VOL. 56, NO. 19, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 1985 12 PAGES AN INDEPENDENT STUDI;NT NEWSPAPER
NeW library policy forces sleeping habits to change
• "The monitoring program is to P 1• b · g ~ t donomorethantomakepeople J 1 d SGA 0 ICY rin s sate y ~~:~~h;fd~:y;h~~~,'~fs:!~o~d:~t em ey an could disturb apyone.
"They claim that sleepers a re
distracting, a nd I just can not un­derstand
that," Jemley said. "Un­less
they snore loudly or twitch
wildly while they are asleep, they
and improve d 10 0k E}~kts:trno~mf: ~Lai;bar~a~ryd,r us~arid~ :trh:en dmtohn:i~- oppose new po1 i cy are n ot distracting." of the policy."
ByT. A. PACK
Cardinal StaffWriter
Increased safety for library
users, an imp'roved study environ·
ment, a better overall appearance
- those we re the goals and are
the results of the new monitoring
program at the University ot
Louisville's Ekstrom Library, ac·
cording to the Public Service Ad·
visory Committee, the originators
of the program.
Not being allowed to sleep in the
library "is not a new policy," said
David Reed, director of the Divi­sion
of Central Libraries. He said
the monitoring program has been
established and is being inforced
because of "increasing numbers
of complaints . . . about noise
and the general appearance of the
third and fourth floors of the li­brary.
People wouldn't come in
the library to study because of the
environment." He said students,
faculty, parents and users of the li­brary
would complain to him
about the library environment two
or three times a week last semes­ter.
Gray also said the monitoring
program does not compromise the
professional appearance of the li­brary
faculty or staff. "It doesn't
take very long (to patrol the li­brary),
and it has already im­proved
the situation because
when people were lying around
sleeping it gave the impression
that nobody cared what happened
on the third and fourth floors."
"The professors are expected to
maintain proper decorum in their
classrooms," said Andy Ander­son,
head of the Photographic
Archives, "and this (the library) i1>
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A University of Louisville snow plow truck
scraped snow from the fraternity complex park-ing
lot last weekend. The snowfall, which tal­lied
over six inches, dosed classes last Friday.
Sno'W forces everyone to work
By JOYCE SHULTZ
Cardinal Features Editor
While most of the University of
Louisville community is home on
snowy eve nings listening to the
weather r eports and shoveling
snow off the sidewalk, for Univer­sity
Provost Dr. 'William Dorrill
and for Physica l Plant crews, the
snow means extra decisions and
extra work.
Dorrill has the responsibility for
deciding if U of L should go on a
delayed schedule or close on bad
weather days.
Dorrill said he usually checks
the weather report in the evening
and sometimes during the night.
"I had a lot of help from (the De­partment
oO Public Safety," he
said. DPS officer calls Dorrill
around 5 a .m. so any announce­ment
about classes can be made
over WUOL by 6 a.m.
Last Friday, it was announced
early in the moring that U of L
would be on a de layed schedule.
Afte r 8 a.m., it was announced
that U of L would be closed for the
day.
"I'm not God," said Dorrill. He
said the consistency the Univer­sity
tries to maintain when making
bad weather decisions is limited
by the inconsistency of the wea­ther.
Dorrill said the early morning
weather re ports that Friday were
not clear about the seve rity of the
weather. "I decided to come in,"
he said. "While en route, my as-sociate
got in contact with the
President (Dr. Donald Swain)."
He said the decision was then
made to cancel school after the
weather worsened.
Dorrill said he takes into consid­eration
the weather reports from
the airport, state police reports on
road conditions, what city and
county schools are doing, and
other Louisville colleges and uni­versities
are doing.
"We generally don't close as
often as (county schools) do," said
Oorrill, adding that they (the
county schools) have more prob­lems
with school buses.
"I'm told that in years past the
University was embarrassed
when it closed and nothing hap­pened,"
he said. He said he tries to
strike a balance between the
safety of individuals and the im­portant
business everyone in the
University community is involved
in.
"It's the least popular job one
coulq,ask for," he said. "You can't
please everyone."
If you've bothered to shovel
snow off your sidewalk lately,
imagine the work involved in
clearing the University of Louis­ville's
sidewalks and stree ts. The
crews from Physical Plant don't
have to imagine; they know.
We had crews in and out all
weekend," said Lucian Young,
grounds superintendent for Phys­ical
Plant. So far this winte r, Phys­ical
Plant has used 20 plus tons of
rock salt and over 40 tons of sand.
This past Tuesday, Crews were
removing slush from the
sidewalks in anticipation of yet
another snow and ice storm.
Young said the University im­plemented
a snow plan after the
winter of 1978, when there was a
heavy snowfall. Young said the
parking lots which get top priority
are the Department of Public
Safety lot, the lots near the Stu­dent
Health and Counseling Cen­ter,
dorm lots, and the Student
Center parking lot.
Young said there had been a
problem with clearing dorm lots
because of cars parked in the lots.
· He said Physical Pla'nt received
complaints from dorm residents
about snow piled around their
cars from the furrows made by the
snow plows.
X oung said the main problems
lay in getting to the narrower
sidewalks on campus. Stanley
Wolf, grounds foreman, agreed,
saying that when the crew plows a
furrow to clear the sidewalk next
to the Natural Sciences Building
parking lot, the piled up snow
sometimes blocks a handicapped
space or a red parking space.
"There are a lot of odds and ends
(to ta ke care oO,'' said Wolf.
A new salt and sand spreader
has improved snow removal, said
Young. Wolf said the spreader
saves two men's work by eliminat­ing
the need for two men standing
on the back of a truck to manually
lay down salt and sand. Young
credited Vice President for Ad-
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Metroversity offers classes
to students over the air waves
By MIKE GREISSEL
Cardinal StafTWrlter
Students in this age of high tech­nology
have a tendency to want
their educational cake and eat it
too - often in bed while watching
television.
A program now being coordi­nllted
by Ke ntuckians Metrover­sity
allows stude nts to earn credit
without attending class on cam­pus.
Insteen, students can tune in
"College on TV" and attend class
iJ1 the ir living room.
Nine diffe r ent courses are of­fered
tl).rough sh' local colle ges.
Each course carries three hours of
academic credit and is
supplemented with a textbook, as­signments
and in-class exams. In­structors
from Metrover sity in-s
titutions schedule optional class
meetings and are available for in­dividual
consultation.
Each course in the four-year-old
program requires students to
watch two half-hour broadcasts
every week. Each show is tele­vised
four times at different hours
for s tudents' convenience. If a stu­dent
misses all four broadcasts of a
show, the tapes can be viewed at
the Metroversity office by ap­pointment.
The shows are "visually very in­teresting
to watch," said Karen
Stephan, public re lations director
for Kentuckiana Metrove rsity. In­stead
of seeing a professor lec­ture,
stude nts are treated to ex­travagant
productiot~s complete
with story lines, professional ac-tors
and on·location settings from
around the world.
"College on TV" airs shows pro­duced
by educational organiza­tions
and private industry that are
sent via sate!Ute to colleges
throughout the nation.
The courses offered are lower­level
and introductory courses
such as Introductory Composition
and Principles of Economics.
Uppe r-level courses are not of­fered
now, but "as they become
available I'm sure we will fit them
- in," said Stephan.
She said that students and in­structors
generally agree that the
TV courses are neither more nor
less difficult than their campus ­taught
counterparts.
Continued on P• ge 4
By LARRY D. CROOM
Cardinal Editor
When it was announced that a
new policy prevenEng students
from sleeping in the University of
Louisville libraries, SGA Presi­dent
Frank Jemley said he was
amazed. And, after talking with
Martha Bowman, head University
librarian, last week, Jemley said
he sees no immediate policy
change in sight.
"My first reaction was why,"
Jemley said. "My second reaction
was disbelief, and my third reac­tion
was disgust."
Jemley said that Bowman told
him one of the reasons sleeping
was not being permitted in the lib­raries
wa s because it doesn't look
good to the various scholars and
visitors that may come to U of L.
"I just didn't realize that when
we pay our tuition we also pay to
have our behavior dictated," J ern­ley
said. "I would think the Uni­versity
ought to b e above that."
Another reason J emley said he
was told sleeping was not allowed
in the library was because it was
disturbing to others. J emley, on
the other hand, said h e didn't un­der~
tand how a sleeping person
Bill Campbell, SGA academic
vice president, expressed the
same sentiment in a letter to the
editor of The Cardinal last week.
Campbell suggested that if sleep­ers
are distracting, then all people
who are distracting should be ban­ned.
"For instance, cute girls:
they're distracting; let's keep 'em
out," wrote Campbell. "Profes­sor
s are really distracting. What
can be more distracting than an
unannounced visit by your profes­sor?
Keep 'em out."
J emley agreed.
"Ban all attractive pt>oplr- m; ,Jl·
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Course evaluations. highlight
past Student Senate meeting
By DON WOODRUM
Cardinal News Editor
Once the pleasantries of intro­ducing
himse lf to the Student Sen­ate
were over, Dr. William Dorrill,
the University of Louisville's new
provost, got d own to the business
at hand - fielding questions con­cerning
faculty a nd course eva,lua­tions.
These evalua tions a re adminis­tered
by tea ch ers a t the end of
each semester. Students are
asked to evaluate their teachers
and course material on an objec­tive
and subjective basis.
Dorrill, who described himself
as the chief academic officer of the
University, answered questions
that had been submitted in ad­vance
gy Vie Senate at its reguJar
' meeting· Tuesday night." These
questions focused on the accu­racy,
influence and future plans
for the eva luations.
Claiming a disadva ntage from
being new at the University, Dor­rill
addressed the problem of ac-cur
·acy in the evaluations first. He
said the first problem with the
evaluations were the different pol­icies
from school to school.
"We need to attempt to have a
minimum standard set for all the
schools to follow," Dorrill said.
"Evaluations are not very pleas­ant,
but they are important
sources of feedback for teachers."
Frank J emley, SGA president,
said a lack of quality is one of the
major problems with the evalua­tions.
He said the Senate is work­in
g closely with the provost's of­fice
to improve the quality of the
mechanism for evaluating instruc­tors
and courses.
The e valuations a re needeed to
provide motivation and feedback
for teachers, Dorrill said. He com­pared
this feedback to' the motivA­tion
a student ·may receive from an
exam.
Dorrill said the students play an
important role in providing this
type of feedback. "Sometimes this
is the only qua ntifiable role, but it
must be balanced by other factors,
such as peer evaluations."
This statement brought a ques­tion
from a Speed School Senator
on why the course evaluations
were not made public. This has
been something that SGA and
Jemley have been trying to
accomplish for more than two
years.
Jemley said he thought students
were entitled to have the course
evaluations made public. How­ever,
he said there is no support in
the Senate for such a measure.
"Even if we got the ball rolling on
this, I feel like my successors
would drop the matter."
Dorr ill said he thought publish­ing
the course evaluations would
alienate the faculty. Jemley said
he would have to sadly agree with
this sentiment.
Not pleased with this argument,
Kenny King, a Speed School Sen­ator,
pressed Dorrill for a date
when the evaluations might be
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Mock trial will let law students
participate in real court scenes
By MARIANN KURTZ
Cardinal Assistant News Editor
This Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday, law students from three
states will converge on the Jeffer­son
County Hall of Justice to battle
in a nationally recognized criminal
trial.
The University of Louisville's
Law School is hosting the 6th Re­gion's
mock trial competition.
Nine law schools from Kerytucky,
Ohio, and Michigan are sending
two teams each to compete in this
weekend event.
The champion and runner-up
teams will earn a trip to the na­tional
competition in Houston,
Texas, in March. This national
competition involves the two win­ners
from each region across the
country.
This annual competition origi­nated
in Texas. "It's sponsored
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jointly by the Texas Young
Lawye rs Association a long with
the Ame rican College of Trial
Lawyers," said Russell L.
Weaver, faculty ad visor for the U
ofLteam.
We aver explained that regional
competition is also held annually,
but shifts location. U of L plays
host to the competition about once
every ten years.
Accor ding to Weaver, this
weekend will involv~ close to 200
people - about 40 witnesses, and
around 110 volunteer judges.
Weaver defined the role of the
team membe rs. "They're going to
try a case," he' said . "They do the
opening stateme nts, the direct
and cross examina tion of witnes­ses,
closing arguments, obje c­tions,
e tc."
The witnesses are students
from the School of Medicine,
School of Justice Administration,
Department of Political Science,
and School of Law, Weaver
added. J ames Ragan, the other
faculty advisor for the U of L team,
undertook the job of securing wit­nesses
and explaining their roles
in the competition .
"The judges," Weaver said,
"are practitioners and judges from
around Lou isville." He added,
"We received a lot of help getting
judges." J udge James Higgins
provided help in getting Cir~uit
Court judges and Judge John
Knopf helped in securing District
Court judges.
Having set the stage, Weaver,
Ragan and the teams have only to
wait for the competition to begin.
Preliminary rounds are scheduled
to begin at 6 p .m. F riday and carry
over to Saturday morning and af­ternoon.
All 18 teams will part ici­pate
in the preliminariPs. with
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Stalf Photo by Timothy Easley
Manuel Forres t brings the ball down ogainst Cincinnati's Troy
Thompson in las t nights 89-63 loss. (See rela ted story, page 7).