The
Louisville
An independent
student weekly
Vol. 54, No. 20 Louisville, Ky., Thursday, February 10, 1983 12Paaes
Finishing touches
Melinda Walters supervises the hanging of a
Mark Priest painting by Pat Brown and Peter
Watson. The Student Art League show
opened Monday. (Story, page 9).
19.84 Reagan budget
softens student aid cuts
College Press Service
WASHINGTON - President
Reagan's third federal budget, re­leased
last week, proposes far less
radical cuts in student aid than
previous years, but does ask for
the elimination of three popular
aid programs. ·
The budget also asks Congress
to create a new student aid pro­gram
that would require students
or their families to contribute cer­tain
amounts of money toward
their educations in order to get a
grant.
The president, moreover,
wants to create a new program to
improve scien•:e and math educa­tion,
presumably at the college
level as well c;s at lower levels.
Specifically, Reagan is asking
Congress to increase funding of
the Pe11 GrQilt program from $2.4
billion this }'ear to $2.7 billion in fis­cal1984,
which begins Oct. 1,1983,
He is also requesting additional
funds for the College Work-Study
program, from $540 million to $800
million.
The Guaranteed Student Loan
program would get nearly the
same amount - $3.1 billion - it
did in fiscall983.
But the president wants to
aboliSh the National Direct Stu­dent
Loan, Supplemental Educa­tional
Opportunity Grant and
State Student Incentive Grant
programs, replacing them with a
new Self-Help Grant.
The Self-Help Grant would "re­quire
students to come up with a
self-help contribution" in order to
get a grant, according to an
analyst with the Congressional
Budget Office.
Reagan wants Congress to ap­propriate
$2.7 billion to the new
program, which would be more
than the 1983 money available to
students under the three pro­grams
he wants to eliminate.
The president has previously
proposed eliminating the three
programs, but Congress ha5 re­fused
to cooperate. Congress did
agree to cut students off from So­cial
Security benefits, and has
granted many of the cuts in other
aid programs requested.
Over the past two years, the
president has asked and gotten
new rules that make the Guaran­teed
Student Loans more expen­sive
to take out and Pell Grants
harder to get.
In this year's budget, Reagan
would raise the maximum Pell
Grant from $1,800 to $3,000, but
would eliminate students from
families earning more than
$14,000 a year from the program.
This year, the family income
limit is $25,000.
Also in the budget is a plan for
Education Savings Accounts,
which would offer people a tax in­centive
for saving for college. It
works like the Individual Retire­ment
Accounts currently avail­able
through banks.
The president would also distri­bute
money in "block grants" to
states, which would use the
money to train new science and
math teachers.
Course evaluations • • •
By LAURA KELLEHER
Cardinal StaffWriter
The end of the semester is near.
One by one, students deposit the
eight-and-a-half by 11 com­puterized
sheets into the brown
paper envelope. When the last
form is completed, one student,
chosen at random, seals the en­velope
and takes it away to places
unknown. Then, and only then,
does the professor return to class
and resume teaching.
The mysterious papers are the
students' course evaluations.
Most students fill them out, but
how many act\lally know the ef­fect
of the forms?
According to Raymond Laroc­que,
of the college of Arts and Sci­ences
dean's office, the evalua­tions
are returned to the depart­ment
by a student in the class. The
envelopes are then sent to the
dean's office, where Larocque
prepares the forms to be taken to
the computer center at the Health
Sciences Center.
Four computer printouts - the
results - for each class and se<'­tion
are then returned to the
dean's office, one is retained by
the individual department, and
two are distributed to the profes­sors.
The process takes a varying
amount of time, according to.
Larocque. The dean's office pas­ses
the forms to the computer cen­ter
within 10 days. The computer
returns the forms in about two
weeks. The process has been re~
cently accelerated, Larocque
said.
Dr. Mary K. Tachau, a profes­sor
in the history department, said
Faculty Intern Program
gives school the business
By GLENN H. YATES
Cardinal Contributor
Some professors from the
School of Business may not be lol­lir.
g in the grass this summer.
Rather, if all goes according to
plan they will be participating in
the newly formed Faculty Intern
Program.
As explained by Dr. Richard L.
Feltner, associate dean for exter­nal
programs, "The goal of the
Faculty Intern Program is to place
the School of Business faculty
with local business flrnlS and non­profit
organizations for the sum­mer
months.
"This will provide them a
unique opportunity to utilize the
expertise of a School of Busineas
faculty member, while at the same
time providing an opportunity to
stay in tune with the real world."
Five faculty members have ex­pressed
an interest and will par­ticipate
in the program, provided
that they can be correctly
matched with a company, accord­ing
to Feltner. The five are Drs.
Jay T . Brandi, Gerald W. Evans,
Frank E. Kuzmits, Dennis
Menezes and Kathleen A.
Johnson.
These professors represent a
range of business interests rang­ing
from management to finance.
Over 100 companies were con­tacted
and several have ex­pressed
an interest in participat­ing.
"We will try to match the exper­tise
of the individual with the need
of the client," said Feltner.
Once a professor has been
placed in an organization, he will
become a full-time employee or
the firm, subject to the same rules
and regulations as the f~rm's.other
employees. Professors will be
paid by the r .... m, and will not teach
for, or be paid by the University t;>f
Louisville during their stay with
the client firm.
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Radiation waste
Burial versus incineration:
Opponents offer their views
By LARRY CROOM
Cardinal Assistant News Editor
When it was announced that
radioactive waste was going to
be burnt atop the Health Sci­ences
building, the potential
arose for a huge controversy.
Some of the most-asked ques­tions
were over why the inciner­ation
has to begin now, and why
the waste can't continue to be
shipped off to burial dumps. The
answer, according to Dr. Hugh
Spencer, a chemical engineering
professor working on the in­cinerator
project, is that many
University officials think that the
time has come to stop sending
this waste to another state far dis­posal.
He said that he would much
rather see a safe incineration
process than to have the waste
buried where "no one really
know:; what will happen to it
down the road."
According to Ahren Jacobson,
the University of Louisville's
radiation safety officer, there are
two other valid reasons for burn­ing
this waste - safety and ex­pense.
He said that officials in
Washington wanted to close the
dump where U ofL is sending its
waste, but they were ordered by
the government to keep it open.
In retaliation, they skyrocketed
their prices.
Because of this move, U of L
officials began to see that in the
future they may want to stop
sending waste across the coun­try.
They realized that burning
would be a much safer way of
disposal than shipping it out be­cause
many accidents could
occur enroute to the dump. The
idea of an incinerator was then
proposed.
But some people are not quite
as enthusiastic about the project
as others. According to
Paddlewheel Alliance member
Peggy DiUinger, the idea of an in­cinerator
is a bad one in the first
place.
"I think that there are other
ways it can be dealt with," she
said.
She fears that even more in­cinerators
will be built. She is
also afraid that if the Louisville
project is a success, many more
of its kind will be put into use,
and the situation may get out of
hand. Then, she said, the syn­drome
would result in "the fox
watching the chickens," con­cerning
safely measures.
Another worried individual, a
University administrator who
wished to remain anonymous,
said that the incinerator may pre­sent
problems in the long run. He
expressed fears that somewhere
down the line some part of the
burning process may not be han­dled
properly, resulting in many
problems.
According to a letter sent to
various legal offices by Jefferson
County Commissioner Jim "Pop"
Malone, he wanted the in­cinerator
looked into because
"with the air quality in this com­munity
as bad as it is, I fmd it
hard to pelieve that the state may
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Debate continues over effects
of low-level r adiation exposure
By SHERRY CLARKE
Cardinal Contributor
What are the measurable ef­fects
oflow-level radiation on the
general population?
This was the question recently
addressed by Dr. Rosalie Ber­tell,
as a part of the University of
Louisville graduate school's
"Energy and the Environment"
seminar series.
Bertell, a well-known expert
in the field of radiation biomet­rics,
spoke to the audience in an
effort to shed some light on an
issue that is not clearly defined to
the public by scientists.
She said it is possible to meas­ure
the health efft:cts of low level
radiation and has been a re­searcher
in two conclusive
studies.
"One generation of exposure
. can produce genetic diseases in
the next generation, which in­creases
vulnerability," she said.
"We cannot create more suscep­tible
people and more pollution
and get away with it."
The first study illustrated by
Bertell was the Tri-State
Leukemia Survey conducted in
New York, Maryland, and Min­nesota
from 1959 to 1962. The
three states were chosen be­cause
leukemia is reportable by
law to health officials there.
A base population of 16 million
people was followed for those
three years. Of this base, 2,000
cases of leukemia were re­ported,
1, 700 adults 15 years and
older, and 300 children. A variety
of random controls were used to
help certify the results.
The survey was designed to
test what factor could be increas-
. ing the percentage of leukemia
cases. Two possibilities were
originally explored - above
ground weapons testing and the
use of penicillin-sulfa drugs.
For each leukemia case, 50
variables were examined, rang­ing
from d~mographic informa­tion,
socio-economic back­ground
anci medical history, to
the building materials used in the
victims' homes.
One of the variables was the
diagnostic X-ray exposure used
in medical care. This information
was gathered verbally and cer­tified
by medical records. Only
X-rays taken well before the
year of leukemia diagnosis were
scrutinized. A team was formed
to specialize in breaking down
this variable.
It was already proven that
leukemia was more prevalent in
men and the elderly, but the
team soon realized that leukemia
seemed to be selecting the
people who had more X-rays at a
higher rate.
It proposed that the risk of
leukemia, starting f~om a very
small base risk, increased 5 per­cent
with each X-ray.
The team then began trying to
determine how much X-ray ex­posure
was equivalent to one
year of aging as far as risk of
leukemia was concerned. It also
found that certain diseases -
heart disease, asthma, and
tuberculosis -were pre-cursors
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What finally happens to them?
she believes the results of the
evaluations. "Who knows better
than the students?" she said.
Tachau said students take the
evaluations seriously, a reason for
her confidence in them. "I take
them quite seriously," she said.
The personnel committee,
which reviews staff and faculty
members' performances, gives
the evaluations consideration.
Tachau, a member ofthat commit­tee,
said, "We look at all the
scores. The results are (then) ac­cumulated
and put on a separate
sheet."
The results influence the per­sonnel
committee in recommen­dations
to the dean concerning
tenure and promotion. The dean
then makes a decision based upon
these recommendations, Tachau
said.
She noted that the University
takes the teaching, professional
activity, and service of faculty into
consideration. "Professional ac­tivity
these days is more impor­tant,"
she said. "I think it's proba­bly
true nationally, but probably
more in one place than another."
She said that small colleges, with
Staff Photo by BU. Irish
After-hours help
Sandra Jennisch (left) roes to Susie HiJdon (center) and
Cindy Nacel (ri1ht) of the Evenin& Student Services Center
for help Tuesday nicht. The center helps nicht students with
problems that can't be solved durin1 the day.
mostly undergraduate programs,
may place more emphasis on
teaching.
Each school of the University is
responsible for its own evaluation
forms. Frank Jemley, academic
vice president for the Student
Government Association, is re­sponsible
for lhe SGA 's role in stu­dent
course evaluations.
The SGA pays for one of the
print outs issued to each profes­sor,
and in turn asks for it back, for
use in accumulating data on
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Inside ......
Althouch it is not as famous
as the San Andreas Fault, the
New Madrid Fault, which ex­tends
into Western Ken­tucky,
is causinc concern.
Gov. John Y. Brown has ap­pointed
a task force to study
it, and has named U of L pro­fessor
Dr. Michael Cassaro to
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