•• I VOL. 58, NO. 21 I LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, FEBRUARY 19, 1987 10 PACES AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Classes
canceled
by unsafe
roadways
By KENNETH HARDIN
Cardinal Assistant News Editor
Although he has ordered
emergeN· y weathe r schedu.le
changes in the past, Monday's in­clement
weather and hazardous
road conditions forced University
of Louis ville Provost Wiliiam F.
Dorrill to cancel all classes for the
first time in his three years at the
University.
"I have serious reservations
when it comes to canceling classes
because of the academic disrup­tion
it entails," said Dorrill, "but
my principle conce rn is the safety
of our faculty and students. I was
thoroughly convinced that it was
unsafe for anyone to be on the
roads Monday morning."
The region's first major winter
storm of this season showered the
Louisville area with freezing rain
and sleet late Sunday and early
Monday, covering the city with a
half-inch thick layer of ice which
brought traffic to a standstill.
Major accidents closed large
sections of Interstate 71 Monday
and the Gene Snyder Freeway
Tuesday, and the National Wea­ther
Service issued a general
travelers advisory warning driv­ers
to keep off the roads if at all
possible.
Dorrill said the extremely
hazardous traffic conditions
prompted him to completely can­cel
Monday classes instead of re-
Staff photo by Tom Thompson
Tish Tinsley, a sophomore psychology major, work durinrg Tuesday's snow and ice storm. The
had to scrape off her windshield before driving to storm forc•~d U of L to cancel classes on Monday.
verting to the University's delayed consultation with Department of huge problem, since you just can't
class schedule. "In most instances Public Safety officials and Na- sand it down the way you do with
I prefer to maintain some tiona! Weather Service forecas- snow," he said.
academic activity on campus, but ters, according to Dorrill.
this particular situation called for "In cases like this I want to be in-complete
cancelation," he said. formed by a variety of sources be-
Continued precipitation and fore I make a decision," said Dar-cold
temperatures forced the rill.
delay of classes Tuesday, but by Edward A. Dusch, assistant vice
Wednesday classes had resumed president for physical facilities,
a normal routine. said this storm presented ground-
Decisions concerning the status keeping crews a larger clealll-up
of classes during bad weather are problem than is typical with most
made early in the morning after winter weather. "Ice presenlts a
According to Dusch, pedestrian
walkways and handicap access
ramps receive top priority in being
cleared, followed by sharp bends
in streets and intersections. "If
some areas of campus are left un ..
attended then the entire opera ..
tion will be hampered. These
areas must be dealt with right
away," he said.
Ignorance foster s
paranoia of AIDS
By LISSA VANHOUTEN
Cardinal Features Editor
First of Two Paris
Rising fear towards homosexu­als-
and the myth that Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome is
just a homosexual disease- will
only be dispelled through educa­tion,
said several University of
Louisville experts.
People are becoming "unduly
frightened" of the disease , aid
Dr. Martin Raff, U of L professor
of medicine and a speci alist in con­tagious
disease s. AIDS is trans­mitted
by intimate sexual contact,
not casual contact, he said, and a
larger number of ca se s are now
being reported through
heterosexual tra nsmission.
Possible ways to transmit the
disease other than by sexua l con­tact,
said Raff, include intraven­ous
drug users who sha re the
same needles, recipie nts of la rge
amounts of blood products (such
a s he mophiliacs), and children
born to mothers a lready infected
with the disease.
According to Dr. Madelyn
Jacobs , d ire ctor at the Student
Health Center and member of the
AIDS Task Force, "P e ople are b e­ginning
to realize tha t they don't
just catch the disease by be ing
around homosexua ls ."
"Initially, the media sta rted a ll
the panic (towards AIDS)," said
Jacobs, "but education has
s topped the pa nic." S he added
that people began react ing in a
"violent and hys terical way ," but
as people rece ive more informa ­tion,
they are acting to change
their lifestyles.
An article in The Courier-Jour­nal
stated that when AIDS was
first identified as a disease in 1981,
ovt!r 30,000 cases had b en re­ported
in the United Stales. How­ever,
it was estimated that at least
1.5 million Americans were in­fected
with the virus. Approxi­mately
20 to 30 p rcent of these
carriers will develop AIDS within
five years.
The disease primarily is unique
to people in their late 20s and e arly
30s, according to Kathy Wa rdrip,
alcohol health educator and a
member of U of L's AIDS task
force . "(Because of) the tra di ­tional
age of college students, we
are not seeing them as the pr·ime
group," she said. "But the mcuba­tion
period is so long, people can
get the virus at college age and not
have the symptoms until 10 year·s
later," she added.
According to Glenda Krauss,
co-chairperson of Feminis ts on
Campus at U ofL, who also works
with AIDS victims and their
families, "The fear of AIDS is un­real;
families and friends will go
against the AIDS victims." In an
e ffort to pre ve nt. th is fear, s he said
that education should s tart in
grade school to teach people wha t
AIDS is and how it is trans mitted.
Allen Shier, se cr etary of the
Gay and Lesbian Student Union ,
also said that education is the key
to teaching people a bout the na­ture
of the disea se and homosexu­ality.
"It is rising much faster
among h ete rosexua ls than
homosexuals, although it is
slightly higher among homosexu­als,"
he added.
Shier is unsure if the increase in
AIDS has created a greate r fear of
homosexuals in genera l. "There is
strong homophobia on U of L 's
campus." he said. "But, it 's ha rd
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Students to showcase talents during Engineering Days
By JAMES HINES
Cardinal Staff Writer
Today's University of Louisville
Speed Scientific school students
will become the problem-solving
engineers of tomorrow. In an ef­fort
to e ncourage the students to
continue their dedication and pur­suance
of scientific goals, both in
and out of the classroom, the 56th ·
annual Engineering Days will
begin on Sunday, Feb. 21., at 12
noon.
The theme for this year's pro-gram
will be "Crossing Tomor­row's
Boundaries" and will ad-
- dress the engineering problems of
the future and how to overcome
them, according to Speed School
Student Council President
Theresa Herde.
"Technological problems of to­morrow
will be solved by e n­gineering,
so we're the people
who will be solving tomorrow's
problems," she said.
This year's event is scheduled to
begin in the Virginia Speed Au­ditorium
(Room 120 in the J .B .
Students crowned
Mr. & Ms. Cardinal
By SUMITA GHOSH
Cardina l Correspondent
The highly competitive titles of
Mr. and Ms. Cardinal for the best
all-around student at the Univer­sity
of Louisville this year went to
J oseph Deck and Teresa King
Owens who were selected from
among 12 of the best students at
the University.
"The purpose of this competi­tion
is to select the two most out­standing
male and female stu­dents
at U of L every year," said
David Baugh, acting associate di­rector
of student activities of U of
L.
"No one is turned away. We
don't prejudge anybody. After
r eceiving the applications, we
cross-check the candidate's
academic records and list of extra­curricular
activities and sche dule
interviews."
While discussing the competi­tion
and what it meant to receive
this award, both recipients agr.eed
that compe tition was tough. "I
knew some of the others who had
applied. They were very good ,"
said Deck, a 22-year-old biology
major. "So, I was really thrilled
when I was selected for the title
because I knew that I was chosen
from among some of the best stu­dents
at U of L."
Owens, a 30-year-old sociology
major, said she also felt the other
can<;l.idates for the award were
tough competition. "The competi­tion
was stiff. I really did not ex­pect
to win the title. So it came as a
rather big surprise to me," said
Owens.
"My winning the award showed
that it is possible for students to
combine academics and student
leadership," said Owens. "They
are compatible and it is not impos­sible
to achieve both at the same
time. It also means that I have to
set a good example and a high
standard of student leadership for
others to follow."
Deck said he feelsverystrongly
about U of L and his future. "U of
L has been a very good experi­ence
to me," Deck said. "Winning
this award has made me realize
my potentials. Now I plan to make
a success of my career. But I do in­tend
on coming back to support
my school. I feel very much at­tached
to U of L .
"I feel many of the students here
work hard, but they only attend
classes and go back home to their
ftxed group of friends whom they
Speed Buliding) with a speech by
United States Air Force Lt. Col.
Michael Mushala. Mushala took
part in the Air Force's Forecast ll
Project, which focused its atl;en­tion
on the pos.sible technologies
of the future.
"We thought his (Mushala's)
work would fit in real well with
this year's theme, and somebody
(on the Student Council) had a
brother in the Air Force, arld they
contacted the office in charge,"
said H erde.
Unlike last year's event, which
featured as the main attraction
three industrial robots donated by
General Electric, this year's event
will not feature any one item, but a
compilation of various exhibits.
"We haven't had the major do­nations
this year," said Herde.
"Last year the focus was on the
robots, but they're still here,and I
think there will still be a lot of at­tention
given to the robots."
Engineering Days will consist of
113 exhibits, most of which were
created by students. According to
Herde, the various societies' pres -
ompson
J oseph Deck and Teresa K.ing Owens were selected to represent
·the University of Louisville as Mr. and Ms. Cardinal.
have probably known since high
school," he said. "They don't
think of getting involved with cam­pus
activities. My message to
these students will be: socialize
with other students and get more
involved with the student ac­tivities
of your university."
Explaining the purpose of the
competition, David Baugh said
that the selection he lps the Uni­versity
administration to identify
some of its best students. The
awards a re also designed to act as
a cata lyst to boost confidence and
prepare them to perform even
better in future careers.
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Scholars gather to critique literature
By IRENE SPRADLING
Cardinal Correspondent
Each spring term since 1973, ap­proximately
350 participants, in­cluding
literature critics, creative
writers, and other interested
scholars from all over the United
States, Canada and abroad gather
at the University of Louisville to
share and enjoy creative and criti­cal
works de rived from the mod­ern
and contemporary era.
The literary community is meet­ing
again this year for the 15th an­nual
Twentieth-Century Litera­ture
Conference from Wednes­day,
Feb. 25 through Friday, Feb.
27.
"Each year, the conference is
organized around a topic of broad
general interes t," according to Dr.
Marcia Dalton, this year's confer­ence
chair and a U of L English
professor. The theme for 1987 is
"Literature and the Historical
Process."
Two keynote speakers will ad ­dress
the conference this year. On
Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. in
the Bingham Humanities Building
Auditorium, Room 100, Hugh
Kenner will discuss "Getting from
Then to Now."
Professor Kenner, a 20th-cen­tury
literature critic and author of
the early-sixties best-seller, The
Counterfeiters, is presently the
AndrewW. Mellon Professor of'the
Humanities at Johns Hopkins U ni­versity
in Baltimore, Maryland.
The second keynote a ddress
will take place on Friday at !): 10
p .m. , also in Humanities 100, :and
will be given by poet and jc>ur­nalis
t Carolyn Forche. Forc:he,
winner of the Yale Series of
Younger Poets Award in 1976, has
also distinguis hed herself a:s a
journalist in the international field
and will read from her works.
Both keynote addresses are
free and open to the public. The
critical sessions, held a ll day
Thursday and Friday lll various
locations in the Humanities Burild­ing,
will include discussions on the
literatures of America, Britain,
France, Germany, Italy, and
Latin America.
Also on Thursday and Friday,
poets and fiction writers will read
from their works in the auditorium
on the ground floor of the Ekstrom
Library.
We dnesday's special events in­clude
two films, both offered at 8
p.m.,Hiroshima, Mon Amour, di­rected
by Alain Resnais, is sched­uled
for showing in Humanities
100. Carmen, starring Antonio
Gades, Spain's foremost fla­menco
dancer, will be shown in
Humanities 205.
On Thursday from I p .m. to 2
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idents have put in a lot of ho.urs on
this project.
"There are a Jot of students who
have put in a lot of time," said
Herrle. "The planning for this
year's (Engine ering Da ys) began
last fall, and it's jus t now begin­ning
to show."
"This year's e ve nt has a budget
of between $6,000 and $8,000,"
s aid H erde. "All of which came
from our budget which (the) Stu­dent
Government Association
gave u s. There are no corporate
sp • .msors, it's all funded throu gh
us.,
Li & _t}le E.n mel!rir.g Days of
the past, this year's event will fea­ture
competitions which will in­volve
both high school and college
students.
According to He rde , competi­tions
include the compute r prog­ramming
contest, the Rube
Goldberg machine conte s t, the
egg packing contest, and the
bridge building contes t , a ll of
which are sponsored by individua l
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NAACP growing
on U of L campus
By KENNETH HARDIN
Cardinal Assistant News Editor
Ove rcoming problems which
caused the Univers ity of Louis­ville's
chapter of the NAACP to
dissolve six times since its initial
charter in 1969, current Preside nt
Gerald White said factors which
divided former chapters are not
present among c urrent members.
He said members ofU ofL's Na­tional
Association for the Ad­vancement
of Colored Pe ople ft:el
more unified than those in years
past. "Everyone knows what we
are trying to accomplrsh and ev­eryone
does their fair share to get
the job done," he said .
"What happened with the e ar­lier
charters was a classic case of
burn-out" said White . "In the past
the situation arose where four or
five people were carrying the load
of 25, and they would get burned
out. In-fighting would start up,
and then the cha pter would split.
It's a cycle ."
The organization received its
seventh charte r in March of 1986.
White attributes this phe nome non
of multiple recharte ring to ove r­blown
expectations and poor
management. But since receiving
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Martial law marriage. U of L
couple share marriage vows and
black belts while teaching Tae
Kwon Do to s tudents. . Page 3
Once upon a Times. Gannett
puts to rest Louisville's after­noon
paper of over 100 years.
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Will the real p erson please stand
up? Columnist pinpoints the
plagues of a plastic society .
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Three Quarters. U of L sign 25
football recruits i11cluding three
quarterback . . . . . . . . Page 6
its latest charte r , the c urrent
NAACP chapter has g rown from
seven founders to include a bout
100 membe rs.
"We are b eginning to get the
message out to the people about
what it is we are doing he re ,"
White said. "If you show the
people that you ha ve a qua lity or­ganization
, then you are going to
get a pos itive response.''
The NAACP sponsors a va riety
of functions on campus which , a c ­cording
to White, are designe d to
deal with minority students' spe ­cia
l ne eds while atte nding a pre ­dominately
white institution.
White said h e e xpe cts contrnued
growth in the NAACP at U of
L ,particularly among non-minor­ity
students . "We a lready ha ve
two or three white members, and
that is very encouraging," he sa id .
"I hope students re alize that the
NAACP is not a black rights or­ganization
, but a human rights or­ga
nization , and become involved
in what we a re doing."
White said on of his major con­cerns
with th s tatus of minor iti s
at U of L is the sma ll pe rc ntage of
minority stude nts atte nding the
Unive rsity, a s ituation he b e lieves
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Speaking in taps. U of L peed
School profe sor teaches lun­chtime
amateu r-radio classes in
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