The Loveable
AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER FEBRUARY 13, 1997
The Cardinal has been on a love mission.
Inside: Focus takes a look at love in
the 90's, it's not all fun and games.
Etcetera finds out what people really want
for Valentine's Day.
And, readers share their best and
worst pick-up lines, in Opinion.
UMC gives Med School $11.5 million
GraphiC courtesy Godsey Architects and Associates
Alderman Dan Johnson proposed that a new arena be constructed behind
Commonwealth Convention Center at the Board of Aldermen meeting Feb. 11.
Downtown arena sought
By Dug Begley ' parking structure in between the two buildings. I
Staff Writer Johnson said he has been working on the
project full-time for the last three months, but
If Louisville Alderman Dan Johnson has his did not want to unveil the plan until financing
way, Ron Cooper won't be the only U of Lcoach
playing in a· new venue soon.
Johnson (6th Ward) proposed to build a new
$90 million, 35,000 seat downtown basketball
facility at the Feb. 11 meeting of the Board of
Aldermen.
According to Johnson's plan, the new arena­which
could replace Freedom Hall as the home
of the Cardinals-would be located behind the
expanded Commonwealth Convention Center, at
the corner of Second and Liberty streets, with. a
was secure.
"(The plan) was accidently brought out at last
night's Board of Aldermen meeting," he said.
"Someone leaked it tp the press."
However, Johnson said finding the money for
the stadium won't be a problem. :·It won't take long," he said.
If Johnson's proposal passes the full board,
and is signed by the mayor, the money for the
See ARENA, Page 6
Chilean pension reformer
says U.S. system is flawed
By Caleb 0. Brown
Staff Writer
According to many economists, the United
States Social Security system is in trouble. Some
estimates claim the system will be insolvent as
early as 2012, paying out more in benefits than
it receives in taxes.
If that happens, the Social Security
Administration will have to begin selling bonds
to the federal government to finance the added
outflow of benefits. In order to have the ability
to redeem those bonds, the federal government
will have to raise taxes, cut benefits to retirees,
run higher deficits, or cut other government
spending.
Harvard-educated economist Jose Pinera says
that such a crisis can be a-:oided. In a presentation
on Feb. 10, in the University Club, Pinera
detailed how he privatized the Chilean pension
system and how it could be done in the United
an
States.
Pinera, who served as minister of Labor and
Social Security for Chile from 1978 to 1980,
said, "Social security is a syste!T1 that has been
adopted all over the world. I do believe that the
idea of social security is noble. We must save
this noble idea."
Pinera said, however, that government
involvement in such a program of saving and
investing for retirement needs to be very small,
merely regulating private investments.
"You can always postpone the problem by
making cosmetic changes," he said. "You can
raise the payroll tax. You can raise the retirement
age. You can slash benefits. You can even play
with the Consumer Price Index."
Pinera said that such cosmetic changes will
not solve the problem, and that when he
privatized the Chilean pension system, he was
aiming not to merely delay the problem, but to
solve it.
Pinera detailed two factors that
he said will make all social security
systems in the world eventually
become unstable.
"Lower worldwide fertility
rates and increases in l.ife
expectancy make it difficu It to
maintain systems like the one in
the United States," Pinera said.
According to Pinera, these two
factors will lead to a relatively
smaller pool of labor supporting a
larger group of retirees, and that the
retirees must be supported for
longer periods of time due to
increased life expectancy. Pinera
said these trends in life expectancy
and fertility are worldwide, and
make pay-as-you-go systems
Social Security expert Jose Pinera spoke Feb. 10
about America's need to change its pension system.
See PINERA, Page 3
By Amy lfluffman
Staff Writer
When University Medical Center Inc. took
over operation of University of Louisville
Hospital last February, it had something to prove .
to those who thought the hospital was falling into
another haphazard management plan. But just
over a year later, UMC Inc. has put and end to
many of its skeptics concerns. •
A lot of people wondered if UMC, a new
partnership formed by U of L, Alliant Health
System and Jewish Hospital Healthcare Corp.,
could gelllerate as much revenue as the hospital's
previous operator, Columbia/ HCA Healthcare
Corp. And after only a year, UMC doesn't seem
to be haviing a problem generating that subs!antial
revenue.
Soon, in fact, UMC will be turning over almost
$11.5 million to U of L's School of Medicine to
be used mainly for research purposes. That figure
far outnumbers what Columbia or Humana (the
operator which proceeded Columbia) managed
to turn over to the school under their operation
in a single year. The $11.5 million figure is what
UMC pledged in its contract to give U of L after
one year of operation. UMC also guaranteed to
give the school at least $33 million in its first
three years of operation, in addition to any other
funds that Alliant and Jewish have pledged to U
of L.
"The commitment from the partnership gave
us a lot of confidence that they were going to be
successful," said Clarke Johnson, assistant vice
president of medical administration. "It's a lot
of money and we're greatful it 's coming, but we
exl?ected· it."
Johnson said a lot of the money from the $11.5
million payment will probably go toward
university President John Shumaker's
" Challenge for Excellence." Shumaker's
challenge is a ten year plan that included efforts
to expand the research capabilities of the
university.
Because Humana and Columbia were for­profit
organizations, the sum they turned over
to U of L was not as great as UMC's, because
they had to pay money to shareholders on top
of other expenses, I ike a management fee. And
even then, U of L only got 20 percent of what
was left of the profits, after expenses. Because
UMC is a non-for-profit organization, and thus
has no private shareholders, U of L gets 100
percent of the profits made by UMC. And,
Alliant and Jewish are not charging a
management fee.
In its first year of operation, UMC has also
put plans for an expanded emergency romm
into action, and has invested about'$13 million
to the expansion project. UMC has also added
new radiation therapy equipment io U of L's
Brown Cancer Center and has done
refurbishing in other areas of the hospital.
Artist leaves his stamp on gallery
Staff Photo by Tony Matkey
Eric Stamp,
a photography
major, displays
his work in the
Student Art
League Gallery.
The gallery,
located in
Schneider Hall,
was transformed
into a series
of . rooms
recounting
Stamp's life
experience or
those of his
friends.
St~amp said
the exhibition
was like "a walk
through my
mind-at least
a little part· of
it."
AIDS is still a threat to most college campuses
By Josh111a Hammann
Staff Writer
According to the semi-annual Human
lmmunovirus (HIV) surveillance report, there are
1,059 cases of HIV in.fection in the Louisville
metropolitan area. 967 of these cases are in the
full-blown AIDS stage. With numbers like these,
one can't help but wonder about the ramifications
of the HIIV virus and other sexually transmitted
diseases on the U of L campus.
"Actually, there are very few reported cases
of HIV ihfection among the students at U of L,"
said physician Barry Wainscott, "and most of
those cases are people who already knew they
were HIV positive but wanted to be retested."
Wainscott, a physician of preventive medicine
at U of L's Student Health ServiCes, said that even
though the numbers relating to AIDS are
relatively low at U of L, there is still a major
threat of HIV on any college campus.
"The spread of AIDS is classified into
various risk behaviors," Wainscott said. "Back
when AIDS first surfaced, homosexual sex was
the highest risk behavior, comprising about
two-thirds of all the cases. Intravenous drug­users
and heterosexuals comprised about 20
percent and 10 percent respectively. However,
since 1996, heterosexual sex increased to
about 20 percent of the cases and homosexual
sex decreased to about 50 percent."
Wainscott said that due to a high amount of
sexual behavior among college students, the
recent increase in HIV cases among
heterosexuals is especially disturbing.
However, when it comes to sexually
transmitted diseases (STDs), HIV and AIDS are
just the tip of the iceberg.
Madelyn Jacobs, the director of Student
Health Services, said that diseases such as genital
warts and herpes are more common among the
students at U of Land other colleges.
"Human papilloma, which is the cause of
genital warts is the most common STD among
college students," Jacobs said. "It is particularly
risky because it increases the chances for a woman
to get cervical cancer and herpes."
Jacobs added that while the virus can be treated
and symptoms can go into remission, a method of
completely eradicating the virus has not yet been
developed. Despite 'these treatments, the best
defense against any viral infection is educating
yourself about the virus.
At U of L, students have many different avenues
to take in becoming educated about STD treatment
and prevention.
Student Health Services has many pamphlets
and brochures available for those students who
would like to get information from a professional
physician.
There are also student outreach programs that
discuss STD treatment and prevention. These
programs go to dorms and classes to educate
studenfs who may be too embarrassed or scared
to talk about these problems with a doctor.
These programs are unique in their approach
because of their, "student to student" atmosphere.
Jacobs said the unique approach helps because
students will learn more from their peers.
"Many students don't I isten to doctors,"
Jacobs said, "but they will listen to another
student talking about STDs because that student
is one of them and it's easier to I isten to someone
your own age."
Even the Internet can be a source of education
on these topics.
"There are 8,249 relevant documents
concerning AIDS and other STDs," Jacobs said.
"Any student can access this information with a
U of Le-mail account. The knowledge to protect
yourself against STDs is out there; you just have
to know were to look."
Candidates for dean of Arts and Scit!nces chosen Clarification:
By Becky Staack
Staff Writer
The search for a new dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences is making progress as five
candidates were announced.
All candidates will visit the University and
be available to meet with students. All meetings
will be held at Ekstrom Auditorium at 3 p.m. on
each respective date.
Dagmar Cronn, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry
from the University of Washington, is the first
scheduled candidate to visit U of L. She is the
founding dean of the Colleg of Sciences at the
Universitx of Maine, Orono. She has increased
the college budget, and has raised $13 million
in external research support over the course of
her career. Cronn will be at U of L Feb. 17- 18,
meeting with students on Feb. 18.
The second candidate, Gary D. Stark, has a
Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in
European history. He will visit the following
Monday, Feb. 24. Starks is the dean of the
College of Arts and is a professor of history at
the University of Central Arkansas. Starks has
published several books and more than a dozen
scholarly articles. Among other honors, Starks
was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for
Advanced Studies, Princeton (1992). He will be
meeting with students on Feb. 25.
On Friday, Feb. 28, the third candidate,
Robert Rowland, from the Unviersity of
Pennsylvannia will visit. Rowland had a Ph.D.
in classical studies and is dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences for history at Loyola
University of New Orleans. Rowland has had
several fellowships including the Cavaliere of
the Republic of Italy (1994). Rowland will be
visiting with students on Friday, Feb. 28.
D'Ann Campbell, from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has a Ph.D. in
history. Campell has served as a dean at Indiana
University and at Austin Peay University in
Clarksville, Tenn. During a recent accreditation
review, she received a special citation for
fostering high faculty morale. In 1997, she
received the Athena Award, a national award
bestowed by the Chamber of Commerce to
recogniz•e women of outstanding achievement.
Campbell will visit on Tuesday, March 4.
The last visiting candidate is Randy Moore,
from the University of California at Los Angeles.
He has a doctorate in biology. Moore is interim
senior vice-president and provost at the
University of Akron and former dean of the
Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences at the
University of Akron. Moore was a Fulbright
Scholar in Thailand. He will be at U of L on
Friday, March 7, in the Business School
auditorium. ·
The search for candidates is to replace Interim
Dean Thomas J. Hynes who accepted a position
as vice president for academic affairs at West
Georgia State College in Carrollton, Ga., last
summer. Acting Dean David Howarth is
expected to serve until the search is complete. A
target da1te of July 1, 1997, has been set for the
new dean to take over.
A story in the Jan. 30 issue
of The Louisville Cardinal
reported that several students
had complained to the Student
Life Office about what they
considered to be the raCist
tone of a party flier distributed
by Tau Kappa Epsilon
fraternity.
Since the time the article
ran, The Cardinal has been
informed that, in fact, only two
students complained to the
Student Life Office about the
flier, and that one of those
students was the person who
contributed the article to The
Cardinal . Also, Student
Government President Stephen
Clark said he was never
contacted about the article,
although he was quoted in the
story. The article also
inaccurately reported that SGA
suggested that TKE take down
the fliers.
The Cardinal has since
learned that TKE removed the
fliers of its own volition after
members heard about the
complaints to Student Life.
The Cardinal regrets any
misunderstanding caused by
the article.