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APRIL 17, 2007
WHAT'S_IN SIDE
NEWS
SGA to hold mock
election this week
Students will have a chance
to participate in a mock
gubernatorial vote.
', See page A3
News coverage
continues online
Check The Cardinal's Web a
report on the Shamrock-n­run.
event and coverage of
Sigmapalooza 2007.
FEATURES
Student profile
features veep
In the third week of a four­part
series, The Cardinal
meets next year's SGA
Academic Vice President.
See pageA6
SPORTS
Swimmer bound
for Olympics
Sophomore Vali Preda will
head to Beijing in 2008 for
the summer Olympic games.
See page 81
Cardinals hit turf for
scrimmage game
Teams prepare for annual
spring game; new coach
1<ragthorpe says Brohm has
only uncontested position.
Seepage 83
'ENTERTAINMENT
Music student
hopes to record
Meet Will Roberts, a
musician-entertainer who is
honing his production skills.
Seepage 86
more stories and
photos:
www.louisvillecardinal.com
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Entertainment
Features
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Weather
Web link
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The independent weekly student newspaper at the University of Louisville since 1926
www.louisvillecardinal.com VOLUME 80, ISSUE 28 • 18 PAGES, 2 SECTIONS
University to dissolve grad school
Individual academic
units to take more
control of programs
By Chris Brown
The Louisville Cardinal
In a meeting with faculty and
student representatives of the
graduate school last Wednesday,
University of Louisville Provost
Dr. Shirley Willihnganz an­nounced
plans to dissolve the
graduate school by the end of the
year.
The plan, which Willihnganz
said is still flexible, would mean
the end of the current system in
which graduate students compose
a graduate school separate from
the rest of the university. The stu­dents,
faculty and at least some
control of the degree programs
will be moved to the individual
colleges and schools within the
w1iversity once the plan is put
into place.
"After a year or more of a lot
of conversations, my sense is
that we cannot get to the kind of
strengthening of graduate educa­tion
we need," WiJlihnganz said.
With a centralized graduate unit
'' "We have to make sure we
do no harm to the gradu­ate
council or the graduate
school moving forward:'
-Dr. Ronald Atlas,
Graduate School dean
like the one currently in place at
U of L, there are "endless border
disputes." She explained that ei­ther
everyone thinks issues are
someone else's responsibility or
Security surveyed
Traditional halls prove more difficult to enter
By Ray Dillon
The Louisville Cardinal
If you live on campus at the
University of Louisville, you've
probably been piggybacked and
didn't even know it.
"Piggybacking" is what U of
L Director of Housing Shannon
Staten called the most success­ful
way a non-resident can gain
access to any housing facility on
campus. Strangers can simply
follow a resident through a door
once the resident uses his or her
key.
After numemus reports of
crime in and around campus
residence halls and apartments,
The Louisville Cardinal tested
security at both U ofL residence
h<tlls and University of Louisville
Properties buildings to see how
far a non-resident reporter with­our
a key could get into certain
facilities. Reporters concentrared
on two buildings from each
group: Kurz and Bettie Johnson
halls represented ULP buildings
while Stevenson Hall and Unitas
Tower represented U of L build­ings.
Test 1: ULP buildings
At Bettie Johnson and Kurz
Hall, our non-resident was able
to piggyback his way into both
buildings and bypass the front
desks.
In the case of Kurz Hall, the
desk attendant was not looking.
And Bettie Johnson's front desk
staff was busy with several people
loitering in the lobby and around
the desk.
Once inside the ULP facilities,
keys were no longer necessary
to access stairways or elevators.
Our non-resident reported see­ing
several of the resident doors
opened. Without being stopped
or questioned, he was also able
HOUSING see page A3
SHELBY CAMPUS
PHOTOS BY YURlY LOZITSKIY/LOUISVILLE CARDINAL
An undercover reporter was able to enter and roam freely around Bettie
Johnson Hall, above, without a key. However, at Stevenson Hall, below, there
were more locked doors and the reporter could only access the lobby area.
Ground broken for new 'biosafety lab
By Dennis Q'Neil
The Louisville Cardinal
The University of Louisville
held a ground breaking ceremony'
for its new multi-million dollar
Center for Predictive Medicine at
Shelby Campus on April 9.
The $34.6 million facility,
which will house one of the 13
level Three biosafety labs in the
nation, will be used to research
and develop vaccines for infec­tious
diseases such as West Nile,
SARS and bird flu. The majority
of projecr's costs is covered by a
grant from the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseas­es.
"We are hoping that our re­searchers
will be able to determine
why certain people fall prey to
certain diseases and others don't,"
said U of L Executive Vice Presi­dent
for Research Manuel Marti­nez
at the ceremony.
First year medical student Scott
Bickel said, "I think it's good to see
U of L's continued commitment
to cutting edge medical research.
These types of projects are great
for elevating U of L as a research
university."
But prior to construction,
some community members living
near the site expressed fears that
the facility would pose as an envi­ronmental
hazard in community
forums hosted by U ofL.
U of L Executive Vice Presi­dent
for Health Affairs Larry
Cook said, "We chose to appre-
Dr. Shirley Willihnganz
University Provost
everyone claims them as their
own.
Under the current system, she
said, "the graduate school and the
dean are considerably weakened."
Graduate students on hand at
the meeting had mixed views and
a barrage of questions about the
changes. Of chief concerns were
potential problems with represen­tation
among policy-making bod­ies
at the university and worries
over funding for graduate student
projects.
Graduate Student Council
President Tim Brauch, who is
in the mathematics department,
worried that the new graduate
school structure will eliminate
rwo sources of financial support
for graduate students: money al-
GRADUATE see page A2
Junior English major Jessica Smith, as Joey Trixxx the Serial Queer, performed in
the drag show for the Come Together Kentucky conference at U ofl on April B.
Louisville students
host GLBTQsummit
By Tejas Shastry
The Louisville Cardinal
Over the weekend, the Uni­versity
of Louisville hosted the
12th annual Come Together Ken­tucky,
a conference for GLBTQ
students across the stare.
Created in 1995 at the Uni­versity
of Kentucky, CTK offers
a means for students in Kentucky
to learn from each other and to
receive valuable education and
training from workshops further­ing
the causes of GLBTQ stu­dents.
This year's conference was
organized by U of Ls common­Ground,
an RSO for GLBTQ
students.
Conference organizers report­ed
that over 100 students from
Murray State, Eastern Kentucky
University, Western Kentucky
University, Northern Kentucky
University, University of Ken­tucky,
Bellarmine University and
the University of Louisville at­tended
this year's conference. A
number up from last year's con­ference
attendance.
"We're trying to build some­thing
more solid and professional
this year," said commonGround
President Jessica Smith, a junior
English major.
The conference opened Friday
night wi~h a drag show featuring
CONFERENCE INFO
~ The annual Come To­gether
Kentucky is a confer­ence
designed for GLBTQ
students across the state.
~ The 2007 conference was
held at U ofL
~ Over 1 00 students from
~even Kentucky colleges
and universities were in at­tendance.
coliege students and guest per­formers
across the state. ·
Performer Michael Heil, a se­nior
political science major whose
stage name is Phoenix Skye, said,
"Because it's a statewide event, it
has a different crowd. I wanted to
perform so they can see what Lou­isville
and U of L is all about."
The three-day conference, held
Friday to Sunday, also included
seminars, panel discussions, me­dia
activism and a comedian key­note
speaker.
"CTK is an amazing event,"
said Stephanie Wells of Murray
State. "f love interacting with
people at this conference."
Among the conference's spon­sors
were the Fairness Alliance at
Louisville, Volunteers of America
and Vice Provost for Diversity
Dr. Modean Taylor-Archer.
On April9, a ceremony for'the ground breaking of the Center for Predictive Medi­cine
was held at Shelby Campus. Above is a rendering of the research facility.
ciate the fact that people have
legitimate concerns and tried to
do everything we could to reas­sure
members of the community."
The other two biosafety labs in the
state - located at the Health Sci-ences
Campus and the University
of Kentucky- have not reportedly
encountered serious safety prob­lems
rhus far. Both labs are feder-
BIOSAFETV see page A2
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