
in the decline of minority enroll­ment.
Not everyone believes that the
decline is limited to minority stu­dents,
but involves all potential
students from lower socio­economic
backgrounds. This
theory seems to hold true at U of
L, where the estimated figures for
1982 show an overall decline in en­rollment
from 1981.
Since 1960, the number of
blacks attenting college has in­creased
five times to 1.1 million.
But over the last five years, census
figures and ·other statistics have
shown that minority students' ac­cess
to higher education has
leveled off. Figures for U of L
show that minority enrollment has
remained fairly consistent at 12
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Louisville, Ky., 1rhursday, December 2, 1982
Staff Photo by Jeff Ford
Christmas clay
Sculpture student Ram Cousens looks over
t~e pottery items displa:yed during the Uni-versity
clay club's Christmas pottery sale
held in the ceramics studio yesterday.
Fraternities move to control hazing
By LAURA KELLEHER
Cardinal StaffWriter
A number of deaths resulting
from hazing has cast the national
spotlight on the treatment of
fraternity pledges. Fraternities at
the University of Louisville are
monitored by the University, the
Interfraternity Council and the
national fraternity organizations.
The by-laws of some fraternities
outlaw hazing entirely.
Hazing can b'e defined in many
ways. Although physically harm­ful
hazing activities usually attract
the national spotlight, fraternities
at U of L also qualify mental de-gradation
as hazing. Any type of
embarrassment or harassment of
a plege is discouraged by the Uni­versity,
the IFC, national frater­nity
organizations and local chap­ter
officers.
"Most of the groups here have
very positive pledge programs,"
said Joni Burke, greek advisor at
U ofL. PartofBurke'sjobistoen­sure
that hazing does not take
place.
If a fraternity is suspected of
hazing, Burke's action will be to
go to the chapter president, ad­visors,
and national headquarters
of the fraternity.
"It's really hard to. find out
what's going on," said Steve Vest,
president of Kappa Sigma, and
vice president of the IFC. Accord­ing
to Vest, hazing is usually de­tected
only if someone complains.
"It's really hard to regulate it. .As
far as I know, it doesn't go on."
The IFC has the authority to
tal:e action against a fraternity
suspected of haz\ng. A judicial
board, made up of presidents of all
the fraternities, reviews and
judges the incidents, as in a trial. A
fraternity can be fined, issued! a
penalty, or put on probation. The
fraternity is able to appeal the de­cision.
Vest believes there are "not any
Architectural design award
goes to library, playhouse
By J IM JUNOT
Cardinal Afterclass E ditor
Two build.ngs at the University
of Louisville recently won top hon­ors
in Kentucky for their design.
The Kentucky Society of Ar­chitects
chose· the Belknap
Playhouse and the newly-built
Ekstrom Library as best from a
total of 39 entries.
The Belknap Playhouse was
chosen, according to the KS.A, be­cause,
"(It) is laudable that a han­dsome
Carpenter Gothic structure
was given a new lease on life. An
enormous amount of energy and
e ffort was expended to achieve
this. Both owner and architect
should -be commended for their
commitment."
The KSA said that the library
was "clearly the best of the large
buildings reviewed. The fact that
it was shaped by its campus con­text
is positive, as the project rep-resents
a challenge of inserting a
substantial intrusion into an exist­ing
grouping."
Ralze Dorr, acting librarian of
the Ekstrom Library, accepted
the award for U of L. H~ said the
similarities between the library
and other buildings was part of the
overall plan.
"The fact that the library resem­bles
the other buildings in the
quadrangle, (such as the
Humanities Building and the Life
Sciences Building) was deliber­ate.
It fits in with the surrounding
campus," said Dorr.
He added that one of the li- .
brary's main functions was to pro­vide
an attractive setting in which
students could study, and also to
provide vary~ng surroundings for
students' study habits.
Keith Clements, of the architec­tural
firm Louis and Henry, and
chief designer of the library, said
certain aspects of the library were
oversized.
"On the front side of the libr.ary
we wanted to put as much glass as
possible so we could expose as
many functions that the library
had to offer as possible," said C le­ments.
"The front steps we·re
oversized so students could C()ln­gregate
and have (the steps) for·m
a little amphitheater. Sort of lik•~ a
place to hold 1960s-type rallies."
Clements said that the library is
projected to be useful for 15 years
without adding any new wings.
Dorr said that changing to com­puter
terminals from bulky card
catalogues will make the $15-rnil­lion
library useful much longer.
The playhouse, on the other
hand, was already standing
where the library now exists. Cle­ments
was a lso the chief architect
of the Belknap Playhouse pr·oject.
He said that the playhouse had
to be dismantled completely, each
major problems here" concerning
hazing. Fraternity presidents are
held responsible by national
fraternity organizations. "If any­one
gets hurt they could arrest
me," Vest said.
Rick Leitner, president of De lta
Chi fraternity, takes a strong anti­hazing
stand. "I know as a fact
some fraternities at U ofL do haze
because I've seen it ," he said. The
hazing Leitner refers to is more
mental hazing than physical
abuse. "If there's nothing danger­ous,
they may not think there's
anything wrong with it," he said.
Delta Chi endeavors to treat
pledges, called associate mem-bers,
with respect. "The main
problem we have is our associate
members feel like active mem­be
rs," Leitner said . "The only
rights we have they do not have is
the secrets."
Vest's view of pledgeship is
" learning more than anything
else.'' Pledges are "a group of
people lear·ning about the frater­nity
so when they get in they'll be.
good members of the fraternity,"
he said.
Andy Burden, a pledge for
Tdangle fraternity, said "basically
we're treated just like the ac·­tives,"
the main diff~rence being
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Staff Photo by Cindy Pinkston
T h e aw a rd-winning reassemble d Be lknap Play h ou se now
stands at Second S treet and Cardina l Boulevard .
individual piece had to be num­bered,
and then the entire build­ing
had to be re-assembled with
an almost totally new interior. On
top of all this, the playhouse, now
in pieces, had to be stored for al­most
a year.
"We (Louis and Henry) installed
a new heating system, new base-ment,
new seats imd added a re­hea
rsal space," said Clements.
Although much of the original
Carpenter Gothic Chapel, which
was originally built when U of L
was a reform school in the 1800s,
was kept because it was in good
condition, Clements said the inter­ior
was updated.
Basketball teams open seasons Inside ......
Crum savors home stand,
ey'es fifth Fin al F our trip
By ROB VON BOKERN
Cardinal Assistant Sports Editor
Editor's Note: The outcome of the
Louisville-Santa Clara game was
llnknown at press time.
After winning the Great Alaska
Shootout, the University of Louis­ville
basketball team is preparing
to start a six-game home stand
against Purdue Saturday night.
The December stand will allow
head coach Denny Crum to work
with his young team more than if
they were on the road.
"When you have such a young
bunch (of players)," Crum said, "I
think it helps you to play at horne
for two reasons. One, you're more
relaxed at home, and even more
than that, you get. to be home
where you can practice every day.
When you're travclin~ and play­ing
on the road, you rruss so many
For The Cardinal's special pre­season
basketball preview a11d
outlook, see pages.9 and 10.
days because of travel. You don't
get to really practice and work as
hard, so you don't improve as
much."
One area of the seventh-ranked
Cardinals' game that had Crum
concerned before the trip to
Alaska was free throw shooting.
"Four of our starters are shooting
in the 70s (70 percent), which is
pretty good," Crum said before
leaving for Alaska. "As a team,
though, they're below where I
think they ought to be. I think you
have to shoot it somewhere in the
70s (as a team) to be competitive."
In the championshp game of the
Shootout, the Cardinals -.:>ut some
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Coming off l>est season ,
women still look good
By ALAN ZUKOF
Cardinal Sports Editor
The University of Louisville
women's basketball -team open,ed
the 1982-83 season last night
against Marshall U niversilly.
Coach Peggy Fiehrer and the
Lady Cards are determined to im­prove
upon last fear's 19-8 recor·d,
the best in U o L women's hoop
history.
The Cards also have set th•eir
sights on recapturing the Metro
Converence champions~lip
wrested from them by Memphis
State last March. U of L won the
first two Metro tournaments ltor
women, in 1979 and 1981. (ThE~re
was .no 1980 tournament per :se;
the '79-80 event was in Decemb1er,
the '80-81 in February.
Fiehrer returns eight ofthe nine
Lady Cards who finished last S4~a-son
; only Stephanie Edwards, a/k/
a Instant Mayhem, is gone (to
Southwest Louisiana). Of the
eight,-JanetMcNew, Karen Frier­son,
Rosalind "Porky" Smith, Va l­erie
Gay, and Erika Washington
all have started for U of L at some
time in their careers. The other
three, Jackie Spencer, Devita
Ceaser and Deborah Philpot, are
experienced reserves.
As of press time, Fiehrer had
not yet decided on a starting
lineup. McN~w is solidly en­trenched
as a.forward, and Smith
and Frierson are set at guard, but
the center and power forward
spots are still open. In a Sundayd
night exhibit,ion against the tour­ing
Melbourne (Australia) Saints,
Washington started at forward
and Ceaser at center, but Fiehrer
tried out a number of combina-
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The women's volleyball team
wins the Metro toumeyment
and travels to California to
compete for theNCAAchamp­ionship
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Your student activity fee -
where the money goes . pg. 3
In a move that may have wide­ranging
effects, the city of
Evanston, Ill. may tax the tui­tion
of s tudents at Northwest­ern
University .••... pg.3
Mentor programs for women
have bepn nationwide, and
efforts are being made to
begin similar programs in­Louisville
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Afterclass . . . . . . . . . pg. 11
Afterclass Calendar . PI· 13
Classifieds . . . • . . . . pg. 14
Editorials ...•. : .... PI- 4
Sports - •....•..... PI· 7
An independent
student weekly
14 Pages
Trustees
deal with
hospital,
engi• neers
By LAURA KELLEHER
Cardinal Staff Writer
The University of Louisville is
continuing in its efforts to refine
and expand its educational pro­grams.
Progress on University Hospital
is slower t_han anticipated, though
"all parties are hopeful that an
agreement can be reached soon,"
said U of L President Dr. Donald
C. Swain in his report on the status
of University Hospital at the Nov.
22 Board of Trustees meeting.
Agreements have yet to be
reached on the leases for the con­centrated
care building, ambulat­ory
care building and indigent
care building. "All parties are de­termined
- very determined -
that an agreement will be
reached," said Swain. The lease
for the parking deck is still in ques­tion,
but is considered oflesser im­portance.
Swain has also placed more at­tention
on the objective of provid­ing
.a hospital that allows for
academic freedom. Both parties
must now take this objective into
consideration in setting up the
hospital.
Swain hopes the negotiations
will be complete in time for the
new University Hospital to open in
January.
Swain also outlined a proposal
between U of Land the University
of Kentucky to devlop a coopera­tive
Ph.D. program in chemical
engineering. The Board of Trus­tees
will not vote on the proposal
until after a Dec. 8 meeting be­tween
officials from the two
schools.
Swain believes the two pro­grams
are complementary. UK's
program emphasizes research,
while U of L's is closely linked
with industry. If the proposal is
put into action "we will strengthen
both programs," said Swain.
The Board of Trustees ap-
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Book fees
I• ncreas•i ng
more than
tuition
By MICHAEL QUINLAN
Cardinal Staff Writer
If the woes of a thin bankroll are
putting a damper on your holiday
season, it might be a good idea to
avoid the campus bookstore, and
ask benevolent old Santa to stuff
your Christmas stocking with
textbooks.
Tuition increases pale in com­parison
to the inflated cost of
textbooks. It is not unusual for an
undergraduate student carrying
15 hours to pay over $100 for his
books. Several years ago, the
price of textbooks increased by
the rate of 50 cents a year. Now
the average rate of increase is
around $7.
The University of Louisville
added to the burden fast year
when it added a 5 percent sur­charge
on all textbooks. Bill
Davidson of the operations divi­sions
said that the surcharge was
put into e ffect in order to increase
the University's general revenue,
and help offset the University's
budget deductions handed down
by the state.
Jim O'Brien, manager of the
campus bookstore, said thatdther
than the surcharge, the cost in­creases
are being handed down
by the book companies and are
not being further propagated by
the bookstore.
"We receive a 23 percent
markdown from the manufac­turer's
suggested retail price on all
the textbooks we buy from the
major distributors. We arrive at
our price by adding the 5 percent
surcharge to the suggested retail
price," said O'Brien.
Other than the surcharge, the
prices in U of L's bookstore are
fairly consistent with those at Bel­larmine
and Spalding colleges.
"The 23 percent markup is the
set standard with most of the uni­versities
in the country," said
O'Brien. "Variances in the prices
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