·VOL. 58, NO. 13, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, · . NOVEMBER 13, 1986 10 PAIOES AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Tunnels under campus pose possible problems
Students cite ease Student
in tunnel access trapped
three days By JAMES HINES and
M.NORMANJACOBSON
Cardinal Staff Writers
Information for this story also
was gathered by Mariann Kurtz
and Kenneth Hardin .
Student interviews at the Uni­versity
of Louisville indicate that
unauthorized exploration of the
underground maintenance tunnel
system is a familiar activity, al­though
official reported cases are
few.
The Louisville Cardinal has
learned that the majority of one
fraternity pledge class at U of L
explored the tunnels in the fall of
1985 and that other students have
explored in pairs after obtaining
maps of the tunnel system from
University Archives in Ekstrom
Library.
The tunnel system recently
drew public attention when
another University of Louisville
student, Jerry Lyvers, a 19-year­old
Speed School student, was in­jured
last Wednesday after falling
40 feet into an air-conditioning
duct. The ventiliation ducts are
not a part of the tunnel system, but
Lyvers has explored the tunnel
system in the past.
Lyvers said he does not re­member
how or why he became
trapped nr gained access to the
Hurnanitie!> Building. He is listed
in satisfactory condition at
Hurnana Hospital-Audubon.
Students who have been inside
the tunnels say access into and
through the tunnels is simple to
obtain. "I went to the U of L Arc­hives
and told them I was doing a
report for Speed Scientific School
on the tunnels," said Craig
Rabeneck, a junior in Speed
School who explcred the tunnels
in the 1984 fall semester. "They
gave me a map of them ·ctnd then
me and a former student went in
(the tunnels) during winter break
a couple of years ago."
Incident reports filed with the
Department of Public Safety in
the last 12 months show only one
reported case of tunneling other
than Lyvers. Three students set
off an alarm and were ap­prehended
Oct. 19 in the School of
Business.
"We haven't stepped up secu­rity
(following the incidents)--that
would be impractical," said Bob
Wood, deputy director ofDPS. "If
one of our officers sees something
wrong-say an open cover or a
busted lock- then we'll bring it to
someone's attention."
University officials said they
think tunneling incidents are not
frequent and openings are not
easily accessible. "If it was more
frequent, then our service people
would see more evidence of some­one
having been in there," said Ed
Dusch, assistant vice president of
the Physical Plant. "The media
only talked to people who said 'I
know someone who went down
(in the tunnels).' Accounts of
people having been there is not as
wide~ pread as people think."
According tu Tom Lyons, Uni._
versity counsel, "the tunnels are
very difficult to get into. Students
who enter them are extremely re­ckless
and irresponsible. They en­danger
themselves and others
who might be thinking of going
tunneling by their example."
A former student who accom­panied
Rabeneck through the
tunnels-who asked to remain un­named
for job-related reasons­described
the entry into and inter­ior
of the tunnels. "Some of them
(the tunnels) were just not laid out
well" and once inside the tunnels
one could easily become dis­oriented,
said the former student.
For this reason, the maps were
helpful.
The map of the tunnel system is
public record and was published
by the University in 1975 in The
University of LouisvilJe Long
Range Development Plans. The
tunnels carry heating and cooling
pipes, telephone cables and
power lines to buildings on
Belknap Campus. Health Sci­ences
and Shelby Campuses also
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Hungarian given
Grawe meyer prize
By JOHN GREGORY
Cardinal Afterclass Editor
Sporting the joy befitting the oc­casion,
a grinning Gyorgy I ,igeti
accepted the 1986 Univer,,ity of
Louisville Grawemeyer A ward
for Music Composition last Tues­day
night during a concert of his
works at the School of Music's Re­cital
Hall.
An Austrian citizen, Ligeti was
chosen from 125 international en­trants
to receive the award for his
"Etudes" for solo piano. The com­poser
will receive a cash prize of
$150,000 over the next 3 years.
Written in 1985, "Etudes" con­sists
of six movements: "Desor­der,"
"Cordes Vides," "Touches
Bloquees," "Fanfares," "Arc-en­Ciel,"
" and "Automne a Var­sovie."
The piece was performed
hv ni:mist Volker Banfield
from Germany
Also 111 Tuesday night's concert
were Ligeti's "Ten Pieces for
Wind Quintet" performed by the
Louisville Orchestra Woodwind
Quintet, "Atmospheres" per­formed
by the University ofLouis­ville
Orchestra and "Trio" for
horn, violin and piano.
The award was established in
1984 by H. Charles Grawemeyer,
a 1934 graduate of the University's
Speed Scientific School. A retired
businessman, Grawemeyer said
he hopes his prize will be likened
to the Nobel Prize in that it will
"recognize the current mastery of
music composition (while en­couraging)
the development of
talented composers everywhere."
"Mr. Grawemeyer is not an
abstract person like Nobel,"
Ligeti said. "What he has done for
music is very, very important."
The first award was given in
1985 to Polish composer Witold .
Lutoslawski for his "Third Sym­phony."
Entries for this year's prize
came from around the world in­cluding
Japan and the Soviet
Union. Initial screenings were
conducted by U of L Music School
composition instructors with the
final decision being made by a
panel of three judges: Lawrence
Leighton Smith, music director of
the Louisville Orchestra; John
Von Rhein, music critic for the
Chicago Tribune; and Lutos­lawski.
Ligeti was born in the Transyl­vanian
region of Hungary in 1923.
He remained in his native land
until fleeing to Austria in 1956 to
escape the Communist takeover
~lap taken from The University of Louisville
Long Range Development Plans J~ublished in 1975
The University of Louisville's underground utility tunnel
system is used by maintenance workers to check steam heat­ing
and chilled water pipes. Maintenance workers enter the
tunnels for routine checks twice a week. Student . ., have also
entered the tunnels without authorization after obtaining
entry through ground-level grates. Unauthorized entry is
considered criminal trespass.
The above illustration is paJrt of the map
published in 1975 some U of L students
used to explore the tunneJI systems on
Belknap Campus. The dotte·d lines show
proposed passageways whJile the solid
lines show existing tunnels at the time.
Workers :may face health hazards
By MARIANN KURT~~
Cardinal Editor
Easy access to the University of
Louisville's underground mainte­nance
tunnels and the recent pub­licity
of student tunneling hl:tbits
have sparked speculation about
possible health and personal
safety hazards within this under­ground
network. Concerns have
been raised about possible expo­!
lure to asbestos particles and the
University's non-recognition of a
Kentucky Occupational H•ealth
and Safety Administration iltan­danl.
the older system including the the University would make such a
original tunnel system has asbes- determination.
tos insulation surrounded by a Rusty Briggs, aU ofL risk man-protective
jacket," said Dusch. ager who specializes in occupa-
The tunnels and/or portions of tiona! safety, said his interpreta­them
also may fall under a cate- tion would be that the individual r
gory defined by state OSHA legis- responsible 10r the persons who
lation as a "confined space." Such enter the space would be respon-a
distinction would warrant the sible for making the determina-implementation
of substantial tion. "If LG&E brought people in
here, an LG&E official would
safety precautions along with make the determination for his
planning and training Qf rescue crew. The same would apply to
procedures prior to any entry into MSD and to U ofL,,. he said.
the area. Maintenance personnel, "We he'ftl an environmental
however, do not currently operate health 'arJC( iafety department
under any such standard. BIJIWt!Ni!lt. it-~ ~n.
n..b~hadnevereMHiid ntti~IPlnfaht'illtion and
-'P.IIII-.,. ~----lfllll'lllllltlr·~IMI"" llilililli ....... ~.-MII6t-to
to be governed by the confmed make decisions of this nature,"
space regulations and thert>fore Briggs added.
did not adhere to the standard. Chuck Morrow, an industrial
However, he admitted that no de- hygiene specialist representing
termination had officially been the state OSHA office said that an
made and it was unclear who at Continued on Page 3
INSIDE
Oral arrangements. New Hamp­shire
team takes University de­bate
tournament. . . . . Page 2
Safety first. Campus comments
asks if you would use the DPS
escort program. . . . . . . Page 4
Mountain men. Cards prepare
for final home game against
West Virginia University.
... . ... ........... Page6
Haist makes waste. Senior vol­leyball
star is a veritable renais­sance
woman. . . . . . . . Page 6
Gyorgy on my mind. A look into
the Grawemeyer A ward winning
piano "Etudes." . . . . . Page 8
Dr. Donald C. Swain, U ofL president, andhis wife Lavinia s.har~
conversation before the awards presentation with ~yorgy Llgetl,
winner of the GrawemeyeJ• award for music compostwn.
Where there's a Wills there's a
way. Local meteorologist brings
his love for the weather to the
classroom. . . . . . . . . . Page 8
and to find more creative free­dom.
His early works reflect•ed an
exposure to electronic recording
devices and ttie strict pr ci~non of
machines.
Later influences on the com­poser's
music were develloped
through regional and ethnic
music; American-born composers
Charles lves and Conlon Nancar­row;
and principles of' geometry
and mathematics.
"There is no real (mathemati­cal)
calculation," Ligeti said in a
1975 television documentary. "I
want certain proportions of time
· and I feel the best thing is to de­cide
them intuitively."
Ligeti is most known outside of
serious music circles for his 1966
composition "Lux Aeterna,"
which was used- without Ligeti's
prior knowledge-for the sound-
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News Updates Page 2
Editorials . . . . . . . . . . Page 4
Letters to the Editor . . Page 5
Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 6
Afterclass . . . . . . . . . . Page 8
in air duct
By KENNETH HARDIN
Cardinal Assistant News Editor
A University of Louisville stu­dent
rescued early Saturday after
spending three days at the bottom
of a ventilation shaft in the Bin­gham
Humanities Building said he
still does not remember how or
why he became trapped in the air
duct.
J erry Lyvers, 19, a sophomore
in Speed Scie ntific School, said he
has no recollection of what oc­cun
ed that mght orhow ht•came to
be in the atrsh all. ··1 don'teven re­member
leaving my dorm room or
anything," said Lyvers. "I just
woke up in this hole."
Lyvers was discovered when
Tim Foul, a philosophy instructor,
entered a third-noor restroom in
Bingham about 10 a.m. and heard
a voice calling for h elp from be­hind
a ventilation duct.
Fout said he could not clearly
understand Lyvers, but that "his
words wert• ' "melhing like
'Sotnebotlv llll't>W li>L Jv"'-11 here,
I've been clown here two weeks.'
He was in ..... vnfused state," said
Foul, "but his voice was strong. I
would assume he had been uncon­scious
for a while and lost track of
time."
F or reasons unknown to Uni­versity
officials. Lyve rs apparen­tly
crawiP.ct into the air duct
through the third floor vent early
last Wf'n ,;rl r~) morning, went for­ward
"• • •n eight feet, climbed
over a :;c;fel) railing and fell to the
bottom of the five-foot-square
shaft about 40 feet below.
At 11:40a.m. Saturday, a rescue
team of Louisville firefighters and
Emergency Medical Services per­sonnel
broke through thl· -i>-- nch
thick concrete wall in the base­ment
of the Humanities building
where Lyvers was trapped. He
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Concerns
voiced by
faculty in
last forum
By KENNETH HARDIN
Cardinal Assistant News Editor
The autonomy of individual
academic unit'i in dr t,...rmining
theiJ·,·urricul,"n nnrl c"" ••rnsthat
the proposed general ..:ducation
requirements may be t0o defined
were among issues raised at the
final faculty forum examining the
potential criteria for all under­graduate
stude nts at the Univer­sity
of Louisvi lle.
Following a brief introduction
by University Provost Dr. William
Dorrill, the audience of about 50
faculty members and administra­tors
discussed the possible conse­quences
of the requirem nts with
Dorrill, and the members of the
faculty task force that d veloped
them.
Dr. Robert Kimball, associate
prof ssor of philosophy, ques­tioned
the consistency of the
Board of Trustees' action in in­itiating
U nivers1ty-wide criteria
revision with the authority pre­scribed
to individual academic
units in such matters by the Red­book,
the document governing the
internal functioning of the Univer-
Inexpensive dates ease strains on. t d t ' t• S U en S 1 sity. "The University's role as pre-
"~"!'""'"::~~~~~:';"::;-~~~,e:~~~~~~, socvreirbseidgh bty r utlhee," R Keidmbbn;cotlkl -;iH<=i rolnlaet eorf
By LISSA VAN HOUTEN
Cardinal Features Editor
Last of Three Parts
Due to a lack of funds many stu­dents
on campus are forced to
forego the traditional pleasures of
a movie-dinner date and turn to
less expensive forms of courting.
One student, Bobby Owens, 19,
a finance major, goes over to a
friend's house to watch television
when he lacks money to go out.
"Lots of students don't have any­where
to go when they have no
money," he said. "To go out to din­ner
and a movie, it costs about $25.
For a lot of students, that's a full
day's work. When you have to pay
for !•Jnch, car payments and gas,
it·s ha.-d to have enough money for
entertainment."
Kirk Ioos, 20, a communications
major, has not found it a hardship
to pay for dates, who he usually
will take to a movie or to dinner.
"But, to a certain extent, it costs a
lot to take a date out," he said.
"A lot of my friends find it hard
to get money to go out and have a
good time," added Ioos. "They
work part-time and still have to
make car payments, pay for car
insurance and gas. A movie costs
10 bucks and dinner can cost
about $15 or so."
Another student, Cindy Tolli­son,
20, an undecided business
major, will stay at home to watch
television or rent a movie for the
VCR as an alternative when she
lacks money to go out. Tollison ag­rees
with Owens and loos that
some students have difficulty in
dating when they have no money.
"When a student pays tuition,
works and goes to school, it's hard
to find time and money to have a
relationship," said Tollison. "You
just get use to not doing as much,"
she said.
Tollison's sister, Michelle, 18, a
theater arts major, goes to a
friend's house or to a party if she
has no money. "Everybody just
goes to a party and it maybe only
costs about a dollar for a keg of
beer," she said.
According to Dennis Ryan, 25,
an English and history major, one
solution is to go to the park and
have a picnic if a student has no
money at all. "(But), movi~!s are
still relatively inexpensive, espe­cially
at the Vogue," he said.
"Only if you know someone re­ally
well should you take them to a
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in an interview. "This sort of di­::::::::::~~,..-~~):::::::::::
1 rect action by the University in
selection of curriculum standards
«.:;:;:;:;:;1 is a violation of that policy. I am
not questioning the Board's abso­lute
authority on th matter, but I
do feel they should not go in viola­tion
of the constitution which they
approved."
Dorrill rebutted Kimball's posi­tion,
saying that in his opinion the
....... r..:.:.:.:.·;o;o;•.;•;•.. Red book makes clear that any au-
(~~r~illf;;~;JI thority possessed by bodies in the
University, including the faculty
organizations, is delegated by the
Board and can be suspended
when it becomes necessary.
"The Board receives its author­ity
from the Governor and has full
purview to use it as they see fit,"
said Dorrill.
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