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Vol. 67 No. 26 April 6, 1995 18 Pages An Independent Student Newspaper Free
Classics scholar to replace Swain
By Michael A. Lindenberger
Staff Writer
After nine months of controversy,
the search for a new University presi­dent
ended April 4 with a sigh of relief
rather than an unsheathing of sabers.
The University of Louisville Board
ofTrusteesvoted to hireJobnShumaker,
Ph.D., as U ofL's 16th president.
The selection of the 52-year-old clas-sica!
studies scholar and current presi­dent
of Central Connecticut State Uni­versity
offers a timely chance to mend
relations between faculty and the ad­ministration,
suggested President Donald
Swain.
"What he does is appeal to the fund a­mental
core of the university," Swain
said afterShumaker'sApril5 press con­ference.
"Faculty are resonating very
positively to that. They see John as a
Shumaker stresses
students, scholarship
By Michael A. Lindenberger
Staff Writer
Flanked by his 13-and 1 0-year­old
sons, John Shumaker, the next
president of U of L, settled himself
into what was perhaps his first task
as president-elect: He submitted
to his first Louisville press confer­ence.
And in comments at that AprilS
conference, as well .as at a later
reception in the University Club,
Shumaker insisted the soul of a
university rests in its academic
mission.
Asked how his degrees in clas­sical
studies have helped him as a
university administrator, Shumaker
said it was his experience as an
academic which gave him a un­derstanding
of the purpose of a
university.
"I think just about any training
will do (to prepare one for a presi­dency),
so long as one has the
P.roper values," Shumaker said.
'In my own case, my experience
as a teacher and a scholar has
helped. That's why the university
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kind of president with a mind in touch
with the faculty. And that's what we
need, given our circumstances."
Shumaker himself pledged to improve
U ofL.
"I take very seriously the oath taken
by Athenian youth who swore allegiance
to Ancient Athens," he said. "They
pledged to leave Athens in bener shape
than they found it in."
Swain said although he knew three of
the candidates personally, he thought
Shumaker was the best qualified from
the beginning.
"He was the best fit for the Univer­sity.
That's not to say that there was any
favoritism. The way these processes
work -having gone through this be­fore,
I can personalize it- is that there
is sort of a magic moment when one
finalist stands out from the other quali­fied
candidates and you know you have
found the one that really fits."
Faculty Senate Chair Rick Stremel
nominated Shumaker, who had been the
faculty advisory committee's first
choice.
"He was the first choice of the
faculty," said Stremel, a trustee and
member of the search committee. "He's
an academic. He was a teacher. In fact,
when he was on campus he said he saw
his role (as president) as a teacher. He
would teach the board about the faculty
and the faculty about the board."
Stremel also said Shumaker's answers
Thition to rise for 95-96
By Dug Begley
Staff Writer
In February of 1994, the Student Govern­ment
Association sponsored a trip to Frank­fort
so students could lobby state legislators
for a tuition freeze for the 1995-96 school
year. That day the legislators told them the
freeze was out of the question. On March 27,
the U of L Board of Trustees confirmed that
freeze was not going to happen. Tuition is
going up.
According to state law, the Council on
Higher Education is required to set the tu­ition
schedule for all state universities. On
Nov. 7, 1994, the Council approved the tu­ition
schedule for the 1995-96 school year,
opening the tuition rate to the approval of the
state universities.
On March 27, t,.he U of L Board of Trust­ees,
following the reco!!lmendation of Presi­dent
Donald Swain, approved the Council on
Higher Learning's tuition schedule for the
fall 1995 semester.
For the upcoming year, residential tuition
at U of L will be $1,235, a $40 increase from
this year's tuition. The increase places the
yearly cost to attend U of L at $2,470, a 3.3
percent increase from the price to enroll in
fall1994.
for the 95-96 year, a 3.6 percent increase from
this year's cost.
The Council determines the residential tu­ition
charge by looking at the per capita income
and sening tuition as a percentage of that in­crease
in per capita income. The non-residential
cost is determined by examining the costs -of
most instructional institutions.
Kentucky was not hit as hard as other states
in the last recession, contributing to the contin­ued
rises in tuition, said Gary Cox, Council
executive director.
Graduate programs will also become more
expensive as of fall '95 at U of L.
Medical and law school were the hardest hit,
with increases for residential medical school stu­dents
of 13.7 percent. Law school tuition will
increase by 10.1 percent.
While all programs raised in price this year,
tuition does not automatically go up in each unit
of the University. In 1993, in an effort to be
more competitive with area schools, the non­resident.
tuition at the medical school declined.
to questions asked while he was on cam­pus
last month for interviews process
gave him an edge over the other candi­dates.
"He's obviously a quick study who
has done his homework," Stremel said.
Student Government Association
President Todd Scbmiedeler said al­though
the student advisory committee
ranked Shumaker third among the final­ists,
he was confident he did the right
thing by voting for Shumaker.
"All three of the candidates were
more than acceptable" to the committee,
Schmiedeler said, adding that they only
had an hour with each candidate. He said
the student committee members placed
Beny Turner Asher and Thomas Eakin
ahead of Shumaker because of their past
experience as student affairs adminis­trators.
Schmiedelei said he took the stu­dents'
concerns directly to Shumaker
after he and Stremel pressed the search
committee to allow video conference
interviews with the candidates.
"His answers were extremely com­forting,"
Schmiedeler said. "I had no
difficulty recommending him. No one
had any doubtsabouthisqualifications."
Shumaker will replace Swain July 1,
though he hasn't yet decided how soon
he will move here.
The selection comes after a period of
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Staff Photo by Paige Brooks
Newly elected University President John Shumaker fielded questions
during a press conference on April 5 in the Jefferson Room.
Women's Studies
maJ• or recei•v es
lhlstees approval
By Michael A. Lindenberger
Staff Writer
Men and women interested in learning more
about history, literature, natural sciences, social
sciences and other disciplines might soon have
the option of majoring in a discipline many say
will give them a deeper understanding of. their
culture: Women's Studies.
The bachelor's in Women's Studies degree
will be available, pending approval by the Ken­tucky
Council on Higher Education. The U of L
Board of Trustees approved the proposal over
spring break, and a faculty member who helped
Women's Studies Program chair Nancy Theriot
prepare the proposal, said the program is de­signed
to accommodate at least 15 to 20 majors
to start, with as many as 50 in three years.
If enough people major in women's studies
within four years, the President Office has com­mitted
to fund one tenure-track faculty position,
said political science Professor Mary
Hawkeswort1, who currently is one of a group of
faculty who teach courses in their respective
departments which are cross-listed as women's
studies courses.
Currently, there is a women's studies minor.
In addition to requiring 36 hours of women's
studies courses, the degree will also require ma­jors
to complete an internship after 12 hours of
major-related course work.
Non-resident students can also expect to
pay higher tuition. Yearly tuition for non­residents
will be increased by $240 to $6,990
The freeze proposed by Gov. Jones was a
provision of his 1994 budget that prohibited the
Council on Higher Education from increasing
the tuitions at any of the state run universities
for the '95-96 year. The General Assembly
opposed the move - as did Swain - on the
grounds that the Council, appointed by the leg­islature
should retain authority over tuition, not
the executive. Staff Illustration by Brian Orms
Hawkesworth said the new option for stu­dents
will not represent a diversion of resources
which would normally go to other programs in
the College of Arts and Sciences.
U of L honors Anne Braden,
queen of local rights activists
By Joel Kotarski
Staff Writer
Forty years ago, kind words about
Anne Braden were scarce. In many
eyes, she was far from deserving of
an award. However, after years spent
fighting for civil rights, this commu­nity
activist is receiving praise and
recognition. ·
OnApril5, the University of Lou­isville
political science department
presented Braden the 1995 Brennan
Haly Award, the latest of many hon­ors
she has received in the past few
years.
The award, named for Col.
Michael Brennan and Gen. Percy
Haly, was established in the late
1970s to promote discussion about
politics and to encourage local activ­ism.
Since its inception, the award
has been given to recognize contribu­tions
to the community.
Mary Hawkesworth, a political
science professor, has served on the
award committee for about 20 years
and said selecting Braden was a break
with tradition.
"In the past, we have given the
award to elected officials who have
made an impact and a difference in
the community," Hawkesworth said.
"This year, we wanted to honor a
citizen in the community who made a
contribution to political activism and
racial harmony."
Braden is no stranger to hardship and
negative attention. She has endured hate
mail, harassing phone calls and even a
car bombing.
"For a long time, I was the personifi­cation
of all evil in the community," she
said. "However, in the last few years,
I've gonen many awards and am not
used to getting them. I am not sure if it is
a good or bad sign yet."
Braden first walked into the spotlight
in 1954, a year when racial tension was
high and the city was segregated. Braden,
her late husband Carl Braden and others
were attempting to integrate the com­munity.
Andrew and Charlotte Wade, a black
couple, wanted to buy a house in pre­dominately
white Shively, but could not
afford it. To help out, the Bradens bought
the house and sold it to the couple.
As a result, white citizens in Shively
threatened the Wades and eve.ntually
bombed the couple's home. No one was
harmed. However, the Bradens were
soon indicted for sedition - and later
accused of planning the bombing them­selves.
Braden said the "Red Scare" of the
1950s McCarthy era fueled suspicion
that they were communists who had
bought the couple a house to incite a race
war in the community. Thus, according
Staff Photo by Tony Matkey
Local civil rights activist Anne Braden speaks to a Ekstrom Library
Auditorium crowd after receiving the 1995 Brennan Ualy Award.
to the theory, the communists could move
in and overtake the government.
Carl Braden was found guilty and
sentenced to 15 years of prison and fined
$5,000.
"They kept postponing my trial,"
Braden said. "In the meantime, we
were in the process of appealing the
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The idea of the course is to "enrich the college's
offerings," Hawkesworth said.
Student Senate affirms
recent SGA elections
By Dug Begley
Staff Writer
Late in the recent SGA election, the
election committee was faced with a
decision it had to make quickly and
fairly.
Election Committee Chairwoman
Kristen Worland had to decide the fate
of the ballot boxes at the Jaw and dental
school because reports of voter fraud
and discrepancies in the number of votes
to the number of signatures bad been
filed the day before.
Their decision to keep the boxes un­less
a discrepancy of more than 10 per­cent
was found, some students were
angered, and accused the comminee of
changing the rules so candidates it fa­vored
could win.
A former student activist known to
many on campus for his confrontational
style distributed a flier criticizing the
committee for changing the mlcs mid­way
through the election, allegedly cam­paigning
illegally at the Health Sciences
Campus, the inclusion of a candidate on
the ballot who dropped out earlier and
other allegations of wrong doing.
Student Affairs and the committee
quickly refitted the accusations.
Worland said there needs to be a level
of tmst between the candidates and the
Comminee.
Edwards dismissed the idea of favor­itism
as "ludicrous" and said she felt the
comminee responded to every complaint,
giving full attention to both slates.
Furthermore, the discrepancy issue
was "misunderstood" in many ways be­cause
the rumors circulating of disre­garding
the law and dental boxes were
based on a guide! i ne, not the decision of
the elections committee. People began
to assume the boxes would be discounted
because there was a difference, not be­cause
of anything said by the Election
Comminee, she said.
The Election Committee chose not to
completely throw out the boxes because
they saw the offense as minimal, ami it
did not warrant ignoring the votes,
Worland said.
"That way, we're not throwing out a
school's vote," she said.
She conceded that the facts were un­clear
about events that occurred at the
Health Sciences Campus.
"Basically, what this has forced us to
do is say we don't have a clear story,"
Worland said.
Th~ issue of how the Election Com­mittee
handled the voting was handed to
the student senate at a March 23 meet-
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